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Gems Silver Birch: Love's Supreme Power
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"There is a great power in the universe which has never been subjected to the analytical scrutiny of laboratories, which cannot be resolved by chemicals or by scalpels, yet it is so real that it transcends all other forces which have been measured and weighed and dissected." Silver Birch is referring to the power of love. "That love is deathless because it is part of the Great Spirit, the creative spirit of all life, part of the power which has fashioned life; it is indeed the very breath and the very essence of life. "And wherever love exists, sooner or later those who are united by its willing bonds will find one another again despite all the handicaps and obstacles and impediments that may be in the way." On one occasion, Silver Birch was asked: "You say, 'The only bond between those who have passed over is love. What is the position when A truly loves B, but A's love is not reciprocated by B, and they have both passed over? Is A separated from B because of this, or is he burdened, so to speak, by the nearness of A because of this rather one-sided, but sincere attachment?' "That," said the guide, "is a very good question, but the word 'love' is one of the most misused ones in your world... others, perhaps carried away by infatuation, and let me be quite honest, by physical passion, think that [ordinary sexual] attraction is one of love. "First let us be clear: the real love is the love of selflessness; the love that seeks nothing for itself, and in its highest form embraces the whole of humanity. You are not an evolved soul until you can say, because you believe it, I love all mankind. "That is an ideal, and your world is a long way from it. "But there is [also] the love, the undeniable love, between man and woman who are complementary to one another, that is, they are two in form, but one in purpose - they harmonise, they are, indeed, as your poet has expressed it, two hearts that beat as one. "Now, where that love has found itself, there is never any separation. Those whom the natural law has joined by love can never be sundered in your world or in mine. "Where there is that love, and here I am afraid I am going to be controversial, it is always reciprocated. There are aspects of affection, devotion, the desire to service maternal instincts, which are believed to be love [John-and-Mary attributes, P.S. #37 ], but the real love, that only comes once to each man or woman, whether on earth or in the world of spirit [testimonial evidence that there is romance in the next world], is always reciprocal . "The problem does not arise [that is, regarding the question posed earlier concerning the possibility of unrequited love in the next life] for in our world,in the fullness of time, each finds the Half of its own being." A member of the circle asked: "Are both people aware, at the same time, that it is a love that is reciprocated? "Not necessarily on earth, but they are in the world of spirit, was the reply. "One of the two may know about it before the other, it was suggested to Silver Birch. He replied: "But, the two halves instinctively, because they are two halves, must recognise one another. That does not happen in your world always because your vision, regarding things of the spirit, is oftenblind. "Physical things could stop it, said somebody.
"Love takes many forms, ranging from friendship founded on sympathetic attraction and mutual interest, to the supreme heights where, without thought of self, it seeks to serve wherever it can," said Silver Birch, in his reply to someone who asked for his definition of love. "Love is a word which is misused in your world," the guide went on. "Very often those who use it do not mean love at all. It is mistaken for the activities of the senses when there is only the desire for gratification of certain instincts. But love, as I understand it, is a part of the spirit stirring within, seeking expression when it realises its kinship with its divine creator. "The greatest love is the love that has no trace of selfishness, that does not seek in any way to perform any action because it will bring some satisfaction to the individual. That is human love in its greatest aspect. It is the spirit that has enthused all who desire to uplift mankind, to help the needy, to sustain the weak, to fight the vested interests that prevent the unfortunate from extracting the beauty that life could offer them. All who, in their own land, and in foreign lands, have sought with altruistic motive to raise the standard of mankind, to make it aware of its infinite potentialities, are exhibiting love in its finest form. [But, consider this high-level humanitarian form of love in relation to the love between Twin Souls] "There are degrees -- when the same spirit animates a man or woman to [be of] service [toward] the object of his or her affection - that need not be selfish; it can be unselfish. [Silver Birch is saying that true romantic love is linked to, an expression of, the soul's energy, the "spirit stirring within," the "same spirit," a form of agape-love.] "And there is the lowest kind of love, the love that is restricted, that desires to protect and help only the ones to whom it feels an attraction and feels no pity, no mercy, no sympathy, and no compassion for strangers. "Divine love covers the universe [it is the hidden unifying, directing, force of evolution.] It is love that has shaped [the universe's] course; it is love that has regulated its evolution; it is love which is part of the divine beneficence; it is love which actuates all those advanced spiritual beings who, forfeiting all that they have gained by their attainment, return to your cold, grey, unattractive world to give service to those who need it."
