were when “the morning stars sang together.” Mind made the “plant, before it was in the ground.” The periods of spiritual understanding are the days and seasons of Mind's creations, wherein beauty, sublimity, purity, holiness, — yea, the divine nature, — are appearing upon the universe and man, never to disappear. Truly is it written —
| These as they change, Almighty Father, these |
| Are but the varied God. |
Knowing the science of creation, wherein all is Mind and its ideas, Jesus rebuked the material thought of his fellow-countrymen: “Ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” How much more should we seek to apprehend the spiritual idea of God, than to dwell on the objects of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit, and blend with the music of the spheres, thought must be purely spiritual.
Genesis i. 15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Truth and Love enlighten the understanding, and this illumination is reflected spiritually by all who walk in the light.
Genesis i. 16. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser to rule the night. He made the stars also.
Spirit alone can impart the limitless idea of Infinite Mind. Geology has never explained the earth's formations. It cannot explain them, because it never produced them. There is no allusion to solar light, until time had been divided into evening and morning; and no
