| Pity........................36 | |
| them. I will just name a few: compassion, pity, respect, admiration, tenderness, protectiveness, helpfulness, kindness, truth. Yes | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| this attitude you not only wallow in self- pity, but express a sluggishness that prohibits your working | 31 SHAME |
| with an attitude in which self-will and self- pity prevail, tries to force the world to his | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| As for self-pity, let us examine what such pity of the self expresses. What does the soul | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| lax in this respect, and this is a pity. So, let me give you some further suggestions | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| self-created underlying causes -- and this is a pity since this, too, has to be done -- | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| they often lie fallow. This is a great pity, my friends, because after all, you established the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this proves impossible, beneath your bitterness and self- pity you fail to forgive yourself for this imperfection | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the negative aspect of compassion, and that is pity. You do not have this distinction in all | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| it often happen that a person actually feels pity while being convinced that what he or she | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| thus covering up a negative one. Why is pity destructive? Apart from the obvious answer which you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| which I do not have to discuss further, pity is destructive because it paralyzes you. In compassion | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of doing something for the other person. In pity, you can do nothing but weep for the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you capable of coping with life's hardships. In pity, you merely project your own weakness onto another | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| way to determine whether you feel compassion or pity is to notice whether the feeling gives you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| always felt guilty because I didn't have real pity for my mother. I had compassion for her | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| guilt, my dear, has nothing to do with pity or compassion. It has to do with your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of having compassion and losing any kind of pity. ANSWER: The answer is implicit in this lecture | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| it and accept it. Thus, it manifests in pity. QUESTION: It is more the loss that I | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| hardness contained in the pain of identification, in pity. QUESTION: In the last lecture, with reference to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of the work. QUESTION: You didn't exactly define pity and compassion, as I remember, and I should | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| I believe the very core of humanity is pity, and indeed, self-pity, because if a person does | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to repeat again the difference between compassion and pity. I have defined it sufficiently in the lecture | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the core of every human being there is pity, indeed, self-pity. No, this is not true. Either | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| indeed, self-pity. No, this is not true. Either pity or self-pity is the result, or the symptom | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| hopeless and frustrated? Are you free of self- pity? Do you feel strong and secure enough to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| QUESTION: Can you elaborate on the difference between pity and compassion? As one gets older and sees | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to what I said about the difference between pity and compassion, I now want to present an | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to present an explanation indicating why one feels pity instead of the much more productive feeling of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you are crushed by the devastating emotion of pity, which inhibits your strength and the help you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| that you are somewhere negatively involved. For instance, pity may be a projection of your fear that | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| entirely repressed and overcompensated by a weakening, unproductive pity. The pity, then, makes you feel absolved because | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and overcompensated by a weakening, unproductive pity. The pity, then, makes you feel absolved because in pitying | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| dissolve, to the degree you truly understand them. Pity will transform into compassion, and to give constructive | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| false these unrecognized reasoning processes are! What a pity that you persist in poisoning your life with | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| case, or how you really hate, spite and pity yourself, reject life and yourself. Often many years | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Placate.....................4 | |
| the means to which the personality resorts to placate and appease others. The ways of defending yourselves | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is due to the methods you employ to placate the person who at any given period is | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| removed and disclosed as weakness and desire to placate others so as to use them for your | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| blind to the negativity in others and falsely placate them, only vaguely sensing that there is something | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Placing.....................4 | |
| none of you would have any difficulty in placing His will above yours. Yet, emotionally you react | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| only occasionally. Begin to question yourself and cease placing the guilt on others, which is always a | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| their inner problems, helping each other, rather than placing mutual guilt on each other and whitewashing themselves | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| outer grace, this helping hand. For the dishonest placing of guilt on others makes their true self- | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Plague......................4 | |
| frustration, nor failure as if they were a plague against which you constantly have to guard yourself | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| see this wonderful simplicity before? Why did I plague myself with all the unnecessary hardship? And you | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| thing most people wish to avoid like the plague. It does not suffice to acknowledge in a | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| way are the others wrong? All these questions plague you -- although you may succeed in denying | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Plagued.....................3 | |
