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Let
us take a divine spark which, through attraction, through affinity
and selection, gathers around it a beginning of psychic consciousness
(this work is already very perceptible in animals -don't think you
are exceptional beings, that you alone have a psychic being and
the rest of creation hasn't. It begins in the mineral, it is a little
more developed in the plant, and in the animal there is a first
glimmer of the psychic presence). Then there comes a moment when
this psychic being is sufficiently developed to have an independent
consciousness and a personal will.
And
then after innumerable lives more or less individualised, it becomes
conscious of itself, of its movements and of the environment it
has chosen for its growth. Arriving at a certain state of perception,
it decides -generally at the last minute of the life it has just
finished upon earth - the conditions in which its next life will
be passed. Here I must tell you a very important thing: the psychic
being can progress and form itself only in the physical life and
upon earth. As soon as it leaves a body, it enters into a rest which
lasts for a more or less long time according to its own choice and
its degree of development -a rest for assimilation, for a passive
progress so to say, a rest for passive growth which will allow this
same psychic being to pass on to new experiences and make a more
active progress. But after having finished one life (which usually
ends only when it has done what it wanted to do), it will have chosen
the environment where it will be born, the approximate place where
it will be born, the conditions and the kind of life in which it
will be born, and a very precise programme of the experiences through
which it will have to pass to be able to make the progress it wants
to make.
I am going
to give you quite a concrete example. Let us take a psychic being
that has decided, for some reason or other, to enter the body of
a being destined to become king, because there is a whole series
of experiences it can have only under those conditions. After having
passed through these experiences of a king, it finds that there
is a whole domain in which it cannot make a progress due to these
very conditions of life where it is. So when it has finished its
term upon earth and decides to go away, it decides that in its next
life it will take birth in an ordinary environment and in ordinary
conditions, neither high nor low, but such that the body which it
will take up will be free to do what it likes. For I do not tell
you anything new when I say that the life of a king is the life
of a slave; a king is obliged to submit to a whole protocol and
to all kinds of ceremonies to keep his prestige (it is perhaps very
pleasant for vain people, but for a psychic being it is not pleasant,
for this deprives it of the possibility of a large number of experiences).
So having taken this decision, it carries in itself all the memories
which a royal life can give it and it takes rest for the period
it considers necessary (here, I must say that I am speaking of a
psychic being exclusively occupied with itself, not one consecrated
to a work, because in that case it is the work which decides the
future lives and their conditions; I am speaking of a psychic being
at work completing its development). Hence it decides that at a
certain moment it will take a body. Having already had a number
of experiences, it knows that in a certain country, a certain part
of the consciousness has developed; in another, another part, and
so on; so it chooses the place which offers it easy possibilities
of development: the country, the conditions of living, the approximate
nature of the parents, and also the condition of the body itself,
its physical structure and the qualities it needs for its experiences.
It takes rest, then at the required moment, wakes up and projects
its consciousness upon earth centralising it in the chosen domain
and the chosen conditions -or almost so; there is a small margin
you know, for in the psychic consciousness one is too far away from
the material physical consciousness to be able to see with a clear
vision; it is an approximation. It does not make a mistake about
the country or the environment and it sees quite clearly the inner
vibrations of the people chosen, but there may happen to be a slight
indecision. But if, just at this moment, there is a couple upon
earth or rather a woman who has a psychic aspiration herself and,
for some reason or other, without knowing why or how, would like
to have an exceptional child, answering certain exceptional conditions;
if at this moment there is this aspiration upon earth, it creates
a vibration, a psychic light which the psychic being sees immediately
and, without hesitation it rushes towards it. Then, from that moment
(which is the moment of conception), it watches over the formation
of the child, so that this formation may be as favourable as possible
to the plan it has; consequently its influence is there over the
child even before it appears in the physical world.
If all goes well, if there is no accident (accidents
can always happen), if all goes well at the moment the child is
about to be born, the psychic force (perhaps not in its totality,
but apart of the psychic consciousness) rushes into the being and
from its very first cry gives it a push towards the experiences
it wants the child to acquire. The result is that even if the parents
are not conscious, even if the child in its external consciousness
is not quite conscious ( a little child does not have the necessary
brain for that, it forms slowly, little by little) , in spite of
that, it will be possible for the psychic influence to direct all
the events, all the circumstances of the life of this child till
the moment it becomes capable of coming into conscious contact with
its psychic being (physically it is generally between the age of
four and seven, sometimes sooner , sometimes almost immediately,
but in such a case we deal with children who are not "children",
who have "supernatural" qualities, as they say -they are
not "supernatural", but simply the expression of the presence
of the psychic being). But there are people who have not had the
chance or rather the good fortune, if one may call it that, of meeting
someone, physically, who could instruct them. And yet they have
the feeling that every step of their existence, every circumstance
of their life is arranged by someone conscious, so that they may
make the maximum progress. When they need a certain circumstance,
it comes; when they need to meet certain people, they come; when
they need to read certain books, they find them within their reach.
