Selected quotes from Zareth, a spirit teacher.
The quotes below are not in consequential order, but selected pieces From all of Zareth’s writings. So please remember this when reading. Enjoy . . .
Love, light and learning friends.
When we look upon your world we see the dark patches and we see the light. We see the gleams that come from spiritual beings and we see the dark patches where there is trouble. Sometimes the darkness engulfs great areas and we are in great alarm. But we quickly go to those areas, and we try our utmost to dispel the darkness.
You must remember that the Bible was written by man, and not always has it been put down clearly. Not always has it been interpreted clearly, because language is a very difficult thing, as you are well aware.
You know that in your lives you have the opportunity to grow and become more spiritual beings. Well the whole of humanity has the same opportunities, but not all humanity grasps the opportunity. Where there is darkness this holds the rest of you in thraldom. If more were inclined to spirituality we would be allowed to aid you more freely. You must understand that disasters are brought about my man’s thinking and by his acts. We have said this previously, were you all concerned with one another, with brotherly love, rather than hating, indifference, callousness, non-thinking, if everyone was concerned with his brother as he was with himself, the world would be a beautiful place to dwell in. You would not have the pestilence’s, you would not have the pests, nor would the greenery have the pests upon them, nor the food that you grow. All would be strong and life would be beautiful and we could help you against such terrible ramifications.
Look at that last war, the face of Europe has been changed drastically, because one man wanted a pure Aryan race upon the earth, he wanted power, he wanted to cast away all men who were not as himself. How could this be when all children are gods? When all have the spark of divinity within, when all are linked to Him? How can you cast away any nation? When any nation is upon its own pathway, as you are in yours. When every single individual is having his opportunity. How can one man, or another, rise up and try to engulf all of humanity? There are still some who are endeavouring in other lands. But what happens? There is great unhappiness. It is not the prerogative of one race. It happens everywhere.
When each thing came it was to benefit you. Always it had its other side too, if used unwisely. Until man has the knowledge, he hurts himself. But always there are born into your world minds that bring you the answers. Have you not noticed there is always someone who comes forth with the answer to a problem? We do not leave you to your own devices. We know, because we can see what will be needed. But we cannot give you the answers if you do not earn them. I am sorry I have to say it, but it is the law, and I have to live by the law, as you do.
look how many lives it takes, how many cleansings we have to endure before we can remain in the heavens. How many cleansings, knocking the head against another life? Pitting the mind against further problems, crying out, “God, where art Thou, my God, my Father, where art Thou?” Not realizing that the Father God is within. One only has to think about it, to be silent, and think about yourself. Look to your birth. Was that not a miracle in itself? Look at the young bud before it bursts forth into glorious flower. It is not particularly beautiful, but slowly the flower unfolds, and there is rare beauty. Your flowers do not last long, they come, they live, then they glow and they fade. As your life is, it dies. But it is not dead, it will come again, and give you greater pleasure next year. When you see this, when you see the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, coming and going, they may be attacked by disease, but you may do your best to heal the flower, the bush, the shrub or whatever. That is how it is your guardian tries to help you too, to tend his tender flower.
If the Father or you as mother/father did everything for your children, how useless they would be. Is this not so? You know it. You know how hard it is for you to struggle to keep them on the pathways that are good for them. They do not see it. How many times have you told a child that that is not the way, and they reply, “but it is.” You say it is not, and you lose the struggle. They go their own way, and disaster results from their actions. It is the same with you. You are children of the Father and you are still immature. This is not said to you unkindly, because you would not be here if you were fully mature spiritually. But do endeavour to make this your last journey to this planet. Do strive to be a worker in the next life, a soldier, a warrior for the Father.
When I look back upon the lives I lived upon the earth, and I see the times that I expended in foolishness, how many times did I lift my head and wonder, how many times did I beat the breast, and cry out? But I came through finally. It is thousands of years now since I have been upon this earth, thousands of years since I had to endure. But I do endure now in a different way. I endure because I am a teacher, and I have to try and enlighten you and enlighten many in the heavens. I have had many varied duties in the heavenly places. Each time I have learned much. Each time I have become a more rounded-out being. Each time I have been able to see humanity with clearer vision. So it is with each one of you, each experience that you go through upon this planet helps you to face another. Each avenue of exploration is knowledge won. Never look upon an experience as, “Oh dear! I am glad that is over!” Not only that way, because if you look clearly, that has been a way to help you to understand your brethren. Every experience won is an experience to make the pathway clearer, to help the vision expand.
