Eternal and infinite God, all pervading and potent Light; All Giver, whether of light or shadow, whether of darkness or glory, whether of Earth or of Heaven, abundant is Thine all pervading power. Thou who art all Knowledge and Wisdom, and through whose ineffable Love Thy children may ever turn to thee; upon the altar of that Perfect Love they would lay the offerings of such trembling perception, such dim vision as Earth has unfolded, and the spirit in time and sense may know; but with whatever within the Soul is aware, with whatever divine and perfect light is there, they turn acknowledging Thy Presence, knowing Thine all-pervading Power and Love, and transfigured before that Light Immortal and Eternal, they would seek the innermost and the best.

The Interval

Beloved ones, again at the One only Altar whereunto you may turn, receiving the perfect light, we invite your presence; and whether with shadowed vision or with open perception you receive, it matters not so much as that lovingly you follow; for within the Soul there is no barrier between you and the divine.

Long enough the Earth was sunk in darkness as the reaction from the first threefold Cycles. Three Dispensations having been finished, the receding wave must have seemingly borne the Earth almost hopelessly from the Divine. Since neither Wisdom and Beauty, united by Love, nor yet the Power nor the Knowledge that Earth could give, revealed the Innermost; and since that Innermost was hidden, it needs must come in another way. 261

Between the third and fourth Dispensations, as between the sixth and seventh, and as between the ninth and tenth, there is an Interval. "The Astronotnes" of ancient Egypt were not perfect until the finding of the mathematical solution of the problem that there were "three times Three" (a Kabalistic number to be solved by the Magi's Sacred Orders) to be accounted for in the Cycles. In the three past Dispensations, there had been intervals found for which no allowance had been made in nature, on Earth, or in the universe as understood by them; long dark periods, as the receding waves of Love and Wisdom, and Knowledge and Power, these brought to Earth's children such unspeakable shadow and eclipse, that they might seem to be almost the first great eclipse of human thought.

The Earth made ready for still more perfect "wonder." There can be found in the world only three copies of the records of this "Wonder." One is in the Vatican; when the Church of Rome gives up her long-hoarded secrets that record may be seen; another is in the Orient; in that farthermost "India" into whose innermost learning you have not yet penetrated; the third is buried beneath the larger stone in the principal chamber of the Great Pyramid. The book is called the "Book of the Divine Mother," "the Ancient Mystery of the Mighty Mother." The mother of the Messiahs has always held the most sacred place in all Religion; and that sacred place has been so carefully protected, that the usual priests and ministrants in the temples had no knowledge of it; only the "Mystic Twelve" in each of the sacred orders ever had access to the innermost secret and history of this book. What the book contains you might read in open day and never know it; you would not understand it without interpretation; small reason is there, therefore, for its being buried, but to the Initiated, to the Illumined Vision, it is the Revelation of Revelations.

You by whom the mother of the house is enshrined and held sacred, should turn with ever recurrent veneration, with ever recurrent carefulness to the knowledge of the true Mother-Love. You may well understand how the world having been intoxicated with great Knowledge and Power and with that Beauty that brought no attendant Divinity, would seem as a wanderer; that even the enlightened nations of the Earth would relapse, perhaps not into utter ignorance, but into a shadow of gloom.

In the Cabalistic figure of "the Woman clothed with the Sun," with the moon beneath her feet, and the crown of twelve stars upon her head, you have the image of the mystery of Divine Motherhood which ever gives birth to the Christ, even as these white lilies symbolize the Divine Sacredness of Perfect Life; so in the book to which you refer as "Revelation" is the entire explanation of that Symbolism which constitutes the Maternal parentage of Christ.