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applicable but it is always personal in form, always personal. It is as if one had one angle of vision of the truth. It is necessarily one angle from the very moment it is put into words. You have a wordless, thoughtless experience of a kind of vibration which gives you a feeling of absolute truth and then, if you remain very still, without seeking to know anything, after some time it is as if the vibration were passing through a filter and it is translated as a kind of an idea. Then this idea, it is still rather hazy, that it is very general, if you continue to keep very still, attentive and silent, this idea passes through another filter and then a kind of condensation occurs, like drops and it turns into words. But then, when you have had the experience, that is when you are not fooling yourself, it is necessarily only on one point, one way of saying the thing, that's all. And it cannot be more than that. You must have a kind of very austere sincerity. You are seized with enthusiasm, because the experience brings an extra-ordinary power; the power is there, the power is there before the words and it diminishes with the words-but the power is there and with this power you feel very much universal: you have the feeling, "It is a universal revelation" but when you put it into words it is no longer universal; then it is relevant only for minds that are built to understand this way of speaking. The force is behind but you have to go beyond words. Those who have had this experience have translated it by saying in effect that this world was the world of equilibrium: it was and is the undivided simultaneity of all contraries. As soon as there is any sort of divergence, not even divergence, any sort of difference, that is the beginning of division. And everything which is not that state could not be eternal, it is only that state which not only contains but expresses eternity. There have been all sorts of philosophies which have tried to explain that but they are up in the air, they are mental, speculative. But that is lived, lived. mean 'being' that. The divine is the absolute perfection, eternal source of all that exists which we became progressively conscious while becoming "It from all eternity."
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