| Perceptions.................68 | |
| way, the faculties of instinctual and extra- sensory perceptions -- including mediumship -- will not become paralyzed | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| as you cannot imagine possible: creative forces, new perceptions, a growing and unfolding intuition that will give | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| progress on this path brings out the intuitive perceptions. One of the most important motives for a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| for otherwise, with only your normal reactions and perceptions at your disposal, you could not muster the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| not put any value on themselves and their perceptions. They may be feeling so inferior that they | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| certain process of growing and experience that their perceptions are often valid. This is a great relief | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| because the senses that are destined for such perceptions are dulled by your fears, shame, and urgent | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| are bound by the old images, the faulty perceptions, which make you respond and react in an | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being if you do not detect your wrong perceptions. No amount of knowledge you take in from | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the understanding of the inner errors, misconceptions, faulty perceptions. Only this will bring true security, resting on | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| about the essential issues of life, such faulty perceptions, such wrong values! Often what you consider bad | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| taken place in you to manifest! These new perceptions are so much more reliable than your often | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in a state of fear, all faculties and perceptions become dulled. The truth of the experience is | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| self is not just in the body, their perceptions will widen and the matter of their entire | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| impossible. It is unthinkable when your innermost concepts, perceptions, and value systems are in accordance with reality | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and disharmony follow. The disturbed emotions and distorted perceptions form a nucleus, almost like a foreign body | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| perceiving reality. It is the nucleus of distorted perceptions, this foreign body, that prohibits the soul from | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| -- due to this unreality, to your unreal perceptions -- you suffer more while you are in | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| breathe. Your gaze will change. Your realizations and perceptions will change to the degree that the love | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| conscious mind is an instrument of the unconscious perceptions and connections that actually exist, but is only | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| established by accepting, for the time being, that perceptions, attitudes, and feelings exist that are often diametrically | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| later to the most subtle emotional reactions and perceptions. More and more you will come to the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| beautiful new feelings, and eventually with new insights, perceptions and intuitions -- even new faculties. They will | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| it. Little by little, you will recondition your perceptions, your emotional reactions, your deep inner knowing of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| knowledge but is not sustained by your unconscious perceptions and reactions. So the work is long and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| yourself within the narrow framework of your limited perceptions of yourself and of life, you cannot use | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| have used this as an escape, change their perceptions, and this heralds a new dimension of being | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| distorted due to specific wrong ideas, concepts and perceptions. Thus it is no longer rejected in its | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| human body, this pull manifests in different moods, perceptions and experiences. How often do you discover that | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| apprehension, fear, and despair are inevitable. These illusory perceptions can only be eliminated by the arduous work | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| affects their soul substance, and thus their unconscious perceptions. The average person's perception will remain on the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| mature individuals are able to make the unconscious perceptions of negative intentionality conscious -- and that is | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| disconnection. How can all the different philosophies and perceptions of life be true when they appear to | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| in your thoughts, in your vision and your perceptions, so that decisions will be made from the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| they remain in the psyche, all your opinions, perceptions, actions and decisions will be based on half-truths | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| and where it permeates all your thoughts and perceptions, your decisions and actions, your feelings and reactions | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and conditioning. The mind conditions its own beliefs, perceptions, and observations and perpetuates them as long as | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| But as long as these conditioned beliefs and perceptions are being taken for granted as truths, the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| finds itself becomes painfully narrow and limited. All perceptions are untrustworthy because the main perception of life | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| mind remains proportionately childish and blind and its perceptions are commensurately limited. Once you have reached the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| focused and attentive way, using your finest inner perceptions, you cannot fail to perceive that within you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| result of slowly earned development will the new perceptions be truly yours. Otherwise you will put a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| you see what your moods, your experiences and perceptions reveal about your process. Then you will go | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| dishonest because you take your very limited present perceptions as the final reality. Moreover, such a statement | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| sights, sounds, odors, touching, and many other sense perceptions of others. There is a cross-fertilization. Your negative | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| a while. This attitude of lightness in your perceptions, of flexibility, of motility of mind will make | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| expressed. Unless they are encouraged to take these perceptions seriously, they cannot learn two important lessons. One | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| way your own lower self threatened you. Your perceptions may have been only partially accurate. They were | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| can choose when and how to communicate your perceptions -- if that is appropriate and to the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| You may instead decide not to communicate your perceptions if that feels more appropriate. In this free | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| choose to express or not to express your perceptions according to your intuitive inspirations. At this point | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| this even when you do not express your perceptions. The lower self is infuriated. The conscious personality | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| function with appearance values, you cannot trust your perceptions or your desires. They are not trustworthy when | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the wholeness of the utterance. Feelings, desires, concepts, perceptions, knowing must all be one cohesive and compatible | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| in your thinking, in your being, in your perceptions to Me. As you give yourself to Me | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| not in a state of love, your sense perceptions highlight experiences that you find undesirable. They appear | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| want to perceive. In other words, your unloving perceptions appear absolutely correct. But, my friends, question this | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| it or not. There are many other experiences, perceptions, sensations, some of which you do not even | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| your personality that are still involved in false perceptions and therefore in untruthful attitudes and unloving, destructive | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| can be the medicine needed to overcome distorted perceptions which create the causes which in turn create | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| gain great harmony and peace of mind. Conflicting perceptions, confusion, and therefore frustration, will disappear. Enlightenment and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all is right with you, your actions, your perceptions, your knowledge, your reactions and your feelings. The | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as if good or evil were merely subjective perceptions. Here again we are dealing with a half-truth | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| level according to limited, personal, and highly subjective perceptions. When the issues are seen on a deeper | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| influence more of your thinking and acting, your perceptions and your reactions, than you wish to admit | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| as though the whole personality with all its perceptions were dulled, so that the total vision of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling -- and many other perceptions you know nothing about on your level of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| with others to be able to set distorted perceptions right. You need the mirror of others. You | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Perceptive..................5 | |
| believe it, for you have a very limited perceptive capacity. The individualized forces are recognizable in this | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| language of your unconscious obstructions, you develop third perceptive organs and forms of communication in every respect | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the organism. However, when a person is very perceptive, intuitive, and finely attuned to inner reality -- | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| no longer be questioned. As you become more perceptive and attuned as a result of your accelerating | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| as an in-built protective mechanism, negativity closes the perceptive organs: blindness, deafness, dumbness, and numbness set in | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
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| to develop toward a higher state, to reach perfect bliss as rapidly as possible -- a state | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| assume. Only when a human being lives in perfect harmony with God's laws can the longing for | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of His truth. If you sincerely wish to perfect yourself -- and therefore first to know yourself | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| its opposite: wanting to see oneself as already perfect. A person with spiritual understanding who tries to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| than you actually are. You want to be perfect without taking the trouble to become perfect. When | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| be perfect without taking the trouble to become perfect. When you have to recognize that you are | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Thus you find hardly ever a complete and perfect instrument. It is difficult to make you understand | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| lower self, in the crust that envelops your perfect self, lies the germ through which you can | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and over again into the purest and most perfect form. Thus the element of God that simply | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| chaotic event which did not belong in God's perfect order. As a result, the break did not | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| divine and each in its own way is perfect. QUESTION: Must not everyone go through the experience | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to be gathered, but not so that the perfect masculine being must become feminine or vice versa | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| this is human error. Just as God is perfect in His/Her masculine and feminine aspects, each one | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Eventually this must be healed. Everyone can find perfect happiness only by fully accepting and saying yes | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| I believe, indicate the existence of only one perfect hermaphrodite, who was half man and half woman | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| woman. Maybe even that proportion was not exactly perfect. ANSWER: You have brought up a very interesting | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| my friends, even death! If people were really perfect -- and this is merely a theory, for | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you -- then you will gradually establish a perfect and wonderful contact. Perhaps it will feel quite | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| connection with their talent, or they have to perfect something else now. And some of them may | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| lower self, in its pride, wants to be perfect without doing the necessary and often tiresome work | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you lack because you all want to be perfect and to be on the top of the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| more it is your responsibility and duty to perfect yourself. The more you are free of very | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| as you do. If they see you as perfect as you want to appear, their sense of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will feel, consciously or unconsciously: He is so perfect -- or she is so perfect -- why | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is so perfect -- or she is so perfect -- why can't I be that way? They | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| hard to appear independent, hard, and oh, so perfect! Yet if you show yourself as you really | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| light, and supreme wisdom, because God, who is perfect, cannot create anything but perfection. Yet, if any | 18 FREE WILL |
