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that institution, which affords proof of 583:15 its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the

dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of 583:18 divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and

healing the sick.

 

CREATOR. Spirit; Mind; intelligence; the animating 583:21 divine Principle of all that is real and good; self-existent

Life, Truth, and Love; that which is perfect and eternal;

the opposite of matter and evil, which have no Prin-583:24 ciple; God, who made all that was made and could not

create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself.

 

DAN (Jacob’s son). Animal magnetism; so-called mor-583:27 tal mind controlling mortal mind; error, working out

the designs of error; one belief preying upon another.

584:1 DAY. The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea

of Truth and Love.

584:3 “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”

(Genesis i. 5.) The objects of time and sense disappear

in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind 584:6 measures time according to the good that is unfolded.

This unfolding is God’s day, and “there shall be no night

there.”

584:9 DEATH. An illusion, the lie of life in matter; the unreal and untrue; the opposite of Life.

 

Matter has no life, hence it has no real existence. Mind 584:12 is immortal. The flesh, warring against Spirit; that

which frets itself free from one belief only to be fettered

by another, until every belief of life where Life is not 584:15 yields to eternal Life. Any material evidence of death is

false, for it contradicts the spiritual facts of being.

 

DEVIL. Evil; a lie; error; neither corporeality nor 584:18 mind; the opposite of Truth; a belief in sin, sickness,

and death; animal magnetism or hypnotism; the lust of

the flesh, which saith: ” I am life and intelligence in 584:21 matter. There is more than one mind, for I am mind, -

a wicked mind, self-made or created by a tribal god and

put into the opposite of mind, termed matter, thence to 584:24 reproduce a mortal universe, including man, not after the

image and likeness of Spirit, but after its own image.”

 

DOVE. A symbol of divine Science; purity and peace; 584:27 hope and faith.

 

DUST. Nothingness; the absence of substance, life, or

intelligence.

585:1 EARS. Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses,

but spiritual understanding.

585:3 Jesus said, referring to spiritual perception, “Having

ears, hear ye not?” (Mark viii. 18.)

 

EARTH. A sphere; a type of eternity and immortality, 585:6 which are likewise without beginning or end.

 

To material sense, earth is matter; to spiritual sense,

it is a compound idea.

585:9 ELIAS. Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to material sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned

the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold; 585:12 the basis of immortality.

 

“Elias truly shall first come and restore all things.”

(Matthew xvii. 11.) 585:15 ERROR. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 472.

 

EUPHRATES (river). Divine Science encompassing

the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type 585:18 of the glory which is to come; metaphysics taking the

place of physics; the reign of righteousness. The atmosphere of human belief before it accepts sin, sickness, or 585:21 death; a state of mortal thought, the only error of which

is limitation; finity; the opposite of infinity.

 

EVE. A beginning; mortality; that which does not 585:24 last forever; a finite belief concerning life, substance,

and intelligence in matter; error; the belief that the human race originated materially instead of spiritually, - 585:27 that man started first from dust, second from a rib, and

third from an egg.

586:1 EVENING. Mistiness of mortal thought; weariness of

mortal mind; obscured views; peace and rest.

586:3 EYES. Spiritual discernment, - not material but

mental. Jesus said, thinking of the outward vision, “Having 586:6 eyes, see ye not?” (Mark viii. 18.)

 

FAN. Separator of fable from fact; that which gives

action to thought.

586:9 FATHER. Eternal Life; the one Mind; the divine

Principle, commonly called God.

 

FEAR. Heat; inflammation; anxiety; ignorance; error; 586:12 desire; caution.

 

FIRE. Fear; remorse; lust; hatred; destruction; affliction purifying and elevating man.

586:15 FIRMAMENT. Spiritual understanding; the scientific

line of demarcation between Truth and error, between

Spirit and so-called matter.

586:18 FLESH. An error of physical belief; a supposition that

life, substance, and intelligence are in matter; an illusion;

a belief that matter has sensation.

586:21 GAD (Jacob’s son). Science; spiritual being understood; haste towards harmony.

 

GETHSEMANE. Patient woe; the human yielding to 586:24 the divine; love meeting no response, but still remaining

love.

587:1 GHOST. An illusion; a belief that mind is outlined

and limited; a supposition that spirit is finite.

587:3 GIHON (river). The rights of woman acknowledged

morally, civilly, and socially.

 

GOD. The great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, 587:6 all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle;

Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance;

intelligence.

587:9 GODS. Mythology; a belief that life, substance, and

intelligence are both mental and material; a supposition

of sentient physicality; the belief that infinite Mind is in 587:12 finite forms; the various theories that hold mind to be a

material sense, existing in brain, nerve, matter; supposititious minds, or souls, going in and out of matter, erring 587:15 and mortal; the serpents of error, which say, “Ye shall

be as gods.”

 

God is one God, infinite and perfect, and cannot be-587:18 come finite and imperfect.

 

GOOD. God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action.

587:21 HAM (Noah’s son). Corporeal belief; sensuality;

slavery; tyranny.

 

HEART. Mortal feelings, motives, affections, joys, and 587:24 sorrows.

 

HEAVEN. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government

by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere 587:27 of Soul.

588:1 HELL. Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred;

revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-de- 588:3 struction, self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which

“worketh abomination or maketh a lie.”

 

HIDDEKEL (river). Divine Science understood and 588:6 acknowledged.

 

HOLY GHOST. Divine Science; the development of

eternal Life, Truth, and Love.

588:9 I, or EGO. Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incorporeal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind.

 

There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or 588:12 Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as

numbers which never blend with each other, though they 588:15 are governed by one Principle. All the objects of God’s

creation reflect one Mind, and whatever reflects not this

one Mind, is false and erroneous, even the belief that 588:18 life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and

material.

 

I AM. God; incorporeal and eternal Mind; divine 588:21 Principle; the only Ego.

 

IN. A term obsolete in Science if used with reference

to Spirit, or Deity.

588:24 INTELLIGENCE. Substance; self-existent and eternal

Mind; that which is never unconscious nor limited.

 

See chapter on Recapitulation, page 469.

589:1 ISSACHAR (Jacob’s son). A corporeal belief; the

offspring of error; envy; hatred; selfishness; self-will; 589:3 lust.

 

JACOB. A corporeal mortal embracing duplicity, repentance, sensualism. Inspiration; the revelation of 589:6 Science, in which the so-called material senses yield to

the spiritual sense of Life and Love.

 

JAPHET (Noah’s son). A type of spiritual peace, flow-589:9 ing from the understanding that God is the divine Principle of all existence, and that man is His idea, the child

of His care.

589:12 JERUSALEM. Mortal belief and knowledge obtained

from the five corporeal senses; the pride of power and

the power of pride; sensuality; envy; oppression; tyr-589:15 anny. Home, heaven.

 

JESUS. The highest human corporeal concept of the

divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing 589:18 to light man’s immortality.

 

JOSEPH. A corporeal mortal; a higher sense of Truth

rebuking mortal belief, or error, and showing the immor-589:21 tality and supremacy of Truth; pure affection blessing

its enemies.

 

JUDAH. A corporeal material belief progressing and 589:24 disappearing; the spiritual understanding of God and

man appearing.

590:1 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. The rein of harmony in divine

Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent 590:3 Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme.

 

KNOWLEDGE. Evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses; mortality; beliefs and opinions; human 590:6 theories, doctrines, hypotheses; that which is not divine

and is the origin of sin, sickness, and death; the opposite of spiritual Truth and understanding.

590:9 LAMB OF GOD. The spiritual idea of Love; self-immolation; innocence and purity; sacrifice.

 

LEVI (Jacob’s son). A corporeal and sensual belief; 590:12 mortal man; denial of the fulness of God’s creation;

ecclesiastical despotism.

 

LIFE. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 468.

590:15 LORD. In the Hebrew, this term is sometimes employed as a title, which has the inferior sense of master,

or ruler. In the Greek, the word kurios almost always 590:18 has this lower sense, unless specially coupled with the

name God. Its higher signification is Supreme Ruler.

 

LORD GOD. Jehovah.

590:21 This double term is not used in the first chapter of

Genesis, the record of spiritual creation. It is introduced in the second and following chapters, when the 590:24 spiritual sense of God and of infinity is disappearing

from the recorder’s thought, - when the true scientific

statements of the Scriptures become clouded through a 591:1 physical sense of God as finite and corporeal. From this

follow idolatry and mythology, - belief in many gods, or 591:3 material intelligences, as the opposite of the one Spirit,

or intelligence, named Elohim, or God.

 

MAN. The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spirit-591:6 ual image and likeness of God; the full representation of

Mind.

 

MATTER. Mythology; mortality; another name for 591:9 mortal mind; illusion; intelligence, substance, and life

in non-intelligence and mortality; life resulting in death,

and death in life; sensation in the sensationless; mind 591:12 originating in matter; the opposite of Truth; the opposite of Spirit; the opposite of God; that of which immortal

Mind takes no cognizance; that which mortal mind sees, 591:15 feels, hears, tastes, and smells only in belief.

 

MIND. The only I, or Us; the only Spirit, Soul, divine

Principle, substance, Life, Truth, Love; the one God; 591:18 not that which is/ in/ man, but the divine Principle, or God,

of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity,

which outlines but is not outlined.

591:21 MIRACLE. That which is divinely natural, but must

be learned humanly; a phenomenon of Science.

 

MORNING. Light; symbol of Truth; revelation and 591:24 progress.

 

MORTAL MIND. Nothing claiming to be something,

for Mind is immortal; mythology; error creating other 591:27 errors; a suppositional material sense, alias the belief 592:1 that sensation is in matter, which is sensationless; a belief that life, substance, and intelligence are in and of 592:3 matter; the opposite of Spirit, and therefore the opposite

of God, or good; the belief that life has a beginning

and therefore an end; the belief that man is the off-592:6 spring of mortals; the belief that there can be more than

one creator; idolatry; the subjective states of error;

material senses; that which neither exists in Science nor 592:9 can be recognized by the spiritual sense; sin; sickness;

death.

 

MOSES. A corporeal mortal; moral courage; a type 592:12 of moral law and the demonstration thereof; the proof

that, without the gospel, - the union of justice and affection, - there is something spiritually lacking, since justice 592:15 demands penalties under the law.

 

MOTHER. God; divine and eternal Principle; Life,

Truth, and Love.

592:18 NEW JERUSALEM. Divine Science; the spiritual facts

and harmony of the universe; the kingdom of heaven,

or reign of harmony.

592:21 NIGHT. Darkness; doubt; fear.

 

NOAH. A corporeal mortal; knowledge of the nothingness of material things and of the immortality of all 592:24 that is spiritual.

 

OIL. Consecration; charity; gentleness; prayer; heavenly inspiration.

592:27 PHARISEE. Corporeal and sensuous belief; self-righteousness; vanity; hypocrisy.

593:1 PISON