Chapter 22The Mother’s Presence · Feeling the Mother’s Presence through a Photograph

and the human ass the human ass for ever and ever. For if the Divine could not be there behind the veil, how could either ever become conscious of anything but their wormhood and asshood even throughout the ages?

When X says that he feels the Mother’s physical touch or approach, with whom does he have the contact — the Mother or the emanation?

With the Mother, the emanation helping — which is its business.

19 July 1935

the exact words in the thoughts?

If the mind of the person is very clear, yes: otherwise it may be only the substance that comes or a part of the thought or some general idea.

19 May 1933

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In the case of X, the Mother fined the servant boy on such apparently insufficient grounds that it looks illogical. I cannot felt and knew to be correct.

Mother acted on her inner perception about the whole affair; she does not act only on the outer facts but on what she feels or sees lying behind them.

29 August 1935

* What you write about X is true. She does not realise that Mother knows all these things by other means and any information given to her only adds certain physical precisions to what she knows already.

How can she be open when she has such ideas against the Mother? They must necessarily shut her up to the Mother’s influence.