Chapter 5November 16, 1968

But saying it makes it far more precise than it really is.

It’s the physical being educated.

When the vital and the mind are there, they use the physical as an instrument for their will and whims – usually it has no independent life. So then, in the space of a few days, a few weeks, it has been educated all over again. It remembered all the experiences it had and sorted them out again, so to speak, and it has reached a sort of homogeneity wholly centered around the divine Presence.

It has had several experiences of this Presence.... Spontaneously, for the body, it’s a "conscious Light"; a conscious Light it sees everywhere, feels everywhere, whose presence it constantly feels. But once or twice it saw a figure. That surprised it a lot and it wasn’t too reassured (!), it wondered if it wasn’t an imposture or... But a great Presence (gesture like a human figure). The details of shape weren’t there, but... It was like a concretization meant for the physical, of this conscious Light which was there, you see, and was as if concretized (gesture of gathering) into a shape which was luminous, too, which could be seen, and with such power! Above all, it was like the Power of the Lord – it was awesome. And the body’s impression was that That could do anything. There was nothing That couldn’t do. I can’t say arms or hands or legs could be seen; it wasn’t that, it was a shape, but as if with a head and shoulders: a shape, you understand. And to begin with, as I said, the first time the body saw it, it was slightly alarmed: "What’s this? Is it an imposture?..." Then, as always, the "Thing" came over it and said, "Quiet, quiet, quiet...." Not words: like waves. So it kept very still, and it felt an awesome Power. It came when the body was very still and had stopped worrying, and That seemed to be telling it, "This is how I act on people." And it was a sort of concretization or materialization of this conscious Light. You couldn’t see any eyes or a nose or a mouth or anything of the sort: it was an immense figure ("immense," anyway the part that was like a head was touching the ceiling).

I saw it twice, and both times it was when I was calling the Lord so He might act; for some reason I was calling the Lord onto someone or for something, and the body was like this (gesture of aspiration or call). And once I saw it behind someone. It was like... (Mother clenches her two fists) like condensed Power.

Two cases (but one was especially clear) in which things didn’t seem to be as they should have been; there seemed to be a disorder to set right, and as always, I was making contact – simply making contact.113 And that was when I felt it became that Power. I didn’t say anything – didn’t say a word, didn’t make a gesture, didn’t say anything – and the circumstance changed. It wasn’t here: it was something physically happening elsewhere. And it was changed in that way.... There was another case in which it was someone’s will and thought that needed to be changed – but that I don’t know, I haven’t any news yet, I don’t know.