| Ruled.......................17 | |
| three. According to this concept the earth is ruled by a being that is not Lucifer or | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| spirit of matter. But ultimately they are all ruled by Lucifer. Yet those who say that this | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and directly, expressed, so that misunderstanding can be ruled out, or conveyed allegorically and indirectly. In fact | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you can now see that where this image ruled you is exactly where you have not grown | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| on the defensive for no valid reason be ruled out of your life, otherwise the poisonous substance | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| omnipotence. They do not rule, nor are they ruled. Instead, a healthy interdependence exists between them and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| an offender. Humans fluctuated between ruling and being ruled. Their general, overall development was such that life | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| such that life was a question of who ruled whom, who was stronger and therefore better equipped | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| they became. Their God-concept was based on being ruled; government was arbitrary, and the individual lived accordingly | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| arbitrary, and the individual lived accordingly. Each person ruled weaker ones and was in turn ruled by | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| person ruled weaker ones and was in turn ruled by stronger ones. They may have violently resented | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you make the great decision not to be ruled by your negativity, regardless of what emotions, thoughts | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you forget that. You allow yourself to be ruled by unreasonable defenses against the truth in you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| divine in you. When you are no longer ruled by the destructive because you accept it as | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| of a specific attitude to life is also ruled by laws of attraction -- like attracting like | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| your entire organism. Your mental organism will be ruled by truthful perception, clarity of vision, and realistic | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| principles. Each one held its own kingdom and ruled its own world with many spirits of lesser | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Ruler.......................10 | |
| or the devil, but Ahriman, who is the ruler of matter and who is supposed to be | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| paid homage, I possess a subject, as a ruler possesses his subjects. If you honestly observe your | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| You will cease to desire to be a ruler when you have achieved a more mature outlook | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to attain happiness, in order to be the ruler of the world that surrounds you. Offhand, you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| can attain happiness only by being an omnipotent ruler, I have to be a god myself. Therefore | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| rules upon yourself as exercised by the cruelest ruler and far beyond the unreasonable standards which may | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the moment the ego is not the sole ruler of human life. Hence, when you identify exclusively | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| as grave an injustice and dishonesty as the ruler who abuses his power. Wherever your talents lie | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| succumbing to the temptation to indulge. The weak ruler who does not wish to be bothered and | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| terms of a punishing deity, a cruel, unmerciful ruler who would impose more injustice on them. This | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Rulers......................5 | |
| had to go to war like sheep. Their rulers forced them and they had absolutely no idea | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| killed, the greater a hero you were. The rulers simply had their own advantages as their goals | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can see this again and again in history. Rulers at first were removed by others who were | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| stronger ones. They may have violently resented their rulers, but could not help obeying, while simultaneously even | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| others while the self indulges -- as many rulers have done and still do -- then a | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Rulership...................22 | |
| to begin with myself first and then obtain rulership over the earth. I should be capable, since | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| happiness actually amounts to a desire for omnipotent rulership, for unquestioned obedience from the surrounding world, for | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| world, the more it realizes that the omnipotent rulership it wishes is not only denied but is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of perfection right away, since happiness through omnipotent rulership is desired at once. To reach immediate perfection | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a double one; the first desire -- omnipotent rulership in order to be happy -- is not | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| direction: If I could have the position of rulership I need in order to be happy, then | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that would put you into the position of rulership you believe you need in order to be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| If you have departed from your infant-desire for rulership, you will be able to take it with | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| be a compromise as compared with the complete rulership you unconsciously wish to exert, you prefer to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| To the measure you discover the desire for rulership within yourself and learn to give it up | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| degree, while another may express the demand for rulership more openly. Many variations exist, governed by temperament | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| although you certainly never expressed a desire for rulership in those terms. The rulership-principle is inherent in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and give up the infantile concept of happiness, rulership, and perfection. The idealized self is always an | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| than God, and so I want to assume rulership of my little universe. Now whether that universe | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| have, I am happy. In other words, the rulership principle I discussed recently manifests in this particular | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| suited to satisfy the demands of the universal rulership principle of the infant in the human personality | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| abused by making it a tool for the rulership principle in man. The other person senses it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there is the aggressive tendency of desire for rulership, for mastery over others, for dominion. One must | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| proved too much. Others followed who took the rulership by power or manipulation and then abused their | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| talents lie, you contain the possibility of higher rulership in the best sense of the word. Rulership | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| rulership in the best sense of the word. Rulership is not just a political expression. It can | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of all, this natural talent of leadership or rulership must be assumed toward yourself, as an expression | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Rules.......................178 | |
