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| In spite of these attempts, the battle still rages between fundamentalism and liberalism. Just this week, Bishop | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| one without the other. Many an inner conflict rages just because of this interconnection. You struggle against | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| First, in the stage of blind automatism, it rages in the person's soul. According to character formation | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| or from an inability to cope with pent-up rages, or from a subtle process of strengthening the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the pretense must be given up. A battle rages in the face of this decision. It is | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of the fact that this very same battle rages in them; that this battle has created the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| where the storm of destructiveness and meanness still rages, you split your consciousness off from this part | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| Raging......................10 | |
| time -- especially when the wild storms are raging -- and make contact with God and His | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| nature, and thus finishing the war that is raging in almost every human soul, the outpouring of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problem. All severe problems are due to some raging, vicious circle that has to be crystallized out | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| darkness which human beings erroneously imagine to be raging outside themselves; they tend to believe that they | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| him or her, let the effects of the raging, underlying conflict finally emerge, and it will show | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| when one tendency is hidden. Because of this raging inner battle between such mutually exclusive aims and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| that the emotions are a tremendous power factor, raging violently unless channeled. They use the word sublimation | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to be the center of the universe. The raging need, which you may or may not be | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| within, you are torn apart in the storm raging inside of you. As long as this conflict | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Those of you who have recently found this raging battle within yourselves will know exactly what I | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| Raise.......................30 | |
| You will be able to help many, to raise their practice to a higher level and thus | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| be wrong with your own thinking if you raise doubts about the medium just because of this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| religious affiliation. By self- purification alone, you will raise your consciousness to such a degree that you | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| a particular instant will start, and will thus raise the maturity of the other which may then | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| way. And if you become sensitive, if you raise your intuition, you will hear and notice this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| with yourself. This will widen your horizon and raise your consciousness to the necessary maturity. The truth | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| outlook caused by your own distortions. Once you raise yourself above this state of error, you will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| they have no absolute reality. The moment you raise your consciousness, you are free of the illusion | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| release a great inner strength, but you will raise your consciousness and increase your awareness in a | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| at all times. QUESTION: I should like to raise one point here. The Christian religion, or, specifically | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| soul in which you think, meditate, contemplate, and raise your thoughts to higher things. That is much | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| elaborate on it next time. May these words raise echoes in your emotions. As you let this | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| collect from the outside. This awareness alone will raise your level of consciousness and fill you with | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| longer avoid confronting your inner uncertainty. You must raise questions you have never dared to face. You | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| desire it to some degree? How can you raise your perception, how can you free your scope | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not even mean the same thing. When you raise your consciousness, you will come to a different | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| friends, who pursue a path of increasing self-awareness, raise their level of consciousness in the fastest possible | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| again discover more of yourself, to widen and raise your consciousness, to strengthen your grasp on reality | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| really have to be so? The moment you raise the question you begin to open a crack | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| other and look within, he or she will raise his or her own development considerably and spread | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| voice of the false need. The moment you raise the question, Is it really true that I | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| is to me? The mere fact that you raise these questions honestly will already open a door | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| even in its most simplified form, should help raise your consciousness so you can intuitively perceive these | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| yourself up to its realization. The moment you raise that question and open up to receiving the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| transformation. According to the concept that lower realms raise themselves up into higher ones, the earth sphere | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| But as you progress in your development and raise your consciousness, you will see that there is | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you may use the act as material to raise your consciousness and widen your vision and perception | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| accusations which may or may not be true. Raise the pertinent questions. The first would be, What | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| in a very vital way. You need to raise your consciousness to this reality. You need to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| fall off your burdened shoulders. You need to raise your consciousness specifically to this phenomenon. Think about | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Raised......................23 | |
| place. With such an act, you have already raised your consciousness to a pretty high degree. Something | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| also its incarnations. As your spiritual consciousness is raised, you will come to discern in which category | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| or human. A person whose consciousness is not raised to some degree will easily fall under the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| we come back to the point we first raised; when the goal is not desired for its | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| but it is true. When a person has raised his or her consciousness and perceives inklings of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| when you see error in others, with this raised consciousness you will see through it, you will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| slower way or be satisfied with a slightly raised consciousness, affording them better conditions, but they would | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| know there is more. The lack of this raised state of consciousness may make life on earth | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the last lecture you said in connection with raised consciousness that we will no longer be frightened | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you can imagine that as the consciousness is raised, the form comes out of the fog of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| completed, then the degree of consciousness is so raised that it is no longer a question of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| obvious that as long as consciousness is not raised to a higher degree of truth-perception, a new | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| accept the rich abundance of life with a raised head, as a free person. It is this | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| lecture is a continuation of the topic already raised last time: humanity's deeply ingrained longing for and | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the group are predominantly in a state of raised consciousness. The degree of consciousness of a group | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Then a second series of questions must be raised and answered in writing. What do I believe | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| thing in another. Answering the questions I have raised -- because of the honesty required and the | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| ecstasy. You can attain the higher vibration, the raised level of functioning of the higher realms of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| forth -- the fact that these questions are raised will permit you to come to the second | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| aware and strengthened, until the consciousness is sufficiently raised so that the energies can be activated in | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| is that the dualistic, cut-off life is not raised, as it is often said, into higher realms | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| does not seem to be. As consciousness is raised, new horizons appear; effects are seen to be | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| women who brought a good dowry and who raised men's social image. In other words, greed and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
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| Stubbornness and self-will are exactly what hinder the raising of your consciousness. Any imperfection is a hindrance | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| Not all problems or faults are prepared for raising to the surface. Some are supposed to remain | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| -- they just manifest differently. This process means raising one's consciousness. You will then also recognize the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| can sense it to a small degree by raising your consciousness, through eliminating your inner conflicts which | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| area. Spiritual philosophies and teachings use the term raising consciousness. It means exactly that. If you visualize | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| would convince me -- while the very person raising such objections may use the imperfection of another | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you will feel an extension of awareness, a raising of your consciousness in many respects. Often, where | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| me that contain all the good imaginable? By raising these questions seriously, you will get an answer | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| three stages seem connected. An essential part of raising one's consciousness lies precisely in making this connection | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |