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Rh revelation than the horoscope was to them displayed upon the empyrean, earth and heaven were still bright, and bird and blossom were glad in God's

perennial and happy sunshine, golden with Truth. So we have goodness and beauty to gladden the heart; but man, left to the hypotheses of material sense, unexplained by Science, is as the wandering comet or desolate star, — “a weary searcher for a viewless home.”

The earth's diurnal rotation is invisible to the physical eye, and the sun seems moving from east to west,

instead of the earth from west to east. Until this false testimony of the eye was rebuked by clearer views of the everlasting facts, it deluded the judgment and induced false conclusions. Science shows appearances to be often erroneous, and corrects these errors by the simple rule that the greater controls the lesser. The sun is the central stillness, so far as our solar system is concerned, and the earth revolves about the sun once a year, besides turning daily on its own axis.

As thus indicated, astronomical order imitates the action of divine Principle; and this reflection of God is thus brought nearer the spiritual fact, and is allied to Divine Science, as displayed in the everlasting government of the universe.

The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the real Science of Being, and so creates a reign of discord,

— assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and death; but the great facts of Life, rightly understood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false witnesses, and reveal the Kingdom of Heaven, — the actual reign of harmony on earth. The material