| Opposition..................39 | |
| bring. The deep, underlying root is rather the opposition to either the real or the imagined goody- | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| With this convocation, he specifically expressed his firm opposition to communism and seemed to make hating communism | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| an end; as such it is in crass opposition to the longing for life. And life, in | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| reality principle is created that stands in clear opposition to the longing for and fulfillment of the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| sharp cleavage between life and death, their illusory opposition, begins to dwindle. The true understanding of these | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| this goes on and on, sometimes in crass opposition, although sometimes there is a fleeting meeting. At | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| reverberates on a wall either of resistance and opposition or of noncooperation and neutrality. Tonight's topic is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| you must oppose the other side. In that opposition your soul is agitated and fearful, and in | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| beyond the psychological quirks of neurosis. This fundamental opposition to growth is still found even after neuroses | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| of self-realization where there is no longer any opposition and painful conflict. This is the natural state | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| put all your faith in a principle of opposition. You invent ifs and buts that really do | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| can show you how you embrace error and opposition, a no- current, out of fear and ignorance | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| opposed. But growth cannot come by opposing the opposition; it comes only when the feared opposite can | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| deep within yourself. This happens without fear, without opposition, and without guilt. It happens because you feel | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| yourself. Since the unitive state is free of opposition, you must stop opposing what you fear. But | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| at this time. When you give up your opposition to your present undesirable state, you can find | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to and embrace what you consciously oppose. This opposition must exist whenever fear of one alternative prevents | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| not talking about outer levels, for, like destruction, opposition, too, can be part of a whole and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| be flatly accepted or refuted as such. The opposition I am talking about refers to a state | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| it. The conflict arises from fear of and opposition to this pull; the personality bucks the natural | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| harmonize with the creative principle. Even when the opposition is great, the pull toward contact and melding | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| love, and pleasure supreme. To the degree that opposition to the cosmic pull creates blocks and throws | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| guilt, the shame, the anxiety, and the tension. Opposition grows, conflict increases, and the vicious circle continues | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of healthy autonomy or of rebellion and hostile opposition. Flexible adaptability can be the manifestation of a | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| that this need is not only not in opposition to true spiritual self-realization -- as many people | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| obstruction is so unnecessary. It is actually this opposition that creates the tension and strain of crisis | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of the crisis indicates the intensity of the opposition, as well as the urgency of the need | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the physical and the spiritual life stand in opposition. One is merely an expression of the other | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you discover that your interest is never in opposition to the interests of others, although on a | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| which, in reality, is not, of course, in opposition to the deeper, wiser Godself the ego must | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| it becomes an endeavor that sets oneself into opposition to another self. In reality, on the divine | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| static about it. One thing is not in opposition to another. Truth, beauty, love are ever-changing manifestations | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and expansion. They lacked the vitality to withstand opposition to further expansion and movement. This is why | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| their best sense, thus keeping the spirit pure. Opposition to both these aspects -- tradition and change | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| time. Psychology then often came to mean an opposition to spirituality, a contradiction which, of course, is | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| path as this. That would be totally in opposition to the safety valves they have created. The | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| A group of such people is never in opposition to the individual, but as I mentioned before | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| you see, my friends, technology is not in opposition to spiritual development and to spiritual life. However | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| in motion, it cannot be halted. The more opposition it encounters, the more painful the crisis will | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Optimistic..................4 | |
| angry, irritated, or, for that matter, joyful and optimistic. In each of these reactions lies a desire | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a bearing, but you cannot say that an optimistic attitude brings a good result and a pessimistic | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| about yourself, you can have a positive and optimistic attitude consciously, but unconsciously you can also have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| let go of your self-will without being either optimistic or pessimistic. Just wish to learn from anything | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Optimum.....................4 | |
| the fallen spirits. When personal development reaches the optimum point, one is open for the truth in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so to grow inwardly to his or her optimum, to establish a benign circle between the two | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| health, in harmony, whether in minimum or in optimum state, no hardship would have to come to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| matter of each individual soul developing to its optimum point by way of search and self-realization. The | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Options.....................8 | |
| to act out selfish impulses. You have more options than the two alternatives of either suppressing or | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| self can do many things -- it has options, possibilities and choices -- the first being what | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| can acknowledge the presence of destructiveness has other options and is closer to your ultimate reality. How | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and choices, and can look for hitherto undreamed-of options and possibilities -- not by magic, but by | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| otherwise negative attitude toward a situation contains various options. But it requires an act of inner will | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| consciousness is unable to avail itself of its options and possibilities. When you begin to pose the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| vicious circle. But do you not have other options available? Isn't it possible, with your mind as | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| wish to acknowledge. These and other attitudes and options exist in every possible dilemma and difficulty. Knowledge | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Ordeal......................3 | |
