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slowly out of sinning sense into spiritual understanding;
unwillingness to learn all things rightly, binds Christendom
with chains.
(The darkest hours of all)
Love will finally mark the hour of harmony, and spiritualization
will follow, for Love is Spirit. Before error
is wholly destroyed, there will be interruptions
of the general material routine. Earth
will become dreary and desolate, but summer and winter,
seedtime and harvest (though in changed forms), will
continue unto the end, - until the final spiritualization of
all things. "The darkest hour precedes the dawn."
(Arena of contest)
This material world is even now becoming the arena
for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord
and dismay; on the other side there will be
Science and peace. The breaking up of material
beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want
and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new
phases until their nothingness appears. These disturbances
will continue until the end of error, when all
discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.
Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization.
This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue
until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief is
changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless.
(Millennial glory)
As this consummation draws nearer, he who has
shaped his course in accordance with divine Science
will endure to the end. As material knowledge
diminishes and spiritual understanding
increases, real objects will be apprehended mentally
instead of materially.
During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor
to find means by which to accomplish more evil; but
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