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man, in perfect harmony. This Mind forms ideas, its own images, subdivides and radiates their borrowed light, intelligence, and so explains the Scripture phrase, “whose seed is in itself.” Thus God's ideas “multiply and replenish the earth.” The divine Mind supports the sublimity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual 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.


In divine Science, which is the seal of Deity and has Darkness scattered the impress of heaven, God is revealed as infinite light. In the eternal Mind, no night is there.


Genesis i. 19. And the evening and the morning were is the fourth day.


The changing glow and full effulgence of God's infinite ideas, images, mark 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.


To mortal mind, the universe is liquid, solid, and aëriform. Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand Soaring aspirations for solid and grand ideas. Animals and mortals metaphorically present the gradation of mortal thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking form in masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. The fowls, which fly above the earth in the open firmament