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| sustenance, to find your divinity, and become a receptacle for the great universal power that is being | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| deep self-knowledge and self-honesty. Only then does the receptacle become commensurate with higher truths and values, fit | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| closed circuit. In other words, you, as a receptacle, need to be neutral. You need to give | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| person? The new person is indeed always a receptacle of the universal intelligence, the divine consciousness, the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| on your body, to make it a fitting receptacle for truth, love, wisdom and service. At times | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Reception...................4 | |
| amount of time. Other spheres could be called reception spheres. They are also beautiful and often more | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| malady is first to prepare for the proper reception of the life force. The first step is | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to which wishful thinking may be coloring the reception. Beware also of the opposite danger: To what | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| extent does fear of wishful thinking color the reception and obstruct the truth that would only be | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
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| of perception. And today humanity begins to be receptive to an even deeper spiritual understanding. People in | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the spiritual life, a person can again become receptive to the influence of the spirits of Hell | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to it if something in you were not receptive to it. For instance, could you be tempted | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| unified, encompassing within themselves both the active and receptive, that is, male and female, aspects. You all | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the masculine principle is at work. The feminine, receptive principle, is what dissolves itself, slowly and continuously | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| in this way will you be open and receptive to the proper nourishment with which you can | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| doubts shade your feelings. If your feelings are receptive and open, you will be able to find | 22 SALVATION |
| what you wish to know if you are receptive, if you are open and put all prejudice | 22 SALVATION |
| lower spirits cannot do so. They are only receptive to the substance that corresponds to their own | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you; ask Christ to help you to be receptive to it. Pray: Father, is this thy truth | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| meditation, strong forces are present. You are most receptive in the palms of your hands, and these | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| The experience of God's love depends on how receptive one is. It is up to the individual | 36 PRAYER |
| is the only truth. Open yourself to be receptive for this truth only. Go in peace, my | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hand, if a woman fears the passive and receptive state that, in a healthy way, is part | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| your subconscious. For then you are fully open, receptive, and alive. You will be better able to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| help and advise spirits who may be more receptive to you personally -- then it is most | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the time of Jesus and is therefore more receptive to abstract ideas. Incidentally, Jesus did not speak | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the body, it makes the whole person more receptive and capable of pleasure on all levels, including | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| therefore become, as development proceeds, all the more receptive to pleasure in a much higher form than | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| grasping way rather than in a healthy, flexible, receptive way; greed; craving, which leads, in crass cases | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| that in this respect a person is more receptive to one manifestation of divine life. But this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not love animals and nature is otherwise receptive and open. For instance, the latter may be | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| respect the other's integral right not to be receptive to what you wish to give. For you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| make bliss a reality, for you have become receptive to truth. To realize this it is important | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| only because this is where you are most receptive, most vulnerable, and most open. It actually flows | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| available to you provided you are open and receptive to it. Self-realization means becoming aware of this | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| one. But some people tend to be more receptive to one or the other of them. Both | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| power of the self. The other is being receptive to and waiting for whatever is to happen | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| male and the female, the initiating and the receptive forces. Every life manifestation is an expression of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| more integrated are the constantly fluctuating initiating and receptive forces -- opening and closing, opening and closing | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| produce excessive tension. Where the mind should be receptive, not only to what comes in from outside | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the latter. This means a waiting in a receptive, quiet attitude, and once the divine self unfolds | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| own way and in its own rhythm. Be receptive and open to what it reveals to you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| open to what it reveals to you. The receptive attitude is violated by a punitive, anxious, and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and participation and, at the same time, of receptive waiting, and relaxed yet pulsating passivity. When you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| new into life. Both the initiating and the receptive principles require the integrity of selfhood, on the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| hand, you become still and waiting, calm and receptive. If answers do not come forth at once | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| then manifestations can appear. If you are equally receptive to both the best and the worst in | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| you begin to observe yourself and to be receptive to what comes out of you, you should | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| you let yourself be calm and observant and receptive to what is within you, and accept it | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| penetrated only when you become both initiating and receptive to your own innermost being. Then you will | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the expanding and restricting principles, initiating and being receptive -- to refer to our most recent discussions | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the principle that expands, embraces, is open and receptive to life. The No current represents the negating | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| sincere in wanting to know and thus