The divine potential God of Love, the Deity as enshrined and hidden, had been declared; but the Infinite Good had not been known; as near to Love as is the recognition of kindness and charity to that highest attribute had been the previous light.

The dawn of this New Light was like an overspreading glory; all over India and the Orient there was preparation for it. The abstract forms of intellectual ism had taken away the Divine from all form of worship without having declared anew the Deity in any Spiritual name or image. The Name was now to be first revealed to those prepared upon the Earth; if there had been previously recognition of Deity in nature, the expression of Deity through the intellectual forces manifested in the universe, if there had been Knowledge that law is perfect that the universe is governed by mathematics, if there had been an application, as there was, of every attribute of intellect magnified and deified; in this token of a new revelation there was a departure from the senses, a withdrawal from the mere intellect, and gradually the world seemed wrapped in a maze of beauty and Spiritual loveliness. A Spiritual haze like that seen in the atmosphere which sometimes precedes the morning of Earthly day, crept over the Orient preparing for the New Dawn; as sometimes the glory of the morning sun is carefully veiled from the sight, ere it bursts in full splendor in the sky; and where the fore-gleams of this new light had penetrated, there was such departure from the methods of the intellect, such absolute absence of desire for physical power, such devotion to that which seemed a prophecy of the unseen, that the very land in which this religion was born, typified its abstract nature.

The most ancient teachings of this new light are not recorded: later the recorded teachings were in the broken lines of light adapted to human need; no one could see the light, of this ancient name of Omnipotent Deity; the ancient Brahm or the ancient Om.

A. U. M.: Aran, Varuna, Mithra. The first names which appeared in this Dispensation expressing the deity, were not broken in the threefold form that later was to be revealed.

BRAHM was the One All Wise, Perfect Supreme Good; the Divine Infinite abiding in Eternity. The Primal expression of Absolute Goodness, abstract, apart from the universe, separate from matter and time and sense (which are relative), not identified with the Creation, not praised as "Great" or "Glorious" because of that creation, not worshipped, because there is no need, but the Infinite, all-knowing Good; the one former "unpronounceable name."

So exalted was this thought, so perfect this portrayal in the primal teaching of the Religion which has borne the name of "Brahmanical," that there was no outward adequate expression of God, and therefore no praise or worship of the Absolute. Remember, BRAHM was the "Ineffable Good," so absolute, so removed from all external form, that there was no need to worship, but a Perception of Deity alone, through meditation and introspection, constituted the first recognition by the Sages of this Name and Dispensation.

The Angels, Sages and prophets who heralded the first Incarnate Life proclaimed the Dispensation, which presented in its first cycle a reaction from those external propositions and mathematical scientific laws, and the many deities and attributes and powers who had been worshipped as divinities before.

The advent of this Religion in the Orient was like a dream; each form of recognition of it as Truth came spontaneously into being. Whosoever these first people were to whom Brahm was revealed, there is no need to invite you to their external habitations; the Earth yielded all that was needed for subsistence, the fruitage of the trees and vines hung in rich abundance around them, there was no ambitious desire to conquer other nations, there was no need of material worship; it was a repetition of the "Eden" time with an added Superlight; it was an Eden within an Eden, a Glory beyond a Glory, more like that primal Millennium when the angels dwelt upon the Earth, or like the final Millennium, than like that which any other age or people had experienced.

BRAHM the Divine, the Infinite, was conceived of, was per-ceived; but the name was only breathed in the innermost silences. Thus that period which introduced the Brahmanical Dispensation to the world, at first had no record; it was declared by those who first perceived this Light that no record should be given. It was not until the second avatar or second Messiah of that Dispensation that the truth was broken to the comprehension of others. The first who perceived it did not declare it, only lived it; the first Messiah of that Dispensation did not declare; he only stood among those who perceived the truth as he did, giving the light in the life which perceived God.

Perfect peace reigned there; absolute freedom from strife of any kind; there was not even the strife of mental competition, no intellectual effort to make oneself successful above one's fellows; nothing that indicated a desire to "conquer the Earth" as in preceding Dispensations. There was no repetition in the first portion of this Dispensation of the preceding one; there was a reaction and an advance, absolute and complete, as if all the struggle and all the striving and all the love of mortal power, and all the desire for physical conquest, and all the material knowledge and all the human law, had been merged into the one perception of the acceptance of Divine Good. Nothing was questioned, nothing doubted, all seemed to be known because perceived.

As time passed, however, there were the many to whom only partial perception came; to whom must be declared something like the "law" which, it was said, was given to Moses upon the mountain, that could be understood by the people; something must be given to the understanding. The light that followed was that which broke in fragments the clear "white light" of the Primal Brahmanical Religion.