Chapter 3December 14, 1968

and remains silent)

Very well. We must wait – patience, patience – until everything is ready.

(Mother reads three different versions of a message she wants to give for the opening of the School.

Then she selects the first one.)

They came in succession. It’s the experience I had at that moment:

"When one lives in the Truth, one is above all contradictions."

The other two came afterwards:

"Living in the Truth means being above all contradictions."

Then:

"He who lives in the Truth is above all contradictions and all oppositions."

It’s completely silent here (gesture to the forehead); I just turn (gesture upward) and wait, and I think what comes first is the purest, that is, the least mixed with activities; afterwards, it’s as if here in the atmosphere it got mixed with mental vibrations.

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I have received a line from P.L.

Oh!

He was about to leave for Spain to do an "opinion poll" about the Church reforms, and he just wrote me: "I have had a terrible experience, which, with Sweet Mother, ended happily. On my