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obedience, spiritual--Obedience comes through understanding
man's relation to God. When we show forth wisdom and purity
and the perfect Principle that is God, we are obedient to
Him.
object of man's existence--The mortal concept of the object
of man's existence is personal pleasure and profit. The
spiritual concept is to express God.
obsession--All conscious thought may become subconscious.
An error may be held in mind until it is firmly fixed or
crystallized and so strong that it takes control of a man.
Such controlling mental states are false states of
consciousness. Anger, jealousy, greed, appetite, passion
are traits that, when allowed to become dominant, are
obsessions, and are the "demons" that are to be cast out.
occultism--The belief that secret and mysterious powers can
control the visible world. This procedure is not the way of
the Christ Mind. "For there is nothing hid, save that it
should be manifested; neither was anything made secret, but
that it should come to light" (Mark 4:22).
offerings, freewill--"Freely ye received, freely give"
(Matt. 10:8) is a law of life, and all must conform to it
in order to realize their highest good and to receive
abundantly. Giving measures the receiving.
oil, anointing--The thought of love, which is poured
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over anything, making it holy or a perfect whole. "Love . .
. is the fulfillment of the law" (Rom. 13:10).
ointment--Symbolizes affirmation of peace, poise, and
gladness.
ointment in alabaster cruse--The conserved nerve fluid that
is stored up in the secret recesses of the body.
ointment, precious--Fragrance of love with which
understanding (feet) is often bathed.
old age--A false belief deeply imbedded in the race mind.
It accepts biological law as the ultimate for man instead
of the law of God--which is eternal life in the body.
Omega--(see Alpha and Omega)
omnipotence--Infinite power. God is infinite power. All the
power there is. All-powerful.
omnipresence--God is Mind. The one Mind contains all, and
all ideas exist in the one Mind. God is everywhere present.
There is no place where God is not. He is in all, through
all, and around all. Omnipresence is a spiritual realm that
can be penetrated only through the most highly accelerated
mind action, as in prayer.
omniscience--God as omniscience is all-knowing,
all-knowledge.
omniscient--All-knowing; infinite knowledge and wisdom.
Divine Mind is omniscient. It knows all.
one life and one intelligence--There is one Spirit; one
principle of life, love, intelligence, and goodness in,
through, and over all, even God, the good omnipotent.
one Mind--There is but one Mind. Every individual and the
various phases of character that make that individual are
but states of consciousness in the one Mind.
one presence and one power--God, Spirit, is the only
presence in the universe, and is the only power. He is in,
through, and around all creation as its life and sustaining
power.
one Spirit-Mind--God is the one Spirit-Mind in which
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all ideas of life, love, substance, intelligence, and power
originate.
opposition in consciousness--The effort of old states of
mind to continue exercising dominion in the face of new
ideas becoming active in mind.
optimism--The inclination to expect good; the practice of
seeing God (All-Good) everywhere. A sturdy belief in the
goodness of reality.
order--The divine idea of order is the idea of adjustment,
and as this is established in man's thought, his mind and
affairs will be at one with the universal harmony.
ordinances of Jehovah--"The ordinances of Jehovah are true,
and righteous altogether" (Psalms 19:9). Ordinances are
established rules, and here we have the divine law under a
slightly different aspect. When a man keeps the law of his
being, he is guided into greater sureness and definiteness
of understanding.
organic regeneration--To become conscious of divine
substance, affirm your unity with it until you feel it as
an exquisite vibration in every part of your body. This is
the baptism of the Holy Spirit so often referred to by the
apostles, and when you feel it you may know that you are
tasting the "hidden manna" (Rev. 2:17), that you have begun
organic regeneration that will be completed in immortality
in the body, "the body of Christ" (I Cor. 12:27).
organs of the body--All outward conditions are the result
of ideas that have first appeared in mind. The organs of
the body are bundles of ideas that have organized
themselves about a working center. They have their positive
pole in mind, and it is there that we should look for the
means to regulate them.
"our daily bread"--(Matt. 6:11). Our daily bread is the
sustenance for spirit, soul, and body. Some of this "daily
bread" is appropriated in the form of food. But
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man does "not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matt. 4:4). There is
substance in words of Truth, and this substance is
appropriated by prayer and meditation on Truth.
outer understanding--Man's intellectual consciousness that
gathers knowledge and substance for personal advancement
and gain. This is not true spiritual understanding, but is
a hireling, a stranger, so far as concerns the getting of
good by waiting on the inner teacher, the Spirit of truth.
overcome the world--To correct thoughts that fall short of
the divine ideal.
overcomer--One who recognizes the Truth of his being and is
renewing his mind and body and affairs by changing his
thoughts from the old mortal beliefs to the new as he sees
them in Divine Mind. He demonstrates the divine law, not
only in surface life but in innermost consciousness.
Spiritual power, mastery, and dominion are attained by the
overcomer. "He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit
down with me in my throne" (Rev. 3:21).
overcoming--"Gaining superiority; winning" (Webster).
Through thought mastery, sense man is overcome. The
victorious thought of love defeats the thoughts of hate and
fear. "Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John
16:33).
overcoming, spiritual--Dealing with the problems of life in
spiritual understanding and demonstrating over error
through the keeping of spiritual laws.
oversoul--The universal Principle, the absolute One, God,
Being. The absolute reality. The oversoul is the divine
thought man. Jesus is the expressed oversoul of this planet.
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