mortal mind, devoted to matter; pride; envy; fame; illusion; a false belief; error masquerading as the possessor of life, strength, animation, and power to act; renewal of affections; self-offering; an improved state of mortal mind; the introduction of a more spiritual origin; a gleam of the infinite idea of the infinite Principle; a spiritual type; that which comforts, consoles, and supports.
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. Corporeality and physical sense put out of
sight and hearing; annihilation; submergence in Spirit;
immortality brought to light.
Canaan (the son of Ham). A sensuous belief; the
testimony of what is termed material sense; the error
which would make man mortal, and would make mortal
mind a slave to the body.
Children. Life, Truth, and Love's spiritual thoughts
and representatives; sensual and mortal beliefs;
counterfeits of creation, whose better originals are God's
thoughts, not in embryo, but in maturity; material
suppositions of life, substance, and intelligence, opposed to
the Science of Being.
