Chapter 1
SPIRITUAL
MAN
GENESIS 1
Charles Fillmore
Mysteries of Genesis
THE WORD genesis means
"source" or "origin." It points to new
birth and to the perfection of man in
the regeneration. The law of generation
is undoubtedly one of the mysteries in
human consciousness. Men have probed
with more or less success nearly every
secret of nature, but of the origin of
life they know comparatively nothing.
In the matter of life we discover that
the clues given us by our own
experience point to intelligence as
well as force. In other words, life
falls short of its mission if it is not
balanced by intelligence.
Man is constantly
seeking to know the origin of both the
universe and himself. But nearly all
his research of a scientific nature has
been on the material plane. As a rule,
he has ascribed the beginning to
matter, to atoms and cells, but much
has eluded his grasp because their
action is invisible to the eye of
sense. Now we are beginning in the
realm of mind a scientific search for
the origin of all things. We say
"scientific" because the discoveries
that come from a right understanding of
mind and its potentialities can be
arranged in an orderly way and because
they prove themselves by the
application of their laws.
What is stated in the
Book of Genesis in the form of allegory
can be reduced to ideas, and these
ideas can be worked out by the guidance
of mental laws.
Thus a right
understanding of mind, and especially
of Divine Mind, is the one and only
logical key to an understanding of the
beginnings of man and the universe. In
this book we have many symbols
explained and their meaning
interpreted, so that anyone who sets
himself the task can understand and
also apply to his own development the
rules and laws by which ideas are
related to one another and discover how
they are incorporated into man's
consciousness, thus giving him the key
to the unfoldment of the primal ideas
implanted in him from the
beginning.
It is found that what is
true in the creation of the universe
(as allegorically stated in Genesis) is
equally true in the unfoldment of man's
mind and body, because man is the
microcosmic copy of the "Grand Man" of
the universe.
The Bible is the history
of man. In its sixty-six books it
describes in allegory, prophecy,
epistle, parable, and poem, man's
generation, degeneration, and
regeneration. It has been preserved and
prized beyond all other books because
it teaches man how to develop the
highest principle of his being, the
spirit. As man is a threefold being,
spirit, soul, and body, so the Bible is
a trinity in unity. It is body as a
book of history; soul as a teacher of
morals; and spirit as a teacher of the
mysteries of being.
The student of history
finds the Bible interesting if not
wholly accurate; the faithful good man
finds in it that which strengthens his
righteousness, and the overcomer with
Christ finds it to be the greatest of
all books as a guide to his spiritual
unfoldment. But it must be read in the
spirit if the reader is to get the
lesson it teaches. The key to its
spiritual meaning is that back of every
mentioned thing is an idea.
The Bible will be more
readily understood if the fact is kept
in mind that the words used have both
an inner and an outer significance.
Studied historically and
intellectually, the external only is
discerned and the living inner reality
is overlooked. In these lessons we
shall seek to understand and to reveal
the within, and trace the lawful and
orderly connection between the within
and the without.
Genesis, historically
considered, falls into three parts:
first, the period from the creation to
the Flood; secondly, the period from
the Flood to the call of Abraham; and
thirdly, the period from the call of
Abraham to the death of
Joseph.
The 1st chapter
describes creation as accomplished in
six days, and refers to a seventh day
of rest. There is no reason to believe
that these days were twenty-four hours
in length. "One day is with the Lord as
a thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day." They simply represent
periods of development or degrees of
mind unfoldment.
Numbers are used
throughout the Bible in connection with
faculties or ideas in Divine Mind.
There are twelve divine faculties. They
are symbolized in the Old Testament by
the twelve sons of Jacob and in the New
Testament by the twelve apostles of
Jesus. All of these have a threefold
character: first, as absolute ideas in
Divine Mind; secondly, as thoughts,
which are ideas in expression but not
manifest; and thirdly, as
manifestations of thoughts, which we
call things. In man this threefold
character is known as spirit, soul, and
body. Therefore in studying man as the
offspring of God it is necessary to
distinguish between the faculties as
they exist in the body. We find heaven
to be the orderly arrangement of divine
ideas within man's true being. Earth is
the outer manifestation of those ideas,
this manifestation being man's
body.
