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man, in perfect harmony. This Mind forms ideas, its
own images, subdivides and radiates their borrowed light,
intelligence, and so explains the Scripture phrase, "whose
seed is in itself." Thus God's ideas "multiply and replenish
the earth." The divine Mind supports the sublimity,
magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual creation.
(Darkness scattered)
Genesis i. 17, 18. And God set them in the firmament of
the heaven, to give light upon the earth, and to rule over
the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the
darkness: and God saw that it was good.
In divine Science, which is the seal of Deity and has
the impress of heaven, God is revealed as infinite
light. In the eternal Mind, no night is
there.
Genesis i. 19. And the evening and the morning were
the fourth day.
The changing glow and full effulgence of God's infinite
ideas, images, mark the periods of progress.
(Soaring aspirations)
Genesis i. 20. And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl
that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven.
To mortal mind, the universe is liquid, solid, and
aeriform. Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand
for solid and grand ideas. Animals and mortals
metaphorically present the gradation of
mortal thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking
form in masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. The
fowls, which fly above the earth in the open firmament
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