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ving drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith; the old is better .
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As indicated above, during the transitional Period, the preparatory task on the moral
plane, can and should be accomplished under the aegis of Absolute II, for human beings
and by human beings. It is, therefore, a question concerning the New Man, a subject
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which has been treated broadly already in the first volume of Gnosis and elsewhere .
Practically, the problem may be confined to the formation of a new cadre of elite to
replace the intellectuals who have formed our elite since the Renaissance, and who, in
their turn, replaced the ruling feudal lords at the end of the Middle Ages.
This postulate leads us to the question dealing directly with the aim of the esoteric
work which is operative in the world today.
At the beginning of 1962 the author published a message in the Centre's Information
Bulletin, in which he reiterated the exact aim he had in mind in divulging the traditional
Doctrine in the Gnosis series, and in creating the Center, that is, to contribute towards
the formation of the New Man. Indeed, the whole success of the transitional period
between our civilization, which has
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Luke, V, 39.
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Cf. Boris Mouravieff, The problem of the New Man, in the review Syntheses, N°126-127.
