form the day of Spirit. Immortal Mind makes its own record, but mortal mind, sleep, dreams, sin, disease, and death have 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, by which human conception,
material sense, is separated from Truth, is the firmament.
Spiritual firmament
The divine Mind, not matter, creates all
identities, and they are forms of Mind, the ideas of
Spirit apparent only as Mind, never as mindless matter
nor the so-called material senses.
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 uplifts
consciousness and leads into all truth. The Psalmist saith:
Understanding imparted
“The Lord on high is mightier than the noise
of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of
the sea.” Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritual
good. Understanding is the line of demarcation between
the real and unreal. Spiritual understanding unfolds
Mind, — Life, Truth, and Love, — and demonstrates the
divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in
Christian Science.
This understanding is not intellectual, is not the result of scholarly attainments; it is the reality of all things Original reflected brought to light. God's ideas reflect the immortal, unerring, and infinite. The mortal, erring, and finite are human beliefs, which apportion to
