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It was a grave moment and not a few of those present feared that their lives would be the forfeit for their audacity.
In the midst of the debate a fierce voice rang out.
The debaters stopped and turned to look upon the stranger.
Who was this man who had suddenly appeared in their midst and transfixed them with his oratory?
They had never seen him before, none knew when he had entered, but his tall form and pale face filled them with awe.
His voice ringing with a holy zeal, the stranger stirred them to their very souls.
His closing words rang through the building: " God has given America to be free !" As the stranger sank into a chair exhausted, a wild enthusiasm burst forth.
Name after name was placed upon the parchment: the Declaration of Independence was signed.
But where was the man who had precipitated the accomplishment of this immortal task--who had lifted for a moment the veil from the eyes of the assemblage and revealed to them a part at least of the great purpose for which the new nation was conceived?
He had disappeared, nor was he ever seen again or his identity established.
This episode parallels others of a similar kind recorded by ancient historians attendant upon the founding of every new nation.
Are they coincidences, or do they demonstrate that the divine wisdom of the ancient Mysteries still is present in the world, serving mankind as it did of old?
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Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
The passage explicitly argues that the divine wisdom of the ancient Mysteries still serves mankind as it did of old, implying an active ordering of history toward intelligible ends.
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“Section 16 16.
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