Chosen Archangels accompany the Souls to be embodied in a solar system, so the first one hundred and forty-four Archangels (including twelve Messiahs) must constitute, successively, Archangels and Messiahs of all the planets of the solar system. You will have, before the earth and the planets of the solar system have fully expressed their entire perfection, twelve Messiahs, each one accompanied by a group of twelve Archangels from beyond the solar system. These are the typical twelve in Sacred Writ, to whom, as nearly as possible is outward form, the twelve disciples are to be compared; they typified the symbols of these divine lights who have each different names and offices to perform under a given dispensation. Gabriel was the herald, under the Messianic Archangels, of the Christian Dispensation, and belonged to your solar system, but could not approach excepting to announce a Messiah. These twelve Archangels have beneath them, as said before, one hundred and forty-four Angels gathered from the other planets in your solar system, who have had experiences in those planets and who, from the first, have charge of Souls upon the earth.

When Oresses, (not Osiris) the "most Ancient Angel," was pictured as presiding over the incubation of the world, with countenance almost like unto God, he was the Archangel who heralded the approach of the first Messiah unto the earth, with the Souls that were to be born upon the earth, in the kingdom that was to be ripened first The seed was sown for the harvest of all the ages. Those were the "Angels of God who shouted for joy" when the "morning stars sang together" for the infant world given unto their keeping, which was to be the cradle for the experience of all the Souls that the twelve Messiahs are to call their own. The group of twelve Archangels accompanying the first Messiah, when the earth under the first dispensation was ready for that Messiah, are all the Archangels of all the Kingdoms. Those, as said before, were accompanied by the highest Angels belonging to the solar system who came with the first groups of Souls belonging to your solar system.

There are the larger and the smaller cycles, or Messianic periods. The bitter refer to individual planetary states. Under the Brahmin-ical religion the lesser period was indicated by a Buddha, or prophet; the greater period by Vishnu himself, who became incarnated as the "Lord of Earth." In Egypt the larger cycle was indicated by the reign of Osiris and Ibis, (god and goddess of the Sun and Earth) while lesser deities reigned during the shorter Messianic periods. Astronomical signs were frequently used by the ancients to represent these two cycles, in which the twelve signs of the zodiac were conspicuous; but they always had a spiritual, as well as a literal meaning when so used. A knowledge of the esoteric meaning is given in these teachings, so yon may separate the literal from the spiritual in reading ancient records.

When under one of the vaster cycles (not simply a cycle that includes one hundred and forty-four thousand Souls, for these are under the smaller dispensations) all the Souls of a dispensation shall finally he gathered, it will be found that all the Angels and all the Archangels, and all the inter-solar Archangels and their Messiah will hare left the states of experience and expression belonging to one planet of this solar system, and will have passed on to the next planet, the Angels as spirits to be embodied there, the Archangels to be Angels, the Messiah an Archangel until "the fullness of time." A certain length of time is given these to have expression in the next stage of matter under the law of the culmination of the Soul's entire expression; that law would include all Souls that belong to a certain dispensation.

Concerning the Christian Dispensation: when it was said that there were one hundred and forty-four thousand from the tribes of the Children of Israel who would be called into Christ's kingdom it undoubtedly was true. If you could know positively, which you can not excepting under this law, the number that ripened from the Jewish nation into the Christian Dispensation for the angelic state, you would perceive that typical number. You can not know, by any human knowledge, the whole number that Christ has reached: those who have passed to the angelic state under the Christian Dispensation; but rest assured the typical number of Souls that ripen under each dispensation have already ripened in Christ. Yon are children of the New Dispensation or you would not be here. You do not belong to the kingdom of Christ because He has harvested His kingdom, but you belong to the kingdom that is to come.

Your Earth is approaching the culmination of one of the larger cycles, the beginning of a wonderful dispensation, which includes the larger Messianic period, so that the fruitage ripening is more abundant than in the lesser Messianic periods of the earth. This grander cycle will include all Soul-fruitage that has been ripened since the preceding grand cycle.

This, the Sixth Dispensation is imminent; by imminent we do not mean that it is today or tomorrow, hut the heralds are here, the signs and tokens are in your midst; the Messianic period dawns upon you; the light that has been foretold is coming: as it dawned over Egypt, as it dawned over Assyria, as it dawned over eastern Asia, as it dawned over Jerusalem, such is the light that is now coming unto yon.

The five past dispensations are not all within the realm of your historical knowledge. The first yon cannot recall, even by the dim, prehistoric Egyptian divinities; but in the eastern portion of Asia there is a clear and distinct record, from the lines of the Brahminical faith. You may also look for a dispensation in India; another in Egypt, the prehistoric Egypt; another in the lost Atlantis, and now you have passed the Christian dispensation (the culmination of the Mosaic) and are entering upon the new. This dispensation must be nameless until the Messiah appears. The "Comforter," whose coming was predicted by Jesus, is now here, the Avatar of that dawn that is now upon you, the herald of the Messiah that is to come.