The book of Revelation is a book of overcoming. It depicts in colorful figures the individual and collective victory of mankind over all sin. In the twelfth chapter the brethren are described as overcoming their accuser—the one evil or evil belief in a life separate from God—"by the blood of the Lamb," the Scriptural symbol of innocence, self-immolation, and power. "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son," reads the final promise and the provision of its fulfillment (Rev. 21:7). Earlier in Revelation (second and third chapters) we find the messages to the seven churches, each ending with a promised reward for him that overcometh, and each reward bringing one near the realm of real existence, where the Christ, God's image, is enthroned.
"He that overcometh "! How filled with meaning are these words for one who has accepted Christian Science and has felt the mesmeric grasp of so-called mortal mind slip from his consciousness as his sense of life became illumined by the presence of the Christ. He has touched a new substance— new to him, but as eternal as God. With reverence he presses on to consistent victories over the material suggestions of life in matter. The zeal of his efforts will be in the proportion of his vision of Spirit's allness and man's purity as Spirit's emanation. He follows the admonition of Mary Baker Eddy, "The divine must overcome the human at every point" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 40).
Regardless of human distinctions of race, nationality, or religious worship, the problems of mankind are essentially the same. They involve the belief of life in matter, material laws, carnality of nature, human anatomy. Every individual must prove that his real and only selfhood is entirely apart from flesh, that it is coexistent with God, the one Life. He must become convinced to the point of demonstration that God's will is the only law; that it is the omnipotent and resistless force governing all existence. He must root out of his thought the impurities of a sensual ancestry and know himself as spiritual only. He must understand man to be God's idea, not constituted of physical organs, but of spiritual elements and ideas.
