moving things in the water, the flying things in the air, and the living creatures of the earth.

SIXTH PERIOD “And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness; and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the heavens, over the cattle and all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

This of course symbolized that stage of development or unfoldment of consciousness where the mind conscious of itself could be created and could be given dominion over all those lesser states of the three lower kingdoms of consciousness, including all passions, emotions, feelings, desires and thoughts; and where in the likeness of the Gods Who created these mind centers of consciousness, called men, they could be conscious of themselves as centers of intelligence, and conscious of these Gods as Whom they had been formed. For as may be seen in the above verse, it reads, “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness.”

THUS was the consciousness of earth lifted up in those six great periods of time to where it was possible for Those Who were responsible for it to take personal charge of its further unfoldment. For up to this time They had but directed its previous unfoldment from the Heavens of consciousness, all of so-called “creations” having been done under Their guidance by the Elohim, the lesser Gods, in the mental and astral realms of the earth’s consciousness.

So that now the perfect mental forms of all creatures that were later to have expression in the kingdoms of earth’s consciousness had been created, and “God saw