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CHAPTER IV.


CREATION.


Thy throne is established of old.
Thou art from everlasting. — Psalms.


For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. — Romans.


ETERNAL Truth is changing the universe. Thought expands into expression, as mortals shake off Inadequate theories of creation. their swaddling-clothes. “Let there be light” is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, theories of changing chaos into order, and discord into the music of the spheres. The mythical theories of creation adopted by mortals are vague hypotheses, affording no foundation for accurate views of the creations of immortal Mind, discerned apart from all material causation.

Mortal man has made a covenant with his eyes to belittle Deity with human conceptions. In Finite deity. league with material sense, mortals take limited views of all things. That God is finite or material, no man should affirm.