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Charles Fillmore
Unity, April 1916, p 305
(Unsigned but believed by C. F.)
Page 305
Probably in no other phase of man's overcoming has there been such a tendency to follow fads as in eating and drinking. The departure from the true and natural food has been so great that we find ourselves in a maze when we try to get back to the divine standard, and all kinds of by paths open up, which seem to be the main road.
But over comers find themselves growing more and more into agreement that most food, if not all, should be eaten in its natural state. In cooking, many of the essential elements are lost and artificial flavors are used to make up for the waste so that an ordinary cooked meal falls far short in the nourishing essence of real food. That the meal lacks in quality is made up in quantity, making unnecessary work or the digestive system.
Most of us find that in learning to eat and drink to the glory of God, we make haste slowly. We take a faith step for some more spiritual form of food and then we have to grow into the new way. The appetite and the digestion have been trained in error and it often takes much discipline to establish a new order. But we do not grow except by taking these faith steps and staying with them after we take them. Now that the summer season is at hand, the opportunity is good for trying out at least one meal a day of raw fruits and vegetables. Those who have tried living upon natural foods say that the meals should be simple and that great variety is not needed. Fruits and nuts may be eaten at one meal and vegetables at another.
Some of the Unity workers have considered objections to salt as a food and have eliminated it from their diet during the past year. They report good results from this change. Salt is a mineral and in its natural state is not in a form to be assimilated by man.
We have never taken up in UNITY the study of the various foods because we have felt that such questions should be worked out by the individual according to his own faith and understanding, but there are some fundamental principles that underlie the questions of appropriation of substance in eating and drinking. These principles we feel at liberty to consider from time to time.
