Editorial June 2, 1917 Issue

The Lamb of God

William D. McCrackan

Love is a universal language, and the word lamb has an abiding place therein through inspiration and demonstration. The mother in her tenderest mood whispers it to her child, and divine Love, the white light of Truth, illuming everything, designates the real man, the Christ, as the Lamb of God. The symbol of the lamb stands for purity and light; its gambols set forth freedom, agility, and alertness. The writer of the Song of Solomon exclaims, "The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills." The lamb is innocent and intact; knowing no guile, no aggression, but perennial freshness, the permanence of bliss. Above all, the lamb knows no hate, and therefore is always victorious.

In Christian history Jesus represents the sacrificial lamb, but the corporeal Jesus crucified brought to view the deathless Christ. Hence the reference in the Apocalypse to "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world," and the statement of the Son of man, "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore." This is the root of day that knows no darkness, belonging to the eternal sunrise kingdom of righteousness. On page 334 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes concerning the above reference from the Apocalypse, "This is a mystical statement of the eternity of the Christ, and is also a reference to the human sense of Jesus crucified."

The idea of God can only be perceived by spiritual understanding and received and conceived by woman, strong in vision's zeal. Only that quality which powerfully discerns man in the likeness of God can bring forth, nourish, and cherish the divine idea. Individuals of either sex can mother the lamb if they have learned the scientific secret of man's origin; all can exclaim in the words of the prophet Isaiah, "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." Then cometh the marriage of the lamb, the union of Principle and idea, the conscious communion of man with God, wherein God is recognized as Father-Mother and man as the Son, a unity illustrated by Jesus when he said, "I and my Father are one."

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