We feel that the little children should have time to dream, to fantasize, to have their times of rest, before being engulfed by so much. But it is not to be. They are hurled into this age of knowledge, and they are no longer the little children. They have knowledge beyond their years. Their eyes are full of knowledge, yet the little ones have to struggle also with the spiritual as well as the physical. They may have knowledge in one avenue, but still they have not the knowledge of living. The two war together. Little children grow up far too quickly on your planet. But we cannot do anything about this, but we would ask you if you have little ones, to spend as much time as possible in the things that matter, the love, the understanding, the sharing of the little things, the ways of nature, the ways of tenderness and tolerance, and understanding. Try to temper the race they are in, by bringing beauty into their lives, by showing them that there is a beautiful Father above, who loves them and has made all creation, who has made them and everything there is, that there is not a stone in this world but has its own essence, and not a tree but has its own essence and its own kind. You know that everything has its own place, and everything can aid you, or go against you. You see the sea before you. It is placid and smooth, and you say, “How wonderful, how wild, how vibrant!” But you are glad you are not upon it. You are on the land and looking at it. But how for the sailor and the sea-craft! Then the dark days when the rain beats upon it, and it is dark and miserable, and we do not care to look on it at all. So it is a picture to ponder on, a scene of life.
There cannot be always light. There must be the other side, at least upon this planet. If you did not have rain the earth would perish. If the night did not come you would not be inclined to rest. Your bodies need rest. They need the sunshine, they need the rest, they need the rain to cool and feed the earth. You need the sunshine too. And so does the earth. The sun is a great power, it is needed but also it is powerful enough to burn you. In some areas it has burned up. So you see everything has its portion, its place. The sea, the sun, the moon, the stars, the flowers, the trees, the grass, everything is a necessity to you. How many times does your spirit long for the open fields, the mountains, the sea! When you are busy, and you are cooped up, and the spirit longs to get away, to get out, to see nature. How many times do you long to move far away! Why is this? It is because the spirit within you longs for the part of God that is there, for you. To give you energy, to refurbish you, to refurbish your soul, your body. The essences of nature give you what you are lacking, and you feel refreshed. So it is when you are growing spiritually, and you earn greater aid. Your soul glows more brightly. More power can come to you. Your guide can give you more of his own essence. You feel more uplifted. You receive exactly what you have earned. That is the law of the Father.
I do not criticize anyone. I see you all as flowers growing up on the earth. Sometimes you are in sunlight, sometimes you are in a storm, sometimes in a little shower. The little shower benefits and you are nourished, because in the little things you are more able to understand. You do try, I know. Little things do not put you down so much. It is the larger things. The ways of life that now and then engulf you. But is it not strange that when you set your mind to it and say, “I will be still. I will ask for knowledge. I will do my best, but if I have not the true knowledge please help me.” This is very important. First you must expend the effort, and you must do it willingly. If your guardian sees that you are, he will then do his best for you. If the guardian sees that you are not trying, but are simply sitting there weeping, and getting more and more depressed, how can your guardian draw near to such a depressed being? But if your guardian sees you are attempting, at least playing your part, then you will be aided.
How horrified you are when you hear of a far-off land whose leader has done terrible acts. You know that place in Africa, where a man who puffed himself up, how he has destroyed so many. You say how terrible. But you are removed from that scene, and you do not understand fully the suffering of the people in that land. So this is what I am trying to show you. Do not condemn until you are sure of your facts. Do not malign until you are fully aware. If you are not sure give them the benefit of your doubt.
There is not a day that passes that you do not see or learn something that can benefit you, and in the future life, when you are in the heavens think of all the lessons you have learned and think how you can use them, to benefit others. Think of me, how I was so far removed from you, that I did not fully comprehend the life as it is now, and how I have to relearn and relearn your life as it is, and how terrible it is to me. When I was on earth last time, it was more difficult to find food. We did not have your pre-packaged, pre-processed food. We had to gather. We had to sow seed, gather. We had to be wary of the enemy, the enemy within and without. We had our struggles but we did not have your technology. We had the sun, the stars, and the moon and the seasons.
