Chapter 4March 11, 1967

elements that were completely missing – convincing elements that were completely missing in the first perception, which was a vital-mental knowledge. While this is a knowledge of the consciousness of the cells.

But all this would only be interesting with all the facts (which I can't give). So I'd like to have a more complete and "impersonal" experience, I might say, I mean not illustrated by facts but an overall vision of the process. Then I will be able to talk about it. It will come.

There is a question of terminology. I would like to put a note at the beginning of the third volume

of "Questions and Answers," in which I say: "We found it fit to begin this new volume with the Talk of February 29, 1956, because on that day, during the meditation that followed the class, there took place..." What? "The first descent of the supramental forces into the Inconscient"?

(Mother shakes her head) It was: Light-Force and Power. And it wasn't into the Inconscient, it was into the earth atmosphere.

Light-Consciousness-Power?

"Consciousness" is part of the totality, it will come later.

Supramental Light-Force-Power?

Yes.

And is the word "descent" right?

It's "manifestation," rather. The image was... (I can't say there was "above" and "below," that's not how it was), it was the barrier being broken and the flow rushing forth.

It's better to put "manifestation."

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(A little later, regarding the extraordinary clutter on Mother's table:)

...That's why I keep so many things on my table. Someone gives me something, and there is in it a good