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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.
(Rarefaction of thought)
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.
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 understanding
gives gleams of the infinite only, even as nebulae indicate
the immensity of space.
(Divine nature appearing)
So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substances
are no more contingent now on time or material structure
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 universe
never to disappear.
(Spiritual ideas apprehended)
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
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