Chapter IV - Creation
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to hold Life and Intelligence that made all things, dis-
to hold Life and Intelligence that made all things, dis-
tinct from what it made, and superior to them, controll-
ing and preserving them, not through laws of matter,
but the law of Spirit. In this arrangement, "all was
good;" it being the order of science. "And God called
the firmament heaven," that is, harmony, even the re-
sult of understanding. The first day in Spirit, is when
"He whom to know aright, is Life eternal," i.e., Life,
Love and Truth, bring forth their idea. The second
day, is to perceive, and the third to understand this
idea, viz., heaven, earth, and man.
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"And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the
"And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb, yielding seed," etc.
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Let the idea of creative Wisdom reflect its Principle
Let the idea of creative Wisdom reflect its Principle
of creation, showing that the seed yields not an herb,
because of a propagating Principle in itself; for there
is none, insomuch as Intelligence made all that was
made; the idea was only to shadow forth what Intelli-
gence had made. Science not only reveals this, but the
Scripture repeats it, that God made every plant of the
field, before it was in the earth, and every herb of the
field before it grew. Mathematically speaking, ten
multiplied by ten produces one hundred; but the sci-
ence of being assures us Intelligence produces the units,
and multiplies them. Hereby we learn creations of
Wisdom are not dependent on laws of matter, but on
Intelligence alone; it was Spirit that moved upon the
face of the deep, and brought out of chaos, order, a
universe and man, as the infinite idea of God. Un-
fathomable mind had expressed itself.
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"The earth brought forth grass, and yielded fruit,"
"The earth brought forth grass, and yielded fruit,"
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in obedience to Intelligence, and not matter; even as
in obedience to Intelligence, and not matter; even as
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a picture is produced by the artist. The idea of creative
a picture is produced by the artist. The idea of creative
Wisdom and Love was given its identity; but it was
mind, first and last. The grass and tree grew from out
the infinite thought that embraced, and expressed them.
The artist transfers a landscape from Soul, to sense;
but its only immortality is in the Intelligence that
forms it. This most important idea of creation consti-
tuted the "third day," and was the third epoch; a
number corresponding to the resurrection; the third
and seventh periods reveal the advanced ideas, whereby
Intelligence is seen the Life of the grass, the herb, the
tree, etc., and every manifestation of Life understood
not Substance but the idea of the creative Life and
Intelligence, in no way contingent on organization or
matter. This is manifestly the science of being brought
to light in our Master's reappearing on the third day,
when the idea named man, appeared to his students,
independent of matter-conditions. And also the fin-
ished figure of creation on the seventh day.
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"And God said, let there be lights in the firmament
"And God said, let there be lights in the firmament
of the heavens, to divide the day from the night, and
let them be for signs and for seasons, for days and
years."
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Hereby we learn the continuance of vegetation,
Hereby we learn the continuance of vegetation,
and the years or age of man are not contingent on sea-
sons, measured by our solar years, or governed in the
least by the so-called laws of matter, for the light of
understanding was to govern every idea of Intelli-
gence. There was but one law-giver, when the stars
first sang together, and harmony was the anthem of
creation.
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"And God made two great lights, the greater to
"And God made two great lights, the greater to
rule the day, and the lesser the night; he made the