Angels. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, giving the lie to evil, sensuality, and mortality.
Ark. Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proven
to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding of
Spirit, destroying belief in matter.
God and man are co-existent and eternal. Science
shows that the spiritual realities of all things are created
by God, and exist forever. The Ark also shows that
temptation, if overcome, is followed by exaltation.
Asher (Jacob's son). Hope and faith; spiritual
compensation; the ills of the flesh rebuked.
Babel. Self-destroying error; a kingdom divided
against itself, which cannot stand; material knowledge.
The higher such knowledge builds, on the basis of
evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses, the more
confusion ensues, and the more certain is the downfall
of its structure.
Baptism. Purification by Spirit; submergence in
Truth.
“We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 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
