Text: (Q) Please explain the existence of darkness before the existence of light. (A) . . . He has not willed that any soul should perish, but from the beginning has prepared a way of escape! What, then, is the meaning of the separation? Bringing into being the various phases that the soul may find in its manifested forms the consciousness and awareness of its separation, and itself, by that through which it passes in all the various spheres of its awareness. Hence the separation, and light and darkness. Darkness, that it had separated¯that a soul had separated itself from the light. Hence He called into being Light, that the awareness began. Hence we look out and see the heavens, the stars; and, as the psalmist has said: "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handiwork, as << DAY>> unto << DAY>> uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge" . . . (Q) [288]: Is it true that << DAY>> and night are condensed or miniature copies of incarnations into the earth and into planetary or spiritual sojourns; they in turn being miniature copies of what took place in the beginning? (A) Very good, if you understood just what all this means! It¹s a very good illustration of that which has just been given; as to how there is the evolution of the soul, evolution of the mind, but not evolution of matter¯save through mind, and that which builds same . . . (Q) [295]: May I have a message on << DAY>> and Night that will help me in my contribution to the lesson? (A) << THINK>> on the experiences of self, as self has passed from darkness unto light, from << DAY>> unto night, in the mental associations of that which makes the awareness of that which would make of thee a channel of blessings to many. And then there may be seen in self¹s experience the meaning of what is << DAY>> , and what is Night. The ability to become aware; or, to put into other words, to become conscious is << DAY>> and Night . . . (Q) [379]: May I have a message that will help me in contributing to the lesson? (A) In self¹s own physical self there may be the illustration of << DAY>> and Night. Each element, each corpuscle of the body is a universe in itself, or a universe on the beginning of power and force. When there is that called dis-ease, there becomes the unawareness or the darkness¯of the light that may become Life in its manifested form. So, from << DAY>> and Night gain this lesson: Only in the experiencing of that which is the awareness of same may we know what is << DAY>> and Night. Cayce (262-56)

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