Myrtle Fillmore

Myrtle Fillmore (birth name Mary Caroline Page, born August 6 1845 in Page, Ohio; † October 6, 1931 in Unity Village, Missouri) was together with her husband Charles Fillmore, a co-founder of the Unity Church, which is part of the New Thought movement in the United States.

Life

As a child, Myrtle suffered for a long time from tuberculosis. Her health was fragile and therefore their life expectancy is low. She received her training as a teacher at Oberlin College, a school that was already operating coeducation in the mid-19th century. Because it can be estimated that Myrtle Page grew up in an intellectually open environment and was trained. She worked as a teacher in Clinton ( Missouri).

1876 ​​Myrtle Page learned the nine years younger than Charles Fillmore staying at a spa in Denton (Texas ), whom she married in 1881. He, too, was in poor health since an accident during his childhood while skating. The couple lived together in Colorado, where in 1882 her son Lowell was born. 1884 the family moved to Kansas City and the second son Waldo Rickert was born.

In the following years, the health of Myrtle Fillmore as a result of tuberculosis worsened progressively to a final stage. 1886 she and her husband heard a lecture by EB Weeks, a follower of Christian Science by Emma Curtis Hopkins, about spiritual healing methods. By 1888, her health improved by these practices. This healing success prompted her husband this way to test themselves and to evolve. Together the couple events of the New Thought movement began to hold Sunday worship in Connector. They gave out the magazine Modern Thought, which dealt with subjects such as Christian Science, Unitarianism, Rosicrucians, Theosophy and the like. The couple devoted themselves to the spiritual work with the sick and disabled, and so followed the path, which had begun by the contact with the spiritual healing method. At this time, 1889, is the third son, Royal, was born.

Unity was founded in 1891, which grew out of the meetings in the House of Fillmore. From 1895 both lived as a strict vegetarian. The movement grew ever stronger, so that the meetings had to be held in ever larger rooms. Charles Fillmore 1920 bought 58 acres ( 23.5 hectares) of land in Lee 's Summit. There a society was formed, called Unity Farm, the agriculture business and sold their products in the Unity Inn.

Together, the Fillmore were active in journalism, but also each own published writings within the meaning of New Thought.

Myrtle Fillmore died in 1931 at the age of 85 years. Just as her healing experience is judged that age remains surprisingly for a man, the middle of the 19th century became ill with tuberculosis. On this background, along with a liberal education, their intellectual work is to understand. Their burial place was not disclosed, to avoid that trailer they stylize a cult figure.

Works

• How to let God help you? Lee 's Summit 1956. How you can help you by God? Dups, Karlsruhe -Durlach 1962