These past few days I have been reading Perseus [[Perseus the Deliverer, a play in five acts by Sri Aurobindo. ]] - it was performed here, so I knew a little of it but it never much interested me. But reading it the way I read now, I have found it VERY interesting, I have discovered all kinds of things, all kinds. Yes, I have noticed that in the space of (I don't remember when we performed it,[[ The play was performed some eight years earlier, in December 1954. ]] you were already here) ... between then and now there is at least a good fifty years' difference - a fifty-year change in consciousness. But in practice, I am always up against the same problem. Looking at it as a difference in attitude, the question is readily cleared up. But if I want the truth - the true truth behind this difference, it becomes very difficult. And that is exactly what I have seen in the light of the events described in Perseus. If you don't take the problem generally but specifically, down to the least detail.... But it evaporates as soon as you formulate it. Only when you feel it concretely, when you get a grip on it, can you grasp both things.... The problem is roughly this: nothing exists that is not the result of the divine Will. Always the same problem. Always the same problem. page 71 , Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 6th Feb - 1962

But this one [the tall white Being] is not of human origin; it was not formed in a human life: it is a being that had already incarnated, and is one of those who presided over the formation of this present being [Mother]. But, as I said, I saw it: it was sexless, neither male nor female, and as intrepid as the vital can be, with a calm but absolute power.... Ah, I found a very good description of it in one of Sri Aurobindo's plays, when he speaks of the goddess Athena (I think it's in Perseus, but I am not sure); she has that kind of ... it's an almighty calm, and with such authority! Yes, it's in Perseus - when she appears to the Sea-God and forces him to retreat to his own domain. There's a description there that fits this Being quite well. [[A whiteness and a strength is in the skies... Virgin formidable In beauty, disturber of the ancient world! ... How art thou white and beautiful and calm, Yet clothed in tumult! Heaven above thee shakes Wounded with lightnings, goddess, and the sea Flees from thy dreadful tranquil feet. (Perseus the Deliverer, Cent. Ed., VI. 6.) ]] page 223 , Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 27th June 1962