Lessons in Truth

would be implying the existence of more than one spirit. Jesus, in his statement, did not do this.

Webster original: "Webster" refers to Noah Webster, whose dictionary was the standard authority on the English language in the 19th century. in his definition of Spirit says, "Spirit is life or intelligence conceived of entirely apart from physical embodiment. It is vital essence, force, energy, as distinct from matter."

God, then, is not—as many of us have been taught to believe—a big personage or man residing somewhere in a beautiful region in the sky called "heaven," where good people go when they die to see him clothed with ineffable ineffableToo great or extreme to be expressed or described in words. glory. Nor is he a stern, angry judge only waiting for an opportunity somewhere to punish bad people who have failed to live a perfect life here.

God is Spirit, or the Creative energy which is the cause of all visible things. God as Spirit is the invisible life and intelligence (according to Webster’s definition of Spirit) which underlies all physical things. There could be no body, or visible part, to anything unless there was first Spirit as a creative cause.

God is not a being or person who merely possesses life, intelligence, love, and power. God is that invisible, intangible, but very real something we call Life. God is perfect Love and infinite Power. God is the sum total of these combined—the sum total of all good, whether it is manifested or unexpressed.

There is only one God in the universe, and only one source for all the different forms of life or intelligence we see, whether they are humans, animals, trees, or rocks.

God is Spirit. We cannot see Spirit with these fleshly eyes; but when we clothe ourselves with the spiritual body, then Spirit is visible or manifest and we recognize it. You do not see the living, thinking "me" when you look at my body. You see only the form through which I am expressing myself.

God is Love. We cannot see love, nor grasp any comprehension of what love is, except when love is clothed with a body. All the love there is in the universe is God. The love between husband and wife, or between parents and children, is just the smallest bit of God being pushed forth through a visible form into manifestation. A mother’s love, so infinitely tender and unfailing, is that same divine love, only manifested to a greater degree through the mother.

God is Wisdom or Intelligence. All the wisdom or intelligence we see in the universe is God—it is wisdom projected through a visible form. To "educate" (from the Latin educere, meaning "to lead forth" original: "educere, to lead forth") never means to force information in from the outside. Instead, it always means to draw out from within something already existing there. God, as infinite wisdom or intelligence, lives within every human being, only waiting to be led...