In a small kingdom set apart from the other portions of the world, bordered on one side by a desert, and on the other illumined by towers of wondrous mountains, was a beautiful and perfect valley, shut out from the rest of the world by all this natural protection of desert and mountain. A glorious stream which watered it on one side, aided deserts and mountains in forming barriers as effectual against all approach, as though the kingdom were placed in mid-Heaven.

Between the Third and Fourth Dispensations a period of "three times three," which had to be accounted for, was filled with the message of the Mother. The Divine Motherhood included in "On in the one Soul of the universe," was unknown and veiled in the ancient physical life. The primal nations had long ages since forgotten the wonderful lesson of the first angel race, and perfect, Divine Love had yet to be born; for while Love in the outward physical sense, accompanied Beauty and necessarily belongs to every physical stage of existence, had been perfectly manifested, the Love of God was unknown.

Out of the mystic Heavens came the Spirit of that Divine Motherhood which ensphered and encircled the world (from the especial plane of Alcyone, as being nearest to the astronomical place), the Soul of the first Madonna (Divine Mother) recognized on Earth (albeit each dispensation had yielded its Madonna for the Messianic culmination), because of the Divine Life that was veiled in this mystic sphere; and remember, that Dual Life expressed, yet veiled, in the mystery of Knowledge and Power and Wisdom, and even external beauty, still illustrated their portion of this Divinity.

The first spoken word, the first recognized form, declaring the potency of this wonderful birth, came in that kingdom far removed toward the headwaters of the Nile, and bearing in tradition the secret Synonym of Her. And foregleams came of the might and power that afterward swept into Egypt. Everything living then revealed the Divine Maternity of the life she bore from that wonderful shrine.

The first knowledge came to the Earth from the twelve Angels that accompanied her life, who bore the majesty of that feminine divinity toward the Earth. The Divinity that was veiled in that

Mystic Kingdom, was known only to those who were afterwards denominated the "wise men." The history of the kingdom itself, its existence apart from the rest of the world, has since been a secret history; but the principal feature was the preponderance of feminine influence, the light and power and wonder of a race that was born to express the Love of God; not the infant "Eros," nor yet the veiled images of that love that lurk in the senses and bear the nations on to physical expression, but the revelation of how Messiahs were borne through the stages of angelic life, through the spiritual existences above and beyond the Earth.

Thus was the Madonna first acknowledged, made ready for the approaching light that was to come to the Earth. She arrived in this one small kingdom bearing with her, her Messengers and Angels to set the stamp and seal of that sacred divinity here upon the Earth; she appeared upon the Earth with those who were to aid in founding her kingdom; with her one hundred and forty-four Angels, and with the Messengers that were to bear forward forever after the potent light and life, to accompany Her message to the daughters of Earth, all the lives that were to bear forward the future messages unto the world and the sacred meaning of Her presence on Earth. The stamp and seal that was placed upon many living things because of that presence, was known only to the mystical orders and were only recorded in the ancient Book ("The Divine Mother").