Practitioner Exam Vocabulary Flashcards
Mind
No one has seen Mind or Spirit. The only proof of it is that we can think. There is not my mind and God’s Mind. There is just Mind, in which we live, move, and have our being. Potential energy.
Concept Group: Mind, Unconscious Mind, Thought, Unconscious Thought, One Mind, Our Mind, Conscious Mind, Creative Mind
Thought
The movement of consciousness. The dynamic force which produces the activity for manifestation (from Mind’s potential energy).
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Group: Mind, Unconscious Mind, Thought, Unconscious Thought, One Mind, Our Mind, Conscious Mind, Creative Mind
Unconscious Thought
Unconscious subjective thought. Can be causative without our awareness of it.
Concept Group: Mind, Unconscious Mind, Thought, Unconscious Thought, One Mind, Our Mind, Conscious Mind, Creative Mind
One Mind
All of Truth.
Concept Group: Mind, Unconscious Mind, Thought, Unconscious Thought, One Mind, Our Mind, Conscious Mind, Creative Mind
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
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
Consciousness
Mental awareness. Both objective and subjective.
Concept Group: Consciousness, Objective Consciousness, Subjective Consciousness
Objective consciousness
Conscious awareness, equipped with will, decision, and discrimination. Reasoning is both inductive and deductive, therefore it has self-choice. Spirit (whether in God or man).
Concept Group: Consciousness, Objective Consciousness, Subjective Consciousness
Subjective consciousness
Entirely a reaction to this objective volition. Creative but not discriminative. Conscious but not self-conscious. Creative without awareness of creating. No reflective, deductive, or discriminating factors. Compelled by its nature to accept and create. Universal Subjectivity, also subjectivity of man. Soul; unconscious.
Concept Group: Consciousness, Objective Consciousness, Subjective Consciousness
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
Inductive reasoning
An inquiry into Truth; a process of analysis. Reasoning from effect to cause.
Man can reason both inductively and deductively—from the Whole to the part, or the part to the Whole.
Concept Group: Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Trinity of Being, Triune Man
Trinity of Being
Can reason deductively only, Spirit and Soul.
Concept Group: Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Trinity of Being, Triune Man
Triune Man
Man’s spirit or conscious mind can reason inductively and deductively, soul or subjective mind can reason only deductively.
Concept Group: Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Trinity of Being, Triune Man
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
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
Universal Soul or Subjectivity. The Feminine Principle of the Universal Life.
Concept Group: Creation, Creator, Creative Medium, Creative Mind
Individuality
The Real Idea of man, as distinguished from the outer personality. Each one is a separate entity in Mind and no two are alike. Each is an individualized center of God-Consciousness. We are born with our individuality.
Concept Group: Individuality, Personality
Personality
That which constitutes distinction of person. The result of man’s experience, the sum-total of all he has said, done, felt, thought, hoped for and believed in; the result of his reactions to the events of life. The objective evidence of individuality. The use we make of our Divine Individuality. We should choose which materials we use to create our personality out of our individuality.
Concept Group: Individuality, Personality
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 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 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 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