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Myrtle and Charles Fillmore were the co-founders of Unity. Unity came about because of a healing. Myrtle Fillmore (born Mary Caroline Page) was dying of tuberculosis. This disease seemed to be inherited by the young women of her family and many of them died at a very young age. Myrtle was in her 40s, and the doctors said they could no longer help her when she and her husband, Charles, went to a healing lecture given by E.B. Weeks. During that lecture, Mr. Weeks said, “You are a child of God, you do not inherit illness.”
These words were a Spiritual revelation for Myrtle and she immediately put her revelation to work. She began to spend two hours every day in her room speaking to her body, reading the healing stories in the Gospels, and praying. At the end of two years, she went to Charles and said, “I am healed and so are you.” Charles himself had tuberculosis of the hip, due to a skating accident when he was a child, and one leg was several inches shorter than the other.
As family and friends watched this healing transformation before their eyes, they began to come to Myrtle and ask for her prayers. In the early days, many people were healed of a variety of illness including a small boy of blindness. Soon there were too many for the Fillmores to pray for alone and they began to invite others to join them in prayer at a certain time every evening, and there we have the beginning of Silent Unity. Silent Unity is a twenty-four hour, seven days a week Prayer Ministry. People from all over the world call Silent Unity for prayer and immediately feel comforted as they hear those familiar words: “Silent Unity, how many I pray with you?”
Unity grew out of Myrtle’s healing, and through the years the movement continued to grow and flourish. The Fillmores guided the movement for over 40 years nurturing and guiding it from a handful of workers in 1890 to a staff of almost 500 when Myrtle died in 1931. Today Unity headquarters is located at Unity Village, MO on a 1,400 acre tract about 17 miles southwest of Kansas City. It is the home to Silent Unity, the Daily Word, and a powerful educational school and support for more than 800 centers worldwide. There is also a retreat center, bookstore, Inn, and church on the campus. The Daily Word has a circulation of over 1.2 million in over 153 countries.
Silent Unity receives over 2 million prayer requests every year by phone, mail and now by e-mail. A staff of over 550 paid employees handles all of this, and every piece of mail is still prayed over at each of its various stops, and each letter is answered in the same manner in which Myrtle answered the letters in the past. She handwrote the letters until the typewriter came along. Nowadays, all is done by computer; however, the prayer consciousness through which Myrtle and Charles birthed Silent Unity, is still in evidence today.
We invite you to go onto Unity’s web site at www.unityonline.org. You may also reach Silent Unity at 1-800-669-7729. Silent Unity’s website is www.silentunity.org.
UNITY PRINCIPLES
Unity brings together the threads of many ideas and religions world-wide.
Our approach to the Bible is a metaphysical one. This is a recognition that higher truths are contained within the application of the teachings and stories to our individual lives - that all people, places and events correlate with parts of the self.
We believe and teach that life is a positive adventure and every experience inherently has good and God within it. All avenues are simply opportunities for our spiritual growth and expansion.
We believe that God is a Universal energy everywhere present and also very personal to, and within, each person. We believe that we bring forth the Spirit of God through our thoughts and we can actually change our lives by changing our thinking.
Unity does not have dogma, it follows 5 basic truth principles which make up the Unity philosophy. These principals are:
1. God is good and active in everything and everywhere.
2. We are inherently good because we are created in the image and likeness of God.
3. We create our experiences through our choice of thoughts and feelings and beliefs.
4. Through affirmative prayer and meditation we connect with God.
5. Knowing all these things, it is up to us to apply them in our lives.
By
living our lives using these truth principals we are able to enjoy this
adventure we call life while learning to expand our spiritual growth
process.
mailing address: P.O. Box 3518, Salem, Oregon 97302
(503) 364-0156
Updated August 2010
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