5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

6 The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

7 As well the singers as the players on instru-ments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

It would be difficult to get more meaning into such a small space. This is a poem of The Second Birth. The man was originally born outside of Zion, in Babylon, or Philistine, etc. But his true Birth into Life takes place only in Zion (verses and 6) which is the “Civitas Dei” (verse 3). His Foundation indeed has always been in The Holy Mountains (verse 1), for it cannot be otherwise— we can never really start but as the Bible does, “in principio Deus”; only until we come to examine what our Foundation really is we may not

know it. “Mountains” and all the names in the Psalm must, of course, be understood esoterically. Zion, the City of God, is “established by the high-est”; i.e., the Recognition of the Supreme Mind:

“Glory to God in the highest” (verse 5). It is only from the time of his spiritual awakening that the man counts as an intelligent centre in the world of real causes which is called the City of God.

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