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The power of the Spirit is in our everyday lives, and with it there comes not only reality, but also certainty. It illuminates the whole of our minds, fills our souls with peace and our hearts with love. It is the greatest gift of The Great Spirit.

The Great Spirit is actually in everything, for nothing exists apart from the Great Spirit. That the earthquake is part of god's perfect plan, the earth is evolving as those who live there, this doesn't mean that the Law or the Great Spirit are evolving, simply because they are perfect, but that only the part of the Great Spirit which is manifested in our physical world is subject to the evolution of it.

Our world was born in fire and tempest as the scientists now say, and is gradually evolving towards perfection.

We cannot say that the Great Spirit is responsible for the beauty of the sunset and the sunrise, for the myriads of glittering stars in the firmament, for all the delightful songs of birds, and then turn around and say that He is not responsible for the storm and the lightning, the thunder and the rain. They are all part of the Great Law.

In that sense, we might say that the Great Spirit is responsible for those who act against others, but those people are only unenlightened, because to each one of us here is given that amount of free will, which, as we evolve, we learn to exercise. We make our own limitations by forming our own characters, but exactly because we are part of the Great Spirit, we can conquer all the difficulties and obstacles in our world.

Silver Birch says that spirit is superior to matter. Spirit is the king, and matter is the servant. Spirit reigns supreme. It is the essence out of which all life is made, for spirit is life and life is spirit.

When Silver Birch was asked whether free will was limited in the sense that the horoscope seems to influence peoples ‘doings', he replied that there are tendencies, vibrations but these are easily overcome. We are surrounded by radiations and influences, much of which can affect our destiny, but the Great Spirit has provided us with part of Himself, a part of His spirit which, when our free will is properly used according to our evolution, it can enable us to conquer all that stands in the way of the fullest expression of that [part of] the Great Spirit within us.

When asked about Spiritualism being said by some to be against some law or other, Silver Birch replied that he loved to hear the sound of our earthly voices, and it gave him much happiness. And he knew that we like to hear from him too, for we have much to learn from each other. He went on to say that there is a great work for all of us to do - and work to which many of those spirits who live in the other realms have dedicated their whole lives. He believes that the work abroad will grow as a power of the Spirit grows here in this country.

He advised us to just go on with our faithful service and know that not one moment which is dedicated to the service of others is in vain, for the coming together of spirits always brings a rich blessing upon we who are in the world of matter and also those spirits who are released from the world's limitations. He added that the blessings come because our aim is not for ourselves but only for the service of others.

He goes on to tell us that the Great Spirit is actually in everything, for nothing exists apart from the Great Spirit. That the earthquake is part of god's perfect plan, the earth is evolving as those who dwell there, this does not mean that the Law or the Great Spirit are evolving [because they are perfect,] it means that only the part of the Great Spirit which is manifested in our physical world is subject to the evolution of it.

Our world was born in fire and tempest and is gradually evolving towards perfection.

We cannot say that the Great Spirit is responsible for the beauty of the sunset and the sunrise, for the myriads of glittering stars in the firmament, for all the delightful songs of birds, and then turn around and say that the Great Spirit is not responsible for the storm and the lightning, the thunder and the rain. They are all part of the great law of the Great Spirit.

In that sense, we might say that the Great Spirit is responsible for those who act against others, but those people are unenlightened, because to each one of you there is given that amount of free will, which, as you evolve, you learn to exercise. We make our own limitations by forming our own characters, but exactly because we are part of the Great Spirit, we can conquer all the difficulties and obstacles in our world.

Silver Birch says that spirit is superior to matter. Spirit is the king and matter is the servant. Spirit reigns supreme. It is the essence out of which all life is made, for spirit is life and life is spirit.

When Silver Birch was asked whether free will was limited in the sense that the horoscope seems to influence peoples ‘doings'.

He replied that there are tendencies, vibrations but these are easily overcome. We are surrounded by radiations and influences, much of which can affect our destiny, but the Great Spirit has provided us with part of Himself, a part of His spirit which, when our free will is properly used according to our evolution, it can enable us to conquer all that stands in the way of the fullest expression of that [part of] the Great Spirit within us.

When asked about Spiritualism being said by some to be against some law or other,
Silver Birch replied that he loved to hear the sound of our earthly voices, and it gave him much happiness. And he knew that we like to hear from him too, for we have much to learn from each other.

