Psychosophy | by Cora Linn Victoria Scott Richmond
These lessons are published, primarily, as a book of reference for those who have been members of the classes receiving them. The essential Teachings herein contained, have been given at various times and places through this same medium for the past twenty years, but always heretofore verbally, in private or semi-private classes, because it was necessary that those listening to them should continue through the entire course. A great demand, however, has recently sprung up in the public mind for some concise presentation of the Teachings as herein expressed. This volume is a careful compilation from verbatim reports of several courses of lessons, each containing the essential fundamental bases of the Teachings, but varying in manner of presentation and illustration.
| Title | Psychosophy |
| Author | Cora Linn Victoria Scott Richmond |
| Publisher | Cora L. V. Richmond |
| Year | 1915 |
| Copyright | 1915, Cora L. V. Richmond |
| Amazon | Psychosophy |
In Six Parts.
Part I. The Soul In Human Embodiments.
The Soul: Its Nature, Relations, And Expressions In Human Embodiments Given Through Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, By Her Guides.
Fourth Edition.

Salutation To The Beloved Members Of Our Classes In America And England, Whenever They May Be, Who Have Received These Teachings, Some Of The First-Fruits Of The Kingdom Of The Soul; And To Those Who, Not Having Been Present In Body, Webb One In Spirit With The Truths Herrein Expressed This Record Of Their Lessons Is Affectionately Inscribed By The Guides.
To The Reader- These lessons are published, primarily, as a book of reference for those who have been members of the classes receiving them. The essential Teachings herein contained, have been given at various times...
Definitions. Given By The Guides- (Explaining the particular sense.in which the following words are need in this series of lessons]. Intiniverse That which relates to the Infinite Being; the Uncreate; the realm of Infinity. U...
Preparatory Address To The Class- Beloved Ones. It is needful in approaching the Altar of Truth, that you cast aside all preconceived conclusions concerning the themes to which you are to address attention. We ask yon, in listening to...
First Lesson. The Soul; Its Relation To God- The Infinite cannot be comprehended, but can be conceived of through perception: as it is possible for one to conceive that there is a state of perfect happiness, but no one on earth has ever yet expe...
God Is The Infinite, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Eternal Entity- The One Supreme Intelligence, under whatever name this is breathed: whether that mystical and sacred Name which never has been pronounced, which belonged to Egypt, but which, under the name Jehovah, w...
The Soul In Quality Is Like Unto God- When Christ said, Be ye perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect, it was because that perfection is possible, the quality being the same. One beam of pure white light is precisely as perfect...
Recapitulation- You are to make your starting point from within the Soul, from the Deity; whatever else is said you will not be allowed to deviate from that Divine Center. As in the Middle Ages no astronomy could be ...
Second Lesson. The Dual Nature Of God And The Soul; And The Impulsion Toward Expression- We shall use the word Expression in the sense that we have defined it, as being the result of the impulsion or volition from the Soul toward activity, the word Impulsion meaning the act of volition. ...
The First Expression Of The Soul Is Dual- The Throne of God is whiteness, purity; the innermost and uttermost Heavens; the state of perfect Being. In Kabalistic and Egyptian symbolism alabaster is whiteness, being interpreted for that which...
The First Expression Of The Soul Is Dual. Continued- Such is the wonderful beauty and perfection of this manifestation that, as the dual Soul goes on and on in the various degrees of descent, there is gradually less and less of the glory according to th...
Creation Is Not Greater Than The Creator- That which is expressed by the Soul can not excel the Soul. But as creation gives expression to the Will (Logos) of God, and manifests God, so existence gives expression to the will (wish) of the Soul...
The Genesis Or Mortal Life And The Embodiments Of The Soul In Matter- We trust you will all the time keep in view that the Soul does not lose its character as an entity, though divided in expression; that the Soul does not lose its quality of being perfect like God; and...
Third Lesson. The Embodiment Of The Soul In Human Form. The Genesis- Creation is the direct action of God's Will producing what afterward may be governed by law. Law is not creative, but governing. There can be no Law without a Law Maker, no Force without a Cause, no C...
Evolution Follows Creation- Thus prepared matter awaits the expression of the Soul. When any solar system is ready for expressions of life, there occurs that which is typified, according to the symbolism of the ancient interp...
Evolution Follows Creation. Continued- As the masculine is the aggressive nature, representing the conquering power, the element of force in the universe; so the man preceded the woman. In the translation it is said: that God took a rib fr...
A Distinct Result of Perfection In Art Given Line Of Expression Is A Culmination- Each culmination is the termination of a line of successive embodiments toward a certain point of perfect expression in one direction; and while there may be latent suggestions of other lines in the s...
A Distinct Result of Perfection In Art Is A Culmination. Part 2- Not all at once does the mind assert its presence and begin to be a dominant force. It begins with the beginning of the embodiments, and commences to manifest its power before the physical is fully ex...
A Distinct Result of Perfection In Art Is A Culmination. Part 3- In all ages geniuses are the culminations of a given line. We would name Mozart as a genius because, untaught, in childhood he knew the principles of harmony. He did not know because he had never h...