In the 1st chapter of
Genesis it is the great creative Mind
that is at work. The record portrays
just how divine ideas were brought into
expression. As man must have an idea
before he can bring an idea into
manifestation, so it is with the
creations of God. When a man builds a
house he builds it first in his mind.
He has the idea of a house, he
completes the plan in his mind, and
then he works it out in manifestation.
Thus God created the universe. The 1st
chapter of Genesis describes the ideal
creation.
The 1st chapter shows
two parts of the Trinity: mind, and
idea in mind. In the 2d chapter we have
the third part, manifestation. In this
illustration all theological mystery
about the Trinity is cleared away, for
we see that it is simply mind, idea in
mind, and manifestation of idea. Since
man is the offspring of God, made in
the image and likeness of Divine Mind,
he must express himself under the laws
of this great creative Mind. The law of
manifestation for man is the law of
thought. God ideates: man thinks. One
is the completion of the other in
mind.
The man that God created
in His own image and likeness and
pronounced good and very good is
spiritual man. This man is the direct
offspring of Divine Mind, God's idea of
perfect man. This is the only-begotten
Son, the Christ, the Lord God, the
Jehovah, the I AM. In the 2d chapter
this Jehovah or divine idea of perfect
man forms the manifest man and calls
his name Adam.
The whole of the 1st
chapter is a supermental statement of
the ideas on which evolution is based.
Mind projects its ideas into universal
substance, and evolution is the
manifestation of the ideas thus
projected. The whole Genesiac record is
an allegory explaining just what takes
place in the mind of each individual in
his unfoldment from the idea to the
manifest. God, the great universal
Mind, brought forth an idea, a man,
perfect like Himself, and that perfect
man is potentially in every individual,
working himself into manifestation in
compliance with law.
Gen. 1:1-5. In the
beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. 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. And God said, Let
there be light: and there was
light. And God saw the light, that
it was good: and God divided the
light from the darkness. And God
called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And there
was evening and there was morning,
one day.
To understand the
creation of the universe by God, we
must know something of the character of
God. Jesus said, "God is Spirit." The
works of God, He said, were done in Him
(Jesus) and through Him. "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. God is eternally in His creation
and never separate from it. Wherever
there is evidence of creative action,
there God is.
God is mind, and He
created through His word or idea, and
this is the universal creative vehicle.
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. 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.
God is a mind force
carrying forward creation under mental
law. That law may be known to anyone
who will follow the example of Jesus.
Jesus said, "Be perfect, as your
heavenly Father is perfect." This means
that we should strive for the
perfection that God is. 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.
God creates through the
action of His mind, and all things rest
on ideas. The idea back of the flower
is beauty. The idea back of music is
harmony. The idea back of day is light
or the dispensation of
intelligence.
This whole chapter is a
statement of the creative ideas
involved in the universe. It deals with
involution. Evolution is the working
out in manifestation of what mind has
involved. Whatever mind commands to be
brought forth will be brought forth by
and through the law of evolution
inherent in being. This applies to the
great and the small. In mind there is
but one.
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. Light is wisdom; and the first
day's work is the calling of light or
wisdom into expression. Light
represents intelligence, and darkness
represents undeveloped capacity.
Symbolically these are "day" and
"night."
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. The "beginning"
indicates the first concept of Divine
Mind. "Created" means ideated. The
"heavens" is the realm of ideas, and
the "earth" represents ideas in
expression. Heaven is the idea and
earth the mental picture. 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.
Ferrar 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. 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. Elohim, Spirit, creates the
spiritual idea, which is afterward made
manifest through Jehovah
God.
The earthly thought was
not yet clear. Harmony of form had not
yet come into expression. "The deep"
represents the capacity of the earth
idea to bring forth. "The face of the
deep" represents its intelligence.
Understanding has not yet come into
expression, and there is no apparent
action. "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.
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 forms. "Light" is
intelligence, a spiritual quality. It
corresponds to understanding and should
precede all activity. At the beginning
of any of our creating we should
declare for light. Our declarations of
Truth are instantly fulfilled in
Spirit.
