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garden--The spiritual body in which man dwells when he
brings forth thoughts after the pattern of original divine
ideas. This "garden" is the substance of God.
Garden of Eden--Represents a region of Being in which are
provided all primal ideas for the production of the
beautiful; the elemental life and intelligence placed at
the disposal of man, through which he is to evolve.
Man's body temple is the outer expression of the Garden of
Eden. God gave it to man "to dress it and to keep it." (see
Gen. 2:15) Man's primary work in the earthly consciousness
is to use his creative power to preserve harmony and order
in his world and to conserve his powers for divine
direction. (see Eden, Garden of)
garment--The radiation or aura that surrounds the body.
garment, Jesus' seamless--The indivisible garment that
Jesus wore next to His body. It was a thought garment woven
without a break of His high realizations of Truth. These
realizations of Truth not only infolded Him but firmly
interlaced the substance of both His spiritual and body
consciousness.
gate, narrow--The spiritual mind, which requires absolute
conformity to Truth and measures all things by the gauge of
Truth. The way is "straitened" because it requires only
Truth to be recognized, and it rules out untruth or evil.
gate, wide--The easy, negative way by which men conform to
sense consciousness and the pleasures of the world, with
the result that their mind-muscle becomes soft and flabby.
When trials come men find that they are not able to cope
with them.
gates, twelve--The twelve faculties of mind. Before these
faculties become avenues through which we enter into
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the city of God, they must be purified according to the
standards of Spirit.
Gehenna--Represents the cleansing fire of Spirit, which
consumes all the dross of sense and materiality. (see hell)
generation--Procreation. The law of generation is
undoubtedly the mystery of mysteries in human
consciousness. Men have probed, with more or less success,
all the secrets of nature, but of the origin of life they
know comparatively nothing. It is only when the inquiring
mind transcends the human and rises into the spiritual
realm that light comes.
generic--"Pertaining to, or having the rank of, a genus"
(Webster). Family; kind. Adam was generic man, the whole
human race epitomized in an individual man idea. "Let the
earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees
bearing fruit after their kind" (Gen. 1:11).
Genesis--Source or origin. The first of the "five books of
Moses," giving an account of creation from a metaphysical
viewpoint.
genius--One who lets Spirit within him speak out,
regardless of how different the utterances may be from
those of persons who pose as authorities. He has absolute
faith in his spiritual revelations and fearlessly proclaims
them. He is a pioneer and a leader. He listens to his own
inner voice and has faith in his God-given ability.
ghosts--Thoughts objectified. They are nothing except mind
projections.
giants--The Philistines and all the other giants of the
Promised Land represent the untrained or undeveloped states
of mind in the subconsciousness that Truth is to subdue and
to discipline. When they become obedient to the law of
Being they will be man's servants, gladly doing his bidding.
gift--"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights" (James
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1:17). God's greatest gift to man is the power of thought,
through which he can incorporate into his consciousness the
Mind of God.
gift, spiritual--The manifestation of Spirit in each of the
members of the Christ body according to each man's
receptivity; giving to each member a particular work in the
redemption of the individual.
gifts, of the Magi--Offerings of love to the Christ; inner
resources open to the Christ Mind.
giving, and receiving--It is necessary to give freely if we
are to receive freely. The law of receiving includes
giving. The knowledge that substance is omnipresent and
that man cannot, therefore, impoverish himself by giving
(but rather will increase his supply) will enable man to
give freely and cheerfully. "Freely ye received, freely
give" (Matt. 10:8).
glorify--To magnify with praise; to enhance with spiritual
splendor; to adorn. Glorification is the highest spiritual
state of consciousness attainable by man.
glory--Realization of divine unity; the blending and
merging of man's mind with God-Mind.
goat--Metaphysically, the goat symbolizes resistance and
opposition. It is a phase of personality. We resist Spirit
on one hand and we resist fellow men on the other.
