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mortal mind, devoted to matter; pride; envy; fame; illusion; a false belief; error masquerading as the possessor of life, strength, animation, and power to act; renewal of affections; self-offering; an improved state of mortal mind; the introduction of a more spiritual origin; a gleam of the infinite idea of the infinite Principle; a spiritual type; that which comforts, consoles, and supports.


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. Corporeality and physical sense put out of sight and hearing; annihilation; submergence in Spirit; immortality brought to light.


Canaan (the son of Ham). A sensuous belief; the testimony of what is termed material sense; the error which would make man mortal, and would make mortal mind a slave to the body.


Children. Life, Truth, and Love's spiritual thoughts and representatives; sensual and mortal beliefs; counterfeits of creation, whose better originals are God's thoughts, not in embryo, but in maturity; material suppositions of life, substance, and intelligence, opposed to the Science of Being.