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\n\t\t\tJuly 1, 1914<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>We hail Thee, O Lord, with adoration and with joy, and give ourselves to
\nThee in a gift constantly renewed, so that Thy will may be accomplished upon
\nearth and in all the places of this universe. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>When we turn towards Thee the thought is mute but the heart exults; for
\nThou shinest<\/span> resplendent in all things, and the least
\ngrain of sand may be an occasion for worship. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>We bow down before Thee, we unite with Thee, O Lord, in a love that is
\nlimitless and full of an inexpressible beatitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, grant this sovereign joy to all.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – <\/span>
\n188<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nJuly 4, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O sovereign Force, O victorious Power, Purity, Beauty, supreme Love, grant
\nthat this being in its integrality<\/span>, this body in all
\nits totality may draw near to Thee solemnly and offer to Thee in a complete and
\nhumble surrender this means of manifestation abandoned perfectly to Thy Will,
\nif not perfectly ready for this realisation…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>With the calm and strong certitude that Thou wilt one day accomplish the
\nexpected miracle and manifest in its fullness Thy sublime splendour, we turn to
\nThee in a profound rapture, and silently implore Thee…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Immensity, Infinitude, Wonder…. Thou alone art and Thou shinest<\/span> resplendent in all things. The hour of Thy
\nfulfilment is near. All Nature is ingathered in a solemn concentration. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou answerest<\/span> her ardent call.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –<\/font><\/span>189<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 5, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
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\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>All that belongs to the outer, lower being which is still obscure,
\nprostrates itself before Thee in a mute and fervent adoration, calling with all
\nits strength Thy purifying action which will make it fit to manifest Thee
\nfully. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And in this adoration is found perfect silence and perfect beatitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou repliest<\/span> mercifully to the call: \u201cWhat
\nhas to be done will be done. The necessary instruments will be prepared. Strive
\nin the calm of certitude.\u201d
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –<\/font><\/span>190<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 6, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>What plenitude in the perception! The entire individual being, modest,
\nhumble, surrendered, adoring, calm and smiling, feeling one with all beings,
\nunable to make any difference of value, in perfect solidarity with all things,
\nis kneeling down before Thee together with them all; and at the same time the
\nformidable omnipotence of Thy Force which is here, ready for the manifestation,
\nwaiting, building the propitious hour, the favourable opportunity: the
\nincomparable splendour of Thy victorious sovereignty. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>The Force is here. Rejoice, O you who are waiting and hoping: the new
\nmanifestation is sure, the new manifestation is at hand. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>The Force is here. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>All nature exults and sings in gladness, all nature is at a festival:
\nThe Force is here. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Arise and live; arise and be illuminated; arise and battle for the
\ntransfiguration of all: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>The Force is here.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>191<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 7, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Peace, peace upon all the earth…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Not the peace of an inconscient sleep or a self-satisfied inertia; not the
\npeace of a self-forgetful ignorance and a dark, heavy indifference, but the
\npeace of the omnipotent force, the peace of perfect communion, the peace of
\nintegral awakening, of the disappearance of all limitation and all darkness….
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Why torment oneself and suffer, why this bitter struggle and painful
\nrevolt, why this vain violence, why this inconscient, heavy sleep? Awake
\nwithout fear, appease your conflicts, silence your disputes, open your eyes and
\nyour hearts: the Force is there; it is there, divinely pure, luminous,
\npowerful; it is there as a boundless love, a sovereign power, an indisputable
\nreality, an unmixed peace, an uninterrupted beatitude, the Supreme Benediction;
\nit is self-existence, the endless bliss of infinite knowledge… and it is something
\nmore which cannot yet be told, but which is already at work in the higher
\nworlds beyond thought as the power of sovereign transfiguration, and also in
\nthe inconscient depths of Matter as the Irresistible Healer…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Listen, listen, O thou who wouldst know. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Look, thou who wouldst see, contemplate and live: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>
\n<\/span>The Force is here.
