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564 Love fulfils the law in Christian Science, and nothing short of this divine Principle, understood and

demonstrated, can ever furnish the vision of the Apocalypse, open the seven seals of error with Truth, or uncover the myriad illusions of sin, sickness, and death. Under the supremacy of Spirit, it will be seen and acknowledged that matter must disappear.

In Revelation xxi. 1 we read:

The Revelator had not yet passed the transitional stage in human experience called death, but he already

saw a new Heaven and a new earth. Through what sense came this vision to Saint John? Not through the material visual organs for seeing; for optics are inadequate to take in so wonderful a scene. Were this new Heaven and new earth terrestrial or celestial, material or spiritual? They could not be the former, for the human sense of space is unable to grasp such a view. The Revelator was on our plane of existence, while yet beholding what the eye cannot see, — that which is invisible to the uninspired thought. This testimony of Holy Writ sustains the fact in Science, that the heavens and earth, to one human consciousness, — or that consciousness which God bestows, — is spiritual; while to another, the unillumined human mind, the vision is material. This shows unmistakably that what we term matter and Spirit indicate states and stages of consciousness.