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  ‘The void that is then unveiled in the ordinary human being cannot sustain the subsequent journey through Time in order to complete the Circle, or to experience whole time. Thus this precious energy of Time which is released either in death, or sex, or whatever, simply falls into this void, collapses like a mighty star in the heavens. It then compresses itself into a knot, a virtual black hole, and gradually defies all effort to become unravelled. After numerous passages through the Circle, after countless completions of the 9-cycle, this central Knot is so tight, so fixed that it cannot be undone in this lifetime with the eye of awareness awake in this physical universe. It draws upon itself all the areas of the being and finally succumbs to death. But this death is proper to all four planes of existence. Each part of the being experiences the collapse of energies, has its own knot, as it were. Thus, for a new society to emerge we see very clearly that the individual members must know the means by which this void in consciousness is replaced by a fecund, creative womb. This means, first and foremost, that creation itself must be accepted, this Body of the Absolute. Next, it must be accepted that the purpose of incarnation is to live the experience of the Absolute in creation and that the human being can and will serve as the channel for this truth-conscious experience of God in material creation.
  ‘The artist of the new society is one therefore who creates on the basis of a fecund womb in the centre of his or her being. Thus it is understood that the realisation of one’s Godhead is fundamental if new forms are to manifest. Indeed, a member of the society becomes a vehicle through whom the Creator creates and each artistic expression is reflective of this process, the same as the creation itself which is simply an unfolding from within, from the Seed, and a constant flowering from this luminous Bija in an act of utter spontaneity.
  ‘In the ideal society the multiple aspect of creation is gloriously expressed in the varied manifestations of the community’s cultural, artistic and intellectual products. But this means that such creations come into being from the core of psychic plenitude and not the void we now know. At present only rarely is this the basis of any artistic and intellectual expression. Indeed, it is safe to say that we have not known this pure source as the fount of inspiration at all. In these volumes we have used the Mother’s Chamber as an example of such an act of creation from a fecund central womb of consciousness in order to offer the student a concrete example of the emergence of a pure element from the plane of truth seen in the light of the soul; and how, when the consciousness is not disturbed by vital and mental turbulence, the result is a true and faithful reproduction of that element in our physical world. The Mother’s consciousness, being perfectly poised, did not throw up stormy currents in the act of seeing and subsequent translation of the object seen into the measure of our universe and our solar system. But in this example we do see how the architects obscured the creation by their own waves of unconsciousness. And we also see that in order to appreciate the true nature and worth of the Mother’s creative act, a consciousness free from turbulence is also needed. Both artist and observer must be poised in the stable core; the observed and the observer merge in the experience of fulfilling Oneness…’ (The New Way, Volume 3, Chapter 17, ‘Descent of Divinity and the Flowering of Godhead’). 

Conclusion
We must close this series with a paradox. To attempt to unravel its complex sense we shall use the descent of the Mother’s Chamber as the experimental field where we may test our understanding, insofar as it is ‘the symbol of the future realisation’ and must therefore hold the light that we need to illumine what may be obscure for the present.
            It is disturbing for some residents of Auroville and the Ashram, particularly for those involved in the construction of Matrimandir, to read these Chronicles. They pretend that MAC has had no impact on their work ‘for the Mother’, and they therefore continue unperturbed, as if nothing had transpired to cause any doubt in themselves or in the community regarding their activities.

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