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The Melchizedek Bible
KEY OF DAVID
| GLOSSARY |
BABE, BETHLEHEM: Human herald of Christ, Truth
(S&H vii:6)
BAPTISM: Purification from all error (S&H 35:19)
BEAST: Lust, wolf in sheep's clothing (S&H 567:27), sensuality (Essays & Other
Footprints pg.114)
BEAUTY: Eternal (S&H 247: 10)
BEING: Holiness, harmony, immortality (S&H 492:7)
BEGINNING: The only, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe
(S&H 502:24)
BELIEVE: To be firm, to be constant(S&H 23:32), faith, understanding, trust,
constancy, firmness (S&H 488:9)
BELIEF, BLIND: See blind belief
BITTERNESS: Jesus' cup (S&H 43:21)
BIBLE: Statute-book (S&H 437:33; 441:3)
BLIND BELIEF: A Samson shorn of his strength (S&H 124:4)
BLOOD: Sacrifice, (S&H 25:3) Jesus' life (S&H 25:10), perpetual incense (Christian
Healing 2:28), a symbol of suffering (Essays & Other Footprints pg.114)
BODY: Matter, a sensuous, human concept (S&H: 177:10,13), "flesh and bones"
(S&H 313:29), incapable of supporting life (S&H 325:6), substratum of mortal mind
(S&H 371:2), conscious thought (S&H 400:14), temple (S&H 428:13; 576:14),
state (S&H 431:11), a vacant domicile (S&H 478:3-marginal heading), material
structure in which to worship God (S&H 576:12)
BRAIN: The material stratum of the human mind, a mortal consolidation of material
mentality (S&H 185:29), unconscious mortal mind (S&H 409:9), matter (S&H
432:8)
BREAD: The great truth of spiritual being (S&H 33:6), Truth (S&H 35:26)
BREAD, DAILY: Grace for to-day (S&H 17:5)
BREAKING: Explaining (S&H 33:11)
BRIDE: Spiritual idea (S&H 561:13; 575:2), the wedding of (the) Word to all human
thought and action (My 153:27)
CAIN: The type of mortal and material man, material
in origin and sense (S&H 540:28)
CELL: Sick-bed (S&H 433:27)
CHAFF: The unreality, the nothingness of evil (S&H 269:7)
CHAOS: The imaginary opposite of light, understanding, and eternal harmony, an element of
nothingness (S&H 479:23)
CHARITY: Covers a multitude of sins (S&H 8:19)
CHASTITY: The cement of civilization and progress (S&H 57:1)
CHEATS: Passions and appetites (S&H 536:20)
CHEMICALIZATION: The process which mortal mind and body undergo in the change of belief
from a material to a spiritual basis (S&H 168:32), fermentation, the upheaval produced
when immortal Truth is destroying erroneous mortal belief (S&H 401:12,16)
CHILD, NEW: Divine idea (S&H 463:7)
CHRIST: The true idea of God (S&H 316:12; 565:16), the true idea voicing good, the
divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness, incorporeal,
spiritual, the divine image and likeness, the Way, the Truth, the Life, the Holy Ghost or
Comforter (S&H 332:9,20; 353:10; 482:15; 545:31), the spiritual idea, the reflection
of God, Messiah, divine image, idea, inseparable from the divine Principle, God (S&H
333:20,24,26; 473:16), eternal (S&H 334:1), spiritual self (S&H 334:17), the
offspring of Spirit (S&H 540:1)
CHRIST, ETERNAL: Jesus' spiritual selfhood (S&H 38:23)
CHRISTIANITY: Science (S&H 135:21; 483:14), one with Christian Science (S&H
372:17), queen of life (S&H 451:7)
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: One with Christianity (S&H 372:17), the law of Truth (S&H
480:27)
CIRCLE: That which represents the infinite without beginning or end (S&H 282:6)
CLOSET: The sanctuary of spirit (S&H 15:3)
CLOUD: Obscure, abstract, dark, Truth's prism and praise (S&H 558:10,13)
COLOR: Mental, both primarily and secondarily, emanating from the one Mind
COMFORTER: Divine Science (S&H 55:28), the Science of Christianity (S&H 271:20)
COMPLETENESS: Union of the masculine and feminine qualities (S&H 57:4)
COUNSEL: Christian Science (S&H 434:10; 442:9)
CREATION: The infinite image or idea emanating from.......Mind (S&H 256:32)
CREATOR: Infinite Mind (S&H 256:6,32)
CROSS: The world's hatred of truth and love (S&H 50:30), truth's central sign (S&H
224:16), the central emblem of history, the lodestar in the demonstration of Christian
healing (S&H 238:31)
CUP: The cross (S&H 35:27), bitterness (S&H 43:21)
DAILY BREAD: Grace for to-day (S&H 17:5)
DARKNESS: The imaginary opposite of light and understanding, and eternal harmony, an
element of nothingness (S&H 479:23)
DAYS, SEVEN: Numerals of infinity (S&H 520:10)
DEAD, THE: Those dead in trespasses and sins, satisfied with the flesh, resting on the
basis of matter, blind to the possibilities of Spirit and its correlative truth (S&H
316:29)
DEATH: A mortal dream (S&H 42:6), belief, illusive error (S&H 343:19), a popular
god (S&H 347), another phase of the dream that existence can be material (S&H
427:13), illusion, the dark visions of material sense (S&H 428:3), a serpent, animal
subtlety (S&H 564:25), a transitional stage of human experience (S&H 572:23), an
interval (S&H 598:27)
DECEPTION: That which is fatal to happiness (S&H 59:25)
DECREPITUDE: An illusion (S&H 245:30)
DEFENDANT: Mortal man (S&H 430:21)
DEFORMITY: Not real, illusion, the mirage of error (S&H 244:3)
DEITY: Father-Mother (S&H 332:4)
DEMONSTRATION: Immanuel (S&H 34:7)
DEPRAVITY: Physical (S&H 115:20)
DERANGEMENT: Disarrangement, all human belief in ill-health, or disturbed harmony (S&H
421:4)
DESIRE: Prayer (S&H 1:11)
DEVIL: Evil (S&H 292:22; 494:30), a murderer from the beginning (S&H 539:2), pure
delusion, the red dragon (S&H 567:19)
DISARRANGEMENT: Derangement, all human belief in ill-health (S&H 421:5)
DISCIPLE: Student (S&H 271:11)
DISEASE: Unreal (S&H 229:32), error, as matter versus Mind (S&H 319:3; 483:5),
image of thought externalized (S&H 411:23), an experience of so-called mortal mind,
fear made manifest (S&H 493:20)
DISHONESTY: Human weakness (S&H 453:16)
DOCTRINE OF PANTHEISM: That God, or Life, is in or of matter (S&H 27:20)
DOOR: Lips (S&H 15:15)
DOVE: A symbol of divine Science; purity and peace, hope and faith (S&H 584:26)
DRAGON: A lie, the sum total of human error (S&H 563:8,10), nothingness, dust to dust
(S&H 567:24), subtlety, malice (Essays & Other Footprints pg.114)
DRAGON, TEN HORNS OF: The belief that matter has power of its own (S&H 563:11)
DREAM: Mortal man (S&H 491:31), illusion (S&H 493:28)
DREAMLAND: The land of Nod (S&H 542:28; 543:11)
DRUGS: Unconscious, mindless (S&H 484:17)
DRY LAND: Absolute formations instituted by Mind (S&H 507:1), Earth (S&H 535:30)
DUST: Nothingness (S&H 545:29)
EARTH: Dry land (S&H 535:30), spiritual idea
(S&H 536:5), visible error, audible sin (S&H 559:8), materialism (Essays &
Other Footprints pg.114), God's footstool (Matthew 5:35)
EAT: Partake (S&H 559:25)
EDEN: Pleasure, delight (Cruden), the mortal, material body (S&H 526:30)
EGO: That which is inseparable from the Father (S&H 70:9), Spirit (S&H 250:7), the
one Mind, Spirit, God (S&H 281:14; 315:7), deathless, limitless (S&H 335:32),
individuality (S&H 336:6)
