Nearly all of the profound developments of human progress have their root in some form of a break through recognition that man is created in the image of God and is endowed with a creative intellect that enables the species to overcome limitations upon limitations and thereby determine its own history.  The Golden Renaissance, for instance, unfolded on the basis of this very recognition.  Today's new renaissance in China has similar roots, in that this nation's cultural history of Confucian ideology unfolded almost in parallel with Christianity.

The concept of a universal God is native to nearly all religions, though with a great diversity in meaning.  Traditionally, that pattern has been that whichever society found the tallest image for itself in the reflection of its supreme being, or universal source, or boundless base, has also been the most culturally advanced and the richest socially and economically.  Break-through discoveries in divine Science, especially in respect to dealing with human beliefs in limitation have always been the driving force behind the changes that have uplifted civilization.  In other words it is the effect of science on human consciousness that causes discontinuous breakouts from long accepted barriers or limits.  For this reason the dual definition of Euphrates cannot be split into two parts as a shallow perception of the principle underlying the various types of dual definitions would cause one to do.

Mankind may make rules for itself, but these rules must be molded to reflect the fundamental principles of reality.  The rules about dual definitions must reflect this.  If there existed but a single type of dual definition to define a certain concept, the rules would be simple.  But reality is more complex.  It stands to Mary Baker Eddy's credit as a great scientist that she presented examples of a wide range of different types of dual definitions that must be understood by the fundamental principle involved, without which the defined concept cannot be correctly understood.

It was tempting at first to recognize only one type of dual definition, and from this basis to treat them all alike.  Mary Baker Eddy highlights an existing duality with the use of two sentences in defining a term, which often give contrasting meanings for the term.  When one deals with this type of duality the individual definitions need to be separately regarded, and their concept be separately represented on the matrix.  Contrasting dual definitions, therefore, must have their pairs vertically separated so that the dually defined term can be perceived as having opposite meanings, as in the case of Zeal.  The term Zeal is defined by Mary Baker Eddy as: "The reflected animation of Life, Truth, and Love."  This gives us one meaning.  Then, in the next sentence the term is defined a second time with a totally opposite meaning, as: "Blind enthusiasm; mortal will."  These two concepts of ZEAL reflect opposite states which are clearly distinct from each other.  The Glossary of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures contains a number of such contrasting dual definitions that are represented on the matrix vertically separated.

But there exist also types of dualities that are not that simple.  In the "fourth dimension, of Spirit" one must become sensitive to the principle involved in all things.  As far as the Glossary terms are concerned, one can recognize no less than five different types of dual definitions there, each representing different principles and different imperatives for representation.

For instance, one can recognize a type were the dual concepts need to be horizontally separated, rather than vertically.  This horizontal separation happens when there is no contrast defined, when the duality is such that the defined term applies to two distinct domains at the same level.  One, for instance, may apply to the private domain of one's innermost self-identification, like the first definition of Adam does, while the same term, when seen in a different context, can have a totally different meaning.  The definition of Adam incorporates this principle.  The first definition of Adam incorporates all the lies about the nature of man, while the second definition that follows deals with the Adamic lies about God.  This type of dual definition is quite rare in the Glossary, but it is not in real life.

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