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hades--A Greek word, often translated hell. It is supposed
to refer to the unseen world, or the abode of the dead. In
reality, however, the word has reference to the grave or
the "pit." Hades refers to the outer darkness, the realm of
sense, in contrast to the inner or luminously spiritual.
hallow the name of God--To realize that His name means
wholeness and perfection for us.
halo--The artists of old always painted saints with an
emanation or circle of light around the head, which custom
contained a grain of truth. It is from the I AM center in
the crown of the head that we draw all new inspiration, all
new ideas. When they contact man's consciousness these new
inspirations, new ideas, break forth as a soft golden light
(pure wisdom) that surrounds the head. This is
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known to spiritually quickened men as the halo. (see aura)
hand--Represents executive ability; the doing of things;
outer or manual power.
hardening--Refusing to accept guidance of Spirit. Willful
ignorance of the God principle in man's own being, or
disobedience to the indwelling Christ.
harmony, divine--Perfect accord with the goodness, the
beauty, and the righteousness of omnipresent Spirit.
Everything is governed by fixed law, and harmony is its
expression. This is illustrated by the living body, which
is a sensitive instrument, responsive to the touch of the
Master, I AM.
harmony, divine, how lost--When the will is centered in the
external and loses sight of the ideal, it breaks the
connection between Spirit and manifestation, and thus man
loses the harmony that is his under divine law.
harmony, divine, how restored--Through a knowledge of the
Truth of Being man is restored to divine harmony. He must
know the Truth about himself and conform to it in all his
thinking, and not be misled by appearances.
hate--Extreme antipathy, intense aversion, lingering
antagonism. Dislike is a mild form of hate. Both hatred and
dislike are antichrist, and have no place in the
superconsciousness.
hate, bodily effects of--Hate burns out the vital spark in
the glands, much as an excessively high current burns out a
fuse in your house lighting system. Then the light goes out
and death of the body sets in.
hate, remedy for--Love, peace, and harmony are the only
remedies that count. "God is love" (I John 4:8), and to
live in God-Mind, man must cultivate love until it becomes
the keynote of his life.
head--The center from which the mind expresses various
thoughts and ideas.
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heal--"To make hale, sound, or whole" (Webster). To bring
forth the perfect Christ man that exists within each of us.
healer--One who heals the sins of man, and restores him to
his original, sinless state. The healer is the focal center
of faith; through him faith reaches the patient, directly
or by means of someone very much interested in him.
healer, natural--One who has a great compassion and
yearning to help humanity out of its errors and suffering.
When one enters this state of consciousness a healing
virtue pours out that changes all discord to harmony.
healing--"Restoring to original purity or integrity"
(Webster). The first step in all spiritual healing is to
believe, and the next step is openness and receptivity to
the stream of healing life. Through the exercise of faith
and our words, our spiritual quality is fused into unity
with the power of Christ and the work is marvelously
accomplished.
All healing is based on mental cleansing. When the mind is
free from error thoughts, harmony in the body ensues.
Permanent healing is never accomplished until the mental
cause of the disease, the error thought, is removed. Jesus
was a true healer, and when He cast out the error that
caused the condition, He said, "Sin no more, lest a worse
thing befall thee" (John 5:14). The "thing" was caused by
sin. Thus the true way to heal is to find the mental cause
and destroy it forever.
healing, absent--Healing of an individual by a person who
is not in the physical presence of the one being healed.
healing and will power--Through the use of the will, it is
possible to bring about an appearance of health. This is
not spiritual healing; it is a species of mind dominance.
healing, medical and spiritual--Permanent healing is never
gained through medication or drug curing. Spiritual healing
restores to perpetual health because it erases the
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error thought and cleanses the mind. "Though your sins be
as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow" (Isa. 1:18).
healing name--Any declaration man may make, in which the
name Jesus Christ is used reverently, will contact the
spiritual ether where the Christ I AM lives and will open
the mind and body to the inflow of spiritual healing power.
