Chapter IV - Creation
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of Life, Intelligence and Substance in person is lost.
of Life, Intelligence and Substance in person is lost.
Universal Love is individual also, embracing every
idea from infinitesimal to infinity. And so of joy that
issues from Spirit, it is both individual and collective;
you cannot be alone, for God and man are inseparable,
and eternal, and the rich blessing of understanding
your individuality in Spirit and not matter, as Soul,
and not sense, is that you may learn how to follow
Jesus in this saying, "I and the Father are one." This
spiritual understanding of man tends not in the least to
humanize Jehovah, but to turn man from the human
to the divine, from the belief of Life in matter, to the
Life that is truth; to raise the understanding above
frailty, and to pass the barriers of sense into the imper-
sonal evermore of being. That man epitomizes the uni-
verse, and is the body of God, is apparent to me not
only from the logic of Truth, but in the phenomenon,
that is sometimes before my spiritual senses, and which
the late celebrated naturalist, Agassiz, saw in his micro-
scopic examinations of a vulture's egg. We had made
the discovery through spiritual sense, that the body of
Soul embraces the universe, and that man is the full idea
of Life, Substance and Intelligence, before seeing this
corroborative evidence of Professor Agassiz's discov-
eries, in which he saw the atmosphere, sun, moon and
stars, represented in the ovum of a bird; the point
where the so-called embryotic life is formed appearing
as the sun. Intelligence outside of matter, embraces
every idea of man and of the universe; this Intelligence
is Soul, and man borrows all Life and intelligence from
this, his Principle, even as the earth borrows light and
heat from the sun. Water corresponds in figurative
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purity, to Love, out of which Wisdom produced the
purity, to Love, out of which Wisdom produced the
"dry land," that is, the condensed idea of creation.
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"And God divided the light from the darkness."
"And God divided the light from the darkness."
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Truth and error were distinct in the beginning, and
Truth and error were distinct in the beginning, and
never mingled.
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The idea which reflects most Life and Intelligence is
The idea which reflects most Life and Intelligence is
man, and corresponds to the meridian light; that of
lesser effulgence to dawn and twilight, which are named
the morning and evening of our day. All calculations
of a solar day were out of the question in the record of
first Genesis; the sun was not then created, and Wis-
dom measured not time by matter; therefore morn-
ing and evening were figurative of the ideas of God;
faintly appearing and then disappearing in belief, but
soon to be symbolized by greater light, corresponding
to the solar sun, or the meridian idea representing the
Principle of man, and man this idea. "And God said,
let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, to
divide them." The firmament was the understanding,
that divided the waters into those "above," and those
"below," into the spiritual and material, that we learn
are separated forever; identity was given the idea, rep-
resenting immortal man; the material, or mortal man,
was belief. Firmament, or understanding, united Prin-
ciple to its idea. Life and Intelligence this Principle;
idea, the universe and man. "And God made the
firmament." This shows that Life, Truth and Love
produced the understanding, and separated it from
belief, and all was "good" that God made. Also, that
understanding interpreted God, and was the dividing
line between Truth and error; to separate the waters
which were under the firmament from those above it;