Chapter 6Undated (end of May) 1962
Book 5. May
(Letter from Mother to Satprem regarding his difficulties with X)
Wednesday Satprem, mon cher petit, ...... Rise above, into the Light, where everything can be seen with a calm, eternal smile – there you will be in my constant and tender company.
Signed: Mother
73 – When Wisdom comes, her first lesson is, "There is no such thing as knowledge; there are only aperçus of the Infinite Deity." Very good.
No need for questions.
74 – Practical knowledge is a different thing; that is real and serviceable, but it is never complete. Therefore to systematise and codify it is necessary but fatal. It is real within its own realm – only within its own realm.
I have looked at this very, very often. There was even a time when I thought that if one could get a total, complete and perfect knowledge of the whole working of physical Nature as we perceive it in the world of Ignorance, then this might be a means to rediscover or reattain the Truth of things. After my last experience [of April 13] I can no longer think this way.
I don't know if I am making myself clear.... I thought for a time, a very long time, that if Science went to its furthest possible limits (if this is conceivable), it would join up with true Knowledge. In the