Unto the Infinite White Light of Heaven, eternal, all pervading omnipotent God: unto the shrine of Celestial light thy children turn with feet that are weary and earthwom with raiment that is not wholly of light; still would they stand by the outer door of that shrine asking admission. May their spirits, through perfect love, enter into the vestibule that leads to the innermost Shrine; may the light that leadeth them fill their hearts, and illumine their understandings; and may they remember that naught else is required, save alone that perfect love of Truth and love of Love and Wisdom, that shall bid the gateway of the Celestial City open to them. Through all ways may they learn that the one way of Life and Light leadeth unto Thee; though they come by many paths, may they know that the One path alone is that which shall set the spirit free and lead unto the Kingdom of the Soul. Baptize them in this Light, receive them into this Kingdom; whatever may be spoken may their souls perceive and their spirits understand.

Greeting

Beloved ones, ye have been received into this added communion of Truth and Love for what is to be spoken here that thus, somehow and somewhere upon the earth these words may be given; that they may have a resting place in human hearts, and hereafter yield their fruitage. We shall expect your attention for as many as six lessons at least, perhaps more. As ye have received the special injunction, it now only remains that with united affections (no other power is needed), ye attempt to follow; for it is upon that basis of divine affection that the superstructure of the spirit is built; in 221 its atmosphere we are enabled to attune our instrument for these utterances.

"And I saw the New Jerusalem come down from Heaven as a bride adorned for her bride-groom."

It is only through the Celestial Marriage, only through the divine perception of the Soul that true knowledge comes. The broken fragments of knowledge gained in earthly life, the testimony of the material reason can be as nothing in perceiving the Truth of God. We have led you in other lessons to where the Soul realizes this Heavenly Marriage; where it finds perfect recognition in the human state. There true knowledge begins; there the real life and labor commence. Whatever exists previous to that is experience; the fragments of human knowledge thus acquired are cast aside or superseded just as soon as the perfect state is attained.

All Revelations in the human state are possessions in the Celestial Kingdom; for through the Heavenly awakening only can there be true knowledge; thorough oneness of the Soul. Only one portion, or Half-Truth, can be known in the divided state; but when the perfect state is attained, the complete circle, All-Truth is known. The perception of truth becomes then complete, as is the Soul That which was divided or scattered in fragments becomes one; as when all rays are merged in the one there is white light.

Unto this Heavenly kingdom, unto this Divine and perfect Marriage of the Soul with God you are summoned; the beginning of Knowledge through Wisdom and Love. No longer do you "see through a glass darkly." All of earth and its experiences; worlds and systems even bend and fade and under the clear white light of Love and Wisdom, Truth alone abides.

It is only in this Heavenly Marriage, recognized on earth in the dual life, and fulfilled in that supernal region as One Angel, where the Soul bears forward the perfect work of the angels, that the true labor of any Dispensation can be known; because it is within this Heavenly Marriage that the Word of Life here to be given is spoken and summons all souls.

The world is prepared for the new baptism of Truth, such time as souls are ready, who have sufficient knowledge through perfect Love and Wisdom; then the Lord of Life descends to bless the earth. In the preparation for the Messianic cycles: Knowledge of the advent of the Messiahs must first come through the highest Angels; those Arch Angels who are appointed to bear the message; giving to the earth the revelation of the approaching Messiah through the Celestial Angels that belong to the Earth or Earth's atmosphere; and then through those Angels that guard human lives, and who make preparation in Spirit states and in human hearts for that which is to come.

Unto the Heavenly Baptism of a particular Dispensation all souls are summoned who are ready. This is why so frequently in the New Testament Jesus declared the Divine Sacrament as being necessary for the perfect Truth. Such souls on earth as are ready must be nameless, and such angels on earth and in the angelic states of earth as are named and numbered by the Arch Angels are making ready for the Divine Kingdom that is then imminent on Earth.

