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Rh Mrs. Glover found much that would not fit into her plan of the universe, but she explained this: "In Genesis, the spiritual record of the universe and man is lost sight of, it was so materialised by uninspired writers." And, "the scripture not being understood by its translators was misinterpreted." "The translators of that record wrote it in the error of being . . . hence their misinterpretations. . . . They spake from error, of error . . . which accounts for the contradictions in that glorious old record of Creation." "A wrong version of the Scriptures has hidden their Truth." According to Mrs. Glover's version, man was formed as follows:

When, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion . . . over all the earth," He meant by the word "us" to indicate His triune Principle of Life, Truth, and Love. The word, "them," referred to man in the plural. It "signifies plurality, for man was the generic name of mankind." Therefore, we have the conclusion that God, in his triune capacity of Life, Truth, and Love, made, not one man, but all mankind: "In contradistinction to the belief that God made one man, and man made the rest of his kind, science reveals the fact that he made all."

"So God created man in His own image, male and female created He them," means, in the Science and Health version, that mankind thus created, merely "reflected the Principle of male and female, and was the likeness of 'Us,' the compound Principle that made man." It is to be understood that God, himself, not being a person, can have no "gender," "inasmuch as He is Principle embracing the masculine, feminine, and