James says in his
Epistle, "Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, coming down
from the Father of lights." The
Evangelist John speaks of "the true
light . . . which lighteth every man,
coming into the world."
All that emanates from
God is good. In the process of bringing
forth our ideas we need a certain
degree of understanding in order
properly to regulate our thoughts. The
light must be divided from the
darkness, as in Divine Mind the light
was separated from the
darkness.
"Day" represents the
state of mind in which intelligence
dominates. "Night" represents the realm
of thoughts that are not yet
illuminated by the Spirit of
God.
Gen. 1:6-8. And God
said, Let there be a firmament in
the midst of the waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which were under
the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament: and it
was so. And God called the
firmament Heaven. And there was
evening and there was morning, a
second day.
The second step in
creation is the development of faith or
the "firmament." The "waters" represent
the unestablished elements of the
mind.
The second day's
creation is the second movement of
Divine Mind. The central idea in this
day's creation is the establishment of
a firmament in the "midst of the
waters" dividing the "waters from the
waters." "Waters" represent unexpressed
possibilities in mind. There must be a
"firm" starting point or foundation
established. This foundation or
"firmament" is faith "moving upon" the
unformed capacities of Spirit
consciousness. The divine Logos--God as
creative power--gives forth the edict
"Let there be a firmament." The first
step or "day" in creation involves
"light" or understanding, and the
second step, faith in the knowing
quality of mind.
The word is instantly
fulfilled in Spirit. "And God made the
firmament." This does not refer to the
visible realm of forms but to the
mental image in Divine Mind, which
deals only with ideas. In every mental
state we have an "above" and a "below."
Above the firmament are the unexpressed
capacities ("waters") of the conscious
mind resting in faith in Divine Mind.
Below the firmament are the unexpressed
capacities ("waters") of the
subconscious mind.
The word "Heaven" is
capitalized in this passage because it
relates directly to Divine Mind. Faith
("firmament") established in
consciousness is a state of perfect
harmony, therefore "Heaven." Another
degree of mind unfoldment has been
attained. "And there was evening and
there was morning, a second day."
"Evening" represents completion, and
the "morning" following represents
activity of ideas.
Gen. 1:9-13. And God
said, Let the waters under the
heavens be gathered together unto
one place, and let the dry land
appear: and it was so. And God
called the dry land Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters
called he Seas: and God saw that it
was good. And God said, Let the
earth put forth grass, herbs
yielding seed, and fruit-trees
bearing fruit after their kind,
wherein is the seed thereof, upon
the earth: and it was so. And the
earth brought forth grass, herbs
yielding seed after their kind, and
trees bearing fruit, wherein is the
seed thereof, after their kind: and
God saw that it was good. And there
was evening and there was morning,
a third day.
The third step in
creation is the beginning of the
formative activity of the mind called
imagination. This gathers "the waters .
. . together unto one place" so that
the "dry land" appears. Then the
imagination begins a great
multiplication of forms and shapes in
the mind.
The first day's creation
reveals the light or inspiration of
Spirit. The second day establishes
faith in our possibilities to bring
forth the invisible. The third day's
creation or third movement of Divine
Mind pictures the activity of ideas in
mind. This is called expression. The
formative power of mind is the
imagination, whose work is here
represented by the dry land. There is
much unformed thought in mind ("the
heavens") that must be separated from
the formed.
In this proclamation
"earth" is the mental image of formed
thought and does not refer to the
manifest world. God is Divine Mind and
deals directly with ideas. "Seas"
represents the unformed state of mind.
We say that a man is "at sea" when he
is in doubt in his mental processes. In
other words he has not established his
thoughts in line with the principle
involved. The sea is capable of
production, but must come under the
dominion of the imagination.
Divine Mind images its
ideas definitely and in every detail.
The idea precedes the fulfillment. "Let
there be" represents the perfect
confidence necessary to
demonstration.
Ideas are productive and
bring forth after their kind. They
express themselves under the law of
divine imagery. The seed is within the
thought and is reproduced through
thought activity until thought habits
are formed. Thoughts become fixed in
the earth or formed consciousness. In
Divine Mind all is good.
Again a definite degree
of mind unfoldment has been attained.
