A thousand ages in thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
Thus run the words of Isaac Watts. Much of the limitation and inharmony one sees and experiences daily is traceable to belief in the reality and power of time. When the angel in Revelation said that "there should be time no longer," he could not have meant that time had once been real and powerful but would cease to be so, but must have meant that it had never been a reality, and that the truth about it dawned upon consciousness through spiritual vision.
It is significant to note that the "mighty angel" who declared that "there should be time no longer" was the same whom the Revelator had already depicted as having "had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth." In referring to this passage of Scripture, Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 558), "This angel or message which comes from God, clothed with a cloud, prefigures divine Science." At the time this revelation of Truth was received the Revelator was a prisoner on the Isle of Patmos, banished there for having preached the word of God. It is reasonable to believe that in rising above the persecution which he underwent he had reached great spiritual heights, and had glimpsed the spiritual universe, wherein there is no lack, limitation, or materiality.
