Highlighting Hopkins--Human Will

I've decided to add the "Highlighting Hopkins" column to our blog. The Hopkins I'm referring to is Emma Curtis Hopkins, the teacher of Unity's founders Charles and Myrtle Fillmore. My purpose is to give you a glimpse of the teachings they received during their coursework with Ms. Hopkins. Below is from one of her Bible studies.

Some people are not honestly interested in the Science of Spirit for a long time. Their thoughts are all wound and twisted around material things. They only think of the Spiritual teaching in the hope to get material gains of some kind. Now, for a long time the most extraordinary blessings attend them. Their eyes are healed. Their backs are strengthened. Their families are healthy. But there is one thing that still seems to refuse to yield to all their thoughts about Spirit. They were so filled with hope at first that they rather ignored that one unchanged condition. But by and by it is thrust uppermost in their mind and thy actually feel cross at the Science for not fixing up that one point. This unmanageable condition stands for the human will. That human will is still set to material issues. It is cross-grained to Spirit. Here is an affair that never will to the way you want it. Your want must be changed; for the want is simply your ugly will. At this point Jesus Christ said we ought to take our mind entirely away from caring whether it were brought to pass or not. The dissolution of the human will is demanded. It has been an ugly clog in the passageway where some wonderful idea was meant to flow through.