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Rh Accompanying this Scientific consciousness was another revelation, even the declaration from Heaven

enthroned harmony, that God, the divine Principle of bliss, is ever with men, and they are His people. Thus man was regarded no longer as a miserable sinner, but as the blessed child of God. Why? Because Saint John's corporeal sense of the heavens and earth had vanished; and in place thereof was his spiritual sense, the subjective state, whereby he could see the new Heaven and earth, which involve the spiritual sense and consciousness of all things. This is Scriptural authority for concluding that such a recognition of Being is, and has been, possible to men in this present state of existence, that we can become conscious, here and now, of a cessation of death, sorrow, and pain. This is indeed a foretaste of absolute Christian Science. Take heart, dear sufferer, for this reality of Being will surely appear sometime and in some way. There will be no more pain, and all tears will be wiped away. When you read this, remember Jesus' words, “The Kingdom of God is within you.” This spiritual consciousness is therefore a present possibility.

The Revelator also takes in another view, adapted to console the weary pilgrim, journeying “uphill all the way.”

He writes, in Revelation xxi. 9:

This ministry of Truth, this message from divine Love, carried John away in Spirit. It exalted him