\n <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>192<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 8, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O divine Force, supreme Illuminator, hearken to our prayer, move not
\naway from us, do not withdraw, help us to fight the good fight, make firm our
\nstrength for the struggle, give us the force to conquer! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, Thou whom I adore without being able to know Thee,
\nThou who I am without being able to realise Thee, my entire conscious
\nindividuality prostrates itself before Thee and implores, in the name of the
\nworkers in their struggle, and of the earth in her agony, in the name of
\nsuffering humanity and of striving Nature; O my sweet Master, O marvellous
\nUnknowable, O Dispenser of all boons, Thou who makest<\/span>
\nlight spring forth in the darkness and strength to arise out of weakness,
\nsupport our effort, guide our steps, lead us to victory.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – <\/span>
\n193<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nJuly 10, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Thou who eternally, immutably art, who consentest<\/span>
\nto Thy becoming in this world that Thou mayst<\/span> bring
\ninto it a new Illumination, a new Impulsion, Thou art here, manifest Thyself
\nmore and more completely, always more perfectly; the instrument has given and
\ngives itself to Thee with a fervent adhesion, a total surrender; Thou mayst<\/span> reduce it to dust or transform it into a sun, it will
\nresist nothing that is Thy Will. In this surrender lies its true strength and
\nits true beatitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>But why art Thou so considerate with the animality<\/span>
\nof the body? Is it because it must be given time to adapt itself to the
\nmarvellous complexity, the powerful infinity of Thy Force? Is it Thy Will that
\nmakes itself gentle and patient, is unwilling to precipitate things, leaves to
\nthe elements leisure to adapt themselves?… I mean \u2013 is it better thus or is
\nit impossible otherwise? Is there here a particular incapacity which Thou dost
\ntolerate with magnanimity or is this a general law which is an inevitable
\nportion of all that has to be transformed?… <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>But it matters little what we think about it, since thus it is; the
\nattitude alone is important: Should we <\/span><\/p>\n

fight, should we accept? And it is Thou
\nwho dictatest<\/span> the attitude, it is Thy Will that
\ndetermines it at each moment. Why foresee and contrive when it is enough to
\nobserve and to give a full adhesion? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>The working in the constitution of the physical cells <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>194<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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 is perceptible:
\npermeated with a considerable amount of force they seem to expand and to become
\nlighter. But the brain is still heavy and asleep…. I unite myself to this
\nbody, O divine Master, and cry to Thee: Do not spare me, act with Thy sovereign
\nomnipotence; for in me Thou hast put the will to an entire transfiguration. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>195<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 11, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>The entire physical being would like to be dissolved and reconstituted
\nin an adoration that would have no bounds. O Lord, Thou who comest<\/span>
\nto touch Matter as the Messenger of the Supreme Power and Supreme Beatitude,
\nThou createst<\/span> the conception of what the total
\nrealisation can be. And when the being believed it was definitively invested
\nwith Thy sublime mandate, Thou withdrawest<\/span>, making it
\nunderstand that it was only a promise, a token of what can be. Alas, what an
\nimperfection in Matter it is that we cannot hold Thee! O Lord, use Thy
\nomnipotence, work the miracle of Thy permanent Presence…. Why so much
\nconsideration? We must triumph or perish!… <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Victory, victory, victory! We want the victory of Transfiguration!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>196<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 12, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>In all the states of being, in all the modes of activity, in all things,
\nin all the worlds, one can meet Thee and unite with Thee, for Thou art
\neverywhere and always present. He who has met Thee in one activity of his being
\nor in one world of the universe, says \u201cI have found Him\u201d and seeks nothing
\nmore; he thinks he has reached the summit of human possibilities. What a
\nmistake! In all the states, in all the modes, in all things, all worlds, all
\nthe elements we must discover Thee and unite with Thee and if one element is
\nleft aside, however small it may be, the communion cannot be perfect, the
\nrealisation cannot be accomplished. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And that is why to have found Thee is but a first step on an infinite
\nladder…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O sweet Master, sovereign Transfigurator<\/span>, put
\nan end to all negligence, all lazy indolence, gather together all our energies,
\nmake them into an indomitable, irresistible will. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Light, Love, ineffable Force, all the atoms cry to Thee so that Thou mayst<\/span> penetrate and transfigure them…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Give to all the supreme delight of the communion.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>197<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 13, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Patience, strength, courage, calm and indomitable energy…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Let the mind learn to be silent, let it not be eager to profit
\nimmediately by the forces which come to us from Thee for the integral manifestation….
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>But why hast thou chosen for the expression of Thy Will the poorest
\nelement, the most mediocre, the most imperfect?…
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>198<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 15, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>What, O Lord?… <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Just as Thou wilt, just as Thou wilt…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>This instrument is weak, mediocre; Thou hast taught it that all
\nactivities are possible to it, that nothing was radically strange to it in all
\nhuman activities; but it is in intensity, in perfection only that the Divine
\nbegins, and until now Thou hast not granted to it any extraordinary intensity,
\nany real perfection…. Everything is in a state of promise, a promise not
\nindividual but collective; nothing is completely realised. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Why, O Lord? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou hast placed in my heart a peace so total that it seems to be almost
\nindifference and in an immensity of calm serenity it says: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Just as Thou wilt, just as Thou wilt….
