Mother Mirra Alfassa

“There is always a spiritual test before being able to attain the next stage of power. Each time you have to make progress, you have to undergo an examination.

When Divine manifestations take place, they also have to pass through great difficulties and sufferings as a result of the opposition of dark and anti-divine forces that have had a hold upon earth since the creation.

Those dark powers always oppose the new Lights because they do not want to give up their grip on the earth….

Hostile forces are tolerated in the world only because they put man’s sincerity to the test. The day that man becomes integrally sincere, they will pass away, for there will no longer be any reason for their existence."

- The Mother Mirra Alfassa