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themselves a task impossible for them, that of distinguishing between the false and the true. Objects utterly unlike the original do not reflect that original. Therefore matter, not being the reflection of Spirit, has no real entity. Understanding is a quality of God, a quality which separates Christian Science from supposition and makes Truth final.


Genesis i. 8. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.


Through divine Science, Spirit, God, unites understanding to eternal harmony. The calm and exalted Exalted thought thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace. Thus the dawn of ideas goes on, forming each successive stage of progress.


Genesis i. 9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.


Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their Unfolding of thoughts proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.


Genesis i. 10. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas: and God saw that it was good.


Here the human concept and divine idea seem confused by the translator, but they are not so in the Spirit names and blesses scientifically Christian meaning of the text. Upon Adam devolved the pleasurable task of finding names for all material things, but Adam has not yet