| Spirit's....................11 | |
| just as insufficient as God's, Christ's, or any spirit's help would be without your will to free | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| care of, including your material daily bread. Your spirit's starvation must have its consequences. The same thing | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the spirit world is the outpicturing of the spirit's ideas, attitudes, thoughts, and mentality. There, everything is | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| used in any way depending on the individual spirit's free will. Now that explains why or how | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| animal. As far as my -- or any spirit's -- knowledge of human language is concerned, I | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this eliminates the spirit-being's living and existing. The spirit's aliveness and its bond with you may cause | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| concerns the time of the entry of the spirit's soul-body into the physical body. We have learned | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| immediacy also hinders you from perceiving the universal spirit's constant presence. The immediacy is, of course, wonderful | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| case, the eruption takes the form of the spirit's breaking out of the body, until it finds | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| all other personality levels must align with the spirit's innate nature: movement. You move your body so | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| effort. Such questions may be pointers to the spirit's special inclinations and directions. Answer them again and | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Spirits'....................2 | |
| world of order, has a definite task. Many spirits' tasks relate to human beings. It is advisable | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| what I mean when I discuss the demonic spirits' flight from Christ's light. You will also comprehend | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Spirit-self.................2 | |
| your whole being, into your entire life. Your spirit-self has all the power. The spirit-self cannot manifest | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| life. Your spirit-self has all the power. The spirit-self cannot manifest when any part of the inner | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
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| Human beings who have already been through some spiritual schooling and are a little more sensitive can | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| people do not accept the validity of certain spiritual laws in their lives, that they do not | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| a human being does not follow divine law. Spiritual material resembles threads, fine, ray-like threads -- in | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and weaknesses in those areas where they violate spiritual law. Thus more of the same kind of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| For a person who strives toward a higher spiritual awareness it is often extremely difficult to know | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| is important for everyone to be schooled in spiritual awareness and, according to your level, undertake to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| with all your faults, conquering all resistance. The spiritual laws can, and should, be made a living | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| or actions. It requires laborious work on the spiritual level, self-analysis, and the thorough absorption of spiritual | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| spiritual level, self-analysis, and the thorough absorption of spiritual laws before the emotions can even begin to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| or her understanding of and adherence to the spiritual laws must be. This is why God gave | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| such right away. Such an overview requires a spiritual awareness that can come only through higher development | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| begins to be receptive to an even deeper spiritual understanding. People in the second stage, who are | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| of others. The knots and tangles are also spiritual forms which are a reality, my dear ones | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| in a group who takes the direct and spiritual high road, who truly confronts himself day by | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| in the human soul, there would be no spiritual development. But there are only very few who | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| which is the basis of everything that is spiritual. And the moment the cycle is interrupted, it | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and inspired by the desire to put to spiritual use and into the service of God's Plan | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| meets itself in an eternal round, as everything spiritual must move in circular completeness. All creatures are | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| Those who experience a complete turnabout in their spiritual development and recognize God in consciousness enter into | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| through their physical eyes. The contact with their spiritual eyes has not yet been established. Therefore everything | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| will act differently and direct their aim toward spiritual progress -- which does not mean withdrawing from | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| earthly problems. On the contrary: for earthly and spiritual problems are very closely connected. An earthly problem | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| problem is actually the expression of a specific spiritual problem. The difference is only in how the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| Only if you solve the problem on the spiritual level can you find its true earthly solution | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the true nature of creation and of the spiritual laws. But the outer knowing is only one | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| be the same. When we talk about the spiritual progress of the human being we mean something | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| not react according to the sole reality, the spiritual laws, even if only on a subtle, inner | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| so by your own effort, by your personal spiritual endeavor, by your increasing self-awareness. Striving to overcome | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| resistance is the only way to sharpen your spiritual vision. Only in this way can you perceive | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| must learn to achieve the utmost for your spiritual development and purification through solving hitherto unresolved problems | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| decisions, reactions and chain reactions will ensue. A spiritual form is created which will make it even | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| decisions will cause great harm, not only in spiritual, but also in purely earthly matters. This is | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| must build your own happiness by following the spiritual laws to the full. Without this decision there | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to attain your goal with the help of spiritual protection. Then this protective influence will step somewhat | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| being to avail themselves of the weapons of spiritual law and fight with them. No evil spirit | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| which must certainly not be considered as punishment. Spiritual death is the worst, and it stands at | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the road of least resistance. QUESTION: What is spiritual death? ANSWER: Spiritual death is to give yourself | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| least resistance. QUESTION: What is spiritual death? ANSWER: Spiritual death is to give yourself over to the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to the land of the dead. This is spiritual death. But in no way is this state | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| on earth. The spirit knows that only through spiritual effort can its spiritual knowledge penetrate its intellect | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| knows that only through spiritual effort can its spiritual knowledge penetrate its intellect; but as a spirit | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| matter envelops the spirit. This is essential, for spiritual awareness has to be fought for, and this | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| lives life in the right way from the spiritual point of view, one can develop on earth | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| degree you overcome your own weaknesses, affirm the spiritual