March 26th 1965
...and my ward. Into thy presence I come, meek and lowly, a servant of the Master. And in my time, that time when I walked the Earth plane, I worshipped many masters. And I sat at the feet of the great teachers of my time, and each and every one taught me, through loving kindness, to appreciate all that had compassion in their hearts. I thank my God, that those who taught me were in very truth, His very own. And I heard through the mouths of these teachers of the one called Jesus and of the Christ or of the Buddha Spirit within every human being. And I valued above anything else, the virtue of humility. I was taught to practice this again and again throughout the day, throughout the week, throughout the year, throughout my Earth life. And in humbleness and meekness of Spirit and with a heart full of love and compassion, I come to thee. And I place my hands upon your brow. And with a meekness equal to the meekness I practised upon the Earth plane, as a little child, I bend my hand and pray to my Father for easement of your pain and peace for your heart and for your mind.
And Jesus said,
"Seek ye not the living among the dead."
Also did He say, because a faithful one who had seen His face, had felt the power of His great love, this same one would follow Him, but His Earth parent had passed away. And he ran to the Master torn between two fires, his duty to his parent and his great love and desire for Christ. "Oh Master," he cried, "I would follow thee, but tarry awhile for I must bury my father.” And Jesus said, "Let the dead bury their dead and follow me."
This world of yours is full of the dead and the dying. The air in rent with the weeping and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
Everywhere there are those crying and sorrowing for their lost. For those that have left, as it were, the body of pain. Their grief and their sorrow, the heaviness of their hearts is a sign that they themselves are as dead in a living body as the corpse over which they weep. But the man who realises and knows of the love of God, the one who has studied the teaching of the great masters will realise in his heart that there is no death and that the Spirit has taken leave of its prison of flesh and can and will be drawn back to those who are joined unto it, through pure love for ever and ever. And such a one will have no dead to bury.
He will recognise only the immortal, the everlasting, and the perfect. Tears, in very truth, may fall from his eyes, but he is at peace within himself.
That is why spiritualism is a true and good beginning for a true and good beginner. For one who is, as it were, made of the right stuff, whose mind is ready for the truth. Who does not expect and crave for sensation, glamour and the applaud of the crowd. We would very much like to see spiritualism lifted up onto a higher level. There is much good in this movement but so many stumble across it, as it were, by accident. They do not search and seek until something drastic happens in their own lives
And because they are in a state of nervous tension, of frustration, and great grief, at this time ready, or in a proper state of mind to receive the truth, in all its quiet beauty. That is why we are always pleased to see a child of Earth start to search while still young, in good health, and sound mind, when everything, as it were, is in good order
And we wait so patiently for the time when the children of Earth can bury their dead with a tender smile and a happy heart.
When they can wish their beloved well, and say in very truth, "When sleep holds us, we will meet again, and together we will walk through the Spirit gardens, hold hands and sit in the warm sunshine, listening to the birds, then we can give to each other the very God whom we serve now”.
And the Earth children can come back and start anew. Then on that day will the heaven be on Earth. And, little ones, slowly but surely, with your thoughts and prayers and your seeking, you are bringing this about, even as there would be no ocean without the individual drops. So, my children, there will be no heaven upon Earth without the for working and praying continually for this to come into being.
And so we go back again to the commandments, to the teachings of the master, "Love the Lord they God with all thy heart and all thy mind, and with all thy spirit, and then, forgiving and respecting yourselves, love thy neighbour."
And in this love and understanding, you will gather …… when you are on this vibration there is no veil, no ……. Just the holy oneness, the great, absolute, join. ….. who love. Be at peace. Be wise.
There is no death. This transcript reinterprets Jesus's hardest saying, "let the dead bury their dead," so that "the dead" are the spiritually asleep: those who grieve as though the person, and not just the body, were lost. The truly awake do not deny sorrow — tears may still fall — but they see through it, knowing the spirit endures and cannot be parted from those who love it.
The transcript also makes the point that we can be reunited while we sleep. This principle is written about by various philosophers. Why would a soul having a human experience, be restricted to the human body all the time?
It also makes the point that Spiritualism is a good start for those seeking truth because they give evidence of the fact that there is no death.
The same conviction underlies the Bhagavad Gita's image of death as simply the shedding of worn-out clothes for new ones (2.22): what perishes is the garment, never the one who wore it.