From Earthquakes to Horoscopes - The Teachings of Silver Birch

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.

Horoscopes.

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.