Everything is arranged like that, as if someone was watching over
them so that their life may have the maximum possibilities of development.
These people may very well say: "But what is a psychic being?",
for no one has ever used these words in speaking to them or they
have not found anybody who could explain to them all that; but for
them often just one meeting is sufficient, just one look, in order
to wake up; one word suffices to make them remember: "But I
knew all that!"
This is exactly what happens to a psychic being
which has reached the last stage of its development. After that,
it will no longer be bound by the necessity of coming upon earth,
it will have completed its development and will be able to choose
freely either to consecrate itself to the divine Work or go elsewhere,
that is, in the higher worlds. But generally, having come to this
stage, it remembers all that has happened to it and understands
the great necessity of coming to the help of those who are yet struggling
in the midst of difficulties. These psychic beings give their whole
existence to the divine Work -this is not absolute, inevitable,
they choose freely, but ninety times out of a hundred this is what
they do.
THE
MOTHER
Mother, since in each new life the mind
and vital as well as the body are new, how can the experiences of
past lives be useful for them? Do we have to go through all the
experiences once again?
That depends on people!
It is not the mind and vital which develop and progress
from life to life -except in altogether exceptional cases and at
a very advanced stage of evolution -it is the psychic. So, this
is what happens: the psychic has alternate periods of activity and
rest; it has a life of progress resulting from experiences of the
physical life, of active life in a physical body, with all the experiences
of the body, the vital and the mind; then, normally, the psychic
goes into a kind of rest for assimilation where the result of the
progress accomplished during its active existence is worked out,
and when this assimilation is finished, when it has absorbed the
progress it had prepared in its active life on earth, it comes down
again in a new body bringing with it the result of all its progress
and, at an advanced stage, it even chooses the environment and the
kind of body and the kind of life in which it will live to complete
its experience concerning one point or another. In some very advanced
cases the psychic can, before leaving the body, decide what kind
of life it will have in its next incarnation. When it has become
an almost completely formed and already very conscious being, it
presides over the formation of the new body, and usually through
an inner influence it chooses the elements and the substance which
will form its body in such away that the body is adapted to the
needs of its new experience. But this is at a rather advanced stage.
And later, when it is fully formed and returns to earth with the
idea of service, of collective help and participation in the divine
Work, then it is able to bring to the body in formation certain
elements of the mind and vital from previous lives which, having
been organised and impregnated with psychic forces in previous lives,
could be preserved and, consequently, can participate in the general
progress. But this is at a very, very advanced stage.
When the psychic is fully developed and very conscious,
when it becomes a conscious instrument of the divine Will, it organises
the vital and the mind in such a way that they too participate in
the general harmony and can be preserved.
A high degree of development allows at least some parts
of the meqtal and vital beings to be preserved in spite of the dissolution
of the body. If, for instance, some parts- mental or vital- of the
human activity have been particularly developed, these elements
of the mind and vital are maintained even "in their form"
-in the form of the activity which has been fully organised -as,
for example, in highly intellectual people who have particularly
developed their brains, the mental part of their being keeps this
structure and is preserved in the form of an organised brain which
has its own life and can be kept unchanged until a future life so
as to participate in it with all its gains.
In artists, as for instance in certain musicians who
have used their hands in a particularly conscious way, the vital
and mental substance is preserved in the form of hands, and these
hands remain fully conscious, they can even use the body of living
people if there is a special affinity -and so on.
Otherwise, in ordinary people in whom the psychic form
is not fully developed and organised, when the psychic leaves the
body, the mental and vital forms may persist for a certain time
if the death has been particularly peaceful and concentrated, but
if a man dies suddenly and in a state of passion, with numerous
attachments, well, the different parts of the being are dispersed
and live for a shorter or longer time their own life in their own
domain, then disappear . The centre of organisation and transformation
is always the presence of the psychic in the body. Therefore, it
is a very big mistake to believe that the progress continues or
even, as some believe, that it is more complete and rapid in the
periods of transition between two physical lives; in general, there
is no progress at all, for the psychic enters into a state of rest
and the other parts, after a more or less ephemeral life in their
own domain, are dissolved.
Earthly life is the place for progress. It
is here, on earth, that progress is possible, during the period
of earthly existence. And it is the psychic which carries the progress
over from one life to another, by organising its own evolution and
development itself.
The Mother
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