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Seeing ‘a new heaven and a new earth’

Praying to better know God and His creation as spiritual and intact equips us to treat each other and our planet with love and care.

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I saw a new heaven and a new earth....

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband....

And there came unto me one of the seven angels....

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
– Revelation 21:1, 2, 9; 22:1

As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible. When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness.

Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being.
– Mary Baker Eddy, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” p. 264

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