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POWERFUL SPIRITUAL ORATAOR by Silver Birch

”Through all the darkness that prevails, do not abandon hope, but be assured in the knowledge that those who work with you for the upliftment of humankind, who strive to bring better conditions into your world of matter, will prevail, for the power that is on their side is the mightiest power in the universe.

“You will not achieve that which is worth achieving without travail, without sorrow. Your world must learn its lessons in the only way it can learn them. We are breaking through all over the world of matter. Our message lights up the minds in every part of your world, and, as the light of the spirit breaks in on your world, so its rays disperse the darkness of your materialism.

”We do not seek to terrify you with threats of punishment. We do not seek to make you craven cowards, living your lives because of fear. We strive to make you realize the latent divinity that is yours, that you may express more of the Great Power, that you may rise to greater heights and fill your mind with greater truth and wisdom.” (From the great Silver Birch Anthology – p.43 The Divine Plan.)

“The more you give away of your spiritual riches the richer you are. If you desire to evolve, grow and progress, you have to forget self and serve others, but only those who are ready to be served …” (Teachings of Silver Birch, ’93)

“To die is not tragic. To live in you world is tragic. To see the garden of the Great spirit choked with the weeds of selfishness and greed and avarice, that is tragedy …. To die is to enjoy freedom of the spirit, which has been imprisoned behind the bars of the material body. Is it tragic to be released from suffering, for the soul to come into its own? Is it tragic to see wonders of color; to hear music that does not belong to material expression? Do you call it tragic to express yourself in a body that has no pain, to be able to roam all over the world of matter in a flash and to taste the beauties of the spirit life too?

“There is not in your world one artist who could capture with his paints some of the glories of my world. There is not one musician who could record some of the glories of the music sphere with your notes. There is not one writer who could describe in physical words the beauty of parts of this world. …. What a pleasant surprise you will all have one day, when you become conscious of our world.” (Teachings of Silver Birch 122, ‘93).

MORE OF SILVER BIRCH GREATEST QUOTES

Silver Birch is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual teachers to transmitted twelve books about spirit life on earth and the afterlife. His spiritual eloquence is just so magnificent and evocatively so beautiful. Hereinafter are some powerful quotes for us to learn more about the inevitability of the afterlife:-

“If you succeed in enabling one soul in darkness to find the light, one troubled, wearied individual to gain strength, if you comfort one mourner, if you heal one sick person, if you prevent exploitation of and cruelty even to one animal, then indeed your earthly life has been well worth living.” (GUIDANCE FROM SILVER BIRCH 1966 p63).
“The whole purpose of earthly life is to awaken dormant, slumbering souls to the reality of their existence. Your world is full of living sleepwalkers who go through the day’s activities in a dream. They are not awake, and they are dead to all reality. If you can touch one of these souls and kindle the divine ember so that gradually it is fanned into a living flame, there is no service comparable to that.” (ibid p65).

“Every soul knows before it incarnates into earth what it is that it will undertake. It is a free choice made by the larger self because it knows that its earthly journey is precisely the one needed to fulfil and obtain the necessary qualifications for the development of the larger self. You know the life that you are going to live. The hardships are chosen because to endure them, and to overcome them, will bring into play those latent qualities of the self which require development to add their quota to the real, the higher, the true self.” (ibid p67).

“We can never promise that your life will be free from problems, perplexity, or even pain. We can promise that within yourself you will find he means to overcome all handicaps and disabilities. As you strive to express the highest, the deepest, the greatest within yourself, so you will attract to your aid those beings from our world who love you, who desire to help you and through you help others." (ibid p20).

“There is no religion higher than service. To heal he sick, to comfort the mourner, to guide the perplexed, to give strength to the wear and direction to those who have lost their way, those are the most important tasks of all … Never forget that the supreme purpose of life is the unfoldment of the spirit.” (ibid p71).

“Spiritual power must work its own will, and not until the soul is receptive can the individual accept the truth. We are not missionaries who desire to proselytise. We are preachers of the true gospel, the good news about the spiritual realities. But only those who are ready to receive the news will understand what we have to say. Those who do not understand are not spiritually ready.” (ibid p73).

“Your earthly standards of valuation are not the same as ours. Your world worships many things and attaches importance to them, whereas here we regard them as insignificant. All that makes people crave position, wealth, authority and power, we regard as unimportant. When the body dies they all die with it. But the service that has been rendered cannot die because in doing it you increase you own spiritual growth. The service that is given out of love and affection and devotion all help to increase the character and so make an eternal hall-mark on the soul.” (ibid p72).

“If those who have knowledge behave in a way that contradicts the knowledge, they will pay a greater price than those who transgress through ignorance, for knowledge always brings responsibility. The soul that is aware of truth commits a greater offence than when a similar action is performed by a soul that is unaware. That must be so. (ibidp74).

“ None receives healing until the soul is ready to receive it. That is why even with the best healers there are failures. The failure is not a criticism of the healing. The soul of the patient is not ready to receive it. All is governed by natural law. There are no tricks; no healer has the power to alter, vary, change, or deflect the working of the law.” (ibid p83).

“You cannot learn spirituality in a book. You cannot be taught spirituality by a teacher. You have to earn it by your own life, by your deeds. Spirituality is the burgeoning of divinity within the individual.” (ibid 91)

“Your spiritual nature is exactly what you have made it to be, and there are many materialists and atheists and rationalists and agnostics who are the spiritual superiors of thousands who think that they are amongst the elect because they have bowed the knee in homage to the Great Spirit and accept certain doctrines. The test is not what you believe, but what you have done, otherwise there would be a complete mockery of divine justice.” (ibid 104).

“Spirit laws do not work in the same way in your world as they do in ours because ours is a graded life in which the people who have reached the same stage of evolution occupy the same plane of existence. Thus the do not have the comparisons of earth where you have on one plane contrasting experiences. In our world everyone is on the plane to which they have evolved. We cannot have an undeveloped and a highly developed soul in the same sphere of existence. On one surface in your world you meet, day by day, people of differing mental and spiritual attainment. But that is not so in our world, unless we choose to indulge in missionary work and go, comparatively speaking, to lower spheres. Otherwise we meet with our own spiritual equals. When we have evolved, we go on to the next spiritual level.” (ibid p107).

“Yes, people make mistakes in the spirit world. The astral planes are very much like your world. People who live here are very much at similar stage of development to the average person in your world. They are neither angels no demons. They are the ordinary sort of people, not too high, not too low. They make mistakes due to faulty judgments, lack of wisdom, mistakes due to rancour not having been extirpated, to hatred and selfishness, the mistakes that come from imperfection. (ibid p109).
“From the moment of conception, and even before that, there is attached to the incarnating soul someone who volunteers to act as his guardian. ‘He has given His angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in Thy ways’ is a literal truth. The guardian will maintain to the best of his or her ability the functional assumed until the time comes for you to cross the border. The task become easier when you are aware of the guardianship; it become difficult when you are unaware of it. There is only one guide, but many helpers. The guardian angel knows before he assumes his task what lies ahead of him – and he does not have a free choice in the matter either … ours is a very organised world.” (ibid p110).

“There is no problem so great that you do not possess the power to solve it, no burden so heavy that you do not possess the power to carry it. These are truths which I have tried to instil into you and others. Because I know that once they have obtained a lodgement within you, you are so well armed that nothing will daunt you. The power of the spirit is very mighty, but it can flow only where the means allow it to do so. You are the channels.

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