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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.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. - JESUS.
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God. - PAUL.
Let us get up early to the vineyards: let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth. - SOLOMON’S SONG.
THOUSANDS of letters could be presented in testimony of the healing efficacy of Christian Science and particularly concerning the vast number of people who have been reformed and healed through the perusal or study of this book.
For the assurance and encouragement of the reader, a few of these letters are here republished from THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE JOURNAL and CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTINEL. The originals are in the possession of the Editor, who can authenticate the testimonials which follow.
RHEUMATISM HEALED
I was a great sufferer from a serious form of rheumatic trouble, my hands being affected to such an extent that it was impossible for me even to dress without assistance. The trouble finally reached the knees, and I became very lame and had to be assisted in and out of bed. I went to the different health resorts for the benefit I hoped to derive from the baths and waters that were prescribed by physicians, but found no permanent relief. I was placed under an X-ray examination, and was told that the joints were becoming ossified. I then consulted a celebrated specialist, who after a thorough examination said my condition would continue to grow worse and that I would become completely helpless.
At that time a copy of “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mrs. Eddy was loaned me. I read it more from curiosity than with the thought of any physical benefit. As the truth was unfolded to me, I realized that the mental condition was what needed correcting, and that the Spirit of truth which inspired this book was my physician. My healing is complete, and the liberation in thought is manifest in a life of active usefulness rather than the bondage of helpless invalidism and suffering. I owe to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, gratitude which words cannot express. Her revelation of the practical rather than the merely theoretical application of Jesus’ words, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” proved to be my redeemer. I did not even have to apply to a practitioner, but am most grateful for the helpful words of loving friends. - E. B. B., Pasadena, Cal.
ASTIGMATISM AND HERNIA HEALED
It is nearly five years since I bought my first copy of Science and Health, the reading of which cured me of chronic constipation, nervous headache, astigmatism, and hernia, in less than four months.
Where would I be now, had not this blessed truth been brought to me by much persuasion of a very dear friend?
I certainly should have been deep in the slough of despond, if not in the grave. Am I truly thankful for all the good that has come to me and mine? I try to let my works testify of that; but to those whom I do not meet in person, I can truly say, Yes; I am indeed more thankful than words can express for the glorious healing that has come to me, both physical, mental, and moral, and I also convey herein, my song of gratitude to the dear Leader who has through her fidelity to Truth enabled me to touch at least the hem of Christ’s garment. - B. S. J., Sioux City, Iowa.
SUBSTANCE OF LUNGS RESTORED
It was about fifteen years ago that Christian Science first came to my notice. At that time I had been a chronic invalid for a good many years. I
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