MY BROTHER:

You have worked hard the past six months and, though you need no cheering, your work has been amazingly selfless. I wanted you to know that this has been noted by me. You have worked steadily and subjectively at the production of group harmony and understanding; you have endeavored consciously to bring your second ray force to bear upon the matter of group integration. In doing this, you have tuned in on a vital problem for the group. This group of disciples (affiliated with my Ashram) cannot begin its real service until its individual members function in an unbreakable unity. The problem is to aid and assist this process subjectively and with true impersonality. So many disciples are apt to bring their concrete mind to bear upon these relations, and often end by disturbing its rhythm. All that is needed is love, understanding, and again love, followed by silence. This you have attempted successfully. Continue so to do and preserve ever a watchful spirit so that your high standard can be maintained.

Seek to make such a dynamic contact with your soul each [346] morning (prior to starting the day's work) that the power an wisdom then contacted, and the purity of the open channel, will carry you through the day's activities without a continual recolectedness of the need to preserve contact. This is one of the first steps in the newer conception of being. So many people labor at the work of being a disciple. At a certain stage, this is right proper and most necessary, but it should be succeeded by conscious, dynamic, rhythmic contact every twenty-four hours. Then the momentum set up should suffice to carry you through your full life of service. Once a day you must seek recharging and, if the work is adequately done, it should suffice.

Your other daily points of contact are not intended to aid you personally. Nor are they for your own spiritual refreshment. They are the moments when you tune in on the large life of the Hierarchy, and of the New Group of World Servers. This I want you to remember. How then shall you make this approach for dynamic stimulation? This is your immediate problem and, in order to help you, I suggest the meditation outlined below.

1. Alignment. Achieved consciously and as rapidly as possible.
2. Then, in your own words, holding the mind steady in the light, and focusing yourself as high in the head as possible offer yourself to the soul for recharging.
3. Follow this by three minutes (for this is quite a long time, my brother) of complete silence, preserving, if you can, an unmoved consciousness. The charging with spiritual light and force can then take place. How is this done? It is done by the soul, your true self, gathering you, its personality, into itself - a process of identification for which you must strive. This is what the mystics of the Catholic Church call the "true quiet of union."
4. To this should succeed a moment wherein you seek to realize that that which the soul has done is a fact. This involves the renewed activity of the mental processes.
5. Then, by the use of the creative imagination, carry this electrification (if I might use such a word), this stimulation and this illumination down to the emotional body, [347] purifying it and endeavoring to dispel its glamors. Let it sweep through the astral body.
6. Then in the physical brain consciousness, regard yourself as the conscious recipient of the strength and the wisdom which you need in service.