" . . . What counts is your vision of the Mother. And this has somewhat to do with your own Selfhood. The only Mother you can really see is the Mother that you can be . . . Remember the principle of the teaching and the path of the Mother: Not alone in the goal but in the ritual of attaining the goal is the diamond forged, is the lesson appreciated, is the teacher loved!

"Did you know that I also pray the rosary daily and perpetually as my adoration unto the Omega Light and Her Person? Thus, there is a transfer when you say to me, 'Hail Mary, full of grace.' And the words are simultaneous. And I say, 'Hail Mother Ray, Omega Light and Person.'

" . . . I return to Poland where I keep the vigil . . . My image in Poland arcs with my image in Mexico City—and all other shrines that I have blessed increase the Mother flame in the earth."

"The secret rays promote an action of detail, the final sculpturing of the mind and consciousness in the perfect image of the Christ. The secret rays are like the refiner’s fire. They purge, they purify. When man has said of himself 'My work is finished,' I have sent forth the secret rays to show him that the detail was not finished. For in the conclusion of the spiral, the Law requires perfection.

"As Mary the Mother took the trouble to arrange the flowers, the precious roses, in the apron of Juan Diego, so the secret rays come into your being to arrange the floral offering of the soul, to see that all is in readiness that you might stand before the Court of the Sacred Fire and present yourself in the best Light, the best image which you can muster and which you have built as the giant pyramid through the ages, ages of incarnation."

* Guadalupe is a Castilian word of Arabic origin said to mean “river of light” or “river of love.” On December 9, 1531, Mother Mary appeared to Juan Diego, as the 57-year-old Indian was running over the hillsides to Mass. “Juanito” heard a woman calling him from the ruins on Tepeyac hill (former site of a temple to the Aztec Mother-goddess). There he saw the “noble lady” as a beautiful Mexican girl of about 14.

The Virgin returned to Tepeyac three times, instructing Juan Diego to tell the bishop of her desire to have a church built there on the hill. On December 12, as a sign to the prelate, Our Lady miraculously imprinted a life-size image of herself on Juan’s tilma (cloak). And to Juan’s uncle, she revealed her name as “Santa Maria de Guadalupe.”