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Not one has even glimpsed that ‘future realisation’ which they sought to destroy from the first moment the Mother revealed its contours. For the Sons of Darkness instinctively knew that with the Mother’s Vision in place there would be no possibility for their rule. And so it did come to pass.
          But the powers of darkness are limited precisely by the boundaries they set for themselves. They ‘see’ only what these limitations permit them to see. They ‘see’ cement and steel as the signal of a victory – when in effect as long as that cement and steel structure stands, it is an everlasting testimony to their failure. For with each passing year and each level of the construction completed, they further expose the falsehood and seal their ultimate demise.

‘We have been digging deep and long’
The New Way has been born and, pari passu with that shadow construction, it has grown. The divine Child is no longer a vulnerable babe. These three decades have given the right amount of time to establish the new field of the Work, to complete that subterranean foundation by the aid of time’s released energies so that now we emerge above ground level at the 0/1 point of space – indestructible because ALL now serves the purposes of that One.
          The work accomplished by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was entirely limited to the old creation. It was within that arena that they were obliged to labour. This was a formidable task because of the consolidation of yogas over the centuries that were in a sense denials of that Ancient Way; and they had to be dealt with. For this reason, though Sri Aurobindo intuited that a traditional ashram structure was not appropriate for his work, he also knew that it would provide a means to begin his ‘labour’.

A voice cried, ‘Go where none have gone!
Dig deeper, deeper yet
Till thou reach the grim foundation stone
And knock at the keyless gate.’

          Indeed, the divine Pair of 6 and 9 were engaged in digging through the soil of the Ages in order to bring in a new foundation, the demand of this new age; but it could not be accomplished unless the old had been dealt with. Thus the poet sings, ‘We must go deeper yet’, and his penetration took him far back through the Ages until he reached the bedrock of the Sanatan Dharma and the ancient Vedic Way. Therefore it is only Sri Aurobindo who has unveiled the real ‘secret of the Veda’; but to reach that secret he had to labour within the confines of the past. The Ashram represented that field where best his ‘digging’ could be done.
          While Sri Aurobindo reached the source of the Sanatan Dharma, the Ancient Way, it was the Mother who actually did the yoga that finally permitted that ancient Way to be reinstated. The Divine Measure was her contribution, epitomised in her Vision and Plan, her final legacy. She did not elaborate its meaning except for the clues and confirmations she left us as aids along the way of discovery, largely because she had to disclose her revelation to a hostile world in attendance of the one whose duty it was to build the Bridge, the Third of the Line.

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