Starts the terrible years.The change is DONE: a new mode of being of the cellular consciousness has appeared on earth. The future awaits - will the 'old' yield?
The beginning of the terrible years.... There was the feeling that Mother had found the secret of the change, conquered all she could from her own body, and that she was now sitting there, surrounded by the pack, just putting up with each and every resistance of the old species. "The change is DONE. Everything is tooth and nail, ferociously after me, but it's over." A new mode of being of the cellular consciousness had appeared on earth, as one day, in inert matter, there appeared a new mode of being called life - but this time it is "overlife": "The impression there is a way of being of the cells that would be the beginning of a new body; only, when that comes, the body itself feels it is dying." What would be the feeling of the first corpuscle to experience life? "The body feels it has reached the point of.... unknown. A very, very strange sensation. A sort of new vibration. It's so new that.... I can't speak of anguish, but it's.... the unknown. A mystery of the unknown." And there, what we call death is like the other side of the bowl for the former fish, and yet it is not "another world": "They are surprisingly one within the other! There is something there.... Is it possible? For overlife is both life and death together." And then, this cry of the breakthrough: "What appears to us as 'the laws of nature' is nonsense!...." Another world ON EARTH in which the old mortal laws of our bowl break down.... into something else? "I have just had a fantastic vision of the cradle of a future.... which is not very far. It's like a formidable mass suspended above the earth." But will the old pack let her go through to the end?
(Satprem offers his pension to Mother and asks her if he could keep a little money to build a room for himself in the Nandanam gardens, on the outskirts of Pondicherry.)
Yes, it will do you good.
(Then Mother translates a few passages from Savitri, including this one:)
It lends beauty to the terror of the gulfs And fascinating eyes to perilous Gods, Invests with grace the demon and the snake. II.II.106
It lends beauty to the terror of the gulfs And fascinating eyes to perilous Gods, Invests with grace the demon and the snake.
II.II.106
It's charming!
That's exactly the nature of the vital, what Théon called the "nervous world."
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(Then Satprem reads the beginning of chapter 11 of Supermanhood; "The Change of Power.")
It creates an atmosphere that lasts the whole day like that, and I can't talk anymore.
(Mother plunges in)
One can go indefinitely.
And it's vast—it's vast, comprehensive—and it's as if one were putting light on the world. It's strange, every time it has the same effect on me.
There's nothing left here (Mother touches her forehead), nothing. You understand, it seems to come like this, and then it goes like this (continuous gesture rising from Satprem to Mother, then from Mother spreading on both sides onto the world.)
It's really interesting! Nothing remains here (gesture to the forehead), only a very pleasant impression, very stable, like that, and then nothing: silence. And it goes like this, like this (same continuous gesture of spreading), like this.... It's really interesting.
I wonder if there are people who can hear it.... It would be interesting to know. It goes into an atmosphere... not mental, just above the mind, but it's in this new consciousness. And it's like this (same gesture), it goes off vast, vast, vast... as if spreading over the earth.
It's interesting.
(Mother plunges in, smiling)
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