When I began studying occultism, I became aware that - just when I began to work upon my nights in order to make them conscious - I became aware that there was between the subtle-physical and the most material vital a small region, very small, which was not sufficiently developed to serve as a conscious link between the two activities. So what took place in the consciousness of the most material vital did not get translated exactly in the conscious­ness of the most subtle physical. Some of it got lost on the way because it was like a - not positively a void but something only half-conscious, not sufficiently developed. I knew there was only one way, that was to work to develop it. I began working. This happened sometime about the month of February, I believe. One month, two months, three, four, no result. We go on. Five months, six months... it was at the end of July or the beginning of August. I left Paris, the house I was staying in, and went to the country­side, quite a small place on the seashore, to stay with some friends who had a garden. Now, in that garden there was a lawn - you know what a lawn is, don't you? grass - where there were flowers and around it some trees. It was a fine place, very quiet, very silent. I lay on the grass, like this, flat on my stomach, my elbows in the grass, and then suddenly all the life of that Nature, all the life of that region between the subtle-physical and the most material vital, which is very living in plants and in Nature, all that region became all at once, suddenly, without any transition absolutely living, intense, conscious, marvellous; this was the result, wasn't it? of six months of we which hadn't given anything. I hadn't noticed anything; but just a little shift like that and the result was there! It is like the chick in the egg, yes! It is there , a very long time and yet one sees nothing at all. And one wonders whether there is indeed a chick in  egg; and then, suddenly "Tick!", there is a tiny he you know, and then everything bursts and out comesthe chick! It is quite ready, but it took all that tiny be formed; that's how it is. When you want to prepare something within you, that is how it is, it is 1 the chick in the egg. You need a very long time, e this without having the least result, never getting  discouraged, and continuing your effort, absolutely regularly, as though you had eternity before you  and moreover, as though you were quite disinterested about the result. You do the work because you do And then, suddenly, one day, it bursts and you before you the full result of your work.

The Mother
23 June