You have not taken the last redoubt of electricity. That also has treasures for you. When you can draw _that_ from the air where it hides from you and laughs, you will have little need of coal, and the miners can leave the bowels of the earth and play in the sunshine of the heights. Inventions! I see in the “pattern world” I told you about in my first book many things that would puzzle you down here. New fabrics will be worn before many years, and the patient silkworm will not be the aristocrat it now is. The human ego is coming into its own. When it loses selfishness it will find itself. That is not a paradox for its own sake, but the statement of a psychological fact. The seeming chaos will take form, and in it you will find new beauties. I will not conceal from you the knowledge that many will use the word chaos during the reconstruction period. But be at peace. The formless shall take on form. The clairvoyance that is developing in man will help him to see, where the eyes of his old faith would have been blind. He will trust the future and trust his brother, and will not be deceived. The intuition of the soul will point man to the substance which he needs for his well-being. Behind and within the air is the ether, which is substance, which is God. And man will take it for his uses, with the consent of God, who joys in giving Himself to His children. As I said before, the Masters urge the world along in the direction of its destiny; but they are too wise to hurry it. They see the face of the cosmic clock, and they wake the world at the hour of the new sunrise. We are blest in being their servants. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 3: Still far short of the golden age, probably.--E. B.] [Footnote 4: This does not correspond exactly with the popular Hindoo reckoning. But automatic writings are what they are. I can cut out repetitions, etc., but I cannot re-write, add to, or distort.--E. B.] LETTER XXVII THE WATCHERS _February 3, 1918._ I STOOD one day before a great soul that had renounced the rest in heaven, and questioned him as to the work that called us loudest. What do you think he said? “_Labor with those who fear for the future._” “Are there so many, then, who look forward with apprehension?” I asked. “All those who think and see and have responsibilities are apprehensive,” he replied. Then I wandered here and there about America, looking in upon all sorts of men and a few women. And I read in their minds a great uncertainty. “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,” I thought so intensely _at_ them that many responded with a hopeful smile. Yes, I can win response from many people when I think strongly enough in their company.