1965
If Jesus, the Master came to thee in the flesh and said, "Whom sayeth thou that I am?" What would you say? What would your answer be? Perhaps in so many words you would find it very difficult to answer this question, so we will bring you once again thoughts from the mind of the Master.
Say that I am love. Say that I am remembered not because I worked with my hands, or that I performed miracles, or that I raised the dead, or that I gave sight to the blind.
Remember me as a man who has searched in the deepest depths of my own being. One who has sat at the feet of the masters and learned ones, and, after so doing, gazed into the face of a leper, and a new-born babe, and learned more there than from the masters themselves. I learned of the essence, of light itself. That which I had searched for which I longed to know, I found in my fellow man, in nature, in the sands of the desert, in the waters of the sea. I found within myself the Father, and in all others. I saw, and knew, and recognised, myself.
No-one answered me as I wished to be answered. No-one answered the question, "Who would you say that I am?" And no-one said, "Thou art Jesus, the living God, and no-one recognised the oneness, the spirit. They only saw a man, a teacher, a miracle worker.
I remind you of the great, golden thread that runs through the necklace, that runs through and holds together every single being.
But respect and love, and do what you can for the separate beings, for they are indeed very important, since the thread holds together. When the time has come for every bead to go to its proper place, then the golden thread will still be.
There is much to consider in this short transcript. Jesus describes the longing for knowledge, already referred to in other transcripts. He wants to be known by the love that he is, and not by his deeds and miracles. He makes the point that he learned more from staring into the faces of a baby and a leper than from his Masters. In these, He saw the divine essence that runs through everyone and realised who he was. This is the golden thread running through every bead of a necklace — each bead separate, valued, loved in its particularity, yet all one, all held by one thread. This closely echoes the Bhagavad Gita (7.7): "All this universe is strung on Me, as rows of gems on a thread."
He found God within himself and every other being.