As we shall choose to call the angel, impersonated the first Savior or Messiah of the human race. All primal Truths taught by them have been perpetuated from this ancient Hermetic shrine; no new knowledge in the matters taught by Hermetic Angels has been added to the earth, and whatever knowledge shall be manifested until the Earth shall have fulfilled the complete Twelve Cycles, will have been already revealed in Messianic form. No wonder, then, that students turn to the past Egypt that is dead, and to that which is beyond Egypt, beyond the veil of that Osirian dispensation unto Africia, and to that more remote, yet primal race to which we refer in this complete cycle or dispensation.

Traces of the Astronomes, which the angels had prepared, were as well understood as are the charts of the Heavens today; in fact, the divisions of the astronomical Heavens were more complete. Astronomers will be obliged to change the periods of time and the computation of the changes of the seasons of your calendars, before you arrive at the Hermetic perfection of astronomy, and you will be obliged, mechanically and dynamically, to improve the physical Sciences and all that relates to the splendid results of present human invention and intelligence.

Hermes and Hermia dwelt upon the earth as deified beings, worshiped, not according to a religious code, but with the adoration of intellect endowed with conquering powers, with every brilliant attainment, with the knowledge that they possessed of the life that was here. While Hermes and Hermia knew of the Infinite Love and Wisdom, the Source of all knowledge, the race to which they ministered, to which they gave the primal culmination of this knowledge, was as unconscious of the Heavenly kingdom as is the glittering formula in chemistry or mathematical figure, which symbolize that knowledge.

A race of human beings full of all intelligence and splendor and physical conquest, bearing down through all that cycle, the one supreme and perfect attainment of knowledge, departing from that knowledge only to grovel in the senses, but ever and anon rising above it, Hermes and Hermia found in the descendants of the twelve angels a race of intellectual monstrosities; we say monstrosities because every undue development is deformity, is monstrous; every undue prominence - physical or mental, everything that lacks the perfection of the whole, is, therefore, monstrous; and the race of beings, because generic, intellectually having departed from the perfect intellectual ideal, which the twelve angels gave, there could be little less than deformity and perversion.

Thus ensued the typical "Fall," which constitutes that into which souls ever pass through generic law, and from which the human race is forever endeavoring to rise. What physical degradation ensued, what struggle with the senses that can only be overcome by higher knowledge) What wonder in the pursuit of power that could not be obtained because of the departure from the primal light there came the period of darkness? This recession you can well understand.

Across this vast cycle of thousands of years that make up the great Hermatic Cycle, Hermes flung the might of his wonderful and surpassing intelligence over all the earth, for other continents had then appeared. It was set there as a sign for all the nations to follow.

God gives Each Great Messiah the grace of one perfect gift; such time as the planet is ready for that gift the Messiah bearing it appears, and that gift is distributed by the twelve lesser Messiahs, each of whom possesses one portion of the gift of which the Messiah of the Dispensation was the culmination.

There had been in the primal Angelic Race a stamp placed upon the human state, which made it ever afterwards possible to return to that height, through ways that have been, and will afterwards be declared.

As the "Edenic" state denotes perfection in innocence, yet innocence is ignorance, so the passing from this primal seeming rectitude of the people in subsequent periods, was, notwithstanding the seeming retrogression, but legitimate passing of one form to another, and higher state or form of expression; for knowledge alone is not adequate; the intellect alone is not the triumph; the power that comes from the intellect of man is not all victorious.

So the wonderful works which had their sources in the angelic lives and in the Hermetic Messiah, grew less and less perfect; and the portions of the earth that had been discovered and made beauteous by the angelic messengers grew less fertile, less beautiful.

There was introduced by these changes, elements of uncertainty with reference to the knowledge that had been primal and perfect; this occurred ever in the declining of any period or lesser dispensation.

Across a belt of waters which was not so wide as that which divides you from the Eastern continent, the Hermetic light and generation extended their lines until both continents, which were then in existence, were peopled with the descendants of the Hermetic race. Ancient as is this, the first glory of intelligence, not even trembling upon the verge of human history, ancient as are all records and traditions that succeeded those generations and that have been lost, still out of the broad Heaven whereunto Hermes and his angels returned, there glisten even now the lines of perfect reminiscence that bear you back unto that Kingdom of Knowledge, and make you know that the Earth and atmosphere of Earth, and the Angels guarding Earth, hold in their keeping all knowledge that man requires to possess. But "another way" is necessary first; and that which was given as a primal and final promise is not to be redeemed until all the ways and windings have been traversed by each Soul finding expression on Earth.

Borrowed from all ancient history that you possess, are the names that are recorded, that express the Primal Light; these are three-fold; the glimpses that flash through Greece, India, Egypt, and Africa, merging all the languages and Sciences of those oriental nations into one, unfolding to our minds the surpassing names of those worshiped as tutelar deities in the world, whether in language, art, science, mathematics, mechanics, or aught that belongs to the knowledge of man; if you seek the origins of all, you will only find them in that Primal Light that Hermes threw across the darkening centuries, the Light which gave to Earth Knowledge and the Key thereof. Some portion of the Knowledge you have, the Key is in the Heavenly or Angelic descent of those whose embodied lives on Earth have preserved the history.

Step by step the world today is traversing the appointed way to reach that height; let those who think that mere material knowledge is best, return with us to that primal morning. The Angels can have perfect expression and perfect sway; with them the cycles pass not away into shadow; but when souls who are not yet angels on the earth (have not reached the "attainment") enter and strive to win the victory by Knowledge alone, you see what the earth now is; a garden largely devoid of cultivation; an almost fallow field, yielding little grain or fruitage; science, glittering but almost destitute of Divine meaning and interpretation. Mechanical arts are here indeed, following the Angels in their way that leads forth to victory, and all the earth and skies are rifled in search for Knowledge. If this Spiritual blindness be the "primal curse," it is worse than that which is supposed to have rested upon the garden of Eden.' It IS that which rested upon the garden of Eden. If the soul has necessarily forgotten its Heavenly heritage and man, by generic life is "born of the dust," and is seeking through all the past dust for that which the soul alone can reveal it is indeed the primal Shadow.

There in the far-off Heaven of the Seven Stars, the great primal Heaven of those primal Angels that still bend above the earth, Hermes and Hermia, send forth their messengers to awaken anew this long vanished dawn, awaken the long slumbering Knowledge that the ancient "morning and evening" gave to the Earth. In this, the foregleam of the Sixth Cycle of Time, the Ancient Splendor flashes*now with greater promise of the more perfect victory; to restore the Knowledge that has so long been hidden by the eclipse of ages.

Hidden Knowledge

Not in the mystic "three times three,"

Though there teems the secret thought to lie;

Not yet in the crucible to be Revealed unto the human eye;

Not yet in those wondrous powers that move

The strong arm of labor in the world; Nor yet in what the mind can provs

Is the deepest, truest knowledge unfurled.

Born of things of Time and Space,

The Ancient Splendors stand revealed, Out-wrought by God's appointed grace

To show what time and sense concealed.

The angels of the primal morning

Sowing their Twelve Seeds on the Earth, Wait till the world grows ripe, adorning

The Tree of Knowledge with perfect worth:

And then all things shall stand revealed;

Hermes with conquering Light shall come, And from all mysteries concealed

Show God's great truth in the Coming One,

What the soul calls its own shall be Made known, and Earth shall glow and shine

Redeemed; Truth no more a mystery But known to be One with the Divine.