Scientific Statement of being by Mary Baker Eddy SH Pg 468 & Chpt 17 Glossary

                       Spiritual FactsEVERYTHING about reality is a product of utilizing ONLY these 5 Spiritual senses
Definition of Spiritual Senses:
1. Sight - spiritual discernment.
2. Hearing - spiritual understanding.
3. Feeling - divine consciousness.
4. Smell - intuition of character.
5. Taste - relish of Truth.
                     Topics ~ Material &/or Spiritual Basis
There is no life truth nor intelligence in anything wherein the matter based senses are used.
All product from utilizing material senses are UNREALITY.  Some examples are:
▫️5 MATERIAL senses
▫️Animal nature
▫️Death
▫️Decline
▫️Devil
▫️Electricity
▫️Gods
▫️Growth
▫️I am
▫️I or Ego
▫️Life
▫️Man
▫️Material birth
▫️Matter
▫️Mineral
▫️Mortal mind
▫️Organic life
▫️Rock
▫️Time
▫️Veil
▫️Vegetable
▫️Will
▫️Year
▫️You

  Definitions ~ Spiritual &/or Material 
Credit: SH Chpt 17 ~ Glossary
▫️ADAM. Error; a falsity; the belief in "original sin," sickness, and death; evil; the opposite of good, — of God and His creation; a curse; the belief in intelligent matter, finiteness, and mortality; "dust to dust;" red sandstone; nothingness; the first god of mythology; not God's man, who represents the one God and is His own image and likeness; the opposite of Spirit and His creations; that which is not the image and likeness of good, but a material belief opposed to the one Mind, or Spirit; a so-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus making "gods many and lords many" (I Corinthians viii. 5); a product of nothing as the mimicry of something; an unreality as opposed to the great reality of spiritual existence and creation; a so-called man, whose origin, substance, and mind are found to be the antipode of God, or Spirit; an inverted image of Spirit; the image and likeness of what God has not created, namely, matter, sin, sickness, and death; the opposer of Truth, termed error; Life's counterfeit, which ultimates in death; the opposite of Love, called hate; the usurper of Spirit's creation, called self-creative matter; immortality's opposite, mortality; that of which wisdom saith, "Thou shalt surely die."

The name Adam represents the false supposition that Life is not eternal, but has beginning and end; that the infinite enters the finite, that intelligence passes into non-intelligence, and that Soul dwells in material sense; that immortal Mind results in matter, and matter in mortal mind; that the one God and creator entered what He created, and then disappeared in the atheism of matter.

▫️ALMIGHTY. All-power; infinity; omnipotence.

▫️ANGELS.  are God’s thoughts passing to man—spiritual intuitions that are pure and perfect. They are the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality. 

▫️BAPTISM IS purification by Spirit; submergence in Spirit. We are “willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (II Corinthians v. 8).

▫️BELIEVING IS firmness and constancy; not a faltering nor a blind faith, but the perception of spiritual Truth. Mortal thoughts are illusion.

▫️CHILDREN. The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love. 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.

▫️CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle. The Church is that institution which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.

▫️CREATOR. Spirit; Mind; intelligence; the animating divine Principle of all that is real and good; self-existent Life, Truth, and Love; that which is perfect and eternal; the opposite of matter and evil, which have no Principle; God, who made all that was made and could not create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself.

▫️DAY is the irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love. “And the evening and the morning were the first day” (Genesis i. 5). The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, and “there shall be no night there.”

▫️DEATH is an illusion, the lie of life in matter; the unreal and untrue; the opposite of Life. Matter has no life, hence it has no real existence. Mind is immortal. The flesh, warring against Spirit; that which frets itself free from one belief only to be fettered by another, until every belief of life where Life is not yields to eternal Life. Any material evidence of death is false, for it contradicts the spiritual facts of being.

▫️DEVIL is evil; a lie; error; neither corporeality nor mind; the opposite of Truth; a belief in sin, sickness, and death; animal magnetism or hypnotism; the lust of the flesh, which saith: “I am life and intelligence in matter. There is more than one mind, for I am mind — a wicked mind, self-made or created by a tribal god and put into the opposite of mind, termed matter, thence to reproduce a mortal universe, including man, not after the image and likeness of Spirit, but after its own image.”

▫️EARS are not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding. Jesus said, referring to spiritual perception, “Having ears, hear ye not?” (Mark viii. 18).

▫️EVE is a beginning; mortality; that which does not last forever; a finite belief concerning life, substance, and intelligence in matter; error; the belief that the human race originated materially instead of spiritually.

▫️EYES are spiritual discernment, not material but mental. Jesus said, thinking of the outward vision, “Having eyes, see ye not?” (Mark viii. 18).

▫️FATHER is Eternal Life; the one Mind; the divine Principle, commonly called God.

▫️FIRMAMENT is spiritual understanding; the scientific line of demarcation between Truth and error, between Spirit and so-called matter.

▫️FLESH is an error of physical belief; a supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter; an illusion; a belief that matter has sensation.

▫️GHOST is an illusion; a belief that mind is outlined and limited; a supposition that spirit is finite.

▫️GOD is the great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence.

▫️GODS is mythology; a belief that life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material; a supposition of sentient physicality; the belief that infinite Mind is in finite forms; various theories that hold mind to be a material sense existing in brain, nerve, matter; supposititious minds or souls going in and out of matter, erring and mortal; the serpents of error which say, “Ye shall be as gods.” God is one God, infinite and perfect, and cannot become finite and imperfect.

▫️GOOD is God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action.

▫️HEART. Mortal feelings, motives, affections, joys, and sorrows.

▫️HEAVEN is harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul.

▫️HELL. Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-destruction, self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which “worketh abomination or maketh a lie.”

▫️HOLY GHOST. Divine Science; the development of eternal Life, Truth, and Love.

▫️I, or EGO. Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incorporeal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind. There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle or Mind governing all existence; man and woman remain unchanged forever in their individual character, even as numbers which never blend with each other though governed by one Principle. All the objects of God’s creation reflect one Mind, and whatever does not reflect this one Mind is false and erroneous, including the belief that life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material.

▫️I AM. God; incorporeal and eternal Mind; divine Principle; the only Ego.

▫️INTELLIGENCE is substance; self-existent and eternal Mind; that which is never unconscious nor limited. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 469.

▫️JESUS is the highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man’s immortality.

▫️LIFE. Living a life of the qualities of God ~ every single one is Spiritual.~  See Chapt on Recap Pg 465

▫️KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is the reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme.

▫️KNOWLEDGE is evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses; mortality; beliefs and opinions; human theories, doctrines, hypotheses; that which is not divine and is the origin of sin, sickness, and death; the opposite of spiritual Truth and understanding.

▫️MAN is the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind.

▫️MATTER is mythology; mortality; another name for mortal mind; illusion; intelligence, substance, and life in non-intelligence and mortality; life resulting in death and death in life; sensation in the sensationless; mind originating in matter; the opposite of Truth, Spirit, and God; that of which immortal Mind takes no cognizance; that which mortal mind sees, feels, hears, tastes, and smells only in belief.

▫️MIND is the only I, or Us; the only Spirit, Soul, divine Principle, substance, Life, Truth, Love; the one God; not that which is in man, but the divine Principle or God, of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity, which outlines but is not outlined.

▫️MORNING is light; symbol of Truth; revelation and progress.

MORTAL MIND is nothing claiming to be something, for Mind is immortal; mythology; error creating other errors; a suppositional material sense, the belief that sensation is in matter, which is sensationless; a belief that life, substance, and intelligence are in and of matter; the opposite of Spirit and therefore the opposite of God or good; the belief that life has a beginning and therefore an end; the belief that man is the offspring of mortals; the belief that there can be more than one creator; idolatry; the subjective states of error; material senses; that which neither exists in Science nor can be recognized by spiritual sense; sin; sickness; death.

▫️MOTHER is God; divine and eternal Principle; Life, Truth, and Love.

▫️OIL. Consecration; charity; gentleness; prayer; heavenly inspiration.
 
▫️PRINCIPLE. Harmony, Balance, self-operating, spiritual structure, system from mind. ~  See Chapt on Recap Pg 465

▫️RESURRECTION is spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding.

▫️ROCK is spiritual foundation; Truth. Coldness and stubbornness.

▫️SALVATION is Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed.

▫️SON is the Son of God, the Messiah or Christ; the son of man, the offspring of the flesh. “Son of a year.”

▫️SOUL. See 5 spiritual senses above ~ See Chapt on Recap Pg 465

▫️SPIRIT is divine substance; Mind; divine Principle; all that is good; God; that only which is perfect, everlasting, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite.

▫️SPIRITS are mortal beliefs; corporeality; evil minds; supposed intelligences or gods; the opposites of God; errors; hallucinations.

▫️SUBSTANCE. The only real substance is Spirit, whihc is flawless, transparent & reflective. ~ See Chapt on Recap Pg 465

▫️SUN. The symbol of Soul governing man, — of Truth, Life, and Love. 

▫️TIME is mortal measurements; limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, and knowledge; matter; error; that which begins before, and continues after what is termed death, until the mortal disappears and spiritual perfection appears.

▫️TITHE. Contribution; tenth part; homage; gratitude.
Material Definition ~ A sacrifice to the gods.

▫️UNCLEANLINESS. Impure thoughts; error; sin; dirt.

▫️UNGODLINESS. Opposition to the divine Principle and its spiritual idea.

▫️VEIL. A cover; concealment; hiding; hypocrisy. The Jewish women wore veils over their faces in token of reverence and submission and in accordance with Pharisaical notions. The Judaic religion consisted mostly of rites and ceremonies. The motives and affections of a man were of little value, if only he appeared unto men to fast. The great Nazarene, as meek as he was mighty, rebuked the hypocrisy which offered long petitions for blessings upon material methods, but cloaked the crime, latent in thought, which was ready to spring into action and crucify God's anointed. The martyrdom of Jesus was the culminating sin of Pharisaism. It rent the veil of the temple. It revealed the false foundations and superstructures of superficial religion, tore from bigotry and superstition their coverings, and opened the sepulchre with divine Science, — immortality and Love.

▫️WILL. The motive-power of error; mortal belief; animal power. The might and wisdom of God. “For this is the will of God” (I Thessalonians iv. 3). Will, as a quality of so-called mortal mind, is a wrongdoer; hence it should not be confounded with the term as applied to Mind or to one of God's qualities.

▫️YEAR. A solar measurement of time; mortality; space for repentance. “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years” (II Peter iii. 8). One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity. This exalted view, obtained and retained when the Science of being is understood, would bridge over with life discerned spiritually the interval of death, and man would be in the full consciousness of his immortality and eternal harmony, where sin, sickness, and death are unknown. Time is a mortal thought, the divisor of which is the solar year. Eternity is God's measurement of Soul-filled years.

▫️YOU. As applied to corporeality, a mortal; finity.