The daily rising and setting of the sun and the breaking of the waves on the seashore, year after year, illustrate, though faintly, the idea of inexhaustible activity. To visualize with mathematical precision and certainty the centuries through which the solar system has run, taxes the human mind, which is unable to grasp the expanse and scope of the spiritual universe, created and sustained by God.
The account of the creation of this spiritual universe is found in the first chapter of Genesis, where it is stated (Gen. 1:1), "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." In proportion as the so-called human mind gives way to the consciousness of man's oneness with the divine, creative Mind, we begin to comprehend the meaning of the infinite, and the wonders of the realm of Mind are revealed to us. The Psalmist must have glimpsed this realm when he sang (Ps. 89:11), "The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them."
God is the only creator, and the spiritual universe, which He creates, has existed and will exist throughout eternity. The statement, "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them" (Gen. 2:1), is therefore descriptive rather than chronological. It does not record an event which occurred at a given time, but rather describes the present condition of the spiritual universe. To God, nothing is new; to men, there is perpetual unfoldment as new views of divine reality appear. No human problem can be added to creation, and no tardy solution is awaited. The omniscience of God knows only His own perfection, and all seeming human needs are met by Love's spiritual ideas.
