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498 All questions as to the divine creation, being both spiritual and material, are answered in this passage; for

though solar beams are not yet included in the record of creation, yet there is light. This light is not from the sun, nor from volcanic flames, but it is the revelation of Truth and spiritual ideas. This also shows that there is no place where God's light is not seen, since Truth, Life, and Love fill immensity and are ever present. Was not this a revelation?

The successive appearing of God's ideas is represented as taking place on so many evenings and

mornings, — words which indicate, in the absence of solar time, spiritually clearer views of Him, not implied by material darkness and dawn. Here we have the explanation of another Scripture, that “one day with the Lord is as a thousand years.” The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously; whereas a thousand years of unconcentrated beams — human beliefs, hypotheses, and vague conjectures — emit no such effulgence.

Did infinite Mind create matter, and call it light? Spirit is light; and the opposite of Spirit is matter,

just as darkness is the opposite of light. Material sense is nothing but a supposition of the absence of Spirit. No solar rays or planetary revolutions form the day of Spirit. Mind makes its own record; but mortal mind has no record in the first chapter of Genesis.