The Leo Observance: Feast of the Assumption

And now comes the sublimity of the Leo Observance. It is spoken of as The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. She was always closer to the Angels than she was to humanity. Poets have referred to her as being half human and half divine even in her girlhood; great artists have depicted her as surrounded by Angels when engaged in the most humble household tasks.
The Leo Ritual is based on the supreme Initiation of the Divine Lady. Having learned all the lessons Earth had to teach, she was lifted up on the vibrant currents of the Leo Love wave and transported into angelic realms. Hence the Church teaches that Mary is Queen of both Angels and men.
To Mary’s Initiation came great celestial beings, row on row and rank on rank, each one filled with such fair and luminous shining, with such rare radiance, that it seemed as though the brightest galaxies of the skies had deserted Heaven to pay homage to Earth.
The Feast of the Assumption marks one of Earth’s sublimest events, for therein Mary, the Blessed Lady, became Mary, the Divine Lady. She had perfected her humanity and was ready, while yet in physical embodiment, to put aside her garment of mortality and be arrayed in the robe of immortality. She was prepared to scale the golden evolutionary ladder which stretches between the human and the angelic kingdoms. Mary the woman became Mary the Angel.
Every celestial Hierarchy attending this sublime event moved on it respective musical keynote, each tone so piercingly sweet that the air quivered in ecstasy, and the very stars re-echoed the divine chanting. Verily, Mary through her divinity was crowned to the music of the spheres.
Yet the perfected Mary had renounced her high estate to spend practically all her time on the earth plane. Wherever there is deep sorrow, wherever there is tragic disaster, she and her host of ministering Angels are to be found rendering service. She will continue to perform such ministrations until all humanity is Christed.