| Belonged....................5 | |
| Some of the great prophets and so-called saints belonged in this category. Not only did they bring | 22 SALVATION |
| in the spirit world, even these spheres still belonged to the kingdom of Lucifer because he did | 22 SALVATION |
| there are people now on this earth who belonged once to the light and partly, let us | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| highly developed spirit, a spirit who has never belonged to the Fall. Jesus Christ could not have | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to act out again and again attitudes that belonged to you years ago, or even perhaps months | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Belonging...................22 | |
| the seemingly contradictory parts would be seen as belonging to a whole. So humanity is fighting because | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| violated by human beings or by spirits not belonging to the divine order. These laws contain, among | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to seek contact with spirits other than those belonging to the world of God. The harm is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| or the other of these two categories; those belonging to the divine order and those outside of | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| one's own divine self or through an entity belonging to God's world. For both abide by the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| because it tempts the respective medium or people belonging to a particular group to feel important and | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| explanation to all my new friends here? Spirits belonging to the order of the divine plan cannot | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| It is, of course, different if a spirit belonging to the order of divine forces has a | 18 FREE WILL |
| which I will now explain. Until the people belonging to the inner circle who actively help to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| ways of furthering the progress of each individual belonging to your group by giving just the right | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| this is accomplished, there is division, each function belonging to a special layer or subtle body. The | 21 THE FALL |
| the Orders, with all the many, many beings belonging to them, are particularly perfect in one way | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the stigma of being ostracized, despised, of not belonging. This conflict can only be resolved if the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or his surroundings, has a feeling of not belonging, of being isolated and unique in a negative | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| being beyond the experience of most human beings, belonging to a much higher state of development. Some | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you receive what you yearn for -- love, belonging, communication -- if you neither feel nor express | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| inner willingness and readiness to do so. People belonging in this category love not only abstractly and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| incapable of fulfilling other people's needs as those belonging to the other two types. They feel infringed | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| false guilt, than accept the tiniest real guilt belonging to the area of the lower self that | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| knowledge of all the good things in life belonging to you, of the real yes-current. And you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of reference, one may classify certain aspects as belonging to one or the other of these three | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all things in life. Through this sense of belonging in the world you experience true joyousness, a | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Bend........................11 | |
| as a hidden, well-camouflaged attitude. You may even bend over backwards so as to hide this attitude | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| perhaps because, quite unconsciously, you thus wish to bend life, and others, to your needs. It is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| a conscious or unconscious insistence expect that others bend to your will so that you may be | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| result of a rigid selfwill -- unwilling to bend, change, flow with the stream of ever-changing life | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| meaningful way. If at each difficulty, at each bend in the road around which you cannot see | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| your suffering. No matter how much you can bend others to comply with your desires, it never | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the energy you now use to coerce and bend your environment would be used to establish genuine | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| arguing the case in question. Admit how you bend reality according to the emotional colorations of your | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| wisdom to deal with something that does not bend according to your selfwill. This attitude gives immense | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| playground for living. Knowing your infinite ability to bend with life, you can snuggle in with it | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Without this state, spirituality must, sooner or later, bend into some distortion, no matter how well-intentioned the | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Beneath.....................24 | |
| The perfection lies dormant within you deep down beneath the layers of the crust, hidden by your | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| churches to believe that everything is outside: Hell beneath and Heaven above. When people read in Scripture | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to mass images which claim that it is beneath a man's dignity to enter into intellectual discussions | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| their constructive purpose, while ignoring the false motivations beneath. After some exploration in the right direction, one | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a hidden font of life. Like a spring beneath the earth's crust, without any semblance of strength | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and what it is that you fear. Go beneath surface reasoning, surface desires and fears which are | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| martyrdom makes it difficult to discover what is beneath the surface. Only very truthful insight into the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| submissive attitude in yourself, look into what exists beneath it. You will not only find the resentments | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| know all the answers. When this proves impossible, beneath your bitterness and self- pity you fail to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| hate -- in your unconscious mind, of course. Beneath this glorification there may be fear, and, under | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| grows automatically. Find the unifying forces that lie beneath the split of your will to help it | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Do not expect to find a healthy flexibility beneath it. Be prepared to find the other kind | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| stance allows for the mutual exchange in relationships. Beneath the inner and unconscious refusal to cut ties | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| dare to acknowledge because it was uncomfortable or beneath your dignity to do so, you will become | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| then the period of incubation, of quiet growth beneath the surface, is longer than when you plant | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| very deep level of the human psyche, way beneath the ordinary neurotic misconceptions and fears human beings | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| luck and bad luck because they cannot see beneath the surface. Since these people refuse to conceive | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of life? The latter thought may smolder secretly beneath your perception of life's limitations. If you can | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| how subtle and covert it is, hidden, perhaps, beneath a tense, striving for fulfillment. Such overactivity may | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| really right and good can be seen just beneath the surface. According to divine law this deeper | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| like a mineral or a plant. The organisms beneath the state of self- awareness have nevertheless in-built | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| only on the surface level. But within and beneath that surface level there is a constant interaction | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You have to look for this new vision beneath the limited vision to which the immediate consciousness | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to be in truth and when you go beneath the surface to deeper levels. See this new | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Beneficial..................52 | |
