Preparing for the Miraculous

148 eleven talksdid that with a knowledge! – although I did not know anything,and neither did I try to know anything, or whatever.I knew exactly what had to be done, and I did it. I wasabout twenty at the time. ...“As soon as I discovered the teaching of Théon – evenbefore I met him in person – as soon as I read him and cameto understand all kinds of things which I did not know before,I started working quite systematically. Every night atthe same time I performed a work which consisted in constructing,between the purely terrestrial atmosphere andthe psychic atmosphere, a sort of protective pathways throughthe vital, so that the people [who had just left their materialbody] would not have to traverse it any more. Because, forthose who are conscient but do not have the knowledge,that is really very difficult: it is infernal.” (It is preciselythis knowledge which was provided in the Egyptian andTibetan “books of the dead.”) “It is infernal. So I built that.That was perhaps in 1902-1903 or 1904, I do not rememberexactly. But month after month after month I worked at it.“Afterwards, when I went to Tlemcen, I told all that tomadame Théon. She said: ‘Yes, this is part of the work youhave come to do on Earth. All those whose psychic being isa little bit awake, and who are able to perceive your Light,will go to your Light at the moment of death, wherever theymay die, and you will help them cross beyond.’ And that isa constant work. Constant.” 2 Madame Théon was an evengreater occultist than her husband. The Mother went twotimes to Tlemcen, in Algeria, in 1906 and 1907.The “pathways” the Mother built are what is describedby many persons who have been clinically dead as tunnels,bridges or narrow mountain passes by which they feel2 L’Agenda de Mère, vol. II, pp. 258-259.