CULTS OF OUR DAY: PART THREE
UNITY Unity believes that through perfection of the body man will be come the equal of God Himself with power over the mind and body
By Louis T . Talbot
because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3 :18 ); “ But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags . . . and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away” (Isa. 64:6). We have no righteousness, in nate or otherwise. We have no Christ-consciousness which we can develop. We come to Christ as lost men and women, crying for mercy. We have nothing in which to glory except the cross of Christ by which we are crucified unto the world and the world unto us. All that we have, or ever shall have, of spir itual blessing, victory or peace, must come from and through our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is “ . . . made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption . . . He that glori- eth, let him glory in the Lord” (1 Cor. 1 :30,31 ). A I ih e Unity type of salvation is self-righteousness, lik e Mrs. Eddy’s “ self-immola- m tion,” and has no reality. It can only be a sham because there is no genuine righteousness apart from the cleansing through the blood of Christ. This blood they have spiritualized away, and “.. . . CONTINUED
means conscious existence in the body” (Talks on Truth, pp. 150-51). How is this change taking place? “ These life germs of Jesus’ body form the nucleus of a new race organism for all people. A ll per sons everywhere may partake of (eat) the radiant body (bread) of Jesus by exercising faith in Him as the great source of pure Spirit sub stance, sown as soul seed for the saving of humanity from sense con sciousness” (Teach Us to Pray, pp. 68, 69). God’s Word completely refutes any such teaching. “ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3 :23 ); “ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us . . . If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us” (1 John 1: 8, 10); “ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that be lieveth not is condemned already, A First-Hand Account On page 48 of this issue is a special first-hand, account by one of Americas leading Christian writers of what it is like to be a follower of false religions. It’s an article we think you’ll not want to miss. — ED.
"W ■'■T TT hat kind of salvation 1 / / does Unity teach if it does not believe in the ▼ ▼ salvation from sin re vealed in the Word of God? In one word, it is eternal life in the body. Christ-consciousness for which they strive is a means of acquiring health, prosperity and happiness here and now. Sickness and poverty are not to be the ex perience of Christians. Since the day Mrs. Fillmore heard the old metaphysician Weeks declare: “ I am a child of God, therefore I do not inherit sickness,” freedom from all ills of the body and all limita tions of this life have been the goal of Unity. “ W e must be perfect as Jesus Christ was perfect. There is no other way . . . If I am in any degree a sinner, I have in that de gree a corruptible dead body . . . I must get rid of carnality; that is all. The quicker I do that, the quicker I shall become alive” (Talks on Truth, p. 155). “ Salvation is finally attained when the cycle of rebirth is broken and ‘man comes to birth no more.’ The true spiritual body is to replace the physical body and the man be comes like Christ. This is to be done here on earth . . . Eternal life
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