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position as a critic and her urgings to remain faithful to Her vision and Her will. However, the conversations and letters H. was referring to were dating from several years before She had had the actual experience of being inside the consecrated space and thus able to describe it – and evidently, once the precise configuration of the inner sanctum was established, its corresponding external form would naturally be invoked and defined, along with its immediate environment = an evolution would take place. It was as if H. were attempting to freeze the great Shakti where it had once been possible to grasp and seize Her movement. But there is an essential difference between the adaptive evolution of the forms so as to express better and more perfectly the spirit and the force they serve, and the imposition of a formal perfection to the detriment of the spirit it claims to represent. Thus, the possibility for all to read these notes allowed to clarify a number of hearsays, vague formations and approximate interpretations = Her very own words allowed one to reflect upon this environment of tranquil natural beauty She had clearly wished for at the centre of Her city, and it reinforced and strengthened one’s adhesion to the realization of these outer gardens, which could be pursued at the same time as the building of the sphere. Notwithstanding, this public intervention appeared to R. as a direct blow to unity – to the indispensable cooperation and cohesion of the committed energies: he now wanted to withdraw. In this, she was not alone.

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