The Fifth Day
The Creatures of Emotion
Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Interpretation:
The waters that are being referred to are the waters that were gathered together into one place, so that the dry land could appear. The Seas are the seas of emotion, i.e. the emotional mind. The Earth which is a reference to the subconscious mind is where knowledge is stored, and so it can be seem that the separation of the waters from dry land represents the separation of emotion from knowledge stored in the subconscious mind.
The moving creature that hath life that are brought forth from the seas of emotion are the actual emotions.
The emotions are referred to as creatures because they were created. They are moving because they are animated by desire, and they have life because in them is the light of understanding.
The fowl that are brought forth abundantly are thoughts emanating from the emotional mind. They fly above the subconscious mind into the conscious mind, in other words they are emotional thoughts.
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Interpretation:
It can be seen here that the Self creates two types of emotions, those that stay in the emotional mind, and those that are able to leave the emotional mind. It is the Self that creates all of its emotions.
Those emotions that stay in the emotional mind are only felt, whereas those that leave the emotional mind are both felt and seen. It is these that determine the prevailing mood. The great whales represent the strongest and most powerful emotions that are felt.
It should be realized that at this point all emotions were righteous and pleasurable, in other words; good.
Heaven (the conscious mind) ends where the subconscious mind begins. The subconscious mind is separated into the Seas and the Dry land, both are a part of the Earth, but exist separately.
The lower part of the conscious mind is likened to AIR and this is also referred to as the atmosphere, where what is felt determines the Self’s mood.
Gen 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Interpretation:
And the Self blessed its emotions saying; bring much pleasure and generate more of your kind and fill the emotional mind, and let the emotional thoughts increase in the subconscious mind.
Gen 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Interpretation:
And another righteous desire had been fulfilled in this the fifth day.