BROTHER OF MINE:

I am glad that you regard yourself as sensitive to my vibration, for so you are. But not as often as you think. It is so easy for aspirants to confound the second ray vibration - as it expresses itself through a second ray group such as my group of disciples - with my individual vibration. Disciples need to train themselves to distinguish:

1. The vibration of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom.
2. The vibration of the Master M. or the Master K.H. should they happen to use the ray vibration for purposes of stimulating a group.
3. My vibration, which is naturally strongly colored by the second ray.
4. The vibration of a second ray group which is an aggregate of all the notes and tones of the disciples in the group.
5. The vibration of advanced second ray disciples. This can at times be confused with mine.
6. The vibration of sixth ray groups which respond to a second ray vibration. Their work lies predominantly on the astral plane and is contacted relatively easily.

A consideration of the above may indicate to you something of value. Curiously enough you and your fellow-disciple B.S.W. represent the two extreme poles in this process of theoretical recognition. You both recognize a certain contact yet, practically, B.S.W. is more sensitive to my vibration than you are; he loses much, however, by an imposed impersonality to it; you lose much by being too sure at times. [118]

In connection with this matter of sensing vibration, it is of value to remember that all sensing is naturally and normally an astral or an emotional reaction. In considering my group, I am impressed (yes, and somewhat amused) by the effort of some of you - and of you, in particular - to repudiate emotional or astral sensitivity. Some of you admit it but regard it as undesirable; others consider it as something to be inhibited or to be unexpressed and ignored. Few of you, if any, look upon the astral body as a divine expression of reality with its definite and specific uses.

We are beginning to deal with the more occult subtleties in our work and for these you must be prepared. Your papers and replies to the questions given to you deal primarily with your work in connection with your spiritual inferiors. How about your spiritual equals and superiors? Reread Your questions and replies in this light and see what response is then evoked in you. The initiate of the fifth degree in Atlantean times had to evidence the right use of emotion. In Aryan times, the initiate of the second degree has to evidence this. Are you, my brother, prepared to say that this evidence can be produced?

You entered this group work as the result of serious and earnest seeking, ancient karmic ties, much questioning which wrested response from your soul and the earned right of a pledged server who had worked steadfastly alone for many years. You brought to this group activity certain assets of a pronounced nature and certain liabilities, equally pronounced - as have all the group members. My task is to use the assets in the group and to aid you in relinquishing the liabilities. ...I would ask you, therefore, to ponder on this matter, standing as the soul upon the narrow razor-edged path between the pairs of opposites - your assets and your liabilities - viewing them with complete detachment. The occult sentences in which I would like to state your problem and its solution are as follows:

"The magnet swings, and swinging, fails to touch the pleading hands, held forth for help. It swings in heaven high, held by the soul - serene and unafraid - whose will is firm, whose eyes are clear, whose heart is slowly opening to a distant sound - a sound of pain and sorrow, of weakness and distress.