Chapter 16: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter XVI - The Apocalypse

Persecution harmful

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rance of Truth and Love. The understanding of Truth

and Love, the Principle which works out the ends of eternal

good and destroys both faith in evil and the practice of

evil, leads to the discernment of the divine idea.

Espousals supernal

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Agassiz, through his microscope, saw the sun in an

egg at a point of so-called embryonic life. Because of

his more spiritual vision, St. John saw an

"angel standing in the sun." The Revelator

beheld the spiritual idea from the mount of vision.

Purity was the symbol of Life and Love. The Revelator

saw also the spiritual ideal as a woman clothed in light, a

bride coming down from heaven, wedded to the Lamb

of Love. To John, "the bride" and "the Lamb" repre-

sented the correlation of divine Principle and spiritual idea,

God and His Christ, bringing harmony to earth.

Divinity and humanity

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John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in

the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life

and its demonstration, – reducing to human

perception and understanding the Life which

is God. In divine revelation, material and corporeal self‑

hood disappear, and the spiritual idea is understood.

Spiritual sunlight

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The woman in the Apocalypse symbolizes generic man,

the spiritual idea of God; she illustrates the coincidence

of God and man as the divine Principle and

divine idea. The Revelator symbolizes Spirit

by the sun. The spiritual idea is clad with the radiance

of spiritual Truth, and matter is put under her feet. The

light portrayed is really neither solar nor lunar, but spirit-

ual Life, which is "the light of men." In the first chapter

of the Fourth Gospel it is written, "There was a man sent

from God . . . to bear witness of that Light."

Spiritual idea revealed

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John the Baptist prophesied the coming of the im-