When this Madonna of the Hermetic mysteries appears in the symbols she appears with two faces. Whether she really appeared in material form or was expressed for the occasion, she was never gazed upon excepting as a twofold countenance; all who came toward her recognized her presence in this double presentation represented by two faces; and each countenance bore equally the splendor of the Divine Nature. The Star which symbolized her presence was not shaped in its rays either with four, five, or six points, but with two points; which (in symbolism are points or "horns" and are misinterpreted to signify the crescent moon), were the two rays of the Primal Truths; these emanated from her brain and from her life, and made it possible for other lives to understand. Thus, walking or appearing to those in the temples, the inner worshipers, she revealed herself in their visions. AH who gazed upon her, whether the worshipers beheld one countenance or the other, they perceived her presence equally. The dual face showing the knowledge she brought was from the Northern and Southern heavens equally; and showing that preceding expression, in the Kingdom of Perfect Life and Perfect Love, is the dividing of the units of all things; and there must be known the past and future One and Two, the "first" union and the "last" union, the "Beginning and the Ending," but all equal in the light of this Twofold Truth.

So as feminine in life was repeated again and again under this, the Divine Mother, there appeared a Sacred Flower which bore the symbol of her life and name on the earth; that flower was dual in its expression; it had two blossoms, both bearing petals, scroll-like leaves (something similar to and like the Calla lily), but a double blossom, one on each side, and each side of the blossom was perfect; this became a symbol of that Madonna in her temples, and one of the Hermetic symbols in all places dedicated to her. Afterward when the symbols were lost, when some portion of the meaning was destroyed, this sacred symbol was perverted; even as the Seven Truths of the Hermetic Orders were hidden by those who did not care to understand them. But as the Seven principles symbolized the seven rays of light, each of which bore the message mathematically from the divided light of the sun, they were also symbolized in the sounds of harmony; so in divisions of light into color, and of sound, through mathematics, were found the subdivisions of the Two Primal Truths; as these subdivisions increased it was found that there were seven and seventy; that there were three, nine and twelve; and after a time the Two Truths expanded into other mathematical propositions which formed the base of one portion of the Hermetic Mysteries; the other portion being in the chemical solution of the "Primal" or "ultimate" atom.

As Souls first understand these things, as Angels first declare them to souls on Earth, as Arch Angels are the message-bearers to Angels, so the Madonnas are the revealers, the manifesters of them.

Unto the Son, or the first expression of Her lift, must the Madonna first give the Primal Truths. From the fair kingdom whence the Mother of Two Truths came She brought the Sacred Truths to her Son, Hermes.

When unto Her realm she returned, when her message was finished, there was no longer conscious knowing of her presence - it was groping - but only as Her light remained in Her children, was there any knowledge on Earth of the perfect revelations She brought. What other knowledge, what other sacred symbols of life (other than we have stated in this lesson) were revealed you could not dream and we do not declare; but this we do know: that from Her perfect height She beheld the Earth stamped with the impress of this Divine Mother upon the ages, with every letter, word, hieroglyph, term, syllabling her name, - although perverted by the nations through which it has passed, - there is but one meaning: when the image with the crown of two points, or the image with the two heads, or even the symbol - as in the later Madonna with the crescent moon beneath her feet - is revealed, there is always conveyed the subtle message of these sacred and divine Truths borne forward in Her perfect light.

The Sea and the Air proclaim Her. Then from out the sea, the symbol came to syllable the praise of this Mother: that which was partly of the waters and partly of the air; an image that never has been interpreted, and which, with the bungling phraseology of the translation of Hebrew and Sanscrit, even of the hieroglyph and inscription, cannot be interpreted - an image that has the form of the physical life of the sea - crowned with the head of the Angel; meaning the life of the Divine Mother in both the over-brooding of space, and the under-brooding waters.

Thus you will perceive that the twofold image is even there revealed, and the Sacred stamp is - by this interpretation - placed upon that which has been either totally without meaning, or has been given a meaning entirely foreign to the original one; nor can you trace any symbol with twofold meaning of life, in mythology, art, poetry, or in geometry, without going back to this period to which we refer: The Cycle of the Two Truths.