| or her destiny will always be inwardly unhappy, plagued by problems, and feel unfulfilled even when successful | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the workings of this secret mind. You are plagued with superfluous fears of whether or not you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| capable of feeling, giving, and receiving? Are you plagued with resentments, anxiety, and tension, or with loneliness | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Plain.......................4 | |
| they journeyed from the East...they found a plain...and they dwelt there. 4: And they said | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fear, distrust and insecurity disappear, life's unity is plain to see and the untruth of concepts which | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| you do not want to freely give. If plain power is not adequate, I shall do so | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| show the raw event -- or even the plain simple thought, attitude or will direction. It also | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Plainly.....................4 | |
| as a reward from heaven, but show you plainly and logically that this path cannot help but | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| meaning of such fearful, uncomfortable, anxious reaction is plainly an expression that says, Such and such should | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the inner reality to unfold really means very plainly just one thing: liberating God within you, liberating | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and experience a just universe unless you see plainly how every one of your actions, thoughts, hidden | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Plan........................299 | |
| to do to contribute my share to God's Plan of Salvation? Many do not have as their | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| part. For all have their tasks within the plan, even the weakest. For them it may suffice | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| were meant to do and contribute to God's Plan of Salvation, in which each act of cooperation | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| I give? What can I contribute to God's Plan of Salvation? You are always demanding something, not | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| spiritual use and into the service of God's Plan of Salvation all that they have received in | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| it the tasks it has to fulfill; the plan is outlined. And in many cases the spirit | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| best of their capacities, in accordance with God's plan, their earthly life, their individual task, which corresponds | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| chain, to effect some special task for God's Plan of Salvation and for fellow human beings, will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| Creation is directed to the fulfillment of the Plan of Salvation, to the return of all beings | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| or have already attained to contribute to the Plan of Salvation, will act according to the law | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| become a useful and active participant in the Plan of Salvation. But the initial desire will have | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| ready to offer your service to God's great plan, to become His co-worker. All you will need | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| a higher level and thus help in the Plan of Salvation. A wonderful task awaits you, but | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| contact with spirits not yet enlisted in the Plan of Salvation. Exactly the kind of proof which | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| problem again and again. If God has a Plan of Salvation for us, and if we have | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| not the divine, why did God make His Plan of Salvation so complicated and so terribly difficult | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| children of God. 11. SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD In the name of | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| as individually. It is part of the great plan that God's spirit world has a task to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| are perhaps helping, working, cooperating in the great Plan of Salvation. The entities in this group, among | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| have to fulfill their tasks in the Great Plan, until all beings have returned to God. A | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| advantageous for the chosen task. They learn the Plan of Salvation, the history of Creation, and all | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| for spiritual development and what serves the Great Plan most efficiently and not what may be sensational | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| honest desire to serve God and His great plan, do you know what form we see in | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Spirits belonging to the order of the divine plan cannot and will not give this kind of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to considerations pertaining to God and his great plan, and the fulfillment of this life according to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| in fact a vital part of the great Plan of Salvation. You are then an active soldier | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you would add a great force to the Plan of Salvation that is working in the whole | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| he has not lived his life according to plan and even though he furthers a wrong current | 18 FREE WILL |
| of you. Only by the vast and elaborate Plan of Salvation is it possible that down to | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| right time, and at the same time to plan ahead wisely for the group's future as a | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| with great devotion to God and His great Plan of Salvation. The proper growth of your community | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| your community is of imperative importance in the Plan of Salvation and of deeper significance than most | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| Creation, the fall of the angels, and the Plan of Salvation. I can only touch on each | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| has become dark and ugly. Since the great plan was put in operation, many in-between worlds came | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| right moment. All this is part of the Plan of Salvation for which God enlisted the help | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| I will go into greater detail concerning the Plan of Salvation in which Jesus Christ plays a | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the ways of Lucifer. Since it is God's plan that every creature should recognize him and at | 21 THE FALL |
| even of Lucifer himself. This is the great Plan of Salvation in which Christ played a major | 21 THE FALL |
| it constitutes the best help in the great Plan of Salvation. Next time I will continue from | 21 THE FALL |
| the part Jesus Christ has played in the Plan of Salvation. And now I am ready for | 21 THE FALL |
| force with which they help in the great Plan of Salvation in very special ways and by | 21 THE FALL |
| by various and special means. But until the plan reaches its completion, the pure beings use their | 21 THE FALL |
| to help others with their particular strengths. The plan of creation will only come to its full | 21 THE FALL |
| So perfection remains relative as long as the plan of creation is not fulfilled, except with God | 21 THE FALL |
| described some time ago in greater detail, God's plan was ultimately that every single one of those | 22 SALVATION |
| perfection in their particular fields to help the Plan of Salvation. In other words, the pure spirits | 22 SALVATION |
| powers to arrange and to work for the Plan of Salvation. And this plan exists on every | 22 SALVATION |
| work for the Plan of Salvation. And this plan exists on every plane. Now, of course, I | 22 SALVATION |
| ripe for the most important part of the Plan of Salvation to take place, which Christ took | 22 SALVATION |
| this issue constituted an essential part of the Plan of Salvation, since no one should be eternally | 22 SALVATION |
| justice in any respect. This then was the plan. And Christ took it upon Himself for the | 22 SALVATION |
| could deny it. That was important, for the plan was, and is, that Lucifer himself must ultimately | 22 SALVATION |
| the laws of God. Jesus Christ fulfilled the Plan of Salvation in every sphere. His task varied | 22 SALVATION |
| refer to the Fall and Creation and the Plan of Salvation as the Christian religion does. I | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| salvation everything is established and runs according to plan. The free will of the individual plays a | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can at times be allowed to see the plan that exists in the spirit world. Or, perhaps | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| speak, to see a part of such a plan. God makes the plan according to the given | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| part of such a plan. God makes the plan according to the given circumstances, always within the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will. This is an important part of the Plan of Salvation. We know that a certain number | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happens that a seer sees just one such plan. If, later, the free will of the individuals | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have led up to the fulfillment of this plan, the seer was right. Otherwise, this may account | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be avoided. ANSWER: Certainly. He saw one plan, and if the free will of the people | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| works in any number of other directions, the plan is modified accordingly, fitting the circumstances exactly. All | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I said, they may have glimpses of one plan for one alternative, but not of the many | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through this karma. This unhappiness is in her plan that she has somehow sown before and now | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I also wish to inform you that I plan a new series of lectures after the present | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wondering about what goes on outside of the Plan of Salvation. Are there any new spirits being | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one knows that. But if they do, the Plan of Salvation is there and they will not | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| created for the time being, not until this Plan of Salvation has found its conclusion. QUESTION: What | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to go by as you make your own plan. You do not have to work according to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| difficulties, what your inner reactions are, and perhaps plan together what pertinent questions you may ask in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the others. They continue to work for the Plan of Salvation within their own group because they | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| via certain people of a particular church, the Plan of Salvation could not function properly or efficiently | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| so much to be fulfilled in this great plan that often has to be done through and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and attitudes. In the highest spheres the spirits plan with a long view, knowing that their inspiration | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| yours if they are a part of your plan for this incarnation, but it makes a great | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to proceed speedily and according to a certain plan. The apparent obstacles should be met voluntarily as | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| which my friend is lecturing, you have a plan or a scheme, as you call it, where | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| in decreasing strength, of course. Further along this plan you will find the Higher or Middle Lightworld | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| by the individualized spirit, and serves the entire Plan of Salvation in different gradations as a sort | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| reached, godlikeness can only be partial. Once the Plan of Salvation is fulfilled, further expansion toward perfection | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| sleeping. This helps others and therefore the entire Plan of Salvation. But there must not be clear | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| do at certain intervals regularly and according to plan, they change their fluids and the light does | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| of life, which offers you no risk- proof plan. This, too, is important for emotional health, my | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| I spoke the truth. How much of the plan you now fulfill determines what opportunities will be | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| she set out to do, or brings the plan to fulfillment before the life span is over | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| goes without saying that this also changes the plan for the next incarnation, since that has been | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| changes for the better in your personal life plan. It is up to you to annul accumulated | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| carefully considered, it is compared with the original plan for the past incarnation, as well as with | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| past incarnation, as well as with the overall plan for the entity in question. The negative trends | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |