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Moreover it would be vital to establish clear relations, respectful and mutually beneficial, with the local population. She presented to R. the main lines of Her plan and invited him to reflect upon it and propose an architectural concept plastic enough for the progressive discovery of a new sort of urbanism.

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She never imposed. She would not impose anything.

It had happened that She had to explain Her position of non-intervention: it was extremely rare that one would really, actually, sincerely want to know Her will, Her wish, Her vision so as to serve Her and, if and when that would occur, it became imperative not to deviate in any way from it.

She rather acted and worked in invisible and impersonal ways.

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To an ardent disciple, She had depicted and described the immediate environment of this central place of concentration, which always appeared to Her as a permanent source of light, a silent, circular room inhabited by a central flame = there would first be water directly around it, for the isolation and the purification, and then the beauty of Nature, nothing overdone, the aspiration and nobility of tall, large trees, the richness and variety of shrubs and plants, and the craft of artisans for the paved pathways and the benches. And the entire area of inwardness would be surrounded by a wall, so as to preserve its atmosphere.

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