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The sun is a metaphorical representation of Soul outside the body, as giving existence and intelligence to the

universe. Love alone can impart the limitless idea of infinite Mind. Geology has never explained the earth's formations. It cannot explain them. There is no allusion to solar light, until time had been already divided into evening and morning; and no allusion to fluids, until after the record of formation of minerals and vegetables.

This shows that light is a symbol of Life, Truth, and Love, instead of a vitalizing property of matter. Science

reveals one Mind, shining by its own light, and governing its own ideas in perfect harmony. Mind forms the ideas which subdivide and radiate their borrowed light; and this explains this Scripture, “whose seed is in itself.” Ideas “multiply and replenish the earth,” but Mind supports the various ideas constituting the sublimity and magnitude of its creation.

God is revealed through harmony, and also in Divine Science, which is the seal of Deity and has the impress

of Heaven. Mind gives light to our mortal sense of the sun, and scatters the darkness which fleeth away. In the eternal Mind there is no night, — no sorrow, pain, or sin.