Hold steady now. That is the only advice I am offering you, save only to remain in America for the present. The good you could do in England now is outweighed by something else which you will understand before the middle of August.[4] If you look up the letter in which I told you that a great Being of Thought had passed along the German line telling those who could understand that their cause was lost, you will see that I said to watch for the result. The result is this desperate and frenzied attack everywhere by that nation. May 15th is a significant date.[5] No, I tell you no more than that. The powers of good will not fail. You will have disturbing news from Europe before long. Hold quiet through everything. We have done and are doing our best. Thank you for what you have done for my friend and pupil. * * * Also there is another thing you can do for us. * * * There is much that you do not understand, but that we understand. The road of initiation is a hard road for all. Love one another, you who try to tread it. It makes the way easier. _May 8._ FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 4: Extraordinarily verified on the fourteenth of August.--_Editor._] [Footnote 5: Date of the reception by Germany of the United States note on the sinking of the _Lusitania_, and also of the demonstrations in Italy which precipitated the entry of that country into the war.--_Editor._] LETTER XXXVIII ADVICE TO A SCRIBE YOU can be of more use to us if you do not allow yourself to be crushed by the sadness of the world at this crisis through which the world is passing. Each day rise to the plane of the spirit, above the physical world, beyond the desires of the astral world, beyond the lower stratum of mind, up and up to the Source of all life and all wisdom. Set apart some time every day for this exercise. Use the Hebrew formula which you have used before, and use it with power, in connection with the yoga practice in which you are versed. This combining of two systems makes for strength, because it avoids the limitation of too closely identifying the Self with one race or one period. Occult development, occult power, is of all times and all races. The knowledge of the new race about to be ushered in will include all the systems of the past, taking from each the special thing in which it surpasses the others. Do not sink again into that slough of depression from which I called you this day. It is not necessary for you to die a thousand times in order to know death. It seems to me that you have gone deep enough into the woe of the world. Now rise to a corresponding height. Your sympathy will be no less tender if you do not die of sympathy every day. Your real work comes after the war, when the world can and will listen to the teaching of brotherhood. Do not perish beforehand is my advice, and the advice of my Teacher through me.