What Does the Dry Land Mean in the Book of Genesis?
Within the definitions of time, the present moment is the Firmament or Vault, and the experience appearing in the present is the Dry Land. What is the present in time is the Dry Land in space: the experience appearing in a concrete material form.
The definitions of the laws were not established in chronological order but according to the order in which they build upon one another. After the definitions of time comes the definition of the Sea and the Dry Land, because before that, the sequence in which experiences appear would not have been interpretable. Likewise, before time, the definition of sequence itself would not have been interpretable, because without time, the concept of sequence cannot be interpreted.
The definition of time makes it possible for the perception of the material world to be defined as limited in both time and space, thereby establishing a sequence of experiences.
The sequence of experiences, in turn, makes it possible for experiences to appear one after another, so that each individual experience may reveal a particular law or a particular manifestation of a law.
The sequence of experiences also makes it possible for experiences to repeat. This is likewise a fundamental condition of knowing, because the recurring appearance of experiences makes it possible to recognize the laws that manifest.
The laws appearing in the material world are constant, timeless, and unchangeable, because at the end of the Sixth Day God declared creation complete and declared that He would define no further laws.
This permanence makes it possible for the same laws to appear in the same way under the same circumstances, thereby becoming recognizable to the intellect.
Therefore, chronological order gives special significance to the experience appearing in the present, because while we can imagine the past and the future only according to the knowledge currently available to us, the experience appearing in the present always appears according to all the laws of the world.
Thus, the laws manifesting within present experience confirm our correct understanding of the laws of the world, reveal our incorrect or false understandings, and uncover new laws, which the intellect is able to recognize and define through repetition.
Therefore, the Dry Land is the reality appearing in the present moment — that which we perceive.
According to the definitions of time, the appearance of reality unfolds in our lives as a process. The present continuously changes and continuously reveals the manifestations of the laws of the world.
The sequence of experiences appearing in the present is life, the fire in which our knowledge continuously changes and grows, is strengthened through recurring experiences, and is purified through experiences that refute our false understandings.
God's laws are timeless, constant, and unchangeable, but the interpretations created by the Human to describe reality continuously change, because reality itself does not change. Rather, time makes reality appear to us as a continuously unfolding process, because our perception, like a projector, continuously presents experiences to consciousness in the defined sequence.
As we come to know our experiences, our understanding of the laws of the world continuously changes, and therefore our knowledge continuously changes. Our knowledge is, in reality, the Human, because consciousness identifies with what it comes to know.
We identify with the definitions we create through our interpretation of the world. These definitions are what we are, and they continuously change as we come to know the world, because the world exists timelessly. Therefore, during this process, it is in reality the definitions created by the Human that change.
Thus, the Dry Land is the experience appearing in the present — the portion of reality that we perceive at that moment, because our perception is limited in both time and space. This limitation makes it possible for us to distinguish the laws of the world from one another and to come to know them individually.