(From The Book The Twelve Powers of Man By Charles Fillmore Unity School of Christianity first

published in 1930. Used here for Educational Purposes only!)

https://www.truthunity.net/books/charles-fillmore-the-twelve-powers-of-man
INVOCATION: Thou Infinite All Pervading, Life Giving Consciousness of
Loving Intelligence; Come with Thy Boundless Perfection of Faith and
Thy Limitless Gifts of Life through the Use of All The Divine Virtues of
the Mind of God, so We may Fulfil All Dimensions of Our Lives with that
Divine Faith and Trust. Beloved Mighty ‘I AM’ Presence, Shine Upon
Our Circle of Light Always and in All Ways Thy Endless Grace of the
Mighty Mind Powers of God’s Cosmic Christ Love, Light, Wisdom and
Power, So Our Hearts can ‘Open Wide’ and The Three Fold Flames
within may Expand, Expand and Expand! Intensify Thy Wondrous Light
Within Our outer activities, that each One May Become a Great Channel
to Heal, to Bless, to Prosper, and to Enlighten. Enable Us to Grow in
Spiritual Love and Wisdom in Our every Moment of Our Evolving
Consciousness.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAITH

FAITH has an abiding place in man's consciousness. This place of abiding is described in the
Scriptures as the ‘House of Simon and Andrew’. A House is a structure that some person has
built for a home. A man's house is his castle. Perhaps generation after generation is born and
reared in the same house. The house where a great genius was born is preserved with care,
and it is visited year after year by those who are devotees of the one who expressed some
great thought, art or discovery. If the barn cave at Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, were
found, it would become the most famous Shrine in the world. The importance that we give
to the places where great men and women were born is founded on the Centralizing Power
of thought. All structures are thought concentrations. Constructive thinking ultimate’s in the
construction of places of abode. Savages do not build houses or cities, because they do not
think constructively.

In the time of David, the Children of Israel were nomads. The consciousness of indwelling
Spirit had not been born in their minds, and could not, in consequence, be formed in their
bodies. That time was ripe for a more constructive state of mind is set forth in these words
of Jehovah, in II Samuel 7:5, 6:

‘Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the day
that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent
and in a tabernacle’.

After receiving this message, David, the drawing of the Power of Love, began gathering
material for Solomon's Temple. Jehovah told David that he could not build the Temple
because he was a man of war. The Temple of God is man's body (‘Your body is a temple of
the Holy Spirit’), but if man has not complied with the Law of permanent body building, he is
like the nomadic Children of Israel; he goes from body to body and from tabernacle to
tabernacle.
Except Jehovah build the house, They labour in vain that build it.

The tents and the tabernacles that the Children of Israel built for Jehovah, Represent the
transitory bodies of flesh. The Lord has merely ‘walked’ in these flimsy temples; they have
not afforded an abiding place for Spirit, because of their unsubstantial character. The
underlying weakness of the tent body was its lack of Faith in the inhabiting Soul. A new
consciousness of the indwelling spiritual substance and life was necessary, and a man was
chosen to bring it forth. This man, named Abraham, represents Obedience and Faith. His
original name was Abram, which means ‘Exalted Father’. The name is identified with the
Highest Cosmic Principle, the all-pervading, self-existent spiritual substance, which is the
Primary Source of the Universe.

Abraham was tested again and again, to the end that he might be strong in Faith. His greatest
test of Faith was his willingness to sacrifice his Beloved son Isaac in the mountain of the Lord.
‘And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh: as it is said to this day, In the
mount of Jehovah it shall be provided’.

This incident is intended to show the necessity of a man's giving up, that which he considers
his dearest possession before he can realize the divine providence. The incident takes place
in the mount of the Lord; that is, in a High Spiritual Understanding.

The Law of Giving and Receiving pertains to the realm of ideas; one must give up personal
attachments before one can receive the Universal. If a parent idealizes a child, loves it so
dearly that its pleasure is first in his or her consciousness, the Spiritual development of the
parent is impeded. Then, before the Love of God (which is the supreme thing) can fill the
heart, there must be a Sacrifice of human love. If like Abraham one is Faithful and Obedient
and willing to give to the Lord his most precious possession, there is always a receiving or
providing equivalent.

