Manifestation of the Divine

April 1968

Bonjour!

Bonjour, Douce Mère

Your notebook?

Mother, today it is this, the prayers

Ah, the prayers. Give it to me. (Mother reads some of the prayers and looks at the painting for April.)

What is it? Is it ‘Endurance’ ²⁸?

Yes, Mother. And this is ‘Humility’ ²⁹.

Oh! ‘Humility’. It is very good. ‘Humility’ and ‘Endurance’. It is well done. Good.

(Mother writes:)

Quand dans l’humanité s’éveillera
le besoin de devenir divine,
alors ce sera le signe que
l’heure de la Réalisation approche.
Que tout en nous hâte cet avènement.

La Mère

When the need to become divine
awakens in humanity
it will be the sign
that the hour of Realisation is near.
May all in us hasten this advent.³⁰

The Mother

Mother, it seemed that You wanted to write something more.

No, this is all right. It is all right like this. It is enough.

(After a while, Mother writes the sentence at the end:)

Que tout en nous hâte cet avènement.

May all in us hasten this advent.

It is all right now. It is complete.

Yes, Mother.

It is for the month of April, isn’t it?

Yes, Mother.

It is all right.

Mother, will You sign it?

No, but did I sign the previous one?

Yes, Mother.

Perhaps, like last year, I forgot that I had signed.

No, Mother.

Have I signed the others?

Yes, Mother.

Let me see. (Mother turns over the previous pages.) But I have not signed this one.

Yes, You have signed it, Mother.

Oh yes, I could not see properly. Then I am signing here also.

Yes, Mother.

(Mother signs.) Satisfied?

Yes, Mother.

7 April 1968

(When I went to the Mother on 21 April, I asked Her about the first part of the prayer She had given me on 4 April:)

“When the need to become divine awakens in humanity . . .”

So what is it that you do not understand?

Mother, what do You mean by ‘humanity’? Is it the entire humanity?

No. By ‘humanity’ I mean those who are capable of feeling the need to become divine, those who are making an effort for a divine life, those who feel its necessity, who are preparing them-selves, and not the whole mass of humanity. I mean, when someone’s influence will be felt by another as an imperative need. It is not even an idea which is transmitted, but something in the atmosphere which vibrates and touches those who strive for a divine life. It begins from a point and then it spreads in a unique way. This thing which manifests in someone propagates itself and the effect of its influence can be felt among those who are preparing themselves for a divine life. It is not a thing which goes from one to another like an idea but it is more subtle, like a manifestation on the terrestrial plane; thus it reveals something to a group of people. But all do not feel it — only those who are preparing themselves — at any rate, certain individuals. I never speak about the stupid mass of most of humanity. That never.

It is only the élite of the people who awake to the necessity of a spiritual life. It is like a simultaneous influence which affects a small minority of people. It is these that I call humanity — because it is a manifestation in the terrestrial atmosphere and there are some who by the inner preparation feel the thing which is in movement and assimilate it in their consciousness — it is these that I call humanity and not the ignorant mass who are what they are and will not feel any effect. I am not speaking of all these people. But those who would have caught the thing which is in the air, which has manifested, it is these whom I consider as humanity; perhaps they are very few, but they are the ones who will be capable of receiving it, because it demands a work of preparation.

And when the force, or the thing I am trying to work on descends a little in the atmosphere, then these people — one here, another there — catch it or else they are touched. It is among these people that the work is beginning. It occurs quite simultaneously among these people chosen by the force which descends. You understand?

It is this humanity I am speaking of. It is not the entire world, but those who have the capacity to receive the force.

21 April 1968