Far in the Orient, and in the most distant ages, groups of Holy men - Recluses - wrought out the problems of Astrology, Alchemy and Religion, blending in one the threefold attributes that constituted the Angel. Such symbols or language as was theirs - ideographs, numbers, hieroglyphs - were often made interchangeable, expressing both science and worship; hence the Sacred Numbers and their religious as well as their mathematical meanings.

It would be impossible to trace even the smallest number of these groups and their attendant or leading Angels. In mathematics you may find them from Egypt and Greece down to the present day.

In language - letters - Memnon, Cadmus and Thales, until at last we stand in the full splendor of the possible expression of thought of today.

Whosoever gave the possibility of expression in written (and spoken) Language gave to the world of human life the highest gift (i. e., highest form of expression), since language expresses, without appeal to the senses, the ideas and emotions that spring from the Soul, pure Idealism.

It can be truly said that in the highest use of language today, both in writing and speaking, the human mind is capable of expressing every range and shade of human thought. Words and combinations of phrases and sentences that, appealing only to the mind, stir the innermost depths of thought and awaken from the Soul the immortal Truths elsewise veiled from expression.

The one endowed with best Ideas, and the language to best express them, is the greatest among mortals - mentally. This Angel must be the one who is master of expression - verbally - having the highest thoughts to express and knowing the best forms of expression.

Sometimes the Angel of the Group appears in the threefold expression of Art and, as Teacher, Leader, shows the way by perfect demonstration and elucidation. Around him gather those culminating lives that are just ready to complete the line of embodiments in one, and sometimes all, of those directions.

These groups and their Angels shine out with wonderful brightness as the centuries pass and time reproves the falsehoods and prejudice of contemporaneous historians.

There can only be a few illustrations of these groups with their attendant Angel, that can come within the possible range of modem perception, although it is less difficult as time goes on and years and even ages modify the harsher points of history - animosities, hatred, envy and prejudice of all kinds. The "Reformations" in Religion, in the political life of nations, and in Art, have their especial groups easily recalled by the student.