Chapter IV - Creation
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not represent the plural "Us" in one Principle, nor the
not represent the plural "Us" in one Principle, nor the
generic man, or male and female, created by Principle.
We have not as much authority in science, for calling
God masculine as feminine, the latter being the last,
therefore the highest idea given of Him. The belief
that the form of man is the body of the supreme Being,
or that He is in a body, is the error of supposed Life
and Intelligence in matter, that bore the fruit of sick-
ness, sin, and death; even the "tree of knowledge" re-
versing the science of being, by supposing Soul in body,
Spirit in matter, and substituting personal sense for
Soul, having dominion over man, instead of man's do-
minion over matter. This belief embraces all that is
finite, sinful, and mortal; but recollect it is Adam, the
error, that sprang from dust, nothingness, and by edict
of Wisdom, will return to it. Man originated in God;
he is the product of Spirit; hence, he is idea, and not
Substance, even the body of Soul; his Intelligence is
Spirit, not brains; mind not in matter, God not in
person. Love is spiritual, joy-giving and eternal, a
forever assurance that "God is Love;" personal at-
tractions that originate in the body are fraught with
change and death, impure, transient and mortal. The
curse causeless came not to Adam, the original sin or
error, in other words, to this belief of Life and Intelli-
gence in matter. Spirit originating in matter, and In-
telligence inserted afterwards, Soul pushed into a body,
matter intelligent, and the body named man where per-
sonal sense takes the lead of Soul, is a myth. God was
and is; and man was and is, His reflex shadow. In
Genesis, the spiritual record of the universe and man
is lost sight of, it was so materialized by uninspired
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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,