Chapter IV - Creation
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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
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belief of Life in matter, which belief embraces also,
belief of Life in matter, which belief embraces also,
sickness, sin and death, – all that is mortal. To admit
God made man of dust, and afterwards breathed Intel-
ligence into matter, and it became a living Soul, is
rank atheism, that would submerge supreme Wisdom
in the things it creates; this statement of man and God,
makes both mortal. "In Adam, (error,) all died,"
"and in Christ," (Truth,) "shall all be made alive."
The Truth of being casts out error, heals the sick, and
raises the dead; understanding Life exempt from mor-
tality, and no sensation, or Intelligence in the body, is
the ultimatum of being; the way, the Truth and Life,
that points out the footsteps of science. Life is not in
matter, unless Truth is in matter; Life is God, as the
scriptures declare, and God never germinated. He is
the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; outside of all
He creates, and the creator of all. If God breathed
into the body, into matter, Wisdom, then matter be-
came Spirit, and the stronger rules out the weaker and
matter is God; error claimed this when it said, "I will
make you as Gods"; but Truth replied to this belief,
"Thou shalt die." Life, Truth, and Love never formed
their image and likeness of dust, nor breathed into
dust, (matter), Truth and Love. We should naturally
shrink from the error and belief, (if it were only un-
derstood) that presupposes another God, or that the
Supreme Being entered man that He had made, or that
matter embraces God. The statement that God made
man of matter, and then put Himself, into personal
sense and sin, should be understood the very opposite
of the Truth of being; and if this was so understood,
sin, sickness, and death would disappear.