LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS - SILVER BIRCH by Tony Ortzen 1990 / 229 pages.
Some quotations from Silver Birch: YOU cannot dissect
spirit in any laboratory. Neither can human beings create
life. They cannot make a flea. However lowly the form of
life, it cannot be manufactured by you because life is
non-physical. The soul does not come into its own when
the skies are blue, the sun is shining and you are in a
bed of roses. The soul comes into its own in difficulty
and hardship. The gold that you value reveals its lustre
only after it has been crushed. The diamonds you prize
are embedded in clay and dirt when originally found.
Their brilliance emerges only after the process of
polishing. So it is with spirit. It is only in the
darkness that you will find the light. It is only in
sorrow that you will find joy. It is only in pain that
you will realize what health can bring. We are engaged in
driving out the materialism that is the cancer of your
world, the selfishness, the greed, cupidity, violence
that are by-products of this materialism, so that people,
the children of the Great Spirit, may find and fulfill
themselves, and build a world of mutual co-operation
where each strives to help the other and share the
wondrous abundance that is offered to you physically,
mentally and spiritually. Gradually the light drives out
the darkness as knowledge replaces ignorance, and
superstition has to retreat as truth advances. Spirit
will triumph over matter because spirit is master and
matter is servant. It is foolish to allow the servant to
dominate the master.