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>199<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 16, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>Salutation of my silent and humble adoration…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I bow down before Thy glory, for it dominates me with all its
\nsplendour…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, let me dissolve at Thy feet, melt into Thee!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>200<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 17, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Earthly realisations easily take on a great importance in our eyes, for they
\nare proportionate to our external being with this limited form which makes us
\nmen. But what is an earthly realisation beside Thee, before Thee? However
\nperfect, complete, divine it may be, it is nothing but an indiscernible moment
\nin Thy eternity; and the results obtained by it, however powerful and
\nmarvellous they may be, are nothing but an imperceptible atom in the infinite
\nmarch to Thee. This is what Thy workers must never forget, otherwise they will
\nbecome unfit to serve Thee…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, what childishness to think oneself responsible for
\nanything at all and want to individualise Thy supreme and divine Will! Is it
\nnot enough to unite with Thy heart and live there permanently? Then Thou takest<\/span> all the responsibilities and Thy will works without
\neven our needing to know it…. Only a realisation independent of all outer
\ncircumstances, free from all attachment and all understanding, however high, is
\na true realisation, a valuable realisation. And the only such realisation is to
\nunite with Thee integrally, closely, definitively. As for the care of Thy
\ntransitory, momentary manifestation in a fugitive existence and in a transient world, it is Thou who must be responsible
\nfor it and do what is necessary for it to exist, if Thou thinkest<\/span>
\nit good. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, sovereign Lord, Thou hast taken away all my cares and
\nleft me only the Beatitude, the supreme ecstasy of Thy divine Communion. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 2<\/font><\/span>01<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 18, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Two things remain unshakable despite all storm-winds, even the most
\nviolent: the will that all may be happy with the true happiness \u2013 Thine<\/span>, and the ardent desire to unite perfectly and be
\nidentified with Thee…. All the rest is perhaps still the result of an effort
\nand a pretension, this is spontaneous, unshakable; and just when it seems that
\nthe ground is giving way and everything breaking down, this appears luminous,
\npure and calm, piercing through the clouds, dispelling the shadows, emerging
\nstill greater and stronger from the ruins, carrying in itself Thy infinite
\nPeace and Beatitude.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 2<\/span>02<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nJuly 19, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, Thou art the omnipotent Master of Thy own manifestation; grant
\nto these instruments that they may escape from frames too narrow, from limits
\ntoo fixed and mediocre. All the riches of human possibility are needed to
\ntranslate even one atom of Thy infinite Force…. Open the doors that are
\nclosed, make the sealed fountains spring forth, that the floods of Thy
\neloquence and Thy beauty may overspread the world. Let there be amplitude and
\nmajesty, nobility and grace, charm and grandeur, variety and strength: for it
\nis the will of the Lord to manifest. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, Thou art the sovereign Ruler of our destinies; Thou
\nart the omnipotent Master of Thy own manifestation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Thine<\/span> is all this world, Thine<\/span>
\nall these creatures and all these atoms. Transfigure them, illumine.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 2<\/font><\/span>03<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 21, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>There was no longer any body, no longer any sensation; only a column of light
\nwas there, rising from where the base of the body normally is to where usually
\nis the head, to form there a disk of light like that of the moon; then from
\nthere the column continued to rise very far above the head, opening out into an
\nimmense sun, dazzling and multicoloured, whence a rain of golden light fell
\ncovering all the earth. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Then slowly the column of light came down again forming an oval of
\nliving light, awakening and setting into movement \u2013 each one in a special way,
\naccording to a particular vibratory mode \u2013 the centres above the head, in the
\nhead, the throat, the heart, in the middle of the stomach, at the base of the
\nspine and still farther down. At the level of the knees, the ascending and
\ndescending currents joined and the circulation thus went on uninterruptedly,
\nenveloping the whole being in an immense oval of living light. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Then slowly the consciousness came down again, stage by stage, halting
\nin each world, until the body-consciousness returned. The recovery of the
\nbody-consciousness was, if the memory is correct, the ninth stage. At that
\nmoment the body was still quite stiff and immobile.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 2<\/font><\/span>04<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 22, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou art all love, O Lord, and Thy love shines resplendently in the
\ndepths of every thought and every heart. Accomplish Thy work of
\ntransfiguration: illumine us. Open the still closed doors, widen the horizon,
\nestablish strength, unify our beings and make us participate in Thy divine
\nbeatitude that we may be able to make all men share in it. Grant that we may
\nconquer the last obstacles, inner and outer, overcome the final difficulties.
