— that is, the element of production, of which spiritual ideas are the expression — names the female gender last; because femineity is highest in the ascending order of creation. The pure, intelligent idea unfolds into Love, as it rises from the lower to the higher; and “the last shall be first,” in the translation back to spiritual origin.
Genesis i. 13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
The third stage of thought, or mental advancement, is an important one to the human mind, whose indistinct and thronging thoughts are advancing to the light of understanding. This period corresponds to the resurrection, when Spirit is seen to be the Life of all, and the deathless Life, or Mind, is seen to be dependent on no organization whatever. Our Master reappeared to his students, — came from the grave on the third day of this scientific stage of ascending thought, — and presented to them the certain sense of eternal Life.
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, as nebulae indicate the immensity of space.
Mineral, vegetable, and animal substances are no more contingent on solar time or material structure, than they
