The divine Principle, or Life, which reproduces the multi ‐ Divine propagationtudinous forms of Mind and governs the mul ‐ 18tiplication of the compound idea man. Understanding is a quality of God, a quality whichĦseparates Christian Science from supposition and makesġ2grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yieldingįruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:ġ5 The universe of Spirit reflects the creative power of Matter, not being the reflection of Spirit, has no real en ‐ tity. Objects utterly un ‐ 3like the original do not reflect that original. The mortal,ģ0erring, and finite are human beliefs, which apportion toĥ06 506:1themselves a task impossible for them, that of distinguish ‐ ing between the false and the true. God’s ideas reflect the im ‐ mortal, unerring, and infinite. This understanding is not intellectual, is not the resultĢ7of scholarly attainments it is the reality of all things Mind, - Life, Truth, and Love, - and demonstrates theĢ4divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Understanding is the line of demarcation between The sea.” Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritualĢ1good. Of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of The Psalmist saith:ġ8 Understanding imparted“The Lord on high is mightier than the noise Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts con ‐ sciousness and leads into all truth. The waters which were under the firmament from the watersġ5which were above the firmament: and it was so. Record, but mortal mind, sleep, dreams, sin, disease, andģdeath have no record in the first chapter of Genesis. No solar rays nor planetary revolutionsĥ05 505:1form the day of Spirit. Mate ‐ 30rial sense is nothing but a supposition of theĪbsence of Spirit. Spirit versus darknessdarkness, and darkness obscures light. Vague conjectures emit no such effulgence.Ģ7 Did infinite Mind create matter, and call it light? Spirit is light, and the contradiction of Spirit is matter, Years.” The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered intoĢ4the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously, whereasĪ thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and Scripture, that “one day is with the Lord as a thousand 21 Here we have the explanation of another passage of Which are not implied by material darkness and dawn. Time, spiritually clearer views of Him, views The successive appearing of God’s ideas is representedĪs taking place on so many evenings and mornings, -ġ8 Evenings and morningswords which indicate, in the absence of solar Seen, since Truth, Life, and Love fill immensity and areĮver-present. Thisġ2also shows that there is no place where God’s light is not Is the revelation of Truth and of spiritual ideas. Light is not from the sun nor from volcanic flames, but it
Light preceding the sunthough solar beams are not yet included inĩthe record of creation, still there is light.
Spiritual and material are answered in this passage, for And the evening and the morn ‐ ing were the first day.Ħ All questions as to the divine creation being both Even thus the crude forms of human thoughtġ5take on higher symbols and significations, when scien ‐ tifically Christian views of the universe appear, illuminat ‐ ing time with the glory of eternity.ĭarkness He called Night. Spiritual actuality of man, as given in the first chapter Thisĭeflection of beingdeflection of being, rightly viewed, serves toġ2suggest the proper reflection of God and the Of the untrue image of God, named a sinful mortal.
The mortal deviations and inverted images of the creatorĩ Spiritually followed, the book of Genesis is the history Preponderance of unreality in the entire nar ‐ rative, as if reality did not predominate over unreality,Ħthe light over the dark, the straight line of Spirit over The living and real prelude of the older Scriptures is soģ Spiritual overturebrief that it would almost seem, from the To their immortal cravings than the history of perpetualĥ02:1 A second necessity for beginning with Genesis is that Weary ones sigh when needing something more native Mystery and miracle, which subserve the end of naturalġ5good, are explained by that Love for whose rest the The incarnation of Truth, that amplifi ‐ cation of wonder and glory which angels could onlyġ2whisper and which God illustrated by light and har ‐ mony, is consonant with ever-present Love. Jesus il ‐ lumines them, showing the poverty of mortal existence,ĩbut richly recompensing human want and woe with Seems so smothered by the immediate context as toĦrequire explication whereas the New Testament narra ‐ tives are clearer and come nearer the heart. The Word, in its earliest articulations, often 501:1 Scientific interpretation of the Scriptures prop ‐ erly starts with the beginning of the Old Testa ‐ 3 Spiritual interpretationment, chiefly because the spiritual import of
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