Baptism. Purification by Spirit; being submerged in Truth.
“We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Cor. v. 8.)
Believing. Firmness and constancy; not a faltering
or blind faith, but the perception of spiritual truth.
Benjamin (Jacob's son). A physical belief as to life,
substance, and mind; human knowledge, or so-called
mortal mind, asserting matter; pride; envy; fame;
illusion; a belief in blood, bones, as possessing life, strength,
animation, and power to act; renewal of affections,
self-offering; a redeemed body; the reflection of a more
spiritual mind; the infinite idea of the Infinite Principle;
the spiritual shadow of Spirit-substance; that which is
constituted of Soul, not sense; the reflection of Deity.
Bride. Purity and innocence, conceiving man in the
idea of God; the senses of Soul, which have spiritual
bliss, and enjoy but cannot suffer.
Bridegroom. Spiritual understanding; the pure
consciousness that God, the Divine Principle, creates man
as His own idea, and is the only creative power.
Burial. Destruction to personal sense; out of sight
and hearing; annihilation; being submerged in Spirit;
immortality brought to light.
Canaan (the son of Ham). A personal belief; the
testimony of what is termed material sense; the error
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