August 19, 2007
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DIAMOND Of THE SOUL
(Knowing her courage in facing the problems caused by her husband’s illness, Silver Birch invited a former visitor to return to the circle. One of her difficulties concerned the enigma of reincantion.) ----------------------
I don't have to tell you this is your testing time in which you are being tried to the utmost. But you will come through no matter what difficulties surround you. The power that is behind you is a mighty one.It will not fail you. In all earthly life there are times when you meet with the great challenges in which you come face to face with the stark realities of life in your world.It is then that you have to make sure that your beliefs are on unshakable knowledge.This can provide the means of ensuring that you will play your part and in no way allow any happening, however near and close, to deflect you from what you know is the undeniable reality of life, the fact that it is founded on spiritual principles which can not fail.
And you are fortunate in that the preparation has been made because you were led to obtain the knowledge which is the bulwark for you in this time of crisis. So you must continue to hold your head high. Show by your demeanor and bearing that you will not in any way be diverted from the truth that has brought you spiritual freedom Question: "I have problems with my children though they are both coping. The youngest is very interested in Spiritualism and psychic matters.
My husband does not believe and is very upset that I do not discourage my son's interest. He is distressed because it is so against anything he believes." I think the need of the youth is greater than the beliefs of age. One is at the stage where the earthly life has almost reached its course. The other is at the beginning, when the whole course has to run. Use your tact and diplomacy, as you have done, but do not in any way swerve from the principles that you know to be true.
You realize that stifling natural psychic faculties is not advisable. If they are allowed to stultify, then there is disharmony in the make up of the child. It is always preferable to achieve wholeness rather than to allow what should be natural not to find its expression. But you can do it in your own way and help your man as you have helped him considerable.
Question: "This child seems to believe in the principles of reincarnation. But he is worried now because he knows his father is dying. He cannot understand how when he dies he can be reunited with the family if it is split."
It is not such a problem because there may be a very long interval before reincarnation occurs. They say in your world, and it is an axiom I accept, that you should never cross your bridge until you come to it. Reincarnation is a truth which has many facets.Because of that it is not easy to explain the complexity of reincarnation to minds which are unable to accept all that is involved. I have never hesitated in proclaiming that I maintain reincarnation is a fact. I have said that it is so for everybody. What I have said is that the human individuality is not always a single entity but a facet of a larger diamond.
These facets incarnate into your world for experience that will enable them to return to the diamond and add to its luster and radiance. It is part of the law of cause and effect in operation because there are karmic debts to be paid. There are also opportunities for evolved souls to return at a time when they can perform a service to groups, and even to countries, where there is a need for their qualities and gifts to be expressed.
It is a complex subject. It involves an understanding of the extent to which individuality can be appreciated because it is far more than the personality in one earthly incarnation. There is a confusion between personality and individuality. An individual can reincarnate and have many personalities. These are the physical expressions, manifestations of the individuality, but the individuality is unchanged personality, from persona, the mask, belongs to the physical body. It is the way that the individuality is able to express itself through the five material senses, and that is the tip of the iceberg.Personality is the mask that you wear on earth; individuality, the real self, seldom expresses itself, through the inability to do so. At best it is only a very poor manifestation of what can be shown when it is finally divorced from the physical body. The individuality is far greater than the personality.It is not personality that exists after physical death. Personality is only a shadow cast by the sun which is the individuality.
Individuality survives, and gradually manifests its latent potential that cannot be expressed on earth. In the case of service that is to be rendered to your world, there is a larger individuality, a diamond which has many facets. These facets incarnate so as to have expression that will add to the diamond's luster.
Some of you will discover that you are affinities. Although you are two people you are two halves of one individuality. When that happens in your world it brings with it a richness that cannot be measured in terms of material wealth. Affinities are the facets of the diamond. These are difficult matters to explain.
You can have a soul which is the diamond of many facets. These facets, at differing eras, can incarnate into your world as personalities. But when they pass from your world and return to ours they are still facets of the one individuality.
It is not automatic that families are reunited in our world. It happens only when there is a natural spiritual affinity between their members. If this dose not exist, there is no reunion possible because they are at differing levels of consciousness. In similar fashion a husband and wife will not be reunited in our world unless it was a marriage of souls and minds as well as bodies and brains. It is the spiritual affinity that decides in reunion. What happens is that for a time the vibrations of the blood tie persist, but not eternally.Spirit is superior to matter. What is of the spirit will endure; what is of matter will not. You must try to explain that to your boy. It is not easy. But unfailing law regulates everything. Love is the key because love is the expression of the Great Spirit, God, the Lord, the Creator, whatever name you choose to use.Hold your head high. You have been guided and helped, and you will come through.
Do not allow even for one moment the thought of failure- you will be strengthened in spirit as a result and learn the very valuable lessons which will bring a great richness to you in the days that lie in front of you. We can never promise to those we love in your world that their paths will be easy, that they will meet with no obstacle.
What we do say is that every obstacle and difficulty is a challenge. If you overcome it spiritually you are better for it. Everybody in your world has to die. It is not part of the natural law that you should live forever physically in your world.
Once the fear of death is abolished, then the people of your world will welcome death as the angel who takes them from darkness into light and provides the opportunity for expressing gifts and faculties that had no opportunity of being utilized in your world. ------------------------ Silver Birch
