January 12th 1967
I have loved you and been so very near to you all your Earth life.
And I knew at the very beginning and you knew also, that there was a possibility of your possessing the stone before your Earth life ended. And there are many, there are many so-called keepers of the stone, who know that the little one who is born into the world, has knowledge of the stone before coming to Earth and would make it there own. But there has been some virtue lacking in the make-up of the character that only the Earth experience again could provide, could make good.
You have now guessed, my ward and my charge, you have made the stone your own. This is a mental state. And this power will rub off, as it were, on any one who meets you with kindness, with sympathy, and understanding, like the pollen and the bee. It will not cling to everyone and everything. There must be a certain something, a certain attraction with those with whom you come in contact before they can sort of magnetise this from you. But if they have this power of receptivity, then they can take from you this certain something, this mystery of the stone, this mysterious power, this sacred something.
And now, at this Christmas time, I lay down my burden. I have lost all doubts. I sigh, as it were, with a great relief. And I am pleased, my little one, and humbly grateful for all that has been accomplished.
This transcript marks something rare in this collection: an ending, not an instruction. "The stone" — a recurring symbol throughout, of wisdom carried within — has here finally been "made her own," achieved, this time, through the very Earth experience that was needed to complete a virtue that could not be gained any other way. What's striking is the guide's own release alongside it: "I lay down my burden... I sigh, as it were, with a great relief" — the watcher's task, held perhaps across an entire lifetime, is now also finished.
The stone's power, once possessed, isn't hoarded or willed onto others — it transfers only where there's already a receptivity to receive it, "like the pollen and the bee." Grace given freely still needs an open hand to land in.