The Scriptures reveal the law of justice whereby the guilty are punished while innocence is divinely protected. Moses and the prophets, through holy meditation and spiritual insight, recognized the law of God and exhorted the people to purify their lives. Assurance that innocence is sustained by His law, and delivered from danger, shines out in these words: "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.... Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.... He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands."
Daniel's protection was in the purity of his thought, which was innocent of resentment. Noah's safety was in the goodness of his thought and in his obedience to God's counsel, directing him to make proper preparations for his safety. These spiritual qualities buoyed him and those he took with him into the ark above the forces of destruction manifested as a flood. Those besieged by a sense of enmity today are preserved as spiritual love is active in their thought.
All spiritual revelations have been given to the world through the purity and receptivity of individual consciousness. Moses received the Commandments in communing with God, and John, while exiled on the Isle of Patmos, in his spiritual vision, saw the holy city. Through her purity of thought Mary recognized the spiritual unity of God and man, and brought forth the Bethlehem babe. Jesus, as the Way-shower, revealed and manifested the Christ, or Son of God.
