Genesis i. 19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
The changing glow and full effulgence of God's infinite idea mark the periods of its progress.
Genesis i. 20. And God said: “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth, in the open firmament of Heaven.”
To mortal mind, the universe is liquid, solid, and aëriform. Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand Material metaphors. for the solid and grand ideas of Truth. Animals and mortals metaphorically present the gradation of thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking form in masculine and feminine ideas. The fowls which fly above the earth, in the open firmament of Heaven, correspond to aspirations soaring beyond and above corporeality, to the understanding of their incorporeal 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, and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love. These Seraphic symbols. angels of His presence, which have the holiest charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of Mind, and consequently reproduce their own characteristics. Their individual forms we know not; but we know their natures are allied to God's; and spiritual blessings, thus typified, are the externalized yet subjective states of hope and faith.
