This section is from the book "Psychosophy", by Cora L.V. Richmond. Also available from Amazon: Psychosophy.
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, appointed by the First Cause; Fire and Water as indicators of birth, death and re-birth, that which creates, that which disintegrates and that which renews. Thus when Earth and Air, the Primal Unit (Substance and space) became One, there was Generation. Fire - symbolizing both the Sun and "Hades" - and Water, were the symbols of that which separates, solves, disintegrates and re-unites.
These symbols, or Elements, at last came, through the idolatrous tendencies of the senses, to be mistaken for the great Truths; while the Primal thought, the Divine meaning, was obscured, or utterly lost in the intervening ages.
Only in the Temples of the Sun - no longer Hermetic, but full of the Light of "Ra", the Divine; no longer holding simply the "Three Truths", or the "Two Truths", or the "One Truth"; but, holding the sacred mystery of that Four-fold Truth, that birth and re-birth contain both the Twain and One in the whole, is the statement of all the Divine propositions that the human spirit can perceive - this Divine Madonna appears. She is crowned with four points, not as star but as a cross; the Symbol of which is the Ten and the Two; and as this Symbol is shown, it is the symbol also of the Mystic Life, or re-birth; each point of the cross is "One of Four" and these are sacred. The symbol of the number seventy-two is the symbol of the Angels and their companions accompanying Her. They appear at this hour in the Southern Heavens; their re-birth will be in the Life that will appear in a New Dispensation, because that yields the Harvest of Her Truths.
As the Sixth Dispensation yields the harvest of the Madonna of the Three Truths, that Madonna, reappearing, will give the Earth the wonders that were then revealed in the "Mystic Three" and their results; so when again the Light shall come forth from that South-em Heaven, and there shall be restoration of the Southern Lands, long submerged beneath the ocean, and new tides of life sweeping over the world shall make new geographical divisions upon the Earth; then again the wonderful Four-Fold Light will appear, accompanying the Seventh Dispensation, and bear forward its fruition, as the seed was sown in the past time. While even at this hour, because of the Mystic meaning and name of the approaching Sixth Dispensation, all past Madonnas reveal the secrets of their Kingdoms and make known the revelation of their lives.
Beautiful, surely were these Madonnas, the Messengers of the Divine Mother; from out the five Kingdoms that have passed they will yield their spiritual Truths unto the Life and Light that now cometh, or prepares to come unto the world; for such as are ready for the Sixth Kingdom. And the Daughters of the Earth, those who are clothed with the Light, those who are ensphered with the radiance of the Three-fold and the Four-fold message, will bear the symbol and signet of the New Madonna, and of the Light of these past Truths; while all of the children born unto the Kingdom that now cometh will perceive the Truths of the Three-fold and the Four-fold Light. And She will come with the Six-pointed Star upon her brow.
Hieroselma, Queen of Light and Peace,
Cometh when perfect Love abides; When Truth, and Wisdom, and Knowledge reign
And naught else in the world betides.
For perfect Love is the Perfect Sphere Within which life itself is wrought;
No other knowledge can be here Save what its wondrous power hath brought.
Up from the sod the two-fold ray
Divided, is blended in the flower; Down from the skies the light of day
Is linked again in wondrous dower;
And from the Soul divided here. Seeking the errors and bonds of sense,
Truth revealed from the Mystic sphere The One Life and its recompense.
For Truth is made complete by two;
And Love alone reveals the whole; Four-fold, division brings to view
Though manifold is the life below That makes the perfect sphere complete.
Yet all forms pass away, and lo: Twelve times twelve; the sphere at your feet!
And crowned with light by Twelve Stars given;
Twelve Souls that know the light of Heaven.
 
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