July 28th 1967
We come in love and we bring thee peace. We would remind you of your own great Teacher, the leader, the beginner of so-called Christianity, the Christ Himself, who understood so well the human heart and the human mind. In your prayer you asked to be given the help, so that you yourselves could forgive yourselves, so that you could be more loving and more tolerant towards, not only your own weakness, but the frailties and weaknesses of others.
Christ so knew and understood the world that He was aware that in the whole world there could not possibly be a sinless, stainless one. Because, when the woman taken in adultery was brought before Him for punishment, He said, "Let the man amongst you who has never sinned throw the first stone”. That great loving heart knew that no man could honestly throw or decry or maim the so-called sinner.
And the world and people are still the same. Because, if one were absolutely experienced, even as Christ, then there would be no need for that soul to sojourn the Earth plane. Only the great saviours, the masters themselves, who come for a special purpose in times of great chaos and distress upon the Earth, these are the only ones who enter into the womb of a woman, sinless and stainless. And even these have at one time or another walked the sinned. Earth, lived a human life, and have done the wrong things so that they could learn to do the right.
And if you think on these things you will not expect to be sinless. You will not expect to be perfect. But, we ask of you the same as Christ asked of the crowd that would have stoned the woman, sin no more.
But it is a stupid, and a very silly thing, a very childish thing, to carry the weight of guilt. If you do this, if you sit and are anxious, if you fret over this thought or that deed that has happened in bygone days, then you are not putting your burden upon the Lord. You are carrying it and it is weighing heavily upon your own soul, which should at this time be free. We know that although you have advanced in spiritual teaching, that you have learned much, and that you have become enlightened to a certain degree, we understand that the soul has struggled to free itself. But, you are still inclined to hold it down with the weight of guilt feelings, complexes, and anxieties.
Now we have told you quite recently that there is a certain amount of human worry which must be your lot and which you must accept, and we understand that you cannot throw everything to the wind, especially when the body has become tired and jaded through age. This is a little cave, a trap, which still holds the soul which longs, the Spirit which craves to be free. But we would ask you to remember this, that there is a part of you, the physical part, which depends absolutely on the physical for its very existence, its very life, its very being. And when one has become spiritually advanced, if only a little, the eyes have been opened and the mind has been tuned in to reality, to the essence, to the great oneness to the spirit, and then the Spirit would be free, it looks around through the eyes of the body, and sees the pain, the unreal, the change, and the decay, the wrong thinking and the craving and desires of the unenlightened masses who are making such sad and terrifying mistakes. And it says, "What I would give to soar from this trap, this case into my own habitat, into my proper place, into reality and freedom." But remember, the physical who cries out with a loud voice, "This is my place. This is where I belong. You cannot kill me off just like that”.
And a fight ensues. A battle. And it is only natural, you owe a lot to your physical, your physical body has served you well. It has allowed your Spirit to dwell within it, and to learn, and to become wise, it has been a school-house. It has protected the sensitive spirit. It has been good. It has worked for you. And the weaker, and the more subject to disease that it has been, because the law has to be fulfilled, the more you hold to it, the more you hold to it. So be still. For by craving and longing to leave the body, the greater the fight between the physical and the spiritual.
But in a quiet time, when you are at peace, and the spiritual world and the world about you, in which you move at this same time, you will take the physical unaware, and away. And away. But remember when that day comes, to give a little thanks to the corpse you leave behind. Look on it kindly. Look on it kindly. It has served you well.
We feel in a merry mood. We are happy at heart. We are pleased to be with you, although we have never left you. There has not been quite the same awareness, but this has been planned, arranged, for your own sake. And we bring you again the memory of the great one, the healer and the teacher, who knew that no Earthly man is perfect. So be at peace.
This transcript's reasoning is unusually direct: no one on Earth can be sinless, because if they were, "there would be no need for that soul to sojourn the Earth plane" at all — imperfection isn't a flaw in the system, it's the reason the school exists. Christ's own answer to the crowd ready to stone the woman taken in adultery — "let him among you who has never sinned throw the first stone" (John 8:7) — is read here as recognition, not just mercy: even the accusers, honestly examined, could not meet their own standard. The instruction that follows is not absolution without change but Christ's own words to her directly — "sin no more" — repentance and effort asked for, guilt not required.
The transcript names carrying guilt bluntly as "a stupid, and a very silly thing" — not because wrongdoing doesn't matter, but because holding onto it after the fact keeps a burden on one's own soul that was meant to be given over, not carried. There's real gentleness alongside the bluntness, though: it acknowledges that some worry is simply part of being embodied and tired, "a little cave, a trap," and doesn't ask for an impossible, instant freedom from that.
Its final section turns to something more unusual — the tension between a spiritually awakened mind, which can see clearly enough to long for release, and the physical body, which fights for its own continued existence, "this is my place... you cannot kill me off just like that." Rather than treating the body as an enemy to be defeated in this struggle, the transcript asks for gratitude toward it — "it has served you well... give a little thanks to the corpse you leave behind. Look on it kindly" — the body honoured as a faithful schoolhouse for the spirit, not merely a cage to escape.