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

Chapter XVI - The Apocalypse

Doom of the dragon

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field." In the Apocalypse, when nearing its doom, this

evil increases and becomes the great red dragon, swollen

with sin, inflamed with war against spirituality, and ripe

for destruction. It is full of lust and hate, loathing the

brightness of divine glory.

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Revelation xii. 5. And she brought forth a man child,

who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her

child was caught up unto God, and to His throne.

The conflict with purity

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Led on by the grossest element of mortal mind, Herod

decreed the death of every male child in order that the

man Jesus, the masculine representative of the

spiritual idea might never hold sway and de-

prive Herod of his crown. The impersonation of the

spiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our

Master; but "of his kingdom there shall be no end,"

for Christ, God's idea, will eventually rule all nations

and peoples – imperatively, absolutely, finally – with di-

vine Science. This immaculate idea, represented first

by man and, according to the Revelator, last by woman,

will baptize with fire; and the fiery baptism will burn up

the chaff of error with the fervent heat of Truth and Love,

melting and purifying even the gold of human character.

After the stars sang together and all was primeval har-

mony, the material lie made war upon the spiritual idea;

but this only impelled the idea to rise to the zenith of

demonstration, destroying sin, sickness, and death, and

to be caught up unto God, – to be found in its divine

Principle.

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Revelation xii. 6. And the woman fled into the wilder-

ness, where she hath a place prepared of God.