Affirm: Through Jesus Christ, vitalizing energy floods my
whole being, and I am healed.
healing, psychical--Healing on the mental plane.
healing virtue--The restoring power of Being. "For power
came forth from him, and healed them all" (Luke 6:19).
healing word--The healing word is not a special creation to
meet an emergency. The word goes forth and establishes that
which is. It does not heal anything--in its perfection
there is nothing to heal. Its office is to behold the
perfection of Being.
health--A state of being sound or whole in mind and body.
Oneness with the Christ Mind assures perfect health. Health
is the normal condition of man, a condition true to the
Truth of his being. Health is from within and does not have
to be manufactured in the without. It is the very essence
of Being, universal and enduring.
That which seems to be sickness does not exist in Truth.
When man becomes so much at one with God-Mind that he
abides in the consciousness of health, he enters the
eternal peace in which he knows that "it is finished" (John
19:30). To know God as health one must take up the study of
the healthy mind and make it and not physical appearance
the basis of every calculation.
health and the word--Experiences, innumerable times
repeated, prove the power of words to bring health. Health
is potential in the real of your being. Health can always
be demonstrated through the power of the spoken word.
hearing--Ability to look deeper than words and catch
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the inner meaning. "He that hath ears, let him hear" (Matt.
13:9). In many places the Bible indicates that the ear
referred to is not the physical organ but the listening
mind.
The "ear" that conceives and really hears is the auditory
center in the brain. It is here that the mind grasps and
analyzes the sound vibrations.
heart--The heart is love, the affectional consciousness in
man. It is the faculty through which man receives love from
Being. The heart, however, is but the visible expression of
an invisible center of consciousness. It is the center from
which the divine substance is poured forth. Everyone uses
his heart center when he sends forth a loving thought.
As used in Scripture, the word heart represents the
subconscious mind. "Out of the abundance of the heart his
mouth speaketh" (Luke 6:45).
heart, good and evil--The heart of the unregenerate man is
both good and evil, but the evil is without foundation in
Being, and has no sustaining power outside man's belief in
its reality. When the heart is purged of all thoughts
adverse to good, man consciously contacts the underlying
God substance.
heaven--The Christ consciousness; the realm of Divine Mind;
a state of consciousness in harmony with the thoughts of
God. Heaven is everywhere present. It is the orderly,
lawful adjustment of God's kingdom in man's mind, body, and
affairs.
Jesus, of all those claiming intimate acquaintance with
spiritual things, gave heaven definite location. "The
kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21). Heaven is
within every one of us; a place, a conscious sphere of
mind, having all the attraction described or imagined as
belonging to heaven. But this kingdom within is not
material, it is spiritual.
heaven and earth--Two states of mind, the ideal and the
manifestation. According to Revelation 21:1 we are to
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have new ideals with manifestations in the earth to
correspond.
God visioned two planes of consciousness, the heaven and
the earth, or more properly, "the heavens and the earth."
One is the realm of pure ideas; the other, of thought
forms. Heaven is the orderly realization of divine ideas.
Earth is the manifestation of these ideas.
heaven, firmament of--The consciousness of Truth that has
been formulated and established.
heaven, restoration to--Faith in Spirit and the ultimate
dominance of the good in all men will finally restore man
to the heavenly consciousness from which he descended.
heifer--The heifer, she-goat, ram, turtledove, and young
pigeon that Abram was instructed to take (Gen. 15:9)
represent beliefs on the sense plane that must be
sacrificed. The thought of physical strength must be given
up, and its spiritual source must be realized. The human
must be given up in order that the divine will may prevail.
All subconscious resistance to the working of the divine
law must be denied away.
hell--Symbolized in the Bible as Gehenna, Ge Hinnom, the
Valley of Hinnom--a place outside Jerusalem where the
city's refuse was burned. It symbolizes that purifying fire
which consumes the dross of man's character.
