Chapter XV - Genesis
Ever-appearing creation
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to the level of a human or material belief, called mortal
to the level of a human or material belief, called mortal
man. But the seed is in itself, only as the divine Mind
is All and reproduces all – as Mind is the multiplier,
and Mind's infinite idea, man and the universe, is the
product. The only intelligence or substance of a thought,
a seed, or a flower is God, the creator of it. Mind is the
Soul of all. Mind is Life, Truth, and Love which gov-
erns all.
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Genesis i. 12. And the earth brought forth grass, and
Genesis i. 12. And the earth brought forth grass, and
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding
fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw
that it was good.
Mind's pure thought
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God determines the gender of His own ideas. Gen-
God determines the gender of His own ideas. Gen-
der is mental, not material. The seed within itself is
the pure thought emanating from divine
Mind. The feminine gender is not yet ex-
pressed in the text. Gender means simply kind or sort,
and does not necessarily refer either to masculinity or
femininity. The word is not confined to sexuality, and
grammars always recognize a neuter gender, neither
male nor female. The Mind or intelligence of produc-
tion names the female gender last in the ascending order
of creation. The intelligent individual idea, be it male
or female, rising from the lesser to the greater, unfolds
the infinitude of Love.
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Genesis i. 13. And the evening and the morning were
Genesis i. 13. And the evening and the morning were
the third day.
Rising to the light
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The third stage in the order of Christian Science is an
The third stage in the order of Christian Science is an
important one to the human thought, letting in the light
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of spiritual understanding. This period corresponds to
of spiritual understanding. This period corresponds to
the resurrection, when Spirit is discerned to be the Life of
all, and the deathless Life, or Mind, dependent
upon no material organization. Our Master
reappeared to his students, – to their apprehension he
rose from the grave, – on the third day of his ascending
thought, and so presented to them the certain sense of
eternal Life.
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Genesis i. 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the
Genesis i. 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days,
and years.
Rarefaction of thought
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Spirit creates no other than heavenly or celestial bodies,
Spirit creates no other than heavenly or celestial bodies,
but the stellar universe is no more celestial than our earth.
This text gives the idea of the rarefaction of
thought as it ascends higher. God forms and
peoples the universe. The light of spiritual understand-
ing gives gleams of the infinite only, even as nebulae indi-
cate the immensity of space.
Divine nature appearing
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So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substances
So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substances
are no more contingent now on time or material struc-
ture than they were when "the morning stars
sang together." Mind made the "plant of
the field before it was in the earth." The periods of
spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind's
creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness
– yea, the divine nature – appear in man and the uni-
verse never to disappear.
Spiritual ideas apprehended
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Knowing the Science of creation, in which all is Mind
Knowing the Science of creation, in which all is Mind
and its ideas, Jesus rebuked the material thought of his
fellow-countrymen: "Ye can discern the face of the