Lent Week 6
From “Keep a True Lent” by Charles Fillmore
The three days Jesus was in the tomb represent the three steps in overcoming error. First, nonresistance; second, the taking on of divine activity, or receiving the will of God; third, the assimilation and fulfillment of the divine will.
I deny the self that I may unite with the selfless. I give up the mortal that I may attain the immortal. I dissolve the thought of the physical
Lent Week 5
From “Keep a True Lent” by Charles Fillmore
Gethsemane is symbolic of the struggle that takes place within the consciousness when Truth is realized as the one reality. It is a condition that man works through when he recognizes that God is all and that he must be willing to sacrifice all for God.
There are always deeply rooted error thoughts stored away in the subconsciousness, and on their own account they come forward to crucify
Lent Week 4
From “Keep a True Lent” by Charles Fillmore
In prayer we need to be deeply conscious that God is the almighty One, the supreme Creator the ruler of the universe, that He is infinite and eternal; we need to know that God is the underlying, unchangeable Truth, “with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.”
God as principle is the absolute good expressed in all creation. When we know God and
Lent Week 3
From “Keep a True Lent” by Charles Fillmore
We hold that all Truth has its origin in Divine Mind. Whatever we can conceive as being true must manifest itself in creation, and if the creation seems to fall short of the divine perfection in any way, it is a fault on our part–either we are not seeing the whole of it, or we are lacking in understanding. And if we hold to our logic that
Lent Week 2
From “Keep a True Lent” by Charles Fillmore
THE HOLY TRINITY is known as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Metaphysically, we understand the Trinity to refer to mind, idea, and expression, or thinker, thought, and action.
God is first in the Trinity. God is mind and is everywhere present. God is principle, law, Being, Spirit, All-Good, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, unchangeable, Creator, Father, cause, and source of all that is. God as Spirit is
The Lenten Season Scriptures
This year the Lenten season begins Wednesday, March 5th. The word Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for spring, which is derived from a verb meaning to lengthen. Lent comes in the spring when the days become noticeably longer.
Scripture and Interpretations for March
This annual season of fasting and prayer has been observed by the Western Church since the first century after Jesus, although it has not always been forty days long. In more recent