thereby, called the night periods; the stars being the glimmerings of light that at other times appeared in consciousness.

FIFTH PERIOD “And God said, Let the waters swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moveth in the waters, and every winged bird after its kind. And God blessed them saying, Be fruitful and multiply.”

The “living creatures” in the waters symbolize the forces in the etherial or astral realms born of and surrounding the earth’s consciousness, that later would manifest as emotions, feelings, desires, etc.; and the “birds that fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven,” the forces of the mental realms born of and surrounding the astral realms, that later were to express as ideas, thoughts, concepts and beliefs.

“And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind. And it was so.”

Likewise were the “living creatures of the earth” the purely material forces residing in the densest states of consciousness that were later to manifest as the “cattle” type of men, those who labor dumbly for others; the “creeping” or subtle, snake-like type, those who use other men to serve their selfish ends; and the “beasts of the earth,” or the wholly evil type who allow their animal passions to rule them entirely and who ruthlessly crush and those who oppose them. But these forces, long before they manifested in and influenced men, were then actual forces of consciousness resident in the dark mass called the earth consciousness, and which were later to outmanifest as the animal kingdom, including all the