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CHAPTER VII

Today, humanity can no longer escape. Saved by Hope through the ineffable sacrifice

of Him whom it crucified and continues to crucify, it has already received in abundance

all the Divine Grace which it could be given; for, in the Universe, everything has its limits
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as determined by the principle of Equilibrium. The refusal to receive the Life which is
Light and twenty centuries of anarchy which were the consequences of this refusal,

have led humanity to a point where it can vacillate no longer. It was able to reject the
Christ whose first Advent represented an intermediary stage, but it cannot reject the

Holy Ghost, nor the second Advent, in that case it would be a rejection of the Fulfilment.

So the fate of terrestrial man hangs in the balance and has to have a definite

outcome. And, as in the process of creation man represents an essential factor, in the

expansion of the Ray which ends up at the Earth and the Moon, his fate has inevitable
repercussions on the life – organic or otherwise – of our planet and on that of its

satellite. Indeed, in spite of his insignificance as a person, man occupies a particularly

important place in the scale of cosmic values – at a pivot, one may say – as the following
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schema indicates :

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John I, 4.
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About a schema which resembles this in P.D. Ouspensky's Fragments of an unknown
Teaching, (Editions Stock, Paris, 1950), p. 451. It contains several errors of which the most
important is the place attributed to man, which contradicts, besides, the theory of man's
‘nullity’ – and appears all through the book, a theory which conforms with the Doctrine. (It
would be better to say 'insignificance' in the Foreword to the reader in the first volume of our
study). One must note that the nullity or the insignificance of the man without, which
corresponds to his level of being, does not contradict the relative importance of a role which can
be confined to humanity on a functional plane: that of the functioning of the Ray of Creation.