Chapter 3November 12, 1966

it differently.) He plunged to the very bottom (as for me, I think I know why, but that will be for later). He plunged to the very bottom of the Inconscient: beneath the stone (Mother makes a gesture of immutability, at the very bottom), beneath the mineral; the mineral is already a first awakening of the consciousness.... But you have to see it as a whole to understand that it’s an ascent. If you see human life as it is, the impression is that men become lost in the "fall," but that’s the result of the Mind; the Mind needed to go through the whole experience, to go down to the very bottom in order to understand everything and bring everything back towards the ascent. For plants, it’s really an ascent. Thus, according to this vision, there are three movements. But if you see the whole simultaneously, there are only two movements: the first movement is the descent of the Lord into the Inconscient (we can’t say anything about that for the moment; once we have emerged from it, we’ll be able to say); the second (the first we can conceive of) is, very, very slowly, through all possible experiences, even the most complete mental denials of the Divine, the ascent towards the Divine. And then, once we have climbed up... (Mother makes a gesture of descent), "Come, come here: change this prison into the mansion of the Divine."

That will be very good, a very good "message" for 4.5.67. Four is manifestation. Five is power. Six is creation, and seven is realization. Four figures in a wonderful sequence. Here is realization (you want realization?), here it is: the prison turned into the Divine’s mansion. People say, "The earth is hopeless, it’s done for...." See! It will be fine.

* * * If man hadn’t thought it was a "fall," he would never have had the will to climb up again. He needed to think it was a "fall" – but it’s not a fall, it’s... something else, which I am now discovering.

* * * (Soon afterwards, white translating into French the "message" for 4.5.67 (May 4, 1967), Mother stops

at a word, the French for which doesn’t come to her.)

...I never think of anything – oh, that’s a blessing, you know, mon petit! I never think of anything without good reason! I am like this (gesture of immobile contemplation, turned upward). The only thing that’s formulated with words is: "Lord, You... what You will, what You know, what You do, there is only You. You." Like that (same gesture of immobility). And all of a sudden, without thinking about it, without looking for it, plop! a drop of light – ah! It’s convenient.