Chapter IV - Creation
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termed laws of nature, but in obedience to Spirit; God
termed laws of nature, but in obedience to Spirit; God
made the plant before it grew; no partnership with
matter is here acknowledged, and man was the idea of
Spirit, and this idea tilled not the ground for bread;
the Life of idea was its Principle; hence man could not
die of starvation, or dyspepsia. The time cometh when
we must all learn this science of being, in order to gain
its harmony and immortality, even as we have already
learned that the opposite belief of Life and Intelligence
in matter, produces mortality, it being a belief of sin,
Sickness and death.
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The record of creation in Genesis repeats three times,
The record of creation in Genesis repeats three times,
"In the day that the Lord God made them," indicating
there was a time coming when another creation should
declare itself the author of man. That creation was
the history of Adam and his progeny, or mythological
life in matter. After God created man, "there was
not a man to till the ground," because there was no
necessity of it; the earth brought forth spontaneously,
and man lived not because of matter, and earth was
blessed for his sake, so unlike the curse that came with
Adam, error. Spirit was the producer of harmony
only, and Life self-sustained; therefore man was not
to live because he ate much or little, giving no oppor-
tunity for gluttony or poverty, to mar the work of Wis-
dom. Man needed not to cultivate the soil, that matter
might produce itself, nor to presume himself on the
prerogative of creator. Spirit was the Life and creator
of all, and its work was complete, and beyond the power
of matter to destroy; all things were made when com-
prehended by Intelligence. Soul had all in its own pos-
session, and there was no personal sense to do the work
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of Wisdom. Life was not in matter, and there was no
of Wisdom. Life was not in matter, and there was no
existence except to Spirit. Nothing is new to Intelli-
gence; the infinite understanding is not creating the
universe or man anew; these ideas were forever, with-
out beginning and without end. Matter has neither
capacity, right nor power to create or to destroy; all is
in the hands of Spirit, that hitherto hath wrought inde-
pendently before belief claimed, through material law,
to create and govern mineral, vegetable and animal.
Intelligence made all that was made, and was not in the
things it had made. Spirit never passed into matter to
produce a world; heaven, earth and seas, and all things
therein came from the eternal thought, and mind no
more produces matter than matter produces mind.
This is science, that God governs the universe and
man. That matter propagates itself through seed and
germination is error, a belief only, and not the Truth of
being, and belief has its penalty, for, admitting mineral,
vegetable and animal things of sense, instead of Soul,
and dependent on matter for their ephemeral existence,
makes them mortal. Not so with the universe and
man, born of Spirit; they are harmonious and eternal.
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"But there went up a mist from the earth and
"But there went up a mist from the earth and
watered the whole face of the ground."
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Truth created through the understanding, saying,
Truth created through the understanding, saying,
"let there be light," but error came through darkness
or belief, the figurative mist of earth, that which started
from a matter basis; Adam was the belief of Life in
matter that rose from the dust, saying man depends on
material structure, and vegetation on the rain and dew.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of