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Rh Spirit creates no other than heavenly, or celestial, bodies, but the stellar universe is no more celestial than

our earth. This text gives the idea of the rarefaction of thought, as it ascends higher. God forms and peoples the universe. The light of spiritual understanding gives gleams of the Infinite only, as nebulæ indicate the immensity of space.

Mineral, vegetable, and animal substances are no more contingent on solar time or material structure, than

they were when “the morning stars sang together.” Mind made the “plant, before it was in the ground.” The periods of spiritual understanding are the days and seasons of Mind's creation, wherein beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness — yea, the divine nature — appear upon the universe and man, never to disappear.

Knowing the Science of creation, wherein all is Mind and its ideas, Jesus rebuked the material thought of his

fellow-countrymen: “Ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” How much more should we seek to apprehend the spiritual idea of God, than to dwell on the objects of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit, and blend with the music of the spheres, thought must be purely spiritual.

Truth and Love enlighten the understanding, in whose “light we shall see light;” and this illumination is reflected spiritually, by all who walk in the light, and turn away from light's absence, which we call darkness.