December 1970
We come in peace. And you have prayed for peace. And again we say, we come in peace. And this in itself is a great thing, because we cannot enter in where there is not this peace. You pray, and you ask continually, to become still. And being still is being at peace. Therefore we comfort you because only can we come where there is this stillness of peace. But it is the peace that you were promised through the Christ, peace, but not as the world knows it. The peace of the world is a disturbing, perishable thing of happiness. When people are happy because the desires of their heart has been met, they call it peace. It is pence as the world knows it.
But the peace we bring, and the peace which we must find in the mind of a person upon the Earth, before we can enter in, as it were, and take Spiritual nourishment together, is a peace that is instilled into the heart and mind of the one concerned, through the searching, through the seeking, through the knocking upon the door, and through the asking of many, many years.
The one to whom we can come in pence, with peace, and through peace, has had to fulfil, has had to acquire, and had to learn so many of the virtues of living. Of living in the God sense. And so take heart, because like attracts like, and we cannot enter in with this heavenly peace unless we are being drawn, unless we are on the vibration of peace in the heart and the mind of the one concerned.
And because the law is perfect and cannot be altered, you have nothing at all to fear. Because you have made this peace your own. If you look about you at this same time in your world, all those things which are alien to even the worldly peace, to peace as the world knows it. All these destructions and chaos that is being caused in your midst is simply the flowering, as it were, the bringing into being, the fulfilment of scenes which have been set and the natural law is taking it's own toll. Being perfect, the law is so.
Therefore the pollution and the wars, and the strife, and the aggression, are all the fulfilment of the seeds of avarice, jealousy, and greed, which have been planted into the so-called system of your day. People have wanted more and more, have cried out again and again for this and that, we must have, and they have got. They have asked in the worldly sense. They have sought in the worldly sense. And in a worldly sense the natural laws have given them their due. They crave for too much of everything. They want so much and yet they have not been prepared to put in the necessary, requisite, to build up slowly and carefully and naturally, the things which they demand.
Wherefore the harvest is not good because the seed was bad, was wrong. Did not come from a desire for peace in the God sense, but for a worldly peace, a gratification of the fleshy, physical desires, of possessing this and that, of being able to enjoy, as they call it, the good things of life, too rapidly, and they had not been prepared to earn, to put in, to wait. They tried as it were, to cut short the law, and now much is getting more and more of the wrong things, because the desires and the motives which were the seed, were wrong, and unnatural. People have forgotten the value of the simple things in life. The good things. The free things. The things that are in abundance all around. Yet, which are neglected, left undeveloped, unsought.
But the few that have the eyes to see, recognise the value of the simple things. They crave not for the so-called luxuries. For the softness that will only bring a rottenness to the flesh and to the bone and to the mind. They feel that extra warmth, extra food, extra luxuries, all these things will bring them the peace of happiness. And they make, as it were, this hard, difficult, unhappy be upon which they must lie. They seek, they knock, and they ask, but not for love. Not for the power of the Spirit, not for the Christ.
But because Christmas is drawing nigh, for a little while their thoughts will be a little higher, albeit it will be mostly concentrated on food and the so-called good things, on waste, and enjoyment of the body, and the physical things, but even so, they will stop for a little while to think even on this low level, of others. And certain pangs of remorse may be sent out into the thought world and all these fragments of kindlier thought will be used by those who are watching and waiting to bring a little comfort, or just a little Spiritual peace to one here and one there. But those who have laid, as it were, the seed of Christ, the Spirit of Christ, the tiny, undeveloped babe, in the manger of their own hearts, these will receive the gift of true peace. Although they cannot be altogether and absolutely protected from the impact of the dark, threatening, ignorant, fearful thoughts of those around them. Because they are still part of it in the flesh. But this peace, this true love, the power emanating from that Spirit, that tiny babe, that seed of God within them, will keep them, surely safe, on the level of the Spirit. They will reside in the power, in the truth, because they are confident, quietly and surely confident, of the love of God. And the invisible wall of protection is all around them. Because they know, because they are, because they are real, they are true, and the knowledge they have made their own is the very rock beneath their feet, and the shield all around them. They must needs pray for the helpless for the old, for the very young, and for the ignorant, and for the fearful, for they, and they alone, hold and have the power which will save the whole world.
Albeit, it will take countless, countless ages, before each soul is brought back into the fold of love, and yet, these few who really know, who are sincere in their motive, in their desires, in their thoughts for peace as Christ gave it, these are they who will go forth into the world of Spirit and come back through the mists of the Earth with more and more power, to enlighten more and more souls who are willing and waiting to receive.
So once again we give thanks for the peace on Earth, and the good will towards men, which can be given, and will be given abundantly from every soul who knows. Not believes, but knows. The thousand, thousand voices from the great temples, churches and cathedrals that will be singing their carols and their songs of praise will not be equal, the power will not be equal, unto the power which comes from one truly Spiritual, knowledgeable, heart who may sit by the quiet hEarth alone. And yet to these and with these the angels gather close and sing their songs of praise to the babe developing and maturing in the heart of the one who loves while still in the midst of a dark and frightened world.
This is the great thought for Christmas, that love came into the world to bring its light. It came and resided and lived amongst men. So we worship once again at the manger so many, deep within their hearts and minds, of the true, of the faithful, for they are the shepherds that watch by night. And they are the ones who will be the voice of the true light and to all of whom they come into contact. Again we say we come in peace. True peace, through peace.
"Peace not as the world knows it" (John 14:27) is drawn as a sharp line, not a matter of degree: worldly peace is contentment when desire is met, "a disturbing, perishable thing of happiness," while the peace this transcript speaks of can only enter where genuine stillness has already been built, "through the searching, through the seeking... of many, many years." Contact itself depends on that peace already being present — "like attracts like" — so the transcript treats the condition of the receiving heart as the actual gate, not a preliminary to it.
Its most severe passage reads the era's wars, pollution, and social chaos as direct natural consequence — "the flowering... of seeds of avarice, jealousy, and greed" planted through demanding too much too quickly, wanting comfort and luxury without the patience to earn them naturally. This is offered less as moral condemnation of individuals and more as an application of the same law of sowing and reaping met throughout this collection, applied here at the scale of a whole society rather than one life.
Its gentler turn comes with Christmas itself, treated as a genuine, if limited, opening — even those absorbed mostly in food and comfort will, for a moment, think of others, and that fragment of kindness is described as real and usable, gathered up "by those who are watching and waiting" rather than dismissed as insufficient. But the transcript reserves its fullest promise for those who have "laid the seed of Christ... in the manger of their own hearts" — not full protection from the world's fear and darkness, since they remain "still part of it in the flesh," but an inward safety that cannot be touched by it, "the very rock beneath their feet." Its closing claim is direct and uncompromising: one such heart, sitting quietly alone, outweighs "the thousand, thousand voices" singing carols in the great cathedrals — the power measured not by numbers gathered, but by what's genuinely known rather than merely believed.