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PART ONE
LETTERS, MESSAGES AND OTHER SHORT WRITTEN STATEMENTS
The Divine and the Universe THE UNIVERSE: MANIFESTATION OF THE DIVINE
It is He, the perfect spirit who fills all. The perfect spirit fills all. It is He who fills all. Who is He? The perfect spirit. It is He, the perfect spirit who fills all. 1952 It is the Lord who sets all in motion from the depths of the being; it is His will that directs, His force that acts. 18 September 1954 At the service of the Divine we are; it is the Divine who decides, ordains and puts in motion, directs and accomplishes the action. 25 December 1954 Who has made the Divine?
Himself. August 1966 How long did it take to plan the universe? Who was there to execute it?
Nothing in advance. Everything immediately, directly, spontaneously, Page – 3 without any intermediary. The intervention of intermediaries has mostly complicated matters rather than simplified. A rather long story to tell.
What is Consciousness?
When the Lord becomes conscious of Himself, the world is created. Consciousness is the breath that gives life to all.
Sweet Mother, please tell me the meaning of “consciousness”.
Without consciousness you would not even know that you live.
Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything through identification. The Divine Consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects. To become aware of a vibration, for instance, does not mean that you know everything about it.
In the Divine Consciousness the smallest things from below unite with the highest, the most sublime from above. 3 July 1954 Page – 4 Does the Divine exist in all things, even in the dust-bin?
The whole universe is the manifestation of the Divine, but a manifestation which begins with a total unconsciousness of its origin and rises little by little towards this consciousness.
Do not forget even for a moment that all this has been created by Him out of Himself. Not only is He present in everything, but also He is everything. The differences are only in expression and manifestation. If you forget this you lose everything.
There is no end to the wonders of the universe. The more we get free from the limits of our small ego, the more these wonders disclose themselves to us.
The Lord will possess His universe perfectly only when the universe will have become the Lord.
THE DIVINE WORKING IN THE UNIVERSE
The universe is a finite whole, but its content is infinite; the changes which occur in this infinity result from the action of Essence on substance, from the penetration, the permeation of quantity by quality, Page – 5 which brings about a constant and progressive organisation and reorganisation of the content of the universe. 24 March 1932 At every minute the universe is created in its totality and in each of its parts.
No two combinations, no two movements in the universe are similar; nothing is reproduced exactly. There are analogies, there are similarities, there are families, families of movements that can be called families of vibrations, but there are no two things that are identical, neither in time nor in space. Nothing is repeated, otherwise there would be no manifestation, no becoming; there would be only one creation, one single thing. The manifestation is just this diversity. It is the One that unfolds itself in the Many − endlessly.
On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital plane through power and on the psychic plane through love. When we rise high enough, we discover that these four aspects unite with each other in a single consciousness, full of love, luminous, powerful, beautiful, containing all, pervading all. It is only to satisfy the universal play that this consciousness divides itself into several lines or aspects of manifestation.
This world is a chaos in which darkness and light, falsehood and truth, Page – 6 death and life, ugliness and beauty, hate and love are so closely intertwined that it is almost impossible to distinguish one from the other, still more impossible to disentangle them and put an end to an embrace which has the horror of a pitiless struggle, all the more keen because veiled, especially in human consciousness where the conflict changes into an anguish for knowledge, for power, for conquest, − a combat obscure and painful, all the more atrocious because it seems to be without issue, but capable of a solution on a level above the sensations and feelings and ideas, beyond the domain of the mind − in the Divine Consciousness. 29 March 1934 The manifestation will overcome all difficulties, for manifestation means the overcoming of all difficulties.
One Divine Consciousness is here working through all these beings, preparing its way through all these manifestations. At this day it is here at work upon earth more powerfully than it has ever been before. 29 January 1935 I would say: may the world become aware that the Divine is manifesting. 8 April 1935 O, to see no longer the appearances which change incessantly; to contemplate only the Divine’s immutable oneness in everything and everywhere ! 29 September 1954 Page – 7 If one looks at outer forms no longer in themselves, for themselves, in their appearance alone, but as the expression of a deeper and more abiding reality, then all of them − as well as all circumstances and events − become symbolic of the Force that is behind and that uses them for its self-expression. For a certain state of consciousness, there is not a single circumstance, not a form, an action or a movement that is not expressive of a deeper or higher, more abiding, more essential and truer reality.
Behind the appearances there is a subtle reality much closer to Truth; it is that one we are trying to show you.
Upon this world of illusion, this sombre nightmare, the Divine has bestowed His sublime Reality, and each atom of matter contains something of His Eternity. 14 November 1954 Is it not, for the Divine, a supreme sacrifice to renounce the beatitude of His unity in order to create the painful multiplicity of the world?
Poor Divine ! Of what an amount of horrors He is accused. If these accusations were true, what a monster He would be, He who in truth is all-compassion. Page – 8 It is wrong to say that the world, as it is, is made according to the Divine’s Will. If it were so, (a) All the wickedness of the world would be the Divine’s wickedness. (b) There would be no need to change either oneself or the world.
All things considered, looking at the world as it is and as it seems it must be irremediably, the human intellect has decreed that this world must be a mistake on the part of God and that the manifestation or creation is surely the result of desire, desire to manifest oneself, desire to know oneself, desire to enjoy oneself. Therefore the only thing to do is to put an end to this mistake as soon as possible by refusing to cling to desire and its deadly consequences. But the Supreme Lord answers that the comedy has not yet been completely played out, and He adds, “Wait for the last act; no doubt you will change your mind.” 23 July 1958 When the physical world will manifest the divine splendour, all will be marvellous.
The whole creation speaks of the Divine to him who knows how to hear within his heart. 8 December 1965 Page – 9 There is no other consciousness than the Supreme Consciousness. There is no other will than the Supreme Will. There is no other life than the Supreme Life. There is no other personality than the Supreme Personality, the One and the All. 17 September 1967 There is nothing in this world which is not submitted to a direct action beyond Nature − but most of the men are unaware of it. 18 September 1967 Divine presence: it hides from ignorant eyes its ever-present magnificence.
You speak of delight, but in the material world there is no such thing as delight. Yet, remove the delight and the whole world will collapse. Page – 10 |
