India - the Mother

November 4, 1958

In Europe and in the modern Western world, people think that all these gods—the Greek gods and the "pagan" gods, as they call them—are human imaginings and not real beings. In order to understand, one must know that they are real beings. That's the difference. For Westerners, they are only a figment of the human imagination and don't correspond to anything real in the universe. But that is a gross mistake.

To understand the workings of universal life, even of life on earth, one must know that the gods are all beings living in their own realms, each with his own independent reality. They would exist even if men did not! Most of these gods existed before man....

There is the whole Chaldean tradition, then the Vedic tradition, and there was very certainly a tradition anterior to both, which split into two branches....¹¹ I am convinced that there was indeed a tradition anterior to both these traditions. which contained a knowledge very close to an integral knowledge. Certainly, there is a similarity in the experiences. When I came here and told Sri Aurobindo certain things I knew from the occult standpoint, he always said that it conformed to the Vedic tradition.¹² And as for certain occult practices, he told me that they were entirely Tantric—and I knew nothing at that time, absolutely nothing, neither of the Vedas nor of the Tantras....

I have recollections (with me, these things are always lived), very clear, very precise recollections of a time that was certainly VERY anterior to the Vedic times and to the Kabala, the Chaldean tradition.

Mother's Agenda: November 4, 1958