The womanhood of man and the manhood of woman are one and inseparable in Divine Love, Truth, and Life,— the father and mother of all created reality. Our Teacher has bearded the lion in his den, and destroyed the false conception of man, even all material claims to manhood or womanhood. Therefore there never was an Adam or an Eve, nor a serpent to beguile them or demoralize them.
Yet, starting from this false premise, my journey to your house was a panorama of mortal man, almost unto the end; and now shadow forth the signs of the times and the battlefield of the ages. The false conceptions of man and the "mother of harlots" are the victims and the slain in this battle; and the smoke of her indignation is already arising over the earth; but the mountaintops are as clear as the noonday sun. We hear the thunder from Sinai, even unto the Mount of Revelation; and below we see the signs,— voices, thunders, lightning, and great hail. The beast of lust and sensualism, on which this woman rides, "was and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition; and the earth shall wonder."
Here is the Mind which hath wisdom. The seven mountains are apparent. You know who the five fallen kings are. One is Animal Magnetism, and goes hand-in-hand with sensualism, into perdition, with her who is the eighth also. A false sense of the commandments of God receives power as a king one hour with the beast. These all make war with the Lamb, or Love's pure sense of Life; but the Lamb overcomes them all.
