Part 81 (2/2)

578:6 [LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures: [LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters.

[LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]: [Love] lead- 578:9 eth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE's]

578:12 rod and [LOVE'S] staff they comfort me.

[LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: [LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup 578:15 runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness]

578:18 of [LOVE] for ever.

CHAPTER XVII - GLOSSARY

These things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.

- REVELATION.

579:1 In Christian Science we learn that the subst.i.tution of the spiritual for the material definition of a Scrip- 579:3 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, 579:6 giving their spiritual sense, which is also their original meaning.

ABEL. Watchfulness; self-offering; surrendering to 579:9 the creator the early fruits of experience.

ABRAHAM. Fidelity; faith in the divine Life and in the eternal Principle of being.

579:12 This patriarch ill.u.s.trated the purpose of Love to create trust in good, and showed the life-preserving power of spiritual understanding.

579:15 ADAM. Error; a falsity; the belief in ”original sin,”

sickness, and death; evil; the opposite of good, - of G.o.d and His creation; a curse; a belief in intelligent matter, 580:1 finiteness, and mortality; ”dust to dust;” red sand- stone; nothingness; the first G.o.d of mythology; not 580:3 G.o.d's man, who represents the one G.o.d 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, 580:6 but a material belief, opposed to the one Mind, or Spirit; a so-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus mak- ing ”G.o.ds many and lords many” (I Corinthians viii. 5); 580:9 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, 580:12 substance, and mind are found to be the antipode of G.o.d, or Spirit; an inverted image of Spirit; the image and likeness of what G.o.d has not created, namely, mat- 580:15 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 580:18 of Spirit's creation, called self-creative matter; immor- tality's opposite, mortality; that of which wisdom saith, ”Thou shalt surely die.”

580:21 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 pa.s.ses into non- 580:24 intelligence, and that Soul dwells in material sense; that immortal Mind results in matter, and matter in mortal mind; that the one G.o.d and creator entered what He cre- 580:27 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 580:30 Truth. Jesus said of the devil, ”He was a murderer from the beginning, ... he is a liar and the father of it.”

581:1 This view of Satan is confirmed by the name often con- ferred upon him in Scripture, the ”adversary.”

581:3 ALMIGHTY. All-power; infinity; omnipotence.

ANGELS. G.o.d's thoughts pa.s.sing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, 581:6 purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.

ARK. Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved 581:9 to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding of Spirit, destroying belief in matter.

G.o.d and man coexistent and eternal; Science show- 581:12 ing that the spiritual realities of all things are created by Him and exist forever. The ark indicates temptation overcome and followed by exaltation.

581:15 ASHER (Jacob's son). Hope and faith; spiritual com- pensation; the ills of the flesh rebuked.

BABEL. Self-destroying error; a kingdom divided 581:18 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 581:21 confusion ensues, and the more certain is the downfall of its structure.

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