Preparing for the Miraculous

preparing for the miraculous 59destined to become the future inhabitants of the supramentalworld, were to go ashore. Everything had been arrangedfor this first disembarkation. ... I was in charge of the wholeenterprise from the beginning and throughout the proceedings.I had prepared all the groups myself. I stood on theship at the head of the gangway, calling the groups oneby one and sending them ashore. ... Things continued inthis way until suddenly the clock here [in her room at theAshram] struck three, and this brought me back violently.There was a sensation of suddenly falling into my body. Icame back with a shock but with the full memory...“When I was called back [into her material body] ... Ihad a brief glimpse of myself – of my form in the supramentalworld, that is. ... My upper part, particularly the head,was not much more than a silhouette of which the contentswere white with an orange fringe. The more down towardsthe feet the more the colour looked like that of the peopleon the ship, that is to say orange; the more upwards themore it was translucent and white, with less red [red is thecolour of Matter]. The head was only a contour with a brilliantsun in it. Rays of light radiated from it, which wereactions of the will.“As for the people I saw on board the ship, I recognizedthem all. Some were from here, from the Ashram, otherswere from elsewhere, but I know them too. ... Most of thepeople who went ashore were middle-aged, except a few ...“When I came back I knew, simultaneously with therecol lection of the experience, that the supramental world ispermanent, that my presence there is permanent, and thatonly a missing link was needed for enabling the connectionin the consciousness and in the substance, and it is this linkwhich is now being established. There I had the impressionof an extreme relativity – no, more exactly the impressionthat the relation of this world with the other one completely