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\nMay<\/i> 2, 1914 <\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nBEYOND all human conceptions, even the most marvellous, beyond all human feelings, even the
\ndost sublime, beyond the most magnificent aspirations
\nand the purest elans, beyond Love, Knowledge and the
\nUnity of the Being, I would enter into a constant
\ncommunion with Thee, O Lord. Free from all
\ntrammels, I shall be Thyself; it will be Thou seeing
\nthe world through this body; it will be Thou acting in the world through this instrument.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIn me is the calm serenity of perfect certitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 103<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nMay<\/i> 3, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO<\/font><\/i> LOVE divine. Knowledge supreme, perfect Unity, at each moment of the day I call to Thee
\nso that I may be nothing else but only Thou! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay the instrument serve Thee, conscious that it
\nis an instrument, and may my whole consciousness
\nbe immersed in Thine and contemplate all things
\nwith Thy divine sight. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, Lord, grant that Thy sovereign Power
\nmay manifest; grant that Thy work may be done and
\nThy servitor solely consecrated to Thy service. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay the "I" disappear for ever, and the instrument
\nalone live! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay<\/i> 4, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nT<\/font><\/b>O<\/b> be immersed at once in Thee and in Thy work… To be no longer a limited individual
\n…to become the infinitude of Thy forces manifesting through a point… to be
\ndelivered from all trammels and all limitations…to rise above all restricting
\nthought… to act and be beyond the act… to act
\nthrough and for individuals but see only the oneness,
\nthe oneness of Thy Love, Thy Knowledge and Thy
\nBeing… O my divine Master, eternal Teacher, Sole
\nReality, dissolve all the darkness of this aggregate
\nwhich Thou hast formed for Thy service. Thy
\nmanifestation in the world. Realise in it that supreme <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 104<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nconsciousness which will generate an identical consciousness everywhere. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO to see no longer the appearances which change
\nincessantly; to contemplate only Thy immutable
\noneness in everything and everywhere. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, all my being cries to Thee in an irresistible appeal; wouldst Thou not grant that I may
\nbecome Thyself in my integral consciousness, since in fact I am Thou and Thou art I? <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nMay<\/font><\/i><\/b> 9, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nJUST at the moment when I felt the imperious need
\nJ for the regular resumption of these notes
\n<\/b>to <\/b>come out of this invading mental inertia, my physical
\norganism sustained a defeat such as it had not known1
\nfor several years, and for a few days all the forces
\nof my body failed me; I saw in it a sign that
\nI had made a mistake, that my spiritual energy had
\ngiven way, that my vision of the all-powerful oneness
\nhad been obscured, that an evil suggestion had
\nsucceeded in troubling me in some way, and I bowed
\ndown before Thee, O Lord, my sweet Master, with
\nhumility, conscious that I was not yet ripe for the perfect identification with Thee. Something in this
\naggregate which constitutes the instrument I can put
\nat Thy service, is yet obscure and lacking in comprehension; something does not respond, as <\/b> it ought,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 105<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nto Thy forces, deforms and obscures their manifestation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nA great problem presented itself before me and my
\nillness covered it with its veil and prevented me
\nfrom solving it. Now that I live again in the feeling
\nof Thy Unity, the problem no longer appears to have
\nany meaning and I do not understand it very well, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt seems to me that I have left something far
\nbehind me and that I am slowly awaking to a new life,
\nI would wish that it may not be an illusion, and
\nthat the profound and smiling peace may return for
\never. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my divine Master, my love aspires after Thee
\nmore intensely than ever; let me be Thy living Love
\nin the world and nothing but that! May all egoism,
\nall limitations, all obscurity disappear; -may my
\nconsciousness be identified with Thy consciousness
\nso that Thou alone mayst be the will acting through
\nthis fragile and transient instrument. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my sweet Master, with what an ardour my love
\naspires for Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGrant that I may be only Thy Divine Love and
\nthat in everything this Love may awake powerful
\nand victorious. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLet me be like an immense mantle of love enveloping the whole earth, penetrating all hearts, murmuring to every ear Thy divine message of hope and
\npeace. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my divine Master, with what an ardour I aspire
\nfor Thee! Break these chains of darkness and error? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 106<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ndispel this ignorance, liberate, liberate me, make m?