| the right answer is cannot be found by rules. God has surrounded you with his spirit helpers | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to establish your personal contact. There are definite rules for this, but you must first overcome your | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| who went with Lucifer is the one who rules over matter, and so in a certain sense | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| a certain sense you can say that he rules over the earth. This spirit is also heavily | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| given dominion over the earth and that he rules over matter. However, this does not mean that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| varying degrees of power. This specific spirit who rules over matter is one of them. But, as | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| each individual, and therefore I cannot give general rules as to what is at its root, nor | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and is not captured by the spirit that rules the world of matter. One cannot set up | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| Apart from this, one cannot establish any general rules. It varies from one person to the next | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to go about it. There are no definite rules that can be applied with everyone in the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are led to understand that by following certain rules of metaphysical teachings their problems will altogether cease | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| have accepted another one of this earth life's rules, that the uncertainty also has to be accepted | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| shortcomings, and learning to live according to life's rules and not shirking from the sometimes necessary difficulties | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| psychological trends, and so forth. But beware of rules and generalizations here. There are none. So the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that within yourself you have not accepted life's rules, you are rejecting personal responsibility for your hardships | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| simply have two extremes. When such dogmas or rules come into existence in the various religions, whether | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| ANSWER: Not necessarily. We do not have fixed rules like that. There are cases when divorce is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| moment. Here is the difficulty: there are no rules. At one time your real and divine conscience | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it could be dangerous. On the outer level, rules are made that become rigid and dead. And | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and the illusory side, where the false God-image rules, do not coincide, they are not at peace | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| which works individually, rather than by set biological rules as in woman. This will be a very | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| arrange this balance individually and not stick to rules and regulations -- no rigidity in any direction | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth with absolute self-honesty. There are no fixed rules to determine whether actions are right or wrong | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| human tendency to generalize and standardize, to make rules and dogmas supposed to be valid for all | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to be valid for all beings. Although general rules do hold true for certain crass modes of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| own divine nature cannot be fitted into standard rules, regulations, and dogmas, no matter how ethical they | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| spiritual nature was often hindered by the general rules of a creed. In modern times, this spiritual | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of life. Whenever the individual bends to the rules of society at the cost of suppressing his | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| this law does not work by static general rules, but by individual soul laws. So, my friends | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| immature to use it inwardly. By making outer rules and regulations they imposed restrictions that distorted it | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| individual. There is no other way, no general rules to which one can rigidly adhere. I recapitulate | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| new ideas and attitudes. It also creates rigid rules of behavior and attitude; it freezes ideas and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Egocentricity calls for fixed, prescribed behavior patterns and rules, however subtly and vaguely felt. When others do | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| felt. When others do not abide by these rules and expectations, the hoped-for and carefully planned safety | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| that others may, perhaps, not abide by your rules undermines inner peace. You build on sand and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| This need necessitates planning according to your preconceived rules. Since life does not work that way, your | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| your commands are often not obeyed. When the rules prove ineffective, your insecurity is increased for two | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| what you believe you should; and 2) your rules prove unworkable. All your planning and blueprinting is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| insecurity increases. You tend to strengthen the rigid rules and commands, despairing more and more when they | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| compulsive pride of the idealized self-image exerts its rules, dictating to the personality to act accordingly. A | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| should not be kind and loving, etc. Such rules can develop to the point where one should | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| truth, which is always flexible and knows no rules. It alone can provide true security, although the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| beings. The God- image may be life, the rules of life, or it may be authority, in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sake, insecure, frightened. Only by adhering to certain rules do you have a chance to feel safe | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you need for survival only by breaking the rules, exercising power, and becoming the dictator in your | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| connection with the God-image. To obey the hated rules against one's will would be very humiliating. Therefore | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| humiliating. Therefore the psyche pretends to accept these rules for the sake of perfection per se. In | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cover up the helplessness of having to adopt rules one inwardly rebels against. This holds true even | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and antisocial, because the rebelling minority also represents rules, but of a different order. The rule then | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as intelligent and those not following these particular rules are viewed as stupid. In such a case | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this very sick tendency. It has set up rules and dogmas, and has distorted the law into | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| tendencies, toughness, and denial of all laws and rules, you may be certain that fear, cringing appeasement | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| lukewarm matter of laws, words, letters, regulations, and rules you talk about? Or is love a feeling | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and worked with. So, I cannot give you rules to observe. I can only point to the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| outwardly quite rebellious against all moralizing laws and rules. Whatever words you use to describe this phenomenon | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| goodness, decency, righteousness? Shouldn't we adhere to these rules? Don't we need them? Without them, we might | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| yourself, instead of in the rigid laws and rules you borrow because you are too insecure to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| find the truth there, you adhere to ready-made rules, and the moment you do you moralize. Any | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to trust yourself do you think you need rules and regulations to govern you. Moreover, you cannot | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Moreover, you cannot lose this insecurity because the rules and regulations are mostly so inadequate that you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| impulses, or living according to the rigid outer rules. In reality these are not feasible alternatives at | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| emotional disturbance exist, so does rigid adherence to rules in some