A Distinct Result of Perfection In Art Is A Culmination. Part 4- All who are upon the earth in human expression have not yet passed the condition of physical greatness or mental victory incident upon the overcoming of these states. Whole races have gone on beyond i...
A Distinct Result of Perfection In Art Is A Culmination. Part 5- The strength of spirit is attained through struggles that may encompass all conditions of life. Not gigantic to the extent of overweening physical strength, but for the purpose of usefulness as much s...
A Distinct Result of Perfection In Art Is A Culmination. Part 6- As there is deformity in the world, and as it must hare a mental and moral, as well as a physical cause, or there must, be injustice to some one, so it is but proper to recognize that imperfections in...
A Distinct Result of Perfection In Art Is A Culmination. Part 7- As life goes on there is no need to point to what is highest; the saints, martyrs, and philosophers put to death, the teachers of human history and the Messiahs who have been crucified, illustrate the...
Fourth Lesson. The Embodiment Of The Soul In Human Form. (Continued.)- Too have been taken, in a general sense, through all the expressions in human life in the three degrees: the first being the expressions of physical contact and of conquest over the physical; the next...
Fourth Lesson. The Embodiment Of The Soul In Human Form. (Continued.). Part 2- Was it not Christ who said: He who is angry with his brother hath already committed murder in his heart? There are many people who are called murderers who have no murder in their hearts, and many w...
Fourth Lesson. The Embodiment Of The Soul In Human Form. (Continued.). Part 3- That which supplies the physical energy is not to give any honor nor any aggregation of power to the one possessing it, (any more than treasures of gold or other material possession) but in its highes...
Fourth Lesson. The Embodiment Of The Soul In Human Form. (Continued.). Part 4- Then there are conditions in life where yon will see individuals who seem to be made up of fragments; who never do anything continuously; who can not persist in anything as a pursuit; who seem to have...
Fourth Lesson. The Embodiment Of The Soul In Human Form. (Continued.). Part 5- There are many hundreds of lives upon the earth today who have reminiscences. Perhaps there are none in this room who, if they spoke from within, have not felt at some time a reminiscence of a previou...
Fourth Lesson. The Embodiment Of The Soul In Human Form. (Continued.). Part 6- We again take up the illustration of the traveler, and follow him to the higher heights, fore-gleams as well as after-gleams are on those shining pinnacles. Can any one doubt what realm we are enterin...
The Relation Of The Spirit To The Soul Is As That Of A Sequent To The Whole Circle- The Soul includes all expressions and relations in all embodiments. The spirit of each embodiment is expressed as long in mortal and spiritual life as there is any call or demand for it. We mean by...
The Relation Of The Spirit To The Soul Is That Of A Sequent To The Whole Circle. Continued- There is no theory in religion or science, unless it includes that which we are teaching, that will explain why it is necessary for one man to live until he is eighty or ninety years of age and a babe...
Fifth Lesson. The Reunited Soul. Including Parental Souls And Kindred Souls- Not alone is any Soul pushed out of the Celestial Heavens, out of the whiteness of the throne of God, to seek expression in material life. Even as the mother bird gently pushes her young from the pare...
The Reunited Soul. Including Parental Souls And Kindred Souls. Part 2- When any great movement is in the world, like temperance, like the abolition of slavery, like anything that enlists the attention of philanthropists, there spring to the surface workers in that moveme...
The Reunited Soul. Including Parental Souls And Kindred Souls. Part 3- We hare known those who were orphans in the midst of their parents and a whole house full of brothers and sisters, so far as the earthly tie was concerned. The story of Cinderella is not a fable: reje...
The Reunited Soul. Including Parental Souls And Kindred Souls. Part 4- We have thus made known who are kindred Souls; they come under charge of the same Angels, and their Angels under charge of the same Archangel They traverse together the degrees of human life, and reac...
The Reunited Soul. Including Parental Souls And Kindred Souls. Part 5- There are often lives that are trembling toward completion, having longings, aspirations, prayers and hopes which certainly do not belong to the physical, but are the approximation of a nearer relatio...
The Reunited Soul. Including Parental Souls And Kindred Souls. Part 6- The most sacred Soul-love is also the most enchanting to mankind. Dante, painting the divine image of Beatrice upon canvas as well as in verse: who would not give more to see that picture that he held...
Sixth Lesson. Angels, Archangels And Messiahs; Also Embodiments In Other Planets- Wondrous as seems the attainment of the completed life of the earth, perfect as it would seem the angelic state must be, when the earth has been vanquished and the Soul-light has shone through matter,...
Angels, Archangels And Messiahs; Also Embodiments In Other Planets. Part 2- The planet Mars, being next the earth in the astronomical order of your solar system, has no lower expression of life than your highest and most spiritual expression here. So, any embodiment upon the ...
Angels, Archangels And Messiahs; Also Embodiments In Other Planets. Part 3- These Asteroids are places of experiences, experiments, fragmentary states. Perhaps yon know people who consider that they could have made a better world, some who think that they could regulate thing...
Sons Of God- Not Archangels of the solar system, but those who have overcome Worlds; who have passed through system after system, conquering the external strife, and sin of all planets; who, in the presence of tha...
Sons Of God. Part 2- Chosen Archangels accompany the Souls to be embodied in a solar system, so the first one hundred and forty-four Archangels (including twelve Messiahs) must constitute, successively, Archangels and Mes...
