4. 1 4- T. MYSTERIES OP GENESIS. h. Lesson 2 - By Charles Fillmare October 6, 1937 t..
You know that in theological circles there is a great deal of contention between the first two chapters in Genesis, as seemingly there are two creations. Of course, we know that the Bible and especially these books of Moses are consistent, that really splritually understood there is no contradiction or contention between these two chapters. But in order to reconcile them, you must be spiritual in your concept--understand that there is a difference between spiritual things and th6 manifestation. The first chapter of Genesis tells of the spiritual creation. If you read in the original you find that there are two names for God--
2. Elohim God creates in the first chapter; then it was taken up by Jehovah God, I AM THAT I AM, the 1mage and- likeness of God created by Elohim God. In other words, it is the real man. Jehovah God is spiritual man. Spiritual man forms the natural man, and here we have the beginning really of that second chapter. All through the Scripture, if you read in the Spirit and know that back of this phenomenal world there is a realm of ideas, you Will get the key to the real understanding. You will understand what it A- all means.
3. Apparently in the first chapter there is a serious contradiction. It says that before the san and moon appeared, God made two great lights--and you remember that Bob Ingersoll criticized Moses for saying that God created light on the first day when the sun and moon were not created until the fourth day. But scientists tell us now that light vas created in the beginning. Light la here. This very air or atmosphere is filled with light, and the sun and moon are reflectors of light. Farrar Fenton says that the real inner meaning of this is that
4. the sun and moon are reflectors of this universal light or spiritual - understanding. In the body we have the solar plexus, or the sun center, and it is reflecting the great light. It is quickened with the source of light--its center is in the top of the head--and the intellect, reflected from the solar plexus. That is the second light, or the moon. The great sun la in the solar plexus, but the cardiac or quter 18 in the upper front line of the brain. When man is active the currents flow from the nerves to the brain and when he is inactive, they reverse and flow from the brain to the nerves. When you are awake
5. and working your brain, you call upon this nerve center and it feeds the brain. When you go to sleep, the reverse takes place. If you understand that, you understand about dreams. As I say, we must remember in our interpretations of Genesis that lt ls flrst a splrltual creation,--the flrst chapter. Then Jehovah God ceased or rooted from all His vork, and blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it because in it He rested from all His work which He had created. Farrar Fenton says that He ceased when He finished all that He had arranged to do.
6. We ldeallze certain things that ve are going to do. That is the way Elohim God originated Principle. In Gen. 2:5 again we have certain differences from the Mosaic interpretations as given in the King James Version. God had not scattered the seed yet and there was not a man to till the ground and a mist vent up. Man wasn't visible yet; man was still an idea. Before we incarnated in this body of flesh we were simply ideas in the one Mind.All things were just ideas, "mist." Here la a very mysterious and significant statement that before the earth can bring forth, before these seed ideas can be
7. implanted, there must be a softening up, or receptivity. The earth represents the substance, body consciousness. The hint for us 13 that we must make ourselves receptive--soften up this earth consciousness before we can get into spiritual consciousness. Jesus Christ understood that. Before He had a higher baphism He had to get up and make himself receptive. When the "dews of heaven" went up, there was a descent of ideas. There is a difference between rain and mist. Rain hovers closer to the earth. When you get into a receptive state of mind, you will find
4. tears coming into your eyes. There isn:t Borrow, but a letting go, an inward joy. That is a very happy state of mind for you in your splrltual unfoldment., You are making yourself ready, like Jehovah made the universal substance ready. He made it possible to form - thls natural man. The next step after this dev of heaven came was to make it plastic, like the potter with his clay--you have to put water with it. The 'same thing ia true in the forming of man. "God breathed into man the breath of life.n
9. There is a distinction between animal consciousness and man ' consciousness. So many persons are mixed on that. They say the animal reasons-and seems to arrive at conclusions. They ask, Don't» the animals continue to live on after they have shuffled off this mortal thought? Yes, they live on, but do they have this life-containing soul and spiritual identity? No. That hasn't been born yet. 'Like the infinite Mind--that Mind ls flowing into you, and we - are reflectors of that mind and yet it is an indwelling Principle. Man became a life-containing soul. We should have the capacity«and
10. power to become immortal. 'Then we read that God planted a garden eastward in Eden. This garden represents the Consciousness of omnlpresent substance and life, and our bodies are really the condensation or the form of the eternal man up to a certain point. The scientific world tells us that we live in an ether, and that it has in it everything in potential form of things that are manifesting and if we know that and enter into it and take possession of it, we can have everything that ve want. We are using this ether. -
11. the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What are those trees? Interpreted materially, one was an apple tree and Eve ate the apple, etc. Well, that 13 childish. But ve want to know what does that all mean? This 13 all symbollcal. This is a great allegory. A tree is represented in man's body by the nervous system and lf your nerves.are stripped of the flesh they would look exactly like the tree. The tree of life represents animation, motion, motive nervous system with its central trunk in the spinal cord, and there
-12. is the tree of sensation here in the front, with its great sun in the solar plexus. We don't have any sensation in the tree of life, or when we thinli in our movement,--but when you feel sensation it 13 this front tree. Here is where all the emotions are centered. It is really the tree of sensation, or through sensation we arrive at what we call good and evil--the good and evil that we eat or not. We have to be careful and not eat of them equally. If you think good and evil are - equal and that evil is a reality, you fall away from a right understanding of this emotional nature. Here is where a great mystery is,
13. that ve appropriate from the nerve fluid an essence, the seminal - fluid, and the mind gramps this attenuation, this essence, and turns it into soul. It is a transformation of the nerve fluid into soul. Scientists in studying man from the standpoint of say that at the ends of the nerves you have fine nerve fluid that» disappears into energy. That 13 the psychic or the soul man--the spiritual man 13 the grpat directive power. But that medium between matter and Spirit is soul and we are building soul all the time. The next' step is the different avenues through vhich these forces ---- -
14. work in the body. The garden eastward in Eden represents our body. The rivers, four of them, that flow are active ideas of life in the body, carried on in this water of life or nerve fluid. Plahon, the first river, means real existence, fully diffused, or highest degree of perfection--spirit. We got the key to the meaning, you see, in body action. Then there must be a spiritual nerve flowing through our minds and bodies all the time. This is what ve interpret this river, Pishon,
15. to be, the flow of universal splritual energy from the one great source--god. That is why one great head is this river of God--it pours throughout the whole system as the animating principle of all. Havillah, another river, represents elemental life. It la the conflict between that which goes on in the body and the Spirit-- "the flesh warreth against the Spirit and the Splrlt against the flesh." This brings out all the gold. There is value in struggle, value in effort. If everything was perfectly smooth, we wouldn't develop a strong soul like we do when we have to put forth some effort l
1 '1-16. Then the next river is Glhon. Just as a river needs banks to flow between, so the nerve fluid runs through the flesh,' through these channels. This la all brought out in these rivers that "compass" or go through the whole land. There is a breath that has to do with this purifying and developing of this great niver in the body, and that is part of the implanting of this spiritual man. The blood becomes impure during the viking state, and during sleep there ts a purifying process that goes on all the time.
1g..' Metaphysicians are discovering that sleep iant t absolutely necessary if you know how to -breathe spiritually. You can purify your blood and do away with that fatigue if you set in the silence and realize that you are breathing the breath of God. Realize that you are breathing the breath of Jehovah, that God 13 right here, breathing into you the breath of life, and that you are becoming a spiritual being. If you sigh, that is a subconscious grief or sorrow that you - want to get rid of. If you stick to that, it will drag you down. ' Say, "Jehovah, **reath into me the joy of living, and cleanse me 6f
le. subconscious sorrov." Love to live l You cant t feed your eyes, ears, teeth, and nerves while you give heed to negation. Lack of =joy 18 the reason our hair gets gray. We need to put more energy or fluid into life. 'The third river 13 Hiddekel, and it goes in front of Assyrla. This represents the fine man of radiant body, vhich 13 formed by the transmutation of the nerve fluid. Your physical body is being renewed and lifted up by this continual transmutation from the material. The fourth river 18 Euphrates. It represents the blood stream.
19. It carrles to all parts of the body the fruit of the digestion. Every member is fed by corpuscles. This river is carrying the-substance from your stomach and feeding every part of your body. Doctes are discovering that they canl build up the waste tissue by feeding certain kinds of food. The vitamins go to strengthen the whole body. 80 we see that the Bible 15 a book of physiology as well as spiritual history. This man was put into the Garden of Eden to keep it and to trim lt. He was told that ho could eat of all these trees except tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Those elemental forces are
20. constantly at work in our bodies and minds, but we interpret them and give them names. Everything has been named by man. We are naming them and are continuing to name them. For instance, we say that sense is represented by the serpent. Adnm represents intellectual comprehension. Here the intellect with its will and its forces that carry man on without love are first manlfast. The cave man had no love, but he gloried in his strength and power. Women love cave men. They illustrate this first manifestation of man. Man should be gentle and kind and loving. That is the
21. feminine part of man. In order to get that into action in the Adam 4 man, the other man had to take on a negative state (God put him to P sleep and took out a rlb). This is symbolical of how the rib covers the heart, where we develop love. We first suppress the activity of the nalmal man that wants to dictate, but then we get hold of this inner loving man, and that man was developed. We should forsake all thought about our material activities and know that we are unified with divine love, the mother in man.