Chapter IV - Creation
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spake from error, of error, and from the standpoint of
spake from error, of error, and from the standpoint of
matter attempted to define Spirit, which accounts for
the contradictions in that glorious old record of crea-
tion. Science in no instance has a material basis;
matter and personality are not man, neither God, Intel-
ligence. Belief is all that claims Spirit in matter, and
would make personalities of error, and Truth, naming
one mortal man, and the other God. That God is a
person, or Intelligence in matter, and man another
Intelligence of evil, is "knowledge, prohibited by Wis-
dom;" it was not the tree of Life. Truth had but one
reply to all this error, "Thou shalt surely die;" there-
fore mortality attends every phase of this supposed Life
in matter, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal.
Whatever germinates after the manner of matter, will
meet the fate of error, namely, sickness, sin and death,
until every vestige of this belief is self-destroyed, and
man understood, shadow and not Substance, whose only
Life or Intelligence is God.
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"So he drove out the man, and placed at the east of
"So he drove out the man, and placed at the east of
the garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword
which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of
Life."
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Here is a clear and distinct separation of Adam,
Here is a clear and distinct separation of Adam,
error, from harmony and Truth, wherein Soul and sense,
person and Principle, Spirit and matter, are forever
separate. The figure used in the New Testament, of the
wise men coming from the East, was employed here, also,
and prefigured the sun that symbolized Soul, even the
Principle of man, therefore the Wisdom of man. The
sword of Truth is represented as two-edged, cutting
each way to protect from error, or the belief of Life in
matter. Also, the "tree of Life," symbolized the Truth
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of being, and the "tree of knowledge," error or per-
of being, and the "tree of knowledge," error or per-
sonal man. Truth also guarded Eden, harmony, and the
science of being pointed the way of happiness and Life.
Error alone was sickness, sin, and death, because it
was a belief that matter is intelligent, and evil a person,
named Satan, working in and against man. The "tree
of Life" was guarded from the touch of mortality, be-
cause it symbolized the Truth of man, and between this
Truth and the opposite error, was placed the metaphor-
ical sword, or flaming warning to hold them forever
apart; showing that Truth and error, or Spirit and
matter never mingle. The great point in the science
of being is to learn that Spirit and matter never unite,
or dwell together; but are the wheat and tares that
grow side by side, until the harvest, when matter is
destroyed, and God learned our only real being.
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The infancy of this science is lisping to an unconscious
The infancy of this science is lisping to an unconscious
age the great Truth of being; and perceiving one idea,
and not its correlative one, many will call that science
which is only a portion of it; and again, it is difficult
in this evil world to do as well as we know. If mathe-
matics present a thousand different examples, and one
of them proves the rule laid down for the others, are
not all equally authenticated? When a single state-
ment of this science is proved, it settles the question
for the others; all are dependent on one, and vice versa,
one cannot be disapproved without disuniting the gen-
eral chain through which the Principle is reached;
hence, the command not to add or diminish one word
to that which is inspired, and demonstrable; but which
personal sense cannot explain.
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"And Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and
"And Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and