Savitri
The Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother

Chapter 6Automatic Writing, c. 1920

Book 6. Part Five - Automatic Writing

Manek. Manek is the name of the old introducer of the writing. Let us get rid of him at once. My name does not greatly matter. I am a spirit of the higher realms not present on the earth, but communicating from above. First, let me tell the purpose of the script. It is to open a first means of embodied communication with the other worlds. There can be other means, but this was the readiest at the time. In all respects it was the most suitable. As a beginning only. The object now is to introduce the wider knowledge of past, present and future beyond the range of the present terrestrial mind That is all today