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of the mind that is by Knowledge .
We would have reached this stage of gnosis today, at the end of the Cycle of the Son,

if Christ's mission (such as it was conceived and without any formula of exchange) had
not been a failure, according to the reasons exposed in the previous chapter [see in

the French original, Gnôsis II, p. 89].

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If we consider the Time element, Jesus' message came at the beginning of a Cycle to

which it was adapted. In the Old Testament, Hope was taken into account only in the
form of a Mystery of Promise, revealed to initiates alone. Jesus, referring to the

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Forerunner's words, evoked the approach of the Kingdom of Heaven and He addressed
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this Gospel of the Kingdom to the whole world .

The diffusion of the Word was a means of facilitating the selection of the inward
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men to whom it was said: Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of
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God, for the others, for them that are without, everything is in parables . These inward
men were destined to open up the ways that led to the new Era. It is only too true that

the men without did not understand the profound meaning of the parables that Jesus
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told them and that loving the praise of men more than the praise of God , they
prevailed over the small core of the new elite.

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Romans, XII, 2; Ephesians, IV, 23.
7 I Corinthians, XIII, 2 & 9 and XIV, 6.
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Matt., III, 2.
9 Matt., XXIV, 14 ; in Greek ε αγγέλιov τ ς βασιλείας.
10 Romans, VII, 22.
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Mark, IV, 11. Translated literally from the Slavonic text.
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John, XII, 43.