In The Motherland
Uranda December 23, 1936
The world was aglow
With a Golden Light;
Gentle breezes blowing
Carried fragrance of mystic flowers,
And through the mellow Radiance
There moved the forms of gods.
All the earth was still
While through the stillness
Came the soft, sweet song of birds
Whose notes ne’er fell on mortal ears,
For in the Motherland
A Sacred Day had dawned.
The cycles of the earth
Were swinging toward the dawning
Of a New Sun Cycle —
Which men now call a year.
For Seven Days the Seven Rays
Within the Temple Flame
Were now to serve in Temple Rites
Ordained to bless the closing days
Of the old Sun Cycle, and usher in
The expanding vision of the New
Wherein the Flaming Symbol
Of the Temple of the Sacred Three
Should bring new Life and Blessings
To all who would respond
Within the Flame.
The hosts of Blessed Ones
Had gathered in the Gardens
Wherein the Temple of the Sacred Three
Shone forth as a priceless Gem.
From every land on earth
The Blessed Ones had come,
And in the hush of human sounds
The strains of sweet heaven’s Song
Came floating through the space
Around the earth for all to hear.
To the Mystic’s Single Eye
The gathered hosts were points of Light
Drawn to the point of burning
Within the Altar Flame,
And out from them the mellow Radiance
Shone forth enfolding all the earth.
In the Center of the Focal Flame,
With whiteness betokening the RI-U-OM,
The magnificence of the Sacred Temple
Became a Living Thing,
And the walls were changed to Crystal
So that all the people in the Gardens
Could see within the Temple’s Sacred Halls,
And lo, through the Vision of the Blessed Ones
Who graced the Gardens of the Temple
All people on the earth
Who had the vision of the Single Eye
Could watch the Sacred Service
Which now began within the Altar Flame.
The Seven Days for the Seven Rays
Were thus ordained to let man know
The secrets of the Ascending Flame,
And so it was that the First Day
Was dedicated to the Seventh Ray
While each succeeding Day
Should serve a lesser Ray
Until the Flaming Orb should
Move majestically through the Gateway
Of the New Sun Cycle.
The High Priestess of the Seventh Ray
Stood forth as Goddess of the Altar Flame
And knelt for all the earth
Before the Lord of the Sacred Three,
While the Symbol of His Majesty
Enfolded all the changing scene —
And then the stillness became more still
Until the very stillness seemed as sound,
And all the gathered hosts shone forth
As Flames of Light before the coming
Of the LORD OF THE SACRED SEVEN,
For there, within the Flaming Orb,
THE KING OF KINGS appeared in all the Majesty
Of the Seven Sacred Worlds which form the Holy World.
THE LORD OF LORDS had come
With Sacred Hand stretched forth in Blessing,
And from within the stillness
There came the sweetest strains of heaven’s
Most Sacred Songs, and every Being gathered there,
And everywhere, joined in the Song of Adoration
To the ONE Who was and is the ONE OF ALL.
Words which humans form
Cannot portray the Sacred Scene
Which then unfolded
For all who knew themselves
Within the Single Eye.
Let all the earth rejoice
And gather in the Gardens of the Temple
Within the Sacred Center of the Motherland,
For lo, the Temple Service begins again on earth —
Our High Priestess of the Seventh Ray
Again comes forth on earth
Before the Lord of the Sacred Three,
And from within the Central Orb of the Flaming Fire
THE LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS
Comes forth in all His Majesty
And every Eye shall see Him as He is.
Let every knee now bow before Him,
Let every lip acknowledge Him,
And let His Love uplift each one into the ONE.
Uranda
