Chapter 12

The Photographic Negatives

This chapter is very important and explains many hidden things. We refer the interested reader to Vie et Paroles, that is Life and Words by Alfred Haehl. The Master teaches us the notion of photographic negative called cliché in french. This notion is a major one and governs the dynamism of every act of ours. Here are three quotations:

The Master said, 'Everything exists in the ambient, in a photographic state. When an event is to occur, there comes from the whole vastness molecules to constitute a photographic negative. A few persons may have a gift to perceive photographic negatives. These ones will see more or less sharp photographic negatives showing themselves, and depending on their sharpness, they will conclude that this event is to occur in such a time. Photographic negatives are alive; they can be summoned up and be perceptible to our intelligence.' (24/02/1902)

'Any being, in front of whose brain pictures show themselves, cannot escape on its own from the obligation to think and act, whereas those for whom these pictures are like suspended in the air are unable to act even to think.
This is how a good clairvoyant is able to tell you that a house is going to be built there or elsewhere. Because the photographic negative is already there, waiting until it can latch onto the mind of an architect that will be able to seize it. The architect will be proud of the idea he will credit himself with, unaware that he is only a tool.'
(24/02/1902)
Hence the humility that all of us should have on discovering such and such progress... Even for a theorem in mathematics, as thoroughgoing as it may be, the mathematician is still but an instrument... Indeed, but how hard it is to acknowledge it...

'Everything is and has been; as for the "will be", it's not quite that, or more accurately it will not always be in the same place.
All beings must endure the photographic negatives, except the free ones.
All is written and however all may be changed; yet, to get a change, that must be useful.'





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