properly receptive. Then, and then only, will you be able | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| which is right in you. You will be receptive to it. You will then express this power | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| The attitude of letting be means to be receptive and to wait. It is also a movement | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| intuitive powers reach your consciousness only when this receptive spirit of letting be reigns after the activation | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| The pulsating activity of the soul in the receptive state of letting-be, the state of being, self-surrender | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| its own fashion. But after these steps, the receptive principle must be at work, because once these | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| call upon the greater inner power and become receptive and listen. It must step out of the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| step aside and keep the self calm and receptive. The feeling for this increases as you experience | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| alternate between being active and passive, initiating and receptive. Gradually a harmonious, self-regulating integration will occur. You | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and emotions is quietly confident, calmly expectant and receptive, patient and unanxious, unhurried and unworried. Otherwise your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you become active and at the same time receptive, so that the creative substance can begin to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| know that in overcoming them I will become receptive to the goodness of life. I am willing | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| all to express itself. Here you need a receptive attitude, instead of a reaction that what comes | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| through me. I will make myself a willing, receptive channel for this to happen, you are basically | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the willingness to expose hidden shame; and the receptive attitude in which the ego knows its own | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the ego knows its own limitations. In this receptive attitude you let God into your soul from | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| does it allow you merely to be passively receptive. This venture must truly become mutual. It can | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| wanting help, you will become calm, open and receptive. With this you have fulfilled your half of | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and more, conscious of its reality, becoming more receptive to it. Thus you will increase the power | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| often paralyzed and stagnant. Where it should be receptive and passive, it is tight, forced, and active | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| will direction, and this creative force activates the receptive substance of your soul. If you understand this | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the universe comes about because the active and receptive principles fuse and create something new. This applies | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| which creates new galaxies, both the active and receptive principles must always merge harmoniously. The same applies | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| level plays the active part and which the receptive. I shall be more specific about this later | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| vanish. The soul substance functions according to the receptive principle. The more one-pointed, unconflicted, uncontaminated by secret | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| statement is, the more deeply and clearly the receptive part -- the soul substance -- will be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| state the soul substance becomes loose, resilient, and receptive. It will be easily impressed and malleable, and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| active principle, and receiving the impression by the receptive principle. The more you can feel this interaction | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| not let go enough to stay open and receptive. True answers can come only when there is | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| is a constant interaction between the active and receptive principles, between the voluntary and involuntary faculties. After | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| performs the active, impressing part and affects the receptive soul substance, other possibilities arise where the various | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| human consciousness assume varying roles of active and receptive interaction. Your conscious ego-mind can activate the divine | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| active principle, and the conscious mind must become receptive, listening, pliable, impressionable. It must tune into and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and express itself. Subsequently, you must again become receptive and listen with your conscious mind, so the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| You need to become very tuned in, very receptive, to become aware of it. This much more | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| farther you go on your path, the more receptive to the inner process you will be; the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| it. The mature soul makes itself light and receptive to its own innate feelings and fully savors | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| your heart, your mind, your consciousness, and your receptive faculties. However, when you are hooked on negative | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| on negative intentionality, it is impossible to be receptive. Receptivity is part and parcel of positive intentionality | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| its riches. Only when you are open and receptive can the universe give you its riches. The | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| love. When you first open up to a receptive state, you must also be prepared to let | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| what is in you. To be open and receptive means to be undefended, inwardly relaxed, unafraid of | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| attitudes. Hence, the first step toward establishing a receptive attitude is to let out the evil that | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| first: teaching it, bending, changing it; making it receptive and vibrant; letting new life energy and creativity | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is meditational. Listen into yourself, become calm and receptive, quiet the busy, loud mind. Start with the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| it from within. But you must make yourself receptive to it. Then do the same with selfwill | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| your whole person. You cannot fail to become receptive finally to the beautiful, eternal you, if you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and wait for the answers until you are receptive enough for them to reveal themselves to you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| core of your being. Listen to it, become receptive to it. You are all blessed and loved | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| soaks up nourishment and affection as a merely receptive organism, thus illustrating the universal feminine principle. The | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| specific other person, and it seeks the merely receptive, in-taking kind of closeness. The fusion thus aspired | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| acting, initiating, asserting. The feminine principle expresses the receptive movement of taking in and nurturing. In distortion | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| larger self, to focus on it and be receptive to its ever-present inner voice. Similarly, it is | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| it is possible to focus on and be receptive to negative aspects of your personality that lie | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| this only to the degree that it is receptive through its own power to know the truth | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| all of creation. They are the active and receptive principles. These two principles are aspects of one | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| or that particular area. I will simply be receptive to this as a possibility. This is a | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the result of this power's coming upon a receptive channel. If this power hits an unreceptive channel | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| will now speak about the importance of being receptive to this force, this energy, this new consciousness | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| spreading through human consciousness wherever possible. To become receptive to it, you also need to understand another | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| contradiction: It is extremely important that you be receptive and expectant, yet without preconceived ideas, impatience, or | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| consciousness. Your outer mind must become empty and receptive, yet it must hold itself poised for all | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the biggest and smallest issues in your life. Receptive, creative emptiness must truly be nurtured. Listen with | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| must not do this with urgency but become receptive to when and how you will be filled | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| hold opinions, be neutral, in order to be receptive to the great new force sweeping the inner | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| am not contradicting the necessity of being passively receptive. It is simply a shift of balance: where | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| motility of mind will make you the most receptive to your apparent emptiness. Now, my friends, as | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| not like a cramp. When your mind is receptive, it can be filled with the higher spirit | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| his or her way through to becoming truly receptive to the spiritual being within. The results would | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| believe only in active expression and reject all receptive, passive attitudes, and vice versa. Many other life | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| when to be active and when to be receptive and quiet. You all grope in these and | 228 BALANCE |
| or that the strong person must never be receptive and soft. The balancing measurement is beyond your | 228 BALANCE |
| balancing factor, for instance in the aggressive and receptive principles, a third force? ANSWER: No, the balancing | 228 BALANCE |
| the bridge, if you will. The active and receptive principles are just two of many other universal | 228 BALANCE |
| stay with this example -- the active and receptive principles. The balance is not a third factor | 228 BALANCE |
| the active principle must contain within itself the receptive, just as the receptive state must contain the | 228 BALANCE |
| contain within itself the receptive, just as the receptive state must contain the active. Otherwise there is | 228 BALANCE |
| be active unless that activity contains also the receptive state of mind; the still, harmonious state of | 228 BALANCE |
| effortful only if it does not contain the receptive principle within it. It is precisely because human | 228 BALANCE |
| It is precisely because human beings cannot perceive receptive quietude within active movement that they shy away | 228 BALANCE |
| coming through the cohesion and conciliation with the receptive principle, then growing, active outward movement -- becoming | 228 BALANCE |
| be feared. By the same token, if the receptive principle does not contain within itself the active | 228 BALANCE |
| state. The activity and movement contained within the receptive state makes it as alert, wakeful and alive | 228 BALANCE |
| The active principle is movement and action. The receptive principle is the state of being, quietude. The | 228 BALANCE |
| being, quietude. The active state gives out. The receptive state takes in. The active state is a | 228 BALANCE |
| active state is a tensing of energies; the receptive state relaxes them. If you combine the two | 228 BALANCE |
| as the man. And the man represents the receptive principle as much as the woman. In their | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| inner forces must combine both the active and receptive principles, otherwise imbalance exists. No true man can | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| man can be a man without incorporating the receptive, or feminine, principle. If he expresses only the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| same token, a woman who expresses only the receptive principle is a caricature of a woman and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| who negates her autonomy. So to be fully receptive on the feeling level, woman has to express | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| to come out of you, in which the receptive principle alternates with the active principle. Here is | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| principle always being the active principle and the receptive principle always being the receptive principle. This is | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| principle and the receptive principle always being the receptive principle. This is not so. What is on | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| it is to be harmonious, and become the receptive principle, and vice versa. When you sense the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| active principle, become in the next moment the receptive one, and again, vice versa. This is then | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| being, but express it with a joyous welcoming receptive attitude toward it, knowing that this is your | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| gradually attain the right balance can you be receptive to your own divinity and finally merge with | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| itself wreak the same havoc as the passive, receptive principle in distortion. This is why many spiritual | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you feel free from guilt and become truly receptive to what the universe wants to give to | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| earth, through all hearts that are open and receptive and willing. God's love envelops you all. 247 | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and again. You meditate, you visualize yourself being receptive to happiness, love, and fulfillment and yet this | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Nonetheless, to be part of these forces and receptive to them is the deep longing of every | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| flow through you. You are capable to become receptive to it and become an active agent of | 254 SURRENDER |
| improve if you helped others to be more receptive to what you know and have to teach | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| and, similarly, if you were more open and receptive to where you could learn from others. Too | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |