CHAPTER XVI
THE APOCALYPSE
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy,
and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at
hand. — Revelation.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness. — Psalms.
ST. JOHN writes, in the tenth chapter of his book of
Revelation: —
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven,
clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and
his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of
fire: and he had in his hand a little book open: and he
set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the
earth.
This angel or message which comes from God, clothed
with a cloud, prefigures divine Science. To mortal sense
The new Evangel
Science seems at first obscure, abstract, and
dark; but a bright promise crowns its brow.
When understood, it is Truth's prism and praise. When
you look it fairly in the face, you can heal by its means,
and it has for you a light above the sun, for God “is the
light thereof.” Its feet are pillars of fire, foundations
of Truth and Love. It brings the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, whose flames of Truth were prophetically
described by John the Baptist as consuming error.
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