Sons Of God. Part 3- There has been much confusion and mistranslation connected with past dispensations because the larger and smaller cycles and their Messiahs have been confounded. The true Messiahs of the larger cycles...
Sons Of God. Part 4- As there is the shadow before the light, so there is the typical Lucifer, the antichrist, the message bearer of darkness. We have no doubt that there is something upon which to found this theological ...
Sons Of God. Part 5- The first fruits of any Messianic period are those who have ripened onto dispensations, having had suitable time since their approach to the earth for that dispensation. Each dispensation gathers a ...
Seventh Lesson. Recapitulation- Having thus rather suggested than given to yon the foregoing lessons, we think: it desirable that the class shall remember the principal points from the beginning. God is the Infinite, Omniscient, ...
The Soul Is Always In The Infinite- The Soul does not depart from nor return to God: the state of being is always within God: the state of expression is called existence, and seems to be a departure from the state of the Soul. There ...
The Soul Is Always In The Infinite. Part 2- The giant in intellect becomes as the gladiator; in the second stage, or degree, he is worshiped who has the greatest mind. This planet as a whole has not passed the intellectual culmination. Certain ...
The Soul Is Always In The Infinite. Part 3- Eternity includes all planetary cycles of expression, and there are such intervals from expression to the absolute, the state of being, as constitute sufficient respite from all expression. Every Soul...
Valedictory- As when the horticulturist has carefully prepared the Mil and planted his seed he allows time for germination before he watches for the tender shoots, so we will ask you to allow these seeds of celest...
Psychosophy. Part II. Embodied Angels. The Work Of The Angels On Earth. Introductory And Explanatory- To the Beloved reader unto whom these teachings are given we would say: that in the illustrations given no attempt has been made to follow the chronological order of history, but such names, incidents...
The Work Of The Angels On Earth. First Lesson. Embodied Angels- The perfect work of the world is performed by the Angels. Souls in their complete Angelhood are not at once transported to far-off regions of bliss, remote from the Earth and its Spiritual states; whe...
Divine Accomplishment- And when we consider that almost every nation and age has produced philosophers, poets, musicians, inventors, masters of every Art and Science enough to adorn and beautify dozens of the most barren wo...
Second Lesson. Angels Of Strength- Not in the Tournaments, miscalled Olympian games, or athletic contests of the arena, or in the sports of various Nations, called Enlightened people of the Earth, are the Strong Ones found. Their...
The Typical Ideals Of Strength- Samson, Hercules, (David and) Goliath are familiar illustrations. Among the millions of people inhabiting the globe at any one time, Angels of Strength are to be found in many walks and conditions ...
Angels Of Courage- Nor can it be truly said that this much praised attribute is born of the senses. There is, indeed, a sense of safety in the possession of animal (physical) strength, that places the possessor on a ...
Angels Of Endurance- Endurance is that quality or attribute combining both physical and mental strength. One may have strength for a moment, or for an emergency, but Continuity of Strength must include the mental and Spir...
Angels Of Efficiency- To be ready and willing to perform a part - to do a thing that is needed - this is the one great requirement in the world of human affairs; - but since most lives are at best in the stage of experimen...
Third Lesson. Angels Of Knowledge- Knowledge is Power. With all thy getting get Understanding. All Knowledge is from the Soul, but its broken fragments, or rather its small imitations, are scattered along the mental ways by w...
Mathematics- The Primal Angel who revealed mathematics gave the one perfect solution of the method by which the sublime workings of nature are borne forward. From the simplest numerals to the Calculus, is the path...
Angels Of Groups- Far in the Orient, and in the most distant ages, groups of Holy men - Recluses - wrought out the problems of Astrology, Alchemy and Religion, blending in one the threefold attributes that constituted ...
Fourth Lesson. Angels Of Science- The only ultimate or exact Science, born of Absolute Knowledge, is Mathematics. Science may therefore be defined as Demonstrated Knowledge, i. e., the method and the exact result of demonstration. ...
Astronomy- Without Mathematics the knowledge now in existence called Astronomy would have been impossible. Wondering, watching, worshiping afar, like the shepherds of old, people would still be waiting for t...
Electricity- The one term that promises a solution of the problem of primal substance (or primal Force) is included in the above word. The promethean fire was unquestionably Electricity. The man who toyed with ...
Angels Of Art- Primarily Art is one, but is expressed in its broken aspect, broken like the primal rays of light for human perception and comprehension. Unto each period of the unfoldment of Art, in any given dir...
Architecture- The Master Builder is not only the inspiring synonym of the Creator, but is the Sacred synonym of the Master in Free Masonry; used there as in general poetic literature as an ideal expression to...
Sculpture- The Creative power within the Soul must at last come forth in fashioning the images of living things and in Symbolizing Ideals. The Ideographs of the ancients were attempted illustrations: 1st, o...
Art For Use; Art For Beauty- Art for the Ideal (thought, feeling, emotion, truth). These are only some of the forms of expression - terms - employed to define Art, but all must be summed up in Expression, Creation, if you w...
