We shall use the word Expression in the sense that we have defined it, as being the result of the impulsion or volition from the Soul toward activity, the word Impulsion meaning the act of volition.

The lesson which you have previously considered treats of God as the One, the Eternal, Infinite Entity, and the Soul as on eternal, finite entity.

The First Expression Of God Is Dual

Whenever and wherever expression begins the Dual Life is manifest. The universe of matter does not exist excepting through this expression of Dual Life.

All ancient religions symbolized the Infinite in the Unknown yet Perfect Sphere of Omniscience; yet all ancient religions considered the first expression of Deity as twofold. The terms Divine Maternity, and the Great Mother Nature, are synonymous with the feminine name of the Deity. The earth is made the symbol of the Divine Mother. In all religions, either veiled or openly, there is the feminine Deity, co-equal in Power, perfect in Love, half of the Dual life of the Deity.

The great Mahadai, or God-Goddess of the most remote antiquity, was a Dual Divinity, without earthly name or human form, but abiding forever as the Twofold Source of Being. So well was this understood that all the primary religions of the world revealed God as twofold. God is expressed and revealed according to the need; and as the universe, including that which man shares, needs this expression, so the dual life is revealed.

The Being that is One in the Infiniverse is Dual in the universe.

Too perceive in the atom and the sun, and in all generic life, and in man, this dual life made manifest. So persistent is it, that even the leaves upon the trees, the different forms of vegetation, every variety of Fauna, express themselves in reference to this duality or twofold Being.

Among the Egyptians there could never be more than twelve who understood the mystic name of the only God; but the Divine Mother and the Divine Father as the Dual expression of the God of the universe, could be always spoken of. Jehovah Elohim was the nearest term in the Hebrew language that would give expression to that sacred, mystic name signifying the great Uncreate, Father-Mother., The only word in Egyptian lore which man was not able to speak was that which expressed God, the God-head; but the Father-Mother, the Love and Wisdom inblent, or Dual Life, could be spoken. The feminine Deity is veiled in the Isis of the Egyptians, as the masculine Divinity was symbolized in Osiris; nor were Isis, Osiris, and Horns ever mistaken for the unknown, nameless God, ensphered in the Innermost Heavens; for that Deity the Egyptians had no name that was ever breathed; nor even known outside the most sacred temple, the "Holy of Holies." Osiris was represented as the Sun of light, symbolizing the Creative Power; Isis was worshiped as the Mother, the symbol of generic life. But behind both was the Infinite A, U, M, the Attum, which, in Egyptian, embodies the feminine as well as the masculine.

In Egypt yon will also find the genesis of life symbolized in the name of Ionah; this name means the Dove; the over-brooding presence of the Holy Spirit incubating that which is to give expression to the Deity; hence, even in Hebraic times, the Dove was made the symbol of the Holy Spirit brooding over Jesus at the time of His baptism by John. The Dove appears in Sacred Writ through the Kabala, because, among the Egyptians, doves were not only the message bearers from one land to another, but the Dove, the Menat, was also the symbol of the Genetrix, and therefore was made the emblem of the Holy Motherhood. As Isis was the Earth-Mother of the Egyptians, so this sacred Dove was, oftentimes, made the symbol of Juno.

The Divine Image within the winged sphere of the Egyptians, was none other than the immortal Soul and God; the circle symbolizing the finite Soul, the sphere symbolizing the Infinite, the wings the emblems of the over-brooding spirit, the Mother Love.

The unbroken, unmeasured Sphere is God. The divided Sphere, or Dual Life, is God revealed.

There were three ways in which God, after being revealed, was known to the Ancients.

First: By Generic Symbols. Second: By Numbers. Third: By Letters.

The Generic symbols were derived from Egypt and were, primarily, twofold. The Letters were derived from Egypt also, but were renamed by the Kabala, the Shemoth (Shema). The numbers, Seph-iroth, were given by the Kabala, but were Egyptian: three times three and one - nine and one. (This is the origin of the Triune God.)

The Circle with three Jads and a Tau, is a Kabalistic figure and is expressive of the threefold unitary nature of God; the three hypostases or co-ordinates in the Divine Nature, equal and united, as indicated by the Tau.

Among the Brahmins the threefold expression, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, referred to the three Potentialities: the one Infinite Good, the Creator, to Whom they never pray; the Infinite Preserver, to whom they continually pray; and the Infinite Destroyer, to whom they continually bend; all typical of the one God. But the twofold life is Included in Brahm.

In the mythological history of Greece and Rome yon have Jove, the typical deity governing the heavens, and Maia, the beloved of Jove. Juno is referred to as the Queen of Heaven, but Venus (who bears nearly a dozen names and evidently is descended from Egypt) rules the earth and half the gods. Wisdom appears under the feminine form of Minerva, who shares with Jove the government of the heavens.

In the North, Odin, although supreme in the Halls of Valhalla, still shares his empire over heaven and earth with Frigga, the Sacred Mother, who in the supernal kingdom has charge of souls that are yet unborn in time. In the subtle mythology of the Northlands there is ever to be found this wonderful Duonym, the Divine Mother with the Divine Father; whatever lesser deities may be mentioned, and there are thousands, still the Father and Mother reign supreme in the kingdom of light, in the temple of Odin.

We know of no nation, nor religion, unless you shall name your own religion and nationality as such, but what includes the feminine in the acknowledgment of God. But the Soman Catholic Church has, by the recognition of the Madonna, associated the mother of Christ in such manner with the Divinity that it gives sanction and sacredness to the typical Dual life.

The monad is inseparable from the duad, and atomic existence is discoverable in associated atoms. The triad, quadrad, and quintad are subordinate to the duad, which proves the monad.

When speaking of the expression of God, we speak of every manifestation that is twofold in the universe excepting the Soul. The Soul is not an expression of God, because it is an entity in itself; but all other manifestations in the universe, expressions of whatever kind that typify life, reveal this dual nature. All that relates to the Infini-verse, or to the unknown or absolute God, (meaning unknown in time and space,) must be perceived; but whatever is expressed, i. e., manifested in dual nature, ma; be taught; hence from the first expression of dual life the divinity was taught in the Divine Father and the Divine Mother. The process of formative or creative activity from God to nature we may only know by the finite process, which we trust will be gathered by you in this wonderful pathway of life.

There is no possible expression in the unitary state, because the unit is complete, is one, is being. You might as well say a circle could be expressed by a circle, or a sphere by a sphere. A circle is a circle, a sphere is a sphere. The moment a circle is broken that is division, explanation, expression. As in God there is the Unit, the Infinite One, but in all expressions of God there is Dual life; so when the Soul seeks expression duality begins. That is,