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Rh through the understanding of God. The Gabriel of His presence has no contests. To ever-present Love there is no error, — no sin, sickness, or death. Against such the dragon warreth not long, for he is killed by the divine impulse. Truth and Love prevail against the dragon, because the dragon cannot safely war with them.

That false claim — that ancient belief, that old serpent whose name is Devil (evil), claiming that there is

power in matter either to benefit or to injure mortals — is pure delusion, the red dragon; 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 nothingness, dust to dust; and therefore, in his pretence of being a talker, he must have been a lie from the beginning. His angels, or messages, are cast out with their author. The beast and the false prophets are lust and hypocrisy. Those wolves in sheep's clothing are detected and killed by innocence, the Lamb of Love.

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 this lie, called evil. The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse typifies the divine method of warfare in Science, and its glorious results. The following chapters depict