He went on to say that out of these talks there will come much work, for there is a great work for all of us to do - and work to which many of us who live in the realms of spirit have dedicated their whole lives. He believes that the work abroad will grow as a power of the Spirit grows here in this country.

He advised us to just go on with our faithful service and know that not one moment which is dedicated to our service is in vain, for the coming together of spirits always brings a rich blessing upon you who are in the world of matter and they who are released from the world's limitations. He added that the blessings come because our aim is not for ourselves but only for the service of others.

Do you think all of God can be put into a few pages in one book? Do you think that when that book was finished, He had no more inspiration for His children? Do you think you have come to the end of His power when you have turned the last page of your Bible?

It is a mockery of divine justice to think that a death-bed repentance will wipe away all the wrongs you have done.

Life is always a polarity. If there were no darkness there would be no light. If there were no trouble there could never be any peace. If the sun always shone you would not appreciate it. You have to learn sometimes through conditions that seem a nuisance. One day you will look back and say, "We learned our best lessons not when the sun was shining, but when the storm was at its greatest, when the thunder roared, the lightning flashed, the clouds obscured the sun and all seemed dark and hopeless". It is only when the soul is in adversity that some of its greatest possibilities can be realised.

If you knock on a door and it does not open, do not push. If you push the door gently and it opens, that is for you. You cannot go through a closed door. Too many people in your world waste time and effort banging at closed doors.

Disease is, in a large number of cases primarily due to the wrongful alignment of mind, body and spirit There is no religion higher than service

Pain and suffering are regarded as miseries; they are not. They have divine parts to play in the evolution of the individual

It is easy to love those you love. There is no virtue, no saintliness in that. But to love those you do not love, that is the attribute of an evolved soul.

The test is not what you believe, but what you have done, otherwise there would be a complete mockery of divine justice.

There is an infinite storehouse of knowledge which is placed at the disposal of all who desire to have it, but it must be earned by growth and struggle, by evolution and progress.

A spiritual dwarf cannot pretend to be a spiritual giant. There is no death-bed repentance.

You may do all things that men regard as religious, but unless they inspire you to lead better lives, unless they enable the spirit within you to find greater expression, then you are not religious as we see it.

Creeds, dogmas, doctrines, rituals, ceremonies, stained glass, altars, mitre, cope -- what have these to do with religion? Religion is in the spirit, the spirit that belongs to all Creation, which expresses itself in every rhythm and manifestation of life, that is revealed in every aspect of Nature and in the striving of all idealists and reformers who wish to serve. What has that to do with creeds?

Learn to be free. Do not imprison yourself. Do not hedge yourself around and refuse to allow new inspiration to come to you. Truth is a constant search. Its boundaries are ever widening, for as the soul evolves the mind responds.

You are indeed mighty atoms -- infinite, yet expressing yourselves in a finite manner. Within you there is a power that one day bursts all its bonds and insists that it shall express itself in a body more fitting to its reality.

The power that fashioned the universe is not impressed because you build a great cathedral and fill it with beautiful music and have stained glass windows and impressive processions. You cannot imprison the Great Spirit in a building.

Every life can add its quota. And the higher the life, the more altruistic, the more unselfish, the more does it add beauty to the varied manifestations of creation. Not only does the artist, the musician and the poet adds his contribution of lustre, but every life can bring an inflection of beauty if it chooses.

To appreciate prayer, you must realise its purpose. The mere mouthing of words, the mere repetition of a formula achieves nothing.

If you have faced honestly, fairly and squarely all the problems and difficulties that beset you; if you have tried within the limits of your own power to find a solution and you have failed, then you have a perfect right to ask that some higher power, some greater soul, should give you the light in your hour of perplexity.

I know of one religion; it is service. We judge by action, by life, by motive. All evils are wrong because they are an attempt to frustrate the expression of the Great Spirit within you. When the pupil is ready the master appears

The law of cause and effect is basic, fundamental and unalterable because you can reap only what you have sown. Effect must follow cause with mathematical accuracy; it cannot be otherwise. In turn the effect becomes the cause by which another effect is set into motion, producing another cause. The process is a constant one.

When you had those experiences you may have thought that life was bitter and harsh and unkind, that you were forgotten, or lonely or neglected, and fate had dealt you a very hard blow. But the soul grows through adversity and the pure gold emerges after the processes of crushing and refining have taken place.

The marriage service performed in your churches refers to the existence of the marriage until death parts the man and his wife. If spiritually they are not united they are parted before death comes. If there is love, there is nothing that will ever separate them.

The greed of your world must be replaced by love because love is an expression of the spirit. Love has many aspects, compassion, service, friendship, co-operation. You are all parts of one another, whatever you are, whoever you are and wherever you may be.

Every race, every nation and every culture has its contribution to make in your world. It is like a mighty orchestra in which every instrument contributes its part to achieve harmony of music which produces the greatest beauty. What are considered the uncivilized and the lowliest have their parts to play in the great unfolding scheme.

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 the 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.

Men and women devote all their efforts to gain baubles and possessions far beyond what they need and sacrifice the eternal realities, which are the greatest assets the human being can have.

Grief, sorrow, sickness and suffering are part of the means by which the children of earth are taught the greatest lessons. If truth were to be found with ease, it would not be appreciated. It is because truth comes in the hour of greatest sorrow or suffering that value is placed upon it by the one who is ready to receive. Trite though is may sound, you cannot obtain truth until you are spiritually ready.

Sometimes the worst answer to your prayer would be to give you that for which you asked. No harm can come to any soul whose honest motive is to do the best. Every soul who desires to serve will find the opportunity provided.

The whole purpose of earthly life is to awaken the dormant slumbering souls to the reality of their existence. Your world is full of living sleepwalkers who go through the days activities in a dream.

When all is said and done there is no higher privilege, no higher religion, than service to the Great Spirit through serving all His creatures, human, animal, or whatever form they take.

As long as man ignores natural methods of healing and persists in using animals, who were not placed on earth for that purpose, he will fail to promote health and well-being.

Silver Birch prays:
Oh Great White Spirit, Thou who art the infinite architect, the King of Kings, the divine intelligence which has devised the whole universal scheme, whose wisdom sustains it and whose love guides it, we seek to draw closer to Thee, to garner from Thy infinite storehouse of knowledge some gleanings that will aid us on our eternal quest. We recognise that we cannot understand Thee in Thy fullness because Thou art infinite and our conception must of necessity be finite ones. We see the panorama of natural laws unfolding in the immensity of their gigantic scope, controlling all facets of life in a boundless universe.

SILVER BIRCH is the name chosen by a guide who has given many years service through his medium Maurice Barbanell, who sat with friends in the home circle of Hannen Swaffer. These devoted people recorded the teachings of Silver Birch, as he was known, and published them in numerous volumes for many years.

I recently came across one of these called the "Silver Birch Companion", which is based upon two much earlier books, "Wisdom of Silver Birch" and "More Teachings of Silver Birch", the latter compiled by Mr Barbanell's wife Sylvia. These were published in 1941 and 1944 respectively, but they lose none of their value over the years, because Silver Birch's teachings are eternal. I am writing here just some of the things discussed in the first chapters, and I hope this will encourage you to seek out his books and teachings perhaps through the 'Alibris' or other websites.

Question: How do we apply these teachings to our lives today in the 21^st century?

Answer: Throughout all, the theme is service. Service to our fellow travellers on the road of progression, this includes those we like and also those we don't like! Isn't it easy to talk about our spiritual selves to anyone who will put up no opposition? And isn't it easy to imagine what the rest of the world will say?

Well, I've got news for you, it doesn't matter what ‘they' say, [or you imagine they will say] because Silver Birch teaches that no matter how small the seed of learning is, it will grow when it's ready. But with never a mention the truth cannot do its work.

So take heart my friends, "speak the truth and shame the devil" as my granny used to say, because all the spirits that arrive back beyond the ‘veil' who have no truthful knowledge of any spiritual existence are at a definite disadvantage, and it is that little bit harder for them to adjust to their new life and the spirit guides to work with them towards the light.

Silver birch says that knowledge always brings responsibility, and the spirit guides do not come back to just gladden our hearts, they come to give us opportunity to serve also. Not everyone is called upon to speak from platforms, to demonstrate the gifts of the spirit to multitudes.

