Book Club June
2017: Genesis
Recently I
was alone in our Sunday school well before starting time. I decided to start on the reading of
Genesis. We have there beautiful new
books ready for study – the Bible and Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures (SH).
As soon as one starts to read
from Genesis, one realises that SH has a whole chapter elucidating this first
book of the Bible. So up to Gen. iv. 16
one can read almost all the verses with their spiritual interpretation. I didn't complete the exercise, of course,
but really appreciated the reading that got me started on this adventure with
Genesis.
The Glossary to SH is a mine of
good spiritual explanations of words and names from the Bible. And I have for a long time thought of the initial
“Heaven” as “harmony” and “earth” representing “eternity and immortality.” (See
Glossary definitions of heaven and earth – S&H 587:25 and 585:5 in part.)
And so, as I read, I could hear
repeated echoes of harmony, eternity and immortality in Science and Health's
Genesis chapter.
Joyce Voysey
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