Mother of all Love and Life, Father of all Wisdom, Knowledge and Power, Divine and Perfect Light, Eternal, all-pervading Life, Thou Unspeakable Name; thou Divine yet revealed Mystery, we turn to Thee in praise. From the altar of the soul the spirit would perceive and give forth the aspiration and prayer, and each life here present, enfolded in the divine Love, will know, whatever that Love can give, according to its needs. May each turn to Thee in perfect trust, and according to their states may each receive the light that is given, and as the higher and diviner kingdom glows, the earthly knowledge passes away, so may all past knowledge be absorbed in the light of the living present; and may that divine and perfect Love encircle and pervade them all, until in the perfect kingdom of life they are one with Thee. Amen.

Again, beloved ones, at the altar of Perfect Love and Wisdom you are commanded to bend, well knowing that only through that interpretation can the light be understood; whatever is given, the mind can only grasp the outward portion; but the spirit, illumined by love from the supreme altar of the soul, perceives each new and rare interpretation, and understands the message of the Divine.

The Angel of the Primal Morning, and the children of Hermes returned to their enchanted home in the Heavens. Such time as the generations which succeeded them receded from the light, the lesser angels who were the lesser Messiahs, took charge of the succeeding generations. And the Dispensation of Knowledge, complete in its twelve portions, ten and two, gave in the ages following, but the receding light of the Divine Kingdom that had been revealed.

At that time only the primal continents of the southern hemi-240 sphere had existence; the continent upon which the Hermetic race existed was the first, and the other portions of land that were referred to as existing upon this globe were all south, or nearly wholly south of the dividing line of the equator; while the other portions were such fragmentary portions of land as could not be inhabited.

The equator being the part most touched by the sun, and receiving the most of its direct rays, continents near the equator have been the beginning of each dispensation. But as the position of the equator changes by what is known by the "precession of the equinoxes," between the first and second Dispensations the Earth had changed its position by several degrees.

We will call your attention as nearly as possible to that portion of the Earth where the second continent existed; a portion of Australasia occupies a portion of the place, and portions also are of newer formation. There was no "Asia," no northern "Europe" or "North American" continent; a portion of South America was in the continent to which we refer; in other words, that which is known as the "Western Hemisphere" was not in existence, excepting such portion as we have referred to, and the vast continent which was nearly opposite to the one that had been the beginning of the Hermetic race, was destroyed. Here, then, was the beginning of the new race; the descendants of the Hermetic race were commencing a new beginning in the land which now is known as Africa; but that portion of the Eastern world has also changed and cannot be considered as part of the original continent. The great waste of waters was still here, the ever changing powers of the Earth, and new continents were being formed.

The races upon the Earth were under the domination of the twelve lesser Messiahs of the Dispensation of Knowledge. The primal beginnings of the second Dispensation was a repetition of the Hermetic age, for each succeeding dispensation repeats in degree, the preceding one. As the first portion of the dispensation is like that which is primal, except that it is generic, so the victory over matter through what we denominate Knowledge was repeated in the new beginning, but with much less perfect glory, and much less perfect light, than in the Dispensation of Knowledge. Not until the "sixth seal" is finally opened, and the sixth Dispensation fully begun, will the primal Hermetic secrets be fully known, by which the human race shall have the knowledge which was revealed in that first dispensation with the personified Presence of knowledge upon the earth.

As said before, the over-lapping of the knowledge belonged also to the race which was to carry forward the Second Dispensation.

The primal Angels who came to take charge of the first Dispensation were from the Northern Heavens. Symbolized in the Seven Stars in Ursa Major, and the other numbers added to seven made the twelve, or the ten and two. All the tides of Knowledge flow from the North Stellar heavens, where the Arch Angelic Heaven of Knowledge is found.

From the opposite direction in the stellar Heavens, came the Arch Angels and Angels that were to have charge of the beginning of the Second Dispensation, as Knowledge in physical and material life had already been fulfilled, and its over-lapping had proceeded by the distribution of the children of Hermes to this new continent, and to another continent that had been forming in the East, so the nations thus formed constituted the beginning of that new Dispensation.

The Angel of this Dispensation was from the Southern Heavens, whose symbol you perceive in the Southern Cross, whose Sacred Seal is visible to you here in the "Belt of Orion." That Celestial Heaven which is opposite to the Northern stellar Heaven, holds equal sway in the stellar power of the systems that are included in their range, thence came the