To some in the privacy of their homes comes the call to service, at the workplace, or the bus stop to a stranger is given a smile of hope, a lift of heart, a hand of helpfulness. These in the everyday hum-drumness are gifts that we all can give.

Death spells freedom, of course it can be a painful experience even to those blessed with the knowledge of the afterlife.

Silver Birch compares this process to the changing of the seasons, snow in winter when all life sleeps; the herald of spring, when life awakens; the fullness of summer, when life is revealed in all its beauty; autumn, when the voice of nature is hushed and preparation is made for sleep as the period of refreshment comes upon it.

Death is liberation, says Silver Birch in another part of his teachings, like the caterpillar who has become a beauteous butterfly. We must not weep that the cage has been opened and the bird is set free! Death is but a stepping-stone, a door that we enter into the larger freedom of the realms of the spirit.

We can take from this message and be assured that the laws, which have never failed, will continue to operate in our case and in the case of every human life.

Answer: It depends on the love factor; if there is no love the animal goes back to its source, its soul group, because it is necessary that someone should take care of them, as it was before the human came to be ‘master' of any animal.

Love determines the survival of animals; it is the love that exists between the animal and the person that enables it to obtain that temporary consciousness that exists beyond the grave of matter, the physical. Should the animal arrive in the spirit world before the human, it goes to be taken care of by those specially trained for this work, just as it would on earth while we are away on holiday, and waits to be reunited!

When asked what it is that an animal obtains from human contact that makes it survive, Silver Birch replied that an animal is a living soul, conscious, aware of its own existence, later dawned the reasoning and intelligence bloomed. It still required the breath of the Great Spirit to awaken it as we did too. So as our divine spark became a flame so we by love transfer that process to the animal who lives within the shelter of our affection.

How long do they stay with us? Was another question. Silver Birch explained that at some stage the human and animal evolution inevitably must part, as we progress and the pets do not have the same ability, so we move beyond the material and the desire to progress comes stronger and stronger, and so the love that kindled for a while a flame that burned beyond death gradually becomes attenuated.

Like baptism, the Church - and rightly - places great emphasis on the importance of marriage, but how does the spirit world view it? Silver Birch gave his opinion when addressing Vernon Moore, a circle member and his fiancée, Frances, who for many years took down the guide's words in shorthand so they could be recorded, printed and sent out all over the world.

"I want you both to realize that you begin now the greatest adventure of all, for two lives that have pursued separate courses are now come together to begin a united life," the guide began. "Even as love has brought you to this place, even as love emanating from a world higher than yours guided your footsteps on paths of knowledge and truth, so has that same power brought you two together. Soon ‘a man of God' will read a few words from a book and, according to your world of matter, you will be joined in the bonds of holy matrimony. But I say to you there are no bonds unless you bind one another with love and affection. There are no ties unless you wish to tie one another with love and affection.�?

"Do not think only in terms of two sharing one life from the physical aspect. Remember that you are two spiritual beings, both portions of the Great Spirit, now coming together with pledges to cherish, to love and to serve one another even as a great love from this world strives to serve you both. Remember that you are uniting two souls to adventure together and that we look not so much upon the material aspect by the spiritual, which to us is the enduring reality."

"Do not expect that you will escape occasional sadness and sorrow, difficulty, trial and test, for these are parts of your evolution. When they arise, as arise they inevitably must, face them with honesty and know that they help to quicken your character and to bring you closer together. There are many here who look forward with joy to a celebration which will duplicate the one you have in your church, but which will be sanctified in our world by ties we regard as more enduring, for the promises uttered audibly by word of mouth are as nothing compared with the unspoken pledges of the soul.�?

"You are richly blessed, for you have knowledge. I wish you, on behalf of many here who stand beside me, a safe journey through life's seas, happiness and joy abounding, but always ask you to remember that you continue to serve with the added fortification of love around you in the earthly world. Look up, not down, and realize that your strength cometh from above and from within your beings. Fortified by that knowledge, face the future knowing that all will be well and that where love dwells no harm can befall you. And I pray that the blessing of the Great Spirit rest with you and inspire you always in all aspects for your new life, and that you both shall forever be conscious of the love that is round and about you."

The couple were members of Silver Birch's circle until 1981 when his medium passed on. Frequently the guide spoke of the natural law. Once Vernon, a former Methodist missionary, asked, "How are we to learn from natural law?"

