yes, you are right. i am in danger, but that danger is not on the outside, although it is on the outside that attempts are brought forward. and in some sense all those with me are in danger too. it is a danger from ---- which ever tries to forestall the steps of those who travel forward. so too, my dear, you are in the same sort of danger. but while the danger is there, yet there is encouragement in the fact itself. for we would not be so placed if we had not been so fortunate as to have progressed through work and patience to the point where —— sees enough in us to try and stop progress and hinder our work. hence, if they see they cannot stop us, they try all plans to get up strife, so as to nullify our work. but we will win, for knowing the danger we take measures against it. i am determined not to fail. others may; but —— and i will not. let us then await all suffering with confidence and hope. the very fact that you suffer so much is objective evidence of progress, even though so painful, not only to you but to those who love you. so while i do not say "suffer on," i am comforted by the knowledge that it will be for great good in the future. so i am writing this, instead of machining it, in order that you may feel the force of my love and comradeship.

let us all draw closer together in mind and heart, soul and act, and try thus to make that true brotherhood through which alone our universal and particular progress can come.

to thee, oh holder of the flame, my love i send. well, i go again, but never do i forget. my best love and blessing to thee. i cannot speak of these things, but thou knowest.

and now, as formerly, and as now, and as forever and forevermore.