"The Woman Clothed with the Sun." Rev. 12 - I.

Mother-Father God, Divine and perfect Light, Creator of all visible material things; preserver of all, Director of all that is divine and mysterious in the workings of Thy law, yet ever potent in Thy perfect Love that abideth unto the uttermost; and in that Love Divine encircling all, including souls in whatever state of expression in time, and in whatever state of blessedness in eternity; Thy life and Thy love pervade all; May Thy children put off the sandals of Time from their feet, the dust and ashes of care from their brows, and leaving all earthly thoughts behind, enter into the Kingdom that is Divine. May they, under the light of that perfect Love, feel Thy Glory all Supreme. Through whatever symbols they are led, may they know that Truth is the one eternal possession, and that Thy Love is the redeeming power of all life. Even as unto the Angels Thou hast given much of all that has been, and is to be fulfilled on Earth, so may these. Thy children, draw nigh unto that sacred sphere from whence the Life and Light proceed; and filling the encircling atmosphere, may it possess and bless them utterly. Amen.

Lesson

Beloved ones, all hail: Were ye in the Temple, and in the innermost Shrine, ye would bend tonight toward the North, symbol of that Celestial state, whence cometh the knowledge of the great 341

Mother of Time, "Mother of the Time Keepers." Ye would bend toward the East through which gateway the Solar light is first visible and from which comes the consciousness of Time as related to the Solar light. You would turn toward the South, since from the Southern heavens came the knowledge of the quickening of life through that mysterious star that reigned over Egypt at each vernal tide: Sirius, or the Dog-star. You would turn unto the West, symbol of that state of prophecy, that vast and unknown Heaven, through which the Light that you are about to receive was wont to come. Having thus turned unto all the Four Kingdoms, you would turn unto the Shrine that is innermost, where would be unveiled the image of the Divine Mother.

In the ancient symbolism the first Divinity of which you have any symbol, word, or number, even engraven on tablet of stone, is the name of the Mother-Goddess of Time (A-tum; same as "Turn" - hidden); the divinity that rules over the symbols of the Earth, and Sidereal heavens. The nations of that most ancient Egypt who kept record for thirty-six thousand years of the movements of the planets and of the history of the Earth, borrowed this word from the still more ancient people who had their origin in the "lost Atlantis," which in its turn received it from the Kingdom Divine; the Primal Kingdom of the Angels.

The four distinct "Corners" are not of the Earth and the heavens-alone, but were symbolized originally in the four stars that form the "dipper" of Ursa Major, by which the Time-Keeping of the Earth was made known unto the ancients; - since the movements of the Planets made known to them the re-birth of the springtime, so the Divine Mother, at a certain time, indicated by these four Stars, bore the tidings unto the Earth of the first Christ Birth; and, as was said in a preceding lesson that Christ was dual, making the stamp of divinity on Earth feminine and masculine. Until such time as again the feminine and masculine life could be revealed the feminine has been veiled, but that Divinity was named "Mother-Father", the prototype of the Son and Daughter of Divine Love. In ancient derivations, Ideographs which were only found engraved on substances long before papyrus was discovered, there is evidence to show that the feminine life was most emphasized in that Edenic state of Earth. Before the birth of the First Messiah, whose masculine name is revealed to you in the Messianic series, that birth was Symbolized in and brooded over by the Divine Mother; the "Times" of the Cycles were measured by those Stars to which we have just referred, and the name of the Primal Divine Mother, as revealed in signs and numbers, the veiled Sacred Goddess was "A-tum," who held the life of the Mother-Father sacred for the Christ birth.

From the spheres that correspond to the unfoldment of the planets must come the knowledge of the Christ Birth; and when in the New Testament there is such a cabalistic sentence as this: "And he shall give His Angels charge concerning Thee." It is an outcropping from the more ancient records of what the Angels declare ever unto the Madonna, unto the one who is to be the mother of Christ.

Our thought is that the "Woman clothed with the Sun" is the divine symbol of the "Madonna", or the "Divine Mother" of the Solar system, who always inspires Arch Angels, Angels, and Prophets, to declare the coming of the Christ. Hence the "clothed with the sun," as having charge of the Spiritual light of this solar system, indicated by the crown of twelve stars, Twelve Dispensations, and the moon under her feet. The "travailing in great pain," being the symbol of the preparation for the Messianic birth, showing that she not only has charge of the larger Cycles, the Sun-Birth (Son of God), but the lesser ones, the Lunar Births; that the lesser Messiahs are likewise under her guiding care. The "crown of twelve stars" is symbol of the Solar System* - the twelve planets under her charge; also, it symbolizes, as you will afterward see, Messianic Cycles; the twelve larger Messianic Cycles, solar cycles, meaning the Larger Birth, the solar revolution around the more distant sun, showing that not only the larger Messianic Cycles, but the lunar cycles, lesser Messianic Cycles - the intermediate Christ births - are governed by this Mother-Goddess of Time. As is often referred to in ancient symbolism the feminine name is really that from which the masculine is derived. (J. V. H.) or (Y. H. W. H.), which forms the basis of Jehovah, and to which some of the Hebrews added Elohim, for the purpose of making the dual expression, is none the less equally feminine in its origin.

Away back in those Origines, where the Divine Mother was clearly portrayed, not alone is she represented as the Genetrix of Time, but the Manifester of all expression, and symbolized in time. Not only the Nature, but every name of Deity has also feminine representation.

The first Madonna is pictured to have been borne on the Chariot of the Sun to a beautiful mountain, where her Bridegroom, who was unknown to the inhabitants of Earth, awaited her and there dwelt apart for a time; strangely enough a portion of that record is carried forward in the Apocalyptic vision from which a quotation has been read.

* Our idea is that the complete solar system has twelve planets.

Coupled with such revelation, the record proves that always the Birth of the Messianic Life is heralded by generations of prophets who are inspired by Angels and, they in turn, guarded by the Arch Angels of that particular Dispensation; that always the Madonna life on Earth is the representative of the love of that Divine Mother who has charge of the Solar system - the Mother-Goddess - and that descending from her sphere of light at such time, pours out the influence of her love and radiance.

As hinted in the previous lesson, this influence is felt for several generations before the Christ Birth; in the added perfection of woman, and in the fact that many mothers among the people in all the nations in Which the Christ is expected, have premonitions of the Christ Birth; and in the fact that many, even like the Hebrew mothers (those in "Israel") may think the Christ is coming to them.

As has been stated, it is true that in the Primal Morning, when the Typical Life was stamped upon the Earth, there were created not only nations of Prophets but Angels who prepared the way for the Prophets; not only was there created the wonderful physical life of Earth in its full expressions of beauty, as typified in the symbolical "Eden", in the perfect physical expression of life, but the Messianic life, being dual, was also perfectly expressed and revealed by the race of Angels who stamped upon the Earth all Primal Truths which subsequent Messiahs were to yield.