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580:1finiteness, and mortality; dust to dust;red sandstone; nothingness; the first god of mythology; not 3God’s man, who represents the one God and is His own image and likeness; the opposite of Spirit and His creations; that which is not the image and likeness of good, 6but a material belief, opposed to the one Mind, or Spirit; a so-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus making gods many and lords many(I Corinthians viii. 5); 9a product of nothing as the mimicry of something; an unreality as opposed to the great reality of spiritual existence and creation; a so-called man, whose origin, 12substance, 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, mat15ter, 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 18of Spirit’s creation, called self-creative matter; immortality’s opposite, mortality; that of which wisdom saith, Thou shalt surely die.
21The 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-24intelligence, 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 cre27ated, 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 30Truth. Jesus said of the devil, He was a murderer from the beginning, . . . he is a liar and the father of it. 581:1This view of Satan is confirmed by the name often conferred upon him in Scripture, the adversary.
3Almighty.All-power; infinity; omnipotence.
2Angels.God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, 6purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.
Ark.Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved 9to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding of Spirit, destroying belief in matter.
God and man coexistent and eternal; Science show12ing that the spiritual realities of all things are created by Him and exist forever. The ark indicates temptation overcome and followed by exaltation.
15Asher (Jacob’s son).Hope and faith; spiritual compensation; the ills of the flesh rebuked.
Babel.Self-destroying error; a kingdom divided 18against itself, which cannot stand; material knowledge.
The higher false knowledge builds on the basis of evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses, the more 21confusion ensues, and the more certain is the downfall of its structure.
Baptism.Purification by Spirit; submergence in 24Spirit.
We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.(II Corinthians v. 8.)
582:1Believing.Firmness and constancy; not a faltering nor a blind faith, but the perception of spiritual Truth. 3Mortal thoughts, illusion.
Benjamin (Jacob’s son).A physical belief as to life, substance, and mind; human knowledge, or so-called 6mortal mind, devoted to matter; pride; envy; fame; illusion; a false belief; error masquerading as the possessor of life, strength, animation, and power to act.
9Renewal 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 Prin12ciple; a spiritual type; that which comforts, consoles, and supports.
Bride.Purity and innocence, conceiving man in the 15idea of God; a sense of Soul, which has spiritual bliss and enjoys but cannot suffer.
Bridegroom.Spiritual understanding; the pure con18sciousness that God, the divine Principle, creates man as His own spiritual idea, and that God is the only creative power.
21Burial.Corporeality and physical sense put out of sight and hearing; annihilation. Submergence in Spirit; immortality brought to light.
24Canaan (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 27mind a slave to the body.
Children.The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love.
583:1Sensual and mortal beliefs; counterfeits of creation, whose better originals are God’s thoughts, not in em3bryo, but in maturity; material suppositions of life, substance, and intelligence, opposed to the Science of being.
Children of Israel.The representatives of Soul, not 6corporeal 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 9out error and healing the sick; Christ’s offspring.
Christ.The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.
12Church.The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
The Church is that institution, which affords proof of 15its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of 18divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.
Creator.Spirit; Mind; intelligence; the animating 21divine 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 Prin24ciple; 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 mor27tal mind controlling mortal mind; error, working out the designs of error; one belief preying upon another.
584:1Day.The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love.
3And 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 6measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, and there shall be no night there.
9Death.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 12is 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 15yields 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 18mind; 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 21matter. 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 24reproduce 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; 27hope and faith.
Dust.Nothingness; the absence of substance, life, or intelligence.
585:1Ears.Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding.
3Jesus said, referring to spiritual perception, Having ears, hear ye not?(Mark viii. 18.)
Earth.A sphere; a type of eternity and immortality, 6which are likewise without beginning or end.
To material sense, earth is matter; to spiritual sense, it is a compound idea.
9Elias.Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to material sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold; 12the basis of immortality.
Elias truly shall first come and restore all things.(Matthew xvii. 11.)
15Error.See chapter on Recapitulation, page 472.
Euphrates (river).Divine Science encompassing the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type 18of 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 21death; 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 24last forever; a finite belief concerning life, substance, and intelligence in matter; error; the belief that the human race originated materially instead of spiritually, 27that man started first from dust, second from a rib, and third from an egg.
586:1Evening.Mistiness of mortal thought; weariness of mortal mind; obscured views; peace and rest.
3Eyes.Spiritual discernment, not material but mental.
Jesus said, thinking of the outward vision, Having 6eyes, see ye not?(Mark viii. 18.)
Fan.Separator of fable from fact; that which gives action to thought.
9Father.Eternal Life; the one Mind; the divine Principle, commonly called God.
Fear.Heat; inflammation; anxiety; ignorance; error; 12desire; caution.
Fire.Fear; remorse; lust; hatred; destruction; affliction purifying and elevating man.
15Firmament.Spiritual understanding; the scientific line of demarcation between Truth and error, between Spirit and so-called matter.
18Flesh.An error of physical belief; a supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter; an illusion; a belief that matter has sensation.
21Gad (Jacob’s son).Science; spiritual being understood; haste towards harmony.
Gethsemane.Patient woe; the human yielding to 24the divine; love meeting no response, but still remaining love.
587:1Ghost.An illusion; a belief that mind is outlined and limited; a supposition that spirit is finite.
3Gihon (river).The rights of woman acknowledged morally, civilly, and socially.
God.The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, 6all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence.
9Gods.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 12finite 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 15and mortal; the serpents of error, which say, Ye shall be as gods.
God is one God, infinite and perfect, and cannot be18come finite and imperfect.
Good.God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action.
21Ham (Noah’s son).Corporeal belief; sensuality; slavery; tyranny.
Heart.Mortal feelings, motives, affections, joys, and 24sorrows.
Heaven.Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere 27of Soul.
588:1Hell.Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-de3struction; self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which worketh abomination or maketh a lie.
Hiddekel (river).Divine Science understood and 6acknowledged.
Holy Ghost.Divine Science; the development of eternal Life, Truth, and Love.
9I, or Ego.Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incorporeal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind.
There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or 12Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as numbers which never blend with each other, though they 15are 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 18life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material.
I Am.God; incorporeal and eternal Mind; divine 21Principle; the only Ego.
In.A term obsolete in Science if used with reference to Spirit, or Deity.
24Intelligence.Substance; self-existent and eternal Mind; that which is never unconscious nor limited.
See chapter on Recapitulation, page 469.
589:1Issachar (Jacob’s son).A corporeal belief; the offspring of error; envy; hatred; selfishness; self-will; 3lust.
Jacob.A corporeal mortal embracing duplicity, repentance, sensualism. Inspiration; the revelation of 6Science, 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, flow9ing from the understanding that God is the divine Principle of all existence, and that man is His idea, the child of His care.
12Jerusalem.Mortal belief and knowledge obtained from the five corporeal senses; the pride of power and the power of pride; sensuality; envy; oppression; tyr15anny. Home, heaven.
Jesus.The highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing 18to light man’s immortality.
Joseph.A corporeal mortal; a higher sense of Truth rebuking mortal belief, or error, and showing the immor21tality and supremacy of Truth; pure affection blessing its enemies.
Judah.A corporeal material belief progressing and 24disappearing; the spiritual understanding of God and man appearing.

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