| who dishes out arbitrary punishment. God has created perfect laws and perfect conditions for His children to | 18 FREE WILL |
| arbitrary punishment. God has created perfect laws and perfect conditions for His children to follow freely or | 18 FREE WILL |
| as they truly are. God's creation is so perfect and His laws are of such supreme wisdom | 18 FREE WILL |
| stronger both spiritually and emotionally and become more perfect, not only will your personal conflicts diminish but | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| suppose, for instance, that a being in its perfect state had the particular characteristic of great strength | 21 THE FALL |
| us suppose another individual in his or her perfect state of development had the particular characteristic of | 21 THE FALL |
| one: the spiritual body, where all purified and perfect thinking and feeling will have integrated into the | 21 THE FALL |
| is a relative one, but it could become perfect by their becoming co-creators. The so-called bodhisattvas are | 21 THE FALL |
| only Christ, except of course for God, is perfect in all ways, and has all talents completely | 21 THE FALL |
| all other characteristics, aspects, or talents in a perfect way. So it is not quite correct to | 21 THE FALL |
| say that all created beings were once completely perfect, as the Absolute is. We were perfect in | 21 THE FALL |
| completely perfect, as the Absolute is. We were perfect in our own ways which, of course, is | 21 THE FALL |
| of course, is always relative. You can be perfect within the frame of your present development, for | 21 THE FALL |
| that does not mean that you are absolutely perfect. Someone of a much lower development than anyone | 21 THE FALL |
| than anyone of you here can be relatively perfect compared to others, of whom more can be | 21 THE FALL |
| question, for the beings you have mentioned are perfect only in some ways, while Christ is perfect | 21 THE FALL |
| perfect only in some ways, while Christ is perfect in all ways. QUESTION: Last time, you answered | 21 THE FALL |
| other realms. Let us say one being was perfect in love, another in wisdom, and so forth | 22 SALVATION |
| that we all once had to make ourselves perfect in every other respect and thus eventually become | 22 SALVATION |
| that the clockwork of the laws is so perfect that nothing unjust can come to any single | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self in you says, I want to be perfect. I know this is the will of God | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and enlightenment, aware that only when you are perfect will you be truly capable of loving your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| creatures. But your lower self wants to be perfect in order to have more ego-gratification and to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| higher realms do all that, of course, in perfect harmony. What their recreation is depends entirely on | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| I should find out that I am less perfect than I thought, I will accept this too | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| one active or passive principle. They are all perfect in their own way. The whole universe is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| with humility, knowing that since you are not perfect, you cannot and must not resent others' imperfections | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Purifying does not mean that you are already perfect; purification is the process of becoming perfect. An | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| already perfect; purification is the process of becoming perfect. An integral part of the process is to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| by now that all beings in Creation are perfect in one particular way. Also, if the Fall | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| many, many beings belonging to them, are particularly perfect in one way. This applies even to the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| have disappeared. You do not have to be perfect in order to respect yourself. All you have | 31 SHAME |
| of pride and falsity long before you are perfect in all the details of your personality. Thus | 31 SHAME |
| person you do not want to appear more perfect than you are. That is one of the | 31 SHAME |
| completely purified, your love cannot be divine and perfect. Your love will be blurred to the extent | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| deeper and hidden reasons for needing a more perfect love subject than reality produces. In all probability | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| soul somehow influences also the completeness of faith. Perfect faith would mean no disharmony in your life | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| imperfections in the environment, for if everything were perfect, the shortcomings would not have an opportunity to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to you about erotic love, its meaning, its perfect ideal, and its deviations. However, that is not | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| do not want to be unhappy! Only a perfect being could rightfully make the demands you so | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| extension of these two concepts. God has made perfect laws and given His children free will. If | 38 IMAGES |
| search. Once you accept your inability to become perfect quickly, you humbly accept temporary unhappiness. There is | 38 IMAGES |
| it. In your emotions you want to be perfect, and when you discover an imperfection that seems | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| wish to be more than I am, more perfect, more highly evolved. Something in me does not | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| were to hear that the greatest and most perfect treasure can come easily. But your efforts, as | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| lives with the idea that its parents are perfect and omnipotent. When the realization dawns upon the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| that your case was singular. Everyone else had perfect parents, perfect home conditions, and only you alone | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| case was singular. Everyone else had perfect parents, perfect home conditions, and only you alone experienced this | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |