Ears. 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.)
Earth. A sphere; a type of eternity and immortality,
which are likewise without beginning or end.
To material sense, earth is matter; to spiritual sense, it is a compound idea.
Elias. Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to material
sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned
the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold;
the basis of immortality.
“Elias truly shall first come and restore all things.” (Matthew xvii. 11.)
Error. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 472.
Euphrates (river). Divine Science encompassing
the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type
of the glory which is to come; metaphysics taking the
place of physics; the reign of righteousness. The atmosphere
of human belief before it accepts sin, sickness, or
death; a state of mortal thought, the only error of which
is limitation; finity; the opposite of infinity.
Eve. 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, —
that man started first from dust, second from a rib, and
third from an egg.
