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| for the morrow. This cannot be done. The text you quoted says, in different words, that you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Imagine it in the sense of translating a text from a foreign language. If you are not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| COMMENT: As you have already stated, this whole text is taken out of its setting and given | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Texture.....................6 | |
| -- in this case of somber color and texture -- which are spun, knotted, and entangled, until | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| there is a materialization, you cannot see the texture of matter existing in other spheres. QUESTION: If | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| condensed in a spiritual form of extremely fine texture, creates these beings, and these beings emanate in | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| again, concentrated and condensed into a slightly coarser texture that is still extremely fine compared to your | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| currents in you are of the same basic texture as the evil spirit attaching to you. The | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of subtle matter, but of a much coarser texture than the other subtle bodies. After death, this | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Thanks......................4 | |
| God some attention. And you can also give thanks to Christ for all that he has taken | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| we in our world wish to express our thanks to each one of you who tries so | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to tonight's lecture, I wish to extend our thanks, from the world of spirit, to all of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| thank such people in their own way. Our thanks -- if we may call it that, for | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| Thee........................5 | |
| not prevail against it; And I will give thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the Ten Commandments, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. So the way we use | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to thy belief it will be done unto thee. This is not a magical process. If the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| to thy belief it shall be done unto thee. It does not mean there are magical intercessions | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Theological.................1 | |
| the divine, by outer means, by religious theories, theological interpretations -- thereby forcing themselves to live by | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Theoretical.................61 | |
| integrated and assimilated within. Knowledge must never remain theoretical. It must be put into practice and take | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| a little bit, just to see. All the theoretical knowledge you may possess, that having once tried | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| nothing more is necessary. You can have the theoretical knowledge and still go right on reacting the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| gradually it will become more remote, a merely theoretical knowledge in your brain, while underneath you go | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| chain reaction will just be another piece of theoretical knowledge you have absorbed, entirely separated from your | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| wisdom of the ages will give you only theoretical knowledge that has no real root in your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| answers, but most of these answers are either theoretical and logical deductions or they are only vaguely | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| brought about. My friends, I say again that theoretical knowledge will avail you nothing. Only your personal | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| However, you should understand and expect that a theoretical understanding, especially now, will avail you nothing. As | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to have it because one has recognized its theoretical value. But it is not yet felt. Therefore | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the principal aim will be less a further theoretical understanding than a great deepening of your emotional | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up distorted emotions, your knowledge is still largely theoretical and not yet conducive to a true understanding | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| By this I do not mean a general, theoretical understanding, but a real inner, specific, and personal | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| from the outside can give you only a theoretical understanding to begin with. It must not remain | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| reactions with your knowledge -- as yet only theoretical -- of the realistic, truthful, and productive reactions | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| can like, respect, and be comfortable with yourself. Theoretical knowledge will not help, except to inspire you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| help you put into practice, to assimilate, a theoretical knowledge and to apply it to your private | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| if the love is active and not merely theoretical. It does neither require the risk of rejection | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| its specific manifestation? Certainly not by a general theoretical knowledge of its existence! Due to your shame | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| vanishes. The so-called spiritual, and until that moment, theoretical concepts become just as much a personal experience | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| split. This process is difficult to describe in theoretical terms, but one who attains a deep understanding | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| The concept of spiritual union is mostly a theoretical one for human beings, although at this stage | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| words which go beyond a mere intellectual and theoretical grasp of the subject. Sometimes this understanding comes | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| inner message. These words are, of course, very theoretical and abstract; just reading or hearing them merely | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| as memory. In other words, it has become theoretical knowledge; it is no longer alive. It will | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| happen within and around you. Knowing is not theoretical understanding. It is experiencing the truth. Knowing the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| that your understanding will not be general and theoretical only. You must determine where you limit yourself | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| discussed it many times and know of its theoretical existence. Why not? If you look deeper inside | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| work as experienced fact, not as a mere theoretical teaching; at the same time this lecture will | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| my friends, this lecture must not remain a theoretical study. To the extent you use it for | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| deep within the soul. But even when the theoretical knowledge of such a state exists, it is | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| When the vague longing for, or the precise theoretical knowledge of the unified plane of consciousness is | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| state, cannot come about by accumulated knowledge and theoretical understanding, by study or aiming at an outer | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| transform their character defects. The actual -- not theoretical -- activation of the real self with its | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| your psyche. Again, this cannot be accomplished by theoretical understanding, but only by actually experiencing those areas | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| without this understanding. All this may sound very theoretical to the person who is still far from | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| state of bliss. Bliss is not just a theoretical possibility: it is humanity's natural state of being | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| than destructive, and not for an as yet theoretical process called self-realization that promises to feel good | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| right here and now. It is not a theoretical teaching that you can, at best, consider intellectually | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| this juncture you may have arrived at the theoretical understanding that the involuntary processes need not be | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| from their unconscious, this idea seems at best theoretical and all too metaphysical. Those who explore and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a negative experience in a moment. This apparently theoretical discussion, my friends, is not half as theoretical | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| theoretical discussion, my friends, is not half as theoretical as it may appear. I will show you | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| exact measure, stand pleasure. No matter how much theoretical understanding you may already possess about the principle | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| does not suffice to acknowledge in a vague theoretical way the existence of some negative feelings. It | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| thing. When the connection is not an intellectual, theoretical understanding but an actual emotional experience, when you | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to discuss this in a philosophical, general or theoretical manner. The more specific and personal you can | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| die off. Resisting growth is not necessarily a theoretical concept, but may nevertheless occur in practice, since | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| level where the answer is more than a theoretical concept. You will experience a new power in | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| takes leads to illusion and deals merely with theoretical speculation or alienated idealization and not real live | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to your own life instead of a mere theoretical discussion. Then it will prove of vital significance | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you reach this inner awareness -- not a theoretical, but an experiential awareness -- you will create | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| attained only through personal self- confrontation, never through theoretical speculation. You must begin with some general concepts | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| it is not enough to have merely a theoretical understanding of these inner processes. Only through your | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| even if at first such comprehension is merely theoretical and intellectual, will be very helpful for your | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| sense of self gets more and more lost. Theoretical correct knowledge in the intellect does little to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| feeling. This cosmic feeling is not merely a theoretical understanding, or a feeling about the cosmos or | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| longing be a real experience, rather than a theoretical understanding. Once you experience the fear and the | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| living God as immediate experience -- not as theoretical speculation and a luxury of belief, but as | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| yourself out of self-hate and into self-esteem on theoretical grounds, you will not succeed until you have | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| about as a result of philosophical speculation or theoretical knowledge, or even as a result of specific | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |