1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them.
The "heavens" is the realm of ideas, and the "earth" represents ideas in expression. Heaven is the idea and earth the mental picture. A comparison is found in the activity of our own mind: we have an idea and then think out a plan before we bring it forth.
2 And on the seventh day Gods finished their work, which they had done, and they rested on the seventh day from all their work, which they had done.
The plans of Divine Mind were finished although there was as yet no outward manifestation. All is finished first in consciousness and the mind then rests, in faith, from further mental activity. This "rest" precedes manifestation. The seventh day refers to the mind's realization of fulfillment, its resting in the assurance that all that has been imaged in it will come forth in expression.
3 So Gods blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it Gods rested from all their work, which they had done in creation.
The Seventh Day is Saturday. The Planet Saturn, the slowest moving planet, symbolizing rest, rules it.
To hallow the seventh day is to rest in the stillness, quiet, and peace of the silence of Mind. "Be still, and know that we are Gods." To hallow means to keep holy. Holiness is resting in the conviction that there is no lack in the absolute law that is the law of Gods. One creates first in mind by idealizing the desired object and then resting in the assurance that the law of manifestation is being fulfilled. Gods have finished creating Their universe, including man, and are resting in Their perfect idea. Gods rested on the seventh day.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that YHVH Gods made the earth and the heavens,
From this point on, this tells of creation on the next plane of existence. Everything prior was on the spiritual plane. Creation is manifested by “He who is the collective forces of creation”.
5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up--for YHVH Gods had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
Physical manifestation of the plants had not yet occurred because “He who is the collective forces of creation” had not caused rain to fall. To manifest physically, natural processes had to be followed. These processes are a manifestation of the higher processes that the creative forces used in the plane above to produce creation there, but have the added laws of nature that they must work in.
6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground—
7 then YHVH Gods formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
The creative forces, “He who is the collective forces of creation”, while creation was beginning to manifest, formed the first human from physical matter and brought him to life by putting their collective powers into it.
8 And YHVH Gods planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
The Garden of Eden symbolizes the omnipresent, unseen realm out of which comes the visible universe. Modern science has named it the cosmic ether. It cannot be described in human language, because it transcends all the comparisons of earth. Yeshua (Jesus) said that the "mysteries" of the kingdom were revealed to those who were spiritually awake but to others must be told in parables.
The human body with its psychical and spiritual attributes comprises a miniature Garden of Eden, and when man develops spiritual insight and in thought, word, and act voluntarily operates in accord with the divine law, then rulership, authority, and dominion become his in both mind and body.
9 And out of the ground YHVH Gods made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
"Tree" represents the connecting link between the formed substance (earth) and the formless (heaven). To "eat" is to appropriate the substance of ideas through thinking about them. "Evil" represents error thought combinations; that part of consciousness which has lost sight of true principles and through sensation becomes enamored of the thing formed. Form has its place in creation, but it is subject to the creative idea that begets it. The activity of an idea in man's mind produces sensation.
To become involved in the sensation of an idea to the exclusion of control is to eat of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" and die to all consciousness of the original idea.
10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.
Pison means change and extension. Spiritually the name symbolizes the operation of
Divine Mind upon the human Will. It changes the human mind and extends it, enabling it to comprehend vastly more knowledge.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush.
Gihon means a stream or valley of grace. This river symbolizes the understanding’s perception, through the Truth, of all heavenly graces.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Phrat.
Hiddekel means sharp voice. It symbolizes the divine influence that illuminates the rational mind. Assyria symbolizes the rational mind. Phrat (Euphrates in most bibles) means to make fruitful. It symbolizes the Divine Wisdom flowing into the natural mind and rendering it prolific of works of genuine charity.
15 YHVH Gods took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to till it and keep it.
Mind in man, places man in the Garden of Eden to "dress it and to keep it." Man dresses and keeps this garden by developing, in his consciousness, the original, pure ideas imparted by Divine Mind. As man establishes ideas of Truth he calls into manifestation his spiritual body imaged in substance by Divine Mind.
16 And YHVH Gods commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."
Materiality as the obverse of spirituality was set up when man became involved in thoughts of the external, in sensation, and lost sight of the true creative idea. Because of this, man gradually became separated from the realm of divine ideas; in other words, from God. Death is the result of this separation from Divine Mind.
18 Then YHVH Gods said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
Man must have avenues through which to express himself. These avenues are the "helpers" designed by Divine Mind. Man represents wisdom. It is not good for wisdom to act alone; it must be joined with love if harmony is to be brought forth. Both the soul and the body are helpers to man (Spirit), avenues through which he expresses the ideas of Mind.
19 So out of the ground YHVH Gods formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
It is on the soul or substance side of consciousness that ideas are "identified," that is, "named." Whatever we recognize a thing to be, that it becomes to us because of the naming power vested in man (wisdom). "Every beast of the field" and the "cattle" represent ideas of strength, power, vitality, and life. These ideas must be recognized by the I AM before they can be formed. "The birds of the heavens" represent free thoughts and the interchange between the subconscious and the conscious activities of mind. Man has power to name all ideas that are presented to his conscious mind, whether they come from within or without.
20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.