Chapter IV - Creation
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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
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stars also."
stars also."
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The sun is figurative of Soul, of the
The sun is figurative of Soul, of the
Principle of man, and the universe; of the Life and
Intelligence outside of matter, that governs the entire
creation. Stars represent scintillations of Truth, that
appear in the twilight of understanding, or darkness
of belief. Matter never represented God; geology can-
not explain the earth, nor one of its formations, for
these formations are dependent alone on Spirit, that
gave them forth the eternal heavens, earth and man.
Intelligence formed and peopled the universe. The
scripture gives no record of solar light, until after time
had been divided into day and night, and vegetation
was formed; showing you light was the symbol of the
Life-giving creator, and not a source of Life to the
vegetable kingdom.
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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the Soul."
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Spirit is inseparable from its idea, but never in it;
Spirit is inseparable from its idea, but never in it;
one cannot exist without the other. Principle would
be nonentity without its idea, and idea could not be
without its entity, or Principle. Soul exists not with-
out man and the universe, for it is never separated
from the complex and reflex shadow of itself; but God,
the Soul of all, is not in man or matter.
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"And God said, let the waters bring forth the moving
"And God said, let the waters bring forth the moving
creatures that hath life";
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the ideas of God that repre-
the ideas of God that repre-
sent Life outside of matter; "and God blessed them,
saying, be fruitful, multiply," etc. Here the difference
is shown between Wisdom's approval of those things
created by Spirit and the command for them to multi-
ply, and the curse upon Adam's race that sprang from