SILVER BIRCH COMPANION by Tony Ortzen / 1986 / 159 pages.
"Take advantage of the summer, when tree and flower,
mountain and sea, bird and beast, field and river and
stream reveal themselves in all their beauty. Praise the
great spirit, who has brought you such an infinite
variety of his artistry as displayed in nature's
handiwork. Seek communion with those forces; strive to
find the Great Spirit as He is expressed in the silence
of the forest, in the lulling of the wind, in the
trilling of the bird, in the nodding pine, in the ebb and
flow of the ocean, in the perfume and scent of the
flower, in the drone of the insect." "The
pageant of nature is duplicated in every human soul.
First there is the spring, with the awakening
consciousness; the summer, when man's powers rise to
their highest; autumn, when life begins to wane; and
winter, when sleep comes to the weary, tired soul. But
even after the winter of the physical life, spring comes
to the spirit as it awakens in another world to continue
that eternal cycle. Take from nature this message, and be
assured that the laws which have never failed will
continue to operate in your case and in the case of every
human life." "We ask for no credit, no thanks,
no gratitude. If we can see peace instead of war;
smiling, happy faces instead of tears; healthy bodies
instead of bodies racked with disease and pain; if we can
see misery vanquished; if we can see all the despair that
infests dispirited beings driven away, then we rejoice
because we know that our mission is succeeding."
"truth marches forward; the forces that belong to
darkness, ignorance, superstition and confusion are in
retreat. Victory is on the side of the power of the
spirit as its forces gather strength, breaking through in
places hitherto considered impossible. That is the great
message we repeat and repeat, for you are all labouring
for this new order of being. The transformation takes
place now very slowly. As the old gives place to the new,
many upheavals will occur. They are all part of the
plan."
