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Rh This angel had in his hand a “little book,” open for all to read and understand. Did this same book contain

the revelation of Divine Science, whose “right foot” or dominant power was upon the sea, — upon elementary, latent error, the source of all error's visible forms? His left foot was upon the earth; that is, a secondary power was exercised upon visible error and audible sin. The “still, small voice” of Scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean, to the globe's remotest bound. The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, “as when a lion roareth.” It is heard in the desert, and dark places of fear. It arouses the “seven thunders” of evil, and stirs their latent forces to utter the full diapason of secret tones. Then is the power of Truth demonstrated, — made manifest in the destruction of error. Then will a voice from harmony cry: “Go and take the little book. . . . Take it and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter; but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.” Mortal, obey the heavenly evangel. Take up Divine Science. Read it from beginning to end. Study it, ponder it. It will be indeed sweet at its first taste, when it heals you; but murmur not over Truth, if you find its digestion bitter. When you approach nearer and nearer to this divine Principle, when you eat the divine body thereof, thus partaking of the nature, or primal elements, of Truth and Love, do not be surprised or discontented because you must share the hemlock cup and eat the bitter herbs, for the Israelites of old, at the Pascal meal, thus prefigured this perilous passage out of bondage into the El Dorado of faith and hope.

The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse — or