Part 82 (1/2)

BAPTISM. Purification by Spirit; submergence in 581:24 Spirit.

We are ”willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (II Corinthians v. 8.)

582:1 BELIEVING. Firmness and constancy; not a faltering nor a blind faith, but the perception of spiritual Truth.

582:3 Mortal thoughts, illusion.

BENJAMIN (Jacob's son). A physical belief as to life, substance, and mind; human knowledge, or so-called 582:6 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.

582:9 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- 582:12 ciple; a spiritual type; that which comforts, consoles, and supports.

BRIDE. Purity and innocence, conceiving man in the 582:15 idea of G.o.d; a sense of Soul, which has spiritual bliss and enjoys but cannot suffer.

BRIDEGROOM. Spiritual understanding; the pure con- 582:18 sciousness that G.o.d, the divine Principle, creates man as His own spiritual idea, and that G.o.d is the only crea- tive power.

582:21 BURIAL. Corporeality and physical sense put out of sight and hearing; annihilation. Submergence in Spirit; immortality brought to light.

582:24 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 582:27 mind a slave to the body.

CHILDREN. The spiritual thoughts and representa- tives of Life, Truth, and Love.

583:1 Sensual and mortal beliefs; counterfeits of creation, whose better originals are G.o.d's thoughts, not in em- 583:3 bryo, but in maturity; material suppositions of life, sub- stance, and intelligence, opposed to the Science of being.

CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. The representatives of Soul, not 583:6 corporeal sense; the offspring of Spirit, who, having wrestled with error, sin, and sense, are governed by divine Science; some of the ideas of G.o.d beheld as men, casting 583:9 out error and healing the sick; Christ's offspring.

CHRIST. The divine manifestation of G.o.d, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.

583:12 CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; what- ever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

The Church is that inst.i.tution, which affords proof of 583:15 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 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; G.o.d, 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 G.o.d's day, and ”there shall be no night there.”

584:9 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 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 l.u.s.t 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 G.o.d 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.