A Tale for Tomorrow

The accounts

In fact, while it is the first time they have chosen to make this inner movement all together at once, they each of them had already experienced it, met it, recognized it and practiced it before they were transported in these premises and they often wondered, later on, whether it was not precisely this commonalty of experience – an experience which, in their memories, had seemed so rare and generally incomprehensible that they each had preferred not to mention it to anyone else – that was partly responsible for their as yet unexplained “transfer”. Of course, according to the number of years each had already lived and the singular itinerary each had covered, the description each would make of this inner movement and the reference to its importance would vary, all the more so as there was nothing known to compare it with; even for those among them who had studied and reflected and wandered the most, the only universally acknowledged realization midst the circles of “spiritual” aspirants to which they could be tempted to compare their experience, was that of the current of energy which is coiled like a serpent in the lowest nerve center and, once awakened, can uncoil upwards, activating every other centre on its way till it opens and blooms above the head; but this very comparison had seemed to each of them to be unfortunate for this was not a matter of triggering every centre and their respective powers for any sort of separate ambition, but one of offering oneself to the conscious Truth that reigns

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