Infinite Love and Wisdom, Life and Light of souls, whether immured in time and sense, they seek the shadow of Thy Truth; or whether on pinions of quickened perception of Love and Wisdom with manifold unfoldment from within, they find Thy presence and Thy truth. At that Perfect Shrine whereunto Angels and Arch Angels bend in perfect accord with Thy perfect truth, Oh, God, Thy children turn; and through the Love that is divine, that transmutes the dust unto the spirit, and the outward perception unto the soul; they would seek Thy presence. May each and all mounting unto the perfect height, remember that all is enfolded with Thy Love, with which they seek Thy presence.

Foreword - The Interval

We have borne you forward with somewhat of difficulty, in striving to reach these higher heights. The outward instrument is not always physically equal to the attainments of the spirit; but, upborne by your sympathy and love, assisted by that Mighty Strength that is ever beyond and above those who seek with you the perfect height, we hope to give the full and complete number.

Ye have been taken through three Dispensations; ye have been given a fourth or Inter-Dispensation, whose expression was not a regular Cyclic Dispensation. We left you at the shrine of the Divine Mother, enfolded wherein the divine and perfect meaning of the Motherhood of Christ could be made known.

Osiris, Isis And Horus

In these intervals between each third Dispensation and the one that follows, we have said that the sphere of twofold Light is more revealed; that the impress of the Divine Mother upon the earth or Messiah of that time is greater than afterwards is revealed; whether in the large Messianic Cycle, or in that of the lesser degree; yet after the "Interval," all dispensations more fully bear the impress of this divine Motherhood; therefore you are not surprised, on entering the Osirian Dispensation, to know that unto the twofold light is added another: that which was shadowed in the primal morning of the Earth after the first dispensation becomes more fully revealed. When you enter the Osirian Dispensation you have the image of Isis, the Mother having charge of all life, of souls entrusted to her keeping; and the life of Earth which bears the generic impress of the primal Mother, and the impress of the maternal name. Whatever of this was revealed, yet veiled, in the ancient Hermesian dispensation, is again unfolded in that of Osiris, Isis and Horns.

You are almost borne backward to perceive the Primal Dispensation, excepting that there is an added token of the Divine Mother. The more modem "Osirian" epoch, with its symbols of the earth and sky, are perversions of this ancient record. The Osirian Dispensation recalls each of the others, but does not repeat them, as their knowledge was new. In the Osirian dispensation, there is a period of knowledge; but the Egypt from which, through scholastic researches, you are now beginning to gather glimpses of knowledge and wisdom, was not that of this great Osirian Dispensation; this more ancient one has only been handed down through tradition, Angelic embodiments, and by such inspiration as could come to succeeding prophets and "Wise Ones" of the Sacred Orders.

The Osirian' is the first Dispensation which can be properly named within the realm of your possible knowledge (through researches and scholastic lore); while its beginnings are shrouded in mystery, as they must be, in so vast a Cycle, there is still enough remaining for students to know that the Osirian Dispensation was a threefold light, veiled always in regard to the feminine nature, but more perfectly revealed than before the "Inter Dispensation."

Egypt Fountain of All Knowledge. Egyptian knowledge was the primal fountain source of every stream of knowledge that has come down to you from any source of human history; everything connected with science, whatever of mathematics is known, whatever bases you have for the foundation of physical knowledge, came through the Osirian Dispensation; and as there were twelve Osirian Messengers, one for each of the culminating lines of that period, so all through the Orient there were twelve Osirian Messengers, one for each of the culminating penetrating lines of light that came from this Egypt, which was the Mother of all present civilization. And as the First Dispensation was the primal beginning of all knowledge on the Earth, so the Osirian Dispensation in its beginning, was the foundation of that knowledge for the three Cycles that were to follow. As that primal foundation has reached you in the various forms, symbols, and names which we have enumerated, so the Hermetic stage of knowledge of the Osirian Dispensation has been happily handed down to the present history, by one who, clothed with singular understanding, bore the name of "Hermes." That name, so coupled with another, implied a threefold power of knowledge. So in the Dispensation which followed, that of knowledge, namely: of Power; Egypt governed all the East, and bore the fruitage of her manifold gifts in the power with which she ruled the world by her sovereign Empire.

Then came that which is handed down in a most ancient book called the "Wisdom of Solomon." Take the Hebraic record and place it back through one entire Cycle and a portion of another into the Osirian Dispensation, and you have a fair outline of the real history of what is recorded in the Hebraic Bible, much of which is perverted by misinterpretation and interpolation; but the foundation of it is there. Whatever is embodied in the Kabalistic "Wisdom of Solomon," belonged to this period of the Osirian Dispensation; the compilations and collections were by the "wise ones," or rulers in Egypt, of all the ancient wisdom. So also the book of "Enoch," which was a Kabalistic book, not only referring to the preceding Dispensations, but having especial reference to the Osirian. Whatever fragments of these sacred and secret records have been handed down to you, may you read now more correctly; since the indications recognized even among the Jews were that Egypt was the Primal Mother of all that the Hebraic scholars knew of civilization and enlightenment. But scholars have not yet discovered all that Egypt will reveal, for she will unveil all the history of the Osirian Dispensation, veiled in the recession. The great Light was observed in that wave which made lesser deities the subjects of worship.