Now, according to Theon, Jehovah was the chief of the Asuras, [[Asura: demon of the mental plane embodying the forces of division and darkness. ]] the supreme Asura, the egoistic God who wanted to dominate everything and keep everything under his control. And of course this act made him furious, for it enabled mankind to become gods through the power of an evolution of consciousness. And that's why he banished them from Paradise. Although told in a childish manner, there's a great deal of truth in this story, a great deal. page 62 , Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 4th Feb. - 1961 According to Theon, the serpent wasn't the spir

I've had a very interesting experience (not personal). Did you know Benjamin [[An old disciple who has just died. ]]? ... His psychic being had left him quite some time ago and, as a result, to the surface consciousness he seemed a bit deranged - he wasn't deranged but diminished. And he lived, as I said, out of habit. The physical consciousness still held a minimum of vital and mind and he lived out of habit. But the remarkable thing is that sometimes, for a few seconds, he would live admirably, in full light, while at other times he couldn't even control his gestures. Then he left altogether: all the accumulated energy dwindled little by little, little by

I went to inaugurate the sugar factory# the other day. I had an amusing experience. From the material point of view, it's almost hellish - the noise, the smell - a nauseating smell. I had to apply all my will not to be physically disturbed - they made me climb up narrow little stairs, go down, climb back up, look into deep pits. At some places there weren't even guardrails, so I had really to control myself. I was watching all this sugar cane - piles of sugar cane - which is thrown into the machine, and then it travels along and falls down to be crushed, crushed, and crushed some more. And then it comes back up to be disti

When they're in too much of a hurry to burn them, sometimes they burn them alive! ... They should wait. For there's a consciousness of the form, a life of the form. There's a consciousness, a consciousness in the form assumed by the cells. That takes SEVEN DAYS to come out. So sometimes the body makes abrupt movements when burned - people say it's mechanical. It's not mechanical, I know it's not. I know it. I know that this consciousness of the form exists since I have actually gone out of it. Once, long back, I was in a so-called cataleptic state, and after awhile, while still in this state, the body began living again'; that is, it

Your healer has arrived, I am told. Yes, this morning, I think. So I asked A. to bring him to you - you're the one he has come to see. Me! Yes, of course (laughter), the author of your book! ... No, you can speak with him and see. You'll tell me how he is .... I put him up at "Castellini" because there's a large garden - I hope he'll be comfortable there. But you'll see, you'll try to make him tell a little what he is seeking by coming here. Page 336 , Mother's Agenda , volume 10 , 20th Sep - 1969 So did you see this healer? Yes, I saw him. Tell me

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Evidently the gods of the Puranas are a good deal worse than human beings, as we saw in that film the other day' (and that story was absolutely true). The gods of the Overmind are infinitely more egocentric - the only thing that counts for them is their power, the extent of their power. Man has in addition a psychic being, so consequently he has true love and compassion - wherein lies his superiority over the gods. It was very, very clearly expressed in this film, and it's very true. The gods are faultless, for they live according to their own nature, spontaneously and without constraint; it is their godly way. But if one looks at it from

I had the perception of this manifestation - a "pulsatory" manifestation, I might say - which opens out, shrivels up, opens out, shrivels up again ... and there comes a point when the opening out is such, the fluidity, the plasticity, the capacity for change are such that there is no need anymore to reabsorb in order to shape anew, and there will be a progressive transformation. Théon used to say (I think I've already told you about it) that this is the seventh universal creation, that there have been six pralayas[[Pralaya: the end of a world. ]] before and this is the seventh creation, but that it will be possible for this one to be transformed without being reabs

(After the work, Mother begins speaking of her translation of 'The Synthesis of Yoga'.) A few days ago I had an experience related to this. For some time I had been unable to work because I was unwell and my eyes were very tired. And two or three days ago, when I resumed the translation, I suddenly realized that I was seeing it quite differently! Something had happened during those days (how to put it?) ... the position of the translation work in relation to the text was different. My last sentence was all I had with me, because I file my papers as I go along, so I went back to it along with the corresponding English sentence. 'O