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502 God determines the gender of His own ideas. The gender of the tree is in Mind. The seed within itself is

the pure thought emanating from Mind. The feminine gender is not yet expressed in the text. Gender means simply kind, or sort, and does not necessarily refer to either masculinity or femineity; for the word is not confined to sexuality, and grammars always recognize a neuter gender, neither male nor female. The divine Mind — that is, the element of production, of which spiritual ideas are the expression — names the female gender last, because femineity is highest in the ascending order of creation. The intelligent idea reveals the infinitude of Love, as it rises from the lesser to the greater.

The third stage in the order of Christian Science is an important one to the human mind, whose indistinct

and thronging thoughts are advancing towards the light of spiritual understanding. This period corresponds to the resurrection, when Spirit is seen to be the Life of all, and the deathless Life, or Mind, is seen to be dependent upon no organization whatever. Our Master reappeared to his students; that is, to their apprehension, he rose from the grave on the third day of his ascending thought, and so presented to them the certain sense of eternal Life.