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The policy that the Sanhedrin followed clearly illustrates man's inner struggle when

he found himself at the crossroads where the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is
situated: torn between the call of Heaven on one side and of the Earth on the other; and

more often than not, incapable of fighting the inertia that creeps over him and makes

him choose Illusion, submitting to the Law of Chance.

The Gospels enlighten us on the meaning of a tragedy that was enacted at a
particularly restless time, in the midst of an overwrought people. But before trying to

find the meaning of an event which, from an esoteric point of view, was the most

important since the Flood, we must search the New Testament for the thread of facts

where the strictly human reasons are to be found. For, judging from the without
reaction to Christ's Advent and His work, it was for purely human motives that the

Sanhedrin asked the Roman procurator to deliver Jesus to them to be crucified.

First of all, let us note St. John's attestation when he speaks of the Word being made

flesh: the light... was in the world, and the world knew Him not. He came unto his own,
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and his own received him not .
Who were his own? They constituted the spiritual lineage which, starting from Noah,

continued through Moses and David down to the heirs presumptive of the Tradition,

assembled together in the big sanctuary and presiding over the Sanhedrin. The room
where the Sanhedrin met, repre-

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John, I, 10-11.