We have told you in previous lessons that under the inspiration of Perfect Love, the artist (like Raphael) paints his pictures of the Divine Madonnas; under the influence of the Angelic state of perfect Love the poet sings his divinest songs; this is because of the perfect recognition. Every mathematical figure (geometry), every form that to the ancients was perfect, was only brought to light under the potent influences of the Messianic cycles in which the Mother-Life also held sway.

You have boasted of the intelligence of this day; its inventions are marvelous; its sciences and arts are wonderful; but each Cycle of the past has yielded the primal unfoldment in these directions. You turn to Egypt in wonder; to the more ancient days of learning you are indebted even for speech. Whatever was the Primal birth of Truth, or its expression in language or form in any age, woman was then the interpreter. In the sacred temples of Isis under the Egyptian Cycles, where two vast Messianic periods were included in the records - and the knowledge of the times in which even the lesser Messiahs appeared - there was in all the veiled knowledge of the perfect life of woman the symbol of the Divine Mother.

The first symbol of the Ancient Mother, the one who gave unto the Earth the first Madonna, was the Dual Star (the complete Sephiroth) in which was symbolized the prophecy of the whole, or the entire Messianic cycles of Earth. It was neither the three pointed, nor the six pointed, but the Twelve pointed star; yet so perfectly dual that each of the six points of each separate star could be perceived, but the symbol is also ensphered. This symbol includes all that can ever be expressed concerning the divine life of The Christ and all that can be Symbolized concerning God; but notably the six pointed star that symbolized the "Mother" life was less manifest than the six pointed star that symbolized the masculine, or Father life, which forms the foundation for the thought that the masculine expression is the protecting life; thus in every instance where strength, where shelter, where outward force is required, the feminine expression is measurably withdrawn. Yet under the larger and more potent sway of the Messianic life, in the household of the Kingdom of the Divine Mother, when the manifestations of life appear, there is always the feminine command and always the masculine obedience. Thus in the Divine Kingdom, it is ordered that when the Heavenly Life appears, that which is glorious in the household shall be manifested more gloriously; and in the larger angelic states of Earth, and in the life of Earth, all Kingdoms, Provinces, and Dominions are subservient to this feminine life. At such time, the feminine life pervades the State and the Crown, and from the one that is the most humble to the one that is most exalted, there is a steady ascent to the crowning life of woman on Earth; all this is in the preparatory states previous to the coming of the Messiah.

*The Sephiroth.