\nsee Thy light. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBreak, break these chains……! would understand, and I would be. That is to say, this "I" must be
\nThy "I" and there must be only one "I" in the
\nworld. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, grant my prayer, my supplication rises
\nardently towards Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay<\/i> 10, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIT is Thy sweet joy, O Lord, that fills my heart; it is Thy silent peace that reigns over my mind. All
\nis repose, force, concentration, light and serenity; and all that is without limits and without any division; is it only the earth or the whole world that lives in me,
\nI know not, but it is Thou, O Lord, who dwellest in this consciousness and givest life to it; it is Thou who
\nseest. Thou who knowest. Thou who doest. It is
\nThou alone whom I see everywhere, or rather there is no longer any "I", all is one and this Oneness, it is
\nThou. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGlory to Thee, O Lord, Master of the world. Thou
\nshinest in everything! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 107<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nMay<\/i> 12, 1914<\/a> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMORE and more it seems to me that we are in one
\nof those periods of activity in which the fruit
\nof past efforts becomes apparent,\u2014a period in which
\nwe act according to Thy law in the measure in which
\nit is the sovereign controller of our being, without
\nhaving even the leisure to become conscious of the law. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThis morning passing by a rapid experience from
\ndepth to depth, I was able, once again, as always, to
\nidentify my consciousness with Thine and to live no
\nlonger in aught but Thee;\u2014indeed, it was Thou alone
\nthat wast living, but immediately Thy will pulled my
\nconsciousness towards the exterior, towards the work
\nto be done, and Thou saidst to me, "Be the instrument
\nof which I have need." And is not this the last renunciation, to renounce identification with Thee, to
\nrenounce the sweet and pure joy of no longer distinguishing between Thee and me, the joy of knowing
\nat each moment, not only with the intellect but by an
\nintegral experience, that Thou art the unique Reality
\nand that all the rest is but appearance and illusion.
\nThat the exterior being should be the docile instrument which does not even need to be conscious of the
\nwill which moves it, is not doubtful; but why must I
\nbe almost entirely identified with the instrument and
\nwhy should not the "I" be entirely merged in Thee
\nand live Thy full and absolute consciousness? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI ask, but I am not anxious about it. I know that
\nall is according to Thy will, and with a pure adoration <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 108<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nI trust myself joyously to Thy will. I shall be what
\nThou wouldst have me be, O Lord, conscient
\n<\/b>or
\n<\/b>inconscient, a simple instrument as is the body or a
\nsupreme knowledge as art Thou. O the sweet and
\npeaceful joy when one can say that all is good and
\nfeel Thee at work in the world through all the
\nelements which lend themselves to that transmission! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThou art the sovereign Master of all. Thou art the
\nInaccessible, the Unknowable, the eternal and sublime
\nReality. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO marvellous Unity, I disappear in Thee! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nMay<\/font><\/i><\/b> 13, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHIS somnolence of my thought, O Lord, Thou wilt shake off so that I may have knowledge and
\nunderstand the experience Thou hast given to my
\nbeing. When something in me puts a question to
\nThee, always Thou repliest, and when it is necessary
\nthat I should know something. Thou teachest it
\nto me, either directly or indirectly. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI see more and more that all impatient revolt, all
\nhaste would be useless; everything is organised slowly
\nthat I may serve Thee as I should. What is my place
\n1O this service? For a long time past I do not ask.
\nWhat does it matter! Is it necessary to know whether one is at the centre or on the periphery? Provided
\nthat, entirely consecrated to Thee, living only for <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 109<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nThee and by Thee, I do better and better the work
\nThou givest me, all the rest has no importance at all.
\nI would say more: provided Thy work is done in the
\nworld as well and as completely as it can be, what
\nmatters the individual or the group that realises this
\nwork? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my sweet Master, in peace, serenity and equanimity, I give myself and I melt in Thee, my thought calm and tranquil, and my heart smiling; Thy work
\nwill be done, I know, and Thy victory is certain. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my sweet Master, grant to all the sovereign boon
\nof Thy illumination! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay<\/i> 15, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAS from a summit which has been attained, one discovers a vast horizon, so,
\nO Lord, when one’s
\nconsciousness is identified with this intermediate realm
\nbetween Thy unity and the manifested world, one
\nparticipates at once in Thy Infinitude and the realisation of the world. It is as though one were at a centre
\nin which the consciousness, wholly steeped in Thy
\neffective Power, may direct the ray of Thy forces upon
\nthe lowest instrument moving centrally amidst its
\nbrother instruments. From the height of these transcendent regions, the unity of the physical substance is
\nvery evidently visible, and yet the body which serves as a<\/b> particular instrument in the material realm? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 110<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nappears with a special precision and clearness like a
\nmore vigorous point in the midst of this whole,
\n<\/b>at
\n<\/b>once multiple and unique, in which the forces circulate equally.
