LETTER XXXVII
VEILED PROPHECIES
IF you were less easily startled, less easily thrown out of the negative condition in which only you can take down my words, less easily thrown back by shock into your normal objective consciousness, I could have told you yesterday that the Lusitania had gone down, instead of merely hinting at disaster.
You are quite right always to stop the writing the moment your own brain begins to work; but you can see that it limits us in the giving of definite news.
We were near that ship when it went down, several of us, including the one whom we call the Beautiful Being.
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.