Chapter 5September 15, 1965

The photo isn't good, but the man is good! And long before there was anything active, he was with me. So I "charge" him with force.

(silence)

It seems, according to astrologers, that the combination of stars for the month of September is very bad for the earth. Naturally, this is always something to be cautious about, because it depends on people's intuition, on their capacity to interpret, whether their vision is broad enough and so on, but it seems that all the signs are undeniable and indicate that things are "bad" (that's vague, of course), "catastrophic." I was told this before, they said it in July. Only, I never attach too much importance to their conclusions, because they are always... And also, they say some very vague things that contradict each other. Personally, I don't know the first thing about all that, I am not trying to see – in fact I NEVER try to see (what came last night came very spontaneously, without my trying to see). The work, of course, is devoid of thought, of verbal expression, and constant; but it has been constant for a long time: the first time was at the beginning of the year, I think, at least six months ago. The second time, I told you I had one night an experience [the "pressure" of the Supreme] before anything really serious had taken place. Well, the first experience I had, of the consciousness hurling a fantastic power on the earth, which was necessarily going to shake things up, was at least six months before that second experience. And for those six months, it was constant: as soon as I came into contact with the earth consciousness, it was there, and constant, constant. Then came that indication: the pressure of the supreme Lord. And the third step was yesterday evening.

We'll see.

I am intentionally refusing to conjecture.

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(Then Mother gathers the texts that will make up the next "Bulletin," among which is Sri Aurobindo's

quotation from "Essays on the Gita": "... It is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his

hand...." See conversation of August 25.)

You see, I told you! You asked me, "Do you see anything?" (Laughing) I told you, "We'll see."

Whatever happens, we must publish this text.

(Letter to Mother from Sujata)