For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. - PAUL. Inadequate theories of creation 255:1 ETERNAL Truth is changing the universe. As mor- tals drop off their mental swaddling-clothes, thought 255:3 expands into expression. "Let there be light," is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into order and discord into the 255:6 music of the spheres. The mythical human theories of creation, anciently classified as the higher criticism, sprang from cultured scholars in Rome and in Greece, but they 255:9 afforded no foundation for accurate views of creation by the divine Mind. Finite views of Deity Mortal man has made a covenant with his eyes to be- 255:12 little Deity with human conceptions. In league with material sense, mortals take limited views of all things. That God is corporeal or material, no man 255:15 should affirm. The human form, or physical finiteness, cannot be made the basis of any true idea of the infinite Godhead. 255:18 Eye hath not seen Spirit, nor hath ear heard His voice. No material creation 256:1 Progress takes off human shackles. The finite must yield to the infinite. Advancing to a higher plane of ac- 256:3 tion, thought rises from the material sense to the spiritual, from the scholastic to the in- spirational, and from the mortal to the immortal. All 256:6 things are created spiritually. Mind, not matter, is the creator. Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man. Tritheism impossible 256:9 The theory of three persons in one God (that is, a per- sonal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polythe- ism, rather than the one ever-present I AM. 256:12 "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." No divine corporeality The everlasting I AM is not bounded nor compressed within the narrow limits of physical humanity, nor can 256:15 He be understood aright through mortal con- cepts. The precise form of God must be of small importance in comparison with the sublime ques- 256:18 tion, What is infinite Mind or divine Love? Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in the language of Scripture, "doeth according to His will 256:21 in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?"