\nThis perception has <\/b> not left me since yesterday. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt has installed itself as something definitive, and
\nall the outer activity which, in appearance, continues
\nas usual, has taken the mechanical character of a
\nmarvellously articulated and animated toy moved
\nfrom the height of its seat by my consciousness
\nwhich is no longer individual but is still universal,
\nand that means that it is not yet completely immersed
\nin Thy Oneness. All the laws of the individual manifestation clearly appeared to me, but in a manner so
\n<\/b>synthetic, so global, so simultaneous, that it is
\nimpossible to express it in our ordinary language. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nMay<\/font><\/i><\/b> 16, 1914<\/font><\/a> . <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI WAS interrupted yesterday at the moment when I was trying to formulate the experience I had. And
\nnow all seems changed. That precise knowledge, that
\nclairvoyance, has given place to a great love for Thee,
\nO Lord, which has seized my whole being from the outer organism to the deepest consciousness, and all
\nhas prostrated itself at Thy feet in an ardent aspiration for a definitive identification with Thee, for an
\nabsorption in Thee. I implored with all the energy <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 111<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nof which I was capable. And once more, at the
\nmoment when it seemed to me that my consciousness
\nwas going to disappear in Thine, at the moment when
\nmy whole being was nothing but a pure crystal
\nreflecting Thy Presence, somebody came and interrupted my concentration. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSuch is, indeed, the symbol of the existence Thou
\ngivest me as my share, and in which the outer utility,
\nthe work for all, holds a much greater place than the
\nsupreme realisation. All the circumstances of my life
\nseem always to tell me on Thy behalf: "It is not by the supreme concentration that Thou wilt realise
\noneness, it is by the diffusion in all." May Thy
\nwill be done, O Lord. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNow I clearly understand that union with Thee is not an end to be pursued, so far as this present
\nindividuality is concerned, it is a fact accomplished
\nlong since. And that is why Thou seemest to tell
\nme always: "Do not revel in the ecstatic contemplation of this union, fulfil the mission I have confided
\nto<\/b> thee on the earth." <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd the individual work to be pursued simultaneously with the collective work is the awareness
\nand possession of all the activities and all the regions
\nof the being and the definitive establishment of the
\nconsciousness in that highest point which will allow at once the prescribed
\naction and a constant communion with Thee. The joy of perfect union can
\ncome only when what has to be done has been
\ndone. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 112<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nWe must preach to all, first, union, then, work,
\nhut for those who have realised the union, each
\nmoment of their life must be an integral expression
\nof Thy Will through them. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay<\/i> 17, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO LORD, deliver me from the mental influences which weigh on me, so that, completely free\u00bb
\nI may dart towards Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Thou, Universal Being, Supreme Unity in
\nperceptible form, by an irresistible aspiration I
\nnestled in Thy heart, then I was Thy heart itself,
\nand I know that Thy heart is no other than the child
\nthat plays and creates the worlds. Thou saidst to
\nme, "One day thou wilt be my head, but for the
\nmoment turn thy look towards the earth." And on
\nthe earth now I am the joyful child at play. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSuch were the two sentences I wrote yesterday
\nby a sort of absolute necessity. The first, as if the
\nPower of the prayer would be complete only if it was written on paper. The second, as if the stability
\nof the experience could be secured only when I should have relieved my brain from it by noting it in
\nciting. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 113<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n May<\/i> 18, 1914<\/a> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHOU <\/b> art the sole Reality, O Lord,
\nthe Omnipotence and Eternity. And he who unites with
\nThee in the depths of his being, becomes Thy Reality
\nin its eternal and immutable omnipotence. But for
\nothers, the order is, while remaining in contact with
\nThee, to turn their look and their activity towards
\nthe earth; such is the mission Thou hast given them. Then begins the difficulty, for all depends upon the
\nperfection of the various states of their being, and
\nthey must, even after having attained to the sublime
\nidentification, still work for the perfectioning of
\nthe instrument which will manifest Thy divine Will.
