Do you know how they hear, or what language they understand? Not human speech; nor ordinary human thought clothed in mental speech. That is a dead letter to them altogether. They can only be communicated with through correlations of colours and sounds. But while you address yourself to them, those thoughts assume life from elementals rushing in and attaching themselves to those thoughts. Do not, then, try to speak to them too much, because did you make them know they might demand of you some boon or privilege, or become attached to you, since in order to make them understand they must _know_ you, and a photographic plate forgets not. Fear them not, nor recoil in horror nor repulsion. The time of trial must be fulfilled. Job had to wait his period until all his troubles and diseases passed away. _Before_ that time he could do naught. But we are not to idly sit and repine; we are to bear these trials, meanwhile drawing new and good elementals so as to have--in western phrase--a capital on which to draw when the time of trial has fully passed away. On all other points Niemand has well explained. Read both together. Lastly; know this law, written on the walls of the temple of learning. "Having received, freely give; having once devoted your life in thought, to the great stream of energy in which elementals and souls alike are carried--and which causes the pulse beat of our hearts--you can never claim it back again. Seek, then, that mental devotion which strains to give. For in the law it is written that we must give away all or we lose it: as you need mental help, so do others who are wandering in darkness seeking for light." XII. To-day I got your wire, "---- very low." This is a shock to me. I hardly believe it is the end at all. I cannot believe it, there is so much fire there. But I wired you to ask if I was to tell ----. Also to read 2nd ch. _Bhag. Gîtâ_. That, my dear fellow, solves all these troubles for me though it don't kill out immediate pain. Besides, it is Karma just and wise. Defects are in us all, and if this is the taking off why it means that a lot of obstructive Karma is thus at once and forever worked off, and has left ---- free for greater work in better places. I would I were there with you. Tell him how much I love him and that in this era of Kali Yuga no sincere one, such as he, remains long away from the work there is to do. Words are of no use. I have sent thoughts, and those are useful, whether we are in the body or out of it. I sent every night lately all the help I could and continued through the day, not only to ----, but also you. It reached there, I know, but I can't overcome Karma if it is too strong.