Chapter IV - Creation
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for yourselves treasures on earth, is the better under-
for yourselves treasures on earth, is the better under-
standing of Life. Whatsoever proceedeth from Spirit,
is harmonious and immortal, deriving all it is from God;
but what cometh from matter, is mortal, dependent on
sense instead of Soul. Material man, and a world of
matter, reverse the science of being, and are utterly
false; nothing is right about them; their starting point
is error, illusion, therefore sin and sense are at home
in this world, and mortal error stalks boldly forth on
firm footing until the waiting hand of science shall
strike it down. Truth has literally no foothold on
such an earth, and with such views, for they accord
neither place nor privilege to God. Error "tills" the
entire ground here, working on a material platform,
therefore Wisdom said, let Adam, error, that is not the
image and likeness of God, not the immortal mind re-
flecting harmonious Intelligence, but a belief of Life
and Intelligence in matter, be set apart from the immor-
tal, i.e., the idea of Truth, for this is the science of
being, that Spirit and matter, which is Truth and error,
never blend. Instead of the Life, Truth, etc., that
make man harmonious and immortal, the belief or
error, named Adam, depends on personality and pardon,
like a vain child that demands to be blessed when it
must be punished, because it knows not the terms on
which a blessing is gained, but in its blindness expects
from matter and personality the good that comes from
Spirit and Truth. If God had made Adam and sin, they
must have been "good," for "all was good that He
made." The translators of that record, wrote it in the
error of being, to wit, the belief of Life and Intelli-
gence in matter, hence their misinterpretations; they
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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