June 3rd 1968
In love, and because love is the only power of real import, and because when we think of love we know that your Master, Jesus, springs to your mind when we mention this sacred, Divine word.
Because to you who are brought up in the Christian faith, Jesus is a symbol of love in its highest and most perfect sense, the God sense, so we will remind you once again as we have before in these talks, of something of great import, that He said.
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock, and if any should open unto me, I will enter in and sup with him."
These words are so profound that you could think on this theme for hours on end without us even speaking another word.
But let us think a little more deeply together.
"I stand at the door and knock."
Love does not offer itself in this instance. It does not give unto you. It does not prepare the feast. It is patient. It is waiting. You must bid it enter into your own heart. And in your own heart must the table be laid. But is it not a great thought that the love stands not for this one, not waiting for that, but it is there, waiting at the heart, at the doorway of the mind of every human soul. Will you bid it enter in? Then must thou be still, must thou be quiet. You must prepare the quiet place, you must have made all arrangements through your own initiative, through your own thoughts, through your own way of life, through your own prayers, with your own hands and your own mind, must you have prepared for the feast. And then, of your own initiative, must thou bid the guest to enter. The door cannot be forced, the meal cannot prepare itself.
To do this one must be single-minded. To prepare and to get ready the things that love will enjoy. The things that will appear and nourish love must be carefully chosen. For it is a thing of absolute perfection. It cannot choose or desire or take unto itself anything that is alien to itself, alien to God.
Now, dear children, can you see why to be alone, to be in the company, to be in tune with love, to sit with it, to enjoy and to be nourished with it and by it at this sacred meal, is a very, very rare, a very, very precious occurrence. It cannot happen often. Only now and again. Do you understand? You have to be on a certain vibration, in a certain mood, on a certain spiritual wavelength before you can open the door of your heart and bid love to enter in. But if you can only succeed in having this wonderful meeting, visit, this wonderful meeting, this wonderful food for thought once in a life time, if you only have this sacred experience once, you have lived well.
You have opened the door and the guest has entered. But if you can succeed in this experience more than once thou art indeed blessed. Because it is a time of complete replacement, recharging, rejuvenating of all the mental, the psychic, and the spiritual faculties. Even if, as a perfectly chosen meal nourishes and recharges the organs of the body, the blood and the bones, so, when you can rise to the occasion spiritually, to allow love to become the guest of honour in your heart, the spiritual nourishment feeds the psychic, the mental, and the spiritual parts of the body.
This is a great upliftment and we say unto you that through the different trials and tribulations, and the circumstances that have beset you of late, it has been very, very difficult to prepare this sacred feast and to open the door to love. In other words, Jesus, Love, the Spirit has not been able to be with you even for a little while. But the sick, the poor, the chaos, the ugliness of the world around you, have been your guests. But the promise is still fulfilled, "For a little while I will be with you." Take this Divine nourishment, let it fill your being, accept it and know that you yourself have had to prepare it, and that your guest, love, has been invited by you yourself. Fear not, let not your heart be troubled. Accept the good and the bad, so-called, because, without the sick and the poor, without the troubles and the tribulations, and without the trials, what need would you have of the guest, the stillness and the love.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock" (Revelation 3:20) is read here with unusual precision: love does not force entry, does not offer itself unbidden, does not prepare the meal itself. It waits, patiently, "at the doorway of the mind of every human soul" — and the invitation, the table, the whole preparation, must come from the person alone. This is a real reversal of how grace is often imagined — not a gift simply given, but a guest who will only ever be invited, never intrude.
The transcript is honest that this meeting cannot be constant or willed at any moment — it requires "a certain vibration, a certain mood, a certain spiritual wavelength," and is described as genuinely rare even for someone sincerely seeking it. But its value isn't diminished by its rarity: a single true experience of it, even once in a lifetime, is called enough to say "you have lived well." When it happens more than once, it's described as complete spiritual nourishment — feeding the psychic and mental self exactly as a well-chosen meal feeds the body.
Its final turn is the most tender: acknowledging that recent trials have made the door hard to open, that "the sick, the poor, the chaos" have crowded out the quiet needed for the feast, and that love has, for now, been absent even briefly. Rather than treating this as failure, the transcript reframes the trouble itself as part of what makes the feast meaningful in the first place — "without the sick and the poor, without the troubles... what need would you have of the guest, the stillness and the love?" The difficulty isn't opposed to the invitation; it's what makes the invitation worth extending at all.