June 19th 1966
This, dear children, is a continuation of the last talk! Move the stone and I am there. Lo I am with thee, even unto the end of the world,"
All teachers worthy of the name, all the great masters, have always taught that it is good to be with, to mix with, and to keep company with good and holy men. And so, perhaps, it was to you a little perplexing when we said that one must try to be happy with all and sundry. But, it is possible, if one is truly enlightened, and has learned, as it were, the hard way, and found for himself, to be at home in all conditions. Nevertheless, one must be more at ease and at home with the greater thinkers, with the lovelier souls, with the quiet ones, than with the other types. But, like all things, too much can become a burden, and lose its essence and its lustre.
And when one must abide in Earth conditions, then, for the sake of the soul, it is good for one to have to mix, as it were, and the greater the pleasure when like meets like, and together they can rise above the ordinary and the mundane.
Now we would like to explain a little more fully, concerning one's duty towards the younger souls, the little children, although they may be quite old according to Earth standards. Now God, as have told you, as Jesus told you, as all the great teachers are continually telling you, that God and love is everywhere. So we go back to, "Move the stone, and I am there."
You go into a great temple, into the innermost chamber, where a holy man is praying, one who has gone, as it were, beyond the world. The aura, the atmosphere is altogether beautiful. You move the curtain, and there is the saint. There is God, able to manifest Himself in a great and glorious measure. Everything about this highly evolved soul is revealing. One can see and feel God, the true spirit, everywhere. The ether seems charged with the power which comes and emanates from such a one. And with this one you would walk, expect to walk, be happy to walk, along the lonely paths, green grass, blue skies, and quiet peace. This is what you would expect in the conditions of such a human being full of God, so empty, the human vessel has become so empty that God can fill every fibre, every nerve of his being. One must be uplifted and at home, if one has searched, in such company.
But move the stone beloved, and the worm will wriggle. The beetle will try to escape. But there is God, in lower form. There is life, there is the essence. In all places, at all times. Everywhere.
We do not advise any person, any soul, any child, to deliberately seek evil company. We do not think that it is good to force oneself, at any time, onto vibrations which are not congenial to that one. But if it so happens, that you naturally find yourself, through your blood relationships, your neighbours, your friends, or the people with whom you have to come into contact. When you are forced into their company through circumstance, then if you feel irritated, unhappy, which is perfectly natural, then move the stone, mentally move the stone, remove from your mind any ill thoughts, any irritability if you possibly can, and then you will see the movement of God.
It will not move in the same way, it will not strike you in the same way, it will not be on your vibration, you will not be able to tune into it, but you must recognise this movement, this life, as God, as the essence.
And we would remind you once again of the power definitely being there. The higher the watt, the greater the light. The more that can come through, the greater the light.
Think you as to these things. Where is the mystery now? Where is the mystery now? "It is not I that doeth the work, but the Father within me." You smile and talk, you are hospitable, you are kind to all and sundry. Even to fools, even with fools, you must be sympathetic. This is the Father within. Because all these people, all these persons that you are dealing with, are His. And even as Christ, even as Jesus, realised that He, Himself, was useless, nothing without the Father, no must we, and so must you. You see how you begin to feel empty, poor in spirit, and whilst this feeling is upon you, how peaceful, feel how all these responsibilities fall from you. They are not yours. They are not yours.
"Cast your burden upon the Lord. Take my yoke unto yourself. For it is light." See? Switch on the power and the light is forthcoming.
This moment is eternity. It will never fade. It will never be any different. It is always like this really, in the very centre of your being in the great calm. Be sympathetic. Pity those who are rushing here and there, who must have this, who must have that. They are burdened down with self. With the clay they make, with desire. They are full and overflowing with self. There is not the tiniest place where the true Spirit can abide.
Now do you understand why we tell you not to be anxious, not to fret. The sadness, the sorrow, will come and go. "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”
"Move the stone, and I am there" is the transcript's governing image — and worth knowing where it comes from: not the familiar Gospels, but the Gospel of Thomas (saying 77), one of the Nag Hammadi texts: "lift up the stone and you will find me there."
The transcript resolves an apparent paradox from the previous talk: it is right and natural to prefer the company of "the greater thinkers, the lovelier souls" — like meeting like lifts a person, and too much of any company, even the finest, can become its own burden. But God is not confined to the temple's inner chamber where the saint prays in radiant peace. Move a different stone, and "the worm will wriggle, the beetle will try to escape" — the same God, present in lower and rougher forms, in company one would never have sought out. The instruction is not to seek out difficult company deliberately, but where circumstance brings it — family, neighbours, the people one is simply thrown among — to recognise the same underlying life there too, even if it can't be felt the same way, or met on the same vibration.
The transcript's practical method is to "move the stone" mentally: set aside irritation, and see what's actually present rather than only what irritates. And it grounds this in real self-emptying, not effort — quoting Jesus's own "it is not I that doeth the work, but the Father within me," and inviting a feeling of being "poor in spirit," burdens no longer one's own to carry. Kindness to "even fools" becomes possible not through strain, but because the responsibility for it was never really the self's to bear in the first place.