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Rh the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Animal magnetism — that ancient belief of Mind in matter, that old Serpent whose name is Devil, evil, claiming intelligence and power to harm man and deceive mortals, — is this delusion; and it is cast out by Christ, Truth, and the spiritual idea, and so proven to be powerless. The words “cast down to the earth” show the Dragon to be speechless matter, dust to dust, and as a talker it must have been a lie from the beginning. His angels, or messages, are cast out with the author. The beast and the false prophets are lust and hypocrisy. Those wolves in sheep's clothing are killed by the Lamb.

Divine Science shows how the Lamb slays the wolf. Innocence and Truth overcome guilt and error. Ever since the foundation of the world, ever since error would establish material belief, evil has tried to slay the Lamb; but Science is able to destroy evil.

The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse typifies the divine method of warfare in Science, and its glorious results. The following chapters depict the results of trying to meet error with error. The spiritual interpretation is obscure, but I have discovered it. It follows the order that is used in Genesis. First the true method of creation is set forth in Genesis, and then the false. Here, also, the Revelator first exhibits the true warfare, and then the false.

Revelation xii. 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven: “Now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ; for the accuser