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510 sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” How much more should we seek to apprehend the spiritual

ideas of God, than to dwell on the objects of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual.

Truth and Love enlighten the understanding, in whose “light shall we see light;” and this illumination is reflected spiritually by all who walk in the light and turn away from a false material sense.

The sun is a metaphorical representation of Soul outside the body, 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 Scriptural allusion to solar light until time has been already divided into evening and morning; and the allusion to fluids (Genesis i. 2) indicates a supposed formation of matter by the resolving of fluids into solids, analogous to the suppositional resolving of thoughts into material things.

Light is a symbol of Mind, of Life, Truth, and Love,

and not a vitalizing property of matter. Science reveals only one Mind, and this one shining by its own light and governing the universe, including