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The difference between Jesus and us is not one of inherent spiritual capacity, but in difference of demonstration of it. Jesus was potentially perfect, and He expressed that perfection; we are potentially perfect, [but] we have not yet expressed it.

—Charles Fillmore

Charles Fillmore was born to a Chippewa trader on an Indian reservation near St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1854. His wife, Myrtle, was born in Pagetown, Ohio, in 1845. Like Quimby, Charles suffered from tuberculosis, and as a result of his disease, set out on a quest for healing. Together the Fillmores roamed the West seeking a cure for Charles’ illness, until they came across Christian Scientists and Emma Curtis Hopkins. Charles started a prayer group called “Silent Unity.” (He had originally wanted to call it Christian Science, after Quimby, but was forced to change the name due to a legal conflict with Mary Baker Eddy.) Around 1891, the prayer group grew into what is known today as the Unity School of Christianity. Christianity here was used in a loose sense of Christ-consciousness; the teachings of the Fillmores were mostly metaphysical and even included reincarnation. In the Unity Church, salvation is attained by “atonement with God,” a reuniting of human consciousness with God-consciousness. They taught that if Jesus had attained this, all men could.