Chapter IV - Creation
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form of the universe and gave it forth, as Spirit and
form of the universe and gave it forth, as Spirit and
not matter, and nothing was left for man or for matter
to create, after Spirit had created all. This is science,
and it underlies the harmony of God and man. The
Scriptures declare "God is Love;" that "God is Spirit,
Life, and Truth;" now these are not person; also there
are many persons, and but one God; hence Deity is not
person but Principle. Judging from Paul's rule, to
learn the "invisible by the things He hath made," the
ideas that express God, render it impossible for that to
be one person which produces feminine, masculine, and
neuter. The expression of God's gender is Principle
and not person; the entire universe and man represent
God as Principle, and not person; the infinite "Us"
that embraced every idea of the universe, shadowing
forth each from out itself; the unavoidable result of In-
telligence that said, "Let there be light," that is, let
the Infinite be expressed.
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"In the beginning was the word, and the word was
"In the beginning was the word, and the word was
with God, and the word was God; all things were made
by Him, and without Him there was nothing made
that was made." "In Him was Life,"
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etc., and then
etc., and then
to conclude in the face of this infinite logic, that an egg
is the starting point of Life, that seed produces germin-
ation, etc., is to forget this is mythical, and a belief
that usurped the prerogative of understanding, starting
an Adam from dust, calling itself Life in matter, and
resulting in mortality, the very opposite of Truth.
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After "all was made that was made," nothing could
After "all was made that was made," nothing could
be added to the infinite expression of infinite Intelli-
gence, and person is not the image and likeness of
Intelligence, or matter of Spirit; therefore, these do
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not represent the plural "Us" in one Principle, nor the
not represent the plural "Us" in one Principle, nor the
generic man, or male and female, created by Principle.
We have not as much authority in science, for calling
God masculine as feminine, the latter being the last,
therefore the highest idea given of Him. The belief
that the form of man is the body of the supreme Being,
or that He is in a body, is the error of supposed Life
and Intelligence in matter, that bore the fruit of sick-
ness, sin, and death; even the "tree of knowledge" re-
versing the science of being, by supposing Soul in body,
Spirit in matter, and substituting personal sense for
Soul, having dominion over man, instead of man's do-
minion over matter. This belief embraces all that is
finite, sinful, and mortal; but recollect it is Adam, the
error, that sprang from dust, nothingness, and by edict
of Wisdom, will return to it. Man originated in God;
he is the product of Spirit; hence, he is idea, and not
Substance, even the body of Soul; his Intelligence is
Spirit, not brains; mind not in matter, God not in
person. Love is spiritual, joy-giving and eternal, a
forever assurance that "God is Love;" personal at-
tractions that originate in the body are fraught with
change and death, impure, transient and mortal. The
curse causeless came not to Adam, the original sin or
error, in other words, to this belief of Life and Intelli-
gence in matter. Spirit originating in matter, and In-
telligence inserted afterwards, Soul pushed into a body,
matter intelligent, and the body named man where per-
sonal sense takes the lead of Soul, is a myth. God was
and is; and man was and is, His reflex shadow. In
Genesis, the spiritual record of the universe and man
is lost sight of, it was so materialized by uninspired