allusion to fluids, until after the formation of minerals and vegetables.
This shows that light is a symbol of Life, Truth, and Love, instead of a vitalizing property of matter. Science reveals One Mind, shining by its own light, and governing its own ideas — man and the universe — in perfect harmony. Mind forms the ideas that subdivide and radiate their borrowed light; and this explains this Scripture, “whose seed is in itself.” Ideas “multiply and replenish the earth,” but Mind supports the various ideas that constitute the sublimity and magnitude of its 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.
Spirit is revealed to the understanding through harmony, as in Divine Science, which is the seal of Deity and has the impress of heaven.
Mind gives light to our mortal sense of the sun, and scatters the darkness that fleeth away. In the eternal Mind there is no night, — no sorrow, pain, or sin.
Genesis i. 19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
The faint and full effulgence of God's infinite idea marks 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.”
Spirit is reflected throughout the universe, in its liquid, solid, and aeriform parts. Rocks and mountains stand
