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is one and the same light, will be protected against creatures from the world of darkness. Now 19 JESUS CHRIST
in you but was hidden, against which you protected yourself by unloading it on others, on life 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
overcoming the unconscious desire to remain a clinging, protected child, to refuse the apparent hardship of adulthood 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
a father-authority out of the need to be protected. False faith and false love always have the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
or wanting to appease so as to be protected, then that has nothing to do with the 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
that after a while, but you have not protected yourself against its recurrence when life provokes you 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
when life provokes you again. Nor have you protected yourself against the destructive effects of the inner 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
and receive; the need to be protective or protected -- or both; the need for ego- gratification 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
and the pain of not being loved and protected, warmed and accepted. The conditions are different for 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
the limited ego state you have so ardently protected is an illusion: the illusion of death and 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
to deaden these forces in order to be protected from their energies. This is a very common 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
not have to fear anything, that you are protected and guided and loved, you have to see 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
must and will increasingly feel how guided and protected you are, how important your venture is, what 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
goes beyond the obvious fear of being less protected from hurt and disappointment without the secrets. This 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
 
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hope to force others to feel loving and protecting toward them. There are many, many aspects to 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
believe you will receive what you crave, while protecting yourself by acting helpless. If the distorted instinct 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
may be fear, and, under the fear, hate. Protecting yourself from facing this hate can mean maintaining 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
with the danger of the moment, and with protecting yourself. All other considerations, which are otherwise important 101 THE DEFENSE
all of which have nothing to do with protecting yourself from danger. However, if you are constantly 101 THE DEFENSE
hindered. This should be easy to see. In protecting yourself against your fear of pain, or any 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
of your soul which you hold in reserve, protecting it from the beautiful movement of merging with 254 SURRENDER
 
