"Pure Mind gives out an atmosphere that heals and saves," declares Mrs. Eddy in her work "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 260). The atmosphere of God, Mind, Love, is the only one there really is. It is the one established by Him in the beginning, and it has never changed. The pureness of that atmosphere is demonstrable today, as Christian Scientists attest.
We are told in the first chapter of Genesis that when the earth was void and formless and darkness pervaded it, God first created light and next the firmament in which the fowls of the air might fly. God's creation is strictly spiritual, and the fowls that fly in the pure firmament of heaven are actually incorporeal ideas of God, as are all other identities which inhabit His universe.
In the second chapter of Genesis the mortal concept of creation is described. There we read, "There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." Then is recorded the false sense of man, the Adam man, the mist man, into whose nostrils was breathed the breath of life or, in other words, a material concept of existence.
