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What is Unity?

Honouring Our Origins

by Rev Rachel Wotten

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore never set out to build a traditional church. Their mission wasn’t about creating institutions, rules, or rigid structures – but rather about empowering individuals through spiritual education, healing, and the metaphysical understanding of Truth.

Notice how we don’t say “Rev. Charles” or “Rev. Myrtle”? That’s because their legacy wasn’t built on religious titles or hierarchy, but on deep, lived spirituality that invited others into their own awakening

Unity began with simple, yet powerful correspondence courses sent through the mail (Silent Unity came a while later). Today, the modern equivalent is online spiritual learning – accessible anytime, anywhere. They weren’t building a monument; they were igniting a movement.

Not a church with walls, but a consciousness without limits. Not a religion to follow, but a Truth to embody.

The Sunday “service” wasn’t part of a formal blueprint – it emerged organically. It was a natural response to the deep yearning people had to learn how to heal themselves, connect with the Divine, experience community, share spiritual practices, and receive soul nourishment.

As we continue this work, it’s vital to remember: we are not here to replicate traditional church models, structures or processes.

We are not building walls, hierarchies, or borders. What we are creating is a space for spiritual exploration, awakening, education and personal transformation.

A Unity-based movement or metaphysical gathering serves five vital purposes:

1. Spiritual Education and Empowerment
Each Sunday, we gather as a community to deepen and reinforce the spiritual principles we’re learning and living ourselves. Through affirmative prayer, metaphysical insight, and practical spirituality, we support one another in conscious, creative, and empowered living. This isn’t about teaching dogma – it’s about exploring together how to embody a presence that isn’t outside of us, but within us and all around us: an omnipresent Source moving through, in, and as us.

“It’s not what we believe in Unity that matters, but how we use what we believe.”

2. Consciousness and Community Building
These gatherings are about aligning our energy fields and amplifying a shared intention. When two or more come together in elevated consciousness, a powerful metaphysical forcefield is created. It anchors us, helping us remember and embody the teachings for the week – or the journey ahead as a shared collective.

“Where two or more are gathered…” is not just poetic—it’s energetic.

3. Spiritual Healing and Alignment
People may arrive feeling fragmented, anxious, or depleted. But through music, meditation, affirmative prayer, and metaphysical teachings – including metaphysical interpretations of the Bible – we help re-center, re-attune, and re-align each person with the Divine within. Each meetingbecomes a sacred recalibration.

“Healing is not changing who you are; it’s remembering who you are.”

4. Demonstrating the Christ Consciousness
This isn’t about worshiping an external saviour (though you’re welcome to, if that speaks to you!). It’s about realising and authentically living from – the Divine within. The meetings become a sacred space to embody and express the Christ idea, to live from Christ consciousness, and to honor this I AM presence in ourselves and in one another.

“Christ in you, your hope of glory” – not someday, but now – I am… the I AM.

5. Spiritual Activation and Action
This isn’t passive inspiration. It’s about activating and living through action. Attendees are called to be healers in their own lives, to embody abundance, to live Truth no matter what they do, and to bring transformation into the world for themselves and others. Be the Light Bearers.

“You are the light of the world. Live that light!”

So, while it may look like a “service” – this is not a church service in the traditional sense. It is:

· A spiritual training ground
· A healing vortex
· A consciousness laboratory
· A sacred reminder of who we really are

Charles and Myrtle’s movement was a call to spiritual freedom, personal empowerment, and direct connection with the Divine and it’s our responsibility now to keep that spirit alive: fluid, inclusive, evolving – radically and spiritually transformative. They were the original Spiritual Influencers, before hashtags were a thing.

A movement birthed from spiritual curiosity, divine love, empowered thinking, and the belief that each soul is divine and capable of transformation.

2nd Principle

So, I am reading a novel. It is for fun. Because of my ministerial studies over the past 6 years, I have mostly read serious and study related books. So, now that I am approaching the end of my studies, I have given myself permission to read just for fun. I like crime stories particularly those that is mixed with a bit of romance. It is important for me that it is light hearted and fun. It is also important that it is engaging and the characters are interesting and relatable. I have chosen Amanda Quick’s (pseudo name) novels.

I like her books. They are witty and engaging; they are not too violent and they have wonderfully complex characters. I must admit that the rather explicit sex scenes got me by surprised but I realized that there are hardly any TV shows or major films without at least one explicit sex scene. So, I concluded that this is the fashion these day. Most of her books take place in the regency era in England. 

The book I am reading right now, Mischief, – a rather interesting title for a book that has not much mischief in it, in my opinion – has two main characters: an earl and a lady of little means. They are a married couple who need to untangle some mystery and series of crimes. The story is interesting but I am more fascinated with the two main characters who display wonderfully human characteristics.

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Whit Monday

What is Whit Monday?

Pentecost Monday, also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit, and most commonly as Whit Monday, is a holiday that is celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast that is determined by the date of Easter. Whit Monday specifically represents the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, also marking the resumption of Ordinary Time after Easter.

The name “Whit Monday” actually comes from the English name for one of the three baptismal seasons in Pentecost, being “Whitsunday”. The origin of “Whitsunday” itself is generally believed to come from the white garments that used to be worn by those newly baptised on this feast.

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The Holy Spirit

Who  or what is the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost?

In my understanding, the Holy Spirit is the ‘guide’, the ‘connecter’, the covenant between the individualized soul – which is a spark of God – and the Divine Presence . The energy that we call God or the Divine Presence is our source of being but we not able to connect with it because we have ‘turned away’ – often called sinned or errored –  from our source. 

Imagine that you always look downwards – which we actually do – instead of looking upwards that would enable us to connect with God. 

The Holy Spirit is our covenant, it connects us seekers with the Divine Presence through various means such as ‘hunches’, inner experiences, unexpected events and more. 

In a way, God, realized that the souls living in each human being had gone dormant because of their downward gazing state. So, God ‘sent’ a covenant, the Holy Spirit, to help the souls finding their connection back to God.

Enlightened masters, such as Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, etc. were ‘carriers’ of the Holy Spirit because of their deep connectedness with the Divine Presence. In their teachings they extended the  gifts of the Holy Spirit onto those who were attracted to their teachings.

The Holy Spirit has different names in different traditions but the functions are the same. 

Below is a quotation from Charles Fillmore, one of the founders of Unity. Please remember that this text was written in the later  1800’s by someone who was raised in the Christian faith but was later inspired to create a spiritual movement that embraces all religions, all faith, all races and other spiritual movements. 

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God is within

Revelation 21:3 ESV 

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

The dwelling place of God is ‘within’ man. As we walk the inner journey of meditation and contemplation, we start feeling the Loving Presence of the Divine dwelling with us and guiding us throughout our lives.

 

Revelation 3:21 ESV 

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

As we remove the barriers and limitations from our consciousness, as we conquer our own fear based ego, we start becoming aware of the presence of God, and we will feel as if we were sitting in the presence of the Divine all the time.