\nIt is then that the task becomes arduous. All appears
\nto me mediocre, insufficient, neutral, almost inert in
\nthe present instrument which Thou makest me call
\n"I"; and the more I unite with Thee, the more I
\nrealise the mediocrity of its faculties and its manifestation. Everything in it seems to me to be an almost
\nincorrigible \u00e0 peu pr\u00e9s.<\/i> And if it cannot in any way
\ntrouble me, it is because the true "I" is lying a1
\nThy feet, or nestled in Thy heart, or conscious
\nof Thy eternal and immutable Consciousness, and
\nregards the whole manifestation with the smile of
\na patient and understanding kindness. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 114<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\n
\nMay<\/font><\/i> 19.
\n1914<\/font><\/a><\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHIS mental being which had, during the whole individual existence, the power of setting all the
\nfaculties in motion: deep devotion for Thee, infinite
\ncompassion for men, ardent aspiration for knowledge,
\neffort towards perfection,\u2014seems to be profoundly
\nasleep and no longer to set anything in movement
\n<\/b>at <\/b>all. All the individual faculties slumber, and the consciousness is not yet awakened in the transcendental
\nstates; that is to say, its awakening in them is intermittent, and in between it is sleep. Something in
\nthis being aspires for solitude and absolute silence,
\nfor a certain time, so that it may come out of this
\nunsatisfactory transition; and something else knows
\nthat Thy will is for this instrument to be consecrated
\nto the service of all, even if that should be apparently
\nharmful to its own perfectioning. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomething in this being tells Thee, O Lord: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n"I know nothing, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI am nothing, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI can do nothing, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI am in the darkness of inconscience." <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAnd something else knows that it is Thyself and so
\nis the supreme perfection. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat is going to come out of it? How is such a condition to come to an end? Is it inertia, is it true
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 115<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\npatience, I know not, but without any haste or
\ndesire,
\nI lie down at Thy feet and wait. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay<\/i> 20, 19I4<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nFROM the height of that summit which is identification with Thy divine, infinite love. Thou hast
\nturned my look towards this complicated body which
\nhas to serve Thee as an instrument. And Thou hast
\nsaid to me: "It is myself, seest Thou not that my
\nlight shines in it?" And in fact I saw Thy divine Love,.
\nclad in intelligence, and then in force, constitute this
\nbody in its smallest cells and radiate in it to such a point that it became
\nnothing else than a mass of millions of radiant sparks, which all made it manifest
\nthat they were Thou. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd now all darkness has disappeared, and
\nThou alone livest, in different worlds, under different
\nforms, but with a life identical, immutable and
\neternal. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWe must make this divine world of Thy immutable
\ndomain of pure love and indivisible oneness commune <\/i>intimately with the divine world of all the other
\ndomains, up to the most material where Thou art the
\ncentre and the very constitution of each atom. To
\nestablish a bond of perfect consciousness between all
\nthese successive divine worlds is the sole means to
\nJive in Thee constantly and invariably, accomplishing <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 116<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nintegrally the mission Thou hast confided to the whole
\nbeing in all its states of consciousness and all its modes
\nof activity. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my sweet Master, Thou hast rent asunder a new
\nveil of my ignorance, and, without leaving my happy
\nplace in Thy eternal heart, I am at the same time in the imperceptible but infinite heart of each of the atoms which constitute this body. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nConfirm this complete and perfect consciousness.
