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Baptism. Purification by Spirit; being submerged in Truth.

“We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Cor. v. 8.)


Believing. Firmness and constancy; not a faltering or blind faith, but the perception of spiritual truth.


Benjamin (Jacob's son). A physical belief as to life, substance, and mind; human knowledge, or so-called mortal mind, asserting matter; pride; envy; fame; illusion; a belief in blood, bones, as possessing life, strength, animation, and power to act; renewal of affections, self-offering; a redeemed body; the reflection of a more spiritual mind; the infinite idea of the Infinite Principle; the spiritual shadow of Spirit-substance; that which is constituted of Soul, not sense; the reflection of Deity.


Bride. Purity and innocence, conceiving man in the idea of God; the senses of Soul, which have spiritual bliss, and enjoy but cannot suffer.


Bridegroom. Spiritual understanding; the pure consciousness that God, the Divine Principle, creates man as His own idea, and is the only creative power.


Burial. Destruction to personal sense; out of sight and hearing; annihilation; being submerged in Spirit; immortality brought to light.


Canaan (the son of Ham). A personal belief; the testimony of what is termed material sense; the error

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