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The hostility of the public authorities forced the Apostles and other disciples to make

incredible sacrifices, sacrifices at the price of which the Word prevailed and the
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Darkness comprehended it not . But the propagation of the Message did not take place

easily, all the obstacles and delays it encountered created a particularly dangerous
situation for humanity: for all that man must accomplish in the Universe, must be done

in determined periods. The irreversibility of Time is applicable to the esoteric domain as

well.
Instead of marching from one spiritual victory to another, on the road that Jesus had

traced out, humanity suffered a fall. It became a victim of the lower categories of the

human psychism [see French original text, Gnôsis II, p. 89]: of calculation and of self-

interest, which it ended up by placing at the top of its scale of values. It was thus that

the gap between progress gradually widened and became a serious obstacle in the way
of the smooth working of the principles contained in the Gospel.

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One can measure the greatness of divine Love by recalling that it is not the will of
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your Father which is in Heaven, that one of these little ones should perish . Divine

pardon covers even crime. We read in the Bible that Caïn, who symbolizes the first
homicide and the first fratricide, was marked with a sign from the Eternal lest any

finding him should kill him and it is added that if anyone slayeth Caïn, Caïn will be

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avenged sevenfold .

13 John, I, 5.
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Matt., XVIII, 14.
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Genesis, IV, 15, translated literally from the Slavonic text.