● ● ●  sense Quimby gave to it, she had not yet made the sharp distinction between “mortal mind” and “divine Mind” which enabled her to capitalize and elevate the word to serve in its higher sense as one of the seven synonyms for God: Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. By 1872 she was using all the other six terms but was still referring to God as Wisdom and Intelligence rather than as Mind.¹⁰⁶

Wisdom and intelligence are generally thought of as qualities of mind, or mind in action, not mind as source or cause. A person might use some degree of wisdom and intelligence in pursuing his own ends, but Christianity had always taught that God cannot be used. As Mrs. Glover came to see it, Quimby had made a god of his own “wisdom” and used it for his own purposes, benevolent though they were; and as Evans explained that earthly wisdom and as Kennedy practiced it, she could see no reason why it might not be used for evil as well as for good. But when wisdom and intelligence were understood as qualities of true Mind, the Mind of Christ, then they became divine instruments of good rather than personal tools of power, and, as she saw it, mental suggestion yielded to the spiritual Science of Mind.

These were profound distinctions that she was searching out, and her thought was deeply stirred. Toward the end of 1872 she wrote Sarah Bagley: “I have never since my first perceptions of God in science gained the understanding I have this year past and been able to so sift the tares from the wheat.”¹⁰⁷

In the middle of the newspaper controversy with Wright Mrs. Glover had one day opened her Bible to Isaiah 30:8, and had read the words: “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.”¹⁰⁸

According to her later notation this was in February, 1872. Her letter to the Transcript on the third of that month probably signified an intention rather than an actual start on the book: “I am preparing a  ● ● ●