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The Jewish people ceased to be the first and became the last. Vanquished,
decimated and dispersed, they became an errant people and were continuously
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persecuted during the twenty centuries which comprise the Cycle of the Son .
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The solution for which the Sanhedrin opted prevented the Mystery of Revelation to
produce its full effect: that is, to lead humanity across the first Threshold, and to place it
on the Staircase of esoteric evolution. Indeed, this would have been the road to its
Salvation. But it was saved only by hope, in the words of St. Paul.
Though only a feeble echo, this hope represents a confirmation of the Promise. It was
a form of exchange, the fruit of the terrible sacrifice to which Jesus was led by His Love.
The threat of a general Death was overcome, compensated by the fact that Jesus
offered Himself
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Even if this voluntary choice of crossing over from the Terrestrial plane to the higher plane
is refused collectively, it can always take place and does take place individually. The
consequences are the same; on the terrestrial plane, the baptized person looses his Jewish
identity and is absorbed by the group in which he lives. On the spiritual plane, these conversions
seem to have maintained, in many cases, an extraordinary radiance, a reflection of the strength
the chosen people would have had, had they adhered to the New Testament.