Creator. Spirit; Mind; Intelligence; the animating Principle of all that is real and good; self-existent Life, Truth, and Love, perfect and eternal; the opposite of matter and evil, which have no Principle; God, “who made all that was made,” and could not create an atom or an element that was the opposite of Himself.
Dan (Jacob's son). Animal magnetism; mesmerism;
so-called mortal mind controlling mortal mind;
error, working out the designs of error; one belief
chasing another, — and the stronger error recovering the
ground, and holding it for a time against the weaker.
Day. The irradiance of Life; the spiritual idea of
creating Truth and Love.
“And the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Gen. i. 5.) The objects of time and sense, illumined by spiritual understanding, disappear, and Mind measures time as longer or shorter, according to the good it unfolds. This unfolding is God's day; “and there shall be no night there.”
Death. An illusion, for there is no death; the unreal
and untrue; the opposite of God, or Life.
Matter has no life, hence it cannot die, and Mind is immortal. The flesh, warring against Spirit, frets itself free from one belief, only to be fettered by another, until every belief yields to the understanding of God. Any material evidence of death is false, for it contradicts the spiritual facts of Life.
Devil. A lie; error; neither a person nor a Principle;
the opposite of Truth; a personal belief of evil, sin,
