Myrtle the metaphysician.

This week’s assignment is to scan Myrtle’s response letters and find one that really speaks to us.  Once we have found that letter we are to break it down and do a critical analysis of the problem she addresses and the theology employed in her response. 

In Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters, I used a letter found in the section entitled To Truth Teachers.  It begins in my book on page 127 and it starts out with God in the midst of you is a tower of strength and stability.  Myrtle having grown up Methodist would have heard the words “strong tower” over and over again due to John Wesley’s teachings.  John taught his followers to look to God who was a tower of strength and when they did that, in that strong tower they would find protection and peace. [1] That is one place I find Myrtle’s embedded theology and I believe she adapted this to encompass her own beliefs.  As John Wesley was probably speaking of an outside God, Myrtle took established beliefs and applied it to her own beliefs, which involves the God we find within.  I believe in this particular letter, Myrtle is addressing someone who has concerns about their study group.  Perhaps the teacher is not connecting to the students.  I get the feeling that the teacher has been doing everything they were taught to do.  I get this impression from these words from Myrtle: “Sometimes our attention becomes so engrossed in the things we are trying to do that we forget to unify ourselves consciously with the source of our being.”  Myrtle goes on to remind the teacher that they have all the powers within them and when they draw on those powers and become one with the Spirit of God.  When one with God a realization occurs that empowers and stirs activity into motion.

It would seem that the teacher was having some difficulties with some of the students as Myrtle affirms for the teacher that “instead of looking out and seeing the sense evidences, or listening to the complaints or the woes or the trials of those gathered to witness the Truth, look directly and with undivided attention to God the good.”

Myrtle always presented as a friend to people.  When they sought understanding and advice they found the support they needed in the words that came from Myrtle.  I remember reading somewhere that there were so many people writing to Myrtle that at some point she could no longer personally respond to every letter that was written to her.  Others were brought in to assist Myrtle in attending to all the correspondence.  He response letters that were not written by Myrtle drew some controversy and people began requesting personal response letters from Myrtle.  Can you blame them?  Myrtle had a way with people.  She was firm and loving. She spoke Truth and people respected her. Myrtle could see in them what they couldn’t see in themselves and she would affirm for them those Truths.  Myrtle radiated Love.  She knew that the Spirit of God dwells within each of us and she could find that glimmer of Truth and expand that into Christ consciousness for that individual. Myrtle would tell people she saw the Christ within them and she would affirm that Truth for them knowing ultimately it was up to the individual to recognize that Truth for themselves.   

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[1] www.books.google.com. The works of the reverend John Wesley,a.m. JohnWesley