Strive with me to make this world a more beautiful place for your brethren to dwell upon. Strive with me to march forward step by step, shuffle by shuffle. It doesn’t have to be at great speed. It is not possible to do it that way. But even so, one tiny step made forward is very, very worthy. A little inroads made is very worthwhile indeed. If you help even but one in this life, help them truly, you will have won through and made your life worthwhile.
People are the result of their upbringing as you well know, but every single child that is born to parents is different. You know this. Individuality has been taught to you over and over. Every single child has to make his own way. You see the child, and you watch it grow, and you sometimes marvel at how different this child is from yourself. So you in turn are learning from your child, and your child is learning from you. This is the painful process of growth, of learning.
It begins at birth, and it has not ended when you leave this life, because it goes on and on. It is a test. Many times we have tests in life to try us when we believe that we are very worthy. Then another test will come and we are shattered, for we realize that we are not so worthy as we thought we were.
Many of those who try to serve others find that in serving their greatest tests will come, for in serving you find out that other people are not like yourself. Their problems are simply problems. To put it bluntly, some problems are beyond help, it may seem. Well, when you come across such persons, do you retreat and say ‘this is impossible?’ Is your patience or your tolerance not strong enough for the task, or your strength? All of us have certain strengths within. These strengths are amazing, because we find that they are there when needed. So when you turn away and you feel that this cannot be, that you cannot do this, it seems as if the strength wells up within the being, and you find that you can in some measure lighten the person’s burden.
Many, many people, when they have difficulty and are bowed down very low, find that when they make even the feeblest attempts, that somehow they can be stronger and stronger, step by step. Once you make the attempt it is as if you go on from strength to strength. It is when one is steeped in self-pity that nothing happens. When you are in self-pity, look around you and see others who are attempting what seems impossible. Why not try it? Many people feel that there is nothing that they can do. This is their own opinion, for all peoples can rise above themselves if they but make the attempt. The fears are there because we have allowed them residence within ourselves. They are there because we grasp them, because we feel we need them. We allow others to burden us. It is as if we are martyrs and feel that we must take on this burden. “We are the only ones that can take this burden.” But it is not true, for there are others who will help. There always are if we seek.
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Love, light and learning friends.
When we look upon your world we see the dark patches and we see the light. We see the gleams that come from spiritual beings and we see the dark patches where there is trouble. Sometimes the darkness engulfs great areas and we are in great alarm. But we quickly go to those areas, and we try our utmost to dispel the darkness.
You must remember that the Bible was written by man, and not always has it been put down clearly. Not always has it been interpreted clearly, because language is a very difficult thing, as you are well aware.
You know that in your lives you have the opportunity to grow and become more spiritual beings. Well the whole of humanity has the same opportunities, but not all humanity grasps the opportunity. Where there is darkness this holds the rest of you in thraldom. If more were inclined to spirituality we would be allowed to aid you more freely. You must understand that disasters are brought about my man’s thinking and by his acts. We have said this previously, were you all concerned with one another, with brotherly love, rather than hating, indifference, callousness, non-thinking, if everyone was concerned with his brother as he was with himself, the world would be a beautiful place to dwell in. You would not have the pestilence’s, you would not have the pests, nor would the greenery have the pests upon them, nor the food that you grow. All would be strong and life would be beautiful and we could help you against such terrible ramifications.
Look at that last war, the face of Europe has been changed drastically, because one man wanted a pure Aryan race upon the earth, he wanted power, he wanted to cast away all men who were not as himself. How could this be when all children are gods? When all have the spark of divinity within, when all are linked to Him? How can you cast away any nation? When any nation is upon its own pathway, as you are in yours. When every single individual is having his opportunity. How can one man, or another, rise up and try to engulf all of humanity? There are still some who are endeavouring in other lands. But what happens? There is great unhappiness. It is not the prerogative of one race. It happens everywhere.
