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Without that integration ‘gaps’ remain, seepages of energy, and the road to Immortality is barred. For to reach that luminous shore we must cross the Bridge of Gnosis.

          As the symbol being the thing symbolised and ‘to be realised’, Sri Aurobindo wrote, we understand that the visual impact of the chamber is our guide because it reveals the new way: an inward, concentrated convergence onto a central Point. This sacred-most point is the great secret of the Core. The Mother has left seekers in search of this Light with all the details of the new Yoga that would safely and surely set us upon that path.
          We understand then that the destiny of the Supramental Manifestation is a thing decreed and cannot be arrested in its flowering on Earth. If the Auroville Matrimandir is an aberration, it is a controlled device to serve the divine Purpose of the One. However, only when that Bridge opens up before us and we make the crossing to the new future that the Mother’s Vision foretells, can any sense be made of these aberrations. Without that Bridge illuminating the passage before us, both centres of the Mother’s work are as if orphaned. In the Ashram we have a secure abode of the comforting ‘Mother’ (without the article ‘the’) who pins us to the past. In Auroville we have the chaos that a centreless structure engenders, which cannot support the edifice of a new creation.

          The best way to understand the issues involved is by seeing these laboratories, or fields, on the backdrop of Time. This could not be done before the 1960s – perhaps the real beginning was 1956, the year of the Supramental Manifestation. From then on we can turn to Time for indications. As the keeper and fulfiller of Destiny, Time can reveal in a dispassionate and factual manner what nothing else can.
          When ‘time is fulfilled’ – that is, when a certain maturity is reached in a supramental process – we can begin to measure the process on the backdrop of a specific ‘formula’. This formula is revealed in Sri Aurobindo’s symbol. It is the formula his higher consciousness knew existed but which he laboured in the final years of his life to bring down. As we will observe, Gnostic Time – the utilisation of Time as ally and not destroyer – has been ever present in not only the workings of this particular destiny but in the whole world. However, it is a fact that this very special ‘aid’, as Sri Aurobindo called Time in his The Synthesis of Yoga, can only unveil itself once this maturity is reached. This means that a new base must come into existence, an appropriate horizontal plane. That plane has to be able to sustain or support the Vertical Axis; in this case, that Vertical contains the operations of Time in a gnostic process involving the integrated fields (of the Horizontal).
          On this basis, considering that the Ashram and Auroville are the fields constituting the horizontal plane, Time can then reveal the function or placement of both once this maturity is reached. Each thing is then seen in its rightful place within the whole. In so doing, the condition of the Mother’s work is made factually clear. Thus, the Ashram in the integrated field is the Past; Auroville (in the same field) is the Future. But they are not connected; hence we have the situation described above with the Ashram closed within the secure castle walls of ‘Mother’ (without the article); while Auroville abides in a chaos of undefined ‘possibilities’ so clearly demonstrated in the centre of its community’s life. Being cut off and without a connecting bridge, the City expresses the void that stands at its centre: no purpose, no higher function, and above all, no focus. That focus is the topic of this and the remaining Chronicles. It cannot be feigned, it cannot be the result of a computer programme, think tank deliberations, the plans and projects of governing boards, and certainly not a result of government policy. It is provided only by the Core of the Mother’s chamber.

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