Metaphysically, hell represents a corrective state of mind.
When error has reached its limit, the retroactive law
asserts itself, and judgment, being part of that law,
brings the penalty, called hell, upon the transgressor.
This penalty is not punishment, but discipline. If the
transgressor is repentant and obedient, he is forgiven.
(see fire, hades)
hell of fire--The "hell of fire" spoken of in Scripture is
the purifying fire or power of the Spirit. Its purpose is
the cleansing and purification of man.
heredity, flesh--The belief that man has his being from
man. The law is that like begets like, and this law is set
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into operation in a way adverse to Truth when man holds
himself as the offspring of mortal man. It is overcome by
the Truth that God is Father, that man's real source is
God, and that his inheritance is the perfection and
wholeness of God. When this Truth is perceived we begin to
understand and take on the characteristics of our divine
Father. If we believe that God is our Father, and
acknowledge Him, He will acknowledge us.
"hid with Christ in God"--The lifting up of the Christ in
man in order that his physical and mental nature may be
drawn into the universal perfection. Man dies to the old
life of sense and lives under a new commandment. "For ye
died, and your life is hid with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3).
hireling--The hireling state of mind is that in which one
is constantly looking for rewards. This cultivates
selfishness, which is the foundation of fear.
hoarding--Gathering things together in the external. This
is a vain effort to avert an imagined shortage in the
future. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the
earth, where moth and rust consume . . . but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
doth consume" (Matt. 6:19,20).
hold all persons in Truth--Never to think evil of anyone,
no matter how much error he may seem to express, but to see
all as they really are in Spirit: perfect, harmonious,
joyous, and prosperous.
hold a thought--To search out and absorb to one's
consciousness, through the process of meditation and
prayer, the Truth contained in spiritual words. To repeat
some statement of Truth in the silence and meditate on it
until it becomes a living word in the consciousness,
illuminating and upbuilding mind and body.
holding a mental picture--This is a work that lies deeper
than the outer man discerns. The subconscious mind must
enter into the process and desire intensely the good
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that is to be demonstrated. This deep desire keeps in mind
an image of that which is to be brought into manifestation.
holding to Principle--Standing steadfast by a statement of
Truth in the face of seeming error; insisting on the divine
accuracy of one's faith. Demonstration will follow.
holy--"Spiritually whole; of unimpaired innocence"
(Webster). Holiness is wholeness in Spirit, mind, and body.
In this state of consciousness man is aware of the
all-pervading glory of God.
Holy Communion--To establish our acceptance of the Christ
we celebrate Holy Communion within our mind and heart. "And
as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and
brake it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take,
eat; this is my body. And he took a cup, and gave thanks,
and gave to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is
my blood of the covenant . . . I shall not drink henceforth
of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it
new with you in my Father's kingdom" (Matt. 26:26-29).
The bread used in the churches typifies substance, which we
consider the Lord's body, a body of spiritual ideas. The
wine used symbolizes His blood, life, or the circulation of
divine ideas in our consciousness that will purify our mind
and heart and renew our strength, freeing us from all
corruption, sin, and evil, and bringing forth in us the
abundant unlimited life of God. Through the appropriation
and assimilation of substance and life in consciousness, we
blend our mind with the Father-Mind, or universal Mind of
God, and there is a harmonizing of every fiber of the body
with Christ. As our mind and heart are cleansed of untrue
thoughts and beliefs, our body will take on the life and
light of divinity. Eventually, the body will become living
light, as was shown in the transfiguration of Jesus.
Holy Ghost--(see Holy Spirit)
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holy ground--(see ground, holy)
holy, holy, holy--The word of Truth; the statement of
wholeness of the whole body; a spiritual perception of the
all-pervading glory of divine perfection.
holy of holies--The most sacred inner realm of
consciousness wherein man comes into awareness of the
presence of Spirit.
