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500 Spirit unites understanding to eternal harmony through Divine Science. The calm and exalted thought takes

upon itself understanding, and is at peace; while the dawn of ideas goes on, forming the second stage of progress.

Spirit gathers unformed thoughts into their proper

channels. God unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a rose, to send their fragrance abroad.

Here the human concept and divine idea seem confused by the translator, but they are not so in the

Scientifically Christian meaning of the text. Upon Adam devolves the pleasurable task of finding names for all material things; yet Adam has not yet appeared in the narrative. In metaphor, the dry land illustrates the solid formations instituted by Mind, while water symbolizes its solutions or elements. Spirit duly feeds and clothes every object, as it appears in the line of creation, so that it may express the fatherhood and motherhood of God. Spirit names and blesses all. Without natures particularly defined, all things would be alike, and creation full of nameless children, — wanderers from the parent Mind, strangers in a tangled wilderness.