Life that is God. In this divine revelation men grow out of material and personal selfhood, into the spiritual ideal, and become their original selves, all sin, sickness, and death being destroyed.
The Woman in the Apocalypse is the vignette, and stands for the spiritual idea, which illustrates the Science of God and man, — Divine Principle and its divine idea. The Revelator symbolizes Spirit by the sun. The Woman is clad with the radiance of spiritual Truth, and matter is put under her feet. The light portrayed is neither solar nor lunar, but spiritual Life which is “the light of men,” shining in darkness, and comprehended not. In the first chapter of the fourth Gospel it is written, “There was a man sent from God . . . to bear witness of this light.”
John the Baptist prophesied the coming of the immaculate Jesus, and declared that this spiritual idea was the Messiah who would baptize with the Holy Ghost, — Divine Science. The Son of the Blessed represents the Fatherhood of God; and the Revelator completes this figure with the woman, or type of God's Motherhood.
The moon is under her feet. The spiritual idea reveals the universe and man as secondary, and tributary to Spirit, from which they borrow their reflected Substance, Life, and Intelligence, — Spirit not being material.
The quintessence of the spiritual idea may be summarized as follows: There is no matter; there is one Mind, or God; Mind is infinite, supplying all intelligence; the universe and man are individualized divine ideas, reflecting the One Father and Mother, or Divine Principle, and illustrating purity and brotherly love; all things are subordinate to the Infinite One.
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