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512 reached while we entertain a false estimate of the individual who voices this idea. Without a clear and correct sense of the idea, you can never assimilate its divine Principle. The botanist must know the genus and species of a plant, in order to classify it correctly; and as it is with the plant, so is it with man.

Abuse of the motives and character of Paul hid from view the remarkable nature of the apostle, which made him equal to so great a mission. Persecution not only obscured the light of the ages, but was fatal to the persecutor. Why? Because it hid the true idea that Paul presented of God. To misunderstand Paul was to be ignorant of the divine idea he taught; and this lesser ignorance betrayed at once a greater ignorance as to its Principle, — ignorance of the proper life, that leads to its discernment, that works out the ends of eternal good, and destroys the belief in evil, and the practice of it.

The great naturalist, Agassiz, through his microscope, saw the sun in an egg, at the spot of so-called embryotic life. The Revelator beheld the spiritual idea from the very mount of vision. Because of his more spiritual vision, he saw an “angel in the sun:” purity was the symbol of Life and Love. He saw also the spiritual ideal — woman clothed in light, a bride coming down from heaven, grown impersonal and wedded to Wisdom. To him the Pride and the Lamb represented the correlation of Principle and its pure idea, bringing harmony to mortal sense.

John saw the human and divine coincidence as seen in the man Jesus, — divinity embracing humanity, in Life and its demonstration. Yea, John beheld Divine Science, reducing to human perception and understanding the