Education
Spiritual Development Program: Metaphysical
The following courses are offered at the Unity Institute campus in Missouri. Distance learning courses are also available for online study from the comfort of your home or office.

 

MS-820  Metaphysics I Part 1
(also available through Distance Learning)
During this course you will explore some of the fundamental principles of spiritual law and how they can be applied to your life for greater love, health, and prosperity.  By studying the works of prominent Unity writers, as well as specific metaphysical and theological views, you will be encouraged to awaken your awareness and understanding of spiritual Truth.  Through the consistent use of these practical principles, you will realize more of your spiritual potential and find that your life is transformed!  Topics explored in this class are:
  • Metaphysics and Truth
  • Life Is Consciousness
  • Self-Knowledge
  • Spiritual Evolution, Building Consciousness
  • Our Purpose, Divine Will, Divine Plan, Divine Guidance
  • The Silence
  • Meditation
  • Prayer
  • Praying With Others

Required Texts
Metaphysics I (2005 edition if available)
Metaphysics II (2006 edition if available) (New chapters in the editing process will also be provided until the new text(s) are completed.)
Talks on Truth (Charles Fillmore)

Books of Interest
The Essential Charles Fillmore (J. Gaither)
The Revealing Word (Charles Fillmore)
Point of Power (Paul Hasselbeck)
Lessons in Truth (H. Emilie Cady 1995 or later edition)

MS-821 Metaphysics I Part 2
(also available through Distance Learning)
During this course you will explore some of the fundamental principles of spiritual law and how they can be applied to your life for greater love, health, and prosperity.  By studying the works of prominent Unity writers, as well as specific metaphysical and theological views, you will be encouraged to awaken your awareness and understanding of spiritual Truth.  Through the consistent use of these practical principles, you will realize more of your spiritual potential and find that your life is transformed!  Topics explored in this class are:
  • Beingness, Oneness, God
  • The Spiritual Universe, the Physical Universe
  • The Divine Paradoxes
  • The Trinity
  • Evil, Sin, the Devil
  • Jesus, the Christ, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus
  • The Threefold Nature of Humankind (Spirit, soul, body)
  • The Three Phases of Mind (Superconscious, conscious, and subconscious).
  • Personality, Individuality

Required Texts
Metaphysics I (2005 edition if available)
Metaphysics II (2006 edition if available) (New chapters in the editing process will also be provided until the new text(s) are completed.)
Talks on Truth (Charles Fillmore)

Books of Interest
The Essential Charles Fillmore (J. Gaither)
The Revealing Word (Charles Fillmore)
Point of Power (Paul Hasselbeck)
Lessons in Truth (H. Emilie Cady 1995 or later edition)

MS-822 Metaphysics II Part 1
(also available through Distance Learning)
During this course you will explore some of the fundamental principles of spiritual law and how they can be applied to your life for greater love, health, and prosperity.  By studying the works of prominent Unity writers, as well as specific metaphysical and theological views, you will be encouraged to awaken your awareness and understanding of spiritual Truth.  Through the consistent use of these practical principles, you will realize more of your spiritual potential and find that your life is transformed!  Topics explored in this class are:
  • The Four Functions of Consciousness
  • Thoughts
  • The Word
  • Denials and Affirmations
  • Creation
  • The Twelve Powers
  • Developing the Twelve Powers

Required Texts
Metaphysics I (2005 edition if available)
Metaphysics II (2006 edition if available) (New chapters in the editing process will also be provided until the new text(s) are completed.)
Talks on Truth (Charles Fillmore)

Books of Interest
The Essential Charles Fillmore (J. Gaither)
The Revealing Word (Charles Fillmore)
Point of Power (Paul Hasselbeck)
Lessons in Truth (H. Emilie Cady 1995 or later edition)

MS-823 Metaphysics II Part 2
(also available through Distance Learning)
During this course you will explore some of the fundamental principles of spiritual law and how they can be applied to your life for greater love, health, and prosperity.  By studying the works of prominent Unity writers, as well as specific metaphysical and theological views, you will be encouraged to awaken your awareness and understanding of spiritual Truth.  Through the consistent use of these practical principles, you will realize more of your spiritual potential and find that your life is transformed!  Topics explored in this class are:
  • The Kingdom of Heaven
  • The Creative Process
  • Keys to Demonstration
  • Metaphysical Basis for Wholeness and Health
  • Healing: Demonstrating Life
  • Wholeness and Health
  • Metaphysical Basis for Prosperity
  • Demonstrating Prosperity
  • Creating a Metaphysical Treatment Plan 

Required Texts
Metaphysics I (2005 edition if available)
Metaphysics II (2006 edition if available) (New chapters in the editing process will also be provided until the new text(s) are completed.)
Talks on Truth (Charles Fillmore)

