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Rh not because of seed or soil, but because growth is the eternal mandate of Mind. Mortal thought drops it into the ground; but the immortal creating thought is from above, not from beneath. Because Mind makes all, there is nothing left to be made by a lower power. Spirit acts through the Science of Mind, never causing man to till the ground, but making him superior to it. Here the inspired record closes its narrative of creation. “It is finished.” All that is made is the work of God, and He has created everything.

I leave this brief, glorious history of spiritual creation (as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis) in the hands of God, not of man, — acknowledging His supremacy, omnipotence, and omnipresence, to-day and forever. The harmony and immortality of the universe and man are intact.

When I glance at the opposite supposition, that man is created from matter, I only turn my eyes for a moment from the spiritual record of creation; for that record is engraven on my understanding and heart, with the point of a diamond and the pen of an angel.

My experience at death's door, the portal of the unknown, — wherein I found Life instead of death, — dimly shadowed forth the grand verities of the sacred page, causing me thereafter to speak and write more than personal sense can discern.

The Science and Truth of the divine creation have been presented in the verses already considered; and now the