Part 82 (2/2)

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 mate- rial 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 encompa.s.sing the universe and man; the true idea of G.o.d; a type 585:18 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 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 hu- man 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 G.o.d.

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

FIRE. Fear; remorse; l.u.s.t; hatred; destruction; afflic- tion 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 under- stood; 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.

G.o.d. 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 G.o.dS. 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; supposi- t.i.tious minds, or souls, going in and out of matter, erring 587:15 and mortal; the serpents of error, which say, ”Ye shall be as G.o.ds.”

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

GOOD. G.o.d; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; om- nipresence; omni-action.

587:21 HAM (Noah's son). Corporeal belief; sensuality; slavery; tyranny.

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