| His reappearance clearly states: After having met my ordeal fully, without pretense and self-deception, having gone through | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| they big or little. When everything is an ordeal, something in you rebels. If you fundamentally absolve | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| painful, that it is a confusing and puzzling ordeal, that there is no meaning to it. They | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| Order.......................847 | |
| from knowing how to deal with it. In order to part the dark clouds and see the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| this is indeed a participant in the divine order and his or her happiness will never become | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| no longer be torn by inner contradictions. In order to reach a negative decision at all, you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Spiritual justice makes use of human injustice in order to bring about ultimate justice. My dear ones | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| exist where many beings live together: a certain order, a hierarchy. Here, in God's divine kingdom, the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| self-search and discipline, of love and humility, in order to establish contact with God's world. They live | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| development, then certain events will take place in order to avoid some greater danger. These events are | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| faults, but also to fight them. Yet in order to fight them we have to think about | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| whole as the interconnectedness of its system and order is increasingly understood. These people will grasp evermore | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| between the spirits who belong to the divine order and can help and teach and other types | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that something in you is not quite in order. For otherwise there could not be so much | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| later. When you pray for the answer in order to fulfill God's will, it must come. Do | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| it at will. But you need help in order to be able to really forgive. And you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| really forgive. And you do need help in order to face yourself in total honesty and to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| event which did not belong in God's perfect order. As a result, the break did not occur | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| concepts into your language, so infinitely hard. In order to understand what I am really talking about | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| or by spirits not belonging to the divine order. These laws contain, among other things, the stipulation | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| in God's world, which is a world of order, has a definite task. Many spirits' tasks relate | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| struggle. You must indeed learn many things in order to receive the gift of such a contact | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| occasionally it has to say unpleasant things in order to help further spiritual development, it will never | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| or another they do not belong in the order of God's world. If contact with God's spirit | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| spirits have voluntarily accepted God's laws and His order and have thus remained happy. A great number | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| great number of other spirits have broken that order, again voluntarily, and by that act they have | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| wisdom, the only right course, stand outside this order -- voluntarily. Just as they could voluntarily accept | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| these two categories; those belonging to the divine order and those outside of it. The former are | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| medium than any other spirit of the divine order. But if Goethe should speak here it might | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| May God bless all my friends. 12. THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS -- THE | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| God exists, and there is indeed a divine order, how can it be that so many terrible | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| all beings have returned to God. A wonderful order and organization reigns. The most diverse spheres exist | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| each entity is to bring to earth in order to make the most progress. The being who | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| give you, my friends, some simple advice, in order that you may know how to go about | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| make you doubt the part desiring truth in order to avoid disappointment. The higher self and the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| next lecture will also be in English, in order that more of you can profit by it | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| see to it that they are asked in order of their importance and their interest. If all | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| present a different picture of the self in order to avoid certain difficulties, unpleasantness, or disadvantages of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| fight for enlightenment and strive for development in order to purify one's feelings and desires. But if | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| absolute reality which you must eventually reach. In order to reach it, you must first face your | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| happy, healthy, and at peace inwardly, needs, in order to truly fulfill this present life and be | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| higher self may create certain physical symptoms in order to wake up the person and find out | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that you have in you, and not in order to avoid putting up with a discomfort. True | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| spirit world of God is a world of order. When it is recognized here that a human | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| I said, is above all, a world of order. QUESTION: I wanted to know what the spiritual | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your earthly sphere. This applies to the divine order and to the world of darkness as well | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| surrounded by guardian spirits who belong to the order and organization of divine worlds, and they can | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| of other spirits not incorporated into the divine order. Some may belong to the world of darkness | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| who do not yet belong to the divine order and are thus blind in many respects. They | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| proper human help which you also need in order to take this path. You will be guided | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to review what I have said before, in order to grasp what I am going to say | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| giving something to other people and not in order to drug himself so as not to face | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| my new friends here? Spirits belonging to the order of the divine plan cannot and will not | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the higher self from the lower self in order to really know ourselves, it sometimes happens that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| supply the essential factors the body needs in order to remain strong and vigorous. One can go | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| going to a certain amount of trouble in order to get it. And you digest it by | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| and change your currents accordingly. Thus you put order in your soul. Then you will be able | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |