INDEX
abdominal
region, as seat of renunciation (elimination),
16, 21, 158-160
Abraham,
92; on sacrifice, 25-27
Adam,
79, 81; and Eve, 35, 37, 41, 43, 57; man,
35
affirmation,
misuse of, 108; power of, 128
affirmations
and denials, list of, 51, 141, 169
Alexander,
67
Ananias,
75-76
Andrew
(strength), 16, 18, 34, 45
apostle
(see disciples)
appetite,
repression vs. redemption of, 155-156;
spiritual conquest of, 168-169
asceticism,
152-153
Asenath,
100-101
Atlantis,
continent of (legend), 149-150
baptism,
18-19, 61, 88-91
Bartholomew
(imagination), 16, 20-21, 72
Beecher,
Lyman, 144
Being,
both masculine and feminine, 53; character
of, 52; pleasure as an end contrary to
law of, 57; spiritual man as sum total
of attributes of, 54
Bible,
on "brain of the heart," 90;
on physiology, 40
Blackstone,
Sir William, on judgment, 48
body,
as Garden of Eden, 163; as representative
of sum total of animal world, 79, 81-82;
denial and affirmation in relation to,
128; faculties, or powers and nerve centers
of, represented by twelve disciples, 16-23,
48-50; redemption of, as exemplified by
Jesus, 120; regeneration of, not after
death, 120; spiritual refining of, 125-129;
vs. experience, 45 (see resurrection;
Spirit)
bowels,
21, 144, 158
cells,
as mental entities, 146
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