When each thing came it was to benefit you. Always it had its other side too, if used unwisely. Until man has the knowledge, he hurts himself. But always there are born into your world minds that bring you the answers. Have you not noticed there is always someone who comes forth with the answer to a problem? We do not leave you to your own devices. We know, because we can see what will be needed. But we cannot give you the answers if you do not earn them. I am sorry I have to say it, but it is the law, and I have to live by the law, as you do.
look how many lives it takes, how many cleansings we have to endure before we can remain in the heavens. How many cleansings, knocking the head against another life? Pitting the mind against further problems, crying out, “God, where art Thou, my God, my Father, where art Thou?” Not realizing that the Father God is within. One only has to think about it, to be silent, and think about yourself. Look to your birth. Was that not a miracle in itself? Look at the young bud before it bursts forth into glorious flower. It is not particularly beautiful, but slowly the flower unfolds, and there is rare beauty. Your flowers do not last long, they come, they live, then they glow and they fade. As your life is, it dies. But it is not dead, it will come again, and give you greater pleasure next year. When you see this, when you see the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, coming and going, they may be attacked by disease, but you may do your best to heal the flower, the bush, the shrub or whatever. That is how it is your guardian tries to help you too, to tend his tender flower.
If the Father or you as mother/father did everything for your children, how useless they would be. Is this not so? You know it. You know how hard it is for you to struggle to keep them on the pathways that are good for them. They do not see it. How many times have you told a child that that is not the way, and they reply, “but it is.” You say it is not, and you lose the struggle. They go their own way, and disaster results from their actions. It is the same with you. You are children of the Father and you are still immature. This is not said to you unkindly, because you would not be here if you were fully mature spiritually. But do endeavour to make this your last journey to this planet. Do strive to be a worker in the next life, a soldier, a warrior for the Father.
When I look back upon the lives I lived upon the earth, and I see the times that I expended in foolishness, how many times did I lift my head and wonder, how many times did I beat the breast, and cry out? But I came through finally. It is thousands of years now since I have been upon this earth, thousands of years since I had to endure. But I do endure now in a different way. I endure because I am a teacher, and I have to try and enlighten you and enlighten many in the heavens. I have had many varied duties in the heavenly places. Each time I have learned much. Each time I have become a more rounded-out being. Each time I have been able to see humanity with clearer vision. So it is with each one of you, each experience that you go through upon this planet helps you to face another. Each avenue of exploration is knowledge won. Never look upon an experience as, “Oh dear! I am glad that is over!” Not only that way, because if you look clearly, that has been a way to help you to understand your brethren. Every experience won is an experience to make the pathway clearer, to help the vision expand.
We feel that the little children should have time to dream, to fantasize, to have their times of rest, before being engulfed by so much. But it is not to be. They are hurled into this age of knowledge, and they are no longer the little children. They have knowledge beyond their years. Their eyes are full of knowledge, yet the little ones have to struggle also with the spiritual as well as the physical. They may have knowledge in one avenue, but still they have not the knowledge of living. The two war together. Little children grow up far too quickly on your planet. But we cannot do anything about this, but we would ask you if you have little ones, to spend as much time as possible in the things that matter, the love, the understanding, the sharing of the little things, the ways of nature, the ways of tenderness and tolerance, and understanding. Try to temper the race they are in, by bringing beauty into their lives, by showing them that there is a beautiful Father above, who loves them and has made all creation, who has made them and everything there is, that there is not a stone in this world but has its own essence, and not a tree but has its own essence and its own kind. You know that everything has its own place, and everything can aid you, or go against you. You see the sea before you. It is placid and smooth, and you say, “How wonderful, how wild, how vibrant!” But you are glad you are not upon it. You are on the land and looking at it. But how for the sailor and the sea-craft! Then the dark days when the rain beats upon it, and it is dark and miserable, and we do not care to look on it at all. So it is a picture to ponder on, a scene of life.
There cannot be always light. There must be the other side, at least upon this planet. If you did not have rain the earth would perish. If the night did not come you would not be inclined to rest. Your bodies need rest. They need the sunshine, they need the rest, they need the rain to cool and feed the earth. You need the sunshine too. And so does the earth. The sun is a great power, it is needed but also it is powerful enough to burn you. In some areas it has burned up. So you see everything has its portion, its place. The sea, the sun, the moon, the stars, the flowers, the trees, the grass, everything is a necessity to you. How many times does your spirit long for the open fields, the mountains, the sea! When you are busy, and you are cooped up, and the spirit longs to get away, to get out, to see nature. How many times do you long to move far away! Why is this? It is because the spirit within you longs for the part of God that is there, for you. To give you energy, to refurbish you, to refurbish your soul, your body. The essences of nature give you what you are lacking, and you feel refreshed. So it is when you are growing spiritually, and you earn greater aid. Your soul glows more brightly. More power can come to you. Your guide can give you more of his own essence. You feel more uplifted. You receive exactly what you have earned. That is the law of the Father.
