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In the first chapter of Genesis it reads: “And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of

the waters called He seas.” In the Apocalypse it is written: “And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first Heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” In Saint John's vision, Heaven and earth stand for spiritual ideas; and the sea — as a symbol of tempest-tossed human concepts, advancing and receding — is represented as having passed away. The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness.

The way of error is awful to contemplate. The illusion of sin is without hope or God. If man's spiritual

gravitation and attraction to one Father, in whom all live, move, and have their Being, should be lost, and man should be governed by corporeality instead of Principle, by body instead of Soul, he would be annihilated. Created by flesh instead of by Spirit, starting from humanity instead of from God, mortal man would be governed by himself.

The blind leading the blind, both would fall.