EGO-MAN: The reflection of the Ego-God, the image and likeness of perfect Mind, Spirit,
divine Principle EGOTISTS: Mortals (S&H 263:1)
ELECTRICITY: The least material form of illusive consciousness, material mindlessness,
that which destroys itself, the sharp surplus of materiality (S&H 293:3-5,11)
ELOHIM: God (S&H 523:18)
ENIGMA: Mortal existence (S&H 70:1)
ENLIGHTENMENT: Light, day, discernment, illumination, clearer views, comprehension,
intelligence, insight, perception, understanding, (Melchizedek Bible) see Mind
ENVY: A serpent, animal subtlety (S&H 564:25)
ERROR: Herod, its representative (S&H 52:15), animal magnetism or hypnotism (S&H
103:18), unreal (S&H 265:21; 368:4; 466:15; 472:18), the so-called intelligence of
mortal mind (S&H 282:26), the absence of Truth (S&H 287:9), false, mortal belief,
illusion (S&H 287:22), belief that life is in matter (S&H 318:20), reversed as
subserving the facts of health (S&H 319:3), mortal and discordant (S&H 337:12;
466:13; 468:5), nothing (S&H 346:10; 554:8), limited, non-intelligent (S&H
466:14,15), a suppositition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life,
are existent in matter, the contradiction of Truth, a belief without understanding
(S&H 472:14-18), corporeal sense (S&H 483:15), a dream-narrative (S&H 530:26)
ETERNITY: Forever infinite (S&H 469:1)
EUCHARIST: Spiritual communion with the one God (S&H 35:25)
EUPHRATES: Fountain of Truth, metaphysical Science (Essays & Other Footprints pg.114)
EVENINGS AND MORNINGS: Spiritually clearer views of Him (God) (S&H 504:17)
EVIL: Pilate (S&H 52:15), neither person, place, or thing, but is simply a belief, an
illusion of material sense (S&H 71:2; 480:23), a suppositional lie (S&H 103:17),
the good that a poisonous drug seems to do (S&H 169:31), a negation, nothing, the
absence of truth, the absence of something, self-assertive (S&H 186:11,17), the awful
deception and unreality of existence (S&H 207:9), devil (S&H 292:22), serpent
(S&H 321:13), nothing, no thing, mind, nor power, a lie, nothing claiming to be
something, lust, dishonesty, selfishness, envy, hypocrisy, slander, hate, theft, adultery,
murder, dementia, insanity, inanity, devil, hell (S&H 330:27), nothingness, error of
belief (S&H 450:20,25), a false belief (S&H 480:23), material perception (S&H
527:15), a "murderer from the beginning" EVIL ONE: The first lie and all liars
(S&H 16:19)
EVOLUTION: The godless theory that man is developed from mushrooms to monkeys and from
monkeys into men (S&H 172:3), describes the gradations of human belief (S&H
551:12)
EXEMPLAR: Jesus (S&H 395:6)
EYE: "...the light of the body.." (Jesus)
FAITH: A quality of mind, "the substance of
things hoped for" (S&H 279:4)
FALSE PROPHETS: Hypocrisy, wolves in sheep's clothing (S&H 567:28)
FALSITY: That mind is in matter (S&H 554:27)
FAST: To mourn (Miscellany 339:22)
FATHER: That which is inseparable from Ego (S&H 70:9)
FEAR: The fountain of sickness (S&H 391:32), the sheriff (S&H 436:18)
FEAST DAYS: Recognition of His presence (Miscellany 188:7)
FIRMAMENT: Spiritual understanding (S&H 505:10; 523:9)
FISHES: Sweet little thoughts (Miscellany 247:17)
FISHERS OF MEN: Christian Scientists (Miscellany 295:17)
FLAMES OF TRUTH: That which consumes error (S&H 558:18)
FOOT, LEFT: Secondary power (S&H 559:6)
FOOT, RIGHT: Dominant power (S&H 559:3)
FOREORDINATION: The election of a few to be saved, while the rest are damned (S&H
38:5)
FORM: Mental, both primarily and secondarily, emanating from the one Mind
FOWLS: Aspirations (S&H 511:29)
FRATRICIDAL: The false sense of existence that God is the author of sin and sin's progeny
(S&H 539:1)
GABRIEL: Imparter of a sense of the ever-presence of
ministering Love, an angel (S&H 567:1)
GENDER: A quality, a characteristic of mortal mind (S&H 305:12), kind, sort (S&H
508:17)
GHOST, HOLY: Divine Science (S&H 562:2)
GHOSTS: Traditional beliefs, erroneous and man-made (S&H 352:24)
GOD: All-in-all, good (S&H 113:16-17; 275:7; 286:16; 311:5; 331:11; 340:19,23; 399:1;
425:20), divine, Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind (S&H 2:23; 115:13;
207:2; 228:6; 275:7-9,12; 300:23; 302:25; 305:14; 306:8; 310:14; 311:4; 330:11,19,22;
331:1,14,18; 340:18; 394:28; 421:17; 430:9; 465:9; 492:25), one (S&H 117:3; 267:5;
312:16,18; 334:31; 335:2,7,16; 345:1), man's life, the centre and circumference of being
(S&H 203:32), self-existent and self-expressed (S&H 213:9), infinite omnipresent
Spirit (S&H 223:7; 278:10), of purer eyes than to behold evil (S&H 243:22), I
(S&H 253:3), all (S&H 116:18; 302:9; 339:7; 396:21; 421:17), substance (S&H
301:17; 330:11), divine, infinite Principle, called Person (S&H 302:25; 465:9),
invisible (S&H 305:8), the only Life (S&H 307:13), infinite Love (S&H 312:21),
individual, incorporeal, all-inclusive (S&H 332:18,20; 336:32; 465:9), the triune
Person (S&H 331:26), the only Mind governing man (S&H 308:5; 339:26; 469:14), He
is His own infinite Mind (S&H 310:10), the only intelligence of the universe,
including man (S&H 330:12), infinite (S&H 330:11; 465:9; 469:22; 470:18; 492:25),
indivisible, the divine Principle of man, the parent Mind, individual and personal
(S&H 336:19,25,30,32; 476:9), omnipotent (S&H 394:28; 465:18), supreme (S&H
465:9), omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Being (S&H 465:18, 469:26; 470:18), the
only creator of man (S&H 470:21), the origin and governor of all that Science reveals
(S&H 480:11), infinite light (S&H 511:12), goodness (S&H 516:10)
GOD'S ATTRIBUTES: All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, cause, and effect (S&H
275:14-15)
GOOD: Mind, God (S&H 113:17; 286:16; 399:1), the spiritual universe (S&H 286:19),
infinite, All (S&H 399:2), the only Mind, omnipresent and has all power (S&H
469:14,25)
GOODNESS: An attribute of God (S&H 465:14)
GOVERNMENT: Divine (S&H 442:3)
HADES; The underworld, or the grave (S&H 137:32)
HANDS: Spiritual power (S&H 38:15)
HANDS OF JUSTICE: Nature's so-called law (S&H 432:27)
HAPPINESS: That which is spiritual, born of Truth and Love (S&H 57:18)
HARMONY: Real, immortal, the somethingness named Truth (275:14,27), the fact (S&H
412:23)
HATRED: A serpent, animal subtlety (S&H 564:25)
HEADSTONE OF THE CORNER: Truth, the rock of ages (S&H 380:5)
HEAVEN: Spiritual idea (S&H 536:5), harmony (S&H 560:10), God's throne (Matthew
5:34)
HEROD: Error (S&H 52:15)
HOLY GHOST: The advent of understanding (S&H 43:7), an enlarged understanding of
divine Science (S&H 46:30), divine Spirit (S&H 29:24), divine Science (S&H
562:2)
HONESTY: Spiritual power (S&H 453:16)
HORNS (10), OF THE RED DRAGON: The belief that matter has a power of its own (S&H
563:11)
HURRICANE: Erring power (S&H 192:15)
HYPNOTISM: A mere negation (S&H 102:5), animal magnetism, or the specific term for
error or mortal mind (S&H 103:18), the reverse of ethical and pathological
Truth-power.
I: Spirit (S&H 27:13; 249:21), infinity God,
Truth, Love, Life, Mind, I am that I am (S&H 253:1,3-8)
IDEA: An image in Mind; the immediate object of understanding.- Webster. (S&H 115:17)
IDEAS: To immortal consciousness, that which is real, tangible, and eternal (S&H
279:11)
IDENTITIES: Forms of Mind, the ideas of Spirit apparent only as Mind (S&H 505:8)
IDENTITY: Idea (S&H 71:5), the reflection of Spirit (S&H 477:20)
INFINITY: I (S&H 253:1)
ILLUMINATION: Enlightenment, light, day, insight, perception, discernment (Melchizedek
Bible) see Mind
ILLUSION: Nothingness (S&H 129:30), material sense (S&H 490:29), that mind is in
matter (S&H 554:27)
IMAGE: Idea (S&H 320:19)
IMMANUEL: God with us (S&H xi:16), demonstration (S&H 34:7), the one ego (S&H
14:21)
IMMORTALS: The children of God (S&H 476:12)
IMPERFECTION: Blameworthy, unreal (S&H 414:29)
INCORPOREAL: Bodiless (S&H 116:21)
INFLAMMATION: Fear (S&H 414:32), waking dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought
(S&H 418:30)
INTELLIGENCE: Omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence, the primal and eternal quality
of infinite Mind (S&H 469:8)
ISRAEL: A prince of God, or a soldier of God (S&H 308:30; 309:11), the stars in the
crown of rejoicing, the lamps in the spiritual heavens of the age (S&H 562:16)
JACOB: A patriarch (S&H 308:26)
JEHOVAH: A man-projected God (S&H 140:23), Lord God, the divine sovereign of the
Hebrew people (S&H 523:20,31), a tribal god (S&H 524:11), Yawah (S&H 528:9)
JERUSALEM, NEW: The spiritual outpouring of bliss and glory (S&H 574:13)
JESUS: Joshua, or savior (S&H 29:18), man of sorrows (S&H 52:19), way-shower
(S&H 30:10), the son of a virgin (S&H 313:1), anointed, God-crowned, divinely
royal man (S&H 313:4), the mediator between Spirit and the flesh, between Truth and
error (S&H 315:31), Christ's representative, the true idea of God (S&H 316:12),
human, material concept (S&H 334:16), the great Exemplar (S&H 395:6), the human
man (S&H 473:15), the highest human concept of the perfect man (S&H 482:19)
JESUS' SEPULCHRE: Gloomy resting place (S&H 45:3)
JUDAS: One of Adam's race (S&H 554:24)
JUDGES: Offenders (S&H 439:28)
JURISPRUDENCE: One of various notables (S&H 437:23)
JURORS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF SPIRIT: The spiritual senses (S&H 437:11)
JURORS: Offenders (S&H 439:28), myths (S&H 441:27)
JURY: Twelve mortal minds (S&H 436:27)
JUSTICE: An attribute of God (S&H 465:14)
JUSTICE, HANDS OF: Nature's so-called law (S&H 432:27)
LAMB: Divine Principle (S&H 561:13), Love
(S&H 575:2)
LAND, DRY: Absolute formations instituted by Mind (S&H 507:1)
LEAVEN, MATERIAL: Human doctrines (S&H 117:29)
LEAVEN, SPIRITUAL: The Science of Christ (S&H 118:2)
LEAVES: Nature's untired worshippers (S&H 220:10)
LEFT FOOT: Secondary power (S&H 559:6)
LEGION: Dementia, demon, evil (S&H 411:14)
LIE: Evil (S&H 568:5)
LIFE: God (S&H 228:6; 306:8; 561:19), eternal (S&H 246:27), "the same
yesterday, and to-day, and forever" (S&H 249:18), I, the everlasting I am
(S&H 253:6; 290:1), Spirit (S&H 310:26), the law of Soul, the law of the spirit of
Truth (S&H 427:3), real (S&H 428:3), substance (S&H 468:18), divine Principle,
Mind, Soul, Spirit (S&H 468:26; 469:4), deathless, the origin and ultimate of man
(S&H 487:3), reflected in existence (S&H 516:9), represented by the Father
(S&H 569:1)
LIGHT: That which depends upon Mind (S&H 393:25), a symbol of Mind, Life, Truth, and
Love (S&H 510:27)
LIPS: Door (S&H 15:15)
LIGHTNING: Erring power (S&H 192:15)
LOGOS, TRUE: Demonstrably Christian Science (S&H 134:21)
LORD: Jehovah, human sense of Deity gradually approaching a higher meaning (S&H
576:26)
LOVE: The liberator (S&H 225:21), the Father and Mother of the universe, including man
(S&H 256:7), I (S&H 253:5), divine Principle, Mind (S&H 330:20,21), substance
(S&H 468:18), the motive-power of man (S&H 490:8), represented by the Mother
(S&H 569:2)
LUST: Diseased belief (S&H 404:10)
MAGNETISM, ANIMAL: Hypnotism (S&H 101:30), a
mere negation (S&H 102:5) the specific term for error or mortal mind (S&H 103:18;
178:18)
MALICE: Diseased belief (S&H 404:10)
MAN: His (God's) likeness, image (S&H 73:7,10; 200:18; 259:6; 301:17; 414:23;
475:8), God's spiritual idea, individual, perfect, eternal (S&H 115:15; 173:20;
301:24; 336:26,30; 475:11; 476:10; 485:23), the humble servant of the restful Mind
(S&H 119:31), image, reflection, of God, neither inverted nor subverted, but upright
and Godlike (S&H 200:18; 475:18; 515:30), the reflection of Soul (S&H 249:31;
477:26), generic term, "generically man is one, and specifically man means all
men." (S&H 259:1; 267:6; 475:15), the offspring...of the highest qualities of
Mind (S&H 265:1; 336:31; 396:27), image or idea, the infinite expression of infinite
Mind, coexistent and coeternal with that Mind, always spiritual and perfect (S&H
336:9,17,30; 396:28; 475:13; 478:1), harmonious (S&H 336:26), indestructible (S&H
402:12), perfect and immortal (S&H 426:29; 428:22; 478:31; 546:1; 551:29), subject to
Mind (S&H 429:12), the expression of God's being (S&H 470:23), the compound idea
of God, the conscious identity of being (S&H 475:14,16), pure and holy, he is himself
spiritual (S&H 477:5,6), the family name for all ideas, the sons and daughters of God
(S&H 515:21), in Saxon: mankind, a woman, any one - in Welsh: that which rises up,
image, form - in Hebrew: image, form - in Icelandic: mind (S&H 525:8), the likeness of
Spirit (S&H 544:24)
MANDRAKE: Love-plant, supposed to have power to excite voluptuousness, its roots are
forked and bear resemblance to a human being, it is a powerful narcotic (Cruden)
MANKIND: The Adamic race (S&H 525:5)
MANNA: The meaning is: "What is it?", food by which Israel was sustained during
40 years in the wilderness (Cruden)
MARK: Shining perfection
MARY: Bitterness, sorrowful, unhappy
MARROW: Choice food
MARTYR: Witness, one who suffers for his convictions (S&H 134:4,8)
MARTYRS: The human links which connect one stage with another in the history of religion.
(S&H 37:9)
MARVEL: Miracle (S&H 474:11)
MATTHEW: Gift of God
MATTER: The antipode of Spirit (S&H 72:18), the subjective state of mortal mind
(S&H 108:28; 113:29), nothing (S&H 113:18), Spirit's contrary, the absence of
Spirit (S&H 173:14), body, a false concept of mortal mind (S&H 177:10), an error
of statement, temporal, a mortal phenomenon (S&H 277:26,30), merely the objective
supposition of Spirit's opposite (S&H 287:26), the primitive belief of mortal mind
(S&H 292:13), unconscious mortal mind (S&H 409:9), mortal error, the unreal and
temporal (S&H 468: 12,13), non-intelligent (S&H 478:21)
MATERIALITY: The inverted image of spirituality (S&H 572:10)
ME: Material body, mortal mind (S&H 416:16)
ME (as to God): Spirit (S&H 467:4); a future country code for Melchizedek
MEAT OFFERING: Usually a preparation of flour with spices and other
ingredients, a meal offering MEDIATOR: Way-shower, Jesus (S&H 30:10)
MEDICINE: Mind (S&H 453:29)
MEEK: Gentle, kind, not easily provoked, ready to yield than to cause trouble
MELCHIZEDEKIAN: A citizen of the Dominion of Melchizedek; a spiritualized,
sovereign person of peace and righteousness (Hebrews 7 & Revelation 1); "As
(a man) thinketh in his heart (that he is a Melchizedekian), so is he" (Proverbs
23:7)
MELT: To be prostrate because of fear (Cruden)
MERCY: An attribute of God (S&H 465:14)
MESSAGES: Angels (S&H 567:26)
MESSIAH: Anointed One, the expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews, who should free
them from the yoke of aliens, and make them a great nation ruling over the whole world
(Cruden), Christ
MESMERISM: A mere negation (S&H 102:5), spirits of devils (Essays & Other
Footprints pg.114)
METHUSELAH: Expelling death
MICHAEL: Godlike, spiritual power (Bates); characterized by spiritual strength, he leads
the hosts of heaven against the power of sin, Satan, and fights the holy wars, an angel
(S&H 566:29,30)
MIND: Good (S&H 113:17; 311:5; 469:14), the first medicine (S&H 142:29; 453:29)
the grand creator (S&H 143:26), causation (S&H 208:25), the central sun of its own
systems of ideas (S&H 209:5), perpetual motion, symbolized by the sphere (S&H
240:14), I (S&H 253:7), all (S&H 257:2), the source of all movement, the same
Life, Love, and wisdom "yesterday, and to-day, and forever.", God (S&H
305:14; 310:29; 311:4,5; 330:22; 469:13; 508:7), the Soul of man (S&H 307:25), all
might, Spirit (S&H 310:6,30; 517:8), divine Principle, Love (S&H 335:25), the I am
(S&H 336: 1), limitless (S&H 353:28), substance (S&H 483:15), the multiplier,
Truth (S&H 508:3,7)
MIND, MORTAL: The husbandman of error (S&H 180:2), the harp of many strings,
discoursing either discord or harmony according as the hand, which sweeps over it, is
human or divine (S&H 213:27), mortal thought, mortal life (399:10,22), "the
strong man" (400:4), the basic error (S&H 405:1), body (S&H 408:4), material
body, me (S&H 416:16)
MINERALS: The creations of erroneous thought (S&H 543:21)
MINISTER: One who serves, waits on, or attends another, Christ, those who were to care for
the gospel, magistrate, angels (Cruden)
MIRACLE: Marvel (S&H 474:11)
MIRROR: Divine Science (S&H 515:29)
MISCHIEF: Wickedness, iniquity (Cruden)
MOLLUSCA: Mortal and material concepts classified (S&H 556:3), one of the four
sub-kingdom into which animals are divided, comprising species whose bodies are soft and
inarticulate...some of them are naked, while others are enveloped in a shell...with
exception of a single family, they have no distinct organ of sense, except eyes, and these
are wanting in some species...This division includes the snail and oyster, and the whole
class of shell animals, together with the cuttle-fish and the ascidiae (Webster)
MORNINGS: See Evenings
MONEY: Gold and silver
MONTH: The Jews reckoned by the year of 360 days, and in all probability made an
adjustment by adding a thirteenth month occasionally. They had two New Years, the Civil,
in Tisri (October), and the Sacred, in Abib or Nisan, the month in which they left Egypt
under Moses. (Cruden), Nisan, Abib (April), Iar, Zif (May), Sivan (June), Tammuz (July),
Ab (August), Elul (September), Tisri, Ethannim (October), Marchesvan (November), Chisleu,-
Kislev (December), Tebeth (January), Sebat (February), Adar (March)
MORTALITY: Governor of the province of the body (S&H 432:11)
MORTAL MIND: See MIND, MORTAL.
