as Intelligence made all that was made; the idea was only to shadow forth what Intelligence had made."
"Water," in Mrs. Glover's interpretation, was made to correspond to Love, out of which Wisdom produced the "dry land" which is, said Mrs. Glover, "the condensed idea of the universe." The statement in the Bible that God divided the light from the darkness is said to mean that "Truth and error were distinct in the beginning and never mingled." This statement was made without explanation of how "error" came to be co-existing with Truth in the beginning, or by whom it was created. Mrs. Glover apparently had forgotten for the moment that "error" is a belief only and that this illusion originated with Adam.
The firmament which God placed in the midst of the waters to divide them, was, according to Science and Health, the understanding that divided the waters into those "above" and those "below," into the spiritual and material, that we learn are separated forever. . . . Understanding interpreted God and was the dividing line between Truth and error; to separate the waters which were under the firmament from those above it; to hold Life and Intelligence that made all things distinct from what it made, and superior to them, controlling and preserving them, not through laws of matter, but the law of spirit."
Mrs. Glover did not mention even here why the "spiritual" should be separated from the "material" by the firmament of understanding, if, as she taught, there is and never has been any material life. But, "Unfathomable Mind," as Mrs. Glover said, "had expressed itself."
"It was in obedience to Intelligence and not matter," that