Resistance to the Lord is to be killed out entirely, and
resistance to our fellowmen is to be sent into the
wilderness (denied a place in consciousness).
God--The almighty One; the Creator; the ruler of the
universe; the Infinite; the Eternal. God is not person but
Principle. He is the underlying, unchangeable Truth "with
whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by
turning" (James 1:17). God as principle is absolute good
expressed in all creation. When men know God and worship
Him "in spirit and truth" (John 4:24), they recognize Him
as this great goodness, omnipresent, omniscient, and
omnipotent. "Blessed be . . . God . . . the
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Father of mercies and God of all comfort" (II Cor. 1:3)
God is personal to us when we recognize Him within us as
our indwelling life, intelligence, love, and power. There
is a difference between a personal God and God personal to
us. Since the word personal sometimes leads to
misunderstanding, it would probably be better to speak of
God individualized in man rather than of God personal to
man.
When we identify ourselves with Him as our indwelling
Father, He seems to us to be personal; however, it is not
in a personal sense, but in the universal identification of
ourselves with Him that we come into the God consciousness.
The personal is limited. The universal, or God
consciousness, is unlimited.
God is that from which all love springs. His character is
taught in the name Father, representing the love,
protection, and providing care of God for man, His
offspring. He is life and love and wisdom and power and
strength and substance.
We do not see God with our physical eyes except as He
manifests Himself through His works. His attributes are,
therefore, brought into expression by man, who is His son
and who is like Him in essence. If we would make of
ourselves channels through which He can come forth into
expression and manifestation, we must endeavor to raise our
thought and feeling to God's level.
God, accessibility of--God is approachable, available, and
usable to all who draw nigh unto Him. God is Spirit, the
principle of intelligence and life, everywhere present at
all times. He is, forever, as accessible as a principle of
mathematics or music. "The Father abiding in me" (John
14:10).
God as health--God is absolute wholeness and perfection.
Man's recognition of his oneness with this perfect
wholeness through Christ brings him into the consciousness
of his indwelling life and health. "I in them, and
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thou in me, that they may be perfected into one" (John
17:23).
God as law--Principle in action.
God as lawgiver--The law of God in action is the Holy
Spirit; in that action He appears as having individuality.
When prophets and mystics come into conscious mental touch
with this executive lawgiver, He uses them as mouthpieces
by which He guides and directs His people.
God as life--God as life is made manifest in the living.
Life cannot be analyzed by the senses. It is beyond their
grasp; hence, it must be cognized by the higher
consciousness.
God as mind--The connecting link between God and man.
God-Mind embraces all knowledge, wisdom, and understanding
and is the source of every manifestation of true knowledge
and intelligence. God as principle cannot be comprehended
by any of the senses. But the mind of man is limitless, and
through it he may come into touch with Divine Mind. The one
Mind is a unit and cannot be divided. The individual mind
is a state of consciousness in the one Mind.
God as principle--The unchangeable life, love, substance,
and intelligence of Being. Principle does not occupy space;
neither has it any limitations of time or matter, but it
eternally exists as the one underlying cause out of which
come forth all true ideas.
God as Spirit--God is Spirit, and Spirit is located and
appears wherever it is recognized by an intelligent entity.
It thus follows that whoever gives his attention to Spirit
and seals his identification with it by His word, starts a
flow of Spirit life and all the attributes of Spirit in and
through his consciousness. To the extent that man practices
identifying himself with the one and only source of
existence, he becomes Spirit, until finally the union
attains a perfection in which he can say with Jesus, "I and
the Father are one" (John 10:30).
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God as substance--This does not mean matter, because matter
is formed while God is the formless. The substance that God
is lies back of all matter and all forms. It is that which
is the basis of all form yet enters not into any form as
finality. It cannot be seen, tasted, or touched. Yet it is
the only enduring substance in the universe.
God as Truth--The eternal verity of the universe and man.
God, centered in--To have the attention focused on
spiritual ideas and ideals.
God, creative process of--Christianity describes God as
Spirit, creating by a process comparable to the mental
processes, with which we are all familiar. First, mind,
then the idea (word) in mind of what the act shall be, then
the act itself. God planned man and the universe, and
through the expression of His word projected them into
creation, as ideal principles and imminent energies acting
behind and within all visibility. The creative processes of
Divine Mind are continuously operative; creation is going
on all the time, but the over-all plan, the design in
Divine Mind, is finished.
God's creations are always spiritual. This includes
spiritual man (God-man) through whom all things, including
personal man (Adam man) are brought into manifestation.
Spiritual man is the acme or pinnacle of God's
creation--the image and likeness of God. "Thou art my
beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased" (Mark 1:11).
God, demonstrating--To demonstrate God means to make His
Spirit manifest in one's life.
God immanent--This refers to the all-pervading and
indwelling presence of God, the life and intelligence
permeating the universe. Jesus lovingly revealed that the
Father is within man, forever resident in the invisible
side of man's nature. Paul also set forth this truth when he
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wrote of "one God and Father of all, who is over all, and
through all, and in all" (Eph. 4:6).
God, jealous--God is not jealous as men count jealousy, but
He is jealous of principle, from which no lapses are
tolerated. Man's failure to observe divine law causes it to
react on him.
God-man--The man that God created in His image and
likeness, and present within all men.
God manifest--God manifest is really greater than God
principle; the man who has demonstrated the God character
is greater than the untried man. Jesus proclaimed, "I and
the Father are one" (John 10:30). He had all the
possibilities of Principle and, in addition, He
demonstrated a large degree of its possibilities. In this
respect, Jesus is the great Way-Shower and helper for all
men.
God presence, unity with--To make oneself conscious of the
presence of God, one must consistently affirm oneness with
this presence. Say: "I have faith in God; I have faith in
Spirit; I have faith in things invisible. I am one with
God."
God, reconciliation with--To be reconciled with God means
to be willing that His will be done; that is, that
limitations, personality, ignorance shall give way so that
the perfection and righteousness of Divine Mind may be
expressed. Reconciliation takes place by man's surrender of
an adverse will and an acceptance of that "mind . . . which
was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5).
God, responsibility to--Truth is implanted in us by divine
intelligence. To the degree that we awaken to the
consciousness of the inherent wisdom, to this degree are we
responsible to the Father and required to render unto Him
the fruitage of our wisdom. Each of us unfolds according to
understanding and realization. Whether our understanding is
little or great, we must demonstrate the Truth we know. If
our understanding is much, much is required of us.
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"God said"--The same as "Mind thought," by which all things
were brought forth. (see 1st chapter of Genesis)
God transcendent--This suggests God as above and beyond His
creation. That God is remote from the practical affairs of
man or from man's own experience is a false belief. God
(perfection) is not out of reach of His offspring; neither
is He something beyond and above man. Tennyson tells us
that "closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands
and feet."
God, will of--God's will is always perfection and all good
for all His children; perfect health in mind and body;
abundance of every good thing including joy, peace, wisdom,
and eternal life. He does not will suffering or
imperfection in any form.
The belief that God wills both good and evil is false; the
truth is that God is all good and only good can come to man
from Him. If man experiences error and inharmony, he brings
them upon himself by his failure to harmonize his thoughts,
words, and acts with the Lord, or divine law.
God's name--God's name represents wholeness. It is holy,
perfect. God is everywhere present. When we think of God as
being anything less than that which is perfect and whole,
we are taking His name in vain. "Thou shalt not take the
name of Jehovah thy God in vain" (Exod. 20:7).
gold--Metaphysically, gold represents spiritual gifts; the
riches of Spirit. The gold that the Wise Men brought to the
Christ child was a consciousness of the omnipresent
richness of substance. To follow Jesus in the demonstration
of prosperity, we must charge our mind with wise and rich
ideas.
golden candlesticks--Receptacles of spiritual light.
golden scepter--A rod; symbol of wisdom held out when the
king (the will) is willing to listen to reason.