"You learn through the evolution of your own spirit" replied the guide. "You learn first of all to discard all that which is false, all that which makes your reason revolt, all that which is not in consonance with the love and the wisdom of the Great Spirit. Before you learn, you must unlearn. You must discard all that which hinders your minds from thinking as they should. Thus your soul and your spirit grow and you are ready for higher knowledge. When you meet here, your soul is developing and you are becoming more accessible to the infinite wisdom of the Great Spirit. You are learning about the operation of laws that control spiritual phenomena. You are being taught about the operation of natural laws in relationship to the life that you live. As you fit yourself by progress so greater knowledge comes to you."

"To save the world, must we broadcast this teaching to everybody?" asked Vernon.

"To save the world?" questioned Silver Birch. "The world must learn to perform its own salvation. There is no ready-made plan. There is no prepared, cut-and-dried system. Your world has to learn that, behind what it regards as the manifestation of life, there is the eternal reality of the spirit, that the children of matter are not only worldly beings but spiritual beings expressing themselves through bodies of matter. The bodies of matter must be as perfect as they can be made through having all the necessities of life freely at their disposal, as the Great Spirit would have them. Then their spirits must be freed from all dogmatic and creedal trammels, so that they do not give allegiance to things that have no real or spiritual value, so that they work only for that which is true, so that the warring and the quarrelling and the strife over creeds and dogmas, which have held your world in chains for thousands of years, can be abolished. We preach the gospel of the spiritual brotherhood of all peoples, with the Great White Spirit as the common Father. What stands in the way is the earthly conception, the churches built on error, the usurping of privilege, the pride and the power of tyrants, petty tyrants who hold the whip hand."

When someone said "Thank you," Silver Birch, as usual, reminded those gathered that he must not be thanked, but that it was the Great Spirit to whom gratitude should be expressed. "We use the earth phrase out of habit," someone explained.

"I know my son,2 replied the guide. "But if I did not always correct you and always draw attention to the laws of the Great Spirit, some would begin to pay us praise and to worship us, and then the same troubles would start once more. "

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"No time that is spent in the desire for spiritual attainment is ever wasted. You wait very patiently, I know, but I want you to realize that great progress continues all the time. The bonds of unity between us are being strengthened and there is a quickening in the perceptions of your own soul powers. Growth, unfoldment and evolution are taking place all the time.

The greater manifestations of the spirit are not in their outward expression, but in the quickening of the inner response, in the closer union between the unfolding spirit and the powers which seek to use it.

Whether manifestation of the spirit is seen or heard does not matter very much. What is more important is the unfolding of your souls' power, for, as you sit here week after week, so you are attuning yourselves to higher vibrations and becoming more accessible to the wisdom of your ages, which is always waiting to pour itself down into your world of matter, to obey the law of service. But it must find instruments attuned to its vibrations.

And, as your souls unfold and you rise higher and higher in the scale of vibrations, so you come into closer touch with higher and greater spiritual forces, that are not seen or heard but which belong to the eternal realities of the spirit. That is the reality of your lives. So much of your time is spent in chasing the shadows, in trying to capture the illusion, in trying to secure the ephemeral. In silence, in harmony and in love, your souls unfold all the time. Though it may be slow, it is sure and certain."

"When Nothing Happens", taken from the "Teachings of Silver Birch" edited by A W Austen.

"People who die are - in the early stages- just the same as those who live. They have shed a physical body, that is all. They have not changed their individuality; their character is not altered. Their habits and traits and idiosyncrasies and characteristics remain just as they were; the selfish still selfish, the greedy still greedy, the ignorant still ignorant, the deluded still deluded, until the process of spiritual awakening takes place."

"This happened so many times that in our world there came the determination to fill the earth with some knowledge of reality. And so, for many years, people like myself have been entrusted with the task of trying to tell the truth about the spiritual life, not in the mystical sense as the phrase so often conveys, but what it is in reality.

We have to undo generations and generations of misrepresentations, ignorance, prejudice, lies, deception, superstition, all the forces which have held millions of people in the darkness of subjection."
(from S. Birch THE SEED OF TRUTH , 126).

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

About Silver Birch - from the website - just google the name - or copy the 'Url' at the bottom of the page

There are a number of possible reasons why you have visited this website. The first and most likely is that you are already a 'follower' of Silver Birch and have found his great wisdom and spiritual insights of benefit in your life. In this case you will welcome the reprints of the classic books of his teachings.