\nLet me penetrate into all the details of its perfection,
\nand may I, without leaving Thee at any moment,
\nconstantly climb up and down this infinite ladder, according to the necessities of the work Thou hast prescribed for me. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI am Thine and in Thee, I am Thyself, in the plenitude of the eternal beatitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay<\/i> 21, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nOUTSIDE all manifestation, in the immutable silence of Eternity, I am in Thee,
\nO Lord, an
\nunmoving beatitude. In that which, out of Thy puissance and marvellous light, forms the centre and realty of the atoms of Matter I find Thee; thus without
\ngoing out of Thy Presence I can disappear in Thy supreme consciousness or see Thee in the radiant
\nparticles of my being. And for the moment that is the plenitude of Thy life and Thy illumination.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 117<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nI see Thee, I am Thyself, and between these two
\npoles my intense love aspires towards Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nMay 22,<\/font><\/i><\/b> 1914<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/b>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWHEN we have discerned successively what is real from what is unreal in all the states of being
\nand all the worlds of life, when we have arrived at the
\nperfect and integral certitude of the sole Reality, we
\nmust turn our gaze from the heights of this supreme
\nconsciousness towards the individual aggregate which
\nserves as the immediate instrument of Thy manifestation upon earth, and see in it nothing but Thee, our
\nsole real existence. Thus each atom of this aggregate
\nwill be awakened to receive Thy sublime influence; the ignorance and the darkness will disappear not only
\nfrom the central consciousness of the being but also
\nfrom its most external mode of expression. It is only
\nby the fulfilment, by the perfection of this labour of
\ntransfiguration that there can be manifested the plenitude of Thy Presence, Thy Light and Thy Love.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLord, Thou makest me understand this truth ever
\nmore clearly; lead me step by step on that path. My
\nwhole being down to its smallest atom aspires for the
\nperfect knowledge of Thy Presence and a complete
\nunion with it. Let every obstacle disappear, let Thy
\ndivine knowledge replace in every part the darkness
\nof the ignorance. Even as Thou hast illumined the <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 118<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ncentral consciousness, the will in the being, enlighten
\ntoo this outermost substance. And let the whole individuality, from its first origin and essence to its
\nlast projection and most material body, be unified in
\na perfect realisation of Thy sole Reality. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNothing is in the universe but Thy life. Thy light,
\nThy love. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLet everything become resplendent and transfigured by the knowledge of Thy Truth. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThy divine love floods my being; Thy supreme
\nlight is shining in every cell; all exults because it
\nknows Thee and because it is one with Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMay<\/i> 23, 1914 <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO LORD, Thou of whom I would be constantly conscious and whom I would realise in the
\nsmallest cells of my being. Thou whom I would know
\nas myself and see manifested in all things. Thou who
\nart the sole reality, the sole reason and the sole aim
\nof existence, grant that my love for Thee may go
\non increasing incessantly, so that I may "become all
\nlove. Thy very love, and that being Thy love, I may
\nfinite integrally with Thee. May this love become more and more intense,
\ncomplete, luminous, powerful; may this love be an irresistible elan towards Thee,
\nan invincible means to manifest Thee. May all in <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 119<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nthis being become pure love profound, disinterested,
\ndivine, from the unfathomable depths to the outer-most substance. May the God in form who is
\nmanifesting in this aggregate, be wholly moulded of
\nThy complete and sublime love, that love which is at once the source and the
\nrealisation of all knowledge; may the thought be clarified, classified,
\nenlightened, transformed by Thy love; may all the
\nforces of my life, solely penetrated and moulded by
\nThy love, become irresistible purity and constant
\n.energy, power and rectitude. May this intermediary
\nbeing made weak, profit by its weakness to reconstitute itself with the elements which may be wholly
\nmoulded of Thy love, and may this body, becoming
\na burning brazier, radiate Thy divine, impersonal,
\nsublime and calm love through all its pores…May
\nthe brain be reconstituted by Thy love. Finally may
\nThy love overflow, inundate, penetrate, transfigure,
\nregenerate, animate everything with the power,
\nsplendour, sweetness and force which are its very
\nnature. In Thy love is peace, in Thy love is joy, in
\nThy love is the sovereign lever of work for Thy servitor. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThy love is vaster than the universe and more
