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It was, however, only a divine victory, and man's rejection drove the Light away from
him. The Cycle of the Son is marked by a succession of wars, of revolutions, of fraternal
murders [genocides] and by the return en masse to primitive paganism, by an
outrageous materialism, the restoration of the Golden Calf, and by the debasement of
Love which is too often reduced to a purely voluptuous impulse.
If humanity, especially its esoteric avant-garde or the chosen people, had not rebelled
against the divine precepts, Christ's Advent would have brought about totally different
consequences. Under the Master's guidance, the human society could have progressed
smoothly towards the end for which it had been destined by the Divine Will, to the
eschatological dawn of the invisible Sun which shines in the Cycle of the Holy Ghost(?).
But now, this is not the reality. Often rebellious against their prophets, the chosen
people rebelled against Him who sent them. Saint John the Baptist, who was the
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Precursor, and the Voice of one crying in the wilderness , was beheaded and Jesus
crucified. His Apostles were persecuted. Humanity rejected the gift which was offered it
at the end of the Cycle of the Father, to commit itself entirely to the road of evolution.
One must try to understand that the importance of this tragic error with its
consequences, does not lie in the refusal of the Jewish people as such. Races may cease
to
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Isaiah, XL, 5; Matt., III, 3; Mark, I, 3; Luke, III, 4; John, I, 23.