The Angels of Light: Showing the way by the perfect Flame of Truth. These are chosen to bear the Torch of Truth luminously, from one Dispensation to another, by and through the generations of Light, They choose, by the Inner Illumination, those who are to bear the generations of Light to the children of Earth.

The original Hebraic records (The Talmud, etc., and ancient writings) recognized this descent, and much of the supposed tracing of the genealogy of the Prophets was in reality the real Spiritual descent.

The peoples, tribes, or communities "set apart" from the world and worldly contact, were originally understood to be those chosen to bear the "seed," or generations of Prophets, Seers, and other illuminated lives, to the world. Among Oriental nations these lives were especially held sacred, and it was claimed (undoubtedly was true), that among the "Wise Ones," the "Illumined Ones" of Earth, there were always those who could prepare the way for these "Children of Light." Wherever these Children of Light appeared, whether in the home or Sanctuary, the "word" and "will" of God were made more luminous.

The followers of Zardusht (Zoroaster?) symbolized outwardly this bearing forward the "Light" of Ormuzd (Divine Good - Sun of Infinite Splendor), by the "Flame," the "Sacred Altar Fire" that never was allowed to become extinguished. Not that they worshipped the Fire, but it was the symbol of the Undying Flame of the Infinite Love and All-Good. Those entrusted with the "Flame," the "Sacred Altar Fires," were the Holy Ones, the Chosen Ones; 192 hence the Temples of the Parsees were almost wholly free from outward adornment, and their rituals were very simple observances, their precepts being the Rules of Right. Those who served at the "Sacred Altar" were the "Children of light." Hence down through Egypt and Palestine came the knowledge of the Sacred Fires.

The Christian "Dispensation," or culmination, was preceded by particular lives declaring the Ancient Light of Truth and making way for the new.

It must be concluded, however, that the "Magi," the "three wise men" "who saw the Star in the East," must have been Persians; or, at least, those who knew the meanings of the Sacred Illuminating Symbols; knew the Light of the particular Angel that could and did guide them to where the Young Child lay.

In India, these Angels of Light were sometimes mistaken for the real "Avater" or manifestation of Vishnu (a "Buddha"). As they both preceded and followed the Messianic Life, it is not strange that in their less illumined state, the people, and even some of the priesthood, ascribed to them the characteristics of a Messiah.

"Pre-historic" Revelations have unquestionably thus been handed down to the present day; not only through the generations that have succeeded the Dispensations among those nations, but by that process already pointed out in these lessons of successive lives, and a true line of "Apostolic Descent," by the Angels of Light.

So distinct is Light from Darkness, the Revealed from the Hidden, the Seen from the Unseen, that the Illuminated Vision can trace the Luminous Lives.

As in optics the eye or lens must be adjusted to the light, and to the objects to be seen, so must this be traced by prepared or angel-awakened vision.

The external history of the so-called "Religions" of the world may contain, unaware, the record of some of these lives, but for the most part that history is as "bitter Dead Sea fruit," bearing tokens of carnage, oppression, martyrdom; and the Illumination has only been possible because of these Children of Light, to whom a scepter and Crown, a Sacerdotal -robe and authority, a fiery furnace, a dungeon cell, or a guillotine, are alike nothing.

In the history most familiar since, and immediately before, the advent of Christianity, there can only be traced those Lights that have succeeded in leaving the Spiritual Truths of all time unsullied and undimmed. Some of these "Lights" come from India, to mingle with the Shining Ones of western nations. Some come from China and the Farthest East, and bring the same words of Light from the "Children of the Sun." Some come from the more recent "civilizations"; all bear the same testimony; all agree on the fundamental principles of Truth; all illuminate and make clear the lines of such lives as have borne the Torch of Truth to the world.

All true "Revelation" is heralded, guided and illuminated by these Angels of Light