Angels Of Music- Music is the perfect rhythm of broken Silences. As the Spectroscope breaks the white light to the gaze in perfect and harmonious division of color, so does perfect music (through harmonics) break t...
Sixth Lesson. Language, Oratory, Literature- Language is any form of expression from intelligence to intelligence that conveys to a small or great extent the ideas that have forced themselves from within the Soul (intelligence) and have sought e...
Literature- The limitations of the spoken word led to the preservation of orations and teachings, and to the recording of great thoughts, that others who could not be present when the truths were spoken might kno...
Poetry- When thoughts, feelings, emotions, surge from within the Soul and seek expression in words; when the Soul of beauty has touched and attuned the faculties of the mind to the most beautiful form of expr...
Drama- From Aeschyros to Shakespeare. Word and action perfectly suited and adapted to each other. The personal presence - the oral utterance - the gesture of perfect oratory, with the impersonation in lif...
Seventh Lesson. Angels Of Philosophy- The Pre-eminence of the Philosopher over his fellow men consists in his larger measure of Wisdom and Love (fraternity), and the poise that comes of knowing the principles underlying any class of pheno...
Eighth Lesson. Angels Of Liberty: (Freedom.)- Next to Love (which includes all true Religion), Liberty is the highest boon, the grandest attainment of human existence. Next to Religion and Love, it is the word that has been most abused, and in...
Angels Of Liberty- So Divine a gift is Freedom, and so intimately allied with all that is highest and best in the Soul's expression on this planet, that there would seem, almost, to be no other word so full of import. I...
Ninth Lesson. Religion- Is the perception of God from within the Soul. Its manifestation is the attitude of the individual toward others. Religion is the true efflorescence of life: Love of God (The Infinite Mother-Father: L...
Tenth Lesson. Angels Of The Shadow- Since Lucifer the Light Bearer is also the synonym of the fallen Son of the Morning, who shows (by contrast) the meaning of the Shadow, so there are those who walk the earth to illustrate in its u...
Giants Of Finance- These Titans may be counted on one's fingers: - i. e., the absolute Kings of Finance, who never know failure. When the state of a nation or the entirety of the world of advancing people, is such th...
The Angels Of Sorrow- Sorrow is the Shadow of which the Light is Joy. For human beings it is, apparently, the only gateway to true joy: because the supreme victory (Self-Conquest) lies that way. Other worlds and other stat...
Eleventh Lesson. Angels Of Peace, Joy And Love- The Perfect Angel of Peace waits on Justice. And perfect Justice is attended by Mercy, and all are the outgrowth of Love, Divine, Perfect Love. Nor is Peace a quality by itself. It is born of the s...
The Angel Of Joy- To anoint their eyes with the oil of gladness. Gladness is the heritage of the young - the playfulness of existence - and is the usual accompaniment of innocent childlike natures. Nature, physical n...
Wisdom- Is the associate and co-equal with Love, divided for the expression in human life, but one in the Soul, even as in the Infinite. Love is not simply self-abnegation for another - sacrifice for other...
Israfel- The sweetest of all God's singers is the Angel Israfel. Let none call that Angel Death who summons spirits from their forms of clay. In all the Angelic vocabulary there is no such word as Deat...
Part III. The Higher Angels; Archangels. Angels Of The Dispensations. Introduction To First Lesson- From one Dispensation to another, the Angels that bear forward the Truths, appear at such periods and among such groups or nations as need their help and strength, or are ready for them. It is usually...
First Lesson. Angels Of The "Voice." Uel, Uella (Divine Will)- (Uel, wherever used in connection with a proper name, like Samuel, Immanuel, etc., etc., must mean called of God, or one chosen to declare the will of God. One who hears God or the Angels.) ...
The "Boanerges" Or "Thunderers"- Are earnest workers usually loud of voice, proclaiming their devotion to their Leader or Teacher. This name was given by Jesus to the Sons of Zebedee. Doubtless these Disciples were wont to loudly pro...
Ariel-Ariella. (Lion-Hearted.)- The Strong Ones (Strong in the True Courage and Strength of the Spirit), must precede the Bright Ones, and prepare the way for them. The Lion-hearted Ones do not wage aggressive war, they are fearle...
Second Lesson. Urim ("Revelation"). Uriel-Uriella (Illumination)- The Angels of Light: Showing the way by the perfect Flame of Truth. These are chosen to bear the Torch of Truth luminously, from one Dispensation to another, by and through the generations of Light, T...
Thummim. ("Hidden" Truth). Angels Of The Mysteries- The bearing forward of the Truth - the true line of Descent - has sometimes only been possible in the Cloister, or cells of the various Religious Monasteries; or, in those Secret Orders and Fraternit...
Third Lesson. Mazzaroth- Not only were the signs of the Zodiac and the Sidereal heavens, observed by those Magians who had knowledge of the Stars; but such observations were accompanied by revelations concerning future even...
Zerah- Zaseth-Shehar. (Rising of Light - A Star.) When the time draws near for a new Dispensation, the Embodied Angels of the Announcement begin to appear, not as iconoclasts, to destroy the former re...
Fourth Lesson. Arch Angels. Gabriel - Gabrielle. The Awakener, The Announcer- The Announcer, the Arch Angel who ushers in the tidings of a New Dispensation, and along the lines and spheres of Angelic states, in spheres belonging to Earth, bids them make way, prepare the way...
