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their immortality.

593:3 PRINCIPLE. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 465.

PROPHET. A spiritual seer; disappearance of material sense before the conscious facts of spiritual Truth.

593:6 PURSE. Laying up treasures in matter; error.

RED DRAGON. Error; fear; inflammation; sensuality;

subtlety; animal magnetism; envy; revenge.

593:9 RESURRECTION. Spiritualization of thought; a new

and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence;

material belief yielding to spiritual understanding.

593:12 REUBEN (Jacob’s son). Corporeality; sensuality; delusion; mortality; error.

RIVER. Channel of thought.

593:15 When smooth and unobstructed, it typifies the course

of Truth; but muddy, foaming, and dashing, it is a type

of error.

593:18 ROCK. Spiritual foundation; Truth. Coldness and

stubbornness.

SALVATION. Life, Truth, and Love understood and 593:21 demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and

death destroyed.

SEAL. The signet of error revealed by Truth

594:1 SERPENT (/ophis/, in Greek; nacash, in Hebrew).

Subtlety; a lie; the opposite of Truth, named error; 594:3 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-594:6 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 594:9 audible claim that God was not omnipotent and that

there was another power, named evil, which was as real

and eternal as God, good.

594:12 SHEEP. Innocence; inoffensiveness; those who follow

their leader.

SHEM (Noah’s son). A corporeal mortal; kindly affec-594:1 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.”

594:18 SOULS. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 466.

SPIRIT. Divine substance; Mind; divine Principle;

all that is good; God; that only which is perfect, ever-594:21 lasting, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite.

SPIRITS. Mortal beliefs; corporeality; evil minds;

supposed intelligences, or gods; the opposites of God; 594:24 errors; hallucinations. (See page 466.)

SUBSTANCE. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 468.

595:1 SUN. The symbol of Soul governing man, - of

Truth, Life, and Love.

595:3 SWORD. The idea of Truth; justice. Revenge;

anger.

TARES. Mortality; error; sin; sickness; disease; 595:6 death.

TEMPLE. Body; the idea of Life, substance, and intelligence; the superstructure of Truth; the shrine of 595:9 Love; a material superstructure, where mortals congre—

gate for worship.

THUMMIM. Perfection; the eternal demand of divine 595:12 Science.

The Urim and Thummim, which were to be on Aaron’s

breast when he went before Jehovah, were holiness and 595:15 purification of thought and deed, which alone can fit us

for the office of spiritual teaching.

TIME. Mortal measurements; limits, in which are 595:18 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 595:21 disappears and spiritual perfection appears.

TITHE. Contribution; tenth part; homage; gratitude.

A sacrifice to the gods.

595:24 UNCLEANLINESS. Impure thoughts; error; sin; dirt.

UNGODLINESS. Opposition to the divine Principle and

its spiritual idea.

596:1 UNKNOWN. That which spiritual sense alone comprehends, and which is unknown to the material senses.

596:3 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 596:6 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 596:9 therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.”

(Acts xvii. 23.)

URIM. Light.

596:12 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 596:15 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 596:18 preparation for admission to the presence and power of

the Most High.

VALLEY. Depression; meekness; darkness.

596:21 “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 596:24 and Love illumine it, destroy the unrest of mortal thought,

the fear of death, and the supposed reality of error. Christian Science, contradicting sense, maketh the valley to bud 596:27 and blossom as the rose.

VEIL. A cover; concealment; hiding; hypocrisy.

The Jewish women wore veils over their faces in token 597:1 of reverence and submission and in accordance with

Pharisaical notions.

597:3 The Judaic religion consisted mostly of rites and ceremonies. The motives and affections of a man were of

little value, if only he appeared unto men to fast. The 597:6 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, 597:9 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-597:12 vealed the false foundations and superstructures of superficial religion, tore from bigotry and superstition their

coverings, and opened the sepulchre with divine Science, 597:15 - immortality and Love.

WILDERNESS. Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a 597:18 material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense

unfolds the great facts of existence.

WILL. The motive-power of error; mortal belief; ani-597:21 mal power. The might and wisdom of God.

“For this is the will of God.” (I Thessalonians

iv. 3.)

597:24 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.

597:27 WIND. That which indicates the might of omnipotence and the movements of God’s spiritual government,

encompassing all things. Destruction; anger; mortal 597:30 passions.

598:1 The Greek word for wind (pneuma) is used also for

spirit, as in the passage in John’s Gospel, the third chap-598:3 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 598:6 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 598:9 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 598:12 ghost;” but this word ghost is pneuma. It might be translated wind or air, and the phrase is equivalent to our

common statement, “He breathed his last.” What 598:15 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-598:18 tion; temptation; passion.

YEAR. A solar measurement of time; mortality;

space for repentance.

598:21 “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years.”

(II Peter iii. 8.)

One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual 598:24 understanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity.

This exalted view, obtained and retained when the Science of being is understood, would bridge over with life 598:27 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-598:30 known. Time is a mortal thought, the divisor of which 599:1 is the solar year. Eternity is God’s measurement of Soul-filled years.

599:3 YOU. As applied to corporeality, a mortal; finity.

ZEAL. The reflected animation of Life, Truth, and

Love. Blind enthusiasm; mortal will.

599:6 ZION. Spiritual foundation and superstructure; inspiration; spiritual strength. Emptiness; unfaithfulness; desolation.