When Abraham was willing to Sacrifice his beloved Isaac, the Lord stayed his hand; his
attention was directed to a ram in a thicket nearby, and he was directed to sacrifice the animal
upon the altar, in place of the child. Here is illustrated an often misunderstood Law of
Sacrifice or Renunciation. We do not have to give up our cherished things, if they are Real,
but the error that prevents their full expression must be destroyed. The ram (which
represents the resistance and opposition of personality to the complete expression of Truth)
must be Sacrificed.

‘Give, and it shall be given unto you’ is the Statement of a Law that Operates in every thought
and act of man. This Law is the Foundation of all barter and financial exchange. Men scheme
to get something for nothing; but the Law, in one of its many Forms, overtakes them in the
end. Even metaphysicians, who above all people should understand the Law, often act as if
they expected God to provide abundantly for them before they have earned Abundance. It
is an error to think that God gives anybody anything that has not been Earned. The Holy Spirit
comes upon those who Pray in the ‘Upper Room.’ The ‘Upper Room’ (Inner Cave) corresponds
to the ‘Mount of Jehovah’. It is the High Place in Consciousness where man Self-Realizes the
Presence of Divine Mind. The greatest work that one can do is to strive to know God and to
keep His law. God Pays liberally for this Service and the reward is sure. Faith is built up in
consciousness under this Law.

‘Faith is Assurance of things hoped for’. When there has been an aspiration and a reaching
out for the Spiritual Life, the Faith faculty becomes active in consciousness. The prayer of
supplication is impotent, the Prayer of Affirmation is Immediately Effective.

Intellectual faith admits doubt and hope of fulfillment in the future; Spiritual Faith includes
Unfailing Assurance and Immediate Response. These two attitudes of Faith are often
observed acting and reacting upon each other. Peter started to walk on the water in Spiritual
Faith, but when he saw the effects of the wind he was afraid and began to sink. Then the ‘I
AM’ Presence (Jesus) gave Its Hand of Spiritual Power, the wind ceased, and there was no
longer any doubt of Faith's Ability to Rise above the negative consciousness.

The first and greatest Disciple of Jesus was Peter, who has been Universally accepted by the
followers of Jesus the Christ as a type representing Faith. Before he met Jesus, Peter was
called Simon. Simon means ‘hearing’, which represents receptivity. We understand from this
that Listening to Truth in a receptive state of mind opens the way for receiving the next degree
in the Divine Order, which is Faith. Jesus gave Peter his new name and also its meaning: ‘Thou
art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church.’

Faith in the reality of the invisible builds a Real, abiding substance in mind and in body. All
kinds of ideas grow quickly when planted in this rich Substance of the mind. Jesus also called
this substance of Faith the ‘earth’, and He said to Peter, ‘Whatsoever thou shalt bind [affirm]
on earth shall be bound in Heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose [deny] on earth shall be
loosed in Heaven’. In all His teaching Jesus emphasized that the ruling Forces of both heaven
and earth are in man. ‘The Kingdom of God is within you’. ‘All Authority hath been given unto
me in Heaven and on Earth.’ ‘Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?’ When you
understand the Omnipresence of Spirit (God) we quickly see how simple and true this
beautiful doctrine of Jesus is.

There is but one real Faith; the avenue of expression determines the character and power of
Faith. Trust is a cheaper brand of Faith, but trust is better than mistrust. As a rule, people
who merely trust in the Lord do not understand all the Law. If they had understanding they
would affirm the Presence and Power of God until the very Substance of Spirit would appear
in consciousness and this is Faith established on a Rock.

Faith words should be expressed both silently and audibly. The power of the spoken word is
but slightly understood, because the Law of the Word is not rightly observed. The Word is
the Creative Idea in Divine Mind, which may be expressed by man when he has fulfilled the
Law of Expression. All words are formative, but not all words are Creative. The Creative word
lays hold of Spirit Substance and Power. Physical science hints at this Inner Substance and
Energy, in its description of the almost inconceivable Power inherent in the Universal Ether.
We are told that the manifest Forces, such as heat, light, and electricity, are but faint
manifestations of an Omnipresent Element which is thousands of times greater than these
weak expressions.
Radio (1930) is opening up a new field of activity in the use of the spoken word. A newspaper
article on the wireless telephone says:

Do you happen to know that a single word spoken in Lower Broadway, New York, among the
skyscrapers, could break every pane of glass in adjacent buildings and create a disturbance
that would be felt for a mile in every direction?

