Salvation. Life, Truth, and Love, understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed.
Seal. The signet of error, revealed by Truth.
Serpent (ophis, in Greek; nacash, in Hebrew).
Subtlety; a lie; the opposite of Truth, named error;
the first statement of mythology and idolatry; the
belief in more than one God; animal magnetism; the first
lie of limitation; finity; the first claim that there is an
opposite of Spirit, or Good, termed matter, or evil; the
first delusion that error exists as fact; the first claim
that sin, sickness, and death are the realities of life.
The first audible claim that God was not omnipotent,
and that there was another power, named evil, who was
as real and eternal as Good, or God.
Sheep. Innocence; inoffensiveness; those who follow
their leader.
Shem (Noah's son). A corporeal mortal; kindly
affection; Love rebuking error; reproof of sensualism.
Souls. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 462.
Son. The son of God, the Messiah or Christ. The son
of man, the offspring of the flesh. “Son of a year.”
Spirit. Divine Substance; Mind; Principle; all that
is Good; God; that only which is perfect, infinite, ever
lasting; omnipresence and omnipotence.
