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.