\nAn ardent and sincere prayer has never risen in vain to Thee; always in Thy
\nmunificence Thou answerest<\/span> every call and Thy mercy
\nis infinite. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O divine Master, let Thy light fall into this chaos and bring forth from
\nit a new world. Accomplish what is now in preparation and create a new humanity
\nwhich may be the perfect expression of Thy new and sublime Law. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Nothing will stop our impetus; nothing will tire our effort; and,
\nresting upon Thee all our hopes and all our activities, strong in our complete
\nsurrender to Thy Supreme Will, we shall march on to the conquest of Thy
\nintegral manifestation with the calm certitude of victory over all that would
\noppose it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Hail to Thee, Master of the world, who triumphest<\/span>
\nover all darkness.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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\nJuly 23, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Lord, Thou art all-powerful: become the fighter, gain the victory. May
\nThy Love be the sovereign Master of our hearts and Thy Knowledge never leave
\nour thoughts…. Do not abandon us to impotence and darkness; break every
\nlimit, shatter every chain, dispel every illusion. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Our aspiration rises to Thee in ardent prayer.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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\nJuly 25, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>At the rising of the sun I sang the praise of this world in which it is
\npossible not only to desire Thee but to know Thee and even to become Thee. And
\nI was astonished that there should be some who so ardently aspire to leave this
\nuniverse and enter another world of perfection. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou hast placed such contentment in my heart that it has become
\nimpossible for me not to feel satisfied in all circumstances, inner or outer.
\nAnd yet something in my being always aspires for more beauty, for more light,
\nfor more knowledge, for more love \u2013 in a word, for a more conscious, a more
\nconstant relation with Thee…. But this too depends upon Thy will, and when it
\nis Thy will, Thou shalt grant me the entire transfiguration.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 2<\/font><\/span>07<\/p>\n

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\n

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\nJuly 27, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Humbly, quietly, my prayer rises to Thee, O sweet Master, Thou who acceptest<\/span> without argument and without censure all that is
\noffered to Thee, Thou who givest<\/span> Thyself and makest<\/span> Thyself known to all, without asking whether they
\nare worthy of it or not, Thou who findest<\/span> nothing too
\nweak, too small, too modest, too inadequate to manifest Thee…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Let me lay myself at Thy feet, let me melt into Thy heart and disappear
\nin Thee, let me be annihilated in Thy beatitude, or rather let me be only Thy
\nservant, claiming nothing more. I desire, I aspire for nothing else. To be only
\nThy servant is all I ask.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 2<\/font><\/span>08<\/p>\n

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\n

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\nJuly 31, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>It seems to me that Thou wouldst make me taste successively all the
\nexperiences which are ordinarily put at the summit of a Yoga as its culmination
\nand the proof of its perfect accomplishment. The experience is striking,
\nintense, complete; it carries within it the knowledge of all its effects, all
\nits consequences; it is conscious, willed, the result of methodical effort and
\nnot of unexpected chance; and yet it is always single of its kind, like
\nmilestones set along a route which are separated from each other by a long
\nribbon of road; and, moreover, these milestones which mark the infinite ascent
\nare never alike; they are always new and seem to have no connection one with
\nthe other…. Will a time come when Thou wilt make this being capable of synthetising<\/span> all these countless experiences so as to draw
\nfrom them a new realisation, more complete and more beautiful than all achieved
\nso far? I do not know. But Thou hast taught me not to regret an exceptional
\nstate when it disappears any more than I desire it before it comes. I see in the
\ndisappearance no longer the sign of an instability in the progress made, but the
\nevidence of a march which goes deliberately forward without stopping any longer than is indispensable for
\nthe various stages of the road. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0
\n<\/span>Each time Thou teachest<\/span> me yet a little better
\nthat the means of manifestation is limited only because we think it so, and that
\nit can effectively partake of Thy<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 2<\/span>09<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

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\ninfinitude; each time something of Thy
\nimmensity makes itself kin to the instrument which is its dwelling-place,
\nflinging wide the doors which open on boundless horizons.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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