Chapter XVI - The Apocalypse
Revelation's pure zenith
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This heavenly city, lighted by the Sun of Righteous-
This heavenly city, lighted by the Sun of Righteous-
ness, – this New Jerusalem, this infinite All, which to
us seems hidden in the mist of remoteness, –
reached St. John's vision while yet he taber-
nacled with mortals.
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In Revelation xxi. 22, further describing this holy city,
In Revelation xxi. 22, further describing this holy city,
the beloved Disciple writes: –
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And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb are the temple of it.
The shrine celestial
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There was no temple, – that is, no material structure
There was no temple, – that is, no material structure
in which to worship God, for He must be worshipped
in spirit and in love. The word temple also
means body. The Revelator was familiar
with Jesus' use of this word, as when Jesus spoke of his
material body as the temple to be temporarily rebuilt
(John ii. 21). What further indication need we of the
real man's incorporeality than this, that John saw
heaven and earth with "no temple [body] therein"?
This kingdom of God "is within you," – is within
reach of man's consciousness here, and the spiritual
idea reveals it. In divine Science, man possesses this
recognition of harmony consciously in proportion to his
understanding of God.
Divine sense of Deity
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The term Lord, as used in our version of the Old
The term Lord, as used in our version of the Old
Testament, is often synonymous with Jehovah, and ex-
presses the Jewish concept, not yet elevated
to deific apprehension through spiritual trans-
figuration. Yet the word gradually approaches a higher
meaning. This human sense of Deity yields to the divine
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sense, even as the material sense of personality yields
sense, even as the material sense of personality yields
to the incorporeal sense of God and man as the infinite
Principle and infinite idea, – as one Father with His uni-
versal family, held in the gospel of Love. The Lamb's
wife presents the unity of male and female as no longer
two wedded individuals, but as two individual natures
in one; and this compounded spiritual individuality re-
flects God as Father-Mother, not as a corporeal being.
In this divinely united spiritual consciousness, there is no
impediment to eternal bliss, – to the perfectibility of
God's creation.
The city of our God
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This spiritual, holy habitation has no boundary
This spiritual, holy habitation has no boundary
nor limit, but its four cardinal points are: first, the
Word of Life, Truth, and Love; second,
the Christ, the spiritual idea of God; third,
Christianity, which is the outcome of the divine Prin-
ciple of the Christ-idea in Christian history; fourth,
Christian Science, which to-day and forever interprets
this great example and the great Exemplar. This city
of our God has no need of sun or satellite, for Love
is the light of it, and divine Mind is its own interpreter.
All who are saved must walk in this light. Mighty
potentates and dynasties will lay down their honors
within the heavenly city. Its gates open towards light
and glory both within and without, for all is good, and
nothing can enter that city, which "defileth. . . . or
maketh a lie."
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The writer's present feeble sense of Christian Science
The writer's present feeble sense of Christian Science
closes with St. John's Revelation as recorded by the
great apostle, for his vision is the acme of this Science
as the Bible reveals it.
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In the following Psalm one word shows, though faintly,
In the following Psalm one word shows, though faintly,