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But from that point onward the  Mother did consolidate the Knowledge that saved the Work, and with it we begin to fill in those dug-out trenches, those new trenches of right measure, defined by the fact that they did reach rock-bottom, as it were, because the direction was the right one: not extended out and beyond and therefore denying even the existence of the soil, but by accepting the planet’s sacred place in the divine scheme and accepting the hard labour of holding the penetrating direction in the midst of the most ferocious denial one could experience: the denials offered by the mighty realisers of the past, the great achievers – but all of whom have carried civilisation away from the inward direction and to a dissolution of any threads holding one to life on this planet in time and space, the measures of our material world. The Divine Measure re-established the ancient Way of acceptance of the Earth and knowing that here, and only here in the System, a life divine can be established.
          Thus, the trenches they dug were ‘new’ simply because of this acceptance and the fact that they held firm in the face of colossal denials worse than anything we have known even in dealing with the Sons of Darkness in our times. For there can be no harder task than to expose the great realisations that India has become so renowned for and to state that – no, we have to go deeper yet.

I saw that a falsehood was planted deep
At the very root of things
Where the grey Sphinx guards God’s riddle sleep
On the Dragon’s outspread wings.

          Our task thereafter was simply to lay the new foundation stones in those sacred and cleansed trenches. This too required an intensive labour to make sure that there would be ‘no mixture’, as the Mother warned. And so it has been done.
          It is for this reason that the Mother commented in 1962 that one Avatar would not suffice. It would have to be a ‘line in time’; one alone could not complete the task or bridge all the planes of existence. To reach the deepest depths, certainly a ‘line’ would be required; and to attain the heights and join the two, another pair is required otherwise the connecting Bridge cannot come into being to allow those ‘radiant children’ to descend.
          This descent from above and rise from below is the very essence of Sri Aurobindo’s own symbol: the two interlaced triangles, one descending, the other rising, holding at their core the sacred Formula in the central Supramental Square

I shall leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you.

Matrimandir Action Committee
March 2004

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