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150 understood than now. It is enough for us to be satisfied that the expressions are correctly used as symbols. So far as they agree with science, well. So far as they do not, it is of no consequence in respect to the Lord's purpose in giving the narrative, provided only the symbolism is divinely correct, and the spiritual lesson conveyed within it divinely true. This question of the true day of Sabbath we will find to be rationally solved, as we come to understand the spiritual meaning of the words in which allusion is made to the seventh day of creation. Indeed the whole Sabbath question rests upon these very words.

But first permit me for the last time to revert to the explanations which have been so thoroughly set forth in the six previous discourses of this series. We have learned that the narrative is an allegory of the regeneration of the human mind. The heaven and the earth were found to be symbols of the two minds of man, or if you prefer the expression, the two regions of his mind, its heavenly and its earthly, or in other words, its spiritual and its natural. Creation symbolizes the regeneration, that is the rebirth, or new creation of the spiritual nature. A day, in the spiritual sense, means a state. The six days of creation represent the six progressive states or stages of regeneration, from the mind's darkness and voidness as to spiritual