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   1  rance of Truth and Love. The understanding of Truth
     and Love, the Principle which works out the ends of eternal
   3  good and destroys both faith in evil and the practice of
     evil, leads to the discernment of the divine idea.
         Agassiz, through his microscope, saw the sun in an
   6  egg at a point of so-called embryonic life. Because of
     his more spiritual vision, St. John saw an

    Espousals
    supernal

     "angel standing in the sun." The Revelator
   9  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
  12  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,
  15  God and His Christ, bringing harmony to earth.
         [[[John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in
     the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life
  18  and its demonstration,--reducing to human

    Divinity and
    humanity

     perception and understanding the Life which
     is God. In divine revelation, material and corporeal self-
  21  hood disappear, and the spiritual idea is understood.]]]
         The woman in the Apocalypse symbolizes generic man,
     the spiritual idea of God; she illustrates the coincidence
  24  of God and man as the divine Principle and

    Spiritual
    sunlight

     divine idea. The Revelator symbolizes Spirit
     by the sun. The spiritual idea is clad with the radiance
  27  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
  30  of the Fourth Gospel it is written, "There was a man sent
     from God . . . to bear witness of that Light."
         John the Baptist prophesied the coming of the im-

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