Chapter IV - Creation
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mortal; in other words, he was error, and this error the
mortal; in other words, he was error, and this error the
belief that Life and Intelligence are in matter. The
first product of this belief was Cain, a murderer, and
earth brought forth thorns and thistles according to
error, Adam; and man must live by bread, and earn it
by the sweat of his brow. The belief of Life in matter
entailed nothing but discord; therefore this belief was
error, and error illusion; science says man has neither
birth, growth, decay nor death; man is idea and not
Substance, and spiritual instead of material. God
"saw all that He had made," inasmuch as Intelligence
understands all; hence the harmony and immortality of
its ideas and of man as idea, and not Substance, and
governed by mind instead of matter; mind that compre-
hends and sustains man, not as matter, but idea. Soul
understands this science of being, but sense does not,
and the less sense and the more Soul is brought out
will man appear the glorious idea of immortality. Soul
alone comprehends immortality; personal sense says,
when the eye loses sight of him forever, man is dead.
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"Thus the heavens and earth were finished, and all
"Thus the heavens and earth were finished, and all
the hosts of them."
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Here the Scripture repeats again
Here the Scripture repeats again
the science of creation, namely, that all was complete
and finished, therefore that nothing has since been
made; that Intelligence embraced all from the forever,
and that all is perfect, infinite and eternal. This assur-
ance, even, is self-sustaining, but to understand it, is to
gain our harmony and immortality; no geological spec-
ulation can change or mar the fact that Intelligence, the
Soul of man, embraces the universe and man in idea,
and holds them thus, forever. As matter-substance, all
is lost, but as Principle and idea, all is eternal. Never
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a mineral, vegetable or animal, was formed of dust;
a mineral, vegetable or animal, was formed of dust;
Spirit alone fashions all things. Birth, decay and death,
are a personal sense of things, not their idea; man and
the universe are complete and eternal in Intelligence,
and nothing can exist out of that.
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"And on the seventh day God ended His work,
"And on the seventh day God ended His work,
which He had made."
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This corroborates the state-
This corroborates the state-
ment in science, that Truth, Life and Love had fully
wrought out the infinite and eternal idea named the
universe and man; also, that error the opposite of Truth,
was about to claim a work independent of God, in
which matter instead of Spirit should be the creator.
The Truth, and science of being were already recorded,
but error was now to make a reversed statement of man
and the universe, viz., that Life, Intelligence, and Sub-
stance belong to matter, that Soul is in body, God a
person, man a second Intelligence, and evil a third.
This error was belief, and belief not mind, but a suppo-
sition of mind, not Soul, but what is termed personal
sense, not Spirit, but intelligent matter, all of which is
a myth. "These are the generations of the heavens and
the earth, when they were created, in the day that the
Lord God made the earth and heavens," in other words,
when Spirit was the creator. Generations signified the
manifold ideas of Intelligence, and Life.
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"And God made every plant of the field before it was
"And God made every plant of the field before it was
in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew,
for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth,
and there was not a man to till the ground."
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Here,
Here,
again, is the undeniable statement that Intelligence is
the only creator; also, that it produces vegetation, not
through processes of culture or in obedience to what are