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Golgotha--"The place of a skull" (Matt. 27:33). The skull
is the place where the intellect is crossed out, so that
Spirit may win eternal ascendancy. Jesus (the intellectual)
was crucified at "The place of a skull," so that Christ
(Truth) might become all in all.
good, the--The Absolute; the incomparable; that which is
godly in its character. God is omnipresent All-Good. "Why
callest thou me good? none is good save one, even God"
(Mark 10:18).
good and evil states of consciousness--Good and evil states
of consciousness form the heavens and the hells of the
race. We go in mind to heaven or hell every time we
mentally project thoughts that "chord" with that particular
state. When we establish an enduring consciousness of good,
evil disappears as darkness before light.
goodness, reward of--There is always a saving grace in
divine goodness; and if we have ever done a kind act, it
has been preserved in the careful records of memory and
will come forth when we most need it.
gospel--An Anglo-Saxon word derived from God (good) and
spell (story, tidings). It is now universally identified
with Jesus' mission and the doctrine that has grown out of
it--that system of religious beliefs centered about the
teachings of Jesus.
The gospel of Jesus is that every man can become God
incarnate. It is not alone a gospel of right living, but
also shows the way into dominion and power equal to and
surpassing that of Jesus of Nazareth. "He that believeth on
me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works
than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father" (John
14:12).
grace--Good will; favor; disposition to show mercy; aid
from God in the process of regeneration. "By grace have ye
been saved" (Eph. 2:5).
"Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17);
that is, the real saving, redeeming, transforming
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power came to man through the work that Jesus did in
establishing for the race a new and higher consciousness in
the earth. We can enter into this consciousness by faith in
Him and by means of the inner spirit of the law that He
taught and practiced.
gratitude--Gratitude and thanksgiving are both necessary in
demonstrating prosperity through divine law. Be grateful to
God and thankful to the friends whom He uses to supply you.
All metaphysicians have found by experience that being
thankful for what they have increases the inflow. Gratitude
is a great mind magnet, and when it is expressed from the
spiritual standpoint it is powerfully augmented. The saying
of grace at the table has its origin in this idea of the
power of increase through giving thanks.
graven image--Idol. We set up a graven image when we image
God as a material form or location in substance. (see image)
gravitation--The love force in nature; the power of
attraction among physical bodies.
greatest in God's kingdom--When Jesus washed the feet of
His apostles He brought home to His followers that he who
willingly performs lowly, humble service for others, with
no thought of personal distinction, is greatest in God's
kingdom.
greed, freedom from--A result of the habit of tithing,
which establishes a consciousness of giving and keeps one's
mental channel free from material selfishness.
Greek--Metaphysically, a term for intellectual reasoning.
In Acts 11:20-24, the truth regarding the new teaching of
Jesus is beginning to reach the old reasoning of the
intellect, and the wall of old ideas is being broken down.
ground, holy--Substance in its spiritual wholeness, or the
idea of substance in Divine Mind. When we realize
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this idea we let go of all limitation and are conscious
only of the Absolute.
growth--Increase by assimilation of new substance;
multiplication. We grow by incorporating spiritual
substance into our consciousness. The law of growth is in
beholding. When we behold the body as anything other than
its divine idea, we hold it there (in error, sin, discord).
To behold ourselves free from these keeps us manifesting
freedom.
growth, spiritual--The increase of God in man. All growth
is first in mind and depends on the standards we are
holding in mind. A high spiritual standard has lifting
power. All growth and unfoldment are based on the law. What
we earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be ours if
we "faint not" (Gal. 6:9).
guidance, spiritual--The impressions that come from the
Spirit of truth within man.
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