Gathering up the fragments of such Hermesian Knowledge as had been left, and of such Power as had conquered physically the dominion of earth, the race which gradually rose from the receding wave of Power and from the preceding Dispensations was a race of Sages to whom knowledge became embodied in laws and formulated in principles; with whom Power became as a matter of mental force, but not of physical dominion. This was a race of Sages; a race of those whose thoughts, however, were wholly centered upon physical laws, yet were intent upon carrying forward those forces and powers of earth to the highest and best uses for the race. If this had been a Religious force it could not have been more sacred; if it had been the dominion of some great moral aim, it could not have been pursued more devotedly. Orders were established in which were preserved, as had been taught by the embodied angels from the first beginning, certain fundamental principles in nature, certain distinct secrets in the arts and sciences. These Sages (afterwards known as the "Mahatmas," the "Magi of the East"), became the founders of the first "Mystic Orders" in the carrying forward of human knowledge under the name of Wisdom; for wisdom was accounted crystallized and utilized knowledge, conserved for the use of man, and which, from its very nature, not to be used merely as an adornment for the mind, but to enable man to "conquer the Earth" for the purpose of benefiting mankind and benefiting him in his possession of the earth; for as yet no other thought prevailed.

When you read of the "Beautiful Queen" who journeyed with her retinue and treasures to the "Wise King," you may know it was a tradition taken from the Magian Sages of the Ramesian Dispensation.

Rameses under the guise of a babe was brought to the Earth, and even like the wonderful "Rah" that far over the water reigned as the Queen of Beauty, he became the King of Wisdom. This light, this birth, this power was enshrined in the heart of what afterwards became the "Eastern Continent"; was the basis and fountain head of every existing thought of knowledge or wisdom that the Earth now holds. External wisdom and Temporal beauty of the earthly mold are the dual expression of one soul or life that constituted the Ramesian Dispensation; the light and beauty of the Occident and Orient met, for there was still the Knowledge and still the Power of dominion over the earth; the knowledge of that age enabled these conquering forces to meet. As face to face these lives enshrined upon the Earth for the bearing forward of the greater message of life met, there came forth the first expression of Love; not of Heavenly Love, but of that Mystic Bros, who under the name of Horus, afterwards was born in Egypt, and under various names has ruled the Earth.

Out of this great age of Wisdom and Beauty, out of the wonder of that which was wrought in the Orient, forming the basis of all that Ramesian faith that afterwards came, the glory of the Earth reaches its first Cyclical Culmination of Three; that is, one Quarter of all the Cycles or Greater Messianic Dispensations. ' In that culmination Beauty yielded to the Earth various forms, which were perfected in images of loveliness; and Wisdom yielded to the Earth the various laws that are crystallizations of knowledge, until they became fixed; and this twain as one formed the first Beginnings of all that can now be traced in human history.

The "Ramesian age" extended over the great cyclic period, and had its beginning and gradual stages of its unfoldment and its culmination, in the name of Rameses "the Wise." Its recession involves the lives of those lesser Messianic cycles of which partial tradition has been handed down to the present time. The results of that Wisdom and Beauty (Love), everything that is known concerning ancient history or science, all that now can be traced concerning the Knowledge which belongs to either the Hermetic period or the Ahasuerian period of Power, must have come from the Ramesian Dispensation by the Secret Orders, or must have been the result of spirit or angelic impression; for they have no recorded history.

Since the widespread destruction of the continents, gradually scattering the people of those ancient races or nations, together with the distinct formation of new continents, made it seem almost impossible that either by personal and racial tradition, or by direct lines of communication, could any of the real knowledge have been transmitted, yet we are assured from sources that know perfectly, more than will be known on Earth until the final Millennial day, that there was in existence from the Hermetic age to the age of Ahasuerus, and from the age of Ahasuerus to the Ramesian age, a perfect system of personal transmission of knowledge. That personal transmission, while more correctly crystallized in the Ramesian age, had never been lost sight of since the Hermetic age.

It would seem that for all purposes of present human knowledge, those Primal Ages of Beauty and Wisdom might never have been, save that the atmosphere of Earth has been pervaded by them; save that the Earth itself has been some time molded and shaped by them; and all you can contemplate in the beauty of the sky at sunset or morning, what glory of the stars that bend above you from the mighty mother Ursa Major to the Southern Cross, you can think is a part of that beauty which molded and shaped itself into the atoms of the Earth, into the very atmosphere that wrought such perfection in that age, and may now be blooming in the lily by your side, or trembling in the rose that you gather from the garden; that that which was then concentrated of Beauty and Wisdom and Earthly Love on the Earth, has in ways known to the "Angelic descent" become distributed; that the perfect wisdom and beauty then formed has become at last a mighty winged bird brooding over the Earth, making all human nations, and hearts, alive to that one divine perception. You may realize that the Wisdom of the Sages and of the Ages concentrated in the twelve Messiahs of Rameses, borne forward in the one hundred and forty-four Magi, is the Wisdom that under all names and forms, from India and China, from Egypt, from all the nations which were not yet born, and from all those possessions of the world, the Wisdom that scattered broadcast over all nations, tongues and people, finds itself thrown into the heart of the living centuries of today.

You may know there was absolutely scientific certainty and knowledge upon the Earth in that remote period, and that though there were not so many avenues of the expression of knowledge, by and through that one race did the wisdom flow; by the Ramesian age the world was to know what it now knows, that far over the Orient with its many mighty streams of humanity this race of Rameses was scattered far and wide, and to the Occident as far as the continents then extended; and reaching out toward the next Dispensation, whether it paused by the sources of the Nile or Ganges, whether it first rested in the mystic and wonderful lore of Brahma, you shall know at another time. It is only needful to say that the Earth then trembling like a Twofold Star, was lighted up by two perfect rays, which until then it had not been possible for life to reveal or express. It is only possible to realize that in another step the Earth may become aware of the heartbeats of the Divine. Trembling upon the verge of this expected revelation, we leave the divine "Ra," and the image of Rameses, unfolded upon the Earth until we meet again.

The Union of Wisdom And Beauty

Somewhere the water* meet and flow And the divine sea ever can go. Somewhere where there is ebbing and flowing

Of the mighty life-tides, whether knowing

Of God or of deep light of love to greet;

Ye shall know the power from realms above; Yet somewhere wisdom and beauty meet

And lay their triumph at God's feet

Out of the treasures of that Mighty Mother, Out of the gifts she gave to Earth,

The wondrous Child of Beauty, none other. Conserved for the rare and human birth;

And Beauty that is a thing divine.

That should never wander from Paradise

To light the earth with its wondrous shrine To show in the glimmer of Earthly eyes,

Wisdom concealed in time and sense,

Not inborn wisdom of the skies, But that which seeks its recompense

In the veiled image of prophecies.

Where would they meet save o'er the sea In the Island blessed and divinely fair?

There Wisdom and Beauty were linked by Thee Type of all in the Earth and air.

And then what secrets are there revealed

Of the mystic ages of the past! What prophecies are there concealed;

Until new light shall its glory cast)

For not yet is Love born on the earth To show the value of Beauty's worth

Or to show to Wisdom the way divine -

They met their triumph in that perfect shrine,

And down through the ages their light doth run Like the spark divine from God's central sun.