Michael-Michel. The Arch Angel Of The Sword- Whatever be the name or office of the Arch Angels in highest Heaven, they are known here, according to Sacred writings in all languages, by their works; by the messages and Strength they bring, the Co...
Raphael- Of all the Higher Angels connected with the Earth, none have more power and helpfulness in the Angelic and Spirit states belonging to Earth than Raphael. Divinely radiant, and possessed of gentlene...
Aeon-Aeona. Arch Angel Of Cycles- All things move in cycles, from the primal atom or electron (?) to the whole Universe of suns and systems. Every form of existence begins, is evolved into association and action, produces eithe...
The "Rishis"- Of all the Arch Angelic Beings, Demi Gods sent forth by Brahma (not the Infinite), the Seven Rishis are among the highest. Sometimes they appear as the dual (husbands) of the Seven Pleiades - for th...
Oress-Oressa. The Most Ancient Angel- We must tum to the primal Arch Angel, Most Ancient of all the Divinities that aid the Divine Mother-Father in the work of Earth's Children; most potent in the power of guiding and governing the Angels...
Sixth Lesson. Interplanetary Angels And Messengers- Angels or messengers may visit a planet lower in the scale of un-foldment than the one to whose higher sphere those messengers belong. An Angel, or even a spirit, of the Earth could visit Venus, to...
Angels From Mars- In planetary unfoldment and advancement, Mars is the next degree higher than the earth. As has been previously explained in these teachings, those planets nearest the sun are youngest and least u...
Zadkiel- During an approaching period of a Messianic cycle, an Angel from one of the more advanced planets (like Jupiter) may visit the earth's Angelic and Spirit States, and even the Earth itself: A message o...
Part IV. Messianic Cycles Messiahs. First Lesson. Introductory. Invocation- Unto the Infinite White Light of Heaven, eternal, all pervading omnipotent God: unto the shrine of Celestial light thy children turn with feet that are weary and earthwom with raiment that is not whol...
The Cycle Of Knowledge- The Cycle which formed the beginning of all Messianic dispensations was known as the Cycle of Knowledge; that knowledge which pertains to physical life: everything which relates to Earth and its forma...
The Cycle Of Knowledge. Continued- As these twelve subordinate cycles (ten and two) unfolded under the reign of the power of this Primal Angel, all different degrees of knowledge had their immediate and perfect expression and adaptatio...
Second Lesson. Hermes, Hermia- Parent of all; Love and Wisdom eternal, divine and perfect: unto the altar of the Soul, unto the Innermost Shrine, thy children turn and bend in praise. May they cast aside all earthly thoughts, put a...
Hermes And Hermia- As we shall choose to call the angel, impersonated the first Savior or Messiah of the human race. All primal Truths taught by them have been perpetuated from this ancient Hermetic shrine; no new knowl...
Third Lesson. Ahasuerus- 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 ...
Angels Of The Second Dispensation- Vast ages had intervened since the first forming and receding of the continent which was the Eden of earth; the Heavens had opened their mysteries but once, and the great cataclysmic force of icy wate...
Masculine Expression Of The Angel Of Power- For, after the race of angels wherein the expression was dual and the life equal in all ways, and was recognized in the early part of the Dispensation in the Hermetic race, later the feminine principl...
The "Fall"- Through all succeeding ages, that which the nations of Earth have witnessed of Power since the kingdom of Ahasuerus expresses but the receding wave, its perversion. The serpent of setfseeking which ...
Fourth Lesson. Ra-Rameses- Infinite, Eternal, ever living Wisdom and Love; all that we know, and all that we know not, of Divinity is enshrined in eternity and in Thine own Infinite Being. Still we do ever seek to find at the ...
"Rah". Mother Of Beauty- This Kingdom is known in the language with which you are now familiar as the Kingdom of Rameses (not the Egyptian Rameses with which history, or even tradition as you understand it, is familiar); and ...
The Rahbsian Age: Wisdom- In the same Cycle in the far Kingdom of the East there came other elements; that which was the exact opposite as well as the counterpart of this beautiful Western world; the Orient was teeming with La...
"Mahatmas". "Magi"- Gathering up the fragments of such Hermesian Knowledge as had been left, and of such Power as had conquered physically the dominion of earth, the race which gradually rose from the receding wave of Po...
A Visit From The Divine Mother- Eternal and infinite God, all pervading and potent Light; All Giver, whether of light or shadow, whether of darkness or glory, whether of Earth or of Heaven, abundant is Thine all pervading power. Tho...
The Birth Of Her- 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, shu...
Mystical Meanings- The mystic meaning of the letter M, translated and interpreted into the Madonna, the sacred Mother of the Millennial and Messianic periods, had originated in the twice three which implies the third,...
Mystical Meanings. Part 2- From the heavenly Messianic stage to the cradle, from the light divine to the shadow of the Earth, are such stages as only Angels and Arch Angels know who have part in the Messianic birth. As step by ...
Mystical Meanings. Part 3- The Millennial Madonna reigned here a thousand years, the symbolical Millennial period, as the visible form of the Divine Mother, and the mothers of all the Christs that were to come took up their...
