3783. The question of whether a person has all four
grandparents still alive as an adult may not sound like a thing of any
importance, but it is. The Romans of the Imperial period considered it an
essential prerequisite for any person chosen to be one of the emperor’s
personal guards. Why would this be?
3784. It was because a person, who has all four grandparents
alive, as well as both parents, has never been subjected to the shock and
emotional disruption of death. Death is a thing, more than any other that leads
a person to question all authority. One not only questions all authority, but
one is tempted to question the very source of all creation, that being God
Himself.
3785. It often happens that a child subjected to the
experience of the sudden death of a parent, will curse God and proclaim that
God cannot exist, and if God does exist, then he must be a suspect, perhaps
guilty of the great crimes of human experience. For such a person, God is a
primal force to be sought out and attacked, rather than worshiped. From the
ranks of these then come the revolutionaries, and revolutionaries do not make
good palace guards.
3786. Ivan was an exception however. With him just the
reverse had happened. He could not measure up to his father’s and his
grandfather’s expectations and so he became disgruntled. Because the seed of
revolutionary ideas had been planted in his soul accidentally, he began to
despise the society in which his ancestors had thrived, even though he was a
natural part of it.
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