IN the beginning the creator, God, whom Christ Jesus declared to be Spirit, established one creation, the universe including man. In the twenty-seventh verse of the first chapter of Genesis, it is recorded that "God created man in his own image," and in the thirty-first verse, that God saw that His creation was "very good." Before these statements, in the ninth verse, it is written, "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so." As the record of creation continues, the dry land, which was to bring forth both seed and fruit, is called "earth." This truth concerning the spiritual creation, when understood, is found to be clearly applicable to any and every problem that may present itself for solution.
In that part of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" which gives the "key" to Genesis, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and author of the above-mentioned textbook, writes (p. 507), "In metaphor, the dry land illustrates the absolute formations instituted by Mind, while water symbolizes the elements of Mind." In regard to the gathering together of the waters, she says (ibid., p. 506), "Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear."
What a revelation it is, when one begins to realize what it means to "let" ideas of divine Mind take shape! What a wonderful beginning to the solution of a problem is obedience to the command to "let" God's creation appear! When ideas unfold in our consciousness, their identities are revealed; and they cover a wide range of thought, even from the least unto the greatest, the greatest being the real man, who is the image of God.
