Slowly and surely the life of the Divine Mother, bending in sorrow above her children, has walked through the veiled shadows winning her children toward the light. No wonder, then, that prophets and sages could know when the last Messiah of that Dispensation would come; that He could be declared as "the man of Sorrows, acquainted with grief"; no wonder that there could be hidden symbols, the light of which would express that which He would declare; for among the sacred orders initiated by the first Buddha, was the Order of Sorrow for the decried and Divine Mother Love, for the Divine sanctity of the Soul; hence the withdrawal of women whose lives were pure, into secret and sacred places; hence the reason for that departing from the world; because not finding therein the diviner love, they would have naught to do with the kingdom of dust; hence the places set apart for Vestals that there might be no contact with the world; because of this great Sorrow, because while one does not conquer the shadow by leaving it, one need not mingle with the shadows, therefore it must needs be that in order to show their divine respect for the highest, their adoration and appreciation of the Divine, these Sacred Orders were formed.