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"Come hither! Arise from your false consciousness
into the true sense of Love, and behold the Lamb's
wife, - Love wedded to its own spiritual idea." Then
cometh the marriage feast, for this revelation will destroy
forever the physical plagues imposed by material
sense.
(The city foursquare)
This sacred city, described in the Apocalypse (xxi. 16)
as one that "lieth foursquare" and cometh "down from
God, out of heaven," represents the light and
glory of divine Science. The builder and
maker of this New Jerusalem is God, as we read in the
book of Hebrews; and it is "a city which hath foundations."
" The description is metaphoric. Spiritual teaching
must always be by symbols. Did not Jesus illustrate
the truths he taught by the mustard-seed and the
prodigal? Taken in its allegorical sense, the description of
the city as foursquare has a profound meaning. The
four sides of our city are the Word, Christ, Christianity,
and divine Science; "and the gates of it shall not be shut
at all by day: for there shall be no night there." This
city is wholly spiritual, as its four sides indicate.
(The royally divine gates)
As the Psalmist saith, "Beautiful for situation, the
joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of
the north, the city of the great King." It is
indeed a city of the Spirit, fair, royal, and
square. Northward, its gates open to the North Star,
the Word, the polar magnet of Revelation; eastward,
to the star seen by the Wisemen of the Orient, who followed
it to the manger of Jesus; southward, to the
genial tropics, with the Southern Cross in the skies,
- the Cross of Calvary, which binds human society
into solemn union; westward, to the grand realization
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