Table of Contents

Preface / ix
Acknowledgments / xiii
Introduction / xv
1. From Businessman to Spiritual Teacher / 3
2. Co-creator of the Basic Unity Teaching / 9
3. Co-creator of the Doctrine of the Twelve Powers / 35
4. Sources of Charles Fillmore’s Spiritual Teaching / 49
5. Charles, the Jesus Christ Standard, and New Thought / 89
6. Regenerating the Human Body / 106
7. Metaphysical Healer / 115
8. Organizer of Spiritual Ministries / 120
9. Myrtle Page and Cora Dedrick / 139
10. “He Had an Uncommon Lot of Common Sense” / 151
Appendixes
A. Emanuel Swedenborg / 166
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson / 171
C. Emma Curtis Hopkins / 174
D. Franz Anton Mesmer / 179
E. Warren Felt Evans / 184
F. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky / 188
G. Mary Baker Eddy / 191

About the Author

Neal Vahle served as publishing director of Heldref Publications in Washington, DC, and as editor of several periodicals, including World Affairs, Current, New Realities, Re-Source, and Unity Magazine. He holds a PhD in American History from Georgetown University and has taught at The American University, The Catholic University of America, and George Mason University. He is also the author of Open at the Top: The Life of Ernest Holmes and Torchbearer to Light the Way: The Life of Myrtle Fillmore. He lives in Corte Madera, California.

Reviews

"I have been involved in the Unity movement for over twenty-five years and am thoroughly knowledgeable of its origins and history. But it wasn't until I read Neal Vahle's biography, The Spiritual Journey of Charles Fillmore: Discovering the Power Within, that I truly felt the passion that permeated the mind and heart of Unity's co-founder... Vahle has an exceptional talent for making history come alive and be relevant for this day and age." -- Reverend Duke Tufty