And her reign shall be greater than the reign of the man: for Adam shall be put down from his place; and she shall have dominion for ever. And she who is alone shall bring forth more children to God, then she who hath an husband. There shall no more be a reproach against women: but against men shall be the reproach. For the woman is the crown of man, and the final manifestation of humanity. She is the nearest to the throne of God, when she shall be revealed. But the creation of woman is not yet complete: but it shall be complete in the time which is at hand. All things are thine, O Mother of God: all things are thine, O Thou who risest from the sea; and Thou shalt have dominion over all the worlds[48]. FOOTNOTES: [29] A.K. knew nothing of Spinoza at this time, and was unaware that he was an optician. Subsequent experience made it clear that the spectacles in question were intended to represent her own remarkable faculty of intuitional and interpretative perception. (See Life A.K. Vol. I. pp. 150-1.) S.H.H. [30] Page 525 [31] The 22nd September, 1877. [32] The book referred to was a treatise entitled "Fruit and Bread," which had been sent to her anonymously the previous day. E.M. [33] The "Hymn to Hermes" was received by A.K. in 1878, "under illumination occurring in sleep." She remembered it so perfectly that on waking she wrote it without hesitation or error. Representing knowledges long lost, by no amount of mere scholarship could it have been reproduced. It is given at length in the P.W. pp. 357-358, and in "The Life of A.K." Vol. I. p. 287. S.H.H. [34] As to the recovery by A.K. of the Hymn to the Planet-God, see p. 122-3. [35] These dream-verses are from "Through the Ages," a poem received by A.K., "in sleep," in 1880. In this poem, "some of her earliest incarnations" are referred to. (D. and D-S. p. 77.) S.H.H. [36] See p. 122 note. [37] See pp. 51-52-53 ante. [38] That is, in the place of God and the Soul. [39] The four planes being, from without inwards, those of the body, mind, soul, and spirit. S.H.H. [40] The 28th March, 1880. S.H.H. [41] The name by which I was thus addressed had been given me by our illuminators as an initiation name, as that of "Mary" to her. It denoted love as the dominant note of our work, and was an equivalent for "John the Beloved," who--we were given to understand--is one of the two controlling "angels" of the new illumination--Daniel being the other--in accordance with the intimations given by Jesus, one to His disciples and the other to the Seer of the Apocalypse himself, that John should tarry within reach of the earth-plane to bear part in the event which was to constitute the second advent of Christ. These names had a further correspondence in the Greek parable of Eros and Psyche, which denotes love as the vivifying principle of the soul. E.M. [42] Materialism and Superstition.