Chapter IV - Creation
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writers; the creations of Spirit are spiritual; for they
writers; the creations of Spirit are spiritual; for they
cannot be material; they are ideas of Principle thrown
off from Soul, instead of sense, and their Substance is
their Principle. The bride of Spirit is the idea of
Love, the lamb revealed to John in spiritual vision, not
a mere belief or personal attachment; this idea came
down from the New Jerusalem, the exaltation of Spirit
over matter; it was the unselfish, pure and immortal.
"We worship we know not what," when we "worship
in temples made with hands," even our bodies, and
from the stand-point of matter, instead of Spirit. "God
is Love," and man the idea image and likeness of Him.
Love's ideas are spiritual; its male and female are
ideas of Soul instead of sense, expressed by the flower
as well as man and woman, even those that God hath
joined together, and mortal belief cannot put asunder.
"And God blessed them, and said unto them, be fruit-
ful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue
it and have dominion over every living thing that
moveth on the earth." All blessings and power came
with the creations of Spirit, and as such they were
to multiply and replenish the earth on this basis of
being, and subdue it, making matter subservient to
Spirit, and all would be harmonious and immortal;
in contradistinction to the generations of Adam,
or the belief that matter subdues Spirit. In this
science of being, man "held dominion over the
earth, and every living thing that moveth on the
earth"; he knew neither Life nor power outside of
Spirit, the governing Principle of the universe and
man; and this Truth of all being, namely, that
Intelligence is the only Life and Principle of all,
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brings to light the harmony and immortality of man.
brings to light the harmony and immortality of man.
Error claims Life in matter, hence the creator a propa-
gating vitality in vegetable and animal; and this error
was the original sin, it being a belief of God in matter,
or matter without God. This was the Adam, so totally
depraved, insomuch as it claimed Life, Intelligence and
Truth, that alone was God. Thinking to put Intelli-
gence and Life in matter reversed the order of science,
giving matter dominion over man. Intelligence mul-
tiplies the ideas of God only by destroying the belief
of vitalized matter, for one is science and the other
sense; one the Truth of being, the other its error;
creative Intelligence was never transferred from Soul
to sense, or from God to man.
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We learn from the science of being that Spirit, inde-
We learn from the science of being that Spirit, inde-
pendent of the so-called laws of matter, throws off its
idea in every formation that is real or immortal. There
is no material law that creates and governs man, or that
man should obey; obedience to spiritual law is all that
God requires, and this law abrogates matter, and makes
the body idea, and as such harmonious and immortal.
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"And God said, behold, I have given you every herb
"And God said, behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yield-
ing seed,"
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(the good fruit was not Substance but the idea
(the good fruit was not Substance but the idea
of God,)
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"to you it shall be for meat."
"to you it shall be for meat."
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To understand
To understand
that Life is Spirit, is this idea, and it consisteth not in
the things man eateth; it is the Truth of man that
makes man immortal. But the poor belief that Life is
supported by bread or meat, makes matter his master,
and man mortal, however much he may eat. Truth is
the immortality of man, and error the only mortality;