Sixth Lesson. Osiris-Isis And Horus- Infinite Love and Wisdom, Life and Light of souls, whether immured in time and sense, they seek the shadow of Thy Truth; or whether on pinions of quickened perception of Love and Wisdom with manifold ...
Modern Egypt, A Recession- You will understand, also, how in the decline from the worship of Osiris and Isis, to Anubis and the sacred Ox, Apis, there was a descent from the knowledge, wisdom, and the power of the Divine Mo...
Angel Of The Sun- Greater in splendor of knowledge than the Angel of the First Dispensation; greater in power than the Power of the Second Dispensation; greater in mingled Wisdom and Love, or whatever stood for these n...
Angel Of The Sun. Continued- Om: The Jewel is in the Lotos. There is an early tradition which had its origin in the far ancient sources of the Nile; that without being considered other than tradition now, was thought to be at o...
Seventh Lesson. Brahm. Brahma, Vishnu, Siva- Infinite Life, Divine Love and Wisdom, Mother-Father of all souls: unto whom we must ever turn in the silent homage of the soul, and through the spirit, syllable only those names known to mortal ...
Infinite Good- The divine potential God of Love, the Deity as enshrined and hidden, had been declared; but the Infinite Good had not been known; as near to Love as is the recognition of kindness and charity to that ...
Zardusht- The second Messenger or Pronouncer of the Brahmanical faith, although subsequently associated with the Persian whom you know as Zoroaster, was none other than Zardusht, antedating Zoroaster by many th...
Zoroaster - The Parsees- The succeeding smaller cycles with their culminating Messiahs, were not limited, however, to India (the cradle of Brahmanism). Overflowing through the various sacred teachers and secret orders, and th...
Buddha Gautama- Reconciled all conditions of human life; declared and restored the original purposes of the primal Brahmanical revelation, and gave the ideal instead of the literal interpretation, and made practical ...
Om, Mani Padme Hum- The Great Reformation or Interpretation and Illumination of Buddha Gautama spread, as said before, over all civilized portions of Asia, and filled the nations with its light; re-establishing not onl...
Moses- Clearly the next step is the Hebraic Era (Mosaic). The origin and history of the people of Judea (all that are included in the terms Jewish, Hebraic, must be left to more external history). The re...
Nazareth- There was, however, no recognition by them (the Hebraic tribes) of the one obscure and almost unknown tribe, the Nazarites - Can any good come out of Nazareth? is ever the typical expression of the ...
The Hebraic "Line Of Descent"- Evidently here among these people were the beginnings of the end, the preparation for the closing of the Great Cycle. The Line of Descent is both material and Spiritual; the restoration of the tru...
Messianic Life- That crowns and makes complete, down to the present day, all the Messianic Cycles, great and small, of the Earth. The Messiahs of this Dispensation were heralded by the Angel bearing the Pentagram ...
Jesus The Perfect Light- Jesus declared and illustrated potentially what the world was, and is, waiting for: The Love of God. He gave the name Father to God (instead of King or Ruler). He revealed God's Infinite Love, a...
Eighth Lesson. Dispensation Of Shadow. Invocation- Mother of all love, Father of all wisdom, Thou Divine One; Light and Life of the universe and Light of souls that abide forever in Thy presence, whether shadowed by the earthly state, whether immured ...
The World Is Now In The Shadow- The Earth is today resplendent with much intelligence; all the ages of the past have yielded their treasures; and the world is brilliant with the results of many Dispensations; yet you are now in the ...
The Powers Of Darkness- The magnificent spectacle that is in the world today of all the powers of darkness rushing together, could not be better portrayed than in Dante's Inferno. Milton's picture of the infernal regions is ...
The Powers Of Darkness. Continued- It is a terribly magnificent spectacle to watch the Earth under the seething, writhing throes of the powers of darkness. One may have divinest compassion, and turn with pitying heart to every individu...
Ninth Lesson. The Promise Of The New Day. Invocation- Infinite, All-perfect, Divine; Thou Wisdom, Thou Love, Thou Eternal Glory transcending human speech; within the silence of the soul, made audible only by that perfect love which dwells with Thee, Thy ...
The Earth Makes Ready For The Perfect Dawn Of Love- Whatever the world hath seen of Wisdom, or Strength, or Truth, or Power; whatever of Knowledge gleaming through the shadow of early time; whatever of power and majesty of human judgment; whatever of J...
"Kingdom Of The Father"- Even Christ declares the Kingdom of the Father, and prophesied that it should come on Earth. But He has withdrawn from the earthly state into the Celestial Heavens, where Supreme Love abides. Were...
This New Light Maketh Mighty Preparation!- From out all the nations of the earth a certain number are being made ready today by the Angel of the New Light, who makes preparation for this New Birth; whether the ones so prepared are to be found ...
There Can Be No Mistake When The Messiah Comes- The herald, like John the Baptist, may be mistaken for the Christ by those who are not aware. But there will be many lives made ready by experience and discipline, that will crowd out all selfishness ...
Angel Of Harmony- By slow degrees the nations will learn to turn toward that Light that establishes a place and Sanctuary in that fair and wondrous land of Earth. In pairs those who are ready, will journey thither and,...
