The perfect love that casts out fear." In the presence of celestial visitants--A parable of the Intuition--"The Wonderful Spectacles"--The Greek element in the work--Hermes and John the Baptist--The "heresy of Prometheus"--The Fig-tree, a symbol of the inward understanding; the time come for it to bear fruit--The Seeress's faculty--Her relations with Hermes--"Thou art the Rock" addressed to Hermes--The parable of the Fig-tree--The Mystic Woman of Holy Writ--"Go thy way, Daniel.... Thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days"--The prophecy of the book of Esther--The Angel Genius, his account of himself and his office--Divine revelation the supreme common sense--The source and method of the New Revelation--Its chief recipient "not a medium or a seer, but a prophet"--An instruction and a caution concerning the survival of tendencies encouraged in past lives--Communion with souls of the departed--The conditions of such intercourse--An instruction concerning Inspiration and Prophesying--The prophecy of "the kingdom of the Mother of God." 71-108 CHAPTER IV. THE ANTAGONISATION. "Ye are not yet perfected"--Our respective _Auras_--An exhortation--The Seven Spirits of God, their co-operation necessary for a perfect work--"You belong to us now, to do our work and not your own"--Enforced silence--"The Powers of the Air;" their mode of attack--A strange visitant and his communication--A strained situation--Visions of guidance--The "refractory team," and the "Two Stars"--The promised land reached only through the wilderness--"The Word a Word of mystery, and they who guard it Seven"--"One Neophyte could not save himself"--A Horoscope--A descent into hell--Counsels of Perfection--A "Merry Christmas"--A timely arrival--Neoplatonic recognition of Hermes--The one Truth, never without a witness in the world--The key of knowledge restored--Problems solved--The mystic "Woman" of Holy Writ. 109-141 CHAPTER V. THE RECAPITULATION.