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the time, to cross the threshold that materially and spiritually separated the Father's

domain and the Son's, whose kingdom, as Jesus explicitly says, is not of this world.

This declaration must be given its full significance. Let us repeat it: Christ's kingdom is
open to man after the second Birth or that of the Individuality, when, having acquired

the consciousness of his real I and by means of his higher centres, he enters into contact

with the Alliance of Love, or the Great Esoteric Brotherhood, and through that, with the
Kingdom of God and with the life of the Deuterocosmos, which, indeed, is not of this

world.

Christ was faced with a big enough problem, due to His Divine mission, without

having to give rise to others which were not urgent and which could only serve to

complicate an already difficult task. Above all, it was important to avoid hurting
orthodox Jewish susceptibilities by a theoretical criticism of old texts, when Jesus’s work

was essentially practical in nature. We see the Master constantly preoccupied with the

task of appeasing psychological opposition of the kind that Saint Paul felt before his
conversion. This is why Jesus took care to say to those who were bound to the letter of

the Scriptures and to the past, that He had come, not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil

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Although we have come to the conclusion that the gene-

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