MY BROTHER OF OLD:

You have now come back to your own group and to the one to which you were originally assigned, and for that I am glad though - with the rest of you - I deplore the cause. The glamor in which R. V. B. is involved is thick and at present impenetrable, but the primary reason for his leaving all his responsibilities and deserting his group brothers and his post, has been the need for certain personality adjustments and the righting of a serious mistake he made two lives ago. When he has worked through his karma and has achieved release from a certain thralldom, he will again proceed upon his way. In the meantime, his co-disciples will stand with silent faithfulness behind him, leaving him entirely free and yet ready, when the true freedom comes, to again recognize the outer as well as the inner relationship.

You have little to do, in order to pick up the threads of the group work, for you have for some time been interested in telepathic work and you are starting work with the group at a time when it is entering upon a new venture. There is no old technique to master but only a new one to be learnt - together.

You yourself have a ray combination very similar to that of R. S. U., but owing to your sixth ray astral body, the personality situation is saved. There is, as you know, a preponderance of the will-mind-activity in you but a powerful and well developed astral body has enabled you to express the love nature which you brought to a fairly high point of development in a previous life. This life has been for you a balancing one and [320] when you return again it should be with a second ray personality because the shift of this life expression, in combination with the last life, should bring about the evocation of a second ray personality, intelligently equilibrated.

I would point out to you, however, the problem which emerges when you have a straight line of contact between the first ray soul, the fifth ray personality, a fifth ray mind and a seventh ray brain. This leads to intelligent high grade work in your chosen profession but negates the free play of the intuition. This latter, however, is aided by the fact that at this time, your first ray soul focuses itself in the astral body and, therefore, greatly aids its expression by giving you emotional power (if you care to use it) and enabling you to release much magnetic force - again if you care to, which is seldom. The reason for this is that - through your definite soul contact - you tend to express the outstanding quality of the first ray which is loneliness, isolation (not separateness with you, my brother, for that is not one of your faults), the ability to stand alone and unmoved. Your personality, as you have probably guessed, finds its focus of expression in the mental body. There is an easy line of fusion there.

For the rest of this life, your effort should be shifting the personality focus into the astral body, thus producing the flooding of your life expression with love, powerfully and intelligently expressed. This will also produce a closer fusion between your soul and the personality.

The only meditation exercise I will give you, at present, is one that will aid this fusion and release the magnetic quality of your life. You will have enough to do to incorporate your aspiration, life content and intelligent consciousness with your group, plus mastering the technique of the new work which they, too, are learning. Do this brief exercise in consciousness and visualization, prior to the group work and meditation.

1. Sound the O. M. as a personality. Do so at the highest mental point, raising your aspiration at the same time, with the mind to the soul.
2. Sound the O. M. as the soul, breathing it out in the will-to-love all beings and arresting its descent at the astral [321] body. Do this by an act of the will and the use of the creative imagination.
3. Having thus vitalized the astral body and imagined the fusion of soul, personality, and astral force, then direct this triple stream of energy to the heart center, rushing it there, if I might so express it.

If you will do this faithfully and intelligently each day, with the power of your mind behind the work, you will very soon note results and those associated with you certainly will.

My steadfast understanding and my love is yours, my brother.