and revealing the spiritual idea of Love, in the womanhood of God?
Genesis iii. 15. And the Lord God said unto the Serpent, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
This prophecy has been fulfilled. The son of the virgin-mother instituted the remedy for Adam, or error; and the Apostle Paul explains this warfare — between the idea that Jesus presented of divine power, and mythological material intelligence — as opposed to Spirit.
Paul says, in Noyes's translation: —
The mind of the flesh is enmity against God, for it doth not submit itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it. And they who are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.
This translation, slightly differing from the common version, strengthens the theory of Christian Science as to mortal mind.
There will be greater mental opposition to the spiritual and scientific meaning of the Scriptures, than has ever been before, since the Christian era began. The Serpent, material sense, will bruise the heel of the woman, will struggle to destroy the spiritual idea of Love; and the woman will bruise his head. She has given the understanding a foothold in Science. The seed of Truth and the seed of error, of belief and of understanding, — yea, the seed of Spirit and the seed of matter, — are the wheat and tares that time will separate, the one to be burned, the other to be garnered into heavenly places.