\nenduring than the ages; it is infinite and eternal,
\nit is Thyself. And it is Thyself that I would be and
\nthat I am, since such is Thy law and such Thy
\nwill. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 120<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nMay<\/i> 24, 1914<\/a> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO MY sweet Master, let me not be submerged by outer things. They have no interest, no savour
\nfor me. If I am busy with them, it is because it seems
\nto me that such is Thy will and that the work must
\nbe accomplished integrally, down to the smallest
\ndetails in action and in substance. But it is quite
\nenough to turn our attention towards them and infuse
\nThy forces into them as much as possible. We must not allow them to take
\nprecedence of the true realities
\nin our consciousness. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my sweet Master, I aspire to Thee, <\/b> to the
\nknowledge of what Thou art, to identification
\nwith Thee. I ask for a love increasing, growing
\never purer, ever vaster, ever more intense, and I find myself as if submerged in Matter; is this <\/b>Thy
\nreply ? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAs Thou hast Thyself chosen to be submerged in
\nMatter so as to awaken it little by little to consciousness, is this the result of a more perfect identification
\nwith Thee? Is this not Thy answer to me: "If Thou wouldst learn how to love truly, it is in this way
\nthat Thou must love…in the darkness and the
\ninconscience." <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my Lord, my sweet Master, Thou knowest that
\nI belong to Thee and that always I will what Thou
\ndost will; but let not a doubt of what is Thy will be
\nborn in me. Enlighten me in whatever way in the immutable peace of the heart. Let me be submerged <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nin darkness, if it is necessary, but let me at least
\nknow that it is Thou who wiliest it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, in reply, I hear chant in my heart the
\nhymn of the gladness of Thy divine and permanent
\nPresence. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay<\/i> 25, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nDIVINE Master of love and purity, grant that in its
\nlast stages, its smallest activities, this
\ninstrument which wishes to serve Thee worthily, may be purged of all egoism, of
\nall error, of all obscurity,
\nso that nothing in it may pervert, deform or stay Thy
\naction. How many nooks are yet in the shadow, far
\nfrom the full brightness of Thy illumination! For them
\nI ask the supreme happiness of that illumination. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO, to be a pure crystal without stain which allows
\nThy divine ray to pass without obscuring, colouring or deforming it! Not out of a desire for perfection,
\nbut that Thy work may be accomplished as perfectly as possible. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd when I ask this of Thee, the "I" which speaks
\nto Thee is the whole earth, aspiring to be this pure
\ndiamond, perfect reflector of Thy supreme light.
\nThe hearts of all men beat in my heart, all their
\nthoughts vibrate in my thoughts, the least aspiration
\nof the docile animal or of the modest plant joins in
\nmy formidable aspiration, and all this lifts itself
\ntowards Thee, to the conquest of Thy love and light, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 122<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nscaling the peaks of the being to attain to Thee, to
\nravish Thee from Thy immobile beatitude and make
\nThee penetrate into the shadow of suffering so as to
\ntransform it into divine Joy, into sovereign Peace.
\nAnd this violence is of an infinite love which gives
\nitself and of a confident serenity which smiles <\/b> in the
\ncertitude of Thy perfect Unity. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my sweet Master, Thou art the Triumpher and
\nthe Triumph, the Victor and the Victory. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nMay<\/font><\/i><\/b> 26, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nON the surface is the storm, the sea is in turmoil, waves clash and leap one on another and break
\nwith a mighty uproar. But all the time, under this
\nwater in fury, are vast smiling expanses, peaceful and
\nmotionless. They look upon the surface agitation as
\nan indispensable act; for Matter has to be vigorously churned if it is to become
\ncapable of manifesting entirely the divine light. Behind the troubled appearance,
\nbehind the struggle and anguish of the conflict, the
\nconsciousness remains firm at its post; observing all
\nthe movements of the outer being, it intervenes only
\nto rectify direction and position, so as not to allow the play to become too dramatic. This intervention
\nis now firm and a little severe, now ironical, a call to order or a mockery, full always of a strong, gentle,
\nPeaceful and smiling benevolence. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nIn the silence I beheld Thy infinite and eternal
\nBeatitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThen softly a prayer rises towards Thee from
\nwhat is still in the shadow and the struggle: "O sweet <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMaster, O supreme Giver of illumination and purity, grant that all substance and every activity may be
\nno more anything other than a constant manifestation of Thy divine love and Thy sovereign serenity."
