for the solid and grand ideas of Truth. Animals and mortals present the gradation of divine thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking form in masculine and feminine ideas. The fowls that fly above the earth, in the open firmament of heaven, correspond to aspirations, soaring beyond and above personality, to the understanding of their impersonal and Divine Principle.
Genesis i. 21. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good.
Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power; also high and holy thoughts, winged with Love. The angels of His presence, which have the holiest charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of Mind, and constantly reproduce their own characteristics.
Genesis i. 22. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.”
Spirit blesses the multiplication of its own pure and perfect ideas, as evolved from the One Mind.
Genesis i. 23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
The advancing steps, in the teeming universe of thought, lead on to more exalted ideas.
Genesis i. 24. And God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, — cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind;” and it was so.
Spirit inspires one idea by another. Diversity, classification, and individuality are as eternal as Mind; but
