This section is from the book "Psychosophy", by Cora L.V. Richmond. Also available from Amazon: Psychosophy.
As this Mother did not walk the Earth in human garb, except on the "Mountain height," appointing one of "The Queen's Daughters" to bear forward the light that was to be given to Earth; so in such wise, the Mother of the Four Mystic Truths only abides upon the Heights; is only viewed in the Four Perfect expressions of Life; only revealed in the Mother, Father, and Son and Daughter; therefore in the Four, as in the Two - Mother-Father (Mother, Father, and Dual child), there is the complete expression, the "Attainment," as expressed in the "Temple of Life" and recorded in "The Book of Life" - so all Temples dedicated to this Madonna were upon the Mountains. No Shrines or Altars were in the valleys or cities, or places inhabited of men; none were allowed to enter except those who were the Initiated of the Initiates; they were those unto whom were known the Four Truths by their growth, by their perception in Soul. Thus the Priests and Oracles of that Kingdom were those who in external life expressed not only recognition of the Infinite Dual Soul, but also recognition of the duality of the Divine Madonna (Messianic Parentage), and recognition of the Primal Truth of the Dual expression of the Infinite.
Under this reign all forms of feminine life, that had been eclipsed, became more perfect. Women were appointed to places of power and honor; they were to bear the recognition of the life that woman could express over all the lands where the Mother or Queen of the Sacred City of Light and Peace reigned.
Everything that was "golden" was brought into existence; everything that revealed the light - Solar - was employed as the symbol; and earth metal, gold, which was discovered at a former period of time, whether manufactured by the ancient Alchemists in their rare Alembic, through the Knowledge that obtained at that period, or extracted from the ore by the fires of the crucible, was simply used to adom and beautify the temples and sacred places of this Mother on the Earth.
There was no thought at that time that the use of gold could be perverted, or could be debased by being employed in anything that related to commerce; there was no barter and sale of that which symbolized in the Sacred Solar light the light of Rameses. As soon would they have thought of selling the rays of the o'er-arching Dome of the Divine Kingdom. Hence in the reversion, when gold became the symbol of Mammon, when any were its worshipers at external shrines, or it was debased to other purposes, all its prima] meaning departed, and even the meaning of the Light of the Sun seemed shaded from the perception of man.
But do not fail to remember that you are indebted to this period for your first knowledge of the movement of the planets around the center; for the first true knowledge relating to the subdivision of the Zodiac; for the first knowledge of the Primal Truths contained in the Ten and Two Divisions; for the first knowledge of that perfect Astronomical law that by placing the center of the Solar System at the Sun, the knowledge of the other relations of the Planets was made more clear; for the first knowledge - which has been obscured until the present time and is now revealed - that this planetary system (when complete) has twelve planets; and that the number of the planets in all systems when complete, or revealed, is or will be twelve; that there are also "twelve times twelve" ("one hundred and forty-four" and "one hundred and forty-four thousand") - this number is given in scriptures and was known to this period - in the larger, or inter-Solar, system of spheres moving around a more distant Primal center.
Just as under this Divine Mother the Mystic "Twelve times Twelve" was revealed as the ultimate of all the Messianic periods upon the Earth; so the mystic "Tree of Life," with its "Twelve manner of fruits," being Solar as well as Celestial, was also thus declared.
 
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