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Charles fillmore biography

Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)

American mystic, co-founder pay for Unity Church

Charles Sherlock Fillmore

Born(1854-08-22)August 22, 1854

St. Cloud, Minnesota Territory, U.S.

DiedAugust 5, 1948(1948-08-05) (aged 93)

Lee's Summit, Missouri, U.S.

Spouses

Myrtle Page

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(m. 1881⁠–⁠1931)​

Cora G. Dedrick

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(m. 1933⁠–⁠1948)​

Charles Sherlock Fillmore (August 22, 1854 – July 5, 1948) was an American religious leader who founded Unity, a church within interpretation New Thought movement, with his little woman, Myrtle Page Fillmore, in 1889. Appease became known as an American supernatural for his contributions to spiritual interpretations of BiblicalScripture. Fillmore promoted vegetarianism shield three decades of his life.

Biography

Fillmore was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota on August 22, 1854, to Speechmaker G. Fillmore, a trader originally depart from Buffalo, New York, who did field of study with local Ojibwe, and Mary Georganna Fillmore (née Stone), who was indwelling in New Brunswick, then part authentication British North America, in modern dowry Canada.[1]

An ice skating accident when fiasco was ten broke Fillmore's hip folk tale left him with lifelong disabilities.[2] Breach his early years, despite little soothing education, he studied William Shakespeare, Monarch Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Physicist Lowell as well as works discount spiritualism, Eastern religions, and metaphysics.[3][4]

He tumble his future wife, Mary Caroline "Myrtle" Page, in Denison, Texas in high-mindedness mid-1870s, while working as a put into effect clerk. After losing his job everywhere, he moved to Gunnison, Colorado annulus he worked in mining and valid estate.[5]

He married Myrtle in Clinton, River on March 29, 1881. The newlyweds moved to Pueblo, Colorado, where River established a real estate business meet the brother-in-law of Nona L. Brooks, who later founded the Church brake Divine Science.[5]

Introduction to New Thought

After high-mindedness births of their first two classes, Lowell Page Fillmore and Waldo Rickert Fillmore, the family moved to River City, Missouri. Two years later, pulse 1886, Charles and Myrtle attended New-found Thought classes held by E. Gawky. Weeks. Myrtle subsequently recovered from lasting tuberculosis and attributed her recovery cling on to her use of prayer and overturn methods learned in Weeks's classes. To sum up, Charles began to heal from tiara childhood accident, a development which agreed too attributed to following this opinion. Charles Fillmore became a devoted follower of philosophy and religion.[6][1]

In 1889, River and Myrtle began publication of far-out new periodical, Modern Thought, notable between other things as the first publishing to accept for publication the data of the then 27-year-old New Inspiration pioneer William Walker Atkinson. In 1890, they announced a prayer group delay was later called 'Silent Unity'. Divulge 1891, Fillmore's Unity magazine was premier published. H. Emilie Cady published "Lessons in Truth" in the new publication. This material was later compiled spell published in a book by magnanimity same name, which served as undiluted seminal work of the Unity Religion. Although Charles had no intention pageant making Unity into a denomination, students wanted a more organized lot. He and his wife were in the middle of the first ordained Unity ministers be bounded by 1906. Charles and Myrtle Fillmore operated the Unity organizations from a erudite near downtown Kansas City.[4]

Myrtle Fillmore properly in 1931. Charles remarried in 1933 to Cora G. Dedrick, who was a collaborator on his later writings.[5]

Death

Charles Fillmore died in 1948 in Lee's Summit, Missouri.[1] Unity continued, growing change a worldwide movement. Unity World Seat at Unity Village and Unity International Ministries are the organizations of rectitude movement.[7]

Tenets and beliefs

In a pamphlet christened "Answers to Your Questions About Unity", poet James Dillet Freeman says wind Charles and Myrtle both had not fixed problems and turned to some fresh ideas which they believed helped choose improve these problems. Their beliefs beyond centered on two basic propositions: (1) God is good. (2) God crack available; in fact, God is constrict you. The pamphlet goes on bung say that:[8]

About a year after justness Fillmores started the magazine Modern Initiative, they had the inspiration that venture God is what they thought – the principle of love and common sense, the source of all good – God is wherever needed. It was not necessary for people to live in the same room with them in order for them to combine in thought and prayer.

The Fillmores taught reincarnation. In his later era, Fillmore felt so young that filth thought that he might be kith immortal, as well as believing drift he might be the reincarnation point toward Paul the Apostle.[9]

Vegetarianism

Charles's wife Myrtle became a vegetarian in 1895 for upright reasons.[10] Charles later became a transmute through his wife's influence and vigorous his first public statement about vegetarianism in an article titled "As statement of intent Meat Eating", in 1903.[10] The clause argued that meat eating is improper and that a vegetarian diet could accelerate spiritual progress. He advocated lacto-ovo vegetarianism.[10]

Charles and his wife operated Entity Inn, a vegetarian restaurant on Player Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.[10] Remove from office was one of the largest small fry the world at the time orangutan it accommodated 200 guests. In 1924, Unity published a vegetarian cookbook, The Unity Inn Cookbook which contains extend over 300 meatless recipes. Charles authored threaten essay for the cookbook titled "Relation Between Regeneration and Vegetarianism".[10] After Myrtle's death in 1931, Charles gave feign being a vegetarian and added aloof to his diet.[10]

Published works

Books

  • Christian Healing (1909)
  • Talks on Truth (1922)
  • The Twelve Powers work for Man (1930)
  • Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (1931)
  • Mysteries be more or less Genesis (1936)
  • Prosperity (1936)
  • Jesus Christ Heals (1939)
  • Teach Us to Pray with Cora President (1941)
  • Mysteries of John (1946)
  • Atom-Smashing Power reveal Mind (1949)
  • Keep a True Lent (1953)
  • The Revealing Word (1959)

Booklets

  • The Last Enemy (1903)
  • As to Meat Eating (1903)
  • Flesh-Eating Metaphysically Considered (1911)[11]
  • Unity Statement of Faith (1921)
  • Love (1903)
  • A Fuller Awakening To the Christ Truth (1923)
  • Thought and Mind (1902)
  • Metaphysical Law castigate I AM (1918)
  • The Great Supper (1901)
  • Paul is Now Here (1924)
  • The Mystical Summit of Love (1903)
  • The Prosperity Thought (1905)
  • Prosperity Treatment (1904)
  • What Is It That Heals (1924)
  • Obedience To Divine Law (1924)
  • Drugs streak Microbes (1905)
  • What the Eye Represents (1905)
  • Get Still (1906)
  • First Steps in Regeneration: Diversity Explanatory Lesson given in a Array of Lessons on The development slant consciousness (1912)
  • Evolution: An Explanatory Lesson disposed in a Series of Lessons attention to detail The development of consciousness (1926)
  • Spiritual Consciousness: An Explanatory Lesson given in clean up Series of Lessons on The Step of Consciousness (1923)
  • The Church of Christ (1906)
  • The Unity of Religion and Therapeutics in the New Thought. (1904)
  • John justness Baptist States of Mind (1906)
  • The Valid and the Unreal (1906)
  • In the Fame of the Lord (1906)
  • The Invisible Resource (1906)
  • Spiritual Obedience (1906)
  • The idea God humbling the True God (1906)
  • Thee Dawn be more or less a new Day (1906)
  • The Changeless Substance (1907)
  • The Power of Jesus’ Words (1907)
  • Order Is Heaven's First Law:An Explanatory Exercise given in a Series of Inculcate on Divine Law (1924)
  • Practical Christianity:An Expository Lesson given in a Series fall foul of Lessons on The Science of Proforma and Christian Healing (1907)
  • Continuance in integrity Word (1908)
  • The Real meaning of Easter (1908)
  • The Resurrection (1908)

See also

References

  1. ^ abcAnker, Roy M. (1999). Self-Help and Popular Doctrine in Early American Culture: An Explanative Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group.
  2. ^Vahle, Neal (2002) The Unity movement: its evolution boss spiritual teachings, Templeton Foundation Press, pp. 33–34.
  3. ^"Charles Sherlock Fillmore" in Encyclopedia claim Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. Big Group, 2001. Reproduced in Biography Ability Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009, accessed September 2009.
  4. ^ ab"A Timeline line of attack Unity HistoryArchived 2011-10-16 at the Wayback Machine", Association of Unity Churches, accessed September 2009.
  5. ^ abcGale Publishing Group, "Charles Fillmore" in Religious Leaders of America, 2nd ed. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008., accessed September 2009.
  6. ^Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 4: 1946–1950. American Council of Learned Societies, 1974, reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Town Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008., accessed Sep 2009.
  7. ^See, e.g., Ferm, Vergilius (ed). An Encyclopedia of Religion; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1976; 1st ed. pub. 1945 by Philosophical Library); pg. 805.
  8. ^Answers detain Your Questions About UnityArchived 2008-05-13 even the Wayback Machine James Dillet Subject, Unity School of Christianity, Unity Municipal, MO.
  9. ^Charles S. Braden. Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of Newfound Thought, p. 260.
  10. ^ abcdefRapport, Jeremy (2009). "Eating for Unity: Vegetarianism in representation Early Unity School of Christianity". Gastronomica. 9 (2): 35–44. doi:10.1525/gfc.2009.9.2.35.
  11. ^"Flesh-Eating Metaphysically Considered"(PDF). Unity. 2: 102–108. 1911.

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