Parent of all; Love and Wisdom eternal, divine and perfect: unto the altar of the Soul, unto the Innermost Shrine, thy children turn and bend in praise. May they cast aside all earthly thoughts, put away the garments of the dust, and turn alone unto the soul. May they at the Supreme altar of Love and Wisdom bend, well knowing that there alone doth perfect Knowledge abide; seeking for the highest Good, the most perfect Truth, may they each, baptized in that all-potent light, suffused by that perfect and wonderful glory, know that from all eternity, Divine Knowledge is revealed unto the mind from within the soul; and even as they ever turn their spirits thither, may all enthralling earth-themes, all barriers of self, be removed from their consciousness, and may they abide alone with Thee.

Beloved ones, you are again summoned and welcomed at the shrine, which must be revealed unto you by the soul alone; and even as it is so revealed, whatever knowledge cometh must be the result of that which is awakened from within.

You are simply to endeavor to remove all that lies between you and the perception of Truth. As Love and Wisdom alone constitute the shrine, and they alone are the Kingdom unto which you turn, and by which you receive this light, so again unto that twofold altar you are summoned by the Angel who beareth this message and, even as before, you are told that excepting through Love and Wisdom, there is no Knowledge, When the Earth was new, ere yet the young orb called Mercury could receive any form, much less the form of human life; in the beginning of the preparation for the human state, when the most 231 of the visible portions of the habitable Earth were devoid of beauty and of life; when the waters and continents that are now beautiful in their division were scarcely separated; in that most ancient, primal time, as if from out the sea, one continent arose, the first Eden of the Earth with every CREATED thing. Ere yet Generic life had been awakened, from the Celestial Kingdom the angels were summoned to people the earth. That primal period is pictured before your minds: Oress-Oressa, the Primal Angel of the life of Earth, stood beside the gateways of this terrestrial speck of dust, removing the barriers that lie between the Heavenly kingdom and that which was to be the new mortal state. The great Attum, the primal mother under edict of God's law, gave this most Ancient Angel charge over the Earth, who also had charge of those who were to appear in human form. The Angel who was to give the primal expression to that race was not summoned yet into outward form; but everything that was to constitute the revelation of the Godlike man and woman to be embodied then, was made ready; it was the Eden-time of Earth; it was the creation, and not the genesis of man.

As one by one these dual angels in separate forms took on the garments of the dust, to each was given an especial gift, and all formed the perfect gift of Knowledge.

The recognition of this Archetypal world is found in the mystic meaning of what was afterward known as the Sephiroth, or "world of Divine Emanations": The "qualities" or "attributes" that must first belong to the primal or Divine First Intelligence or Cause, manifested by their highest messengers or angels before being expressed in Earth-forms. These were then embodied in created forms in the order of their degrees of Knowledge.

The first had knowledge of the primal law of life by which, in the atom and in every organic form, the generation of life would be carried forward. This primal Genetrix is worshiped under a sacred name in every Religion and Nation, but the most Ancient Name must be veiled in the mysticism of language; but whatever is the mystic meaning of Aelohim (Yhovh Elohim), originally the "Sacred Name," was never pronounced by the true Hebrew outside of the Sacred Altar, nor yet in Egypt, because of the feminine of the original name, and because of the sacredness of that name. This Primal Angel had the mystic knowledge of the laws of generic life, and the race that originated from these angels of the Primal one, was the Primal race of Adam and Eve.

Then came the knowledge of natural forces; all those elements by which atoms govern each other, or are co-related, and by which the forces of nature may act upon each other; everything that relates to the dynamics of the universe, the angel of that degree of the first Dispensation expressed; and the race which went forth from that angel, was the race of interpreters, the conquerors of substance; those who had power over the Earth; from whom sprung, among other races, the typical Hercules, and the typical "giants" of the olden time, those who vanquished the earth by physical might.

Then came the laws and knowledge of mechanical forces, such as act in accordance with the dynamics of nature, and yet require other aid, the aid of intelligence. All that may now be included as primal principles in the mechanical arts was stamped upon the earth by the angel who bore forward the race unto mechanical victory.

