In the book of Revelation, St. John recorded the vision wherein he "saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea" (21:1). In this true idea of heaven and earth John must have perceived the unbroken continuity of spiritual existence and the falsity of the belief of a material selfhood apart from God. He must have seen that in the eternal harmony of being there are no changing human concepts, there is no coming and going, no ebbing and flowing of God's ideas. John must have realized that in reality eternal harmony reigns supreme.
In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy gives us the spiritual interpretation of this divine harmony. She writes (p. 536), "The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness." When we understand this statement, we see its close relation to these words from the Lord's Prayer: "Give us this day our daily bread" (Matt. 6:11), which Mrs. Eddy interprets as, "Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections" (Science and Health, p. 17).
It is through the tender grace of ever present divine understanding that we, like John, are able to perceive that harmonious being has never been invaded by the inharmonious beliefs of sin, disease, and death. Through the study and practice of the teachings of Christian Science, we find that the divine understanding gently unfolds to us, and we perceive that the famished affections are fed in proportion to our acceptance and daily acknowledgment of the spiritually scientific fact that there is but one Mind, one divine consciousness, and that we, God's children, made in His image and likeness, eternally reflect the true and only consciousness.