| luminous threads of the greater reality, and so beneficial influence and help cannot reach you. And now | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| only benefit the person, for every test is beneficial when successfully passed. After reaching a certain level | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| it shall be opened. Concentration in prayer is beneficial not only as a training but also because | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| everyone according to their means. This would be beneficial for them, too, in every respect. Something must | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| or that way. It can become harmful or beneficial. When a masculine element seems to hinder a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| And I may say that this could be beneficial not only to you but also to anyone | 18 FREE WILL |
| your being. Only then will they be really beneficial to you. Everybody knows that it is important | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| stands in-between you and this light and the beneficial effect it could have on your surroundings. You | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| be entirely relaxed and should feel a very beneficial effect. And now, my dear ones, I am | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| yourself from this point of view, but how beneficial this way of thinking is! Once you begin | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| even your wrong actions and faulty judgments become beneficial to you -- will become more than just | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is not a good and healthy love, neither beneficial to you nor to the loved subject. It | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| are on this path, it might be very beneficial to start to view your life, particularly your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| of blindness. In some cases it would be beneficial if such incidents were brought to the inner | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the group as a whole. It is so beneficial, my friends, to give your heart to the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| your previous incarnations. It might be even more beneficial to be concerned with your next one. With | 38 IMAGES |
| don't you try it? It would be so beneficial for you if you heeded my words. You | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| points and their truths. They may also be beneficial in waking people up to wider awareness. They | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Nothing ungenuine and manipulative could ever be truly beneficial. It would only affect an unhealthy, superimposed, and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the attitude. Pain in itself is not necessarily beneficial if the attitude is unconstructive, at least not | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if you are objectively convinced that it is beneficial as such, be it for the world at | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| valid question. Nevertheless, prayer is good, right and beneficial. But the prayer is not necessarily answered exactly | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| various layers -- and this will be very beneficial for you in more ways than one. Foreground | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to explain. Such an approach will be most beneficial. It will open vistas to you and will | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in staying above it. It would be very beneficial, my friends, if during the summer months you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| do as preparatory work. This will also be beneficial for those friends who cannot attend personally but | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| will become more and more constructive, healthy and beneficial for yourself and others -- and for the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will broaden your understanding and will prove very beneficial for you. In the past, before you really | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| given. Then, and only then, will it be beneficial. QUESTION: What is the psychological explanation for a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| what inner hidden role you play will be beneficial, possibly even for both parties. If you had | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| side that earlier eluded you, it was nevertheless beneficial for you to go through those times of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| necessary too, and that they are constructive and beneficial. Without consciously thinking about it in these terms | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that letting go is something utterly good and beneficial. This is reality. Illusion only breeds conflict. By | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and to what extent. This will be so beneficial, so healthy! Some daydreaming of this sort may | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| reality. In that case, daydreams do have a beneficial effect. It depends on what level you produce | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| direction of your growth. Determining this is very beneficial. Moreover, daydreaming of this kind encourages awareness of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| that end. No one's efforts at self-honesty are beneficial only for himself. Incidentally, this change has begun | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| rather than a help toward attaining what is beneficial. This is what I explained about the apparent | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and negativity. Declare that its results must be beneficial for yourself and for others. Visualize how this | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| of loving is, and how safe, secure, and beneficial it is to love. Closer inspection of the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and the ego-forces, and then surrendering to the beneficial forces of your deep nature. Every single human | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is nothing wrong with them, but are also beneficial for the other person. This may even be | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| new approaches have begun to have their very beneficial results, so that even those who were most | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| It must, in the long run, also be beneficial for others, whenever they want it to be | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| But every step of their development has a beneficial influence and thus teaches others, whether they realize | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| connection. For that purpose it will be very beneficial if you present me with some traits in | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| a part of you blocks the great creative beneficial forces that could make you thrive in an | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| entity follows its plan, these energies become extremely beneficial. They aid the process of growth, of change | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| a tremendous meaning and sense, most necessary and beneficial for you and, indeed, most positive. Your false | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| has learned from yours. It has been very beneficial. But now perhaps the other way can also | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| working year: It would be most helpful and beneficial for you, my friends, if you became more | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| more clearly defined. This is immediately and directly beneficial in many areas of your life. This desirable | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |