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568 Spirit, in Love. The word temple also means body. The Revelator was familiar with Jesus' use of this word,

as when he spoke of his material body as the Temple, to be temporarily rebuilt (John ii. 21). What further proof need we of the real man's incorporeality than this, that John saw Heaven and earth, with “no Temple [body] therein,” and this kingdom of God “is within us,” — is within reach of man's consciousness here, and the spiritual idea reveals it. In Divine Science man possesses this recognition of harmony consciously, in proportion to his understanding of God.

The term Lord, as used in our version of the Old Testament, is often synonymous with Jehovah, and ex-

presses the Jewish concept, not yet elevated to deific apprehension, through spiritual transfiguration. Yet the word gradually approaches a higher meaning. This human sense of Deity yields to the divine sense, even as the material sense of personality yields to the incorporeal sense of God and man, as the infinite Principle and infinite idea, — as one Father, with His universal family, held in the Gospel of Love. The Lamb's wife presents the spiritual unity of male and female as no longer two, but one; and this compounded spiritual idea reflects God as infinite Mind, not as a corporeal Being. In this divinely united spiritual consciousness there is no impediment to the perfectibility of man in eternal bliss.

This spiritual, holy habitation hath no boundary or limit; but its four cardinal points are: first, the Word

of Life, Truth, and Love; second, the Christ, the spiritual idea of God; third, Christianity, which is the outcome of the divine Principle of