man, in perfect harmony. This Mind forms ideas, its own images, subdivides and radiates their borrowed light, intelligence, and so explains the Scripture phrase, “whose seed is in itself.” Thus God's ideas “multiply and replenish the earth.” The divine Mind supports the sublimity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual creation.
Genesis i. 17, 18. And God set them in the firmament of
the heaven, to give light upon the earth, and to rule over
the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the
darkness: and God saw that it was good.
In divine Science, which is the seal of Deity and has
Darkness scattered
the impress of heaven, God is revealed as
infinite light. In the eternal Mind, no night is
there.
Genesis i. 19. And the evening and the morning were is
the fourth day.
The changing glow and full effulgence of God's infinite
ideas, images, mark the periods of progress.
Genesis i. 20. And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl
that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven.
To mortal mind, the universe is liquid, solid, and
aëriform. Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand
Soaring aspirations
for solid and grand ideas. Animals and
mortals metaphorically present the gradation of
mortal thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking
form in masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. The
fowls, which fly above the earth in the open firmament
