Preparing for the Miraculous

58 eleven talksThe ship from the new worldOn 3 February 1958, the Mother had an experiencewhich she deemed sufficiently important to dictate it immediatelyafterwards. “The supramental world exists permanentlyand I am there permanently in a supramental body.I had proof of it this very day, when my earth-consciousnesswent there and remained there consciously betweentwo and three o’clock in the afternoon. Now I know thatwhat was lacking for the two worlds to join in a constantand conscious relation is an intermediate zone between thephysical world as it is and the supramental world as it is.This zone is to be built both in the individual consciousnessand in the objective world, and it is being built ...“I was on a huge ship which was a symbolic representationof the place where this work is going on. This ship,as large as a city, is fully organized, and it had already beenfunctioning for some time, for its organization was perfect.It is the place where the people are being trained who aredestined for the supramental life. These people, or at leastpart of their being, had already undergone a supramentaltransformation, for the ship itself and everything on boardwas neither material, subtle-physical, vital or mental: everythingconsisted of a supramental substance ...“The light was a mixture of gold and red, forming a uniformsubstance of a luminous orange. Everything was likethat. The light was like that, the people were like that – everythinghad that colour, although in various shades, whichmade it possible to distinguish things from each other. Thegeneral impression was of a world without shadows. Theatmosphere was full of joy, calm, order. Everything went inan orderly way and in silence ...“This immense ship had just reached the shore of thesupramental world and a first group of people, who were