What Is Unity?

Unity Statement of Faith:

There is only One Presence, One Power

and One Activity in my life:

God the Good, Omnipotent

Five Basic Unity Beliefs

Children's Version:

1. God is all good and active in everything, everywhere.

2. I am naturally good because God's Divinity is in me and in everyone.

3. I create my experiences by what I choose to think and what I feel and believe.

4. Through affirmative prayer and meditation, I connect with God and bring out the good in my life.

5. I do and give my best by living the Truth I know. I make a difference!

Adult Version:

God is absolute good, everywhere present.

We have a spark of divinity within us, the Christ spirit within. Our very essence is of God, and therefore we are also inherently good.

Thought has formative power. We can create our own experiences because everything in the manifest realm has its beginning in thought.

Prayer is creative thinking that changes us - our consciousness - so that we can recall the truth of God's presence and power in all situations.

Knowing and understanding the laws of life also called Truth is not enough. We must also live the truth that we know.

The Unity movement has a wonderful history that begins in the late 1800's. Unity theology was first put forth by Myrtle and Charles Fillmore. This time line takes you down "memory lane" more than 100 years.

1845 Mary Caroline Page (Fillmore) was born in Pagetown, Ohio, August 6. As a small girl, she adopted the name Myrtle. She graduated from Oberlin College and later secured a teaching position in Clinton, Missouri. Not a robust person, she was reared in the belief that she was a semi-invalid because she had inherited tuberculosis.

1854 Charles Sherlock Fillmore was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, August 22.

1864 Charles was in a skating accident; his hip was dislocated, and disease of the hip developed, leaving him with a withered leg.

1869 Charles went to work as a printer's helper. He was tutored by Mrs. Edgar Taylor and was influenced by the writings of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emerson, and Lowell. He later worked as a grocery clerk and in a bank.

1874 Charles left Minnesota for Caddo, just north of the Texas border in the Indian Territory that is now Oklahoma. Later that year he left Caddo for Dennison, Texas.

1876 Charles met Myrtle Page in Texas.

1879 Charles became a mule-team driver in Colorado; he later became an assayer and sold real estate. Myrtle left Texas and returned to Clinton.

1881 Charles and Myrtle Fillmore married and settled in Colorado.

1882 Lowell Fillmore was born in Pueblo, Colorado.

1884 The Fillmores' second son, Waldo Rickert Fillmore, was born in Pueblo. The Fillmore family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Charles sold real estate.

1886 Charles and Myrtle attended a New Thought lecture by Dr. E. B. Weeks. Myrtle, who was very ill, quickly accepted the ideas presented.

1887 Charles' interest in New Thought plunged him into the study of many religions and philosophies. He had a dream that foretold his work in Kansas City.

1888 Myrtle was completely healed of a lifelong tubercular condition.

1889 Charles Fillmore opened himself to the healing process taking place in him. He gave up his business and devoted all his time to the study and mastery of Truth teachings. The first issue of Modern Thought was published. Charles and Myrtle's third son, John Royal Fillmore, was born.

1890 Modern Thought became Thought. The Society of Silent Help, now Silent Unity, was formed.

1891 Charles named the movement Unity. The first issue of Unity magazine was published, with the winged-globe emblem. The word Magazine was officially incorporated into the title in 1994.