I told you in my last instruction that upon the work done during the coming six months much would depend. You have done the work aright and your feet are set more firmly upon the Path, and much of the old glamor has been dissipated. I would [608] have you feel encouraged, for I am encouraged over you. Even a year ago I felt that you might have to wait for another life period before you could fill the niche in this group of my disciples that I seek to see you fill. I know now that I need not wait so indefinitely. Four times I have registered from you a clear thought - and this has never happened before in your life. The reason has been that you have relinquished your plans and your personality scheming, and thus have dispersed in a measure the miasmas of your tortuous thoughts, based on personality ambition and the vagaries of the concrete mind. I can reach you now, my brother - a thing hitherto impossible. Up till now I have had to reach you through A. A. B.

I would have you take the Rules of the Road and study them. Take them as the theme of your reflection during the coming six months and, at the close, give your interpretation of each Rule for the helping of your fellow disciples. This is the task which I assign you.