Whatever the reason, the chances are that Silver Birch's wisdom will remain with you forever. Long after you have forgotten his precise words, his guidance will still be a very real influence whenever you need it. Silver Birch's words are so accessible and meaningful that you will never tire of reading them.

But who is Silver Birch, the spirit guide whose words are faithfully recorded here? And who was Maurice Barbanell, the London medium who channelled that wisdom? Without an answer to these questions, many new readers - however impressed with these teachings - will be puzzled about their source.

Maurice Barbanell

Barbanell was the founder and editor of a weekly Spiritualist newspaper, Psychic News, and for half a century devoted his life to spreading spiritual knowledge through its columns and those of other publications with which he was associated.

In his own obituary, which he wrote before his passing at the age of 79 on July 17th 1981, he revealed that he was told by Estelle Roberts' Red Cloud - a spirit guide for whom he had the greatest admiration - that in a previous incarnation he had made a promise to reincarnate and devote his life to spreading Spiritualism. Though he had no knowledge of that life or promise, events certainly conspired to make it possible.

He was born to Jewish parents in a poor area of London's East End. His mother was devoutly religious but his father, a barber was an atheist so Barbanell heard many arguments about religion during his early years. His father always won, and his son adopted the same outlook but later changed to agnosticism. Yet after hearing about Spiritualism from a speaker at a social and literary club of which he was secretary, Barbanell refused to start the debate by putting an opposing view - one of his duties - because, he explained, he had made no personal investigation and therefore his opinions were valueless.

This impressed the speaker who invited Barbanell to attend a seance in which a medium, Mrs Blaustein, was entranced by various spirits of different nationalities. He was not impressed, and on a second visit fell asleep. Barbanell apologised, believing that either boredom or tiredness had been responsible, but the other circle members informed him that he had not been asleep but had been in a trance and a Red Indian had spoken through him.

With the encouragement of a famous Fleet Street journalist Hannen Swaffer, Barbanell founded Psychic News partly as a vehicle for the guide's teachings. But, because he knew he would be criticised for publishing his own mediumship in his own newspaper, Barbanell did not reveal to his readers for many years who was channelling the wisdom, by which time the guide had a huge following on his own merits.

Silver Birch spoke regularly at Barbanell's home circle and the proceedings were always recorded shorthand. There were a number of differences in style and procedure between Barbanell's own journalistic efforts and the way in which Silver Birch communicated, as Barbanell himself observed:

"In my working life I use words every day. I have never yet written or dictated an article with which I was satisfied when I read it. Inevitably I find, when looking at the typed material, that I can improve it by altering words, phrases and sentences. No such problem arises with the guide's teachings. These flow perfectly, requiring usually only punctation. Another interesting aspect is the occasional use of words that I regard as archaic and do not form part of my normal vocabulary."

Silver Birch

But who was Silver Birch? A psychic artist depicts him as a serious-looking native American Indian with a single feather and compassionate eyes. There is evidence to suggest that this was simply a convenient persona behind which a far more spiritually evolved soul hid in order that those who read his words would judge them not by the name attached to them but by the wisdom that pervades every sentence.

Those who knew them both were well aware of the differences in the way they spoke and the words they used. They both had spiritual missions and they fulfilled them admirably, particularly when working together in their unique two-world partnership. This, as you will discover, has provided inspirational answers to the questions we all ask, from time to time, about life and its purpose. They are needed now more than ever before as we prepare for the challenges that confront us in the 21st century.

The Spiritual Truth Foundation

Is a charity set up by Trust Deed in April 1965 by Maurice Barbanell and a group of friends for the promotion & advancement of the religion and religious philosophy of Spiritualism.

The charity owns the copyright to the Silver Birch Teachings and other titles by Maurice Barbanell and his wife Sylvia, and publishes these through The Spiritual Truth Press. It intends to maintain the Teachings in print and also other titles promoting Spiritualism. This is financed by the sale of the books and also from legacies received from supporters of Silver Birch and the charity. Other web sites quote the Teachings of Silver Birch and the charity encourages this provided the source and publisher is acknowledged.

REGISTERED CHARITY N0 242568.

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