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from which emanates the true idea, is never reflected by
aught but the good.
(Light preceding the sun)
Genesis i. 5. And God called the light Day, and the
darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day.
All questions as to the divine creation being both
spiritual and material are answered in this passage, for
though solar beams are not yet included in
the record of creation, still there is light. This
light is not from the sun nor from volcanic flames, but it
is the revelation of Truth and of spiritual ideas. This
also shows that there is no place where God's light is not
seen, since Truth, Life, and Love fill immensity and are
ever-present. Was not this a revelation instead of a
creation?
(Evenings and mornings)
The successive appearing of God's ideas is represented
as taking place on so many evenings and mornings, -
words which indicate, in the absence of solar
time, spiritually clearer views of Him, views
which are not implied by material darkness and dawn.
Here we have the explanation of another passage of
Scripture, that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years." The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into
the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously, whereas
a thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and
vague conjectures emit no such effulgence.
(Spirit versus darkness)
Did infinite Mind create matter, and call it light?
Spirit is light, and the contradiction of Spirit is matter,
darkness, and darkness obscures light. Material
sense is nothing but a supposition of the
absence of Spirit. No solar rays nor planetary revolutions
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