These Sons of God, bringing with them the Spirit and Power of God, “moved upon the face of the waters”—moved their thought upon that dark realm of consciousness, and said “Let there be light,” and the spiritual impulse of their thought quickened the consciousness in that dark mass of Earth, and for the first time in its existence a little light glimmered in the midst of the darkness.

This period is indicative of the earliest stage of what was later to manifest as the mineral kingdom, where consciousness was so dense and dark that previously what we call life had never penetrated it. Now the light caused a stirring of life and there began the evolving of that life through the different stages of consciousness, beginning with what might be symbolized by the solid, lifeless stage of the mineral lead; through the different “metallic” stages into the higher crystal states, these changes proceeding through all the succeeding periods. From then on there gradually unfolded more and more light and life, as opposed to and compared with darkness and death, the state that formerly existed.

SECOND PERIOD “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven.”

The waters typify the fluidic state of consciousness or spirit. And in this period a realm of consciousness near the earth realm was quickened and set apart for the use of the Sons of God, which might be likened to the highest abstract mental realm, from where They could direct the further unfoldment of the dark earth consciousness below. That realm set apart was called the firmament or Heaven.