Part 72 (2/2)
The sun is a metaphorical representation of Soul out- side the body, giving existence and intelligence to the 510:18 universe. Love alone can impart the limit- less idea of infinite Mind. Geology has never explained the earth's formations; it cannot explain them.
510:21 There is no Scriptural allusion to solar light until time has been already divided into evening and morning; and the allusion to fluids (Genesis i. 2) indicates a supposed for- 510:24 mation of matter by the resolving of fluids into solids, a.n.a.logous to the suppositional resolving of thoughts into material things.
Spiritual subdivision
510:27 Light is a symbol of Mind, of Life, Truth, and Love, and not a vitalizing property of matter. Sci- ence reveals only one Mind, and this one s.h.i.+n- 510:30 ing by its own light and governing the universe, including 511:1 man, in perfect harmony. This Mind forms ideas, its own images, subdivides and radiates their borrowed light, 511:3 intelligence, and so explains the Scripture phrase, ”whose seed is in itself.” Thus G.o.d's ideas ”multiply and re- plenish the earth.” The divine Mind supports the sub- 511:6 limity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual creation.
_Genesis_ i. 17, 18. And G.o.d set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, and to rule over 511:9 the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and G.o.d saw that it was good.
Darkness scattered
In divine Science, which is the seal of Deity and has 511:12 the impress of heaven, G.o.d is revealed as in- finite light. In the eternal Mind, no night is there.
511:15 _Genesis_ i. 19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
The changing glow and full effulgence of G.o.d's infi- 511:18 nite ideas, images, mark the periods of progress.
_Genesis_ i. 20. And G.o.d said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl 511:21 that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Soaring aspirations
To mortal mind, the universe is liquid, solid, and aeri- 511:24 form. Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand for solid and grand ideas. Animals and mor- tals metaphorically present the gradation of 511:27 mortal thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking form in masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. The fowls, which fly above the earth in the open firmament 512:1 of heaven, correspond to aspirations soaring beyond and above corporeality to the understanding of the incorporeal 512:3 and divine Principle, Love.
_Genesis_ i. 21. And G.o.d created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth 512:6 abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and G.o.d saw that it was good.
Seraphic symbols
Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power, 512:9 and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love. These an- gels of His presence, which have the holiest charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of 512:12 Mind, and consequently reproduce their own character- istics. Their individual forms we know not, but we do know that their natures are allied to G.o.d's nature; and 512:15 spiritual blessings, thus typified, are the externalized, yet subjective, states of faith and spiritual understanding.
_Genesis_ i. 22. And G.o.d blessed them, saying, Be fruit- 512:18 ful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Multiplication of pure ideas
Spirit blesses the multiplication of its own pure and 512:21 perfect ideas. From the infinite elements of the one Mind emanate all form, color, quality, and quant.i.ty, and these are mental, both primarily 512:24 and secondarily. Their spiritual nature is discerned only through the spiritual senses. Mortal mind inverts the true likeness, and confers animal names and natures upon its 512:27 own misconceptions. Ignorant of the origin and opera- tions of mortal mind, - that is, ignorant of itself, - this so-called mind puts forth its own qualities, and claims 512:30 G.o.d as their author; albeit G.o.d is ignorant of the ex- 513:1 istence of both this mortal mentality, so-called, and its claim, for the claim usurps the deific prerogatives and is 513:3 an attempted infringement on infinity.
_Genesis_ i. 23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Spiritual spheres
513:6 Advancing spiritual steps in the teeming universe of Mind lead on to spiritual spheres and exalted beings. To material sense, this divine universe is dim and 513:9 distant, gray in the sombre hues of twilight; but anon the veil is lifted, and the scene s.h.i.+fts into light.
In the record, time is not yet measured by solar revolutions, 513:12 and the motions and reflections of deific power cannot be apprehended until divine Science becomes the interpreter.
_Genesis_ i. 24. And G.o.d said, Let the earth bring forth 513:15 the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Continuity of thoughts
Spirit diversifies, cla.s.sifies, and individualizes all 513:18 thoughts, which are as eternal as the Mind conceiving them; but the intelligence, exist- ence, and continuity of all individuality remain in G.o.d, 513:21 who is the divinely creative Principle thereof.
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