started with it, let it stand for the present. I did not talk at first to Mr. B. as you suggested, because I was afraid if we got together I might be tempted to talk shop, he also having been a Banker, and forget that I have neither an earthly or heavenly medium to talk about.

I must confine my talk, therefore, to a medium that is neither of earth or heaven. For this reason I came to you first. With Mr. B. and you I may have a nucleus of a group through the possibility of two minds meeting.

I want to ask especially that you have patience. To bring forth something that humans can cognize, one of the elements needed is Time, and I pray you, do not stint me on that.

You know, they have put me in a hard spot, and I wonder sometimes at their wishing onto me a big job like this. I am glad that even in my earthly experiences I retained my sense of humor, for the idea of a Banker being asked to do some big financing and being forbidden the use of money is something that still touches my funnybone.

What you and others have failed to grasp, is that in my position I have to use mediums and minds above the plane of earth, but below the Plateau consciousness. Use your imagination and see how limited I am in dealing with the various mediums that naturally suggest themselves to your own and other minds.

OUR REPLY to the friend who sent us the articles:

We have thought over a great deal what your friend, the Banker, was trying to convey to you. Let us see if we can put into words what came to us.

As we have tried to explain in several of the Papers, the ether of space which our friend calls the “medium” out of