Welcome to

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• Welcome to
• Metaphysics II
• Applying Unity Principles and
• Concepts to Daily Life
• Facilitated by Rev. Kurt Condra
• August 7, Week 8 of 11

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• (to tune of Bingo Was His Name)
• The Bible is my favorite book
• Its about me
• B-I-B-L-E,
• B-I-B-L-E,
• B-I-B-L-E,
• the Bible is my favorite book.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9A Divine Ideas
• God creates through the action of Mind.
• Material universe is based on divine ideas
  created in God Mind.
• Laws of God Mind Mind, idea in mind, and
  expression.
• Genesis 1 metaphysically shows Mind and idea in
  mind.
• Genesis 2 represents manifestation of idea.
• God ideates, humankind thinks.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9B Creation of the Spiritual Universe
• First creation story is entirely spiritual
  dont confuse with manifestation.
• God creates the ideas that make the manifest
  universe possible.
• Ideas used by Gods intelligent image and
  likeness to make the universe.
• Gods creations are always spiritual

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9C Humankind
• Image-and-likeness human is the spiritual
  human the Christ, the Lord God, the Jehovah, the
  I AM.
• The spiritual human is made up of absolute
  ideas Divine Mind, thoughts (ideas in
  expression), and the manifestation of thoughts.
• In humankind there is the threefold nature
  spirit, soul, and body.
• The spiritual human pours forth divine ideas
  that each individual then arranges into thoughts
  and forms as substance and life.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9D Creation of the Material Universe
• The Christ has dominion over all divine ideas
  and uses wisdom and love to manifest the physical
  universe.
• The spiritual human clothes divine ideas in
  time and circumstance.
• Mankind has become entangled with materiality
  and therefore some manifestation is not
  necessarily good.
• Manifestation is related to the level of
  consciousness of the individual as well as
  collective consciousness.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9E Stages of Creation
• Fillmore sees a distinct analogy in the first
  chapter of Genesis between God and creation and
  humankind and the process of manifestation.
• This is the reason for metaphysically
  interpreting the allegory in a step-by-step
  manner.
• Fillmore viewed the creation allegory as the
  earliest example of humankinds dawning awareness
  of these powers.
• In the Bible, numbers have symbolic meanings.
  Seven is the symbol of completion in the manifest
  realm.

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• Divine Love, through me,
• blesses and multiplies
• all that I am,
• all that I give,
• and all that I receive.
• Thank you, Father-Mother God

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9F Chaos
• God created out of darkness, out of the chaos.
• Before light, there was darkness. Therefore, it
  is important to acknowledge the chaos and the
  darkness in our lives and begin to see how this
  can be used for good.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9G First Step Light
• Let there be light is an affirmation of
  illumination.
• Light is a symbol with many meanings in the
  Bible, one of the most important of which is
  intelligent awareness.
• The most illuminating insight we can realize is
  that God is our source.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9H Second Step Faith
• Faith is our supreme affirmative faculty.
• Note similarity between affirmation and a
  firmament.
• Through faith, we affirm the reality of divine
  ideas as our divine inheritance.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9I Third Step Imagination
• Through our imagination, we form and shape our
  desired good from the invisible substance.
• Imagination does not cause manifestation it
  produces the mental image of that which is to be
  manifest.
• The imagination does determine the general form
  of the desired good.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9J Fourth Step Understanding and Will
• When we develop our spiritual understanding, we
  become willing to do what is required of us to
  manifest our highest good.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9K Fifth Step Judgment
• Ability to discern, evaluate, and come to
  decisions.
• Righteous judgment is based on spiritual
  understanding.
• We use our judgment faculty to separate the
  wheat from the chaff, the useful from the not
  useful error thoughts.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9L Sixth Step Wisdom and Love
• The masculine nature and feminine nature
  resulting from the sixth step in the allegory are
  symbolic of wholeness in each individuals
  spiritual nature.
• The whole person is both masculine and
  feminine that is thinking and feeling
  expressive and receptive, wise and loving.
• These need to be united within our own
  consciousness to have our desires manifested.

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Chapter NineThe Creative Process

• 9M Seventh Step Sabbath
• Rest of the mind, not necessarily the physical
  body.
• Occurs when we become quiet and still within.
• It is the realization and assurance that our
  manifestation is forthcoming. Sabbath
• Sometimes lasts no longer than a moment.
• Necessary for the good of the whole person, and
  the outworking of the entire creative process.
• To maintain the supply of creative energy, a
  person needs to take time out from expenditure of
  that energy.

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Chapter EightDiscussion

• How do you observe the Sabbath?

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Next Week Aug. 13 Keys to Demonstration Reading
Assignment Chapter 10