![]() ![]() Our declarations of Truth are instantly fulfilled in Spirit. At the beginning of any of our creating we should declare for light. It corresponds to understanding and should precede all activity. ![]() "Light" is intelligence, a spiritual quality. Man is conscious of unexpressed capacities within himself, but only as he moves upon mind substance with intelligence are his inherent spiritual qualities molded into įorms. "The Spirit of God" or divine intelligence moved upon "the face of the waters." "Waters" here represents unexpressed capacities, the mental element out of which all is produced. Understanding has not yet come into expression, and there is no apparent action. "The face of the deep" represents its intelligence. "The deep" represents the capacity of the earth idea to bring forth. Harmony of form had not yet come into expression. What is meant by "The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"? What, in terms of mind, is "darkness"? "Light"? Elohim, Spirit, creates the spiritual idea, which is afterward made manifest through Jehovah God. But the Earth was unorganized and empty and darkness covered its convulsed surface but the breath of God vibrated over its fluid face." From this we are to understand that God created not the earth as it appears but that which produced the earth. A comparison is found in the activity of our own mind: we have an idea and then think out a plan before we bring it forth.ĭid God create man and the earth as they appear today?įerrar Fenton, the well-known student of Hebrew and Greek, says that the first verse should read: "By periods God created that which produced the Suns then that which produced the Earth. Heaven is the idea and earth the mental picture. The "heavens" is the realm of ideas, and the "earth" represents ideas in expression. The "beginning" indicates the first concept of Divine Mind. The word God in this instance stands for Elohim, which is God in His capacity as creative power, including within Himself all the potentalities of being. ![]() Symbolically these are "day" and "night." Light represents intelligence, and darkness represents undeveloped capacity. Light is wisdom and the first day's work is the calling of light or wisdom into expression. The first step in creation is the awakening of man to spiritual consciousness, the dawning of light in his mind, his perception of Truth through the quickening of his spirit. What is the first step in the awakening of man to spiritual consciousness? Whatever mind commands to be brought forth will be brought forth by and through the law of evolution inherent in being. Evolution is the working out in manifestation of what mind has involved. This whole chapter is a statement of the creative ideas involved in the universe. The idea back of day is light or the dispensation of intelligence. God creates through the action of His mind, and all things rest on ideas. We are the image and likeness of this great creative Mind, and being in a certain aspect of our mind just like it, we can through mental adjustment attain the same conscious unity that Jesus did. Jesus said, "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." This means that we should strive for the perfection that God is. That law may be known to anyone who will follow the example of Jesus. God is a mind force carrying forward creation under mental law. He said that His words were so powerful that if we let them abide in us we might ask whatsoever we would and it should be done to us. It is plainly stated in this 1st chapter of Genesis that "God said." Jesus corroborated this creative power of the word or idea again and again. God is mind, and He created through His word or idea, and this is the universal creative vehicle. Wherever there is evidence of creative action, there God is.Įxplain God as Divine Mind. God is eternally in His creation and never separate from it. "The Father abiding in me doeth his works." That God is an intelligent force always present and always active is the virtual conclusion of all philosophers, thus corroborating the statements of Jesus. Jesus said, "God is Spirit." The works of God, He said, were done in Him (Jesus) and through Him. To understand the creation of the universe by God, we must know something of the character of God. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And the earth was waste and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Chapter I: Spiritual Man Genesis 1 Spiritually Interpreted ![]()
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