All through the later Ramesian Dispensation, when the majestic stars that are now seen, lighted the night, this interstellar symbol was also known; and when no longer in the midst of the ancient starry heavens - but in the Solar Life (Ramesian), there were embodied souls piercing some portion of this antiquity, perceiving that Life, that Light, which thus revealed this Twofold mystery, and which - more than likely - at the beginning of this (the Sixth) Dispensation will give new pulsations to the scientific and inquiring minds of Earth, the life and light that is to restore the Primal Truths for which Chemistry vainly searches, for which human analysis has vainly sought.

The ultimate proposition of science is here met, as is the ultimate proposition of the Soul: for the majority of human beings both propositions will return in the coming cycles; one is the precursor of the other; the One Soul and One God revealed today, the other, the One Divided, the Dual Life, will be revealed in the future; from that, in the future Dispensations, will come the solution of all other mysteries, beginning inversely with the order in which the revelations have come.

Men have sought the Twofold Truths in the manifestations of nature, have endeavored to find the solution of the primal atoms in the wonderful labyrinth of many mysteries; aye, how little do they understand that all lives that have expression, do but converge to one primal center as they have come from one center, the Infinite, so all Soul Life, manifesting and diverging from its own center, for expression in manifold ways, must to the primal center return.

Illumined by the light of the soul, inspired by Arch Angels that are to bring the New Message, under the impetus of the New Life, with bated breath, quickened pulse, the glowing truths of this new and Divine Message, are revealed in many lives. Angels of Light perceive and will declare those who are to bear forward the Truths unto the incoming Dispensation; those who in conformance to the sacred symbols of the periods and Cycles of time, fulfill the requirements, bear the impress and stamp of them today.

Meanwhile, the Mother of Two Truths, bore to Earth as handmaidens, those who are to appear in the new Dispensations. The Messianic Life of the Sixth Dispensation will have Dual expression, and the Soul-life of the Mother of Two Truths is thus again to be revealed; while in the centers of boasted civilization, all scattered fragments of human knowledge, all dust and ashes of human research, volumes and tomes piled mountains high, will be valueless as the dust and ashes beneath your feet, under the light of this coming inspiration, this living knowledge to be revealed.

The Sacred Mother of Primal Life on Earth, the Madonna of the first Dispensation, also appeareth; from Her and from the Mother of the Twofold Truth cometh the Messengers that are to accompany the New Messiah from those spheres of Angels and Mighty Messengers that circle around and over all the Earth, uniting the Past with the Present, the "North with the South." The celestial meaning of the vibrant message comes piercing, as those wondrous lights that shone when the Star-eyed Goddess of the North, came out to wed the South and give to the Earth the message of the Twofold Truths.

Ever Reaching For The Unattainable

Ever reaching for that which is unatuined For that which yet is unexpressed;

But always knowing though baffled and pained That the attainment comes; distressed

Because, not yet, not here is the day and hour;

A year, a thousand years, go by In which bat feebly is the latent power

Revealed, of endless mystery.

But always certain that it is there,

Sure though days and centuries pass. That the Truth cometh, unaware Revealed as if in a mystic glass, First reflected, ere they are known. For no shadow can the Truth disown.

Always reaching; as through the dark The struggling germ aspiring; still,

Seemeth forsaken, drear and stark, It seems to perish; but the will

That bursts, obedient from the sod Moved - by the light and glory of the sun,

Proves that the promises of God And the attainment will be won;

For lo! 'tis there in leaf and flower, In wondrous pageantry of bloom;

All the attainment of its power, All of the glory from out the gloom.

So straggling Souls ever must reach

For what they know that they possess; And all the devious ways but teach The simple truths for which ye press Through the mazy labyrinths of Earth To find them in the Heavenly birth.

Souls have true knowledge; but the form

Is rent and pierced and torn asunder,

Until at last through calm and storm

And sunshine, and amid the wonder

You find the glory of that estate

For which the countless ages wait.

The soul is greater than the world;

Greater than stars and suns can be; For this mystery of life is furled In time and its impotency. To be at last revealed and known When the soul knows and claims its own.