Metaphysical Bible Dictionary - Unity of Citrus County

FEAST 215
MD 215/1.1 Meta. The word fear as used in I Sam. 12:24 implies reverence or respect for the
law of God. "All your heart" represents the whole of the inner consciousness or the inner
source of life, which should be dedicated to the Lord.
MD 215/1.2 feast.
MD 215/1.3 Meta. Appropriation in a large measure; that is, laying hold of divine potentialities.
Several of the miracles of Jesus were in connection with a feast of some kind. Eating is the
outer representation of an inward fact, that fact being spiritual. Jesus used the outer symbol to
represent the spiritual reality when He told His disciples to eat the bread as His body, and
drink the wine as His blood. When we affirm with spiritual understanding the fact of
omnipresent substance we are eating the body of Christ, and when we affirm the omnipresent
energy and eternal life of Spirit we are drinking the blood of Christ. When we enter into this
understanding the outer symbols are not necessary--we have the substance in mind and spirit
(John. 5:1).
MD 215/1.4 The real "marriage feast" is that which results from the union of man with the
Spirit of God. When this union takes place, man may eat of the heavenly manna and drink of
the living waters.
MD 215/1.5 A thirsting for the things of Spirit is necessary before one can really come to the
spiritual marriage feast. Great desire for the light and purity and justice of Spirit is the power
that draws man to God.
MD 215/1.6 The Feast of the Tabernacles (Lev. 23:33-44) is a festival of ingathering, like our
Thanksgiving Day. It was also a commemoration of the deliverance of the Children of Israel
from the forty years in the wilderness and their entrance into the Promised Land.
MD 215/1.7 All the feasts and festivities of the Jews had their foundation in divine science,
although the people may not have understood their significance.
MD 215/1.8 These Jewish feasts represent the harvest and gathering, by Spirit, of the surplus
energies of the soul and the body. The Feast of the Tabernacles typifies the "passing over" of
the nervous energy from one plane of consciousness to
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another and the inflow of substance from objective to subjective centers. When this inflow is
complete it is called the last day of the feast. Then another step is necessary to complete the
upward trend of man's being, and that is union with Spirit. This union is brought about through
faith or belief in Spirit and in the higher life. When the soul thirsts after Truth it can be satisfied
only by drinking in this higher life.
MD 215/2.1 It is the Spiritual I AM in man that says to the full soul, "Come unto me and drink"
(John 7: 37).
MD 215/2.2 feeding, the five thousand.
MD 215/2.3 Meta. In the universal mind principle there is a substance that Jesus called the
"Father," which is also the mother or seed of all visible substance. It is the only real substance
because it is unchangeable, while visible substance is in constant transition.
MD 215/2.4 The origin of all substance is the idea of substance. This substance idea is purely
spiritual and can be apprehended only by the mind. It is never visible to the eye, nor can it be
sensed by man through any of his bodily functions. When the attention has been centered
upon this idea of substance long enough, and strongly enough, a consciousness of substance
is generated and, by the powers of the various faculties of the mind in right relation, visible
substance is formed. In this way Jesus brought into visibility the loaves and fishes to feed the
five thousand.
MD 215/2.5 feet.
MD 215/2.6 Meta. That phase of our understanding which comes into contact with substance.
Consequently we can take possession of all substance that we comprehend and understand,