I do not criticize anyone. I see you all as flowers growing up on the earth. Sometimes you are in sunlight, sometimes you are in a storm, sometimes in a little shower. The little shower benefits and you are nourished, because in the little things you are more able to understand. You do try, I know. Little things do not put you down so much. It is the larger things. The ways of life that now and then engulf you. But is it not strange that when you set your mind to it and say, “I will be still. I will ask for knowledge. I will do my best, but if I have not the true knowledge please help me.” This is very important. First you must expend the effort, and you must do it willingly. If your guardian sees that you are, he will then do his best for you. If the guardian sees that you are not trying, but are simply sitting there weeping, and getting more and more depressed, how can your guardian draw near to such a depressed being? But if your guardian sees you are attempting, at least playing your part, then you will be aided.
How horrified you are when you hear of a far-off land whose leader has done terrible acts. You know that place in Africa, where a man who puffed himself up, how he has destroyed so many. You say how terrible. But you are removed from that scene, and you do not understand fully the suffering of the people in that land. So this is what I am trying to show you. Do not condemn until you are sure of your facts. Do not malign until you are fully aware. If you are not sure give them the benefit of your doubt.
There is not a day that passes that you do not see or learn something that can benefit you, and in the future life, when you are in the heavens think of all the lessons you have learned and think how you can use them, to benefit others. Think of me, how I was so far removed from you, that I did not fully comprehend the life as it is now, and how I have to relearn and relearn your life as it is, and how terrible it is to me. When I was on earth last time, it was more difficult to find food. We did not have your pre-packaged, pre-processed food. We had to gather. We had to sow seed, gather. We had to be wary of the enemy, the enemy within and without. We had our struggles but we did not have your technology. We had the sun, the stars, and the moon and the seasons.
Strive with me to make this world a more beautiful place for your brethren to dwell upon. Strive with me to march forward step by step, shuffle by shuffle. It doesn’t have to be at great speed. It is not possible to do it that way. But even so, one tiny step made forward is very, very worthy. A little inroads made is very worthwhile indeed. If you help even but one in this life, help them truly, you will have won through and made your life worthwhile.
People are the result of their upbringing as you well know, but every single child that is born to parents is different. You know this. Individuality has been taught to you over and over. Every single child has to make his own way. You see the child, and you watch it grow, and you sometimes marvel at how different this child is from yourself. So you in turn are learning from your child, and your child is learning from you. This is the painful process of growth, of learning.
It begins at birth, and it has not ended when you leave this life, because it goes on and on. It is a test. Many times we have tests in life to try us when we believe that we are very worthy. Then another test will come and we are shattered, for we realize that we are not so worthy as we thought we were.
Many of those who try to serve others find that in serving their greatest tests will come, for in serving you find out that other people are not like yourself. Their problems are simply problems. To put it bluntly, some problems are beyond help, it may seem. Well, when you come across such persons, do you retreat and say ‘this is impossible?’ Is your patience or your tolerance not strong enough for the task, or your strength? All of us have certain strengths within. These strengths are amazing, because we find that they are there when needed. So when you turn away and you feel that this cannot be, that you cannot do this, it seems as if the strength wells up within the being, and you find that you can in some measure lighten the person’s burden.
Many, many people, when they have difficulty and are bowed down very low, find that when they make even the feeblest attempts, that somehow they can be stronger and stronger, step by step. Once you make the attempt it is as if you go on from strength to strength. It is when one is steeped in self-pity that nothing happens. When you are in self-pity, look around you and see others who are attempting what seems impossible. Why not try it? Many people feel that there is nothing that they can do. This is their own opinion, for all peoples can rise above themselves if they but make the attempt. The fears are there because we have allowed them residence within ourselves. They are there because we grasp them, because we feel we need them. We allow others to burden us. It is as if we are martyrs and feel that we must take on this burden. “We are the only ones that can take this burden.” But it is not true, for there are others who will help. There always are if we seek.
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