The human voice, transformed into electrical energy for wireless transmission, develops 270
horse power. The power of ten men is equal to one horse power. The human voice electrified
for wireless purposes is equivalent to the power of 2,700 men. In the various processes that
step up a voice for radio transmission across the Atlantic ocean, it becomes 135,000 times
more powerful than when uttered by the person sending the message. Thus, starting with an
initial energy of 1/1,000 of an electric watt, the voice is boosted by a powerful station until it
is intensified 100 million times.

If the spoken word can be mechanically intensified a hundred million times, how much greater
will be its Power when Energized by Spirit! When Jesus said with a loud voice to Lazarus,
‘Come forth’, He must have made contact with the Creative Word referred to in the 1st
Chapter of John, because the results showed its Life-Giving Character. When He healed the
centurion's servant by His word sent forth on invisible currents, He said that the work was
done through Faith. So Faith must boost the spoken word even more than a hundred million
times, as evidenced by its marvelous results. That the Word of Faith has an Inner Force, and
that this Force rushes forth and produces remarkable transformations in the phenomenal
world, is the testimony of thousands who have witnessed its results.

Jesus said: ‘If ye have Faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain,
Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you’.
He knew about the great Spiritual Machinery that the word of Faith sets into action. He
illustrated how man Spiritually Developed could by Faith control the elements, quell storms,
walk on water, retard or increase the growth of life and substance in grains, trees, animals,
and men.

The ponderous dynamos that generate electricity to light a city are set going by a touch on a
button. There is a button in the Mind of man that connects him, through Faith, with Almighty
Energy. When the word of Faith is spoken to large tumors and they melt away, is not the
Transformation equal to the removal of mountains? When a paralyzed limb, or a lifeless
organ, is quickened and restored to natural functioning, is not that Quickening a raising of the
dead?

It is not necessary that the one who touches the button of Faith shall understand all the
intricate machinery with which he makes contact; he knows, like one who turns the electric
switch, that the Light or Power Will spring forth. The Faith Center, the Pineal Gland, opens
the Mind of man to Spiritual Faith. Merely affirming the activity of this Superpower will
quicken it in Consciousness. Jesus said, ‘I speak not from myself: but the Father [Faith] abiding
in me doeth His Works’.
The transformers of electricity are paralleled by the transforming power of mind. That if a
man sanely believes he can do a thing he will eventually find a way to do it is an accepted
axiom of psychology. The Mind Generates an Energy that Contacts the Universal Energy and
Causes circumstances and events to fall into line for the attainment of the latent ideal. John
came crying in the wilderness of mortal thought, ‘Repent ye’; that is, change your mind. Paul
discerned a like necessity, hence his call: ‘Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind’.

When people see the possibilities that follow a right change of mind, they will crowd the halls
of metaphysical teachers as they now crowd moving-picture shows. When it is clearly
understood that doubt, fear, poverty, disease, and death every thought, good or bad, that
men have expressed have existence through mind we shall see a shifting of consciousness
and a radical change in thought and word by everybody of sane mind.

Then we shall ask for the True Source and find it, as did Paul, who said: ‘Have this mind in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus’. It was not Jesus but the Mind in Jesus that did the Great
Works. He was the Centre of Faith that transformed the Mighty Creative Forces of Being
(which are active in the Universe through the mind and brain of man) into a form of force
usable in His environment. Tap this Inner Reservoir of Faith, and you can do what Jesus did.
That was His Promise; its Fulfillment is the Test of a True Follower.

‘By Faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death . . . By Faith Noah . . . prepared
an ark to the saving of his house . . . By Faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac . . . By
Faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents . . . By Faith the walls
of Jericho fell down . . . And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon,
Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through Faith subdued
kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched
the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed
mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens. Women received their dead by a resurrection.’

