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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 157
Israel and the dealings of a certain God with them are
partially true, the/o is also a spiritual significance that is
far more important than that material history. Even
outlines of the life
though the Gospels contained the great
of an individual called Jesus, they are formulae of initia-
tion showing the experiences which everyone must event-
ually pass through on the way to the truth and the life.
This path was foreseen by the various persons who wrote
the Bible and who were thus prophets and seers, but only
in so far as that was possible at their time and age. A
new era will require a new Bible, a new word.
QUESTION No 79.
What is the viewpoint of the Rosicrucians concerning the
creation of the world in seven days?
Answer: There are two creation stories in the Bible.
One commences with the first verse of the opening chapter
and ends with the third verse of the second chapter of
Genesis. Another account commences with the fourth
verse.
These two creation stories seem to be greatly at variance
in several particular?. The first account states that in the
beginning the earth r/as covered with water; the