PPS Vocabulary Flashcards
Belief
Conviction or feeling of the truth of a proposition or condition. It may go no farther than intellectual assent; faith embodies a trust and confidence.
Concept Group:
Knowledge – Belief – Faith
Christ Within
The idea of Sonship, the Perfect Man as He must be held in the Mind of God.
Concept Group: The Christ – Christ Within – Holy Ghost
Conscious Mind
Spirit; the Self-knowing Mind in God or man. The Intelligence in the Universe which reveals Itself in all Its Creation. We cannot conceive of Universal Consciousness but we can glimpse it through our use of “the One Mind common to all individual men.”
Concept Group: Mind, Unconscious Mind, Thought, Unconscious Thought, One Mind, Our Mind, Conscious Mind, Creative Mind
Consciousness
Mental awareness. Both objective and subjective.
Concept Group: Consciousness, Objective Consciousness, Subjective Consciousness
Cosmic Conception
The Divine Mind giving birth to its idea.
Concept Group: Cosmic, Cosmic Conception, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmic Mind, Cosmic Stuff, Cosmic Purpose, Cosmic Urge, Cosmos
Cosmic Consciousness
Perception of the Whole. Supreme, intuitive knowledge of the divine order, beyond intellectual comprehension.
Concept Group: Cosmic, Cosmic Conception, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmic Mind, Cosmic Stuff, Cosmic Purpose, Cosmic Urge, Cosmos
Cosmic Mind
The Mind of God.
Concept Group: Cosmic, Cosmic Conception, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmic Mind, Cosmic Stuff, Cosmic Purpose, Cosmic Urge, Cosmos
Cosmic Purpose
The ideas of Spirit propelling themselves into outer expression. The desire of Spirit executing Itself.
Concept Group: Cosmic, Cosmic Conception, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmic Mind, Cosmic Stuff, Cosmic Purpose, Cosmic Urge, Cosmos
Cosmic Stuff
Undifferentiated Substance. Pure Spiritual Substance from which all things are made.
Concept Group: Cosmic, Cosmic Conception, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmic Mind, Cosmic Stuff, Cosmic Purpose, Cosmic Urge, Cosmos
Cosmic Urge
The desire of Spirit to express itself.
Concept Group: Cosmic, Cosmic Conception, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmic Mind, Cosmic Stuff, Cosmic Purpose, Cosmic Urge, Cosmos
Cosmos
The Universal World, visible and invisible. Any self-inclusive system, characterized by order and harmony.
Concept Group: Cosmic, Cosmic Conception, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmic Mind, Cosmic Stuff, Cosmic Purpose, Cosmic Urge, Cosmos
Creation
The giving of form to the substance of Mind. Always was and will be. To be conscious is to create, because Spirit has to be conscious, and therefore must have something of which to be conscious. God making something out of Itself by becoming the thing It creates. Not making something out of nothing, but the passing of Substance into form, through a Law which is set in motion by the Word of Spirit.
Concept Group: Creation, Creator, Creative Medium, Creative Mind
Creative Medium
Universal–the World-Soul; Impersonal, having no personality of its own. Individual–subjective state of a man’s thought. Do not think of Soul and Spirit as separate; they are two parts or aspects of the same reality.
Concept Group: Creation, Creator, Creative Medium, Creative Mind
Creative Mind
The Universal Soul or Subjectivity. The Feminine Principle of the Universal Life.
Concept Group: Mind, Unconscious Mind, Thought, Unconscious Thought, One Mind, Our Mind, Conscious Mind, Creative Mind
Creative Mind
The Universal Soul or Subjectivity. The Feminine Principle of the Universal Life.
Concept Group: Mind, Unconscious Mind, Thought, Unconscious Thought, One Mind, Our Mind, Conscious Mind, Creative Mind
Creator
God. The immutable, inexorable, unchangeable Principle back of, and responsible for, all existence. The impersonal, Father-Mother God. The Limitless. The Whole.
Concept Group: Creation, Creator, Creative Medium, Creative Mind
Deductive reasoning
That process of reasoning which follows an already established premise. Reasoning from whole to part. God can only reason deductively. That which is Infinite does not have to inquire into Truth.
Concept Group: Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Trinity of Being, Triune Man
Demonstration
Spiritual demonstration is manifestation of Reality. We can demonstrate only at our ability to know. Treatment which leads to the demonstration is not for the purpose of making something happen, but is to provide an avenue, within ourselves, through which things may happen.
Disease
An impersonal thought force operating through people which does not belong to them at all. While in every case disease is an effect and must first have a subjective cause, nine times out of ten it is not conscious in the thought of the person who has it. Man if [is?] fundamentally perfect. Our whole premise is Perfect God, Perfect Man, Perfect Being.
Divine Ideal
Divine Ideas are the ideas of God. The Divine Ideal is the perfect image held forever in the Mind of God; the Perfect Body/Spiritual Body is the fulfillment of the Divine Ideal and the Real Man we hope to manifest. The pattern by which we try to bring out perfection in our lives.
Ego
The I Am of the Bible, the Christ, the perfect idea of God. In metaphysical terms, the Real Consciousness of man. In psychology, an organization or system of mental states.
Emotion
Mental energy set in motion through feeling. Consciousness attendant upon other forms of consciousness (as perception or ideation) to which it gives their feeling tone. Emotion uncontrolled produces chaos; unexpressed it produces confusion, conflict, and complexes, for energy will have an outlet.
Evil
That which seems destructive. An experience of the soul on its journey toward the realization of Reality. A problem as long as we believe in it. Of itself, it is neither person, place nor thing, and will disappear in exact proportion that we cease using destructive methods. Exactly as long as we make mistakes shall we be automatically “punished.”
Evolution
Passing of Spirit into form. The logical result of the outpush of Life into self-expression. Coming forth of Spirit into manifestation. Unfoldment of First Cause. Since the idea is still in an unfolding state, it appears as though we live in an imperfect universe. The time and process through which an idea unfolds into a higher state of manifestation; will go on forever. Concept group: Involution, Evolution