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Above all, and this is the most precious part, she notes that the action was not ‘from above’ but ‘superior’ in that it works from within everything, or from the perfect centre. Remarkably, this described the gnostic Core of her chamber that was to be revealed the following year.
          The formula 9/6/3/0 is the key and this has been preserved at the heart of Sri Aurobindo’s own symbol in the Core of her inner chamber. These numbers are called number-powers in the new cosmology, precisely to convey this special ‘living’ quality, which the Mother emphasised time and again (‘…It [the number] doesn’t only express it, it has the power to realise the thing...’)
          In the formula 9/6/3/0 they form the basis of the two ‘columns’ the Mother describes. In an astonishing display of APPLICATION, by the new cosmology we are able to link the formula to the calendar; and through this linkage we can connect these special numbers to a series of births; indeed they are thus ‘living’ powers. In the new cosmology there are, in fact, TWO columns that are called LINES. One is described by the Mother as ‘dark blue’, the other as ‘golden yellow’. By making use of colour, the Mother transmitted to Satprem the ‘essence’ of the columns/lines: the former refers to the Lunar Line (the dark blue of night), the latter to the Solar (the golden of the daytime Sun). But we must bear fully in mind that this cosmology was completed a number of years before anything of this dialogue was published. Can there be a better example of her action to ‘sort out the people’ than this?
          Her astonishing capacity to apply the Supermind attains unimaginable heights. She even refers to ‘planets’, but true to the subsequent Knowledge, she notes that though there is a connection, she is not so sure how it works. This is because though the Lines are ‘solar’ and ‘lunar’, these celestial designations do not really refer to planetary influences of the old school. They refer to the action of the respective columns/lines: inspirational, actualising; or, as she stated, conceptual and realising. She goes further and states that they do not refer to masculine and feminine – indeed, as one would attribute to the Sun and the Moon respectively in the old school.
          This recorded talk confirms everything contained in the new cosmology and which forms the basis of the Knowledge of the Mother’s Temple. And yet, the ‘wisemen and women’ will continue to deny what the Mother herself affirms repeatedly. Through these Chronicles we feel that finally the Mother’s extraordinary Vision has been vindicated.

          However, what would be the lasting effect of the Mother’s description of her work with numbers as the Supramental Shakti if the ‘sorting out’ had not born results and the Bridge had not come into being with its supramental Gnosis to connect the fields in the present? Could any sense at all have been made of her words? The disciple certainly did not take her seriously or he would not have dismantled her subsequent vision of the Inner Chamber; nor would he have been able to dismiss ‘centimetres’ and ‘astrology’ so lightly and favour an exaltation of the ego of the instrument, if at all he had REALISED what the Mother was describing. She explicitly stated what her activity was: the action of the Supermind APPLIED through numbers and the ordering process. What more should have been needed?
          It is essential to understand that the Mother’s task was not to give out the new Knowledge that explains her activity as the Supramental Shakti, or else the contents of her inner chamber. That was not her task. She herself makes this very clear (‘…But the…waking consciousness must not KNOW what is decided there. I must only know the part that is necessary for the execution…’). Her ‘field’ was the Ashram not the Bridge, where we find those explanations in the present.

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