Which town?

Even as R. was defining the contours and immediate environs of the future sphere – a model space all made of red tile to represent a burnt and scorched earth cracking open to let rise the golden globe of the new creation – and the proposal to build an amphitheater around the inaugural Urn was now accepted, other elements of information, of a very different character, were also coming to light. An artist disciple to whom She had several years earlier described, as one describes a dream to be realized or a vision to be transcribed, this park and sanctuary of natural beauty which would serve as a setting for the jewel of Her Shrine, obtained Her consent to share with all concerned the transcripts of these conversations – which had been at the origin of the double movement, of emergence and of inspiration, of the birth of Her town. In one, R. was proposing an original, dramatic visual spectacle, by which he meant to express what he had grasped of the advent of a supramental world upon earth and in humankind. In the other, a privileged atmosphere of tranquil and harmonious contemplation wherein Nature, human aspiration and the Divine Force would work together for the new creation, was called. And yet, even to those whom She had oriented toward the preparation of a milieu of natural harmony, She reminded of the discipline of first referring to R., to whom She had explained everything. Two incompatible approaches were thus being offered at the same time.

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This amphitheater, which was beginning to materialize, brought in the area of the Matrimandir a more collective dimension: it would be a place of

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