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The pangs, the horrors and the ravages of the Second World War were beginning to dissipate in the collective memory of a humanity which, along with the fall of the empires, was preparing to proliferate in the blindest of growths. Upon this living earth, in the name of a doctrine and a discipline deemed “superior”, had arisen and manifested unthinkable abominations. Through a cunning piracy of a Vast Truth yet to come, a small, cold, self- enamored person addicted to its own image, had almost seized control of the common destiny of the peoples and the nations. If the sap of union, liberty and fraternity had been strong enough to circulate and nourish enough hearths to halt and put down this terribly organized and efficient attempt and to neutralize its purposes, the will for power that had animated it had not altogether renounced its goals – the possession of the human species to the detriment of the evolution of its consciousness and of its access to a unitary state of truth in Matter.

The battle would have to be fought everywhere at once, until all forces freely choose the path of progressive harmony of all that is.

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An upheaval and a convulsion of unprecedented amplitude had shaken the earth and, in its violence, tens of millions of human beings had perished.

And the most advanced sciences had lent themselves to the sacrifice.

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