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turn, would have caused a rupture at this same place of our Ray of Creation. This would

have meant the collapse of our world. However, God so loved the world that he gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have

everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that
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the world through Him might be saved .

The Incarnation therefore represents more than one promise. We must understand
that, if it were not for this powerful aid from on high, which compensated for human

shortcomings, the world where we live would no longer exist. This is the real meaning of

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Salvation, which justifies St. Paul’s words that we are saved only by hope .
According to the Divine plan, the two thousand years of the Cycle of the Son
represent the notes MI and RE of this Octave .They should, therefore, correspond to the

two stages of man's development, that is, to the acquisition of new psychic and spiritual

faculties by the most advanced elements of human society and, later on, by humanity as

a whole. The latter would then be prepared for the Fulfilment in the DO of the following
octave, the 1000 years Cycle of the Holy Ghost.

In order to better understand the tragic importance of man's attitude when faced

with the Mystery of Incarnation, we have to go back to the conditions in which the

neophyte can and should cover, one after the other,

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John, III, 16-17.
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Romans, VIII, 24.