Tenth Lesson. Invocation- Unto thee, Infinite Love and Wisdom, Father-Mother of alt life, Thy children turn: they would praise Thee for the abundance of Thy blessings; unto the Matchless Altar of the Soul, unto the Shrine Cele...
Lesson. Closing Word Of The Series- Beloved ones: even as in the beginning, so now at the closing of these utterances, we enjoin you to approach in seeking knowledge of Truth by the One Only Altar, the One Only Light through which knowl...
Prepared Lives- There draweth near unto you the Arch Angel who has charge of all lives that are to be prepared for the New Dispensation: on the Earth are many; in the spirit states belonging to Earth are many; but th...
The Promise- Meanwhile, the nearest and dearest are encircling and pervading you, with the All-hallowed glory of God's Perfect Love; and the Angel of Love abideth close beside the Shrine and giveth unto you the bl...
Part V. The Divine Mother. The Madonnas. First Lesson. Introduction- BOOK OF LIFE. AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE (Rev. 20., 12) Unto the most Holy and Divine One; Eternal Love, enshrined in the universe of Life, Eternal Wisdom, reve...
Symbolic Initiation- If you were to be imitated instead of instructed (but instruction is all that is necessary in these days), those of you who wear the feminine form would be arrayed in white and gold, symbol of the Div...
The Divine Mother- There is borne unto the sons and daughters of the Earth the Knowledge of Great Truth, when they are prepared for that which is named the Divine Mother. The first expression of the Divine Mother is rev...
Preparation For Divine Motherhood- The steps that are to be considered in the world are three in preparing for the Divine Motherhood: Purity, Loving-Kindness, and then the Divine Purpose; each of these three steps being necessary ere a...
Generation; Regeneration- When the Primal Type is superseded as is the case in the human expression, we enter upon the first stage of the realization of this Divine Mother through revelation from within, from the Angel. As nat...
Angels Prepare The Way- The Angels alone prepare the pathway for the expression of Perfect Life; and when successive stages are made ready, then appeareth the Divine Mother. In the Primal Religions each angel has a name; and...
Second Lesson. The Primal Mother. Invocation- The Woman Clothed with the Sun. Rev. 12 - I. Mother-Father God, Divine and perfect Light, Creator of all visible material things; preserver of all, Director of all that is divine and mysterious i...
Mother Of Time- Therefore in that perfect time, the Madonna, the Divine Goddess, the Mother of Time, revealed the created perfection in each human life; but in the subsequent successive expressions the state of the D...
Mother Of Divinity- The most Divine Mystery of time is that which is held in every ancient word expressing the Mother of Divinity, and symbolizing the Messianic birth; the feminine name is primal, the first Mystery of na...
Revelation Of Woman's Influence- We have told you in previous lessons that under the inspiration of Perfect Love, the artist (like Raphael) paints his pictures of the Divine Madonnas; under the influence of the Angelic state of perfe...
Dual Star, One Truth- In this most ancient time, as we have said, the symbol was the Dual Star ensphered, the symbol of the One Truth. There was a flower, a single or primal blossom, having a center of golden light, that w...
Third Lesson. Invocation- 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...
The Twofold Symbol- The two horns, or points, in her Crown would typify the two distinct derivations from whence the Truths came; one the masculine and one the feminine; one of them, that which reveals the sacredness of ...
Sacred Order Of The Hermetic Mother- None save those who understood their spiritual meaning or innermost significance, could even hear the words; those who were initiated welt understood that even if the words were spoken to ears not att...
Sacred Numbers And Name- Long did the Wise Ones of Earth wait for the full revelation of the perfect numbers and name. In this Dispensation of which we are now speaking, the Daughter of the Madonna bearing the human form st...
Meaning Of Her Symbols- When this Madonna of the Hermetic mysteries appears in the symbols she appears with two faces. Whether she really appeared in material form or was expressed for the occasion, she was never gazed upon ...
Fourth Lesson. R. A. H. Invocation- Divine Mother-Father, perfect life and love, Infinite Being; Thou who art all Love and Wisdom, unto Thee forever Thy children turn within that perfect altar of Divine Love; and as the baptism of Thy g...
You Now Enter Upon Another Kingdom- In the ten divisions of the zodiac are the symbols that represent her life (the eleventh and the twelfth have been added). In the ancient symbolism whenever the ten signs appear those which were hers ...
Mother Of Celestial Life And Light- The New Mother of the Cycle, which was to be revealed by LIGHT, declared the Solar light, and made known the various signs of the Zodiac, and revealed the mysteries that were secretly borne forward af...
The Child; Symbolic Divisions Of One- As the two Primal Truths are Birth and re-birth, souls divided and reunited, so the Three Truths are the union of the Divine Madonna and her Companion, the unrevealed Bridegroom, now revealed, and the...
Ra- Let it not be understood that this shining shield, this orb, this RA, is the Infinite God; but let it be understood that the Sun forever expresses as his symbol the Sphere of Light in which the Life, ...
The Son Of The Sun- See how after all this preparation this wonderful Messiah, therefore, has His birth: instead of there being any visible form, or any manifestation of Maternal Presence, her life upon the Sacred Mounta...
