Let it not be understood that this shining shield, this orb, this RA, is the Infinite God; but let it be understood that the Sun forever expresses as his symbol the Sphere of Light in which the Life, the silent, Secret Divinity is enshrined, the Mother of all Truth. When, therefore, from this ancient Splendor, came the Four Propositions that were to make the world beautiful and great; when the Four Truths were avowed for the time being, which were to establish the principles of Light upon the world, there appeared another Madonna: the one that makes here the "Kingdom of the Sacred Mountain." You will notice that this also has its relation to the Divinity in the Sun-Mother; for all words, whether in the Hebrew or Sanscrit, or more ancient derivation, that express inspiration or express Light, appear in the symbols as "Mountains," as "Horab," "Sinai," etc.; all "Mounts" of inspiration were related to that which is given from the Sun.

The Divine Mother which is in the North, has the symbol "Cassiopeia," as the Queen who vacated her kingdom in the North to pass to the South, in the South was symbolized by the "Divine Mountain" on which was placed the city of the Mother of Light and peace, Hieriosaleh, or which has since become the "City of Zion," "Jerusalem," whose derivations point to this most ancient symbolism, where the God of Light, the Sun, descends to meet the Mother upon the Mountain Heights of Inspiration, from which flows forth the Light unto the world, from which must come the symbols expressing light - which also expresses Divine Light, or the Son of Light.

Every sacred image of the Madonna of that period is an image ensphered in the light of the Sun, showing that in the mystic symbolism the Madonna that we now speak of, "clothed with the Sun," included all angels of the Sun, and all that move in the constellations that were earlier believed in, but were departed from, as was also the worship of the "Mother of the Seven stars." Seven was no longer a Mystic, Secret, Kabalistic number, except relatively. All minds were turned toward the worship of the number four,* as the symbol of the Primal Truths; of the Number Twelve, which could not be spoken, - only the ten and two in one; and of the number, which in its highest subdivisions constituted the symbol of the Angels having charge of that Dispensation, as the especial attendants upon this mother and her reign: Seventy-two, or Twelve times six, and thus the new symbolism of numbers, and of those particular inscriptions that now perplex the students, because the secret meaning cannot be known (as well as the numerical meaning), which was the conveying of the new message unto the world.

We have in the "Rising Light," the wonderful symbolism of Hor ("Horns"), and the divine and most ancient meaning of "Isis"; we have "Osiris" - not in the more modem interpretation, but in the signification of the Sun itself; we have this alt-encompassing power of Light which, taking possession of the different kingdoms of the Earth, held sway, every form being bent unto obedience to the Light. Under this Madonna's reign all golden blossomings appeared upon the Earth; and the mystic flowers that reared their heads upon the mystic waters, far away in Africa, in Abyssinia, in Egypt, were gold-crowned, bearing the sacred symbol of the Sun. These blossoms were radiant with its light, and ensphered in their conformation was the mystic meaning of the Ten and the Two. You will find, in all lilies growing in the Orient, that have golden color, something of this still preserved; you will still find in the inscriptions upon ancient temples, and in the "Lotus Bloom," the meaning of these most ancient symbols.

*The circle as solved by the Square - the four Elements (earth, air, fire, water).