MORTALS: The Adam dreamers (S&H 249:22), egotists (263:1), counterfeits of immortals
(S&H 476:1)
MOSES: See Science and Health, page 592:11
MOUNT: Hill country (Cruden), revelation (Miscellaneous Writings 17:7; 164:14; 356:14;
369:2; No & Yes 1:16; Miscellany 189:3), holiness (Miscellaneous Writings 206:29)
MOUNTAINS: Great mass; solid and grand ideas (S&H 511:24)
MOURN: To fast (Miscellany 339:22)
MURDER: All cruelty in thought, word, or deed, the unlawful taking of life, cities of
refuge were appointed for manslaughter, whiter a man might retire and continue in safety,
till the death of the high priest; then the offender was at liberty to return to his own
city, and his own house, if he pleased...but as for the murderer, he was put to death
without any remission. and the kinsmen of the murdered person might kill him with impunity
(Cruden)
MUSIC: The rhythm of head and heart (S&H 213:26)
NATURE: Primal elements (S&H 559:26)
NEGATION: Animal magnetism, mesmerism, or hypnotism (S&H 102:5)
NERVE: State Commissioner for Mortal Mind (S&H 432:2), ruler of the body (S&H
436:32), a perjurer, an insubordinate citizen (S&H 438:8,11)
NEW CHILD: Divine idea (S&H 463:7)
NOD: Dreamland (S&H 543:11)
NOTHINGNESS: Illusion (S&H 129:28), dust (S&H 545:29)
NOUMENON: God (S&H 114:10)
OBLIVION: Spiritual death (S&H 310:24)
OMNI: All (S&H 466:2)
ONENESS: The natural conjunction of the masculine and feminine elements, or true harmony
(S&H 57:8)
ONTOLOGY: The Science of real being (S&H 129:21), "the science of the necessary
constituents and relations of all beings"...it underlies all metaphysical practice
(S&H 460:3)
ORACLE: Truth's evangel (Miscellany 188:14)
PATIENCE: Symbolized by the tireless
worm...persevering in its intent (S&H 515:4)
PAIN: Waking dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought (S&H 418:30)
PANDEMONIUM: A house divided against itself (S&H 269:1)
PANTHEISM: That which starts from a material sense of God, seeks cause in effect,
Principle in its idea, and life and intelligence in matter (S&H 279:30), belief that
life, substance, and intelligence are a unison of matter with Spirit (S&H 294:2)
PASSIONS: "of few days and full of trouble, whose joys are cheats (S&H 536:20)
PENIEL: The state where a message from Truth and Love appears that smites the sinew, or
strength, of error till its unreality is seen (S&H 308:19), the state where a
nameless, incorporeal impartation of divine Love appears to man which rebukes material
sense and gives the spiritual sense of being, Soul restored (S&H 309:3), the face of
God, divine presence, a place east of Jordon (Gen.32:30)
PERFECTION: The order of celestial being which demonstrates Life in Christ, Life's
spiritual ideal (S&H 337:17)
PETROS: Stone (S&H 137:31)
PHARISEE: Hypocrisy (S&H 20:6)
PHENOMENA: God's thoughts (S&H 114:6)
PHYSICAL: Depravity (S&H 115:20)
PHYSICAL FORCE: One with mortal mind (S&H 484:15)
PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Human knowledge, law of mortal mind, blind belief (S&H 124:3)
PHYSICAL UNIVERSE: The conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals (S&H 484:13)
PHYCHOLOGY: The Science of Spirit, God (S&H 369:25)
PHYSIOLOGY: One of the apples from "the tree of knowledge" (S&H 165:1)
PILLARS: Foundations (S&H 558:16)
PLAGUES, SEVEN LAST: The sum total of human misery (S&H 574:17)
PLAINTIFF: Personal sense (S&H 430:20)
PLEASURE: Eden, delight (S&H 526:29)
PILATE: Evil (S&H 52:15)
POOR: The receptive thought (S&H 34:16)
POWER, Spiritual: Hands (S&H 38:15)
PROGRESS: The law of God (S&H 233:6)
PROPHYLACTIC: Preventive (S&H 369:23)
PRIEST: Ritual (S&H 20:6)
PRINCIPLE: God (S&H 272:29; 275:9), Love (275:17; 330:21), absolute (S&H 283:11),
the Life of man (S&H 304:17), Mind (S&H 335:25)
PRODUCT: Man and the universe (S&H 508:5)
PURIFICATION FROM ALL ERROR: Baptism
PURITY: The symbol of Life and Love (S&H 561:10)
RADIATA: Mortal and material concepts classified
(S&H 556:3), the fourth great division of the animal kingdom, including those animals
whose parts are arranged round an axis, and on one or several radii, or on one or several
lines extending from one pole to the other...this division comprehends the echinodermata,
the entozoa, the acalepha, the polyp or polypods, and the infusoria (Webster)
REALITY: Spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal (S&H 335:27)
REASON: The most active human faculty (S&H 327:29)
RED DRAGON: Symbolizes a lie, the belief that substance, life, and intelligence can be
material, stands for the sum total of human error (S&H 563:8), full of lust and hate,
loathing the brightness of divine glory (S&H 565:4)
RED SEA: Dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear (S&H 566:2)
REVELATOR: Immortal scribe of Spirit and of true idealism, furnishes the mirror in which
mortals may see their own image (S&H 571:22)
RIGHT: Radical (S&H 452:18)
RIGHT FOOT: Dominant power (S&H 559:3)
RIVERS: Channels of thought; the direction thought takes in forming decisions (Essays
& Other Footprints pg.114)
ROCKS: Solid and grand ideas (S&H 511:24)
SACRAMENT: Oath, allegiance (S&H 32:4)
SALT: Natrum muriaticom (S&H 153:5)
SCIENCE, DIVINE: Comforter (S&H 55:29), Christianity (S&H 135:21; 483:14), the
curative agent of God (S&H 146:17), the "stranger that is within the gates"
(S&H 146:20), absolute (S&H 274:23), the sunshine of Truth (S&H 299:28),
Truth's prism and praise, whose feet are pillars of fire, foundations of Truth and Love,
(S&H 558:13)
SCIENCE, PHYSICAL: Human knowledge, law of mortal mind, blind belief (S&H 124:3)
SEA: Elementary, latent error, the source of all error's visible forms (S&H 559:5),
thoughts, simply unformed beliefs, the solutions of mortal mind (Essays & Other
Footprints pg.114)
SEA, RED: See RED SEA
SEAS: The gathering together of the waters, a symbol of tempest-tossed human concepts
advancing and receding (S&H 535:30; 536:6)
SELF-ABNEGATION: A rule in Christian Science (S&H 568:30)
SEVEN LAST PLAGUES: See PLAGUES
SOUL: Sense (S&H 482:1)
SELFHOOD, SPIRITUAL: The eternal Christ (S&H 38:23)
SEMPER PARATUS: Always ready, Truth's motto (S&H 458:14)
SENSE, SPIRITUAL: A conscious, constant capacity to understand God (S&H 209:31)
SENSE: A soul (S&H 482:1), soul (S&H 578:8)
SENSUALISM: Bondage (S&H 337:6)
SEPULCHRE OF JESUS: Gloomy resting place (S&H 45:3)
SERPENT: The Adam-dream, the deep sleep, the delusion that life and intelligence proceeded
from and passed into matter, a pantheistic error (S&H 307:3), evil (S&H 321:13),
subtle, poisonous (S&H 515:6), corporeal sense (S&H 533:31), material sense
(S&H 534:27), typifies sin, sickness, death, envy, hatred, revenge, all evil, animal
subtlety (S&H 564:24), devil, evil, pure delusion, false claim, ancient belief, red
dragon (S&H 567:18)
SERPENT OF GOD: Wise idea, charming in its adroitness, the exchange of for a staff
(S&H 515:5)
SERVICE, DIVINE: Daily deeds (S&H 40:28), public worship (S&H 40:28)
SEVEN LAST PLAGUES: See PLAGUES, SEVEN LAST
SHERIFF: Fear (S&H 436:18), Progress (S&H 441:23)
SHOES: Material appendages, human opinions and doctrines, materia medica and hygiene
(Miscellaneous Writings 17:8), material sense of things (Miscellaneous Writings 120:3)
SICK-CELL: Cell (S&H 433:27)
SICKNESS: Illusion (S&H 230:4), an error (S&H 251:13), the suppositional antipodes
of Spirit, contradictions of reality (S&H 335:29), popular god (S&H 347:23), a
temporal dream (S&H 412:24), the reverse of harmony (S&H 447:16), the effect of
error (S&H 473:5)
SIN: Illusion (S&H 230:4), an error (S&H 251:13), the image of the beast, moral
madness (S&H 327:13-15), the suppositional antipodes of Spirit, contradictions of
reality (S&H 335:29), popular god (S&H 347:23), insanity (S&H 407:29), the
reverse of harmony (S&H 447:16), mortality's self (S&H 468:3), the effect of error
(S&H 473:5)
SINEW: Strength (S&H 308:20)
SINNER: Suicide (S&H 203:25)
SLEEP: Shows material sense as either oblivion, nothingness, or an illusion or dream
(S&H 490:29), belief culminating in another belief,- the belief that man dies (S&H
491:20)
SON: Representative of Truth (S&H 569:2)
SORROW: Salubrity (S&H 66:9)
SOUL: Spirit (S&H 223:11; 309:25; 310:21; 311:7; 396:28), God, Spirit (S&H 300:23;
310:14), "..the central Life and intelligence around which circle harmoniously all
things in the systems of Mind." (S&H 310:15), immortal (S&H 311:7; 335:20),
one with Spirit and one with God (S&H 335:16), immortal (S&H 335:20), the
substance, Life, and intelligence of man (S&H 477:22), the divine Principle of man
(S&H 481:28), spiritual sense (S&H 578:8)
SOUND: A mental impression made on mortal belief, (that which is) communicated through the
senses of Soul - through spiritual understanding.
SPHERE: The symbol of Mind (S&H 240:15)
SPIRIT: I (S&H 27:13; 252:32), the Life, substance, and continuity of all things
(S&H 124:25; 278:32; 310:26; 335:12; 469:2; 509:2), that which is positive (S&H
173:13), God (S&H 192:10; 278:10; 300:23; 331:14; 334:31; 335:2,7; 345:1; 417:11;
468:13), the only substance, the invisible and indivisible God (S&H 335:12), all and
everywhere, Soul (S&H 223:8,11; 309:25; 311:7; 396:28), the only substance and
consciousness recognized by divine Science (S&H 278:4), infinite all (S&H 278:10),
supreme and all-presence (S&H 278:21), substantial and eternal (S&H 278:32;
335:18), the one Ego, infinite individuality (S&H 281:14), the only Life (S&H
307:13), Mind (S&H 310:30), divine Principle (S&H 330:20), one with Soul (S&H
335:16), eternal, divine (S&H 335:18; 469:3), Deity (S&H 466:20), immortal Truth,
the real and eternal (S&H 468:11), symbolized by strength, presence, power, holy
thoughts, winged with Love (S&H 512:8), the Word (My 153:27)
SPIRIT, DIVINE: Holy ghost (S&H 29:24)
SPIRITS: Corporeal communicators (S&H 72:9)
SPIRITS OF DEVILS: Mesmerism (Essays & Other Footprints pg.114)
SPIRITUALISM: The offspring of physical sense (S&H 71:24)
STAFF: The exchange of a serpent (S&H 515:9)
STATE: Body (S&H 437:33; 441:2)
STATUTE: Spiritual (S&H 442:3)
STATUTE-BOOK: Bible (S&H 437:33)
STOLIDITY: A resisting state of mortal mind (S&H 388:5)
STONE: Material obstacle (S&H 44:32)
STRAIGHT LINE: That which represents the finite and evil (S&H 282:7,10)
STRENGTH: Sinew (S&H 308:20)
STRIPES: The rejection of error (S&H 20:15)
STUDENT: Theologus (S&H 459:28), disciple
SUBSTANCE: Spirit (S&H 349:31), that which is eternal (S&H 468:17), Mind (S&H
483:15)
SUN: A metaphorical representation of Soul outside the body, giving existence and
intelligence to the universe (S&H 510:16), symbol of Spirit (S&H 561:25), symbol
of Mind or Soul, an object of adoration and worship to the greater part of the people of
the east (Essays & Other Footprints pg.114)
TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION: Not temporary,
"but a 'house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens'"... (Miscellany
188:12)
TARES: The material sense of life (S&H 72:15), temporal and unreal, mutable and
imperfect, inharmonious and self-destructive (S&H 300:13)
TEMPLE: Body (S&H 27:12; 428:13), material structure in which to worship God (S&H
576:12), human fabrication, superstructure of Truth, foundation of Love (Pulpit &
Press 2:29)
TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST: The patient's spiritual power to resuscitate himself.
TEN HORNS OF THE DRAGON: Typify the belief that matter has power of its own (S&H
563:11)
THEOGONY: That which is not based on Truth (S&H 170: 3), in mythology, the generation
of the gods; or that branch of heathen theology which taught the genealogy of their
deities (Webster)
THEOLOGUS: Student (S&H 459:28)
THERAPEUTIC: Curative (S&H 369:23)
THUMMIN: Perfection, eternal demand of Science (S&H 595:11)
TRANSFORMATION: Renewal (S&H 49:20)
TREE: Typical of man's divine Principle (S&H 406:4)
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE: The erroneous doctrine that the knowledge of evil is as real, hence as
God-bestowed, as the knowledge of good (S&H 526:17), typifies unreality (S&H
538:14)
TREE OF LIFE: The idea of Truth (S&H 526:17), significant of eternal reality or being
(S&H 538:13)
TRIBES OF ISRAEL: Twelve stars which crown the spiritual idea, the stars in the crown of
rejoicing, the lamps in the spiritual heavens of the age (S&H 562:11)
TRINITY OR TRI-UNITY: The theory of three persons in one God (S&H 256:9), three in
one,- the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the
spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter - Life, Truth, and Love
constitute the triune Person called God,- that is the triply divine Principle, Love,- the
threefold, essential nature of the infinite. (S&H 331:26-1)
TRUSTWORTHINESS: The foundation of enlightened faith (S&H 15:30)
TRUTH: Sinless (S&H 16:5), a revelation (S&H 117:27), God's remedy for error of
every kind (S&H 142:31), universal panacea (S&H 144:29), I (S&H 253:4), the
intelligence of immortal Mind (S&H 282:26), divine (S&H 287:10), spiritual
(S&H 299:24), God (S&H 312:18), infinite, omnipotent in goodness (S&H
367:30,31), real (S&H 368:4), an alterative in the entire system (S&H 371:30), the
rock of ages, the headstone of the corner (S&H 380:5), affirmative, and confers
harmony (S&H 418:20), immortal, limitless, intelligent, real (S&H 466:13-15;
468:4), a power which opens the prison doors (S&H 495:11), Mind (S&H 508:7), Deity
(S&H 516:4), the way (S&H 535:17), a two edged sword, guarding and guiding
(S&H 538:4), that which represents the Son (S&H:2)
TUBERCLES: Waking dream shadows, dark images of mortal thought (S&H 418:30)
TUMORS: Waking dream shadows, dark images of mortal thought (S&H 418:29)
TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL: See TRIBES OF ISRAEL
UNDERSTANDING: That which translates the spiritual
(S&H 116:1), leaven (S&H 329:5), the firmament, the line of demarcation between
the real and the unreal, the reality of all things brought to light (S&H 505:5,21,27;
523:9), a quality of God (S&H 506:5), the seed of Truth (S&H 535:1)
UNDERSTANDING, ADVENT OF: The descent of the Holy Ghost
UNDERWORLD: Hades, the grave (S&H 137:32)
UNITY, SPIRITUAL: The scientific morale of marriage (S&H 61:30)
UNIVERSE, SPIRITUAL: Good, reflects God as He is (286:19)
UNIVERSE, PHYSICAL: The conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals (S&H 484:13),
liquid, solid, and aeriform (S&H 511:23)
UNREAL: Evil (S&H 339:9)
UNREAL, SENSUOUS: The Christainly scientific real
URIM: Light, illumination of Science (S&H 596:11)
BIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOUND IN MRS. EDDY'S WRITINGS
(OUTSIDE OF GENESIS, APOCALYPSE,
AND GLOSSARY):
S&H 33:19
"Not my will, but thine, be done!" -- Luke 22:42
--Let not the flesh, but the spirit, be represented in me.
