It is no wonder that there was upon the Earth the consciousness of a great woe: She came because of the waywardness and wanderings of her sons; She came because of the sorrow and pain of her daughters; because all things belonging to the sacred and divine mystery of Her Life were perverted on the Earth; because, wandering from the first true convictions of the soul, the sons of Earth sought in vain in the allurements of the senses, to find the divine image, and because some of the daughters of Earth, despised and rejected, wandered around in pain and agony, or often in loveless unions; and passed through the painful periods of marriage and child birth, giving forth added sorrow in the generations of human life.

In all the Orient this shadow overspread. From the Eden-Time and later Dispensation of the true marriage, nations wandered into those conditions wherein woman's life is abject slavery, as in the countries where polygamy is established, where in social things man has ensconced himself as invulnerable in his "divine right of possession," and has descended to win his object in wonderful brilliance of material offerings.

The great cry went forth because of the enchained life of the, children of Earth. All over the Brahmanical countries spread these shadows, all over the nations spread this social darkness; and thus that named "religion" became a shadow over nearly all the Orient.

There was but one heart-beat within the Divine Mother, bending above her children: Divine Compassion.

The "Scarlet Woman" of history, despised by the sons of men who had made her scarlet, was held up in scorn by the masculine historian to show the result of her guilt; while he, robed in purple and ermine, made laws under which woman, thus discarded, was denied the sacredness of the protection of the Divine Mother. The sons of Earth gave to her image sacrilegious rites and ceremonies; and to the Goddesses of the senses reared most beautiful altars and Temples.

In that very Egypt that had given birth to the first thought of the Primal Mother, there came but pleasure-seeking and worship of the senses; it was because of these wanderings in the shadow of what was known as the "three-fold God-head," there primally was veiled the element of "Evil" that came to be worshipped and sacred, because the children of earth were in darkness yet; these were the least sacred images, but because the Mother was veiled they became the principal names in the lesser cycles of worship: "Siva," "Ahrimines," "Apollyon."

It is said that when the "Ten" and "Two" Saviors came under the lesser cycles of this Kingdom of Sorrow, of which the Great Buddha Gautama was the Culmination, and Jesus of Nazareth the latest, the Crown of the whole that the Mother was despised and abandoned; that her image was unknown; but the Buddha who gave to Asia the light of the wonderful splendor of His presence was not born of a rejected mother: A Madonna of Sorrow. It is also said that in the first Dispensation of that Kingdom the Sacred Mother veiled herself from the sight of her sons and daughters and wandered around and o'er the Earth unknown; and forever since has been wearing and bearing the image of Sorrow for her daughters that were in pain or suffering.

It is well known that in the Orient whence the Religion of this Fifth Dispensation came, where it had its primal origin, that the life of woman often has been most deplorable; there the results of the "Shadow" are most apparent; there the "Mother" hath no protection; for there is no sacredness in the marriage that is polygamous; and seeks only the allurements of the dust.

Through all the varying secrets traced in symbols and hieroglyphics and even including the records of the ancient splendor of "Solomon," who was in all his practices an Oriental, down unto the "Christian Era," there had been no respite from this sorrow, and that respite was not to be in the Orient.

If, therefore, the divine Mother, bending o'er the Earth, traces for you this history of Sadness, it is only that out of its shadow the light may be kindled, and you may perceive the wonder of the Divine Life that she has established.

Traces of the Shadow Only the nations over which the shadow yet prevailed abide in the Earth today; all those nations that held to the Primal Religions, that bended before the sacred image of the Divine Mother, were wiped out of existence by the Osirians, the modern "Brahmas" by the Jews, and finally by the un-Christ-like Christians; all who worshiped or turned toward the ancient Sacred Image were held as aliens and outcasts; and all who bent the knee unto, or worshiped any of the symbolism of the First, Second or Fourth Dispensations, to restore the Mother with the Seven Stars, the symbol of the Fourth Great Mother, to restore the Mother who held in her keeping the Three Primal Truths, or the Mother who held the Sacred Double Truth, or even the Divine Image of the First Two (in One) who dwelt upon the Earth, were not only held as outlaws, but were put to death as Idolaters. Not more violent has been the warfare of the Mohammedans and Jews, and Christians, one against the other, than was the warfare against those who still persisted - even in the allegorical history of Egypt, which is called Jewish history - in worshiping the image of the Divine Mother. Every name that could be applied to her image, every epithet of scorn in this masculine record was so given. Even as the prophets of Israel sought in vain to turn the people toward the announcement of God, whom they called the "One True God," others sought to allure the people from turning toward the Divine and Sacred Mother. The "Children of Israel" still turn away from the ancient record: the symbol of Rachael "mourning for her children," the symbol of "Lot's wife" looking backward and turned into a pillar of salt, because of her grief, by this God, who was of a masculine type. This shows how perverted history may become under the dominion of a false idea.

In the darkness which settled over the Orient, after the 6rst primal announcement of the New Religion had been felt, there was, of course, the first recession belonging to the then existing types of life. The Wonderful Perfect Life could not exist in the world, even before - under all the conditions of human expression (except in the "Interna?') - but was always somewhere deified and idealized.

But since so many multitudes of souls must pass through the shadows let no one suppose that the Divine Mother leaveth her children to pass through them unaccompanied; let none suppose, because of their sorrow, that she has deserted them. She maketh her "image" to be despised therefore, by having it trailed in the dust, because of the darkness of the Earth and the sorrows of her daughters.

They having forsaken the Divine espousals and having brought the first great pain, then cometh the seeking for pleasure; then were built the Kingdoms in this Orient that were founded upon the senses; then had sway those varied self-seeking nations which constitute the Kingdoms of the East, and which make the expression of masculine life the dominant and often the only force; then came the gradual receding of all possible knowledge of the Divine Love save under the stimulus of the "Buddhas," who each in succession took upon himself the Kingdom of Sorrow, through the sorrow of the Divine Mother, to outwork, if possible, the solution of its mystery. Hence the great "Babylonian Era" that held in its symbolism not only all the intellectual and material greatness, but the sins of the world and the sorrows also; for the "woman clothed with scarlet" was none other than the sacred image defiled and defaced by the children of Earth; hence all through that (symbolical) history is the painful double image of pleasure and sin, of the seeking of the shadow of human life, and the seeking of the meaning of human death; the worship of the senses and their satiety; and the whole world groaning in agony and striving for the solution of this mystery. Therefore science and all former religions, receding from their Primal source, failed to sustain the fair structures of their world built for the adornment, amusement, and magnifying of the names of kings; and when the pleasure houses were abandoned and sin, desolation and ruin prevailed, their temples became as naught.

Egypt, buried beneath the drifting sands, holds, by the enduration of time, some portion of her former temples. In the flowing waters of the Nile was shown the wonderful mystery of the Divine Mother, how it had given her life, but was now unable, under the Shadow, to restore her.

All the Orient seemed abandoned to the Shadow, to the reign of Darkness, while only small lights have shone out dimly to reveal more distinctly where the shadows have been. The trailing clouds of dust, and the "Serpent" resting over the fair Eden Places; that which was known - and there is nothing within the history of the present time to show other than those defacements of the earth, of those who possessed the full knowledge of the past history - folded and sealed; all this has until now remained as an unwritten book; because of the sensuous misinterpretations of man, no one could unseal the sacred mysteries of the past. As the prophets, seers, "Buddhas" came, there were small glimmerings of hope; some divine uplifting was received that lasted but for a few generations of time and then receded again unto the senses.