Then came more subtle knowledge, included in the chemical life of earth; those forces that are not visible, nor always palpable; like some of the elements and grosser manifestations of mechanical force; but that, nevertheless, have the most potent influence on the earth and its atmosphere; thus the secret of Alchemy (or chemistry) was as perfect in its inception (more perfect than today), for in the primal chemistry of life the one primal substance, or force, was known, and today it is not known.* Whatever be the "ultimates" and "primates," chemistry does not declare in all its "progress" from ancient Alchemy; but the Angel who stamped this knowledge upon the earth gave that primal race the basis of the secret knowledge of the One Primal Substance.

The mystery of the solution of the sphere or circle then was revealed by an Angel through mathematics in the square and triangle, which was afterwards symbolized as the solution of the perfect sphere, in which were three "jads," or points, and the "Tau," to indicate that the triangle was not to be used excepting mentally; and the Angel introduced also the mystic figure which, divided with the three, solved the one. The mystic meaning of the circle and sphere under the primal law of mathematics was known; and while the number seven was the highest number used, ten and twenty were indicated by signs; seven was the primal number brought with the angel; four was the next number, and one, which made up the complete number (twelve); yet the secret number three added to seven made ten; so, primarily by signs, as well as numbers, the laws of mathematics were perfectly understood and stamped upon the race. Then came the knowledge through which they proceeded to the construction of the "Astronoraes," or the tables of the Earth and Heaven.

•When this lesson was first given "Electrons" had not been discovered in their present supposed or possible relation to primal substance.

Then followed the knowledge of human physical life (to be applied such time as they departed from the primal perfection of the creative law), that which pertains to human generation and preservation.

Order, law and government were included in one angelic impersonation, or race. Thus, step by step, the Angels pressed forward to the completion of the Ten Degrees, under which all principles of knowledge were included. Meanwhile two other principles yet unrevealed, more subtle than all others and borne by the Arch Angels, were given to the Earth. Between the beginning of the existence of this race of angels, and the culmination of the races to which they gave generic birth, there were ten and two perfect degrees, or dispensations.

These angelic impersonations and their culminations stamped upon the race the perfect knowledge which was brought by them. But each generic race departed from the perfect prototypes as the Generic law overcame the Creative law; and there came recession which must ever follow the perfect impersonation or revelation, when there is descent into the generic and physical methods. Therefore, the seeming degeneracy of the human race, when one is looking backward to the "Golden Age," is not a fable. The "Primal Race" and the "Primal Age" was the typical perfection which was the example set to souls who were finding their first expression. And as every knowledge or branch of knowledge was perfect, no new, or primal knowledge has been added to the world; there has been augmentation and recession according to the varying conditions of the human race; for as the generic race was not the race of angels, but a race of people or souls only adapted to enter the generic life of earth receiving such knowledge as the angels had left, but not able at once to use it, so in this way the perfect knowledges were apparently gradually lost and the races went forward by receding and on-flowing tides. But it must be borne in mind that this first great cycle yielded to the earth every impress of intellectual knowledge which has ever been received; for the Earth then received that primal impress in its perfection.

The race of angels, the progenerators of the race of men, were the primal twelve; and twelve times twelve they, with their messengers, passed afterward into the great Cycle which was to constilute the Cycle of Knowledge with its cumulative powers of human intelligence.

All that knowledge brought by the primal revealment became the possession of the races. The fulfillment to the Generic races of that Dispensation, was the appearance on Earth of the Messiah of Knowledge. You have nothing in tradition or history that declares the name, but that which more nearly resembles the Message, and that which probably is the synonym for the traditional Messiah of Knowledge, is to be found in the "Hermetic secrets," not in that "thrice great" Hermes, the name that was so great in Egypt, borrowed from this ancient splendor; nor yet the later Hermes of your "Classic" time, but the primal Hermes. The angel bearing the attribute was HERMES and HERMIA, the Angel of tee Morning of Knowledge, bringing to the earth not only revelations from the Arch Angelic kingdom or Messianic state, but into human form the typical expression and demonstration of perfect Knowledge.

Whatever may be included in the domain of human intelligence, or intellect unaided at the present time by these Divine Powers, to which we shall hereafter refer, the first manifestation belonged to Hermes; clothed upon with absolute pinions of-light, revealing unto this Primal Dispensation by absolute tests, the correctness of every angelic revelation, given by the pre-generic race of angels; gathering up in the cumulation of the vast cycle all the knowledge that had been given by the different angels and the generations that had followed.