Infinite Life, Divine Love and Wisdom, Mother-Father of all souls: unto whom we must ever turn in the silent homage of the soul, and through the spirit, syllable only those names known to mortal speech; yet within the all hallowed shrine we must worship in silence; and there the voiceless and wordless Name must forever be breathed; may each heart turn with reverence to that shrine; may every life be uplifted and transfigured; and may they all behold where the Angels who are Thy messengers wait to declare Thy truth; let each, with all abiding and perfect Love, turn unto that only altar where Truth is revealed, and where Wisdom and Knowledge and Power are known; and as they turn unto that Shrine Ineffable, baptized in its light, strengthened by its power, uplifted by its divinity, may they know that the all-encompassing Light and all pervading Life, the Infinite, abideth within and pervadeth them. May they behold in the wondrous Cycles by which Thy truth is declared, the evidence of that which is borne from within, and may they with added and perfect Love surmount all obstacles to the understanding of Thy Truth; and, as the Angels draw near, may they abide in Thy love forever. Amen.

Beloved ones: even as ye turn unto that perfect altar of Love seeking the Life and Light Divine, so must ye again, baptized in its all healing Light, pervaded by its all potent Power, receive the baptism at that shrine; sustaining and strengthening the instrument through whom we give these truths, as she is sustained and strengthened within by the Angels for revealing the added light of Soul. 285

The Fifth Great Cycle, or Dispensation, Includes all that is historically known in the world today, and stretches far back into "prehistoric" times; to where tradition supplies the place of history, and to where the remote sources of many co-related streams of human life and thought, revelation and worship, become merged in the great beginning of the

Fifth Dispensation. Not only is this true, but we shall include many of the names and symbols of the separate systems of worship, and their "Avatars," Messiahs, or "Buddhas," under this great all-defining name; and endeavor to show that each "Era", or seemingly separate "Religious" epoch, is in reality a portion of this Fifth Dispensation, a lesser cycle.

Long had the world waited for the message that was now to be declared; all potencies of the physical life and all achievements of the human mind had reached their seeming perfection and culmination.

If no added knowledge were to be given unto the world, that which had been received might suffice for that kind of "saving grace" that is born of Knowledge, of Power, of Beauty and Wisdom in the external form of human Law, and of the partial recognition of the Infinite; and if the Earth, made perfect under the dominion of man, required no other salvation or recognition of Truth for the souls immured here, there would needs be nothing more; but with the decline of the Osirian Religion, with the gradual decay of Egypt and of those nations conquered by her and instructed in her learning, with the fast receding lines of light that had been eclipsed, there was seemingly nothing but material shadow. Yet even in the midst of the shadow there was greater preparation.

From out the Heavens where the Arch Angels abide, the Celestial Angels having charge over the Fifth Great Cycle, there came such a glow and warmth and fervor to the Earth, revivifying, kindling all that portion of the world known as the "Orient," as had never been known; also unto some portion of the Western World, where the nations had kept pace with this new Orient, the New Light came.

The New baptism was especially Divine; there was to be brought to the world somewhat that had been lacking in each Dispensation that had preceded it. While there had been worship, while in the Dispensation of Osiris there had been somewhat of the recognition of the absoluteness of the Infinite, the One Word for which the world had long waited and for which many had watched had not been spoken; that Name which could not be pronounced until pronounced in the Dispensation which was to give it birth, was the