Which town?

groove and fills the space of our active consciousness with its refractory opacity and perpetual agitation, we emerge but rarely and exceptionally to the awareness of the whole. And this vibratory opacity veils the discernment and prevents the rigorous introspective examination each one must conduct in order to make real progress – leaving the field to these obscure energies that ride our selfish motives and separate ambitions, generating confusion and discord. For years on end, She had worked on this physical mind so that it ceases from its rounds and converts and may transform into an instrument of the true consciousness, at the service of the new incarnation.

And what had been an obstacle became a help.

But how many of Her children had then learnt the lesson, how many had given themselves to the operation?

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She had said She was waiting for one or several instruments who would be able to perceive the whole without preferences or repulsions, and to receive without shadow the true impulse, to look after the affairs of Her town. As a second best, She had sketched the outline of a group of individuals capable of intuition, of an intuitive receptivity to the truth – and sufficiently silenced and mastered to maintain the quality of this receptivity.

But neither the former nor the latter had manifested.

One would have to make do with the means at hand.

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