February 27, 1965
(Regarding the Playground Talk of March 10, 1951: “In the physical form there is the ‘spirit of the form,’ and that spirit of the form persists for a time, even when outwardly the person is said to be dead. And as long as the spirit of the form persists, the body isn’t destroyed. In ancient Egypt they had that knowledge; they knew that if they prepared the body in a certain way, the spirit of the form wouldn’t go away and the body wouldn’t be dissolved. In certain cases, they succeeded wonderfully. And if you go and violate the sleep of those beings who for thousands of years have remained like that, I can understand that they aren’t too pleased, especially when their sleep is violated out of an unhealthy curiosity legitimized by scientific ideas. At the Guimet Museum in Paris, there are two mummies. Nothing remains in one; but in the other, the spirit of the form has remained very conscious, conscious to such a point that you can have a contact of consciousness with it. It’s obvious that when a bunch of idiots come and stare at you with round eyes devoid of any understanding, saying, ‘Oh, he is like this, he is like that,’ it’s not likely to please you. You know, in the first place they do something odious: those mummies are enclosed in a box with a special shape to fit the person, with everything needed to preserve them; so they open the box with more or less violence, they remove some wrapping here and there to see better…. And as ordinary people were never mummified, they were beings who had achieved a considerable inner power, or else members of the royal family, people of some initiation….”)
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Those things about mummies, I knew them when I was nine or ten, they are memories from that time. I would find again some objects I had used in the past (that’s how I was later able to rediscover the track). I had at least – at least – three incarnations in Egypt (three that have been found).
But my first contact took place when I was quite small, nine or ten, and it was with that mummy at the Guimet Museum: I was speaking about that experience.
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(Then the conversation turns to a person in the West who would like to make an offering of money to Mother:)
People’s inspirations shouldn’t be contradicted, I feel them as very living, and so the Force acts (gesture far away in space).
And when they give, it opens them inwardly: it creates in themselves a possibility of receiving.
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(Later, Mother adds a comment to the “Declaration” she made on the occasion of the events of February 11: “We do not fight against any creed, any religion. We do not fight against any form of government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation or civilisation. We are fighting division, unconsciousness, ignorance, inertia and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, truth; and we fight whatever opposes the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Love.”[[Original English. ]] February 16, 1965.)
That makes our outer position clear. Many people think we are trying to establish a “new religion” or that we are against this or that religion; there are many ideas like that everywhere. But that doesn’t interest us at all! Those are all the human activities in every form – they are approximations.
All human hopes are approximations, all human realizations are approximations: it’s something that tries, that tries to express what isn’t expressible yet – we don’t have the means to express it.
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And it’s precisely in order to create those means that we are endeavoring to enlighten consciousnesses.
The possibility is inside, very deep inside, but it’s still asleep.
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