ASPIRATION AND RECEPTIVITY – I
You can be at once in the state of aspiration,
of willing, which calls down something
exactly the will to open oneself and receive,
and the aspiration
which calls down the force you want to receive
and at the same time
be in that state of complete inner stillness
which allows full penetration,
for it is in this immobility that one can be penetrated,
that one becomes permeable by the Force
One can be like that,
like a great flame
rising in aspiration,
and at the same time
as though this flame formed a vase, a large vase,
opening and receiving all that comes down.
And the two can go together.
And when one succeeds in having the two together,
one can have them constantly,
whatever one may be doing.
Only there may be a slight,
very slight displacement of consciousness,
almost imperceptible,
which becomes aware of the flame first
and then of the vase of receptivity
of what seeks to be filled and the flame
that rises to call down what must fill the vase…
