Greater in splendor of knowledge than the Angel of the First Dispensation; greater in power than the Power of the Second Dispensation; greater in mingled Wisdom and Love, or whatever stood for these names, in the period in which beauty was enshrined on earth; greater than all of these, and bearing the subtle impress of the Divine Mother in the Soul of Isis. Egypt blossomed the fairest land that the earth had yet yielded in all directions; and the Osirian kingdoms of the earth revealed greater light of knowledge, power, far greater than that which was born of earthly might, more beauty than that which dominated when physical beauty pervaded; for each of those had its receding wave; and we here first begin to understand the real meaning of Wisdom.

We have found now the subtle secret of that Divine Nature which is twofold; while perfect Love doth not yet abide. Wisdom that is enshrined in Love makes its dwelling place in the subtle strength and power of this Dispensation. That which we denominate the light of the sun under the name of Osiris, as the symbol of God, is ensphered, but in its absolute divine light the Infinite is not named. Through the Osirian Dispensation, by record and tradition, you have recourse to these mystic Names and Numbers, those that in this unspoken thought implied the Infinite, which would afterwards be spoken. You have, also, for the first time in the Dispensations a spiritual perception of God; and apart from the senses, apart from the physical creation that which was real Knowledge and its expression; that which was Power and its expression; that which was human Law and visions of physical Beauty and their expressions become, under the illumination of the Osirian Dispensation, the results of Infinite Intelligence, the invisible potential God who is revealed to the intelligence of man. The reason that sacred numbers and mystical names were employed to conceal the name of God was because God was not thought, by the unillumined ones, to be personally revealed in Egypt, but because revealed through the majesty of science and art, every token and expression which could possibly be made a synonym was employed to conceal the Sacred Name, lest those who did not understand or perceive should "take the name of the Infinite Deity in vain."

It is not easy in this far time to follow this mystic and unspoken "name" of which Osiris and Isis were the veiled images, but of which "Horus," the child, was the manifestation, down through the different ages of Egyptian history, when at last the Infinite was lost sight of, and every form of life was made a symbol of the divine. In the decline of the true Osirian worship, every manifestation of nature, every form of life in tree and flower and fruitage, all tokens of the life-giving agency of the Sun, every expression in which a deity could be known, the name of a tutelar god was used. The image of procreation, every form of newly awakened life was symbolized in the sacred Ibis, or the dove (the "menat"); the worship of the lamb and the sacred ox, and a multitude of other outward things; all these had their origin in the receding waves that were a reaction from the worship of the one true God, apart from forms and ceremony. After the knowledge had receded that gave the mystic names, and numbers, and tokens, and letters, and mythical symbols, there was nothing from which there could be a correct definition of component signs or letters which could be pronounced or understood, so mysteriously constructed and formed were they it is easy to trace the decline unto the worship of symbols; hence one of the reactions from the Osirian Dispensation was the origin of the symbols of the "Sun worship".

Through the knowledge gained, as far as can be traced, of the worship of symbols, the Sun ("Fire," "light") seemed to absorb, or form the center of every form of outward expression, as far as devotion is concerned; not so, however, when that real worship was at its height; even Osiris and Isis, lest they should be worshiped instead of God, were mysteriously veiled from the vision and from the senses; for, under that Dispensation, no forms of Osiris and Isis were ever beheld; so was the Divine Life shrouded and enshrined; so was it intended that the Divine Name should be hidden. Let us again behold how up the steps of the Osirian dynasties climbed the "Ancient Mother of Nations," Egypt, through all the steps of that wonderful Light that gave from the invisible world its only sign and token of divinity; while there was Knowledge, it was knowledge under the Divine Light; all mathematical instruments, every appliance needed in every science or art, was made by the "Wise ones" in the name and the presence of the Divine. No knowledge was deemed of any value for itself alone; and the Sacred Mother, Isis, was invoked, such time as any of the Earth's children needed any mystic unfoldment concerning the generic life of earth; and the sacred wisdom of Osiris was invoked, such time as any Knowledge was sought to give its power unto man; hence every form of life was obedient. Knowledge flowed towards the prophets and sages; and inspiration revealed the meaning of language and the true meaning of the Deity of the true Egyptian. Meranon was an expression of a Messiah of lesser degree and bearing similar tokens of divine knowledge. Trace back the mythology of Egypt, which you have received through Phoenicia and Greece (and all of Asia) to the declining of the Osirian Dispensation and you have the name which was handed down in Greece as "Memnon," the "inventor" of letters; you have the various tutelar Deities, each expressing some particular form of knowledge, all of which have their prototypes in the Osirian Dispensation. In the Osirian age of the world, the lesser Messiahs embody the light of the sun, as the sun is the vivifying force, as shadow is the force that conserves and protects all lives, the history of the Generic existence was made known. Isis, the "veiled mother," was but another name for that mysterious dual power that in the image of the Divine, is revealed in the Soul, and obscured in the past in the kingdoms of the earth. In no human image of man did Isis and Osiris walk, but by their presence, ever revealed by these lesser Messiahs, they still did have physical expression upon earth.