Chapter XVII - Glossary
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of reverence and submission and in accordance with
of reverence and submission and in accordance with
Pharisaical notions.
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The Judaic religion consisted mostly of rites and cere-
The Judaic religion consisted mostly of rites and cere-
monies. The motives and affections of a man were of
little value, if only he appeared unto men to fast. The
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,
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-
vealed the false foundations and superstructures of super-
ficial religion, tore from bigotry and superstition their
coverings, and opened the sepulchre with divine Science,
– immortality and Love.
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WILDERNESS. Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spon-
WILDERNESS. Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spon-
taneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a
material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense
unfolds the great facts of existence.
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WILL. The motive-power of error; mortal belief; ani-
WILL. The motive-power of error; mortal belief; ani-
mal power. The might and wisdom of God.
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"For this is the will of God." (I Thessalonians
"For this is the will of God." (I Thessalonians
iv. 3.)
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Will, as a quality of so-called mortal mind, is a wrong‑
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.
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WIND. That which indicates the might of omnipo-
WIND. That which indicates the might of omnipo-
tence and the movements of God's spiritual government,
encompassing all things. Destruction; anger; mortal
passions.
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The Greek word for wind (pneuma) is used also for
The Greek word for wind (pneuma) is used also for
spirit, as in the passage in John's Gospel, the third chap-
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
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
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
ghost;" but this word ghost is pneuma. It might be trans-
lated wind or air, and the phrase is equivalent to our
common statement, "He breathed his last." What
Jesus gave up was indeed air, an etherealized form of
matter, for never did he give up Spirit, or Soul.
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WINE. Inspiration; understanding. Error; fornica-
WINE. Inspiration; understanding. Error; fornica-
tion; temptation; passion.
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YEAR. A solar measurement of time; mortality;
YEAR. A solar measurement of time; mortality;
space for repentance.
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"One day is with the Lord as a thousand years."
"One day is with the Lord as a thousand years."
(II Peter iii. 8.)
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One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual
One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual
understanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity.
This exalted view, obtained and retained when the Sci-
ence of being is understood, would bridge over with life
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-
known. Time is a mortal thought, the divisor of which