The Secret of the Creation | Page 4

in the firmament and in
the cross roads which run across the pathways of the sun and moon;
setting them in order in twelve groups. And Jehovah wrote the stars and
their pathways upon the face of the firmament. They tell the story of his
creation and his love for the things he has created. As they move in
their concourses they are constantly spelling out the things which have
never been changed, glittering above the mist of the earth in their work
of perfection.
And in the midst of the earth he set a magnet joining the heaven and the
earth together that the heaven and the earth should not move out of
their place forever. The magnet in its dimensions is perfectly round--a
tower of bluish mist shining bright like silver--where it stands in its
zone of perpetual darkness; where he made not a light to shine superior
to the darkness. And the magnet revolves around perpetually in its
protraction, carrying the sun and moon and stars in their circuits over
the face of the earth in their roads--in their courses according to their
metallic natures--around in a circuit over the parts of the earth, where
he designed for his things of life to live. Each monitor of the firmament
moving in its own place according to its power with the magnet of its
own nature to do the things it was created to do, until its work should
be finished; then it falls from its place when its course is run, and is no
more.
And the sun sped on his course driving the darkness before him as it
closed up again behind him. And the morning and the evening were the
fourth day in the beginning of time. And the moon and the stars in their
courses over the earth drew up the metallic substance of the earth and
distilled and gave it to the sun; and he in his great speed cast them out
upon the earth, again in minute atoms, and as they came in contact with
their own primordial atoms which lie upon the earth, and more densely
in the lower parts of the earth, they explode, causing atmospherical heat;
each atom giving forth a yellow flame of light as it explodes, so minute
that one light cannot be distinguished from another by the sense of

man.
Thus on the fourth day began heat to gender upon the face of the earth,
preventing the ice and snow from overcoming the life of vegetation in
the circuit of life which the creator had decreed upon the plains of the
world. And the sun went forth upon his circuit and came around again
to the place from where he had started, encircling the magnet in the
center of the earth, thus beginning an endless day and an endless night,
perpetually unchanging. His roads were decreed that from hence he
should run from the east to the west upon one line, then from the west
to the east around on another line each day, drawing closer to the
magnet on one side and falling farther away on the other side, creating
an endless summer and an endless winter, and a springtime and a fall
perpetually.
The light of the sun as it came upon its nearest lines to the magnet
where it stood in the center and lowest part of the earth, far enough
distant that his rays could not penetrate into the region of the magnet
and disturb its silence as it stands in its sea of ice and darkness, while
the light of the sun from the outer roads from the magnet was bounded
about by darkness and unchanging ice. And towards the west Jehovah
had set up a great chain of mountains to hold back the light while the
sun was upon his outer roads, that half of the nights might be long
towards the region of the magnet. While to the east he had set up no
great mountains that the light of the sun on its outer roads from thence
might reach across the plains towards the region of the magnet, that
half of the nights might be light and giving glories of light for half of
the time of the years. While in the great white way of life the continents
and islands lay all teeming with glory.
The large continents having divides of high lands through them, from
which large rivers flow, some towards the outer seas and some of them
flow down towards the lower parts of the earth towards the magnet.
Then the sons of Jehovah and the morning stars sang together and
shouted for joy when they saw the glory of Jehovah's creation. And the
morning of the fifth day began.
And Jehovah said let the waters