BENEDICTION: We Give Praise and Thanks Beloved Mighty ‘I AM’ Presence

for enabling Us to See and Feel in Our Lives the World’s Limitless Gifts
of Prosperous Life which Flourishes with Thy Great Opulence and Gives
Fulfilment and Joy to All Forms of Consciousness Embodied Upon
Beloved Mother Gaia. Thou Mighty All Existing Presence, We Thank
Thee for Freeing Us from All Imagined Boundaries and Limitations in
Our Minds and Bodies each day more and more, so We Achieve and
Remember the Perfection That We ARE!
 Cerebrum of the Brain

COLOUR VISUALIZATION
DIVINE FAITH
Royal Blue
Visualize an inverted pyramid of Pure White Light, starting two or three feet
above the physical head. The point of this pyramid penetrates into the
cerebrum of the brain. This represents the Light Body Form of your ‘I AM’ Self-
entering into your Crown Chakra/cerebrum.
Think about having the ‘Faith of God’ inserted through this exercise. The
White Light slowly becomes Royal Blue Light, even a Royal Blue Liquid, pouring
down into the cerebrum. Gradually turning Royal Blue, the Fluid Light bathes
and submerges the entire skull. Through the brain, this Royal-Blue Substance
travels to every part of the body. As it does, the Divine Virtue of the Faith of
God pours into every pore and cell of the physical, making you a Child of God,
ONE with the Father-Mother Creator.
Because it is so important that Divine Faith and Divine Love be combined for
the proper and lasting Demonstration, Visualize the Liquid Royal Blue
Substance Flowing from the brain directly to the heart. When Faith of God and
Love of God become equally strong in the consciousness, we can say to any
part of our bodies, “In The Name of The Cosmic Christ within Me Be Healed,
Be Made Whole again, and Perform this Divine Function with Ease and Grace.
Faith in the Law of God and the Love of God’s Laws Demand Immediate and
Complete Obedience with Perfect and Eternal Results.
Finally, to complete this exercise, Visualize the Liquid Blue Light Flowing down
from the Crown Centre/cerebrum like a Heavenly Waterfall, filling the
emotional, mental, astral, auric fields that extends one to two feet from the
physical body. These bodies need to receive the Healing Blue Waters of Faith
in God and the Faith of God, which we, as His-Her Children, Made in God’s Pure
Image and Likeness, MUST Express Itself, if we are to Demonstrate the Light
Body of Our ‘I AM’ Presence. From these Levels, Faith Will Permit the Birth of
the Light Form, According to the Divine Faith Anchored into the auric field.
As each of the three levels of the auric field Incorporates the Light Resonances
and Frequency of each of the Twelve Divine Virtues, such as Faith in this case,
physical Transmutation, Transformation and Transfiguration WILL Begin. WE
MUST EXPECT AND ACCEPT THIS without any shadows of doubt!
Transmutation occurs because in these three bodily levels, there still are
blockages which prohibit the Full Implantation of the Higher God Aspect of
each Divine Virtue. Hence, blockages in Faith prevent the True Flow of The
Sacred Cosmic White Fire Light Substance Energy into the Crown
Chakra/cerebrum, resulting in malfunction of the Central Unified Organically
Synthesized Computer in Unison of the Higher Heart and Mind.
However, by removing any improper belief programs or beliefs, physical,
mental, emotional or Spiritual imbalances, resistances or blockages from the
4 lower bodies and by Implanting into ALL of Them Equally, a Higher God
Intelligence Resonance and Vibrational Frequency of Truth of Faith into the
cerebrum, Eternal Healing of the cerebral dysfunctions will not occur in
Totality. Remember it is a step by step process and so do not give up until it
has been completed. It can happen immediately or in the weeks or months to
come, it all depends upon the Level of Divine Faith you Hold as Your Own Truth
within you! Hold The Light Of Purity that You Know You Are! Within every
word, thought and action!
 And So It Is! As Above, So Below!

This Too Shall Pass,

May You Pass Every Test,
No Longer Seek Further That Which Is Seen,
Rather Seek ONLY Now That Which Is Unseen!
Let this Dictum, become Your Guiding Light Now, for it in and of
Itself, has much to offer all who will Move Forward from here!!
Create then your 4 lower bodies into a Temple Most High of the Divine ‘I AM’
Presence through the Anchoring of Divine Faith in You, Within the Kingdom of
Your Divine God Mother and Your Beloved God Father.

GIVE MY DIVINE FAITH,

THAT WHICH I GIVE MY ATTENTION.