Because of this and because this is the sixth Dispensation (to be) all past knowledge is to be revealed. The Five Dispensations that have yielded their fruition to the Earth are to be made known, and they are only to be made known through that within the soul which recognizes the Heavenly state, the divine kingdom of Wisdom and Love, the perfect dual oneness of the soul, and the perfect unity of the soul and God.

The numbers upon the earth who are being prepared for the New Dispensation, and unto whose lives the imminent light is dawning, making ready for the full glory, are such as will make up the Kabalistic number: all of those to whom the New Life will appear in various parts of the world. This Celestial light, this new knowledge, bursts forth and reaches human lives with greater, or with more shadowed radiance, according to the state of souls in expression; but when the Impersonated Truth is to be born, when the light is to come, it can no more be kept back than the dawning of the day or the bursting forth of Creation from the "Logos" of the Infinite Living God.

Beloved ones, follow us into the kingdom of Celestial life withdrawn from the earth; related to the earth by the ties of Soul alone. There in that Celestial presence, all souls who are ready for the truth, whether their forms walk the earth, or whether they abide in Heavenly state above the earth, are summoned. The Celestial Altar is of the purest white light, from which descend the rays to bless in baptism, according to their state, the souls that bend in groups like families of lilies or stars, around this Central Shrine. The Light that is to become the New Light, the Life that is to be the New Life on earth, the glory that is to be embodied, makes unto them a Sacrament in the Divine Baptism of the Heavenly State. In Soul they bend, receiving thus the Divine Blessing. As they bend, from out the sacred light appeareth the Divine Image that is to make the world more glad; but ere that light taketh perfect form in dual life on Earth, all must be revealed concerning past Dispensations.

The Angel appears from this shrine, which we have declared, to tell you the glory of past Dispensations; that Angel is borne on the radiant pinions of the First Morning of spiritual light upon the Such time as the Earth was in its infancy, as no knowledge of the Heavenly kingdom had come, this, the Most Ancient Arch Angel of all God's messengers to Earth, brooded above the Earth as an Awakening Presence, and by the light and majesty of twofold power, declared the Truth unto the primal nation; revealed the light to the one race that was ready for the Erst message of Messianic life. This angel who brought to the Earth the name of the First Message, is recorded in the most ancient language under the name, Oress and Oressa, the Dual Angel of the Morning, the Primal Messenger of God's Truth.

It was ere the Earth had been redeemed, from the waters, while the "wildernesses" were still unreclaimed, and when there were vast waste places of sea and land where no human being dwelt. Only one fair land was created and chosen to be peopled by the race of Angels that were to give to human beings their forms and the beginnings of generic life. Unto these angels Oress and Oressa came bringing the first message of Primal Truth; while along the bending Heavens, long lines of Angels and Arch Angels of other worlds made a pathway of light for this Mighty Messenger.

No traces of this first nation are found, nor the land so peopled; not one remnant or relic of its existence is now on earth except in the Angelic descent, but from the sphered splendor that approaches, and from the majesty with which the Angel comes, we perceive the import of that first great Cycle.

The cycles that begin and complete a Messianic Dispensation are not the brief period of the lesser Messiahs. The One Cycle which includes twelve lesser cycles is of so vast a range that human records and histories and symbols have failed to clearly declare it; yet under the summons of the Angel Oress and Oressa and the accompanying Angels, we bear you back to this, the infant cradle of human knowledge, the beginning of the first Great Cycle, which is named the Cycle of Knowledge, for each Messianic cycle in its vast as well as in its lesser parts, bears one portion of the fruitage of the "Tree of Life" unto the world, of which there are twelve "Manner of Fruits."

Some portion of that which has been revealed in each of the larger Messianic cycles, as well as in the subdivisions, will hereafter be made known. Understand, there are twelve larger cycles; each of those larger cycles includes, or is a complete astronomical cycle; there are twelve subdivisions of this larger cycle, the subdivisions or subsidiary cycles being what was called a period of a "thousand years"; but the real period was much longer; the larger cycle is the larger Egyptian cycle which was that of the revolution of Your Solar System around the Great Central Sun.