Chapter IV - Creation
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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
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brought forth Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from
brought forth Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from
the Lord."
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This record implies a new creation com-
This record implies a new creation com-
menced, after God had finished His work; that Wisdom
was entering into partnership with man, to create anew
the whole human family; but the beauty, sublimity and
science of the record is lost sight of here, if we enter
this labyrinth of inconsistencies, unconscious it is the
record of error opposed to the Truth of being. Adam
was a metaphor, showing the opposite of God's crea-
tion, and the original texts were written metaphorically
at first, the only method of reaching the science of the
scripture, hence, the Truth of the Bible is to rise to its
spiritual interpretation, then compare its sayings, and
gain their general tenor, which enables us to reach the
ascending scale of being through demonstration; as did
prophet and apostle.
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The scripture seems more obscure in Genesis and
The scripture seems more obscure in Genesis and
Revelations than other portions, solely because the
original texts were not understood by those re-writing
them. Three hundred years after the apostles, there
was not a written text of the New Testament; it had
to be taken up at first, orally. The record of creation
given in the first chapter of Genesis, is the science and
Truth of being; but the opposite statement in the sec-
ond chapter, where man sprang from dust, instead of
Deity, is error's statement, even personal sense speak-
ing in sin, sickness, and death, that would confine Life
to matter-conditions, and limit Omnipotence. In this
error and belief, the herb is not created without seed
and soil, and man is the product of an egg. The first
record embraces the Principle of harmonious man, even
the Truth of being; and the second, the origin of the