Upon the Woman's head is a crown of twelve stars. The twelve tribes of Israel, and all mankind, — separated by belief from their divine origin and their true spiritual being, — shall return, through the spiritual idea, to their Divine Principle, and dwell in the harmony of Science. These are the stars in her crown of rejoicing. Like lamps in the spiritual heavens of this age are the workings of this ideal, healing the sick and the sinner, manifesting the light that shall shine “unto the perfect day,” when the night of materialism shall flee before the millennial dawn.
Revelation xii. 2. And she, being with child, cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
The spiritual idea, typified by the waiting Woman, weeps as in human pain, to be delivered of its sweet promise; and she remembereth no more her sorrow, for joy that the birth goes prosperously on. So big is the idea, the travail is so portentous, that the birth must be slow and the pangs unspeakable, but still she waiteth with motherly patience.
Revelation xii. 3. And there appeared another wonder in heaven: and behold, a great red Dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Human sense may well marvel at discord; while, to a diviner sense, harmony is the real and discord the unreal. You may well be astonished at sin, sickness, and death. You may well be perplexed at human fear. You may be still more astounded at Hatred, which lifts his hydra head, showing his horns in the many inventions of evil. But why should we stand aghast at nothingness? The great red Dragon symbolizes the belief that Substance,
