as darkness is the opposite of light. Material sense is nothing but a supposition of the absence of Spirit. No solar rays or planetary revolutions form the day of Spirit. Mind makes its own record, and mortal thought has no record in the first chapter of Genesis.
Genesis i. 6. And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Spiritual understanding is the firmament that distinguishes between Truth and error, and the signification of the sun is Love. Remember that Divine Mind, not matter, creates all identities; and they are forms of thought, the ideas of Spirit, present to Mind only.
Genesis i. 7. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
Spirit imparts the understanding which leads into all Truth. Spiritual sight is the discernment of good. Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. It brings the things of Truth, Life, and Love into a demonstration, that gives the divine sense and spiritual signification of all things in Science.
This understanding is not intellectual, is not aided by scholarly attainments. The fact of all things is brought to light in Spirit. God imparts to His idea, man, a faculty capable of distinguishing between the immortal, unerring, and infinite, on the one hand, and the mortal, erring, and finite on the other; of distinguishing between the false and true, of separating Mind, and its idea, from matter — illusion.
