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