field.” In the Apocalypse, when nearing its doom, this evil increases and becomes the great red dragon, swollen with sin, inflamed with war against spirituality, and ripe for destruction. It is full of lust and hate, loathing the brightness of divine glory.
Revelation xii. 5. And she brought forth a man child,
who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
child was caught up unto God, and to His throne.
Led on by the grossest element of mortal mind, Herod
decreed the death of every male child in order that the
The conflict with purity
man Jesus, the masculine representative of the
spiritual idea, might never hold sway and
deprive Herod of his crown. The impersonation of the
spiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our
Master; but “of his kingdom there shall be no end,”
for Christ, God's idea, will eventually rule all nations
and peoples imperatively, absolutely, finally with
divine Science. This immaculate idea, represented first
by man and, according to the Revelator, last by woman,
will baptize with fire; and the fiery baptism will burn up
the chaff of error with the fervent heat of Truth and Love,
melting and purifying even the gold of human character.
After the stars sang together and all was primeval
harmony, the material lie made war upon the spiritual idea;
but this only impelled the idea to rise to the zenith of
demonstration, destroying sin, sickness, and death, and
to be caught up unto God, — to be found in its divine
Principle.
Revelation xii. 6. And the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God.
