Posted by psychicpatsy1
at 05:49 PM on June 10, 2008
Music plays a subtle part in the Divine Plan.
Silver Birch gave a leading musician a foretaste of the delights awaiting him in the Beyond.
What you can never appreciate is the service you render with the music
you provide. Music, especially of the inspired kind which is natural
for you to transmit to others, has a great healing, soothing,
stimulating, uplifting quality. In its way that too can touch souls and
make them realize there is a sublimity of life far greater than any of
the things that the physical senses can perceive or comprehend.
Whenever you play in future remember you are an instrument of a great
purpose, helping to bring harmony, sympathy, stimulation, happiness and
health to many others who cannot convey their thanks to you.
You have the greatest treat due when you reach our world, because we
have music of a quality and superiority you cannot now comprehend. We
have octaves of sound that you have never heard in your world. We have
symphonies, we have concertos, we have orchestras and we have the
greatest music makers and masters in our world. You have only a few in
yours.
We have access not only to the great music makers, but they have
evolved since coming to our world. There is greater music performed for
those who are ready to appreciate it. Our halls of music are among the
treasures of our life. You will hear octaves of sound that are
incapable of being registered by any of your instruments.
And of course the music that enriches your world has its source in our
world. It is not created in your world. Musicians and composers are the
mediums.
?It is a great privilege to be here. I very much want to tell you that your teachings are a wonderful inspiration in my life.?
Let us both thank the Great Spirit, I for the opportunity and privilege
of service and you and your wife for being able to receive it.
I came to your world many years ago, a lone figure without a friend.
I was asked if I would return to your world under these difficult
conditions, forfeiting whatever I had earned in higher reaches of life,
because there was a great need for spiritual realities and powers to be
established. I accepted the challenge.
Here you are tonight telling me that the teachings which I am
privileged to transmit -- they do not originate from me -- have helped
you. I am grateful for that knowledge. It shows that I have added some
more friends at whose hearths I can feel the warmth of their love, and
that means a great deal to me.
You will be given many opportunities to serve others as you have been
served. Take them when you can. I am not asking you or anybody to
become an evangelist, a missionary seeking to make converts whenever
possible. We do not wish you, or any others associated with us, to play
on the emotions of the masses, to arouse them with fervor to accept
things which in the cold light of day for many of them will prove
unreasonable.
What we do say is that you will be provided with opportunities to help
those who come into your orbit. Then do the best you can for them.
There is a great work to be done in your world.
Material possessions can only be your temporary belongings. You are
merely their custodians. Those of a spiritual nature will not rust or
tarnish; they will endure. There is no religion higher than service,
which is the coin of the spirit. Those who serve others less fortunate
than we are will find that the way will be shown. There will be brought
to them people they can help in their time of crisis, just as you were
guided when you needed it.
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Referring to discordant and technical modern music, a visitor asked if inspiration had changed its form.
Inspiration does not change. Inspiration is constant, but it can be
received only by those who are ready to do so, and they must be attuned
to that wavelength on which it can operate. Inspiration is always at
work. Like spirit power, it seeks to find avenues through which it can
express itself.
It is a question of atunement. You must recognize that in your world
there are pioneers in all forms of art, in music and in painting.
Sometimes they are so much in advance that the people of their time are
unable to appreciate it. But with the years that pass, understanding
comes, and recognition is afforded to the pioneers.
That does not apply to the vulgarization of music that often takes
place in your world. This is in line with the violence that is part of
the cancerous growth infesting your world today.
?I wondered if the generation was affecting the music.?
You cannot divorce matter from spirit because each reacts and interacts
so far as the other is concerned. Your body affects your spirit, and
your spirit affects your body. They are not in watertight compartments.
?Jung says everything that happens on the inside must manifest
itself on the outside. Is some of the modern, violent, tuneless music
evidence of this? Is it not better out than in? Does it help to
dissipate the violence??
No, it is a natural reaction, unfortunately. It is an expression of the
material, part of the selfishness, the complete unconcern for the
welfare of others. It is greed at work. That explains the violence
afflicting itself on your world. And that violence is expressed not
only in physical behavor, but in music, art, and in every other form
of life.