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| 1 | God is within you." This spiritual consciousness is |
| | therefore a present possibility. |
| 3 | The Revelator also takes in another view, adapted to |
| | console the weary pilgrim, journeying "uphill all the way." |
| | He writes, in Revelation xxi. 9:-- |
| 6 | And there came unto me one of the seven angels which |
| | had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked |
| | with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, |
| 9 | the Lamb's wife. |
| | This ministry of Truth, this message from divine Love, |
| | carried John away in spirit. It exalted him till he be- |
| 12 | came conscious of the spiritual facts of being | Vials of
wrath and
consolation |
| | and the "New Jerusalem, coming down from |
| | God, out of heaven,"--the spiritual outpour- |
| 15 | ing of bliss and glory, which he describes as the city |
| | which "lieth foursquare." The beauty of this text is, |
| | that the sum total of human misery, represented by |
| 18 | the seven angelic vials full of seven plagues, has full |
| | compensation in the law of Love. Note this,--that the |
| | very message, or swift-winged thought, which poured |
| 21 | forth hatred and torment, brought also the experience |
| | which at last lifted the seer to behold the great city, the |
| | four equal sides of which were heaven-bestowed and |
| 24 | heaven-bestowing. |
| | [[[Think of this, dear reader, for it will lift the sack- |
| | cloth from your eyes, and you will behold the soft- |
| 27 | winged dove descending upon you. The very | Spiritual
wedlock |
| | circumstance, which your suffering sense |
| | deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel |
| 30 | entertained unawares. Then thought gently whispers: |
| 1 | "Come hither! Arise from your false consciousness |
| | into the true sense of Love, and behold the Lamb's |
| 3 | wife,--Love wedded to its own spiritual idea." Then |
| | cometh the marriage feast, for this revelation will de- |
| | stroy forever the physical plagues imposed by material |
| 6 | sense.]]] |
| | This sacred city, described in the Apocalypse (xxi. 16) |
| | as one that "lieth foursquare" and cometh "down from |
| 9 | God, out of heaven," represents the light and | The city
foursquare |
| | glory of divine Science. The builder and |
| | maker of this New Jerusalem is God, as we read in the |
| 12 | book of Hebrews; and it is "a city which hath founda- |
| | tions." The description is metaphoric. Spiritual teach- |
| | ing must always be by symbols. Did not Jesus illustrate |
| 15 | the truths he taught by the mustard-seed and the prodi- |
| | gal? Taken in its allegorical sense, the description of |
| | the city as foursquare has a profound meaning. The |
| 18 | four sides of our city are the Word, Christ, Christianity, |
| | and divine Science; "and the gates of it shall not be shut |
| | at all by day: for there shall be no night there." This |
| 21 | city is wholly spiritual, as its four sides indicate. |
| | As the Psalmist saith, "Beautiful for situation, the |
| | joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of |
| 24 | the north, the city of the great King." It is | The royally
divine gates |
| | indeed a city of the Spirit, fair, royal, and |
| | square. Northward, its gates open to the North Star, |
| 27 | the Word, the polar magnet of Revelation; eastward, |
| | to the star seen by the Wisemen of the Orient, who fol- |
| | lowed it to the manger of Jesus; southward, to the |
| 30 | genial tropics, with the Southern Cross in the skies, |
| | --the Cross of Calvary, which binds human society |
| | into solemn union; westward, to the grand realization |
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