form or other, which always brings | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| alienation from your real self by borrowing ready-made rules. This condition produces the moralizing attitude and all | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| rigidity that is tied up with it. The rules and regulations you substitute for your real self | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the place of the self: you trust in rules rather than in yourself. This is a very | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| This is a very shaky trust, for such rules may often be inapplicable to certain real situations | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to let go of the super-structure of fixed rules, it is only because you cannot accept your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| whenever an issue is foggy and your known rules and regulations cannot apply. You first have to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| where and how you use preconceived and fixed rules to guide you, rather than your own inner | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| me repeat only this: the more you need rules, the stronger the signal is that you do | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to remain dependent on the observation of outer rules. No matter how true and beautiful these rules | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| rules. No matter how true and beautiful these rules are they will not be alive and true | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| how dangerous and fallacious it is to follow rules blindly. By doing so, you end up doing | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and evaluating. Rigid dogma is based on such rules. The life has been extracted out of the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be very difficult to understand, for no general rules and regulations can be made. The process can | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| may often act completely against your known outer rules, your principles, your established patterns that you have | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the eyes of others, or about principles or rules. You are concerned with the effect of your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| angle because you are conditioned to accept ready-made rules. The rules standing in front of you block | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you are conditioned to accept ready-made rules. The rules standing in front of you block your view | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| yourself, to cut the bonds of dependency on rules and regulations, and thus on public approval. It | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| have the courage not to conform to fixed rules, or not to rebel against what is constructive | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the work is to free you of ready-made rules and help you to become true individuals. In | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| out of your real self than to obey rules and principles when you are not at one | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| what is immediate. To answer your question with rules and regulations would be impossible. There is too | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| is constant and alive by learning a few rules, by hearing a few words. That would only | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| about by intellectual evaluation and leaning on rigid rules. Intuition alone follows the constant flux of life | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| on you by the world, by religion, by rules -- in other words, by outer authority. This | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and contradictory, for which there are no fixed rules, is something the child in you would rather | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and cowardly. One may conform to all the rules and regulations of Church, society, and public opinion | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is unnecessary for religion to set up such rules. At no time did these laws have anything | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Needless to say, this cannot be learned by rules and regulations and laws and doctrines you absorb | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| You do not trust yourself to be without rules, laws, concepts, and ideals from outside. Without the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| expectation of being rewarded for being obedient to rules. Simultaneously, it frees him from fear of being | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| self-responsibility by forcing man to obey certain prescribed rules. Between these two, apparently mutually exclusive concepts, man | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| he has to appease by man-made and superimposed rules. But I might also add that what often | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you. Guidance will operate. Again, there are no rules that prescribe the mode of restitution, since no | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| function without clinging to superimposed demands, standards, or rules as they may actually exist or are believed | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| win his or her affection. Not only social rules are incorporated in one's superimposed conscience, but also | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| incorporated in one's superimposed conscience, but also particular rules of the superimposed conscience of the parent in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| treat yourself with merciless harshness. You inflict iron rules upon yourself as exercised by the cruelest ruler | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| very much unaware of such emotions. If society's rules were, at least, directed to the real evil | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| which so much self-responsibility is shifted to the rules, merely because one is afraid of taking risks | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| activity or attitude, from the viewpoint of ready-made rules in which one thing is right and another | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| often using the superimposed conscience and the ready-made rules as a shield against complete commitment. May these | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| parents' unresolved problems found an outlet in such rules and they acted out their pent-up hostility by | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| for their latent hostility. Conforming to the new rules may outwardly appear as love. Real love may | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and even punish. Those who depend on outer rules to tell them what alternative to choose on | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| Behind the superstructure of moral standards, laws, and rules lies the craving for pleasure supreme, regardless of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| degrees between them. At one extreme are superimposed rules, taboos, and false guilts, which cause anger and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Therefore, the time element cannot be fixed nor rules made that each period must take an equal | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the willingness and eagerness to question all doctrines, rules, regulations, and opinions handed down to you. Such | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| according to false, limited concepts and rigid outer rules -- especially when combined with private pseudo-solutions -- | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| not daring to defy the world and the rules which seem to decree that goodness means deprivation | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| self-responsibility instead of trying to fit into prescribed rules. Your own cosmic attunement can unfold only when | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| to use the material as if it contained rules to be governed by. This, of course, has | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| your own decisions, where you lean on ready-made rules, there your ego is not sufficiently developed. And | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the directives of others in your obedience to rules. QUESTION: I find it very difficult to let | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| try to find salvation and solace through adopting rules, theories, teachings, knowledge. They have it all up | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| for the destructive in you, it no longer rules you, and you become capable of taking responsibility | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| that prescribes, predetermines, and thinks mechanically; it