Which town?

Often when we discover the existence of the invisible planes, we become attached to symbols and find enjoyment in the luxurious profusion of esoteric significances thereof; yet, however rich the symbol may be, it remains devoid of transforming power if the Truth-Consciousness uses it not.

And what is it

that makes the Consciousness manifest itself? exactness and of the symbol, or authenticity and call? Or the

respond and

Is

it

the

the perfection

is

it

the

sincerity of the conjunction of

both?

And is it the

Consciousness

that

first

suggests

the

symbol, or is it

the symbol that,

once realized, attracts the Consciousness?

Or is it a simultaneous action that, for us, inscribes itself linearly into time?

She had said, “put everything in place and I take it upon myself to make of it a very strong center”: the day had come. On a chunk of petrified wood, found in the same soil, She wrote the sign of the One: “AUM” Once more those of the ashram and those of Her town assembled and joined with all of their beings in a prayer of service and receptivity, that all may consecrate entirely to the Divine and to the advent of progressive Unity.

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