In this period the consciousness “under” the heavens was now in the stage where the densest states could be separated from the more ethereal, and was symbolized by the gathering the waters together into one place and letting the dry land appear. “And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathered waters the Seas.” Meaning that then even as now there were some states of consciousness less material than others, and that all are brought by the law of spiritual gravity to their respective levels.

THIRD PERIOD And then the Sons of God sent a further Spiritual impulse into the denser states causing the Earth to “put forth grass, herbs yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,” symbolizing the response of consciousness to the Spiritual light being poured down into it, and causing it to grow and unfold and “bear seeds and fruit,” or to reach out in the darkness to find the light, thereby sowing the seeds of future growth and unfoldment that in time developed and bore fruit of its kind—all of which symbolized the birth in consciousness of those qualities which were later to outmanifest as the so-called vegetable kingdom.

FOURTH PERIOD “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for the seasons, and for days and years.” “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.”

Which symbolized the Light of God’s Countenance (the Sun), which could always be seen when consciousness faced that Light, called the day periods; and the light of memory (the Moon), when consciousness turned away from that Light and lived in the shadow caused