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How should one interpret this text? Of course, it is presented in a symbolical form.

But if we examine it in the light of the Doctrine revealed in the present work, it can be
easily transcribed in current language. The poetical representation of angels sent with a

resounding trumpet to assemble the elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven

to the other, is a message that Jesus hurled across millenaries in order that it may be

understood and deciphered twenty centuries after His incarnation, at the end of the
Cycle of the Son.

First of all, it is important to know who are the elect. The reader will understand

without difficulty that they are those who have crossed the second Threshold and

become new men, and who, through the second Birth, are firmly established as
Individualities, each identifying himself with his real I which represents a fragment of

the Christ.

They will be gathered together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the

other, to form, together, the ruling elite in the approaching era. The reference to the
four winds and to the extremities of the heavens indicates that the elect will come from

all parts of the world, to whatever race or creed they belong: for, Saint Paul says

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explicitly, in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek . This elite will be called upon to
manage all human affairs, including the whole of organic life on Earth. This
centralization of power for the whole planet, in the hands of supermen, is the essential

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Romans, X, 12.