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Psychological interpretation
Genesis 1:26-28 read psychologically: man himself is the earth to be subdued. The creeping things and animals are his passions and emotions, the fish of the deep his invisible states, the fowls of the air his ideas. Not knowing this he goes out to conquer the world and sees himself a grasshopper among giants; knowing it he is supreme within the circle of his own consciousness, tames (subdues) himself, and has dominion over every idea he chooses to accept.
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Bible wordings
Genesis 1:28 | Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it and have dominion over all the fish of the sea and all the fowls of the air, and every moving thing that moves upon the earth
Own wordings
man himself is the great psychological earth that must be subdued
In the deep of man actually live the invisible states symbolised as fish
man as an individual is supreme within the circle of his own consciousness
Every fowl of the air is truly the idea you entertain
You have dominion over every idea in your mind
the earth is self to be subdued, not by beating self