Humanity and its four visions; with their developments, extracted from the ark of the science of truth for the advancement of the human race towards order and the most pure culture, grand universal drama of civilization, with its intermezzo . him: **Tell me, Ortino, why did you come so late? Arising, Ortino answered: *^Myself and the il-lustrious Matanzo would have arrived here amongthe first ones, but the interest we take in the govern-ment as well as in the Holy Religion, has been thecause that we arrived the last ones. King: **Perhaps there is something ne^v^. Ortino: *While myself and the


Humanity and its four visions; with their developments, extracted from the ark of the science of truth for the advancement of the human race towards order and the most pure culture, grand universal drama of civilization, with its intermezzo . him: **Tell me, Ortino, why did you come so late? Arising, Ortino answered: *^Myself and the il-lustrious Matanzo would have arrived here amongthe first ones, but the interest we take in the govern-ment as well as in the Holy Religion, has been thecause that we arrived the last ones. King: **Perhaps there is something ne^v^. Ortino: *While myself and the illustrious Ma-tanzo were crossing Leria street we saw a largecrowd of people gathered together. We went nearto see what the cause of it was, and we found outthat a man was talking, demonstrating the great sig-nificance of the Human Doctrine. He said: ^Thatfor the people to liberate themselves from the yokeof the government and from the Elephantine Re-ligion, they must refuse to be armed or to be madeto carry arms, because by means of the weapons putin their hands they, themselves, and all of us, we areall reduced to a state of misery and wretchedness. King: ^^So we have no arms? Ortino: Your Majesty, no. The King and Ortino sat Orrento, speaking to the Royal Guards, said:If you wish to help the Human Movement, go backand spread the Human Doctrine among the army. 10. 146 INTERMEZZO. One of the sacred ministers who was sitting onthe right side of the first row arose and went tokneel down in the center of the space at a short dis-tance from the front of the table, with his backturned to the left. He raised his eyes towards theceiling and with the palms of his hands joined to-gether in the attitude of prayer, he said: **ThisCouncil was called together by our Holy Creppo,second Supreme God, in order to raise up the author-;ity of our sacred government, and reinforce faith inour Supreme God; let every one pay attention. He arose and went back to his seat. Creppo then arose an


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