laws within yourself, and learn to love, you | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| need it. It must be so according to spiritual lawfulness. This is indirect influence, but eventually the | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| feeling has its form, which then builds the spiritual home -- even though only temporarily -- as | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the person's individual attitude and outlook, but the spiritual forms so constructed indicate exactly what this entity | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| The events that fate brings to you are spiritual forms which have to manifest in a concrete | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| and this can happen only by entering a spiritual path of inner discipline, self-knowledge, and self-search. For | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| useless efforts which build nothing that is of spiritual value, or they give over to sick, unpurified | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| use up much energy. It is yet another spiritual law that energy used for spiritually positive goals | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| daily, about twenty to thirty minutes to my spiritual life. And when I find that at first | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| are then split inside. One part has some spiritual knowledge, yet the other part does not draw | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| direct your life and your energies toward the spiritual, recognizing and fully understanding that only in this | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| something is lacking, so as to improve your spiritual awareness? And when the willpower is not there | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| thoughts; think everything through clearly, independently. Thus your spiritual life will become more productive, because it will | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| as well as the nostalgia for one's true spiritual home that dwells in every human being. For | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| ready to give up. This is the immutable spiritual law. You will differentiate clearly in your soul | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| are initially aware of. They act contrary to spiritual law and so their higher self makes itself | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| single current of feeling, to abide by the spiritual laws. It wants to forget itself and not | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| other out. Cross-currents create not only psychological and spiritual obstacles, but also physical manifestations in the body | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| brought up into consciousness. Quite apart from the spiritual truths and the divine lawfulness to which all | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| The longing for God and for one's true spiritual home does not completely explain the feelings of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| as possible in other areas either -- whether spiritual or material. Emotional cross-currents or short-circuits are not | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| those few of a very high state of spiritual development, would not find the way to health | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| your thoughts and actions -- into harmony with spiritual law. As a result your life will be | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you are struggling with the difficulties in your spiritual development on this path toward perfection. We can | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| your soul, until it becomes such a powerful spiritual form that it penetrates your entire being on | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| will have fulfilled the conditions. Then the particular spiritual law can manifest through you, and then you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| translate the readiness into action. And so the spiritual law can begin to fulfill itself in you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you enjoy; it may be good health, or spiritual strength, or the happiness and security of a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| granted -- which is always a sign of spiritual desiccation and causes the gifts you possess to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| themselves above God and claiming freedom from the spiritual laws, become less and less free; the vaunted | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| just and that in spirit infallible justice reigns. Spiritual justice makes use of human injustice in order | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| it would be all too easy to recognize spiritual justice with all its ramifications if the connection | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| when you can pay off your violations of spiritual law in the same life and not in | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| by now that all thoughts and feelings create spiritual forms of the greatest reality, even if you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| disharmony and sometimes illness. Above all, they prevent spiritual growth, or at least hinder maximum development. Therefore | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| on earth in such a way that your spiritual ascent is speeded up in the surroundings of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| based emotions, is that there is no absolute spiritual truth. Instead of trying to find the truth | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| transpose the relative human truth onto the absolute spiritual truth. That would necessarily close the door to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| out. They are much less likely to undertake spiritual sacrifice. That is much more difficult. What I | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| place, and is led into harmony with the spiritual laws. Even before you are completely healed, certain | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| whole being. 6. THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES My dear friends, you have | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| have no right to deny the reality of spiritual truth, not even to themselves. For everything that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you -- and also because of their high spiritual development, have reached the capacity to free their | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| without losing their consciousness. Thus they had certain spiritual experiences. Since transcending the ego, at least to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| a degree, is a basic requirement for a spiritual experience and for the feeling of great bliss | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| experience, and this is especially true with a spiritual experience. Therefore, any spiritual experience relayed from one | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| especially true with a spiritual experience. Therefore, any spiritual experience relayed from one person to the other | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| ones, what is beautiful and noble, what is spiritual -- and whatever is beautiful and noble is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and whatever is beautiful and noble is always spiritual -- never dissolves, it remains forever, perhaps in | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| sisters. So that what is achieved through your spiritual development -- love, understanding, and so on -- | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| by the Indian mystics who have had the spiritual experiences referred to as Nirvana. I can assure | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| divine in every respect, be it a personal spiritual experience, love for your neighbor or compassion, or | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you will also be much closer to the spiritual experience itself. When one clings so tightly to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| certain degree, in the precise knowledge of the spiritual laws, make their own decisions and carry them | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| but they turn away from God and anything spiritual and thus become blind and unreceptive to the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| consequence of turning away from God and the spiritual life, a person can again become receptive to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to mention here that many people believe themselves spiritual because they love the arts or because they | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| interests. This, however, does not make them really spiritual, really alive. Thus it happens that those over | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| earth which does not keep step with the spiritual progress. God gave you your intellect so that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| that. The choice can be made for the spiritual life and for a spiritual attitude. But it | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |