"The Only True Means"

A personal reflection on The Christ Letters
by Jo-Ann

July 2026

The Way to Freedom

There is a question at the heart of every sincere spiritual search, but rarely considered by many:

Am I looking for freedom from something outside myself — or remembering something I already am?

The answer to this question changes everything. 

Why? 

Because it determines whether your spiritual life is a journey of intellectual acquisition — collecting the right beliefs, the right texts, the right teacher — or a journey responding to the call of the Heart. A stripping away of all that is false. A return Home to discover you never actually left.

This article is about that distinction... intellectual acquisition vs a call of the Heart. And it uses a phrase from Letter 3 of The Christ Letters that, based on the emails I have received, is dangerously misunderstood by the ego-controlled minds of some readers.

I say "dangerous", because, when misunderstood, it can result in words and actions and distorted beliefs that severely restrict a person's spiritual evolution resulting in the need for another incarnation.

(A Personal Side Note on what happens when something is dangerously misunderstood: over the years I have received threats, including a death threat, and verbal attacks and warnings because of my websites and postings for the Letters simply because they challenged people's ego-distorted beliefs, so much so that they even needed to attack someone who posted something that challenged their beliefs.)

The phrase from Letter 3 that is misunderstood by some:

"These Letters offer the only true means by which people will find the path to the spiritual dimension in which all human error fades away and only love remains."

This is actually a very accurate statement by Christ... BUT... when this is misinterpreted by the intellectual mind to mean there are no other equal teachings to the Letters, this can result in problems, including the person judging others who disagree with them, resulting in them anchoring themselves in the material world, unable to transcend to the level of Divine Consciousness.

However, once this phrase is understood in its depth, it will be seen that Christ is not pointing to His Letters as being the only book or teaching with the highest truth, as something that is not available elsewhere, but with His Letters He is pointing us inward... which IS the highest teaching  — taught in all the great texts for many millennia  — and which IS the only true means by which people will find the path to the spiritual dimension in which all human error fades away and, as Christ says, "only love remains".

Personally, I feel that clearly understanding this phrase may be one of the more important things a sincere student of The Letters can do, otherwise it can seriously restrict one’s spiritual evolution.

The Christ Letters Are Not the Point — They Are the Pointer

The Christ Letters, like all great spiritual texts, are not presented as a sacred object to be venerated or defended. The Letters are the finger pointing at the moon. And as any Zen teacher will remind you — when a teacher points at the moon, the mistake is to stare at their finger.

Simply stated, the "only true means" is not referring to The Letters but to what the Letters teach. There are equally powerful teachings brought to us even eons before Christ's time on earth.

It is what The Letters are pointing toward: a practice, an inner movement, a fundamental reorientation of consciousness away from fear and toward LOVE.

No book can do that for you.

No book has ever done that for anyone.

What The Christ Letters do with remarkable precision and clarity is guide you, and describe the territory clearly enough that you will recognize it when it stirs within you.

But the journey is yours. The practice is yours. 

And the transformation that results happens entirely within. 

The Message

Consider what becomes visible when you look at the full body of the transmission that Christ brought through the Recorder.

The nine Letters carry a cosmic and corrective quality — revisiting the historical record, clarifying what was actually taught in Palestine, and what was lost, overlaid, or distorted in the centuries that followed. They situate the individual seeker within a vast, unfolding story of consciousness itself waking up providing a depth not available in many texts and their teachings.

The 16 Articles bring that teaching down into the practical — how to walk The Christ Way in daily life, how to work with the ego, how to move from knowledge of the truth into the lived experience of it.

The 3 Messages speak with particular urgency to this moment in human history — the threshold we are collectively standing on and what is being asked of those who are ready.

One source. One direction. One unified message at the center of all of it.

Christ's Warning

There is a passage in Letter 7 that every reader of The Christ Letters — and indeed every seeker drawn to any spiritual text — should take to Heart:

"It is weakening to the soul to need another agent as a spiritual 'crutch', therefore, to depend even on myself must be recognised as a temporary measure. For this reason, I am making every effort through my Recorder, to enable you to realise that your true support, mainstay, 'SOURCE OF LIFE and BEING' are drawn directly from the all-powerful dimension of Universal Consciousness in equilibrium."

Read the above again slowly and note ➡ Christ is cautioning, within His own Letters, against making even Himself a permanent dependency.

If that is true of Christ Himself, how much more true is it of the Letters or of any text, teacher, tradition, or institution?

This in itself is a spiritually extraordinary teaching for many religious systems today — consciously or not — build in dependency. You must attend this service. Follow this teacher. Read only this book. Let us interpret the teaching for you.

The Letters do the opposite. They hand you a sturdy ladder and then remind you that the ladder is the aid that helps you reach the roof. But once you are on the roof the ladder is no longer needed.

When any spiritual text — however inspired, however luminous — becomes the final word rather than a living pointer, something has quietly gone wrong. The text has stopped being a pointer and become a wall blocking spiritual progress. Worse, it has become what it warned against: a god made of pages, a crutch dressed in sacred language.

This is not a new warning. It echoes the oldest commandment in the Judeo-Christian tradition — "You shall have no other gods before me" (Exodus 20:3). That instruction, read without understanding, acts as a prohibition against primitive idol worship. But its deeper meaning is far more radical and far more personal: place nothing finite in the position that only the Infinite can occupy. Not a golden calf. Not a temple. Not a priesthood. And not — as Christ makes plain in Letter 7 — even Christ Himself. 

When a spiritual text, however luminous, becomes your final authority rather than a living pointer toward Divine Consciousness and the Ultimate Universal Dimension, you have quietly (or perhaps not so quietly!) made it your god. And in doing so, you have placed a ceiling on your own spiritual evolution.

The Zen tradition makes the same point in its own characteristically blunt way: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." It sounds shocking until you understand what it means — any Buddha you can encounter as an external figure is a concept, not the living reality. The living reality is what you are, not what you follow.

Three traditions. Three ways of saying the same thing. Moses, Buddha, Christ — all pointing in the same direction: inward.

Deep, sustained engagement with The Christ Letters is genuinely transformative. But the transformation is the point — not the text that catalysed it. 

The goal, as Christ makes unmistakably clear, is direct access to Divine Consciousness itself. Not mediated. Not dependent. Not borrowed from any outside authority, however exalted.

Every teacher, every transmission, every moment of grace received through an outside channel is — in Christ's own words — a temporary measure. The destination is YOU, standing in direct, unmediated relationship with the Source of your own Being.

That is not the end of gratitude for The Letters that helped guide you. It is the fullness of what they were always trying to give you.

What the Practice Actually Is

Across the entire mystical lineage of humanity, the core practice converges on the same movement, and it cannot be performed ritually. It cannot be outsourced.

It happens in the silence beneath your thoughts, in the space between one moment and the next.

It begins with inner stillness.

Not the stillness of a quiet room, though that can help. Not the stillness of a calm day or a peaceful mood. Those are external conditions that come and go.

Inner stillness is something categorically different. It is the deliberate withdrawal of attention from the relentless commentary of the thinking mind — the planning, judging, remembering, fearing, wanting mind that most of us mistake for ourselves. It is the discovery, often startling the first time it is genuinely touched, that beneath all of that noise there is a vast, aware, untroubled presence that was never disturbed by any of it.

That presence is where the practice lives.

From that ground of inner stillness, the other movements become possible:

Forgiveness — not as moral virtue or condescending tolerance, but as the radical recognition that what you thought was done to you was a drama of misperception, and you are free to lay it down. Forgiveness is the direct solvent of the ego's foundational story.

Surrender of fear — choosing, moment by moment, to release the grip of the fear-based reaction and turn toward love instead. Not suppressing fear, not performing positivity, but genuinely recognizing fear as a signal that you have temporarily forgotten what you are beyond all fear.

Recognition of Divine Nature — not as a future achievement to be earned, but as a present reality to be remembered. The spiritual dimension The Letters describe is not somewhere you are going. It is something you are waking up to. The practice provided is to aid the awakening, it is not the destination.

Receptivity — the willingness to be taught, guided, moved by something deeper than the personal will―Divine Will.

This is what the Christian mystical tradition called kenosis — self-emptying — what Meister Eckhart named Gelassenheit, letting go. It is the Bhagavad Gita's nishkama karma, action released from ego-clinging. Every tradition that has touched the Real has found its way to this same threshold.

The Ancient Agreement

The Christ Letters did not invent this 'practice'. No transmission has ever invented it. It is older than any text, older than any tradition, older than any teacher who ever walked the earth.

The Desert Fathers of the fourth century sat in the Egyptian wilderness cultivating exactly this inner stillness, calling it hesychia — a word that means far more than silence. It means the peace that surpasses understanding, the quiet in which God speaks.

The Sufi masters spoke of fana — the dissolving of the ego's insistent noise into the presence of the Beloved. Not annihilation of the self, but the falling away of everything false so that what is Real can finally be heard.

The Kabbalistic tradition describes hitbonenut — deep contemplative inwardness — as the means by which the soul aligns with the divine light it already carries.

The Hindu Upanishads, some of the oldest spiritual texts in existence, are essentially one sustained instruction in exactly this: Tat tvam asi — That Thou Art. The practice is remembering what you have always been.

The "only true means" has been here all along. What The Christ Letters offer is not a new way. They are helping a new generation find the way that was always there — and perhaps, for those who had forgotten it entirely, lighting the path a little more clearly for it to be seen.

A Word to the Sincere Seeker

Regardless of the spiritual text, the most important thing to understand is this:

The value is not in having read it. It is not in being able to quote from it. It is not in belonging to a community that studies it or defending its authenticity against skeptics.

The value is in whether the transmission is guiding you inward.

Toward stillness. 

Toward that surrender. 

Toward the growing recognition that the love The Letters describe — the spiritual dimension where all human error fades — is not a place you are traveling to. It is what you discover yourself to BE, in the quiet, when you finally stop searching outside for it.

That is the practice. That is the only true means. 

And it has always, only, ever been available right HERE... NOW — in this moment, beneath this breath, behind this thought.

The way to freedom is not in any book.

The way to freedom, as Christ teaches, is within you.

And Christ's Letters, Article and Messages are a profound temporary aid to guide you there.

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