\nAnd in my heart is the song of gladness of Thy sublime magnificence. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMay<\/i> 27, 1914<\/a> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIN each of the domains of the being, we must awaken the consciousness to the perfect existence,
\nknowledge and beatitude. These three worlds or
\nmodes of the Divine are found in the physical reality
\nas well as in the regions of Force and Light and
\nthose of impersonality, infinitude and eternity. When
\nwe enter fully conscious into the higher regions, it
\nis easy, almost inevitable, to live this existence, this
\nlight and this beatitude. But what is very important
\nas also very difficult, is to awaken the being to this
\ntriple divine consciousness on the most material levels,
\nThis is the first point. Then we must find out the
\ncentre of all the divine worlds (probably in the
\nintermediate world), from where we can unite the
\nconsciousness of these divine worlds, synthetise them <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nand act simultaneously and in full knowledge in all
\nthe domains. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI know that there is a great gulf between these
\nincomplete and imperfect explanations and the
\nsublime reality which manifests Thee, O Lord.
\nThy splendour. Thy power and Thy magnificence,
\nThy incommensurable love are above all explanation
\nand comment. But my intellect needs to represent
\nthings to itself in a manner at least schematic, in
\norder to enable the most material parts of the being
\nto put themselves as completely as possible in accord
\nwith Thy Will. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNevertheless, it is in the deep silence of my mute
\nand total adoration that I understand Thee best.
\nFor then who can say what loves, what is loved and
\nwhat is the power of love in itself? All the three are: but one in an infinite beatitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGive to all, ,O Lord, the boon of that incomparable
\nbeatitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay<\/i> 28, 1914<\/a>  <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHOU settest in motion. Thou stirrest. Thou churnest the innumerable elements of this world, so
\nthat, from their primal darkness, their primitive chaos,.
\nthey may be awakened to consciousness and to the
\nfull light of knowledge. And it is Thy supreme love
\nthat Thou usest for thus churning all these elements.
\nAnd it is from Thy infinite, unfathomable heart that <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nspring these inexhaustible torrents of love. Thy heart
\nis my abode. Thy heart is the reality of my being. In Thy heart I have nestled and I have become Thy heart. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPeace, peace on all things. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMay 29,<\/i> 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMY sweet Lord, those who are in Thy head, that is to say, to speak more intellectually, those who have identified their consciousness with the absolute
\nConsciousness, those who have become Thy Supreme
\nKnowledge, can no longer have any love for Thee,
\nsince they are Thyself. They enjoy that infinite beatitude which is the mark of all entry of the conscious-
\nness into Thy supreme Essence, but the devotion of
\nthe worshipper who turns with ecstasy towards that
\nwhich is above him can no longer exist. Then, to him
\nwhose mission on the earth is to manifest Thy love,
\nThou teachest to have a pure and infinite love for the
\nwhole manifested world; the love which was at first
\nmade of adoration and admiration is transformed into a love made all of compassion and devotedness. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO, the divine splendour of Thy Eternal Oneness! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO, the infinite sweetness of Thy Beatitude! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO, the sovereign majesty of Thy Knowledge! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThou art the Inconceivable, the Marvellous! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 126<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

\nWHEN the sun had set in the indrawn quietude of the calm twilight, all my being prostrated itself
\nbefore Thee, O Lord, in a mute adoration and complete surrender. Then I was the whole earth and the
\nwhole earth prostrated herself before Thee, imploring
\nthe benediction of Thy illumination and the beatitude
\nof Thy love. O that kneeling of the earth in supplication
\ntowards Thee, then collected in itself in the silence
\nof the night, awaiting, at once with patience and anxiety, the so longed for
\nillumination. If it is a sweetness to be Thy divine love at work in the world, it is
\nas great a sweetness to be the infinite aspiration which
\nrises towards that infinite love. And to be able to
\nchange thus, to be successively, almost simultaneously,
\nthat which receives and that which gives, that which
\ntransfigures and that which is transfigured, to be identified with the sorrowful
\ndarkness as with the all-powerful splendour, and, in this double identification,
\nto discover the secret of Thy sovereign oneness, is it
\nnot a way of expressing, of fulfilling Thy supreme
\nwill? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO my sweet Master, my heart is a burning chapel,
\nand Thou art permanently there as the sublimest of
\nidols; thus Thy form appears to me, clad in magnificence, in the midst of the flames which consume my
\nheart for Thee, and at the same time, in my head, I
\nsee Thee, I know Thee as the Inconceivable, the
\nUnknowable, the Formless; and, in this double perception, this double knowledge, is found the
\nplenitude of satisfaction. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 127<\/font><\/p>\n

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