Chapter 15: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter XV - Genesis

Spiritual ideas apprehended

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sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?"

How much more should we seek to apprehend the spirit-

ual ideas of God, than to dwell on the objects

of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit

and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual.

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Genesis i. 15. And let them be for lights in the firma-

ment of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it

was so.

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Truth and Love enlighten the understanding, in whose

"light shall we see light;" and this illumination is re-

flected spiritually by all who walk in the light and turn

away from a false material sense.

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Genesis i. 16. And God made two great lights; the

greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the

night: He made the stars also.

Geology a failure

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The sun is a metaphorical representation of Soul out-

side the body, giving existence and intelligence to the

universe. Love alone can impart the limit-

less idea of infinite Mind. Geology has never

explained the earth's formations; it cannot explain them.

There is no Scriptural allusion to solar light until time has

been already divided into evening and morning; and the

allusion to fluids (Genesis i. 2) indicates a supposed for-

mation of matter by the resolving of fluids into solids,

analogous to the suppositional resolving of thoughts into

material things.

Spiritual subdivision

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Light is a symbol of Mind, of Life, Truth, and Love,

and not a vitalizing property of matter. Sci-

ence reveals only one Mind, and this one shin-

ing by its own light and governing the universe, including