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What
is the reason for earthly life?
Are we freak effects of natural causes? Or has a Master
Architect designed a plan for His creation?
Is there a blueprint for each one of us to seek out,
unfold and build, be it falsely or truly?
~*The
Teachings of Silver Birch*~
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The
object of all earthly existence is that the human spirit
is to be quickened.
Earthly
life has a purpose for all who dwell on your planet. It
is sad that there are millions who are unaware of the
spiritual reality on which their lives are based. Like
troglodytes they live in a spiritual gloom that is almost
a vacuum.
Their
perspective is wrong; their focus is wrong; their vision
is wrong. They have no idea of the vast richness that
life has to offer them. Once you are aware of spiritual
truths you are transformed because you know what it is
you must achieve.
We
are all human beings. Thus we have the flaws of imperfection
within us. If we were perfect, we would not be in your
world or in ours. We would have joined the Great Spirit,
the only perfect power in the universe.
We
recognize the frailties of human nature. But you must
regard every problem as a challenge not only to be met
and accepted, but to be overcome so that the indwelling
spirit, as a result, is more fortified, grows, develops,
unfolds, and you emerge stronger.
It
is not possible for you who dwell in earthly surroundings
not to be confronted with heights and depths and the ups
and downs of the varying circumstances which pertain to
your world.
It
is why you are placed there so that you can, because of
the variety of circumstance, enable your spirit, the eternal
you, to be able to express latent qualities that can be
manifested only when confronted with difficulty and adversity.
It
is not when the sun shines that the soul finds itself.
It is not in a bed of roses that the soul comes into its
own. It is in the hazards and challenges, the difficulties,
the hurdles and the obstacles. These provide the only
means by which the soul can realize its latent divinity.
This
is the story of every pilgrim on the road to spiritual
knowledge. There has to be heartbreak, sorrow and suffering
to appreciate fully the compensations that will follow.
The individuals who will give service must be tried and
tested, sometimes to their uttermost strength.
There
is a plan for every child of the Great Spirit. Everything
operates according to natural law which knows nothing
of miracles or necessity for intervention. The natural
law is perfect because it is conceived by a perfect mind.
There
are no exceptions to the natural law, which makes provisions
for all that exists, not only in the universe but even
in the immeasurable cosmos. Wherever you look, the natural
law operates. Nothing is too small to be ignored, and
nothing too large to be outside the framework of how the
natural law operates. And it operates for you, as it does
for me and for everybody.
So
you know that action and reaction are equal and opposite.
You know that you have to plumb the depths before you
reach the heights. And you know that you have plumbed
the depths, but have not reached the heights. That is
why you have doubts about surviving.
But
you will survive. I do not mean permanently in your world,
because immortality is not part of earthly existence.
Everything material has a period placed on it when it
must finish its task. It must dissolve, disintegrate and
be resolved into the original constituents that made its
existence possible.
Your
body will follow that pattern as part of a preordained
course, but you will survive because you have no alternative,
because surviving is part of the natural law.
In
some religions they teach that there is survival for those
who believe in certain doctrines and creeds. But survival
has nothing to do with religion or with human beliefs,
aspirations and hopes. Survival is an inflexible law,
automatic in its operation.
You
will survive because the spirit comes to earth to develop,
to grow, to unfold and to prepare itself for its real
home, not the transitory abode which earth provides. You
will come home where you began, and continue to live after
having left what earth has to offer, so that you can play
your part in the great universal scheme.
Every
child of the Great Spirit has a part to play in the infinite
scheme. There will be difficulties, but these are the
challenges that have to be met, accepted and triumphed
over. Handicaps and obstacles are all part of the necessary
preparation for an evolving, developing spiritual nature.
Yours
is a very dense, material world where the vibrations are
heavy, slow, sluggish, ponderous. The vibrations of the
spirit are delicate, sensitive, subtle, and to be expressed
there has to be a catalyst for the individual.
You
will not find spiritual truths when the sun is shining,
if you are surrounded by riches, and wealth and possessions.
You will not find spiritual truths when you have no problems.
The catalyst will work only when you are in trouble.
A
storm can often do more to help you to unfold spiritually
than the sun. It is in the fire that the steel is forged.
It is in the crushing process that the gold is refined
and purified to emerge in all its glistening colour. And
it is similarly for the human spirit to be tried and tested
again and again, before it can emerge with a greater divinity
being expressed then had happened before.
The
gold is there, but the ore has to be crushed before the
purity of the metal can be made visible. The steel has
to be forged in the crucible of fire. And so it is with
all of you.
You
would not be interested in the things of the spirit, which
are your eternal possessions, the only enduring and abiding
realities, until you are ready to receive them. So you
have to be tried and tested, just as the steel has to
be tried and tested.
You
have to suffer. You have to endure privation, perhaps
ill-health, some crisis that will touch your soul, that
spark of the divine, and begin to fan it into a beauteous
flame. There is no other way. It is only in the darkness
that you will find the light, only in ignorance that you
will gain knowledge. Life must be a polarity, or if you
like a duality, in which it is said action and reaction
are equal and opposite.
The
soul cannot come into its own until it is touched. This
usually means when it seems to the individual there is
no hope in this world, no light, no guidance to be found.
The abyss of despair has been reached, the fear that he
or she will be plunged into the depths and not recover.
It is at that moment that the soul can be awakened.
Thus
we in our world have to wait patiently until your soul
is ready. You say in your world that you may lead a horse
to water, but you cannot make it drink. You have to be
ready.
I
have had a longer experience than all of you. It gives
me a greater appreciation of the perfection of the natural
laws that encompass us all and ensure that provision is
made for everyone.
I
am puzzled sometimes when I visit my friends on earth
who have knowledge, and I see them worried and anxious.
The knowledge is their foundation which should assure
them that no harm or injury can befall their eternal spirit.
Those with knowledge should be living in the light and
never fear what the morrow will bring.
There
is nothing in your world that you need worry about. You
have within you the armoury of the spirit, the divine
potential which you can utilize to help in any emergency
or crisis that comes your way. There is no problem you
cannot solve by calling on the power that is within you
and by appealing to the power that is without you.
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