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Genesis
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Nothing can be novel to eternal Mind, the author of all things, who from all eternity knoweth His own ideas. Perfection of creation Deity was satisfied with His work. How could He be otherwise, since the spiritual creation was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self-containment and immortal wisdom?


Genesis ii. 1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.


Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and Infinity measureless the fatherhood and motherhood of Love. Human capacity is slow to discern and to grasp God's creation and the divine power and presence which go with it, demonstrating its spiritual origin. Mortals can never know the infinite, until they throw off the old man and reach the spiritual image and likeness. What can fathom infinity! How shall we declare Him, till, in the language of the apostle, “we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ”?


Genesis ii. 2. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.


God rests in action. Imparting has not impoverished, Resting in holy work can never impoverish, the divine Mind. No exhaustion follows the action of this Mind, according to the apprehension of divine Science. The