For one thing, from the outset, it encouraged people to think of God as both Father and Mother. New Thought and Unity were and are way ahead of their time on this score. But New Thought and Unity didn t stop there. Now those are impersonal images. Cars and electrical outlets have power.
Rooms have presence.
I ran across a little essay on God by Charles Fillmore, the co-founder of Unity, not too long ago. I, for one, have found that such impersonal imagery for God is often deeply meaningful and moving. For some people, it is simply the only language for God that works at all. Water in the World s Religions Many of the world s religious traditions use water imagery for God or their versions of Ultimate Reality. It should not surprise us, then, to find water in our Bibles.