Unto Thee, Eternal source of life and love, Divine Mother, Infinite Father, Love and Wisdom, we turn praise; may Thy children put off the dust and ashes of time from their feet, the cares and all that absorb in outward life, and turn unto Thy shrine, unto Thy abiding life and light, praising Thee for the messages of Love. Such portion of Thy truth may they receive as the Divine Life within enables them to perceive. May they, in seeking, strive to aspire to such growth as cometh from Thy perfect Life. And Thou who draweth near, even Thou Divine Mother of all Love, whose form is symboled in the many images of life, but who abideth in the innermost of God, bless Thou Thy children. Amen.

Lesson. The Mother Of Two Truths

As the Primal Truth was the divine message of the Perfect One, the Revealer of One Perfect Truth, the Mother of all life, brooding above all worlds, declared that message the Oneness of the Universe; so in the next stage of the Earth's unfoldment the Divine Mother bore the name of "The Mother of the Two Truths". In ancient symbolism she is pictured as dual, having two heads; and her form is that which expresses one of the stars, in the constellation whence she came. This dual image, half angel, half woman, revealing the form on Earth that signifies earth generation is mistaken in the ancient interpretation by those who translated it, for the Mother of Seven Truths, as well as the Mother of Four Truths, whether the translation came down through the Hebraic nation or whether from Phoenicia into Greece, the cause of this mistake being that as she came from the North the same light seemed to ensphere all. 353

The image of the "Mother of the Two Truths", as said before, has two heads; one signifying the North, the other the South; so if you were bending within the Shrine that symbolized her life you would salute, first the North, as being that vast sphere whence the Primal Mother came, toward the stars symbolizing the seven stars in Ursa Major; you would also turn toward the South as symbolizing the Ancient Mother which is revealed in the fervency of the light of Sinus, the Dog-Star, symbol of the life of Earth.

These symbols are Hermetic; both have reference to what are known as "Hermetic Mysteries", afterward symbolized in "Ash-toreth", who held the keeping of Astronomical signs and their significance.

With this, the Second of those vast Cycles, the Goddess of which revealed to her children, in her twofold form, the mystery of life and light. As four stars in Ursa Major are the four that revealed the First Cycle, so the seven stars are those that symbolized the Second Cycle; hence the frequent confounding the "Goddess of the seven stars" with her of the Two Truths. In the symbolism, the Hermetic Mother bears from the North and from the South the symbols of what is to be revealed in her Children. And as the first Child is feminine, which is carefully concealed in the record, the second is the Primal "Hermes", who bore the message of all Knowledge to the world of the celestial and terrestrial heavens; of the physical influences that dominate the Earth; of mathematics; of all things that pertain to outward knowledge and demonstration. The meaning is: the Mother of Two Truths reveals the first departure from that which is One, that which is spheral, sacred, primal. The sphere cannot be understood until divided; therefore the principles, when revealed become those that are afterward portrayed in mathematics, "broken into Science".

This Primal "unveiling of the Mysteries" through all the Oriental nations has symbolism in the Goddess that is concealed and yet revealed; Ashtoreth of the Southern worship, from which worship some of the priesthood never departed, is only a more modern symbol of this Sacred Mother; but if you were to receive her symbols as they were in the primal temples, when Hermes and Hermia (Hermes revealed, Hermia concealed) gave to the Earth the Truths that she declared, you would have the symbol of her double life: North and South, typifying both hemispheres - Celestial - no East, no West, because her scope was too vast to include the "day" and the "night" of Earth; consequently solar and lunar symbols in connection with day and night of earth were not used in connection with this Madonna.