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sented the Alliance between Heaven and Earth: it was also in the form of a circle, half of
which was embedded in the Temple and the other half outside it. And the seventy two
members of this high Assembly symbolized the seventy two tongues which dated back
to the times following the Tower of Babel, thus, the whole of humanity, divided and
dispersed, was symbolically gathered together there.
We must insist on the fact that the Saviour's mission could have been completely
effective only if the chosen people had recognized His predication wholeheartedly and
had His precepts into practice. We are referring here to the profound meaning of man's
destiny. He is supposed to become perfect at the time of the Fulfilment, just as Adam
was perfect before the fall. The difference is that Adam was in a state of passive
communion with the divine plane. Man, having tasted of the fruit of knowledge, can
unite with God only by making a choice and by adhering Consciously to the divine Will,
an act of Love. This act was expected of the chosen people when they were faced with
the Mystery of Incarnation and it should have put humanity on the Way which leads to
participation in the divine work. Man's true destiny is founded on this imperative need
to pass from the passive to the active state. This conversion also marks the passage
from mysticism to esoterism.
The chosen people should have received the Saviour,