As there is the shadow before the light, so there is the typical Lucifer, the antichrist, the message bearer of darkness. We have no doubt that there is something upon which to found this theological idea or it would not be in existence. While you admire Christ and condemn Satan you do not know how high an Archangel must be the bearer of the message of sorrow and darkness. Let any one endeavor to take a message of sorrow to a friend; to a wife the message that a husband has suddenly been killed; you can not do it, you try to get some one else to take it, one is chosen who is most wise and gentle: and if from among the Archangels one is summoned to be the background for the Christ must not that one be wise? Although not to be envied, no Archangel would hesitate if called upon. So the fallen star, the typical Lucifer, becomes the light-bearer by contrast.

There is no doubt that there is always a shadow upon which the light is to shine. How wise and wonderful most be the Archangels chosen to bear the lesson of sorrow, of sin, of pain, of death onto the worlds! No weak ones are chosen as fitting representatives: the; must be strong who can bear to stand and veil their archangelic light, who are willing to become a death, a sin, and a pain, and bear the blame of all the sins of mankind so that the Christ may be more risible: as a dear friend might put forward one best beloved to receive a blessing, to are all willing to receive the Christ All this is included in the divine plan; and no Soul can be in the state of an Archangel that is not willing to be the shadow as well as the light, the messenger of sorrow as well as of joy; who is not willing to minister to those in need of sorrow: for behold, it is only in human states that then is any sorrow or any earthly joy.

The divinest light is that which comes in the highest attainment Think yon that Christ ever contemplated whether he was happy or not? Is not divinity in itself such a surpassing possession that one forgets whether there is to be happiness? Then is such light that one does not can to question whether it is light Only in the dimness of partial light does one wonder whether then is light or not, but when the sun shines fully upon the world and then is no shadow, one goes out into the glad day, drinking in its splendor and radiance; thus the Angels overcome the shadows of earth and dwell in the light that is celestial.

In each of these dispensations then have been twelve lesser lights corresponding to the apostles of Jesus, forming what has been named the "Apostolic descent," the family of apostles or Angels in human life appointed to carry forward the line of light from one dispensation to another on the earth; under these circumstances only do angelic Souls become embodied on the earth again; i. e., to become apostles and disciples, in a certain innermost sense, of a dispensation; and to carry forward to the next dispensation the lines of light by direct spiritual succession on earth.

The Sons of God, known as a sacred order in the Kabala, were not supposed to be Messishs, that name being too sacred even for them to pronounce, but they wen the sacred twelve who, under divine commission and appointment, carried forward upon the earth, as Angels do in heaven, a dispensation which has passed, until the new one shall appear.

Then have been successions of these twelve lives upon the earth since the advent of the latest Christ, as in the Orient there wen twelve.' In scripture they wen referred to under the name Melchizedek. The Roman Catholic Church enfolds some in its keeping, others are scattered over the whole earth; they are known only by sacred symbols and signs that belong now to the spiritual kingdom and are only known by the twelve in the material world. It is a singular fact that there are perpetuated in the East, as well as in the Roman Catholic Church, the exact means by which the chosen know one another; if one of the Sons of God in the Soman Catholic Church should meet one of the same order from the Orient, they would know one another, not only by divine perception, but by the indications that are known to belong to the order.

This sacred order can only have twelve at any one time on earth. While there have been many orders fashioned in imitation of this none could be real excepting that which has the light and life. The Sons of God belonging to the Christian dispensation unite the close of the Christian dispensation with the beginning of the new dispensation. Other Sons of God will appear when the dispensation has reached its culmination: when the Messiah of this dispensation comes the Sons of God will he chosen.

This being the dispensation of reunited lives, the sixth dispensation will be twofold, as the central embodiment on earth will be twofold, and will have recognition; the coming Messianic embodiment, which represents one-half of all the Messiahs of earth, will be twofold, and there will also be twofold representation in all the sacred offices belonging thereunto.

The Angela and Archangels revealing themselves as heralds of this dispensation appear in dual perfection, revealing each portion of the Soul. In ancient time the Archangels appeared only as man, now the double life appears. One of the Archangels heralding the new dispensation is one whose feminine name is the synonym for Delight; we will call her name Delecta, the masculine, Delecton. The feminine appears above the earth, she broods and hovers near those on earth who have knowledge of the new dispensation and her name is the symbol of Joy. So the Archangel appears whose name is the symbol of Peace; the peace that conquers strife; and this is symbolized in the name that represents Harmony; Euphemia, Eupheon. The other Archangel typifying the absolute celestial state of the new dispensation appears in the name of Celestia, the feminine name of love, and Celestion, the masculine name of wisdom. Unto whomsoever these revelations come that belong to the New Life, the Archangels, Angels and messengers appear in dual completeness, and each portion of the dual Souls are named.