The church building that we call home is nearly 100 years old. We will soon celebrate its history and our part in its occupancy. Following are some features of the building and the place our church holds in Unity and this community. Join us to be part of its ongoing history.
Lori Barton Lending Library
Our Unity By The Bay lending library is filled with wonderful books, CDs, and DVDs. It contains approximately 2,900 books within 36 categories. Some include: Unity, spirituality, self-help, religion, metaphysics, Eastern religion, contemporary authors of New Thought, meditation, Jewish mysticism, Native American, psychics, psychology, angels, recovery, grief and recovery, prosperity, poetry, astrology, the Bible, crystals and gemstones, etc.
The Lori Barton Lending Library is located through the door near the Sanctuary. The library has a self check-out system. You may withdraw items for a three-week period. Simply record the name of the book or other item on the check-out list, sign your name and the date of the withdrawal. When you return it, place item in the box by the sign-up sheet, and record the date returned on the list.
Unity Wings and Their Meaning
“The winged globe or sun disk, as a religious symbol, had its earliest use in Egypt, but it is found in various forms in the religions of other races. it represents the relation existing between Spirit, soul, and body. Soul gives wings to the body. Spirit is the enveloping principle, like the atmosphere in which both soul and body exist, and from which they draw their original ispiration.
“The winged globe is also a symbol of the earth and its soul.
“As humanity develops spiritual consciousness, it attains the realization of the soul as the wings of the body. Artists paint their angels with wings, representing in this way their freedom from physical fetters. But the soul does not have wings like a bird. The life activity of the soul is quickened by Spirit until it rises above the thoughts of matter and floats free in the fourth dimension, which Jesus called the kingdom of the heavens.” (1930s vintage Unity literature – by Charles Fillmore)
“The ‘winged globe’ (now referred to as ‘The Winged Soul’), the emblem printed on all Unity publications (for so many years), symbolizes mind conscious of its spiritual origin and power. The design originated as a symbol of the perfect soul in Chaldean and Egyptian occultism. It emblematizes the soul in its flight back to the Supreme – its original Source in absolute love and wisdom. It is a sacred symbol of the illumined of antiquity; it is also the distinctive insignia of an occult society that existed in Egypt some thousands of year ago. The great pyramid was constructed under the direction of that society. The society is again manifesting itself in the world in the building of a temple ‘not made with hands,’ of whose permanency and just proportions of the great Cheops is the geometrical symbol. The new temple will be a unified humanity by whom God is universally recognized as infinite supply, the bountiful Father, the one supreme Source of life, love and intelligence.” (Quotation discovered in 1940 vintage Unity magazine.)
