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by a spiritual teacher, would have been couched in correspon- 

 dential and spiritual language, by which the. principles and 

 spirit of the immense truths more interiorly involved, were 

 brought into a diminished form of embodiment, and thus 

 adapted to the rudimentary intellects to which they were ad- 

 dressed. Now, a "day" involves the principle of, and hence 

 spiritually means, one complete revolution. But as each com- 

 plete revolution, whether requiring a long or short period, only 

 involves the same principle or spirit, why may not the grea-t 

 revolutions or cycles of operation which comprise the different 

 periods in our earth's physical history be, in spiritual language, 

 called so many days 1 



That the word " day" is, in the first chapter of Genesis, used 

 in this spiritual sense, without necessarily signifying any thing 

 but the principle or spirit of a day (or a complete revolution 

 of indefinite duration), is further evident from the manner in 

 which the word is used in many other passages, not only by 

 Moses, but by other sacred writers. Thus we read in Genesis 

 ii. 4, 5, " These are the generations of the heavens and the 

 earth when they were created, in THE DAY that the Lord God 

 made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field," 

 etc. Here the six minor revolutions .or days are comprised in 

 one grand revolution or day, in the same way as several small 

 circles or periods may be comprehended in one large one. 

 The occurrence of the word " day" in this enlarged sense here, 

 effectually precludes the right of every one to circumscribe its 

 meaning necessarily to a period of twenty-four hours, as it oc- 

 curs in the previous chapter in reference to the same subject. 



Among the numerous other examples of a similar usage of 

 the term " day," which may be found in other portions of the 

 sacred writings, let the following suffice for our present pur- 

 pose : " And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse which 



