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flection of what you are in the vital and mental fields, it would
be worse than being a jelly-fish! Everything would fuse into ev-
erything else, like this.... Oh, what a mess it would be! That is
why it was at first necessary to give a very rigid form. After-
wards we complain about it. We say, “The physical is fixed, it is
a nuisance; it lacks plasticity, it lacks suppleness, it hasn’t that
fluidity which can enable us to merge into the Divine.” But this
was absolutely necessary, for without this... if you simply went
out of your body (most of you can’t do it because the vital be-
ing is hardly more individualised than the physical), if you came
out of your body and went into the vital world, you would see
that all things there intermingle, they are mixed, they divide; all
kinds of vibrations, currents of forces come and go, struggle,
try to destroy one another, take possession of each other, ab-
sorb each other, throw each other out... and so it goes on! But
it is very difficult to find a real personality in all this.

Individualising — Step three
These are forces, movements, desires, vibrations.
There are individualities, there are personalities! But these
are powers. People who are individualised in that world are ei-
ther heroes or devils! And now, in the mind... (Silence) If only
you become conscious of your physical mind in itself... Some
people have called it a public square, because everything
comes there, goes across, passes, comes back.... All ideas go
there, they enter at one place, leave by another, some are here,
some there, and it is a public square, not very well organised,
for usually ideas meet and knock into one another, there are
accidents of all kinds. But then one becomes aware: “What can
I call my mind?” or “What is my mind?”
One needs years of very attentive, very careful, very rea-
sonable, very coherent work, organisation, selection, construc-

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