{"collection":"nth","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nth/unity/tpm/tpm17.htm","path":"nth/unity/tpm/tpm17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nth/unity/tpm/tpm17.htm","text":"The Twelve Powers of Man, by Charles Fillmore, [1930]\nabdominal region, as seat of renunciation (elimination), 16, 21, 158-160\nAbraham, 92; on sacrifice, 25-27\nAdam, 79, 81; and Eve, 35, 37, 41, 43, 57; man, 35\naffirmation, misuse of, 108; power of, 128\naffirmations and denials, list of, 51, 141, 169\nAlexander, 67\nAndrew (strength), 16, 18, 34, 45\napostle (see disciples)\nappetite, repression vs. redemption of, 155-156; spiritual conquest of, 168-169\nAtlantis, continent of (legend), 149-150\nBartholomew (imagination), 16, 20-21, 72\nBeecher, Lyman, 144\nBeing, 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\nBible, on \"brain of the heart,\" 90; on physiology, 40\nBlackstone, Sir William, on judgment, 48\nbody, 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)\ncells, as mental entities, 146\nchild training, 105\nChrist, as our Father, 54; as the Son of God in man's soul, 50, 118-119; consciousness of, to be formed in us, 119-120; first and second coming of, in relation to man's mind, 15, 68\ncommunion, with the Father through Christ, 118-119\nconsciousness, 72, 89; body affected by spiritual forces in man's, 123-128; changing the, 128-129; Christ Mind as resurrecting power in, 170; of good and evil, 42-43; sense vs. spiritual, 120-121, 124-125; spiritual, represented by Seth, 99; three great factors in, 164\ncreeds, (see dogma)\ncross, as a symbol, 156\nDaniel, 94\nDavid and Goliath, represented as spiritual and physical strength, 36\nDelilah (see Samson and Delilah)\ndemons, casting out, 66\ndenial, as redeemer of man's consciousness, 150, 156; power of, 128\ndesire, basically good, 131\ndisciples, calling of, 15, 50; twelve, as egos or identities in the body consciousness, 15-16, 45, 48-50, 62\ndisease, and serums, 147-148; as result of indulgence in sex, 145-147\nDivine Mind, 17, 23, 29, 35, 38-39, 61, 66, 79, 113\nDrummond, Henry, on love, 41\nEden, prototype of, within the human soul, 56\negos (see disciples)\nEinstein, Albert (quoted), 86-88\nElijah, 89\nelimination (see renunciation)\nemotions, conflict of, detrimental to nervous system, 134\nenergy, electronic, as related to the human body, 4-6; represented by Gehenna, 6\nenthusiasm (see zeal)\nEphraim (see manasseh)\nEsdras, 63\nfaith, and the spoken word, 29-30; intellectual faith vs. spiritual, 27-28; represented by Peter, 17-18, 24-33; seat of, 16, 31; trust as cheaper brand of, 29\nFather, communion with, through Christ the Son, 115-118; revealed to us as Spirit, 122\nFather-Mind, 113\nfourth dimension, as state of existence, 8\nFox, George (\"Journal\"), 80\nFroebel, Friedrich, 39\nfront brain, as seat of understanding, 16, 21, 91; (between the eyes), as seat of imagination, 16, 20, 71; (center), as seat of will, 16, 21-22, 100-101\nGalli-Curci, Amelita, 65\nGaza (\"citadel of strength\"), 18-19\ngenerative center, as seat of life, 16, 22-23, 161-164\ngiving and receiving, law of, 26-27\nGod, and the Sabbath, 112-113, 116-118; as life, love, substance, and intelligence, 131-132, 163; as love, 56; as personality vs. God as Principle, 52; as Spirit, 135; Einstein's views on, 86-87; love of, 26; Principle, 52\nGod-Mind, 131\nGoethe, 101\nGoliath (see David and Goliath)\nhabit (see thought)\nhair, as symbol of vitality, 37\nHamilton, Sir William, 83\nhead, top of, as seat of the I AM, 16\nhealing, emotion and thought as cause in disease and, 134-136; medical science vs. the Christ way of, 147-148, 157-158; tenseness vs. relaxation in, 159-160; through praise and thanksgiving, 144\nhearing, impaired (see ears)\nheart, back of, as seat of love, 16, 20\nHegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 