Man, in forming his world, goes through
the same mental process, working under
divine law. Jesus said, "The seed is
the word of God."
Gen. 1:14-19. And
God said, Let there be lights in
the firmament of heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let
them be for signs, and for seasons,
and for days and years: and let
them be for lights in the firmament
of heaven to give light upon the
earth: and it was so. And God made
the two great lights; the greater
light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: he
made the stars also. And God set
them in the firmament of 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. And there was evening and
there was morning, a fourth
day.
The fourth step in
creation is the development of the "two
great lights," the will and the
understanding, or the sun (the
spiritual I AM) and the moon (the
intellect). These are but reflectors of
the true light; for God had said, "Let
there be light: and there was
light"--before the sun and the moon
were created.
The "firmament of
heaven" is the consciousness of Truth
that has been formulated and
established. In the second day's
creation a firmament was established in
heaven (realm of divine ideas). This
firmament divides the day (illumined
consciousness) from the night
(unillumined consciousness). Through
faith the "lights" are established;
that is, understanding begins to
unfold. The "signs," "seasons," and
"days and years" represent different
stages of unfoldment. We gain
understanding by degrees.
The "earth" represents
the more external processes through
which an idea passes, and corresponds
to the activity of an idea in mind. In
man the "earth" is the body
consciousness, which in its real nature
is a harmonious expression of ideas
established in faith-substance. "And it
was so"; that is, an idea from divine
consciousness is instantly
fulfilled.
The "greater light," in
mind, is understanding and the "lesser
light" is the will. The greater light
rules "the day," that realm of
consciousness which has been illumined
by Spirit. The lesser light rules "the
night," that is, the will; which has no
illumination ("light" or "day") but
whose office is to execute the demands
of understanding. The will does not
reason, but in its harmonious relation
acts easily and naturally upon the
inspiration of Spirit. Divine will
expresses itself as the I AM in
man.
The "stars" represent
man's perceptive faculties, including
his ability to perceive weight, size,
color, sound, and the like. Through
concentrating any of the faculties
("stars") at its focalizing point one
may come into an understanding of its
action.
Divine Mind first images
the idea, then perceives its
fulfillment. Man, acting in
co-operation with Divine Mind, places
himself under this same creative law
and thus brings his ideas into
manifestation.
The idea is the
directing and controlling power. Every
idea has a specific function to
perform. When our ideas are
constructive and harmonious we see that
they are good and realize that their
power to rule is dominant in
consciousness.
"Evening" stands for the
fulfillment of an idea and marks
another "day" or step or degree of
unfoldment in consciousness.
Again referring to
Fenton's translation of the 1st chapter
of Genesis, "By periods God created
that which produced the solar systems;
then that which produced the earth," we
see that God did not create the worlds
directly; He created that which
produced or evolved them. Then God
said, "Let there be light." The Hebrew
word for light is owr, meaning
"luminosity" either literally or
metaphysically. On the fourth day God
said, "Let reflectors appear in the
expanse of the heavens." Then God made
two large "luminaries." The Hebrew word
here used to express light is maowr, "a
luminous body." The author of Genesis
made a distinction between the source
of light and how it was to be bodily
manifested. But both were concepts in
Divine Mind.
Our modern dynamos
produce luminosity out of the ether
equal to sunlight. The earth whirling
on its axis generates electricity.
Modern scientists are accepting analogy
then, holding that bodies in motion
generate energy that under certain
conditions becomes luminous, and the
conclusion is that the primal force
that produces light existed before its
manifestation through matter. This
conclusion is in harmony with the
symbolic story of creation as found in
Genesis.
Modern critics have
questioned the accuracy of Scripture on
these points. Robert Ingersoll in his
book "Some Mistakes of Moses" calls
attention to the creation of light
before the sources of light, the sun
and the stars, were created, as
evidence of the ignorance and
inaccuracy of Moses. But scientific
research and study of the original
Hebrew reveals their
harmony.
Gen. 1:20-23. And
God said, Let the waters swarm with
swarms of living creatures, and let
birds fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven. And God
created the great sea-monsters, and
every living creature that moveth,
wherewith the waters swarmed, after
their kind, and every winged bird
after its kind: and God saw that it
was good. And God blessed them,
saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas,
and let birds multiply on the
earth. And there was evening and
there was morning, a fifth
day.
