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Rh of the proper Life, which leads to its discernment, works out the ends of eternal Good, and destroys both the belief in evil, and the practice of it.

Agassiz, through his microscope, saw the sun in an egg, at a point of so-called embryotic life. Because of

his more spiritual vision, Saint John saw an “angel in the sun.” The Revelator beheld the spiritual idea from the mount of vision. Purity was the symbol of Life and Love. He saw also the spiritual ideal, as a woman clothed in light, a bride coming down from Heaven, wedded to the Lamb of Love. To him, the Bride and the Lamb represented the correlation of divine Principle and spiritual idea, God and his Christ, bringing harmony to earth.

John saw the human and divine coincidence, as shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity, in Life

and its demonstration, — reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God. In divine revelation, material and corporeal selfhood disappear, and the spiritual ideal is understood.

The woman in the Apocalypse is the vignette, which illustrates as man the spiritual idea of God, — and God

and man as the Divine Principle and Divine idea. The Revelator symbolizes Spirit by the sun. The idea is clad with the radiance of spiritual Truth, and matter is put under its feet. The light portrayed is really neither solar nor lunar, but spiritual Life, which is “the light of men.” In the first chapter of the Fourth Gospel it is written, “There was a man sent from God. . . to bear witness of this light.”

John the Baptist prophesied the coming of the immaculate Jesus, and he saw in those days the spiritual idea as