Glossary

Beauty

 All real beauty — material art or spiritual symmetry — is both true and good. (43.4) 2:7.11

Divinity

Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty.  (3.4) 0:1.17

Fairness

Eternal justice and divine mercy together constitute what in human experience would be called fairness. (38.4) 2:4.4

Goodness

All genuine goodness — whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry — is equally true and beautiful. (43.4) 2:7.11

Mercy

Mercy is simply justice tempered by that wisdom which grows out of perfection of knowledge and the full recognition of the natural weaknesses and environmental handicaps of finite creatures. (38.1) 2:4.1

Truth

All truth — material, philosophic, or spiritual — is both beautiful and good. (43.4) 2:7.11

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