Chapter XV - Genesis
Soaring aspirations
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of heaven, correspond to aspirations soaring beyond and
of heaven, correspond to aspirations soaring beyond and
above corporeality to the understanding of the incorporeal
and divine Principle, Love.
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Genesis i. 21. And God created great whales, and every
Genesis i. 21. And God created great whales, and every
living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth
abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Seraphic symbols
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Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power,
Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power,
and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love. These an-
gels of His presence, which have the holiest
charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of
Mind, and consequently reproduce their own character-
istics. Their individual forms we know not, but we do
know that their natures are allied to God's nature; and
spiritual blessings, thus typified, are the externalized, yet
subjective, states of faith and spiritual understanding.
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Genesis i. 22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruit-
Genesis i. 22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruit-
ful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let
fowl multiply in the earth.
Multiplication of pure ideas
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Spirit blesses the multiplication of its own pure and
Spirit blesses the multiplication of its own pure and
perfect ideas. From the infinite elements of the one
Mind emanate all form, color, quality, and
quantity, and these are mental, both primarily
and secondarily. Their spiritual nature is discerned only
through the spiritual senses. Mortal mind inverts the true
likeness, and confers animal names and natures upon its
own misconceptions. Ignorant of the origin and opera-
tions of mortal mind, – that is, ignorant of itself, – this
so-called mind puts forth its own qualities, and claims
God as their author; albeit God is ignorant of the ex-
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istence of both this mortal mentality, so-called, and its
istence of both this mortal mentality, so-called, and its
claim, for the claim usurps the deific prerogatives and is
an attempted infringement on infinity.
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Genesis i. 23. And the evening and the morning were
Genesis i. 23. And the evening and the morning were
the fifth day.
Spiritual spheres
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Advancing spiritual steps in the teeming universe of
Advancing spiritual steps in the teeming universe of
Mind lead on to spiritual spheres and exalted beings. To
material sense, this divine universe is dim and
distant, gray in the sombre hues of twilight;
but anon the veil is lifted, and the scene shifts into light.
In the record, time is not yet measured by solar revolutions,
and the motions and reflections of deific power cannot be
apprehended until divine Science becomes the interpreter.
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Genesis i. 24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth
Genesis i. 24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing,
and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Continuity of thoughts
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Spirit diversifies, classifies, and individualizes all
Spirit diversifies, classifies, and individualizes all
thoughts, which are as eternal as the Mind
conceiving them; but the intelligence, exist-
ence, and continuity of all individuality remain in God,
who is the divinely creative Principle thereof.
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Genesis i. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after
Genesis i. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after
his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.
God's thoughts are spiritual realities
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God creates all forms of reality. His thoughts are
God creates all forms of reality. His thoughts are
spiritual realities. So-called mortal mind – being non‑
existent and consequently not within the range of im-