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Today, Sunday, April 24, is Easter Sunday. During the forty days of Lent we have been preparing ourselves for this resurrection day, this Easter experience of our own lives.
 
 
Here is the message for Easter Sunday:
 
Resurrection is the rising of man out of the human thoughts, beliefs and superstitions in which he is submerged. This is the waste of the ages. Instead of discarding this waste in experiencing Truth, man has become enmeshed, mind, body and soul in this waste which results in an outer experience he calls death. Death is the cessation of the activity of breath and life.
 
All breath and life proceed out of the consciousness of life. The awareness of the functions of life which are faith, love, will, strength, imagination, wisdom, the power to listen and understand and the ability to let the love of God move unhampered through the experiences, is the true purpose of every human form.
 
Life is consciousness! Death is the lack of consciousness. Man becomes smothered and lifeless in the machinations of his own mind and the misdirection of his feeling nature. The result is inertia. It is the destination of power to move itself. Life is activity! Death is the result in life of inherent or habitual indisposition to activity.
 
This activity is caused by the forgotten use of the powers of life, such as loving, willingness and ability to serve with joy, freedom and with original power and authority. Death is a forgetfulness of life which results in heaviness and a dreading of the faculties of life. It is the lethal, fatal condition of complete unconsciousness.
 
The overcoming of such a condition is the resurrection. There is a power in man which if he knows and uses, he will never taste death. Man himself makes the cession by yielding his true self, by accepting something less than all truth.
 
Every time we are aware consciously of this indwelling power within, our mind is resurrected. There indwells man one great Truth, that man himself is not personality or even individuality; man is the one unlimited, all knowing, eternal all powerful essence of life we call God. When man knows in mind, body and soul who and what he is, there will be no death.
 
Resurrection is a moment by moment awareness, a bringing to view again that which was forgotten or lost. It is to rise again to an original concept of life and includes the renewal of the body!
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
If you’d like to hear an Easter Message in two parts, click the play buttons below and Let Your Spirit Soar!
 
Let Your Spirit Soar! – Part 1

Let Your Spirit Soar! – Part 2

God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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THE RESURRECTION

Easter Sunday. Read John 20:1-18.

Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Its inner meaning and spiritual significance is the awakening and raising to spiritual consciousness of the I AM in man, which has been dead in trespass and sin and buried in the tomb of materiality.

“I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.” The resurrection is the raising up of the whole man–spirit, soul, and body–into the Christ consciousness of life and wholeness. This Jesus did. The tomb could not hold His redeemed perfected body temple. Resurrection is accomplished by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit.

Every time we rise to the realization of eternal, indwelling life, making union with the Father-Mind, the resurrection of Jesus takes place within us. All thoughts of limitation and inevitable obedience to material law are left in the tomb of materiality.

Jesus was born into the race thought so that He might reconstruct it in conformity with the divine law. He thus became our Way-Shower, our Saviour, our Helper.

Today the light of Truth is illumining my mind, and I rise up in the majesty of my divine sonship and proclaim myself to be the child of the Most High, free from all belief in sin, sickness, and death.

I affirm: “In unity with Christ I realize that I am resurrected into the life, light, and power of God.”

Questions:

1. What is the spiritual significance of Easter?

2. What is the resurrection?

3. How is resurrection accomplished?

4. Why was Jesus born into the race thought?

Christ within me is the resurrection and the life. Christ within me is the power that enables me to rise triumphant out of every trial.

About the Author of Keep a True Lent

Charles Fillmore was an innovative thinker, a pioneer in metaphysical thought at a time when most religious thought in America was entirely orthodox. He was a lifelong advocate of the open, inquiring mind, and he took pride in keeping abreast of the latest scientific and educational discoveries and theories. Many years ago he wrote, “What you think today may not be the measure for your thought tomorrow”; and it seems likely that were he to compile this book today, he might use different metaphors, different scientific references, and so on.

Truth is changeless. Those who knew Charles Fillmore best believe that he would like to be able to rephrase some of his observations for today’s readers, thus giving them the added effectiveness of contemporary thought. But the ideas themselves–the core of Charles Fillmore’s writings–are as timeless now (and will be tomorrow) as when they were first published.

Charles Fillmore was born on an Indian reservation just outside the town of St. Cloud, Minnesota, on August 22, 1854. He made his transition on July 5, 1948, at Unity Village, Missouri, at the age of 93. To get a sense of history, when Charles was eleven, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated; when Charles died, Harry Truman was President.

With his wife Myrtle, Charles Fillmore founded the Unity movement and Silent Unity, the international prayer ministry that publishes Daily Word Charles and Myrtle built the worldwide organization that continues their work today, Unity School of Christianity. Through Unity School’s ministries of prayer, education, and publishing, millions of people around the world are finding the teachings of Truth discovered and practiced by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore.

Charles Fillmore was a spiritual pioneer whose impact has yet to be assessed. No lesser leaders than Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Dr. Emmet Fox were profoundly influenced by him. Dr. Peale borrowed his catchphrase of positive thinking from Charles Fillmore. Emmet Fox was so affected by Fillmore’s ideas that he changed his profession. From an engineer, he became the well-known writer and speaker.

Charles Fillmore–author, teacher, metaphysician, practical mystic, husband, father, spiritual leader, visionary–has left a legacy that continues to impact the lives of millions of people. By his fruits, he is continuously known.

Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!

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