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[The Revealing Word]
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name--An arbitrary appellation received in the language of
the intellect describing a mental image or thought picture.
In the English language we have a very careless way of
expressing the recondite meaning of words, but in the
Hebrew the name of every person or thing represents its
character. Every name in the Scriptures has an inner
meaning. For instance, Bethlehem means "house of bread,"
and indicates the nerve center at the pit of the stomach
through which the universal substance joins with the
refined or spiritualized chemical products of the body
substance.
The Scriptures give much importance to the naming and
numbering of the prophets and peoples. The Lord always gave
the wise men and leaders new names when
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they achieved some signal victory. The record abounds with
such examples. When the great Jehovah sent Moses to bring
the Children of Israel out of Egypt He gave the name by
which He was to be known: "I AM THAT I AM."
name, God's--To describe God is to give Him limitation,
hence He could not be given a fairer designation than "I AM
THAT I AM." This is without confines or bounds and it
allows unlimited expansion in every direction.
Metaphysicians have found that this name held in mind
persistently gives the mind freedom from narrow beliefs. It
lets the imagination soar away from its dimensional
concepts of God, and there flows into the mind in
consequence a whole flood of expanded ideas.
name of Jesus--Spiritual understanding proves that the name
of a great character carries his name potency and that
wherever his name is repeated silently or audibly his
attributes become manifest. Jesus knew this, and He
commanded His disciples to go forth in His name. The
marvelous healing works that they did in His name prove the
great spiritual power resident in His name.
napkin--Represents that in which something is hid. Too
often we keep concealed a bit of Truth or a talent that
should be taken out and put to some good use. (see Luke
19:20)
narrow door--The open mind that measures all things by the
gauge of Truth. This way is "straitened" because it
requires that only Truth be recognized, and it rules out
untruth or evil.
nations--Aggregations of thoughts in the mind that are to
be instructed through the faculties.
nature--The intellect's name for God. Men fall short when
they seek to find God by studying nature. Instead of
molding and animating the cells of their bodies, they
project thought outward in speculating about the universe
and its law.
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Nature is the servant of mind, and when lawful thoughts are
enthroned in consciousness nature restores the natural
harmony existing between Spirit, soul, and body. When man
asserts his divine supremacy he dominates nature.
nature, animal--The undisciplined nature in man or that
phase of his being which has been allowed to express
according to the desires of sense.
nature, restorative power of--This is the name given by
doctors to the Spirit of health, which is always right at
hand awaiting an opportunity to enter in to make whole and
to harmonize all discords in the body.
neck--The seat of the power faculty in man.
necromancy--An activity of man's mind used adversely in
which he is in league with hidden forces such as mesmerism
and black magic and uses them in selfish ways.
negation--The unreal; that which has no basis in reality.
negative--The state of consciousness that repels good and
attracts its own likeness, lack. Poverty is the negative
side of plenty; sickness is the negative side of health;
death is the negative side of life. These states result
from the mind's being allowed to image anything contrary or
adverse to the one almighty resource, God.
negative, dealing with--Denial of error thoughts and
beliefs.
nerve fluid--A spiritual fluid that God is propelling
throughout man's whole being continually, as the
electromagnetic center of every physically expressed atom.
This wonderful stream of nerve fluid finds its way over all
the nerves in man's body temple, giving him the
invigorating, steadying power of the Holy Spirit.
nerves--"Cordlike or filamentous bands of nervous tissue
that connect parts of the nervous system with the other
organs of the body, and conduct nervous impulses to or away
from these organs" (Webster). The nerves have
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been described as wires over which messages are sent to and
from the brain. Every emotion and every feeling that is
transmitted over the nerves to the brain is registered and
translated into thought, which may be expressed through the
spoken word.
net--Man's mind is the net that catches thoughts, which are
the basis of external conditions. This net works hard and
long in the darkness of human understanding and gains but
little, but once the Christ Mind is perceived and obeyed
the net is cast on "the right side," and success follows.
new birth--The realization by man of his spiritual
identity, with the fullness of power and glory that follows.
A birth is a coming into a state of being. Man first is
born, or comes into a state of physical being; he thinks of
himself as flesh, material. The "new birth" is the coming
into a higher state of being that is alive to the fact that
man is like God, one with God.
newness of life--Understanding of the spiritual facts of
being.
new race--The race of men expressing the perfection of God
as typified in Jesus. All men are potential members of this
new race; they can become a part of it by following and
demonstrating the Christ principle.
New Thought--A mental system that holds man as being one
with God (good) through the power of constructive thinking.
night--Represents human understanding in which man's
thought net works long and hard with little gain.
nonresistance--A passive state of mind. The law of
nonresistance as taught by Jesus is demonstrated only by
erasing from the individual consciousness every thought of
personal rights.
nostrils--Represent openness to the inspirations of Divine
Mind.
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numbered--To be numbered is to be especially designated as
having place, relation, importance, and necessity. If you
are numbered you are one of the factors that enter into the
great problem of life. To number and to name mean one and
the same thing. If you are numbered you are therefore
recorded in the annals of heaven and the omnipresent Father
knows you by a name peculiar to Spirit.
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