creates neither erring thought, mortal life, mutable truth, nor variable love.
Genesis i. 4. And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
Spirit, dwelling in infinite light and harmony, from which emanate its ideas, is never reflected by aught but the good.
Genesis i. 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
All questions, as to Deity's creation being both spiritual and material, are answered in this passage. Solar beams are not yet included in the record of creation, yet there is light. This light is not from sun, or from volcanic flames, but it is the revelation of Truth and its idea. This shows that there is no place where His light is not seen, for Truth, Life, and Love fill immensity and are ever present.
Was not this a revelation? The successive appearing of God's ideas is represented as taking place on so many evenings and mornings — words which indicate clearer views of Him than are implied by darkness and dawn.
Here we have the explanation of another Scripture, that “one day with the Lord is as a thousand years.” The rays of Infinite Truth, when gathered into the foci of ideas, bring light instantaneously; whereas a thousand years of unconcentrated beams, random beliefs, human hypotheses, and vague conjecture emit no such effulgence.
Did Infinite Mind create matter, and call it Light? Spirit is light; and the opposite of Spirit is matter, just
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