But he also wanted to ensure that Unity was a response to the new scientific knowledge that was opening minds to greater understanding. Unity has always taught that there is a spiritual science, a science of mind with its own laws as limiting and as liberating as the laws of the physical sciences. The purpose of most of Unity's textbooks has been to teach what these spiritual laws are and how to use them to cast off the bonds that false habits of thinking have imposed bonds of sickness, poverty, frustration, loneliness, and pain. Human beings have a spark of divinity within them, the Christ spirit within. Their very essence is of God, and therefore they are inherently good, also.
Human beings create their experiences by the activity of their thinking.
Everything in the manifest realm has its beginning in thought. Prayer is creative thinking that heightens the connection with God-Mind and therefore brings forth wisdom, healing, prosperity, and everything good. Knowing and understanding the laws of life, also called Truth, are not enough. A person must also live the Truth that he or she knows. These are Unity's well-defined teachings.