That crowns and makes complete, down to the present day, all the Messianic Cycles, great and small, of the Earth.

The Messiahs of this Dispensation were heralded by the Angel bearing the Pentagram symbol, and when that symbol appeared, no matter where, those who were initiated were to trace the Messiah heralded by the Five Pointed Star, by the appearance of the Angel under that symbol. The Pentagram was not known to the scholars, only to the Initiates, the "higher priests," and Buddhas and the embodied Angels; consequently among the masses of the people, the "sign" could not be known. All the other "Buddhas" excepting Jesus were born in other countries, and the number was complete, except one; while the interval between the time of which we write and the advent of Buddha Gautama was greater than modern historians suppose; the appearance of the Pentagram was the true sign in all the Orient, including Persia, of the New Messiah. It was now the recession of the Light all through Asia, but Buddha Gautama not being the latest one, not being the culminating one, the recession had been more entire. Not in the far Orient, nor yet in India, but in Palestine, was the closing Light of that Dispensation to appear, that it might be borne forward into the New Orient and the New Occident that was not yet unveiled; not yet had Judea given up her secret.

China was an Empire in the receding wave of her materialism, her external isolation and bondage; India was in the far off receding state; the Hebraic people had also wandered from their primal religious inspiration; Persia long since had lost her primal light. Only by such ways as Truth ever is perpetuated through certain lives, to whom is entrusted the sacred bearing forward of the Sacred Seal, could it have been known that unto Nazareth was to come the final Messiah of that Dispensation. These "wise men" who followed the Star were not known among the Jews, excepting those of one order of the priesthood, who were among the Initiated in the most Sacred of the religious Orders of the Orient, one of the Twelve who ever bear forward the Sacred Truths. The Twelve are on the Earth today, scattered in all the lands, who know by actual initiation the mysteries of the "Sons of God,"

Like those, and to whom the approaching Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, was well known; but because he was bom among a people who did not understand the meaning of the Truths that he gave, those truths became more crystallized; the distinct perfect utterances of Jesus you could place side by side with those of any Buddha and with every culminating Messiah, and you would find that they contain the same principles in every essential particular. The Great Teacher, Buddha Gautama, reaffirmed the Divine Good, found the meaning and conquering of Sorrow and pain and death by showing the way of victory over self-seeking.