Mother Of Four Truths- As this Mother did not walk the Earth in human garb, except on the Mountain height, appointing one of The Queen's Daughters to bear forward the light that was to be given to Earth; so in such wise...
Clothed With The Sun- The Woman clothed with the Sun is presented in a new aspect under this interpretation; she herself being the center, the Woman; and the sphere, or clothing, encircling her, being the light of that D...
Symbolic Meaning Of The Four Truths- The interpretation of the symbolism is this: The Earth, as the Primal Mother, was sustained by the Atmosphere - Air (The Infinite Ether) - as the Primal Progenitor of all Life - outward Life, appoi...
Mother Of Sorrow. Isis (Veiled). Fifth Lesson. Invocation- Divine Mother, Infinite Father, Love and Wisdom; Unto Thee Thy children ever turn, putting off the dust and ashes from their feet, putting aside the sandals of time and turning unto the Light Divine. ...
The Mother Of Compassion- 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...
Though Hidden She Walketh The Earth- 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 s...
The Order Of Sorrow- (Understanding the mystery of Sorrow, of protecting and preserving the sacred image of the Divine Mother, though veiled), was formed in the Orient. The typical sackcloth and ashes and mourning, and ...
Sixth Lesson. The Madonna Of The New Dispensation. Invocation- Divine and Perfect Love, Infinite Eternal Wisdom: Source of all blessings; Thou Creator whose ineffable light fills the universe; Thou Preserver, whose unfailing Love forever and forever abideth; Thou...
Unto This The World Must Turn At Last- That mortal suffering in which was included the great purpose of the Sorrow wrought in past time, it is the great purpose of Love to heal; that which the darkness of the Earth-selfishness has declared...
The New Eden- This New Eden appeareth, though it seems to come slowly and by painful throes and heart-pangs to those in the earthly state; still doth it none the less surely come; for, as its footsteps approach, as...
Seventh Lesson. Song Of The Comforter. Invocation- Parent of all Love and Wisdom, Mother-Father God: we turn unto Thy Soul, which is the soul of Life and Love Eternal, praising Thee for the all-bountiful and perfect evidence of Thy Presence. As in the...
Seventh Lesson. Song Of The Comforter. Invocation. Continued- Behold the Comforter hath come: , By signs and tokens in the upper air, By such voices of the heavenly home As Angels have - sweet silence there, Such hints of that diviner glow As only prophecy...
Part VI. Supplemental Lessons: Between Dispensations And Foregleams Of The New Dispensation. Supplemental Lessons. First Lesson. Between Dispensations- Between Dispensations and overlapping from past Cycles, even unto the Dawning of the New Day, the Angels that bear forward the sacred Truths are frequently embodied and will be found symbolized in the...
Egypt- All the civilization of the world has come up through Egypt, from far well-springs of the ancient sources of the Nile in Africa, and beyond, lost in the dim distance of prehistoric ages. The Osiri...
China- A sealed book is the Celestial Empire, even now that it is a Republic, in these days of Earth Awakening. For many ages holding the Mysteries of all the knowledge known by scholars among her own...
India. Mahatmas- More of the Divine Messages, more of the sublime philosophy (and Religion) of the Ages, has come from India than from all other sources combined. The lesser deities, presiding over the affairs of l...
The Divine Messenger- Brahma (not the Eternal, Infinite Brahm), who gave this splendid light to the world, is further and more fully revealed in the Messianic Lessons of this book. This lesson refers to the intervening per...
Second Lesson. Persia. The "Mazda" - Magi- One of the most subtle forms of preservation of Ancient Truth is still to be found in the Sacred Flame of the Parsees. The Angel of Light (Symbolized in the name Mazda) was also the Creator of ...
"Babylon". Bel-Astabte (Baal-Ashtoreth)- With its many meanings and uses, the word really signifies the most wonderful connection between a really dead past and all the learning of today. Babylonia, Chaldea, Assyria, Accadia - these are wo...
Greece. Olympus, Parnassus- The Twelve deities or deific beings and the lesser divinities inhabiting Olympus, under the dominion of Zeus (Jove) were the Angels of that epoch or period when Greece attained her highest civilizatio...
Rome. Jove - Juno - Minerva- Undoubtedly all of modern Europe and the western Continent, and much of Asia, have drawn much of their knowledge of Science, Art, Literature, Government from Rome: Greatest (except Greece) in the arts...
Third Lesson. Hebraic- An Inter-Dispensation, and one so closely allied to modem civilization, claimed by Christians as the foundation of their Era, but not so acknowledged by the Jews. Judaism is in itself most intere...
Fourth Lesson. Foregleams Of The New Dispensation- As the time draws near for the Fulfillment of the actual Dawn of the new day, the Summoning Angels call from all past Dispensations, Arch Angels, and Angels, and Messengers, to reveal the ancient mean...
The Angel Of The Day And Hour- True, there had been for nearly half a century the Free Religious Association of Boston, of which Thos. Wentworth Higginson was for many years president, where every form of Religious belief was w...
"Peace On Earth And Love To All People"- The Congress was the great Unification of Religious beliefs into one grand humanizing of the minds and spirits of all present It was notable that the Fatherhood (and Motherhood) of God, and the ...