(On another occasion, Silver Birch offered this advice) "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. [meaning, the Nice Young Man has no power to join that which God meant to be separated.] If there is [true] love [a function of soul energies], there is nothing that will ever separate them. (Silver Birch, LSB, 70.) "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 . 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 . [the Universe, itself, directs the development of Twin Soul love] 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 but 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 part 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." (Silver Birch, SBT)
"Persons are persons, so far as your world is concerned; but you cannot separate spiritual individuality in the same way. There are, for example, affinities, two kindred halves of the one soul, and, sometimes, they incarnate at the same time. (Silver Birch, LSB, 86.) There are aspects of affection, devotion, the desire to service maternal instincts, which are believed to be love, but the real love, that only comes once to each man or woman, whether on earth or in the world of spirit, is always reciprocal. The problem [of unreciprocated love] does not arise, for in our world, in the fullness of time, each finds the half of its own being. (Silver Birch, SBA, 28.) "Those who love one another will not be separated from one another once they have passed through the incident that is called death. Love is the law; love is the attraction; love unifies those whom the natural law has brought together, enabling the two halves to become one. There is no need to fear that there will be any parting between individuals who have found one another in perfect love."
Editor's note: This latter paragraph suggests, and conceals, much. Silver Birch speaks of those who are presently separated in this world, but will "not be separated" when they enter the Next. Is this not strange? If Two love each other, why are they separated? What is keeping them apart? Why didn't they simply spend their lives together in this world? Yes, these are disturbing questions, so many "Splendor In The Grass" kinds of questions. We learn, from thousands of afterlife testimonies, that we do not come to this world to seek maximum happiness. Think of a student spending some time at a foreign university; or a soldier serving in a far-off land; both of whom yearn for the time to return home to friends and family, but also understand that it is important for them to be away for awhile. We as Spirit-Persons come from a place where conditions are perpetually ideal; there, we endure no loss, no suffering, no threats, to ourselves. While all of this is wonderful, the systemic problem of growing in maturity without that "clash of opposites" (P.S. #37) must be addressed. Twin-Soul lovers come to this world to experience some things, some hard things, that they cannot experience in that Perfect World of their natural homeland. And sometimes they will mutually agree to come here and be apart for awhile... to marry others... and to experience the constant bereavement, the absence of their Soul Twin... all of which suffering will raise levels of Awareness and Consciousness, so necessary to individual, and mutual, soul-development. It is the long way home, through the forbidding Dark Forest of Good and Evil (P.S. #37), but a true way. And it is for reasons such as these that Twin lovers will reluctantly agree to suffer separation from each other during a tour of duty in this world... but, as Silver Birch encourages us, these Two, in a very real sense, "will not be separated," even in this world, even if they live apart; and, "there is no need to fear" that such terror of apparent separation will continue into the next world. But, while here, amidst their "pain, anguish, and confusion" (P.S. #28), they do fear this - which is why Silver Birch makes a point of this issue. It is the searing terror of grieving-loss, relative to each other, which consumes them during their temporary stay in this grey world of unlove. They, especially he, will not soon forget the lessons of this trip... a macroscopic dose of "the cold November day"... that seemingly-endless time, that endless nightmare, that endless grief, that endless sense of having lost her, during which... he learned only one thing! (P.S. #37) - "please remember I'm in love with you..."
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