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The seven elements of creation can therefore be seen in the manner of a multidefinition that cannot be separated into stand alone parts without the defined concept becoming perceived with a different meaning.
The logical place where one would expect to find the seven elements represented in the structure for scientific development that Mary Baker has outlined, is a place that is leading upwards beyond the threshold to infinity, where a new universe unfolds instead of a new dark age. The logical place that represents this on the matrix structure is the upwards oriented part of the confrontational structure that divides the three lower rows of the matrix into two parts of 56 definitions each. The confrontational structure that has been so created provides in each of its two halves exactly eight definitions for each of the seven elements of creation, consisting of two definitions per column.
By this complex interrelationship the seven elements of creation all have some relationship to the concept of the precise address that was discussed earlier, in both the upper and lower domains. The two domains also correspond to the two accounts of creation. One begins in Genesis one, and the other, which presents a perversion of creation, begins in Genesis 2.
Genesis 1 presents the scientifically correct elements of creation, called seven days.
Element 1 deals with the separation of light (that which precedes the sun) from darkness. It deals with the theme of "Spirit versus darkness" according to a marginal heading by Mary Baker Eddy.*(Science and Health 504:29)
Element 2 deals with the 'firmament,' that which divides the waters 'above' from the waters 'below.' Here we have the separation brought to light that sets apart the confrontational universe (the sphere of 'mortal mind', a negation) from the reflective universe that brings to light the principles of reality in understanding. It establishes the object of creation, the creation of a new universe in thought, deed, and experience.
Element 3 deals with "letting in the light of spiritual understanding." Mary Baker Eddy calls the seven elements, stages. Indeed, they are interdependent stages, but they are not steps of a ladder. One does not step from one stage to the next. Instead, one adds new facets of discovery. No single element is reduced in significance by the process of unfolding, staged as seven days. Every element is enriched by the progressive staging that sheds more light upon the whole scene of reality.
Element 4 deals with the divine nature appearing in concrete manifestations, symbolized as lights above the firmament that signify spiritual ascension.
Element 5 deals with "soaring aspirations," infinite ideas, and their fruition. It deals with acknowledgement of reality that is infinite in nature.
Element 6 deals with life and its boundless universal reflection, the inexhaustible continuity of good and the emergence of the divine idea, man (which the Revelator beheld in the last pages of the Bible as being "clothed with the sun"). This element deals with spiritual riches reflected in the nature of man, such as creativity, that enable mankind to create its own resources for living and replenish the universe with life and with light. Here the image of infinity is manifest in creativity.
Element 7 deals with the essential concept of resting. Except "rest" does not signify inaction. It signifies acknowledgement of completeness. This is an active state. An equivalent concept to this might be "unlabored motion." Mary Baker Eddy introduced the concept elsewhere in the textbook where she writes about "the unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick."*(Science and Health 445:20-21)
If the seven days of creation were to be understood in the context of linear development, the seventh state would signify an end point, a termination, rather than an inexhaustible continuity. As it is, the notion of termination stands worlds apart from what Mary Baker Eddy says about creation and the structural platform of "seven days." She writes in the textbook: "Creation is ever appearing, and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source."*(Science and Health 507:28) She points out in a marginal heading that pertains to the seventh day: "Love and man coexist." Under this heading she concludes: "Principle and its idea, man, are coexistent and eternal. The numerals of infinity, called seven days, can never be reckoned according the calendar of time. These days will appear as mortality disappears, and they will reveal eternity, newness of Life, in which all sense of error forever disappears and thought accepts the divine infinite calculus."*(Science and Health 520:9-15)
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