The Body
The Central Will of the Physical Being and the Cells1
“Where does the physical being’s disgust at carrying on the effort of coordination and harmonization come from?”2
That disgust generally occurs when there is in some part of the being — an important part, either vital or mental — an absolute refusal to progress, and so, physically, that expresses itself as a refusal to exert oneself against the deterioration that stems from time.
And the last question: “Where does the link between the central will of the physical being and the cells take place? How is it made?”
(long silence)
The cells have an internal constitution or structure that corresponds to the structure of the universe. So the connection is made… (one is stopped short by the stupidity of words: it’s not “external,” but it’s external for the individual), it’s made between identical external and internal states, that is to say, the cell, in its internal constitution, receives the vibration of the corresponding state in the total constitution.
Words are inane.
(Mother goes into a long contemplation, then suddenly smiles, amused in the middle of her contemplation)
Someone (I don’t know who) has just shown me…. It was a man’s big hand, and there was in it… it wasn’t an egg or a physical object — he told me it was the representation of a cell. It was an object that seemed to me this big (gesture: about three inches), transparent and living: it was living. And he showed me the various internal constitutions of the cell, and the correspondence with the center. A wholly precise vision, so precise that I was flabbergasted, I said, “Oh!”
It had a strange shape: not like an egg, but narrower at one end, and… I don’t know how to describe. Give me a piece of paper.
(Mother starts drawing)
It didn’t have a very precise outline, because it was radiant. It had internal constitutions of varying radiances (Mother draws points or various concentrations within the cell), and the center was wholly luminous. And there was a big hand, almost a paw, you know, a big hand holding this cell very carefully: he took great care to touch it as lightly as possible (Mother draws two big fingers holding the cell). It was luminous, held up with two fingers, like this…. I don’t know what the scientific shape of cells is, but it was like this. And he showed me the various radiances. The periphery was the most opaque; the deeper inside, the more luminous it became; and the center was wholly luminous, it was bright, that is, radiating. Then there were different colors — not very intense, but different colors. The hand was magnified perhaps twice, because it was this big (about ten inches), while the object was this big (about three inches), and it was a cell.
He showed me the constitution, and how the connection was made.
Did the connection take place at the center of the cell?
Yes, at the center of the cell.
The fingers were much bigger than the cell, and they touched it only with the tips, like this (gesture). Only the forefinger and thumb were visible — the tip of the thumb. But huge fingers! So it was probably magnified.
(Mother laughs) I was a bit flabbergasted!
It may be the ratio between the size of a hand and that of a cell — no, it can’t be. But it was a huge hand, like this, holding a cell up to me. Big like this. He showed the connection. There were colors: some spots were slightly bluish, others… There were all kinds of things — it was very complex — with varying radiations. And the connection was from light to light.
But here, this boy asks about the link between the cell and the central will of the physical being.
Physical, yes.
But what you’ve just drawn is the cellular central will.
But it’s the correspondence between the two. It was to show me how the central will of the physical being was connected to or acted on the cells. He showed me a cell which was like the representation…
In other words, the central will, or light, acts on the cell by touching corresponding lights?
Yes, that’s it, by an inner contact in the being. It gave the impression that each cell was a miniature world corresponding to the whole.
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2 Mother had written: “The central will of the physical being abdicates its will to hold all the cells together.... It accepts dissolution for some reason or other. One of the strongest reasons is the sense of irreparable disharmony; another is a sort of disgust at carrying on the effort of coordination and harmonization.”
* The Mother (ed. Satprem). Mother’s Agenda, Volume 9. Paris: Institut de Recherches Évolutives; 1981 [English Transl.], pp. 195-199.
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