83\nHoly Spirit, baptism of, 61, 88-90, 154; as guidance, 75\nhypnotism, 109\nI AM, 70, 104, 124-125, 133, 171-172; as Jehovah in action, 103; represented by Jesus, 16\nI AM THAT I AM, 54\nIdeas, 19, 71-72, 125, 143-144; as \"sons\" and (daughters) of God, 52-53; as source of things, 34-35; as symbols, 77; evolution as result of, 38-40\nimagination, and regeneration, 80-81; as daughter of God, 53; represented by Bartholomew, 20-21, 71-82; vs. visions and dreams, 74-79\nincarnation, (see reincarnation)\nintellect, reason as arbiter of, 45; represented by John the Baptist, 151-153\nintelligence, as son of God, 53\nintuition, 45, 47; vs. intellect, 85-86\ninvolution, of mind, preceding evolution of matter, 120-121\nJacob, 92; as symbol of the I AM, 97\nJames, son of Alphaeus (order), 16, 22, 110-129\nJames, son of Zebedee (discrimination or judgment), 16, 19-20, 45\n\"James the Just\" (see James, son of Zebedee)\nJehovah, as I AM THAT I AM, 54; as tribal God of Israelites, 106; man, 35\nJehovah-jireh, 26\nJehovah man, vs. Adam man, 35\nJesus, and ecclesiastical ritualism, 110-116; and His disciples, 15, 73-74; and power, 65; and the meaning of the cross, 156; and the will of God, 105-109; as demonstrator of spiritual strength, 37; as every man's name, 47; as greatest genius, 136-137; as I AM or central entity, 16; as \"only begotten Son of God,\" 40; as type man, 4, 40; kingdom of, 67-69; new race of men prophesied by, 3-4; on overcoming death, 9, 91-92, 170, 172-174; regenerative work of Christ through, 119-120; release of electronic energy and its control as taught by, 5\nJohn the Baptist, and renunciation, 151-157; vs. Jesus, 90-91, 151-152, 157\nJoseph (dreams), 72; (imagination), 97-98, 100\nJudas, generative center, 22-23; life conserver (generative function), 16; representative of generative life, 161-174\njudgment (wisdom, discrimination), as represented by James, son of Zebedee, 16, 19-20, 41-51\nKant, Immanuel, 83\nkingdom, laws promulgated by Jesus for His, 67-68\nknowledge (see understanding)\nLebbaeus (see Thaddaeus)\nlife, as son of God, 53; represented by Judas, 16, 22-23, 161-174; spiritual, 157-158; vs. death, 173-174\nloins, as seat of strength, 16, 18\nlove, and wisdom, 41-42, 133-134; as daughter of God, 53, 55; as regenerative power, 58-60; blunders made by, 41; represented by John, 16, 20, 45, 52-60; sacrifice of human love to God's, 26; various kinds of, 55-56\nlust (see sex)\nman, as imperishable Spirit, 130; as male and female, 166; as spirit, soul, and body, 138; evolution of, from sense to spiritual consciousness, 120-121; inventions of, duplicates of body activity, 135-136; natural vs. spiritual, 6-7; wisdom and zeal to be combined in, 131-133\nManasseh, and Ephraim, 22, 100\nmarriage, and sex, 56-57, 60; as union of soul and spirit, 166\nMatthew (will), 16, 21-22, 97-109\nmeditation (see prayer)\nmedulla oblongata (base of brain), as seat of zeal, 16, 22, 140-141\nmesmerism (see hypnotism)\nMill, John Stuart, 83\nmind, as generator of energy, 32; building the body through, 37; continuity of, after death, 173-174; overloading the, 144; universe originated and sustained in, 143; various writers on, 83\nMoses, 59; as symbol of drawing-out (evolutionary) process, 120-129; vs. Jesus, 112, 114-116\n\"Mount of Jehovah\" (see \"upper room\")\nmouth, 141\nMozart, 139\nNathanael (see Bartholomew)\nnavel, as seat of order, 16, 22, 110-129\nnose, 141\norder, spiritual law and, represented by James, son of Alphaeus, 16, 22, 110-129\nPaul, 63-64, 73, 115, 119; awakening of, 92-93\nPayne, John Howard, 56\npersonality, as a means of development, 99-100\nPeter, dreams and visions of, 77; (faith), 17-18, 28-29, 45, 134\npineal gland (center of brain), as seat of faith, 16, 31\npleasure, not an end in itself, 57-58\npower, as action of God in man, 68; gained through individual