The seven days of creation are the steps of our emerging understanding of God's allness
Genesis 1 : 1 to Genesis 2 : 5, with Glossary terms from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and my interpretation.
The First Day — Genesis 1 : 1-5
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
GOD. The great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence. (S&H, p. 587)
HEAVEN. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul. (S&H, p. 587)
EARTH. A sphere; a type of eternity and immortality, which are likewise without beginning or end. To material sense, earth is matter; to spiritual sense, it is a compound idea. (S&H, p. 585)
SPIRIT. Divine substance; Mind; divine Principle; all that is good; God; that only which is perfect, everlasting, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite. (S&H, p. 594)
GOOD. God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action. (S&H, p. 587)
DAY. The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love. “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis i. 5.) The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God's day, and “there shall be no night there.” (S&H, p. 584)
NIGHT. Darkness; doubt; fear. (S&H, p. 592)
EVENING. Mistiness of mortal thought; weariness of mortal mind; obscured views; peace and rest. (S&H, p. 586)
MORNING. Light; symbol of Truth; revelation and progress. (S&H, p. 591)
At first, our thought is dark, and we have no clue about what God is, and therefore we can't know ourselves either. The universe seems cold and hostile. Then the light of understanding comes, bit-by-bit. This is not the beginning of our journey, only the beginning of finding our way back to the Father's house.
The Second Day — Genesis 1 : 6-8
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
FIRMAMENT. Spiritual understanding; the scientific line of demarcation between Truth and error, between Spirit and so-called matter. (S&H, p. 586)
At first we feel overwhelmed, like being thrown in the deep end of the pool. All we thought we know needs to be re-evaluated through this new lens, but then we start to gain a foothold.
The Third Day — Genesis 1 : 9-13
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Things begin to get clearer, but I not ready to demonstrate this understanding. The seed, however, is growing. Always seems important at this stage to be quiet, and let it grow without talking too much — or even at all — about it.
The Fourth Day — Genesis 1 : 14-19
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
I start to see more clearly the distinction between Truth and error — in regard to this understanding — just a little at first, but enough to know when a judgment based on the understanding is erroneous or not.
The Fifth Day — Genesis 1 : 20-23
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.
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.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Successively, I am called to demonstrate using this understanding. The obstacles and resistance get bigger, but the reward of using the understanding is getting too immediate to avoid.
The Sixth Day — Genesis 1 : 24-31
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
My understanding of God's allness, and my place and everyone's place in that allness becomes more apparent.
The Seventh Day — Genesis 2 : 1-5
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
LORD. In the Hebrew, this term is sometimes employed as a title, which has the inferior sense of master, or ruler. In the Greek, the word kurios almost always has this lower sense, unless specially coupled with the name God. Its higher signification is Supreme Ruler. (S&H, p. 590)
The beauty of God's creation is that everything that happens on a large scale is mirrors in how it happens on a small scale. This is why we can learn a little about Christian Science and then go out and start demonstrating right away.
I have the understanding, and have proved it — to myself, anyway — enough to know it is mine. I can rest with this, until I feel led to use it again.
From here on out
I must protect this understanding from the mist that tries to take it from me. There can be no pride in my understanding, or envy of another's; no fear of losing it; no failure to use it; no misconception of where it comes from; and, no reversal, as God's work is done. I must be ready to use this understanding as He directs, when He directs. I must be ever grateful for the blessing that each bit of understanding brings. The battles won and victories gained here, encourage me when God calls on me to learn and understand even more.