The Unity Correspondence School Lessons were Unity’s SEE program for nearly 70 years. Charles Fillmore wrote the first lesson and preached from all 18 lessons for the remainder of his life. It is the program that Eric Butterworth, Johnnie Colemon, Catherine Ponder and Ed Rabel were required to study before entering into Unity’s ministry training.
For nearly sixty-five years the lessons provided truth principles to laypeople and trained them for ministry. The lessons in the course propelled Unity’s tremendous growth from 1909, when Charles Fillmore wrote the first lesson, until the mid-1970s when the concept of “distance learning” by correspondence fell out of fashion. The principles are timeless, the teaching is pristine, and the presentation is clear and direct.
The original Unity Society Correspondence School consisted of two courses, Series 1 (also known as the “Beginner’s Course” having six lessons) and Series 2 (known as the “Advanced Course” having twelve lessons). Each lesson consisted of a manuscript and twenty annotations used by the original instructors to grade papers presented by students. Combined, there were eighteen lessons with approximately 10 topics and 20 annotations each, giving a total number of 180 topical passages for understanding the Fillmore teaching.
The Fillmore Wings Study Program is three things. First, it is a collaboration of scholars and students who study, meet, discuss the original lessons, and develop commentary and footnotes appropriate for present-day understanding and language. We anticipate a 2-3 year timeframe for the the development of commentary and footnoting.
Second, the Fillmore Wings Study Program is also the content developed by the scholars and students. The most current version of each of the 18 courses is freely accessible online on TruthUnity.net at https://www.truthunity.net/wings. Downloadable PDF files for self printing is also provided. At some point the entire collection of 18 lessons, annotations, commentary and footnotes will be published in a single, printed volume.
Third, the Fillmore Wings Study Program is an online study program currently in development. Our scholars will eventually offer distance-learning based on our present-day understanding of the original course content. We do not anticipate offering any credit, certification or credentialing, but we will proclaim that students who complete the learning program will have earned “Fillmore Wings.”
| Podcast | Blog Date | Podcast Episode Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wings | 2011-11-15 | Announcing Unity Wings (November 2011) |
| Wings | 2017-02-05 | Announcing Lessons in Truth Study Edition (February 2017) |
| Wings | 2024-08-18 | What We Can Do About the Hollowing Out of Unity's Faith Density |
| Wings | 2024-09-08 | Supplement or Substitute? |
