| Rewards.....................13 | |
| in to their weaknesses. The spirits earn special rewards in their world for such work. And they | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Of course, it is not easy. But its rewards are the richest, for this path is the | 21 THE FALL |
| less fortunate creatures. The other imagined god who rewards you for being a good child and spares | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| do you miss out on life's richness, life's rewards, your own full potential, but you do not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| an omnipotent Father who acts at will; who rewards you if you obey His laws; who guides | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| lets go of this imaginary God who punishes, rewards, and leads life for him, when he finds | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the total desire to love and to give. Rewards and punishments, in whatever forms they exist, are | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| longer. The concept that an outer entity hears, rewards you arbitrarily, and so on, is obviously the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of the peace and comfort that are its rewards. You deprive yourself of the deep pleasure and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| experience. As you learn to do so, the rewards will be like flowers blossoming within you. The | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| dedicated and selfless, in order to collect desirable rewards of glowing health and fulfilled living. But it | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| effects, or at least fail to produce just rewards. On some occasions it is possible to go | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| that makes demands on you and then possibly rewards you with something in return. You see it | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Rhyme.......................9 | |
| life makes no sense, if there is no rhyme or reason, if there is no evolution and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| that the world is a haphazard place, without rhyme or reason. You will consequently become frightened, defensive | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| say so, unintelligently and gullibly -- trust without rhyme or reason, usually out of wishful thinking, laziness | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| believing that life ends, that nothing has any rhyme or reason, because then nothing matters anyway. So | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| in the wind, living in a world without rhyme or reason. Fulfillment comes to you as haphazardly | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| world is an arbitrary, chaotic, senseless place without rhyme or reason; that there is no God, no | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| illusion that the experience comes to him without rhyme or reason! This is the most painful state | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| meaningless, disconnected world in which you exist without rhyme or reason, in which you can cease to | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| valves. It is the fear that nothing has rhyme or reason, that doing good -- or bad | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Rhythm......................107 | |
| does not happen arbitrarily, but in a lawful rhythm, as it is with all higher beings. These | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| connected with our own breathing in a certain rhythm? ANSWER: Quite true. And your rhythm can be | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| a certain rhythm? ANSWER: Quite true. And your rhythm can be plugged into the cosmic rhythm. QUESTION | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| your rhythm can be plugged into the cosmic rhythm. QUESTION: And because of this the prana and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| different for each person. There is an individual rhythm for everyone. Be blessed, my dear ones. Be | 36 PRAYER |
| cycle. The static principle is essential to the rhythm of progress. Without it fruition cannot take place | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of plants, you will notice this same threefold rhythm. Try to become aware of this ever-recurring cycle | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| short, but it is that element which gives rhythm and harmony to the breathing. And when any | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| extended to accomplish a trance. This same threefold rhythm is in the whole universe. It must eventually | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Your personality will have found its own cosmic rhythm, following the stream quite naturally. You will then | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| naturally. You will then be aware of this rhythm and follow it without compulsion and without resistance | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| thus similar in principle to a horoscope. The rhythm of these individual cycles has a great significance | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| yourself artificially asleep. You have to follow the rhythm of nature and the cosmos. The only solution | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| it. I want to show you a certain rhythm of development in a specific phase which is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| does that make, since everyone has their own rhythm and value system. No one can be compared | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| ready-made laws. They exist because of man's inherent rhythm of growth that cannot be hurried. Yet it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| harmonious flow. If you can feel into its rhythm, you will be in harmony. You can do | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| In your dimension, time flows in a certain rhythm. This movement can be determined by the seasons | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to become joyfully involved in life. The alternating rhythm is truly an expression of life, of harmony | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the divine channel. They just have a different rhythm. In occult literature, the expression the third eye | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| becomes effortless. It is joyful movement in beautiful rhythm. It spreads more joy, fulfillment, peace, accomplishment, relaxation | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the destructive repetitive process. When you learn the rhythm of your life, when you no longer struggle | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| into, forge ahead blindly, thereby disturbing the natural rhythm, you will become part of the great cosmic | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| also strengthen your selfhood. By honoring the individual rhythm of your personal path, you assume self-responsibility instead | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and your innermost self is finding the proper rhythm and balance between impressing and expressing, finding which | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| your soul- movements flow forward in the beautiful rhythm of the cosmos permeates your soul. At first | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| all inner movements to perform with their spontaneous rhythm, even if at the beginning of their growing | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| meaning of this, into the particular method and rhythm of this cosmic movement. If you truly understand | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| unsatisfactory alternatives. This primary misconception distorts the harmonious rhythm of cosmic movement. You will experience this truth | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| Since no rule can be made about the rhythm of this mutual interchange, the outer brain is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| means being in harmony with your own inner rhythm. This procedure will open the channel to your | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| happiness, you must fear its opposite. In ever-changing rhythm, the cyclic, eternal movement of growth must inevitably | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| movement of action is unstrained and has the rhythm of peace, so to speak. This rhythm of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the rhythm of peace, so to speak. This rhythm of peace, if it is fragmented and experienced | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| -- the action of movement exists in the rhythm of the universe, the same unstrained motion of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| this rhythmic quality. On the physical level the rhythm occurs according to that dimension of time which | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and in accordance with the universal laws, the rhythm occurs regularly. The dimension of consciousness is not | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| How each experience is met also determines the rhythm of pulsation. People are often aware of phases | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| unwelcome experience, and your emotions disturb the natural rhythm of the pulsation of your entire organism. It | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| growth. You allowed the pain its natural healthy rhythm, you allowed experience caused by error, illusion and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| before. These soul movements, with their innate, inbuilt rhythm and lawfulness, determine your entire life. They determine | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| limitation as to the deep wisdom, the individual rhythm of the path, the timing, the strength to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| has