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 | 1 | In Christian Science we learn that the substitution of the spiritual for the material definition of a Scrip- |
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| 3 | tural word often elucidates the meaning
of the inspired writer. On this account this chapter is added. It con- tains the metaphysical interpretation of Bible terms, | ||
| 6 | giving their spiritual sense, which
is also their
original meaning. ABEL. Watchfulness; self-offering; surrendering to | ||
| 9 | the creator the early fruits of experience.
ABRAHAM. Fidelity; faith in the divine Life and in the eternal Principle of being. | ||
| 12 | This patriarch illustrated the purpose of Love to create trust in good, and showed the life-preserving power of spiritual understanding. | ||
| 15 | ADAM. Error; a falsity; the belief in "original sin,"
sickness, and death; evil; the opposite of good, - of God and His creation; a curse; a belief in intelligent matter, PAGE 580 | ||
| 1 | finiteness, and mortality; "dust to dust;" red sand-
stone; nothingness; the first god of mythology; not | ||
| 3 | God's man, who represents the one God and
is His
own image and likeness; the opposite of Spirit and His crea- tions; that which is not the image and likeness of good, | ||
| 6 | but a material belief, opposed to the one Mind,
or Spirit; a so-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus mak- ing "gods many and lords many" (I Corinthians viii. 5); | ||
| 9 | a product of nothing as the mimicry of something;
an unreality as opposed to the great reality of spiritual ex- istence and creation; a so-called man, whose origin, | ||
| 12 | substance, and mind are found to be the antipode
of God, or Spirit; an inverted image of Spirit; the image and likeness of what God has not created, namely, mat- | ||
| 15 | ter, sin, sickness, and death; the opposer of
Truth, termed error; Life's counterfeit, which ultimates in death; the opposite of Love, called hate; the usurper | ||
| 18 | of Spirit's creation, called self-creative matter;
immor- tality's opposite, mortality; that of which wisdom saith, "Thou shalt surely die." | ||
| 21 | The name Adam represents the false supposition that Life is not eternal, but has beginning and end; that the infinite enters the finite, that intelligence passes into non- | ||
| 24 |
intelligence, and that Soul dwells in material
sense; that immortal Mind results in matter, and matter in mortal mind; that the one God and creator entered what He cre- | ||
| 27 | ated, and then disappeared
in the atheism of
matter. ADVERSARY. An adversary is one who opposes, denies, disputes, not one who constructs and sustains reality and | ||
| 30 | Truth. Jesus said of the devil, "He was
a murderer from the beginning, . . . he is a liar and the father of it." PAGE 581 | ||
| 1 | This view of Satan is confirmed by the name often con- ferred upon him in Scripture, the "adversary." | ||
| 3 | ALMIGHTY. All-power; infinity; omnipotence.
ANGELS. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual | ||
| 6 | purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil,
sensuality, and mortality. ARK. Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved | ||
| 9 | to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding
of Spirit, destroying belief in matter. God and man coexistent and eternal; Science show- | ||
| 12 |
ing that the spiritual realities of all things
are created by Him and exist forever. The ark indicates temptation overcome and followed by exaltation. | ||
| 15 | ASHER (Jacob's son). Hope and faith; spiritual com- pensation; the ills of the flesh rebuked. BABEL. Self-destroying error; a kingdom divided | ||
| 18 | against
itself, which cannot stand; material
knowledge. The higher false knowledge builds on the basis of evi- dence obtained from the five corporeal senses, the more | ||
| 21 | confusion ensues, and the more certain
is the
downfall of its structure. BAPTISM. Purification by Spirit; submergence in | ||
| 24 | Spirit. We are "willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." (II Corinthians v. 8.) PAGE 582 | ||
| 1 | BELIEVING. Firmness and constancy; not a faltering nor a blind faith, but the perception of spiritual Truth. | ||
| 3 | Mortal thoughts, illusion.
BENJAMIN (Jacob's son). A physical belief as to life, | ||
| 6 | mortal mind, devoted to matter; pride; envy; fame;
illusion; a false belief; error masquerading as the pos- sessor of life, strength, animation, and power to act. | ||
| 9 | Renewal of affections; self-offering; an improved state of mortal mind; the introduction of a more spiritual origin; a gleam of the infinite idea of the infinite Prin- | ||
| 12 | ciple; a spiritual type; that which comforts,
consoles, and supports. BRIDE. Purity and innocence, conceiving man in the | ||
| 15 |
idea of God; a sense of Soul, which has spiritual
bliss and enjoys but cannot suffer. BRIDEGROOM. Spiritual understanding; the pure con- | ||
| 18 | sciousness that God, the divine Principle, creates
man as His own spiritual idea, and that God is the only crea- tive power. | ||
| 21 | BURIAL. Corporeality and physical sense put out of sight and hearing; annihilation. Submergence in Spirit; immortality brought to light. | ||
| 24 | CANAAN (the son of Ham). A sensuous belief; the testimony of what is termed material sense; the error which would make man mortal and would make mortal | ||
| 27 | mind a slave to the body. CHILDREN. The spiritual thoughts and representa- tives of Life, Truth, and Love. PAGE 583 | ||
| 1 | Sensual and mortal beliefs; counterfeits of creation, whose better originals are God's thoughts, not in em- | ||
| 3 | bryo, but in maturity; material suppositions of
life, sub- stance, and intelligence, opposed to the Science of being.
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. | ||
| 6 | corporeal sense; the offspring of Spirit, who,
having wrestled with error, sin, and sense, are governed by divine Science; some of the ideas of God beheld as men, casting | ||
| 9 | out error and healing the sick; Christ's offspring.
CHRIST. The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error. | ||
| 12 | CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; what- ever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle. The Church is that institution, which affords proof of | ||
| 15 | its utility and is found elevating the race,
rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the ap- prehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of | ||
| 18 | divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or
error, and healing the sick. CREATOR. Spirit; Mind; intelligence; the animating | ||
| 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- | ||
| 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- | ||
| 27 | tal mind controlling mortal mind; error, working
out the designs of error; one belief preying upon another. PAGE 584 | ||
| 1 | DAY. The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 6 | measures time according to the good that
is unfolded.
This unfolding is God's day, and "there shall be no night there." | ||
| 9 | DEATH. An illusion, the lie of life in matter; the un- real and untrue; the opposite of Life. Matter has no life, hence it has no real existence. Mind | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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; | ||
| 27 | hope and faith. DUST. Nothingness; the absence of substance, life, or intelligence. PAGE 585 | ||
| 1 | EARS. Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding. | ||
| 3 | Jesus said, referring to spiritual perception, "Having
ears, hear ye not?" (Mark viii. 18.) EARTH. A sphere; a type of eternity and immortality, | ||
| 6 | which are likewise without beginning or end.
To material sense, earth is matter; to spiritual sense, it is a compound idea. | ||
| 9 | ELIAS. Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to mate- rial sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold; | ||
| 12 | the basis of immortality.
"Elias truly shall first come and restore all things." (Matthew xvii. 11.) | ||
| 15 | ERROR. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 472.
EUPHRATES (river). Divine Science encompassing the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type | ||
| 18 | of the glory which is to come; metaphysics taking
the place of physics; the reign of righteousness. The atmos- phere of human belief before it accepts sin, sickness, or | ||
| 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 | ||
| 24 | last forever; a finite belief concerning life,
substance, and intelligence in matter; error; the belief that the hu- man race originated materially instead of spiritually, - | ||
| 27 | that man started first from dust, second from
a rib, and third from an egg. PAGE 586 | ||
| 1 | EVENING. Mistiness of mortal thought; weariness of mortal mind; obscured views; peace and rest. | ||
| 3 | EYES. Spiritual discernment, - not material but mental. Jesus said, thinking of the outward vision, "Having | ||
| 6 | eyes, see ye not?" (Mark viii. 18.)
FAN. Separator of fable from fact; that which gives | ||
| 9 | FATHER. Eternal Life; the one Mind; the divine Principle, commonly called God. FEAR. Heat; inflammation; anxiety; ignorance; error; | ||
| 12 | desire; caution. FIRE. Fear; remorse; lust; hatred; destruction; afflic- tion purifying and elevating man. | ||
| 15 | FIRMAMENT. Spiritual understanding; the scientific line of demarcation between Truth and error, between Spirit and so-called matter. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 21 | GAD (Jacob's son). Science; spiritual being under- stood; haste towards harmony. GETHSEMANE. Patient woe; the human yielding to | ||
| 24 | the divine; love meeting no response, but still
remaining love. PAGE 587 | ||
| 1 | GHOST. An illusion; a belief that mind is outlined and limited; a supposition that spirit is finite. | ||
| 3 | GIHON (river). The rights of woman acknowledged morally, civilly, and socially. GOD. The great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, | ||
| 6 | all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal;
Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 12 | finite forms; the various theories that hold
mind to be a material sense, existing in brain, nerve, matter; supposi- titious minds, or souls, going in and out of matter, erring | ||
| 15 | and mortal; the serpents of error, which say,
"Ye shall be as gods." God is one God, infinite and perfect, and cannot be- | ||
| 18 | come finite and imperfect.
GOOD. God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; om- nipresence; omni-action. | ||
| 21 | HAM (Noah's son). Corporeal belief; sensuality; slavery; tyranny. HEART. Mortal feelings, motives, affections, joys, and | ||
| 24 | sorrows.
HEAVEN. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere | ||
| 27 | of Soul.
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| 1 | HELL. Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-de- | ||
| 3 | struction, self-imposed agony; effects of sin;
that which "worketh abomination or maketh a lie." HIDDEKEL (river). Divine Science understood and | ||
| 6 | acknowledged.
HOLY GHOST. Divine Science; the development of | ||
| 9 | I, or EGO. Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incor- poreal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind. There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or | ||
| 12 | Mind, governing all existence; man and woman
un- changed forever in their individual characters, even as numbers which never blend with each other, though they | ||
| 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 | ||
| 18 | life, substance, and
intelligence are both mental
and material. I AM. God; incorporeal and eternal Mind; divine | ||
| 21 | Principle; the only Ego. IN. A term obsolete in Science if used with reference to Spirit, or Deity. | ||
| 24 | INTELLIGENCE. Substance; self-existent and eternal Mind; that which is never unconscious nor limited. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 469. PAGE 589 | ||
| 1 | ISSACHAR (Jacob's son). A corporeal belief; the offspring of error; envy; hatred; selfishness; self-will; | ||
| 3 | lust.
JACOB. A corporeal mortal embracing duplicity, re- | ||
| 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- | ||
| 9 | ing from the understanding that God
is the divine Prin- ciple of all existence, and that man is His idea, the child of His care. | ||
| 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- | ||
| 15 | anny. Home, heaven.
JESUS. The highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing | ||
| 18 | to light man's immortality.
JOSEPH. A corporeal mortal; a higher sense of Truth rebuking mortal belief, or error, and showing the immor- | ||
| 21 | tality and supremacy of Truth; pure affection
blessing its enemies. JUDAH. A corporeal material belief progressing and | ||
| 24 | disappearing; the spiritual understanding of
God and man appearing. PAGE 590 | ||
| 1 | KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. The rein of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent | ||
| 3 | Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul
is supreme.
KNOWLEDGE. Evidence obtained from the five cor- | ||
| 6 | theories, doctrines, hypotheses; that which
is
not divine and is the origin of sin, sickness, and death; the oppo- site of spiritual Truth and understanding. | ||
| 9 | LAMB OF GOD. The spiritual idea of Love; self-im- molation; innocence and purity; sacrifice. LEVI (Jacob's son). A corporeal and sensual belief; | ||
| 12 | mortal man; denial of the fulness of God's creation;
ecclesiastical despotism. LIFE. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 468. | ||
| 15 | LORD. In the Hebrew, this term is sometimes em- ployed as a title, which has the inferior sense of master, or ruler. In the Greek, the word kurios almost always | ||
| 18 | has this lower sense, unless specially coupled
with the name God. Its higher signification is Supreme Ruler. LORD GOD. Jehovah. | ||
| 21 | This double term is not used in the first chapter of Genesis, the record of spiritual creation. It is intro- duced in the second and following chapters, when the | ||
| 24 | spiritual sense of God and of
infinity is disappearing
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| 1 | physical sense of God as finite and corporeal. From this follow idolatry and mythology, - belief in many gods, or | ||
| 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- | ||
| 6 | ual image and likeness of God; the full representation
of Mind. MATTER. Mythology; mortality; another name for | ||
| 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 | ||
| 12 | originating in matter; the opposite of Truth;
the oppo- site of Spirit; the opposite of God; that of which immortal Mind takes no cognizance; that which mortal mind sees, | ||
| 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; | ||
| 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. | ||
| 21 | MIRACLE. That which is divinely natural, but must be learned humanly; a phenomenon of Science. MORNING. Light; symbol of Truth; revelation and | ||
| 24 | progress.
MORTAL MIND. Nothing claiming to be something, for Mind is immortal; mythology; error creating other | ||
| 27 | errors; a suppositional material sense, alias
the belief
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| 1 | that sensation is in matter, which is sensationless; a be- lief that life, substance, and intelligence are in and of | ||
| 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- | ||
| 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 | ||
| 9 | can be recognized by the spiritual sense; sin;
sickness; death. MOSES. A corporeal mortal; moral courage; a type | ||
| 12 | of moral law and the demonstration thereof; the
proof that, without the gospel, - the union of justice and affec- tion, - there is something spiritually lacking, since justice | ||
| 15 | demands penalties under the law. MOTHER. God; divine and eternal Principle; Life, Truth, and Love. | ||
| 18 | NEW JERUSALEM. Divine Science; the spiritual facts and harmony of the universe; the kingdom of heaven, or reign of harmony. | ||
| 21 | NIGHT. Darkness; doubt; fear. NOAH. A corporeal mortal; knowledge of the noth- ingness of material things and of the immortality of all | ||
| 24 | that is spiritual. OIL. Consecration; charity; gentleness; prayer; heav- enly inspiration. | ||
| 27 | PHARISEE. Corporeal and sensuous belief; self-right- eousness; vanity; hypocrisy. PAGE 593 | ||
| 1 | PISON (river). The love of the good and beautiful, and their immortality. | ||
| 3 | PRINCIPLE. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 465.
PROPHET. A spiritual seer; disappearance of mate- | ||
| 6 | PURSE. Laying up treasures in matter; error.
RED DRAGON. Error; fear; inflammation; sensuality; | ||
| 9 | RESURRECTION. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding. | ||
| 12 | REUBEN (Jacob's son). Corporeality; sensuality; de- lusion; mortality; error. RIVER. Channel of thought. | ||
| 15 | When smooth and unobstructed, it typifies the course of Truth; but muddy, foaming, and dashing, it is a type of error. | ||
| 18 | ROCK. Spiritual foundation; Truth. Coldness and stubbornness. SALVATION. Life, Truth, and Love understood and | ||
| 21 | demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness,
and death destroyed. SEAL. The signet of error revealed by Truth PAGE 594 | ||
| 1 | SERPENT (ophis, in Greek; nacash, in Hebrew).
Subtlety; a lie; the opposite of Truth, named error; | ||
| 3 | the first statement of mythology and
idolatry;
the belief in more than one God; animal magnetism; the first lie of limitation; finity; the first claim that there is an oppo- | ||
| 6 | site of Spirit, or good, termed matter, or evil;
the first delusion that error exists as fact; the first claim that sin, sickness, and death are the realities of life. The first | ||
| 9 | audible claim that God was not omnipotent and that
there was another power, named evil, which was as real and eternal as God, good. | ||
| 12 | SHEEP. Innocence; inoffensiveness; those who follow their leader. SHEM (Noah's son). A corporeal mortal; kindly affec- | ||
| 1 | 5 tion; love rebuking error; reproof of sensualism.
SON. The Son of God, the Messiah or Christ. The son of man, the offspring of the flesh. " Son of a year." | ||
| 18 | SOULS. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 466. SPIRIT. Divine substance; Mind; divine Principle; all that is good; God; that only which is perfect, ever- | ||
| 21 | lasting, omnipresent, omnipotent,
infinite. SPIRITS. Mortal beliefs; corporeality; evil minds; supposed intelligences, or gods; the opposites of God; | ||
| 24 | errors; hallucinations. (See page 466.) SUBSTANCE. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 468. PAGE 595 | ||
| 1 | SUN. The symbol of Soul governing man, - of Truth, Life, and Love. | ||
| 3 | SWORD. The idea of Truth; justice. Revenge; anger. TARES. Mortality; error; sin; sickness; disease; | ||
| 6 | death.
TEMPLE. Body; the idea of Life, substance, and in- | ||
| 9 | Love; a material superstructure, where mortals congre- gate for worship. THUMMIM. Perfection; the eternal demand of divine | ||
| 12 | Science.
The Urim and Thummim, which were to be on Aaron's breast when he went before Jehovah, were holiness and | ||
| 15 | purification of thought and deed, which alone
can fit us for the office of spiritual teaching. TIME. Mortal measurements; limits, in which are | ||
| 18 | summed tip all human acts, thoughts, beliefs,
opinions, knowledge; matter; error; that which begins before, and continues after, what is termed death, until the mortal | ||
| 21 | disappears and spiritual perfection appears.
TITHE. Contribution; tenth part; homage; gratitude. A sacrifice to the gods. | ||
| 24 | UNCLEANLINESS. Impure thoughts; error; sin; dirt.
UNGODLINESS. Opposition to the divine Principle and its spiritual idea. PAGE 596 | ||
| 1 | UNKNOWN. That which spiritual sense alone compre- hends, and which is unknown to the material senses. | ||
| 3 | Paganism and agnosticism may define Deity as "the great unknowable;" but Christian Science brings God much nearer to man, and makes Him better known as | ||
| 6 | the All-in-all, forever near.
Paul saw in Athens an altar dedicated "to the unknown God." Referring to it, he said to the Athenians: "Whom | ||
| 9 | therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare
I
unto you." (Acts xvii. 23.) URIM. Light. | ||
| 12 | The rabbins believed that the stones in the breast- plate of the high-priest had supernatural illumination, but Christian Science reveals Spirit, not matter, as the | ||
| 15 | illuminator of all. The
illuminations of Science
give us a sense of the nothingness of error, and they show the spiritual inspiration of Love and Truth to be the only fit | ||
| 18 | preparation for admission to the presence and
power of the Most High. VALLEY. Depression; meekness; darkness. | ||
| 21 | "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." (Psalm xxiii.4.) Though the way is dark in mortal sense, divine Life | ||
| 24 | and Love illumine it, destroy the unrest of mortal
thought, the fear of death, and the supposed reality of error. Chris- tian Science, contradicting sense, maketh the valley to bud | ||
| 27 | and blossom as the rose. VEIL. A cover; concealment; hiding; hypocrisy. The Jewish women wore veils over their faces in token PAGE 597 | ||
| 1 | of reverence and submission and in accordance with Pharisaical notions. | ||
| 3 | The Judaic religion consisted mostly of rites and cere- monies. The motives and affections of a man were of little value, if only he appeared unto men to fast. The | ||
| 6 | great Nazarene, as meek as he was mighty, rebuked
the hypocrisy, which offered long petitions for blessings upon material methods, but cloaked the crime, latent in thought, | ||
| 9 | which was ready to spring
into action and crucify
God's anointed. The martyrdom of Jesus was the culminating sin of Pharisaism. It rent the veil of the temple. It re- | ||
| 12 | vealed the false foundations and superstructures
of super- ficial religion, tore from bigotry and superstition their coverings, and opened the sepulchre with divine Science, | ||
| 15 | - immortality and Love.
WILDERNESS. Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spon- taneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a | ||
| 18 | material sense of things disappears, and spiritual
sense unfolds the great facts of existence. WILL. The motive-power of error; mortal belief; ani- | ||
| 21 | mal power. The might and wisdom of God.
"For this is the will of God." (I Thessalonians iv. 3.) | ||
| 24 | Will, as a quality of so-called mortal mind, is a wrong- doer; hence it should not be confounded with the term as applied to Mind or to one of God's qualities. | ||
| 27 | WIND. That which indicates the might of omnipo- tence and the movements of God's spiritual government, encompassing all things. Destruction; anger; mortal | ||
| 30 | passions. PAGE 598 | ||
| 1 | The Greek word for wind (pneuma) is used also
for spirit, as in the passage in John's Gospel, the third chap- | ||
| 3 | ter, where we read: "The wind [pneuma]
bloweth where it listeth. . . . So is every one that is born of the Spirit [pneuma]." Here the original word is the same in both | ||
| 6 | cases, yet it has received different translations,
as in other passages in this same chapter and elsewhere in the New Testament. This shows how our Master had constantly | ||
| 9 | to employ words of material significance
in order
to unfold spiritual thoughts. In the record of Jesus' supposed death, we read: "He bowed his head, and gave up the | ||
| 12 | ghost;" but this word ghost
is pneuma.
It might be trans- lated wind or air, and the phrase is equivalent to our common statement, "He breathed his last." What | ||
| 15 | Jesus gave up was indeed air, an etherealized
form of matter, for never did he give up Spirit, or Soul. WINE. Inspiration; understanding. Error; fornica- | ||
| 18 | tion; temptation; passion. YEAR. A solar measurement of time; mortality; space for repentance. | ||
| 21 | "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years." (II Peter iii. 8.) One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual | ||
| 24 | understanding of Life and Love,
is a foretaste
of eternity. This exalted view, obtained and retained when the Sci- ence of being is understood, would bridge over with life | ||
| 27 | discerned spiritually the
interval of death,
and man would be in the full consciousness of his immortality and eternal harmony, where sin, sickness, and death are un- | ||
| 30 | known. Time is a mortal thought, the divisor
of which PAGE 599 | ||
| 1 | is the solar year. Eternity is God's measurement of Soul- filled years. | ||
| 3 | YOU. As applied to corporeality, a mortal; finity.
ZEAL. The reflected animation of Life, Truth, and | ||
| 6 | ZION. Spiritual foundation and superstructure; in- spiration; spiritual strength. Emptiness; unfaithful- ness; desolation. |
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