Chapter 23April 30, 1973

Do you want to ask anything?... Tell me....

I don’t know.... One would like to have the certitude one will pull through all this....

(Mother raises her arms

silence)

Certitude of what?

Of the outcome of the battle.138

(Mother raises her arms)

The ultimate outcome is obvious.

Yes, Mother, it’s obvious. But sometimes, when one is in the thick of it, one really doesn’t know, one doesn’t understand what’s going on....

No, you mean whether we’ll see the outcome of the battle in this body – is that what you’re asking?

Yes, in this life.

If we’ll see the outcome of the battle IN this body?

Yes, in this body and in this life.

(Mother plunges in)

138I was thinking of my own personal battle in the subconscient, not of Mother’s battle, of whose outcome I had not the