determines rules and laws. By itself it is not sufficiently | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| creates a vicious circle, in that the dualistic rules and precepts, which condition you to this way | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| is utterly erroneous. So, you have these dualistic rules because of your erroneous fears, and you cling | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| life stream. The universal self often contradicts outer rules which come from humanity's ego self. Hence, no | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and defiance. True emancipation from the ego's outer rules requires neither conformity nor rebellion. It acts on | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| identify with and entrust yourself to the values, rules, and concepts of ego logic. When you want | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| not it seems to conform with outer expectations, rules, and values. As long as you are very | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| limits one sees must seem real. Therefore the rules one establishes, or blindly follows, find their confirmation | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| moment a person discovers that these limits or rules are not unalterable law and can be questioned | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| refuses to come to autonomous conclusions about life's rules? Blindly taking limitations and laws for granted is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| an outer faith and obedience to laws and rules that come from outside, is fundamentally no different | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to let go of the rigid vigilance which rules out all inner creative life and use the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| unspontaneous, empty of real feelings, bound to outer rules and regulations, tight and fearful. Discipline is used | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| no longer feel obliged to submit to senseless rules of restriction. The moment you let be what | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| harmonious interaction. The way cannot be learned by rules; only finely attuned listening to your own soul | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| you deliberately let the fruition come about. No rules can determine when to use more of one | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| generosity in your feelings? Do you postulate different rules of conduct for others than for yourself? All | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| The sensitivity for this must be cultivated; no rules can be made to relieve you of the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| part of the feeling. This shows that no rules can be established to ascertain when an emotion | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| for life cannot be cheated. Its laws and rules tell you the truth about where you are | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| nor life. Life plays out its laws and rules very squarely, fairly and impartially. It waits until | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| harmony with universal law. This is why the rules and the theory of truth and law have | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you are learning a manual task, the manual rules have to be learned until they become part | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to bypass the effortfulness of learning the ground rules can never unfold any creative ability, no matter | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| not superficially, not just to comply with some rules, but from the core of your real being | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| These are subtleties for which there are no rules. You have to put into use and pay | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| learn to understand the laws. There are certain rules. Those who have gone through the process extensively | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| will learn the process. If there were hard-and-fast rules, that security would not come. It can come | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| out because the mind becomes lazy, preferring handed-down rules and generalizations that may or may not apply | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| for you believe that security lies in fixed rules. Nothing could be further from the truth. This | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| totally childish and self-indulgent consciousness does need such rules imposed from the outside. Without them there would | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| certain rigidity and superficiality to human existence. Obeying rules blindly is a temptation to avoid thinking for | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| complex issues of inner morality. Blind obedience to rules enhances laziness of thinking, the easy way of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| an inevitable byproduct of the rule system -- rules which the primitive consciousness required in order to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| humanity has now sufficiently progressed so that outer rules are no longer necessary. Obviously this is not | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| selfishly, cruelly and irresponsibly, in spite of the rules from outside. But this applies only to the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| well as planetary. To an increasing degree the rules begin to make way for a new inner | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| which sooner or later, little by little, outer rules will become superfluous. For the inner God knows | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| psychological inner path in your emotional life, no rules are applicable -- at least no rules from | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| no rules are applicable -- at least no rules from outside. But on your inner path you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| go very deeply into yourself and transcend the rules, the adherence to public opinion, give up the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| is the only true answer. There are no rules about when to follow and when to break | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| about when to follow and when to break rules, or how to follow them. The Christ consciousness | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to you, you need to deal with inflexible rules that confine and enslave. Only those who have | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you no longer need the confinement of rigid rules. Find that part within that can create an | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| have always sought refuge in hard and fast rules that can be accepted without thinking and without | 228 BALANCE |
| outer mind you will tend to lean on rules, on pat truisms that may be valid as | 228 BALANCE |
| It would be as completely absurd to make rules about how much time everybody should spend being | 228 BALANCE |
| it may even change tomorrow. There are no rules. Only your connectedness with your greater reality, with | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| there with love and prayer and companionship. No rules exist. Only the intuitive connection will be valid | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| open to the possibility that laws, boundaries, structure, rules -- name them what you will -- come | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| project it outward, so that you assume all rules and laws, all restrictions and boundaries spring from | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| drives. There are, of course, boundaries, laws, and rules in the human condition that directly express your | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| You will then see which boundaries, restrictions, and rules are meaningful, and which are not. You will | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| denial of boundaries and structure, of laws and rules, in small and large areas? And where do | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| widely denied that the inner reality follows identical rules and laws. If these rules and laws are | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| reality follows identical rules and laws. If these rules and laws are violated because the entity inadvertently | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| overcoming of evil that very exacting laws and rules exist, preventing Satan from acting outside these laws | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| most ardently. When the outer self succeeds and rules the will direction of the manifest, acting personality | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |