But I am not reproaching you. I shall come again and again, until my work is done. I will come to you in a dream before long, and will show you many things. LETTER V THE PROMISE OF THINGS UNTOLD AFTER a time I will share with you certain knowledge that I have gained since coming out. I see the past now as through an open window. I see the road by which I have come, and can map out the road by which I mean to go. Everything seems easy now. I could do twice as much work as I do--I feel so strong. As yet I have not settled down anywhere, but am moving about as the fancy takes me; that is what I always dreamed of doing while in the body, and never could make possible. Do not fear death; but stay on earth as long as you can. Notwithstanding the companionship I have here, I sometimes regret my failure in holding on to the world. But regrets have less weight on this side--like our bodies. Everything is well with me. I will tell you things that have never been told. LETTER VI THE WAND OF WILL NOT yet do you grasp the full mystery of _will_. It can make of you anything you choose, within the limit of your unit energy, for everything is either active or potential in the unit of force which is man. The difference between a painter and a musician, or between a poet and a novelist, is not a difference of qualities in the entity itself; for each unit contains everything _except quantity_, and thus has the possibilities of development along any line chosen by its will. The choice may have been made ages ago. It takes a long time, often many lives, to evolve an art or a faculty for one particular kind of work in preference to all others. Concentration is the secret of power, here as elsewhere. As to the use of will-power in your present everyday problems, there are two ways of using the will. One may concentrate upon a definite plan, and bring it into effect or not according to the amount of force at one’s disposal; or one may will that the best and highest and wisest plan possible shall be demonstrated by the subconscious forces in the self and in other selves. The latter is a commanding of all environment for a special purpose, instead of commanding, or attempting to command, a fragment of it. In this communion between the outer and inner worlds, you in the outer world are apt to think that we in ours know everything. You expect us to prophesy like fortune-tellers, and to keep you informed of what is passing on the other side of the globe. Sometimes we can; generally we cannot. After a while I may be able to enter your mind as a Master does, and to know all the antecedent thoughts and plans in it; but now I cannot always do so. For instance, one night I looked everywhere for ---- and could not find him. Perhaps it is necessary for you to think strongly of us, to make the way easiest.