the Messiah, who would baptize with the Holy Ghost, — Divine Science. As Elias represents the Fatherhood The moon and woman. of God, through Jesus, so the Revelator completes this figure with woman, as the spiritual idea or type of God's Motherhood. The moon is under her feet. This idea reveals the universe as secondary and tributary to Spirit, from which it borrows its reflected Substance, Life, and Intelligence.
The spiritual idea is crowned with twelve stars. The twelve tribes of Israel, with all mortals, — separated, by Light of stars. belief, from man's divine origin and the true idea, — shall through much tribulation yield to the activities of the divine Principle of man, in the harmony of Science. These are the stars in the crown of rejoicing. They are the lamps in the spiritual heavens of this age, which show the workings of the spiritual idea by healing the sick and the sinful, and by manifesting the light which shines “unto the perfect day,” as the night of materialism wanes.
Revelation xii. 2. And she, being with child, cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
The spiritual idea is typified by a woman in travail, Travail. waiting to be delivered of her sweet promise, but remembering no more her sorrow, for joy that the birth goes on; for grand is the idea, and the travail portentous.
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.
