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Rh of Truth and Love. The understanding of Truth and Love, the Principle which works out the ends of eternal good and destroys both faith in evil and the practice of evil, leads to the discernment of the divine idea.

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

his more spiritual vision, St. John saw an “angel standing in the sun.” The Revelator beheld the spiritual idea from the mount of vision. Purity was the symbol of Life and Love. The Revelator saw also the spiritual ideal as a woman clothed in light, a bride coming down from heaven, wedded to the Lamb of Love. To John, “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, 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 idea is understood.

The woman in the Apocalypse symbolizes generic man, the spiritual idea of God; she illustrates the coincidence

of God and man as the divine Principle and divine idea. The Revelator symbolizes Spirit by the sun. The spiritual idea is clad with the radiance of spiritual Truth, and matter is put under her 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 that Light.”

John the Baptist prophesied the coming of the