obedience to overcoming law, 69; misuse of, 66; represented by Philip, 16-19, 61-70\npowers and nerve centers (see body)\nprayer, personal vs. universal will in, 108; release of electronic energy by, 5-6; supplicative vs. affirmative, 27; way to spiritual understanding through, 93, 123\nPuritan fathers, and the Mosaic law, 113-114\nregeneration, 58-59, 65, 79, 102, 128; and the mystical marriage, 166-167; imagination's part in, 80-81; purification of human life by, 128\nreincarnation, 89, 138, 146-147, 171-174; genius as result of repeated, 139\nrenunciation, represented by Thaddaeus, 16, 21, 142-160\nresurrection, of body, not limited to Jesus, 91-92\nRevelation, book of, 1st chapter, explained, 7-8; 22d chapter, explained, 164\nSabbath, as man-made institution, 112-116\nSatan (see Devil)\nSchopenhauer, Arthur, 83\nScriptures, as records of men's experience, 115-116\nsensation, 22-23, 37, 41, 43, 57-58, 145; physical vs. mental, 167-169\nsense consciousness (see consciousness)\nserpent, as symbol of sensation, 57, 167-168\nsex, indulence of, cause of depletion and disease, 57-59, 145-147; life force squandered by, 22-23; 166-169; present throughout nature, 53\nShakespeare, 139\nsight, impaired (see eyes)\nSimon (see Peter)\nSimon the Cananaean (Zeal), 16, 22, 134-135\nsolar plexus (see stomach)\n\"Sons of God,\" as divine ideas (masculine and feminine), 52-53\nsoul, as causative factor of mind, 83; as demonstrated man, 138; as realm of thought, 144; development of, through series of personalities, 99-100 (see Spirit)\nsoul realm, vs. spiritual realm, 8-9\nspinal cord, 62\nSpirit, and intuition and inspiration, 45; causative factor of mind, 83; as potential man, soul, and body, 71, 138, 171-172\nSpiritual consciousness (see consciousness)\nSpiritual understanding (see understanding)\nstomach (solar plexus), as seat of discrimination or judgment, 16, 20, 49-50\nstrength, physical vs. spiritual, 36-38; represented by Andrew, 16, 18, 34-40\nsubconscious mind, action and reaction of thought in, 65; and conscious mind, 3; and superconscious mind, 3; as storehouse of experience, 80, 138-139; evolution of Spirit through different incarnations in, 124; hidden realm of, 102-103; latent animal propensities of, 79, 81; occupied by a multitude of men, 35\ntemptation, Matthew on, 6\nTennyson, 84\nThaddaeus (renunciation), called also Lebbaeus, 16, 21, 158\nThomas (understanding), 16, 21-22, 91, 104\nthought, and emotion, in relation to nervous system, 133-134; and habit, 128-129; as builder of nerve and brain centers, 136; as cause, 135; as source of disease, 145, 148; change of, necessary to healthy mind, 142-145\nthroat (see tongue)\nThyatira, meaning of, 94\ntongue (throat), root of, as seat of power, 16-17, 62, 64\ntrinity, and the twelvefold man, 99; as God, Christ, man, 99; as threefold nature of man, 45; of the natural world, 54 (see Spirit)\nTruth, as taught by Spirit, 155\nunderstanding, interrelation between wisdom, knowledge, and, 83-84; represented by Thomas, 83-96; spiritual, 91-96 (see will)\nuniversal will (see God's will)\n\"upper room,\" place of contact between Divine Mind and man's mind, 27, 135\nvisions (see dreams; imagination)\nvoice (see word)\nwill, and understanding, 97, 101-102; as center of action, 97; represented by Matthew, 16, 21-22, 97-109; personal vs. universal, 107-108; unwise to surrender to another's 107-109\nwisdom, and love, 41-42, 133-134; Solomon on, 46 (see understanding)\nWord, creative, 29-30; of faith, as transforming power, 31-32; of God, as seed in man's mind, 39; power of the spoken, 18-19, 29-30, 62-65, 128\nwords, formative vs. creative, 29\nzeal, and genius, 136-137; as affirmative impulse of existence, 130-132; represented by Simon, the Cananaean, 16, 22, 130-141; tempered with wisdom, 132-133","title":"The Twelve Powers of Man: Index","type":"page"}