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encourages us to think that it may meet with success. But we must not deny that it is an

arduous task. It has to be achieved in an environment where the conditions are the
inverse of what they were at the time of the first Advent: the chosen people refused to

render to Caesar what they believed to be God’s. Today, man does not want to render

unto God what he believes belongs to the Caesar of our times, that is to the deified

human Personality. The deification of the Personality has a universal character and is
even more dangerous in its unavowed forms. Societies or nations, to whichever world

they belong – capitalist or communist – are unanimous in their glorification of the

human Person. This is the major obstacle that the forerunners of today have to

surmount.
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According to St. Paul , before reaching the stage of Love which is the insignia of the
Cycle of the Holy Ghost, Faith and Hope, respectively marking the Cycles of the Father

and of the Son, must dissolve in Gnosis - in Knowledge which is the door to Love.

Knowledge re-establishes the true scale of values and, consequently, subordinates the
Personality to the real I.

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Cf. t. I, Introduction.