The fifth step in
creation is the bringing forth of
sensation and discrimination. The
"creatures" are thoughts. The "birds .
. . in the open firmament of heaven"
are ideas approaching spiritual
understanding.
"Water" represents the
unformed substance of life, always
present as a fecundating element in
which ideas ("living creatures")
increase and multiply, just as the
earth produces a crop when sown with
seed. The "birds" represent the
liberated thoughts or ideas of mind
(heavens).
In connection with the
body, "water" represents the fluids of
the organism. The "sea-monsters" are
life ideas that swarm in these fluids.
Here is pictured Divine Mind creating
the original body idea, as imaged in
the 20th verse. In the 2d chapter of
Genesis we shall read of the
manifestation of this idea. Idea,
expression, and manifestation are the
steps involved in bringing anything
forth under divine law. The stamp of
good is placed upon divine ideas and
their activity in substance.
In the fifth day's
creation ideas of discrimination and
judgment are developed. The fishes and
fowls represent ideas of life working
in mind, but they must be properly
related to the unformed (seas) and the
formed (earth) worlds of mind. When an
individual is well balanced in mind and
body, there is an equalizing force
flowing in the consciousness, and
harmony is in evidence.
Another orderly degree
of mind unfoldment is fulfilled.
Another step in spiritual growth is
worked out in consciousness when the
individual enters into the quickening
of his judgment and seeks to conform
his ideas to those of Divine
Mind.
Gen. 1:24-31. And
God said, Let the earth bring forth
living creatures after their kind,
cattle, and creeping things, and
beasts of the earth after their
kind: and it was so. And God made
the beasts of the earth after their
kind, and the cattle after their
kind, and everything that creepeth
upon the ground after its kind: and
God saw that it was good. And God
said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them
have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the birds of the
heavens, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth. And God created man in
his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female
created he them. And God blessed
them: and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it;
and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the birds of the
heavens, and over every living
thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given
you every herb yielding seed, which
is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree, in which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed; to
you it shall be for food: and to
every beast of the earth, and to
every bird of the heavens, and to
everything that creepeth upon the
earth, wherein there is life, I
have given every green herb for
food: and it was so. And God saw
everything that he had made, and
behold, it was very good. And there
was evening and there was morning,
the sixth day.
The sixth step in
creation is the bringing forth of ideas
after their kind. When man approaches
the creative level in his thought, he
is getting close to God in his
consciousness, and then the realization
that he is the very image and likeness
of his Creator dawns on him. This is
the consciousness in man of
Christ.
On the sixth day of
creation ideas of life are set into
activity. "Cattle" represent ideas of
strength established in substance.
"Creeping things" represent ideas of
life that are more subtle in their
expression, approaching closer to the
realm of sense. They are the
micro-organisms. The "beasts" stand for
the free energies of life that relate
themselves to sensation. Divine ideas
are always instantly set into activity:
"and it was so."
Underlying all these
ideas related to sensation, which in
their original purity are simply ideas
of life functioning in substance, is
the divine idea of life. When life is
expressed in divine order it is
pronounced good. What is termed "sense
consciousness" in man is not to be
condemned but lifted up to its rightful
place.
"As Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of man be lifted up; that
whosoever believeth may in him have
eternal life." When the ideas of life
are properly related to love and
wisdom, man will find in them eternal
satisfaction instead of sense
pleasure.
Wisdom and love are the
two qualities of Being that, communing
together, declare, "Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness." This is
the mental image of man that in Truth
we call the Christ. The Christ man has
dominion over every idea emanating from
Divine Mind.
The creation described
in these six days or six "steps" or
stages of God-Mind is wholly spiritual
and should not be confounded with the
manifestation that is described in the
succeeding chapters. God is mind, and
all His works are created in mind as
perfect ideas.
This statement of man's
creation, "And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness,"
has always been a puzzle to people who
read the Scriptures literally. The
apparent man is so at variance with the
description that they cannot reconcile
them. Theologians began first to admit
that the Garden of Eden story was an
allegory, and now they are including
the whole of Genesis.