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attain your goal with the help of spiritual protection. Then this protective influence will step somewhat aside 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
occasional failures, it will then give increased spiritual protection. This, too, is spiritual law. Whoever goes on 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
through this particular gate. When an increased spiritual protection is given, the person will be absolutely sure 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
absolutely sure of its presence. A strengthening of protection can be given several times during a lifetime 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
clearly had such an experience of strengthened spiritual protection, do not take it as proof that you 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
Furthermore, the human beings who enjoy the strengthened protection will, when striving to establish the contact with 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
then the contact will always be under divine protection, regardless of external circumstances. Of course, a medium 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
are two different things. So, for your own protection, each one of you should face himself or 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
path of perfection, which is the only real protection you have, will not be bothered or influenced 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
in all respects. There are other means of protection, but they have only a temporary effect. If 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
Therefore, the only definite and permanent cure and protection for you is to tear out the bad 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
soldier needs better weapons, more strength, and better protection than one who does not fight back or 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
completely alone, at certain times barring all divine protection, and resisting all evil and all temptation out 19 JESUS CHRIST
live on earth like a man, without any protection or guidance from the world of God at 22 SALVATION
because they think hurt is a means of protection. The other person hurts back and a vicious 32 DECISION-MAKING
have acquired the humility not to wish for protection from the risks and hardships of life. Your 38 IMAGES
even prove dangerous. Goodwill alone is not enough protection. Ignorance of many factors can bring a great 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
the true authority and law that is your protection as much as anyone else's. You will no 47 THE WALL WITHIN
in your ignorant belief that selfishness is your protection -- whether you hurt them actively or passively 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
yours. We are with you with all our protection and guidance. Yet, there will be times when 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
he mistakenly thinks it serves him as a protection. The more you analyze and understand yourself, the 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
problems and confusions. This is for their own protection. They would not undertake the difficulty of earth 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
emotions yourself gave you a feeling of greater protection. This is all wrong. The fact that you 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
a person because you believe that this is protection against the tragedy of being rejected. Finally, it 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
the desire would mean to you an imaginary protection against an imaginary danger. Needless to say, you 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
attitude because it is supposed to be a protection against something you fear. It is an armor 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
you need to guard against loving. This pseudo- protection causes you to withdraw into isolation; you refuse 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
is nothing but fear and withdrawal into isolation, protection against being hurt. The hurt of course would 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
is aggression, to which you resort as a protection against the vulnerability of the underlying submissive aspect 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
not getting what you want. Since such false protection automatically precludes the fulfillment of your desire, you 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
a false self. This, you thought, was your protection and your means of attaining what you desperately 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
characteristics in order to gain the love and protection which alone seem to promise safety from annihilation 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
and forces others to give them love and protection, the seekers for power take pride in never 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
will receive not only love and pleasure, but protection from danger as well. They do not recognize 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
just because these demands exist -- for love, protection, and nurturing -- the submissive solution has been 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
be the helpless child, looking for love and protection; craving pleasure and happiness; feeling vulnerable, submissive, insecure 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
other, you hide the helplessness and desire for protection, the tendency to appease and be falsely good 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
giving up what seems to you a vital protection. You do not realize that not only do 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
while you put up a wall of false protection against the impact of emotional experience. If and 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
not forced to give up what seems a protection to you, but look at it with the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
it comes to conduct, such laws serve as protection and are necessary. But it is altogether different 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
its existence provides you with some advantage, or protection. Instead of forcing it away, rather set out 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
of that which seems to you the very protection you seek causes the psyche to resist. Yet 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
order to obtain what seemed to you a protection. In this category belong the attitudes of submissiveness 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
but the various devices you use for your protection. This recognition is of untold value and will 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
struggle is now coming to a head. Your protection and defense lies in retaining childhood and, as 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
of you is afraid of giving up the protection. For you, the key question at this point 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
to do that? It may be your very protection against yourself. If the parent remains bad in 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
sadistic person inflicts pain on others as a protection for the self -- a pseudo-protection of course 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
losing the person he needs, whose love and protection he wants. So he will invert this force 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
work effectively and spontaneously when required for real protection. Therefore, a person whose inner system is constantly 101 THE DEFENSE
supposed to protect you. To give up this protection induces fear. To be called upon to do 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
believe that the destructive attitude is a necessary protection for you in order to cope with life 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
it because one feels the habit is a protection, a solution, a necessity. Once this is brought 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
this dependency. Children are dependent for nourishment, for protection against danger, for shelter. But the subtle bodies 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
anger and hostility. The insistence on having the protection, and the real as well as pseudo-love enjoyed 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
and resulting dependency are a necessity and a protection. Similarly, for a long time humanity was governed 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
other people. There was no civil law for protection. There was no code of ethics which ostracized 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
some extent, away from the complete shelter and protection of the parents. Again it is a crisis 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
which produces the impulses and then, as a protection, one creates a barrier to the opposite sex 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
may fear loneliness, lack of actual or irrational protection, by the loss of others. Just because these 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
fence of unquestioned standards. This fence seems a protection against disapproval or rejection. But you imprison yourself 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
find that numbing their feelings is their only protection against suffering. This is often a useful and 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
cannot cope with either. Numbness is also a protection against their own contradictory responses, impulses, and reactions 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
time this numbness seemed like the only available protection; later it was unwittingly maintained. The second facet 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
that a similar, though disguised, trend is a protection. The psyche says, I stop myself from warm 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
and intelligent forces are contained. For its own protection, it must separate the live center from its 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
the ego is understandable and even healthy self- protection. It is understandable then, my friends, that you 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
The giving up of what first seemed like protection from annihilation will now be disclosed as what 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
evasive way of self-defense is a more trustworthy protection than the way I suggest? The point could 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
all the basics of life: shelter, food, affection, protection, and, last but not least, for the very 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
The deadness was originally meant to be a protection against the pain, fear, and discomfort with which 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
came to you so painfully. Laziness is a protection against the movement of the soul substance which 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
yourself. Numbing and denying often seems the only protection against unbearable pain and suffering. And yet, as 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
you have as a safeguard is this puny protection: your pride and selfwill. Question this premise and 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
the dark areas. That is for your own protection, my friends, because in this way you avoid 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
The specific manner of the pathwork offers wonderful protection. The closeness you have developed, the intimate knowledge 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
of negative aggression, loyalty to one's tribe and protection of the other members of the tribe had 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
these principles, it will give them an enormous protection. Without this understanding confusion, fear and vulnerability would 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
can you be strong enough for real, genuine protection, assertion and confrontation. Only then can you be 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
security. A weak and wrong parent is no protection against a frightening world. Submitting Christians accept their 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

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