Though the way is dark in mortal sense, divine Life and Love illumine it, destroy the unrest of mortal thought, the fear of death, and the supposed reality of error. Christian Science, contradicting sense, maketh the valley to bud and blossom as the rose.
Veil. A cover; concealment; hiding; hypocrisy.
The Jewish women wore veils over their faces, in token of reverence and submission, and in accordance with Pharisaical notions. The Judaic religion consisted mostly of rites and ceremonies. The motives and affections of a man were of little account, if only he appeared unto men to fast. The great Nazarene, as meek as he was mighty, rebuked the hypocrisy which offered long petitions for blessings on material methods, but cloaked the crime, latent in thought, which was ready to spring into action, and crucify God's anointed. The martyrdom of Jesus was the culminating sin of Pharisaism. It rent the veil of the Temple. It revealed the false foundations and superstructures of superficial religion, tore from bigotry and superstition their coverings, and opened the sepulchre with Divine Science, — Immortality and Love.
Wilderness. Loneliness; doubt; darkness;
spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule wherein a
material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense
unfolds the great facts of existence.
Will. The motive-power of error; belief; animal
power; the might and wisdom of God.
“For this is the will of God.” (1 Thessalonians iv. 3.)
