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246 life, and man became a living Soul.” This statement of a second creation contradicts the first one, in which Spirit said, “Let ‘Us’ make man.” The first record was science; the second was metaphorical, and mythical, even the supposed utterances of matter; the scripture not being understood by its translators, was misinterpreted. After God had declared “all was made,” and the creation “good,” Wisdom never repented, or repeated what it had done; there was no second creation, and on a new plan. Had the record divided the first statement of creation from the fabulous second, by saying, after Truth's creation we will name the opposite belief of error, regarding the origin of the universe and man, it would have separated the tares from wheat, and we should have reached sooner the spiritual significance of the Bible. We are repeatedly assured in the second chapter of Genesis, that God had finished His work before Adam was created; that male and female, together with all the hosts of heaven and earth, were already made; therefore we have the authority of scripture for denying a second creation, or a single formation by matter. The harmonious creation was ended, and all was “good” that God created. Life, Truth and Love never made inharmonious man.

“God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.” Admitting He created Adam, Cain, and every other mortal error, He was the author of evil as well as good; but this is contradicted by the prophet Jeremiah, who saith, “Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good”; and what did the Evangelist mean when he said, “All things were made by Him, and without Him there was nothing made that