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SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

stration of its spiritual origin. Links of Science engirdle infinity with the fatherhood and motherhood of Spirit. Do you ask what personality is? Mortals can never know the Infinite, until they throw off the old man and reach the spiritual image and likeness. What can fathom Infinity? How shall we declare Him, in the language of the apostle, “till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ”?

Genesis ii. 2. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His works which He had made.

Unfathomable Mind has now expressed itself, in all height, depth, breadth, might, majesty, and glory. That is enough! Human language can only repeat an infinitesimal part of what exists. The infinite idea, or man, is no more seen or comprehended by mortals, than his Infinite Principle, God. Both are co-existent and eternal. The numerals of infinity, called seven days, can never be reckoned according to the calendar of time. We can understand these days, only as we lay aside finite calculations, accept the infinite calculus, and pause, in expressive silence, to muse on the divine wonders.

Genesis ii. 4, 5. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were created, — in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens; and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Here is the emphatic declaration that God creates all through Mind, not through matter; that the plant grows,