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562 Jesus, and John saw in those days the spiritual idea as the Messiah, who would baptize with the Holy

Ghost, — divine Science. As Elias presented the idea of the fatherhood of God, which Jesus afterwards manifested, so the Revelator completed this figure with woman, typifying the spiritual idea of God's motherhood. The moon is under her feet. This idea reveals the universe as secondary and tributary to Spirit, from which the universe borrows its reflected light, substance, life, and intelligence.

The spiritual idea is crowned with twelve stars. The twelve tribes of Israel with all mortals, — separated by

belief from man's divine origin and the true idea, — will through much tribulation yield to the activities of the divine Principle of man in the harmony of Science. These are the stars in the crown of rejoicing. They are the lamps in the spiritual heavens of the age, which show the workings of the spiritual idea by healing the sick and the sinning, and by manifesting the light which shines “unto the perfect day” as the night of materialism wanes.

Also the spiritual idea is typified by a woman in travail, waiting to be delivered of her sweet promise, but

remembering no more her sorrow for joy that the birth goes on; for great is the idea, and the travail portentous.