Chapter IV - Creation
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dust, matter. So far, Life, Truth, and Love, had "made
dust, matter. So far, Life, Truth, and Love, had "made
all that was made "and pronounced it "good "; but we
have no record of their creating sin, sickness, or death;
all was good that was created by God. The same
Truth that made man harmonious, will destroy, at
length, the belief of Life in matter, or mortal man, and
reveal man the forever idea of God; but this Truth is
met with the malignancy of error in return for Love,
shedding its blessings unsparingly on all. Malice pur-
sues the reformer through every avenue of society, and
the evil that persecutes, and the pride that refuses aid,
binds the hands and feet of philanthropy, and then calls
for stronger proofs of active limbs.
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"And God made the beasts of the earth after his kind,
"And God made the beasts of the earth after his kind,
and cattle after their kind, and saw that it was good."
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The beast and reptile made by Love and Wisdom were
The beast and reptile made by Love and Wisdom were
neither carnivorous nor poisonous; Love never created
hatred, nor Truth error. In the science of being, man
preys not on his fellow-man, and his neighbor is as
himself. One beast shall not devour another, and the
lion shall lie down with the lamb, and the little child
shall lead them. The Wisdom that handled serpents
unharmed, and that made a staff as a serpent, held do-
minion over reptiles and over all the earth; this domin-
ion was illustrated by Moses and the prophets, and
afterwards by Jesus and his disciples, the very best ex-
amples to elucidate the Truth of being. Understand-
ing this science, Daniel was safe amid the hungry lions,
well knowing the Intelligence that formed the lion was
superior to him; therefore he took refuge from the
belief of Life in matter ready to perish, in Life that was
God, where safety and refuge lay, and thus demon-
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strated his control "over the beasts of the field." Un-
strated his control "over the beasts of the field." Un-
derstanding Life not at the mercy of death, and Spirit
superior to matter, saved the prophet from the hungry
lions. To conclude an animal is superior to man, that
matter is power, and Life in the body, leaves man in
the hour of danger a Samson with eyes plucked out:
his strength a spectacle of weakness. When immor-
tality is better understood, there will follow an exercise
of capacity unknown to mortals; man will become a
hundred fold more a man, when he holds himself in
the science of being, starting from the basis of Spirit.
In Truth there is endless strength and immortality.
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"And God said, let us make man in our image, after
"And God said, let us make man in our image, after
our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea and over the fowls of the air and over the
cattle and over all the earth."
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The "Us" used in
The "Us" used in
this quotation referred to Intelligence, the creative
Wisdom, and expressed plurality; therefore if God is
a person it plainly implied more than one God; but to
gain the right interpretation, which is the spiritual
sense of this saying, is to admit the "Us" referred to,
Life, Truth and Love; even the triune Principle that
reveals the Life that is Truth, and the Truth that is
Life, and both God, and God, Love. "Let them have
dominion," also signifies plurality, for man was the
generic name of mankind; in contradistinction to the
belief that God made one man, and man made the rest
of his kind, science reveals the fact that He made all.
The photographer transfers the likeness of one or more
objects, according to the number present, and we
admit the likeness of three is not one, and vice versa;
therefore, as man is the likeness of God, the plain ex-