This section is from the book "Psychosophy", by Cora L.V. Richmond. Also available from Amazon: Psychosophy.
The steps that are to be considered in the world are three in preparing for the Divine Motherhood: Purity, Loving-Kindness, and then the Divine Purpose; each of these three steps being necessary ere a culmination is reached; ere the Announcer can appear; concerning which all Sacred books bear token, namely: that the Mother of Christ is equally as important as the Father in the Life that is to be revealed.
The mother in the earthly form in the human states is the shrine of all affection; unto the altar of the mother-love, the natural heart turns with perfect accord and praise; and even without added inspiration the tenderness of what is called "Nature," stamped with the Divine Mother-love, reveals the perfect wonder of the visible creation; when, therefore, the human Soul takes upon itself the outer form there is no lack of that which shall make it welcome, and give it all possible states of expression. Yet, strangely enough, it is only in the human life that there sometimes seems to be perversion of the natural expression of this maternal love; all natural objects and forms pass forward to their germination and fruition, with entire and perfect harmony; the forms of life from the singing birds and their mating loves, to the harmless insect and flower, reveal how perfect is this stamp. Nature not only bears the impress of the Divine Mother, but expresses it in the forms of life that are revealed as the blossoms receive their fructification continually, first from the twofold life that is within, then from the rays of the sun and the all-pervading atmosphere.
 
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