S&H 19:29 (280:18; 340:15; 467:3)
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." -- Ex 20:3
--Thou shalt have no belief of life as mortal; thou shalt not know evil, for there is one
Life,- even God, good.
S&H 20:27
"Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us
run with patience the race that is set before us." -- Heb 12:1
--Let us put aside material self and sense, and seek the divine Principle and Science of
all healing.
S&H 22:13
"Occupy till I come." -- Luke 19:13
--Wait for your reward...
S&H 27:3
"Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind
see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the
poor the gospel is preached." -- Luke 7:22
--Tell John what the demonstration of divine power is, and he will at once perceive that
God is the power in the messianic work.
S&H 27:12 (314:14; 494:2)
"Destroy this temple (body), and in three days I (Spirit) will raise it up." --
John 2:19 --The I - the Life, substance, and intelligence of the universe - is not in
matter to be destroyed.
S&H 31:6
"Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?" -- Mat 12:48
--They who do the will of his Father.
S&H 37:2
"With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."
--They who sin must suffer.
S&H 39:18
"Now, is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."
--Now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life.
S&H 48:3
"Could ye not watch with me one hour?"
--Could they not watch with him who, waiting and struggling in voiceless agony, held
uncomplaining guard over a world?
S&H 48:19
"He opened not his mouth."
--.....(he) was silent before envy and hate.
S&H 48:22
"Put up thy sword."
--.....(Rebuke of) resentment or animal courage.
S&H 50:3
"Who shall declare his generation?"
--Who shall decide what Truth and Love are?
S&H 50:8
"My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
--had Life, Truth, and Love forsaken him in his highest demonstration? ....No!
S&H 14:19
"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;.....because I go unto
my Father."
--Because the Ego is absent from the body, and present with Truth and Love.
S&H 14:31
"When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and, when thou hast shut the door, pray to
thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee
openly."
--The closet typifies the sanctuary of Spirit, the door of which shuts out sinful sense
but lets in Truth, Life, and Love.
S&H 56:3
"Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness."
--Jesus' concessions (in certain cases) to material methods were for the advancement of
spiritual good.
S&H 56:16
"The pestilence that walketh in darkness, the destruction that wasteth at
noonday."
--infidelity to the marriage covenant...
S&H 85:16
"Knew their thoughts"
--read them scientifically
S&H 91:1
"...a new heaven and a new earth
--.....this heaven and earth, inhabited by beings under the control of supreme
wisdom.."
S&H 94:22
"And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks.."
--that is, to acknowledge the divine principle which had healed him.
(The bible quote does not appear in the Science and Health, but its partial explication
does)
S&H 95:6
"To be spiritually minded is life."
--We approach God, or Life, in proportion to our spirituality, our fidelity to Truth and
Love...
S&H 97:26
"He uttered His voice, the earth melted."
--This scripture indicates that all matter will disappear before the supremacy of Spirit.
S&H 103:3
"..the god of this world.."
--The personification of evil..
S&H 108:3
"..the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of His
power."
--It was the divine law of Life and Love, unfolding to me the demonstrable fact that
matter possesses neither sensation nor life; that human experiences show the falsity of
all material things; and that immortal cravings, "the price of learning love,
establish the truism that the only sufferer is mortal mind, for the divine Mind cannot
suffer.
S&H 109:24
"Unto us a child is born,...and his name shall be called wonderful."
--when a new spiritual idea is borne to earth,...
S&H 113:23
"But every (mortal) man a liar."
--According to Scripture, I find that God is true,...
S&H 115::8
"The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat."
--The great difficulty is to give the right impression, when translating material terms
back into the original spiritual tongue.
S&H 116:5
"The last shall be first and the first last."
--Science so reverses the evidence before the corporeal human senses, as to make this
Scriptural testimony true in our hearts.....so that God and His idea may be to us what
divinity really is and must of necessity be,- all-inclusive.
S&H 117:32
"..leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was
leavened.."
--impels the inference that the spiritual leaven was the Science of Christ and its
spiritual interpretation.
S&H 131:17
"He came unto his own, and his own received him not."
--This Science has come already, after the manner of God's appointment, but the churches
seem not ready to receive it.
S&H 131:19
"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things
from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father, for so it
seemed good in thy sight."
--As aforetime, the spirit of the Christ, which taketh away the ceremonies and doctrines
of men, is not accepted until the hearts of men are made ready for it.
S&H 132:8
"And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me."
--In other words, he gave his benediction to any one who should not deny that such
effects, coming from the divine Mind, prove the unity of God,- the divine Principle which
brings out harmony.
S&H 132:32
"Art thou he that should come?"
--He (John the Baptist) seriously questioned the signs of the messianic appearing.
S&H 135:
"Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?"
--What cannot God do?
S&H 140:5
"Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me, and live."
--Not materially but spiritually we know Him as divine Mind, as Life, Truth, and Love.
S&H 141:7
"...And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out,...and if thy right hand offend
thee, cut if off..." Mat. 5:29,30
--That is, to set aside even the most cherished beliefs and practices, to leave all for
Christ.
S&H 141:20
"...kings and priests unto God.."
--Its (Principle's) only crowned head is immortal sovereignty. Its only priest is the
spiritualized man.
S&H 142:8
"...and they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots.." Mat. 27:35,
MARK 15:24
--...the undivided garment, the whole Christ..
S&H 142:
"...and when he made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the
temple.."
--The small cords of scientific demonstration, as twisted and wielded by Jesus..
S&H 146:20
"...stranger that is within thy gates.." Exodus 20:10
--Science is the (stranger)
S&H 146:26
"...the ancient of days.." Dan. 7:9,13,22
--This healing power of Truth must have been far anterior to the period in which Jesus
lived.
S&H 148:2
"...O faithless generation.."
--...implying that the requisite power to heal was in Mind.
S&H 150:6
"...on earth peace, good-will toward man."
--...(the healing power of Truth) appearing...anew..
S&H 164: 25
"When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put
on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed up in victory."
--...immortality (divine Science)..
S&H 167:20
"...flesh that lusteth against Spirit.."
--The flesh and Spirit can no more unite in action, than good can coincide with evil.
S&H 170:10
"Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.."
--The text.....points to the self-sustaining and eternal Truth.
S&H 172:
"...put off the old man.."
--...the belief that there is Soul in sense or Life in matter obtains in mortals, alias
mortal mind, to which the apostle refers..
S&H 174:12
"...the night is far spent, the day is at hand.."
--..the angels of His presence - the spiritual intuitions that tell us when the "...
night is far spent.." - are our guardians in the gloom.
