“The Great Spirit is infinite, and you are parts of the Great Spirit. If you have perfect faith and live your lives right, then you are able to participate in the bounty of the Great Spirit. If every person in your world had perfect faith, then he would receive. If a person were hungry and yet had perfect faith, then he would receive the answer.
That is how the Law operates. If you learn to attune yourself to the Law, the results must come. If the results do not come, that only proves that you are not in tune with the Law.
Sometimes your spirit gets crushed and cannot rise above the surrounding circumstances, but if you had perfect faith you could rise above all the troubles of your world. You would turn your face to the sun, which is but an emblem of the Great Spirit, and say: ‘I am a part of the Great Spirit. I am indestructible, I am eternal. I am infinite. That which is finite and part of the world and matter cannot touch me.’ If you did that, your world not be touched.
You were told many years ago that the kingdom of heaven is within. It is not without. It is not to be found in the rush of the world of matter. It is to be found within the soul.
If you children of matter would remember that not only are you human
but also divine, how much easier would it be for you to live your lives. Your troubles would melt away, your obstacles would be swept on one side. But you have little faith in the power that is within you.
You are on earth to build your character. It is the way you face your problems that makes your character. But there is no trouble in your world of matter which is greater than the power you have within you for overcoming it, because the troubles are of the earth, material, and you are part of the Great Spirit, divine.”
Silver Birch Anthology – Wisdom From The World Beyond, Hannen Swaffer, Edited by William Naylor, p. 11-16.
