This section is from the book "Psychosophy", by Cora L.V. Richmond. Also available from Amazon: Psychosophy.
The "Millennial" Madonna reigned here a "thousand years," the symbolical Millennial period, as the visible form of the Divine Mother, and the mothers of all the Christs that were to come took up their abode upon the earth as Her Angels. As said before, every living image which could be stamped with the breath of that Divinity, took upon itself an added form of beauty; and as physical life had been made perfect under the reign of physical Beauty, as Knowledge and Power and Wisdom had stamped the Earth with the manifestations and tokens of their presence, yet had no power to make those forms enduring; now for the first time the mystery of the mighty Love, which bom of the Infinite, bears itself forward through Arch Angelic and Celestial states to the Earth, stamps itself upon the forms and the living images of Earthly beauty, and for the first time the "Lilies of the Madonna" had their birth; for the first time the Sacred Rose in its whiteness was revealed; for while there had been roses none had yet been born of the Celestial State, and every flowering symbol in which either the six pointed star, or the symbol, "three times three," could be revealed, was stamped with the image of the Madonna. Then also the divine and sacred symbol was born under the image of the Dove, for through the "Menat," or that which from ancient Egypt has come down as "Iona," the messages went forth from the Kingdom of the Madonna; these were her White Doves, these were her symbols of life and hope to the world. While those fair ones who dwelt there with her, might not pass out into the kingdom of shadow the Doves bore her messages to such as were to come unto Her kingdom. Whether the "Doves" were the o'er-brooding presence of the angels, taking that form or image, or the Messengers of the divine were shaped in such ways as to enfold themselves into messengers of light under these images, we do not declare; but from that time the Dove became the symbol of the "Holy spirit," the "over-brooding" power that gives birth of the hope of immortality to the children of Earth. The Divine Mother was potential, and cast her resemblance upon the form of every living image of beauty and perfection; the Earth bore the stamp of her Divine image, and though this perfection was afterward immured in the shadow it never became wholly obscured or eclipsed.
As that stamp placed upon the Earth the mighty prophecy of that which was to come, so the Dispensation of this Divine Mother was a period of ministering instructions to her Daughters, who were to be the Angels of the coming Messianic lives, to bear the stamp of all the personified Divinity that was to follow. There was prophecy of every Dispensation and every portion of a Dispensation, and there was conserved under the sacred image of the Divine Mother, which also was borne forward, every gift that the past had held.
That kingdom came and passed; fulfilled its hopes, and gave unto the daughters of the Earth something of the mystic charm, that remained for many ages, stamped on the only Primal Religion of which the Earth is now aware, the voice of the Spirit of an added life and light unto the whole world. From that time the world would not be utterly hopeless again; from that time Love should abide somewhere on Earth, either in the hearts and thoughts of people, or enshrined so near that the Divinity might seem to dwell there. From that time equal lines of life to Mother-Father, though unequally distributed, would be borne forward; from that time also the Sacred Image of Divine Motherhood would no more be wholly veiled as in the past; for such time as Christ life should appear, under whatever "sign," or beneath whatever "star," or clothed in whatever form and Name, the sacred image of the Divine Mother would also appear, and the people of the Earth turning aside from time, from all shadows of time and sense, would turn unto the Holy of Holies, or to the shrine containing Her symbolic image, and worship there.
Again and later on, we shall give you messages from this Book of the Divine Mother; it is to us no longer a "hidden" book. The coming Dispensation is to reveal everything, but only to those who can be made aware; and even as ye bend, praising those from above, who gave to you the divine prophecy that is to give the world the blessing of light, so do the Angels draw near to bless you in Wisdom and Love. And remember that this Sacred Image, whether in the Kaballa, or in the Book which you call the Bible, or in the more ancient Scriptures of the Orient, or in the Book of the Divine Mother, She Herself shall reveal the Light that from that Heavet of Heavens, from that Glory triumphant, from that Sacred Shrine in the far off spaces, still broods and bends, the Primal Mother of Love, over the Earth, and bears you on to her Paradise.
Veiled in the outward form of Earth
Ever the infant Messiah comes Because there is the Primal Birth; There is need that in the Earthly homes All things conform unto its state. The cradle hath its symbol; you wait
For the Christ life yet to be born, You know the glory of the glad new morn;
But in all things Truth needs must be First cradled in its infancy;
In the infancy of each human state.
In the infancy of the race or kind, In the infancy that still doth wait
For the inspiration true life to bind; And as the form that is molded here
Must bear the impress of dull clay; So the Messiah from Heaven's sphere Taketh np the appointed way.
By paths and ways that Angela know Close guarded in their perfect might,
By ways that prophets may have seen On mountain of supernal height,
By ways that the "Wise Men" of the East Saw when they followed the "Star" of old
They knew where the infant cradled was, The Messiah that had been foretold.
And even as the Truth must be lowly born. And hidden from the gaze of earth
That the perfect light of its perfect morn May not be quenched in the hour of birth.
As error seeketh always to slay, - And selfishness would find the place
Where, lowly the infant Christ must lay - To bring cruelty and disgrace;
So veiled as no other infants are That none may know and none may kill;
The Light Divine, Truth's perfect star Seeks the cradle guarded by Love's will.
To grace that Life the Star Divine
Not only the outward form of clay In Earth, but as a symbol may shine A lily of Truth of perfect day; The prophecy of every soul Is the cradle, the Messiah's goal.
 
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