Among the titles of the Virgin Mary is Stella Maris, the Star of the Sea - an apellation for which it is difficult to discern any Biblical justification. 'Star of the Sea' was, however, one of the titles of Isis and other pagan goddesses, and one must assume that it was sanctioned by the Church for the usual reason that the people obstinately refused to relinquish it.

The Star of the Sea is represented by the following Water-Mother codes: Mary, Maria, Myrrha, Miriam or Mara, the sparkling light of the waters, the virgin daughter of Labismina, the Great Abyss.

Mermaids of the watermarks are often shewn holding a circular mirror in their hand - the Mirror of Perfection - which, even to-day, is the familiar attribute of Truth.

According to Indian poetry:

There are two mirrors, where in bliss reflected lie,
The sun of heaven, and the Spirit-Sun Most High;
One mirror is the sea o'er which no storm-wind blows,
The other is the mind that no unquiet knows.

There is hardly a nation whose history has come down to us that does not record the existence of some Savior God born of an Immaculate Virgin, and not infrequently this Virgin Mother is named Maria or an equivalent word, pointing to the Sea. Dionysos was born of the virgin Myrrha; Hermes, the Logos of the Greeks, was born of the virgin Myrrha or Maia, and the mother of the Siamese Savior was called Maya Maria. All these names are related to Mare, the Sea, and the immaculate purity of the various Mother-Marys is explained by the mystic tenet that Spirit in its element was like water, essentially pure, and that sin and materialism being merely foreign bodies, would in the course of time settle into sediment and leave the Spirit in its pure pristine beauty.

When the letter M was taken over from the Egyptians by the Phoenicians, it was supposed to resemble ripples and was christened Mem, the waters. The word em is Hebrew for water, and in the printers' watermarks, M is designed to resemble waves or ripples of Water.

Cinderella is in various localities known as Mara, Maria, Mary, Marietta, and Mariucella, all of which are said to be derivatives of the glittering light of the sea. The Indian goddess of beauty was, like Aphrodite, said to have been born of the Sea, and there is an inscription to Isis which hails her as:

Blessed Goddess and Mother, Isis of the many names,
To whom the heavens gave birth on the glittering waves of the sea,
And who the darkness begat as the light for all mankind.







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