Chapter 1December 3, 1969

Every day there are two girls (almost every day) who ask me questions, and I answer them. Some answers would be really interesting to have.... I don’t know what I should do to get them. Naturally, they’re personal questions, but I answer in a general way.

It’s beginning to rise. The effect of this new Consciousness (it’s taken a year) is that things are beginning to rise.

* * * (Then, regarding the forthcoming “Notes on the Way” in which Mother speaks of her experience of the

supramental Consciousness-the conversation of November 19.)

What I said about the supramental consciousness, is it clear?

I think it’s very clear!

Because when I spoke to you, I wasn’t in it, it was only a memory.

But it’s clear, I could read it to you.

We’ll see.

How to express that?... What I lived was that there was NOTHING but this Consciousness; now... it’s not a memory, it has stayed on – it has stayed on, but it’s veiled, so it expresses itself THROUGH the usual consciousness which is there (gesture above the head). The usual consciousness is there. And this Consciousness really has an interesting effect on the body, because in this body, with the elements that were there, it has built a vital and a mind. Now I’ve found that the body feels as it used to feel before, that is to say in full possession of its faculty But the mind and vital are no longer independent in the sense that they do as they like – they are under the complete control of the Consciousness. Then the body still has spots of timidity, but it’s beginning to recapture the state it was in before.... It’s a very slow and long work, but... I don’t know how long it will take, but once it reaches a certain perfection, the body will once again be capable of many things it had lost because of that [the departure of the mind and vital]. It wasn’t a physical deterioration, that’s what deprived it, and it’s beginning to slowly, slowly come back.

We’ll see.

But it’s a long and slow work.

(silence)

Formerly, they were the body’s masters, so that’s what was needed: they had to go away It was through them that the psychic and all the rest used to work – now, that’s over: it’s direct. But then, the body’s