CHAPTER III.
CREATION.
| Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, — |
| Matter unformed and void. Darkness profound |
| Covered the Abyss; but on the watery calm |
| His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, |
| And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth, |
| Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged |
| The black, Tartareous, cold, infernal dregs |
| Adverse to Life. — Paradise Lost. |
THE eternity of Truth is changing the universe.
Thought expands into expression, as mortals shake
off their swaddling-clothes. “Let there be light” is the
perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into
order, and turning discord into the music of the spheres.
Progress takes off human shackles. The finite must yield to the Infinite. Advancing to a higher plane of action, thought rises from the material sense to the spiritual, from the mortal to the immortal, and from the personal to the impersonal. All things are created spiritually. Mind, not matter, is the Creator. The Divine Principle, not person, is the Father and Mother of man and the universe.
Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in the language of Scripture, “doeth according to His will, in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