Holy Spirit--The activity of God in a universal sense. The
moving force in the universe taken as a whole. The Spirit
is the infinite "breath" of God, the life essence of Being.
"And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith
unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit" (John 20:22).
Holy Spirit is the love of Jehovah taking care of the human
family. The Holy Spirit is in the world today with great
power and wisdom, ready to be poured upon all who look to
it for guidance. Its mission is to bring all men into
communion with God; to guide men in order that they will
not mistake the way into the light.
The Holy Spirit is third in the Trinity, which in theology
is designated: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In metaphysics
we approach the Trinity and more readily realize its
meaning through the terms mind, idea, and expression. To be
"filled with the Holy Spirit" is to realize the activities
of Spirit in individual consciousness. The quickening of a
man by the Holy Spirit is peculiar to each individual and
must be experienced to be understood.
The Holy Spirit is authority on the gospel of Jesus. It is
the only authority that Jesus ever recognized, and whoever
attempts to set forth His gospel from any other standpoint
is in the letter and not the spirit. No man can know what
Jesus' doctrine is except he gets it direct from the one
and only custodian. It is not to come secondhand, but each
for himself must receive it from the Holy Spirit, which is
sent by the Father in the name of the Son.
Holy Spirit, sin against--Resistance to Spirit. So
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long as it continues, it shuts out the forgiving love of
God.
Holy Spirit and the Word--The Word is man's I AM identity.
The Holy Spirit is the outpouring or activity of the living
Word. The activity produces the light of Spirit, the Truth
of God, the personality of Being.
holy temple--The redeemed spiritual body.
honesty--The divine law in action, which reveals that man
must give an equivalent (equal value) for everything that
he gets. "That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in
all godliness and honesty" (I Tim. 2:2, Scofield).
hope (and faith)--Hope is the expectation of good in the
future. It is a quality (good as far as it goes) of sense
mind because it is subject to time. Faith is the certain
knowledge that our good is ours right now. It is of God; it
goes beyond time and space.
horns, ram's--Adverse conditions. The blowing of the ram's
horn represents the denial of adverse conditions and the
affirmation of the power of Spirit.
horses, four--(see 6th chapter of Revelation.) The four
horses and their riders are, first, "a white horse,"
representing the power of the Christ; second, "a red horse
[war]: and to him that sat thereon it was given to take
peace from the earth"; third, "a black horse"
[commercialism]: "A measure of wheat for a shilling, and
three measures of barley for a shilling"; and fourth, "a
pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death."
Prodigious preparation for war by nations, incited by the
greed for gain, will lead them to "let slip the dogs of
war" unless the rider of the white horse comes forth
"conquering, and to conquer."
hosannas--Represent the joyful obedience and homage that
all the thoughts in one's consciousness give when an error
state of mind is overcome.
house--The house that God builds and dwells in is man's
body. "Know ye not that your body is a temple
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[house] of the Holy Spirit?" (I Cor. 6:19). The body
temple. "For we are a temple of the living God" (II Cor.
6:16).
humanity--The garden of God, of which the soil is the
omnipresent thought substance.
humility--"Freedom from pride and arrogance" (Webster).
Recognition that the personal man by himself is
ineffectual. "I can of myself do nothing" (John 5:30). "The
Father abiding in me doeth his works" (John 14:10).
True humility is needed very much in the Christ-centered
individual. The true Christian is humble. He knows the
nothingness of the lesser self in man and the allness of
Christ.
hypocrite--In classic Greek, the word meant an actor in a
theater; so the word came to mean anyone who pretends to be
one thing while really he is something far different.
Appearing to be lovingly thoughtful for others, while
thinking only of self and reputation, is to deserve only
the reward of a hypocrite. No wise man would seek the
reward of empty applause, which might satisfy the boastful
giver. A modest man asks the approval of Spirit only. (see
Matt. 6: 1-18)
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