The Angels alone prepare the pathway for the expression of Perfect Life; and when successive stages are made ready, then appeareth the Divine Mother. In the Primal Religions each angel has a name; and illustration as well as instructions revealed the image; but these are veiled in mystic symbols; however, we shall bear you on through outlines of these various stages, pointing out the meaning of that inner life which was revealed only at certain times in the Earth's history, and only expressed preceding the advent of the Messiah.

By such states of preparation as begin in angelic life, and are made known in the Angelic and Spiritual states of Earth you can partly understand when the Earth is being made ready for the advent of the Messiah and by the manifestations of the feminine life; for from the time of the recognition of the "Announcement" until the fulfillment of the Messianic period of advent, there is a "going forth" to meet the New Life. The women of "Israel" were prophetesses before the prophets came, each hoping to be the favored one. In all periods of human history, about the time of the preparation for the advent of Messiah, women have perceived more quickly and declared that which was to come; and the coming of the Light was revealed in their inner lives more perfectly; but this came only to such lives as were quickened by the Divine Purpose, as understood somewhat of the meaning of the Divine and Perfect Love.

When we say that the Angels prepare the way for the perfect expression of the Divine Mother, it is that these lives are quickened and touched from the angelic sphere with preparation that meets their prepared states of unfoldment. Thus it is that in times of great peril, women spring towards the emergency and declare practically that which is to come; and thus it is that every mother, in periods when there is a great spiritual light poured out upon the world, makes ready for the Light of prophet or Messiah that is to appear. In lesser cycles. Women appear in the halls of legislation, in the realms of science and art; that life which was formerly veiled, sheltered and sacred, a long time oppressed as well as suppressed, becomes open and revealed. There is always great preparation for culminating periods; angels are predicted as taking on the human form and the earth yields to the life of women all her treasures. As natural as it is in the physical state for this type of Divine Womanhood to be hidden, so in the spiritual states it may be declared equally natural for it to be revealed.

Whosoever hath not declared that the mother that bore him, and the one who is the best beloved by his side, are of all beings the most blessed, hath not lived the life of true affection; whosoever does not know that unto the Shrine whence come those affections, must tend all divine human hopes, then he hath not known the meaning of the great moral victory in human life. Whosoever rock-eth the cradle of the infant in Love and Faith helpeth to bring the Message unto the nations of the earth; and whomsoever the illumined mothers are, of such are the heroes born to battle in Earth's moral victory, or to prophesy or to attain great human achievement, such mothers are blessed.

True Mother Love. Ye may know this today; ye may know that such times as in the cycles of the Earth there appeareth much that woman can do, are the times when the preparing lines of life for a New Prophecy of Truth are to be declared, and when new and wondrous works are to be wrought the women appear, and when men, nations and governments spring into great moral conquest they are inspired by women. Though now, even as in the past, these images are often sacredly veiled; the "Wise Men" pass unto the temple, unto the altar, unto the "Holy of Holies," to bend before the symbol that expresses the Divine Mother; and thus baptized again unto the altar of outward life, with great reverence they return, remembering the human mother, the gentle face, the loving eye; remembering the kindly admonition and gracious blessing; remembering all the sheltering care and love; and in homage worship there. Often in human life, man turns unto the Best Beloved for aid, ever remembering her who was the mother in the new-found joy; or as in the Angelic Love there is all reminiscence, all prophecy; whatever the Mother receives, and whatever was declared in Love is hers, because of the Mother Love. He who has not named his mother "Madonna", or Divine, who hath not declared that which his own heart has proved, has not known the meaning of that Divine Love, and walks still in the shadow of the senses, separate and apart from Her.

The children of the world at certain periods of time, yearn for this Divine Mother, even as orphans who are alone in the night crying, so human hearts are orphaned by the great selfish struggle into which the soul is hurled in its contact with matter, they wait for the hand that is to lift them graciously and kindly back unto the perfect shrine; and even as the hand has always been extended, as in the brighter cycles of time, evidences have been recorded that the light was there, so it is our privilege to point them out to you, beloved ones, and prove that even from Her bending sphere of Divine and Perfect Love, the Divine Mother, the Sacred Madonna, ever waits to bear her children to her Shrine.

The Life of woman, sheltered and ensphered, makes no impress on the world of sense and strife, but when Love is declared then she speaketh; and even tonight from the bending spheres that encircle you, are the Twelve Angels that declare the new light; from out that encircling company there bendeth at the present time the fair Mother of the New Life that is to be revealed; and unto all her daughters her message is spoken; and unto all her sons the message is spoken; and even as the Perfect Mother, she leadeth them into the garden where lilies grow, unto the bower of White Roses where her pure life is fed, and invites their footsteps through those wondrous paths of pure and perfect love that shall renew, renovate and redeem their lives.

We speak to you from realms more ancient than the sun and stars; yet the Angels bear in their presence all Truths that are to be declared, the messages that are to be given. Thus from that sphere of Perfect Love with the Lily of Life and the White Rose of Immortal Love, we give you greeting.

Love's Shrine

Is it where the sun with burnished gold

Lights up the altars of clear apace; Or where the moon her light doth hold,

With reflected glory the bars of grace?

Or is it where the Earth, impressed

With the fair image all divine? The glory of love's mirror expressed

The wonder of its perfect shrine;

Is it where purple and gold are found

Piling up treasure! and flowers sweet, And offerings of love abound

And every power of beauty meet;

Is it where the feet are led in soft

And beauteous ways that never tire; Where full frequently and oft

Flow streams of pleasure to heart's desire?

I know a shrine of perfect Love

Where, after ambition's fierce desires, Close by the sunny altar above,

Souls go for the purifying fires;

As gold from dross, as from the Earth

The alchemy perfection yields; So from the fields of care and dearth From wand'ring wilderness and fields

Of doubt and pain and strife and woe

At last each soul the way shall know.

The Shrine of Love is wheresoe'cr

Hearts meet in one perfect accord; Where lives are blended, and pure Souls

Perceive the first and Primal Word;

Or where within Love's Altar bright

The soul stands free and unafraid. And Heaven bending from its height

Crownetb the love that Heaven hath made.

May the perfect spirit of Love enshrined in Wisdom and strength be yours, and rest in your hearts until the soul makes known the presence of the Divine Mother.