BROTHER OF ANCIENT DAYS:

I can indicate to you the line of activity by which you can best aid in this group activity, and this is the development of telepathic rapport. It was for that latent capacity in you that you were originally asked to be a member of the initial group of disciples. Though your karma and circumstances at [304] that time temporarily militated against that happening (and your action then was entirely right) that in no way negates your latent capacity. I am pointing this out as I would like you - if you will - to work towards establishing a telepathic rapport with the group, beginning with D. H. B. and D. A. O. Seek to contact them in this way and get into touch with them on the matter. By so doing you will help in establishing a group interplay and integrity which is one of the main objectives before all groups of disciples. When all are formed, then a member will be chosen from each of the groups to form another group whose work will be to preserve a group interplay between the groups. If you can give five minutes each day to an effort to get into touch with these two, you will find success at the end of the way. You will probably find (as you are a first ray soul) that you can make an impression upon their minds more easily than they can impress yours, but your fifth ray personality will offset some of this, as you function more easily on the mental plane than on the astral on account of your ray polarization.

Continue with the breathing exercise as outlined in my last instruction. I seek to make no change in this. You have only done it for a few months and the rhythm of the work must be definitely established so that it becomes automatic, thereby permitting freedom of thought within the limits of the work. I will, however, change your meditation outline in the following particulars:

1. The breathing exercise.
2. The sounding of the A. U. M.
3. See before your mind's eye the same two-leaved door, standing wide open. Through it you see a radiant sun of golden light.
4. Instead of sending forth the disks of colored light, visualize yourself as standing before this open door.
5. Then say: "May the energy of the divine self inspire me," and feel your entire nature vitalized by the spiritual energy, pouring through the open door upon you and through you.
6. Next say: "May the light of the soul direct," and visualize that light pouring upon your daily path. Bring into that [305] light your group problems which you may have to solve and face, and face them and handle them in the light.
7. Finish the rest of the invocation, saying the words with all the power of your soul behind them. Add the mantram I earlier gave you:
   
   "I am the Way myself, the door am I. I am the golden Path and in the light of my own light I tread that Way. I enter through the door. I turn and radiate the light.
   
8. "Sound the A. U. M. as before.