At the end of the physical demonstration [[Every year on December 2, all the children of the School and all the disciples taking part in sports carry out a general demonstration of physical culture. ]] [on December 2], all the children will pray in chorus, and the prayer has been written by me. I will read it to you.

But I hadn't thought about it: they asked me for it, and I wrote it.

They must have read the Bulletin, and then they asked me for a prayer - a prayer that would really be the body's. I answered:


THE PRAYER OF THE CELLS IN THE BODY

Now that by the effect of the Grace we are slowly

emerging out of inconscience and waking up to a

conscious life, an ardent prayer rises in us for more

light, more consciousness:

"O Supreme Lord of the Universe,

we implore Thee, give us

the strength and the beauty,

the harmonious perfection

needed to be Thy divine instruments upon earth."

It's almost a proclamation.

There. So we'll put it into French.

They will say it after their demonstration; it seems they are going to show the whole evolution of physical culture, and then, at the end, they will say, "We have not reached the end, we are at the beginning of something, and here is our prayer."

I was very glad.


You said there is a progress?
A progress! It's a tremendous progress! The thought had never occurred to them, never; taken as a whole, they had never thought of the transformation: their thought was to become the best athletes in the world and all the usual nonsense.

The body, you see, they've asked for a prayer of the BODY. They have finally understood that the body must begin to transform itself into something else. Previously, they were all full of the whole history of physical culture in every country, in which country it's most developed, the use of the body as it is, and ... and so on. Anyway, it was the Olympic ideal. Now, they have leaped beyond: that is the past, now they want the transformation.

You understand, people were asking to be divine in their mind and vital - that is, the whole ancient history of spirituality, the same old theme for centuries - but now, it's the BODY. It's the body that asks to participate. It's certainly a progress.


page 375-76 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 22nd Nov - 1967