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play a role; they may even disappear, but humanity's task remains. The gravity of this
abdication lies in the fact that it was that of the chosen people, the esoteric pioneers,
who were to lead all the nations on the road traced out for it by Revelation.
Everything was done on the Divine side to enable man to hear the call. But he
remained deaf. One may measure the full extent of the catastrophe of Golgotha in
trying to understand these terrible words that Jesus pronounced, and that have been
partly quoted already:
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killeth the Prophets, and stoneth them that are sent
unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather
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her brood under her wings, and ye would not .
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The Divine Father's gift to man of His beloved Son, in whom He was well pleased
opened up new vistas for the Cycle of the Son. Christ's Advent was the complementary
divine aid which filled in the interval between FA and MI, the complementary Divine aid
which proved necessary, given the insufficiency of man's efforts and the fact that he was
chronically behindhand in putting the Divine plan into execution. Without this aid, the
process of filling in the interval between FA and MI of the lateral octave would have
suffered a pause which, in its
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Matthew, XXIII, 37; Luke, 13, 34.
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Matthew, III, 17.
