Chapter XVI - The Apocalypse
Hidden ways of iniquity
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not so willing to point out the evil in human thought,
not so willing to point out the evil in human thought,
and expose evil's hidden mental ways of accomplishing
iniquity.
Christly warning
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Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary
Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary
to ensure the avoidance of the evil? Because people like
you better when you tell them their virtues
than when you tell them their vices. It re-
quires the spirit of our blessed Master to tell a man his
faults, and so risk human displeasure for the sake of doing
right and benefiting our race. Who is telling mankind
of the foe in ambush? Is the informer one who sees the
foe? If so, listen and be wise. Escape from evil, and
designate those as unfaithful stewards who have seen the
danger and yet have given no warning.
The armor of divinity
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At all times and under all circumstances, overcome
At all times and under all circumstances, overcome
evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply
the wisdom and the occasion for a victory
over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love,
human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a
higher humanity will unite all interests in the one
divinity.
Pure religion enthroned
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Through trope and metaphor, the Revelator, immortal
Through trope and metaphor, the Revelator, immortal
scribe of Spirit and of a true idealism, furnishes the
mirror in which mortals may see their own
image. In significant figures he depicts the
thoughts which he beholds in mortal mind. Thus he
rebukes the conceit of sin, and foreshadows its doom.
With his spiritual strength, he has opened wide the gates
of glory, and illumined the night of paganism with the
sublime grandeur of divine Science, outshining sin, sorcery,
lust, and hypocrisy. He takes away mitre and sceptre.
He enthrones pure and undefiled religion, and lifts on
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high only those who have washed their robes white in
high only those who have washed their robes white in
obedience and suffering.
Native nothingness of sin
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Thus we see, in both the first and last books of the
Thus we see, in both the first and last books of the
Bible, – in Genesis and in the Apocalypse, – that sin
is to be Christianly and scientifically reduced
to its native nothingness. "Love one an-
other" (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound
counsel of the inspired writer. In Science we are chil-
dren of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mor-
tal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the
inverted image of spirituality.
Fulfilment of the Law
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Love fulfils the law of Christian Science, and nothing
Love fulfils the law of Christian Science, and nothing
short of this divine Principle, understood and demon-
strated, can ever furnish the vision of the
Apocalypse, open the seven seals of error with
Truth, or uncover the myriad illusions of sin, sickness,
and death. Under the supremacy of Spirit, it will be seen
and acknowledged that matter must disappear.
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In Revelation xxi. 1 we read: –
In Revelation xxi. 1 we read: –
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was
no more sea.
Man's present possibilities
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The Revelator had not yet passed the transitional
The Revelator had not yet passed the transitional
stage in human experience called death, but he already
saw a new heaven and a new earth. Through
what sense came this vision to St. John? Not
through the material visual organs for seeing, for optics
are inadequate to take in so wonderful a scene. Were this
new heaven and new earth terrestrial or celestial, mate-