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Metaphysical Dictionary Terms.......C.
Fillmore
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)
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, 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
and 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 thou in
me, that they may be perfected into one” (John 17:23).
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 said” -
The same as “Mind thought.” by which all things were brought forth.
(see 1st chapter of Genesis)
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