Five Basic Principles of Unity
- God is the source and creator of all. There is no other enduring power. God is good and present everywhere.
- We are spiritual beings, created in God’s image. The spirit of
God lives within each person; therefore, all people are inherently good.
- We create our life experiences through our way of thinking.
- There is power in affirmative prayer, which we believe increases our awareness of God.
- Knowledge of these spiritual principles is not enough. We must live them.
God
God is Spirit, the loving source of all that is. God is the one
power, all good, everywhere present, all wisdom. God is divine energy,
continually creating, expressing and sustaining all creation. In God, we
live and move and have our being. In Unity, some other ways we speak of
God are Life, Light, Love, Substance, Principle, Law and Universal
Mind.
The Nature of Humankind
We are each individual, eternal expressions of God. Our essential
nature is divine and therefore inherently good. Our purpose is to
express our divine potential as realized and demonstrated by Jesus and
other master teachers.
The more we awaken to our divine nature, the more
fully God expresses in and through our lives.
Our Teachings
- Heaven is not a place, but a state of consciousness; we create our own heaven and hell here and now.
- We all have an innate capacity to know God through direct experience.
- The “Christ” is that part of God that is in every person. There is a
spark of divinity within all people, just as there was in Jesus.
- Prayer works.
- We are here to set a positive example and be a role model for others.
- We are here to make the world a better place.
Jesus
We believe that Jesus expressed his divine potential and sought to
show humankind how to express ours as well. We see Jesus as a master
teacher of universal truths and as our Way Shower. In Unity, we use the
term
Christ to mean the divinity in humankind. Jesus is the great example of the Christ in expression.
Prayer and Meditation
Affirmative prayer is the highest form of creative thought. It
includes the release of counterproductive, negative thoughts, as well as
holding in mind statements of spiritual truth. Through meditation, we
experience the presence of God. Prayer and meditation heighten our
awareness and thereby transform our lives.