Books of Interest
The Essential Charles Fillmore (J. Gaither)
The Revealing Word (Charles Fillmore)
Point of Power (Paul Hasselbeck)

MS-800 Prosperity
(also available through Distance Learning)
You’ll discover what it means to develop a giving consciousness, what the truth is about money, how to replace a consciousness of lack with a lasting consciousness of abundance and more. Compare and contrast Charles Fillmore’s Prosperity with Eric Butterworth’s Spiritual Economics as you study substance, the activity of mind, faith and visualization. After exploring the ways you can use these ideas in your daily life, you’ll put them into practice in a “real life” prosperity project. Sharing your prosperity project and its results with your classmates is encouraged, yet optional.

Required Texts
Prosperity (Charles Fillmore)
Spiritual Economics (Eric Butterworth)

Books of Interest
The New Interpreter’s Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha
A journal to record your thoughts

MS-801 Twelve Powers
Explore the 12 fundamental attributes of Divine Mind that form our spiritual nature and express themselves through our minds as divine ideas and faculties. Based on Charles Fillmore’s The Twelve Powers of Man.

Required Texts
The Twelve Powers
(Charles & Cora Fillmore) (The Unity Classic Library Edition)

Books of Interest
The Super Powers of the Mind
(Cody Jones)

MS-802 Lessons in Truth
(also available in Distance Learning)
Broaden your consciousness with a basic introduction to metaphysical study and the practical use of Truth principles in daily living. Based on H. Emilie Cady’s classic Lessons in Truth, first published in 1895, with the addition of newly formulated metaphysical insights.

Required Texts
Lessons in Truth (H. Emilie Cady)

Books of Interest
Point of Power (Paul Hasselbeck)

MS-804 Discover the Power Within You
(also available through Distance Learning)
Take a fresh look at the teachings of Jesus from a metaphysical and philosophical point of view. See how the great idea of "Christ in you"-emphasized in Eric Butterworth’s book-can lead to biblical and personal revelations.

Required Texts
Discover the Power Within You (Eric Butterworth)
The New Interpreter’s Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha

Books of Interest
Dynamics for Living (Charles Fillmore)
Strongly recommended: A journal to record your thoughts, reflections, concerns and insights. For personal and private use. The instructor will never ask for it.
Any inspirational music.

MS-815 Myrtle and Charles on Healing and Wholeness – Part 1

This course is based in the spiritual laws and universal principles that support the expression of heath and wholeness in our bodies and affairs as Jesus presented them.  We will be working with Myrtle and Charles Fillmore’s interpretation of how Jesus used and demonstrated those in his own life. Such laws and principles will be presented to support participants in developing a practical understanding of Myrtle and Charles theology as heart centered metaphysicians. It is our expectation that through the development of such practical understanding, participants will be inspired to also become heart centered metaphysicians.  They will create and develop a tool kit for practicing the principles in their daily lives.  Topics explored in this class:

  • Be Made Whole
  • The Christ Spirit
  • Jesus Christ
  • I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life
  • God Presence
  • God Said and It Was So
  • Drawing on the Source
  • The Power of the Spoken Word
  • The True Character of Being
  • Holy Spirit Fulfills the Law
  • The Omnipresence of Prayer
  • Indispensable Assurance
  • Healing Through Praise and Thanksgiving
  • The Healing Power of Joy
  • Be Thou Made Whole
  • Realization Precedes Manifestation
  • Producing Results
  • The Fullness of Time

Required Texts
How To Let God Help You (Myrtle Fillmore) (soft cover)
Myrtle Fillmore’s Healing Letters (compiled by Frances W. Foulks)
Jesus Christ Heals (Charles Fillmore)
Christian Healing
(Charles Fillmore)

MS-816 Myrtle and Charles on Healing and Wholeness – Part 2

Information coming soon!

MS-808 Either The Quest, Unity for Today, or The Simple Truth
Increase your awareness of Unity Truth principles and discover how spiritual growth is experienced. The Quest may be taken in your local church or through home study. Unity for Today is offered as an online self-study course or by purchasing a CD. The Simple Truth is also a home self-study. Please contact the SEE registrar for details on how to fulfill the requirement.

Required Texts
The Quest Set (Richard and Mary Alice Jafolla) or The Simple Truth (Richard and Mary Alice Jafolla)


Please check the course schedule for dates and times of classes. Other Spiritual Development areas of study include biblical, interdepartmental, and prayer.

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1901 NW Blue Parkway
Unity Village, MO 64065-0001
E-mail: see@unityonline.org
Phone: 816-251-3535
Fax: 816-251-3555

 

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