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are likely to produce, and this will to determine the behavior of the eventual users is sometimes so pronounced that it constitutes a dictatorship. She wanted this space to remain purely as She had discovered it, without any interference, whether practical or aesthetic.

And with this plan at hand, She could explain more in detail.

But She had not seen the outside.

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P., also an architect, who had come to Her some years before on his own path, had expressed a particular sensibility to the paramount necessity of this central edifice: it would be the soul and the beacon of the whole adventure, its statement of allegiance and commitment, its source of inspiration and progress, its rallying pole. She invited him to hear Her description of this inner hall and to reflect upon its external form and appearance, its approach and its access. However R., as responsible for the city-plan, had right of precedence: this monument would in effect provide the key-note for the whole.

She wished for the two of them to come to an agreement.

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The Matrimandir, the temple of the Divine Mother : in India traditionally the construction of a temple is the occasion for all, rich and poor alike, to earn merits in this life or the next, and the mere fact of contributing to it, however modestly, is considered as a privilege and a blessing.

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