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And when at last Her city was recognized and declared by the Supreme Court of India as a site of researches for human unity, rather than as an institution of religious nature, a circulation of constructive energies could resume. Observing the stabilization of the legal situation and the opening to new possibilities of participating and contributing, some donors renewed their efforts to aid the realization of Her temple. She had described the marble whiteness of the walls of the Chamber as well as the golden orange tint of the four upright symbols holding the crystal. To procure the right materials, one would have to go and search for them – the only white marble pure enough would come from Italy, for instance – and these steps implied the availability of adequate financial and logistical resources. The search for perfection in each and every part of this sanctuary lay beyond all calculation and all compromise.

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But what of the shell, of the dressing of the entire sphere?

The initial model which R.’s Parisian team had prepared, with its rhythmic rows of gilded discs, although it still seduced a number of the workers, appeared to others as frilly junk or flashy hardware, an almost vulgar show, an ostentation seizing the eye to the detriment of a more profound and integral experience. And while the double beams of the space-frame were assembling and the material body of the sphere established itself, all were pondering the

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