S&H 180:8
"...whose seed was in itself, after his kind.." (Gen 1:12)
--...the resuscitating law of Life...is the seed within itself bearing fruit after its
kind..
S&H 182:12
"...hold to the one, and despise the other.."
--It is impossible to work from two standpoints.
S&H 196:11
"Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.."
--...the word soul means a false sense or material consciousness. The command was a
warning to beware.....of sin.
S&H 197:8
"In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
--God said of the tree of knowledge, which bears the fruit of sin, disease, and death,..
S&H 200:25
"For I am determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him
crucified."
--Christian Science says: I am determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus
Christ, and him glorified.
S&H 203:
"He made himself the son of God.."
--...was really the justification of Jesus, for to the Christian the only true spirit is
Godlike
S&H 208:19
"the voice of one crying in the wilderness.."
--...of human beliefs and preparing the way of Science.
S&H 210:1
"...new tongues.." (Mark 16:17)
--Its (Spiritual sense) are expressed only in 'new tongues;' and these are interpreted by
the translation of the spiritual original into the language which human thought can
comprehend.
S&H 211:19
"...the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on
edge."
--Sympathy with error should disappear. The transfer of the thoughts of one erring mind to
another, Science renders impossible.
S&H 213:3
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.."
--...hence as a man spiritually understandeth, so is he in truth.
S&H 214:5
"...walked with God.."
--If Enoch's perception had been confined to the evidence before his material senses, he
could never have 'walked with God,' nor been guided into the demonstration of life
eternal.
S&H 216:29
"...willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."
--Give up your material belief of mind in matter, and have one Mind, even God; for this
Mind forms its own likeness.
S&H 218:27
"They that wait upon the Lord...shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and
not faint."
--The meaning of this passage is not perverted by applying it to moments of fatigue, for
the moral and physical are as one in their results.
S&H 222:31
"Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh."
--We must destroy the false belief that life and intelligence are in matter, and plant
ourselves upon what is pure and perfect.
S&H 223:16
"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
--...but more are blinded by their old illusions, and try to "give it pause."
S&H 227:18
"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
--Love and Truth make free, but evil and error lead into captivity.
S&H 228:20
"Take no thought for your life.."
--If we follow the command of our Master,.....we shall never depend on bodily conditions,
structure, or economy, but we shall be masters of the body, dictate its terms, and form
and control it with Truth.
S&H 231:31
"...all things were made by Him (the Word of God)...
--...can triumph over sin, sickness, and death.
S&H 232:9
"...with God all things are possible.."
--...all good is possible to Spirit..
S&H 233:10
"...the Son but the Father.."
--How long it must be before we arrive at the demonstration of scientific being, no man
knoweth, - not even "the Son but the Father.."
S&H 233:17
Ye who can discern the face of the sky, - the sign material, - how much more should ye
discern the sign mental..
S&H 236:15
"...according to the pattern shown thee in the mount.."
--...or through divine influence, .....
S&H 238:13
"I know you not."
--From out the bridal chamber of wisdom there will come the warning,.....
S&H 239:13
"Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts."
--The watchword of Christian Science is Scriptural: .....
S&H 239:30
"All is vanity."
--Imperfect mortal mind sends forth its own resemblances, of which the wise man said,
.....
S&H 241:1
"Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth."
--He, who knows God's will or the demands of divine Science and obeys them, incurs the
hostility of envy; and he who refuses obedience to God, is chastened by Love.
S&H 241:5
"...where moth and rust doth corrupt.."
--Sensual treasures are laid up "where moth and rust doth corrupt." Mortality is
their doom.
S&H 241:19
"If ye love me, keep my commandments."
--The substance of all devotion is the reflection and demonstration of divine Love,
healing sickness and destroying sin.
S&H 241:31
"...easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.."
--...than for sinful beliefs to enter the kingdom of heaven, eternal harmony.
S&H 242:3
"...they shall all know Me (God), from the least of them unto the greatest."
--It is only a question of time.....
S&H 242:21
"They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots."
--...the facts of being are commonly misconstrued, (as) it is written.
S&H 254:3
"...run, and not be weary; walk, and not faint.."
--...who gain good rapidly and hold their position, or attain slowly and yield not to
discouragement.
S&H 255:3
"Let there be light.."
--...is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into order and discord into
the music of the spheres.
S&H 256:11
"Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord."
--...the one ever-present I am.
S&H 256:19
(He who) "...doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the
inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest
Thou?"
--Who demands our obedience? He who.....
S&H 259:17
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
--The true likeness can not be lost in divine reflection.
S&H 262:7
By putting "off the old man with his deeds," mortals "put on
immortality."
S&H 262:17
"I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye seeth Thee."
--Mortal's will echo Job's thought, when the supposed pain and pleasure of matter cease to
predominate.
S&H 267:10
The great I am made all "that was made."
S&H 267:13
"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my
brother, and sister, and mother."
--Christian Scientists understand that, in a religious sense, they have the same authority
for the appellative mother, as for that of brother and sister.
QUESTIONS TO BE RESOLVED
AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS:
Define Pentecostal day
See Page 133:8 in the S&H re: Moses and Mind, the saving from the plagues
See S&H 146:15
Scholasticism clings for salvation to the person, instead of to the divine Principle, of
the man Jesus.
See S&H 147:9 where demonstration was humanly possible..
See S&H 153:17 "The boil simply manifests, through inflammation and swelling, a belief in pain, and this belief is called a boil. Now administer mentally to your patient a high attenuation of truth, and it will soon cure the boil."
See S&H 164:15 "...mental microbes of sin and all diseased thought-germs.."
See S&H 142:8 "...the undivided garment, the whole Christ.."
See S&H 180:8 "...the resuscitating law of Life...is the seed within itself bearing fruit after its kind.."
See S&H 185:16 "...'mental medicine' and 'mind cure,' have their birth in mortal mind, which puts forth a human conception in the name of Science to match the divine Science of immortal Mind, even as the necromancers of Egypt strove to emulate the wonders wrought by Moses."
See S&H 186:28 Mortal mind is ignorant of self, or it could never be self-deceived.
See S&H 192:30 Whatever holds human thought in line with unSELFed love, receives directly the divine power.
See S&H 204:20 When will the ages understand the Ego, and realize only one God, one Mind or intelligence?
See S&H 206:17 ...whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,- Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply
See S&H 224:17 The modern lash is less material than the Roman scourge, but it is equally as cutting.
See S&H 224:25 Will you open or close the door upon this angel visitant, who cometh in the quiet of meekness, as he came of old to the patriarch at noonday?
See S&H 229:15 By universal consent, mortal belief has constituted itself a law to bind mortals to sickness, sin, and death. This customary belief is misnamed material law,...
See S&H 233:17 Ye who can discern the face of the sky, - the sign material..
See S&H 234:32 Evil thoughts, lusts, and malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen, from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected lodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defense.
See S&H 251:30 Inharmonious beliefs, which rob Mind, calling it matter, and deify their own notions, imprison themselves in what they create.
See S&H 252:8 A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error.....
See S&H 261:4 Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience (check spell) *proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.
See S&H 271:26 Those, who are willing to leave their nets, or to cast them on the right side for Truth..
See S&H 291:28 No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-day of wisdom
comes hourly and continually, even the judgment by which mortal man is divested of all
material error.
