has been weakened by anthropomorphism, or a humanization of Deity, making Him a physical and personal being!
Gender must be a life-giving quality of Mind, since Spirit, not matter, is Life. The male idea corresponds to creation, to Intelligence and Truth. The female idea corresponds to Life and Love.
The world believes in many deific persons, yet there is but one God. It follows that Deity is not a person. He has countless ideas, many sons and daughters; but they all have one Principle and Father.
The only proper symbol of the personality of Infinite Mind is that Mind's infinite idea. What is this idea? Who shall behold it? Even eternity can never reveal the whole of God, since there is no limit to Mind or its embodiment. We have not as much authority in Divine Science for considering God masculine, as we have for considering Him feminine, for femineity gives the last (and therefore the highest) idea of Deity.
Genesis i. 28. And God blessed them; and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
Spirit blesses its own ideas, causes them to multiply, and allows the higher to govern the lower. Man, in the image of his Maker, reflects the divine power and might. He is the master of earth, not made to till the soil. His birthright is dominion, not subjection. He is to be lord of beast, fowl, reptile, and fish, — himself subordinate alone to his Maker. This is the Science of Being.