But this is more than an
allegory; it is a description of the
ideal creation. In their calculations
engineers often use mathematical
symbols, like the letters x, y, and z,
to represent quantities not yet given
precise determination but carried along
for development at the proper time.
Involved in these symbols are ideas
that are to be brought out in their
proper order and made visible when the
engineer's plans are objectified. So
man plans in his mind that which he
proposes to build. First the idea, then
the visible. This is the process
through which all creation passes. God
makes all things in His mind first,
which is involution; then they are made
into form and shape, and this is
evolution.
In some such way then we
can think of man as represented by an x
in God's plan or calculations. God is
carrying man along in His mind as an
ideal quantity, the image-and-likeness
man of His creation, and His divine
plan is dependent for its success on
the manifestation by man of this idea.
The divine plan is furthered by the
constant idealism that keeps man moving
forward to higher and higher
achievements. The image-and-likeness
man pours into "mankind" a perpetual
stream of ideas that the individual man
arranges as thoughts and forms as
substance and life. While this
evolutionary process is going on there
seem to be two men, one ideal and
spiritual and the other intellectual
and material, which are united at the
consummation, the ideal man,
Christ.
When the mind attains an
understanding of certain creative
facts, of man's creative powers, it has
established a directive, intelligent
center that harmonizes these two men
(ideal and spiritual vs. intellectual
and material). This directive center
may be named the I AM. It is something
more than the human I. Yet when this
human I has made union with the
image-and-likeness I, the true I AM
comes into action, and this is the
Christ Jesus, the Son of God, evolved
and made visible in creation according
to divine law.
God ideated two
universal planes of consciousness, "the
heavens and the earth." One is the
realm of pure ideas, the other of
thought forms. God does not create the
visible universe directly, as a man
makes a concrete pavement, but He
creates the ideas that are used by His
intelligent "image and likeness" to
make the universe. Thus God's creations
are always spiritual. Man's creations
are both material and spiritual,
according to his
understanding.
Mental activity in
Divine Mind represents two phases:
first, conception of the idea; and
secondly, expression of the idea. In
every idea conceived in mind there is
first the quickening spirit of life,
followed by the increase of the idea in
substance. Wisdom is the "male" or
expressive side of Being, while love is
the "female" or receptive side of
Being. Wisdom is the father quality of
God and love is the mother quality. In
every idea there exist these two
qualities of mind, which unite in order
to increase and bring forth under
divine law.
Divine Mind blessed the
union of wisdom and love and pronounced
on them the increase of Spirit. When
wisdom and love are unified in the
individual consciousness, man is a
master of ideas and brings forth under
the original creative law.
"Seed" represents
fundamental ideas having within
themselves reproductive capacity. Every
idea is a seed that, sown in the
substance of mind, becomes the real
food on which man is nourished. Man has
access to the seed ideas of Divine
Mind, and through prayer and meditation
he quickens and appropriates the
substance of those ideas, which were
originally planted in his I AM by the
parent mind.
Provision is made for
the sustenance of all the ideas
emanating from Divine Mind. The
primitive forms of life are fed on
"herbs"; they have a sustaining force
that is food to them, even as the
appropriation of divine ideas is food
to man.
Divine Mind, being
All-Good itself, sees only its own
creation as good. As man co-operates
more fully with Divine Mind, imaging
only that which is good, he too beholds
his production with the "single" eye,
sees them only as good. The sixth step
in creation is the concentration, in
man, of all the ideas of Divine Mind.
Man is given authority and dominion
over all ideas. Thus is completed
another step in mind
unfoldment.
In the six mental steps
or "mind movements," called days,
Elohim God creates the spiritual
universe and spiritual man. He then
rests. He has created the ideas or
patterns of the formed universe that is
to follow.
In the next chapter we
shall find Jehovah God executing what
Elohim God created or ideated. In the
Hebrew the name Jehovah means "I am."
We identify Jehovah as the I AM, the
spiritual man, the image and likeness
of Elohim God. But Jehovah, spiritual
man, must be made manifest, so He forms
a man called Adam.