gone through a form of death. This rhythm prevails until the consciousness is no longer split | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| energy unit has its own metabolism, its own rhythm or turnover. The fright of meeting this person | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| so must be found within each person's own rhythm and inner reality. One must become attuned to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| -- the more painful must be the alternating rhythm and pulsation of its life. For wherever life | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| one strives, the more one hinders the natural rhythm. For striving creates more tension -- even when | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| painful state, so as to allow the natural rhythm to prevail until the entire personality is freed | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in its own way and in its own rhythm. Be receptive and open to what it reveals | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| as though they had no existence, lawfulness, or rhythm of their own. Consequently it also mistrusts the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Find the balance. It is a constantly changing rhythm or cycle on each individual's path. Each step | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| will establish themselves more and more. The alternating rhythm of initiating and receiving -- of becoming and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Perhaps you can best find your own inner rhythm when you think of the active pulse beat | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| come. The more you find your own balanced rhythm, the more a new vision will grow. This | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| bring. Healthy desires are relaxed. They are in rhythm with the unfolding, inwardly imploding life energy. The | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| come to fruition in their own time and rhythm without danger of stagnation. You will now learn | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| state of pleasure will feel the cosmic pulsating rhythm and will be in harmony with it. The | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| will be in harmony with it. The pleasurable rhythm of the universe is in each microcosmic universe | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| requires being very finely attuned to the cosmic rhythm within. It follows the soul movements -- not | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| combines an inner activity of the most pleasurable rhythm with an inner calm receptivity and apparent motionlessness | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your now and tune into your inner cosmic rhythm. But the more often you attempt it, the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| life -- but it is nevertheless true. The rhythm of growth can then proceed smoothly, without the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| prevails where individuals find themselves in the eternal rhythm, harmonious with the universe. Be blessed, my dearest | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| develop a fine sensitivity so that the organic rhythm of each individual path is perceived. One needs | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is helping them, for everyone has a different rhythm. During certain periods and phases the main concentration | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| also make you more aware of the inner rhythm and reality that is the path. Whoever commits | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| reorienting the ego. You then move within the rhythm of your own life stream. When you can | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| own life stream. When you can feel the rhythm of your life stream, you have already acquired | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| receive, and take in. This organic self-regulating, spontaneous rhythm cannot be determined by the mind. It is | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| a finely attuned flexibility to flow with your rhythm of life. Ignorance becomes awareness, perception, understanding and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| influx can only flow in its own harmonious rhythm when it is let loose. Energetically there must | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| its own laws, its own sequences, its own rhythm, its own supreme wisdom, and its own inner | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| say that these are problems. They express a rhythm of growth and expansion. Some people are already | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| behind it. Finding your way into this inner rhythm of life is the purpose of a path | 228 BALANCE |
| from the inner dimension needs to delegate all rhythm, all balance, all measurements to the outer mind | 228 BALANCE |
| you are doing. You intuitively sense the inner rhythm with which you harmoniously flow. Thus, you no | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| it is a forceful movement that disregards the rhythm of life, in yourself and in the lives | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| ANSWER: Yes, yes, each aspect has a different rhythm -- aspects of the individual, and aspects of | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| development of one single quality has a different rhythm and timing than the development of another quality | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| stemming from your own evolutionary place and the rhythm of your rising consciousness as well as from | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| own path. When you move according to the rhythm of your innate nature and plan, there will | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| the lectures, which is the groundwork of the rhythm you follow, lays the plan for this movement | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| of being will alternate and follow a certain rhythm. As I mentioned before, you must understand that | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| old truths and thus flow with the beautiful rhythm of your inner journey, so that it may | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| their specific sequence. Retrospectively you can recognize this rhythm and meaning in the sequence of lectures. The | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and future. Yet there is a sequel, a rhythm that takes its natural course. One step must | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| and enrichment beyond description. There exists a certain rhythm that you need to discover, sense and accept | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| and flow function according to a very specific rhythm, a rhythm that has been established under higher | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| function according to a very specific rhythm, a rhythm that has been established under higher orders. This | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| that has been established under higher orders. This rhythm is never broken. Only when specific upheavals interfere | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| tidal waves or human destructiveness -- is the rhythm temporarily disrupted. The sea is in crisis, so | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| but the crisis conspires to reestablish its unique rhythm, its harmony with the rest of creation. The | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| too often make themselves insensitive to their unique rhythm patterns with which they need to be in | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| fails to come, you may be out of rhythm. The waiting time may then be used to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| It is the same with the human being's rhythm. The time of fruition may come sooner in | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| waiting may last longer in others. Sense your rhythm in all things. Feel your daily life in | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| daily life in accordance with your personal universal rhythm pattern. It exists as definitively as you carry | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| have your being in harmony with your unique rhythm pattern, you will live a much more fruitful | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| imagination and feel into living a day in rhythm, as contrasted with your usual unconscious, rhythmless existence | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| focus on it and stay increasingly in your rhythm pattern. When, following a comparatively long time of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| any personal cause or meaning, something in your rhythm pattern demands that you accept this as a | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| within the particular consciousness. But only when the rhythm pattern is respected, accepted, adhered to and utilized | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| utilized in the most constructive way, will the rhythm flow without disturbance and take its natural course | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| suffer -- these are destructive responses to your rhythm pattern that delay its natural flow. Equally disruptive | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| These are positive responses that will help the rhythm to take its harmonious course. Then, in its | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| all the necessary connections. But here, too, the rhythm pattern is at work. Mentally, you may be | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| only within the context of your unique, personal rhythm pattern. Remember that and do not despair. Christ | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |