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 Threatens...................15
what all of you are afraid of; it threatens you. You do not realize that by keeping 39 IMAGE-FINDING
so risky, requires so much humility and thus threatens to be humiliating. By revealing yourself to another 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
is occasionally inevitable, when it does come, it threatens the very ground you stand on, the precarious 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
against which you so strenuously defend yourself, often threatens to expose something you do not wish to 101 THE DEFENSE
cease to exist. You will see that what threatens you in others, and makes you tense and 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
of union must be desperately avoided because it threatens to eliminate control. Without this control, your destructive 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
alive, while this more intense state of feeling threatens you and makes you doubtful you can cope 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
to remain undefended and relaxed inside when something threatens you. I am talking about psychological reactions to 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
you. But you do not realize that it threatens you only because of your false ideas. The 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
way. Something does it in you when abandonment threatens you, and it cramps up in you. As 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
rage, and anger, because the activating principle then threatens to express these destructive impulses. There are many 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
the lower self. But the giant guilt that threatens to punish these destructive aspects with total annihilation 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
against the movement of the soul substance which threatens to bring up the feelings you think you 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
to be a bottomless abyss. Falling into it threatens to annihilate the entity. I said that up 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
are not aware of your worthiness, receiving love threatens a worse punishment and exposes you to the 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
 
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cannot tell the difference between actual and unreal threats, because the state of being on the defensive 101 THE DEFENSE
total rift, with all its real and imagined threats -- for real damage has begun to be 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
that makes all danger impossible, that removes all threats, that combines the apparent opposites of discipline and 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
you. I do not refer to occasional physical threats, where a quick defensive tightening is automatic and 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
fuller life exists, which is free from the threats of death, nonbeing, pain, injustice, insecurity, loneliness. The 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
 
 Three-......................3
thinking mind. They are not visible on the three- dimensional plane, but they are perceivable by inference 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
not an easy one to discuss on the three- dimensional level. Let me begin by saying that 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
again in the limited time/space continuum of your three- dimensional reality. Everything you see, touch and experience 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
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it is difficult for an entity geared in three-dimensional thinking to comprehend utterings of a consciousness that 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
expands from one dimension to the other. Within three-dimensional time itself the sense of eternality grows, life 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
time which applies to all physical manifestation -- three-dimensional time. From the three-dimensionally oriented observation, the rhythmic 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and the pulsebeat can be measured according to three-dimensional time. The involuntary movements take place according to 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
occurs regularly. The dimension of consciousness is not three-dimensional, as the physical organism is. The emotional or 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
more difficult to establish about death because your three-dimensional orientation and perception is not geared to see 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
manifestation of pulsation is not observable to the three-dimensional perception, the pulsation of various levels of consciousness 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
perceive these manifestations. There is nothing on the three-dimensional level that you cannot and will not experience 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
or simply sound incomprehensible, confusing, and contradictory. Your three-dimensional terms can hardly contain the multidimensional verities beyond 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
human body and the ego state in this three-dimensional world, you automatically close off the memory of 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
an isolated form -- which consists of the three-dimensional reality and the ego -- affords possibilities of 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
formed. Time and distance are part of the three-dimensional illusory state of consciousness, so they do not 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
outer, reflected reality. Only the space of the three-dimensional state of consciousness appears real. Yet even your 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
mind becomes entangled in the partial reality of three-dimensional consciousness, it can easily forget the task. Only 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
consciousness and create the false reality of the three-dimensional world, inwardly you are still connected with the 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
drugs. Indeed, the drug experience removes the physical, three-dimensional boundaries and thus reveals the reality behind the 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
glory and freedom, unimpeded by the shackles of three-dimensional reality. This awareness exists in the manifesting personality 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
convey to a consciousness still immersed in a three-dimensional world. We from our spirit world constantly seek 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
whose task it is to connect with the three-dimensional world, wherever this is possible. These connections, as 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
confines of human language, which is geared to three-dimensional concepts. Nevertheless, I shall attempt to give you 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
but a hidden thought previously ignored. In your three-dimensional world, and in your present state of consciousness 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
can perhaps also begin to perceive that the three-dimensional world with its limitation of time, space and 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
impurity, distortion, limitation of vision and perception. Your three-dimensional perception is an untruthful overall view of the 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
vision. Since the world recording system exists beyond three-dimensional time, the future -- that is, certain possibilities 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
represent God on the level of manifest, material, three-dimensional reality, or you can do the devil's work 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
make you better equipped to function in the three-dimensional reality. Then there is no split between the 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
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is not so. After having crossed the first threshold, you are only at the beginning of the 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
obligation by bringing the human being over the threshold, is now ready for another task. Such an 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
choices made, either before or after crossing the threshold. There are several crossroads in an individual's life 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
as proof that you have definitely crossed the threshold of the entrance to the path of perfection 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
there along the way even before this particular threshold has been crossed, but will become a comprehensible 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
humility, when he or she crosses the first threshold and uses the contact only for this one 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
beginning of this path or those on its threshold who need to know about these facts. Even 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
decision. Only then can you cross the first threshold on the path to God. But this fight 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
your own efforts and development to cross the threshold. In that sense, it is correct to say 22 SALVATION
you will have stepped across the most important threshold in your entire spiritual development. Everything up to 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
you are preparing yourself to cross the great threshold of spiritual development. But if you can use 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
for complete purification, to voluntarily step across the threshold from the darkness into the light. I beg 39 IMAGE-FINDING
that the new friends, too, may cross the threshold from dependency on their unconscious motives to their 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
all those who are still struggling on this threshold to ask themselves, What do I really want 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
many more of my dear friends enter this threshold and leave the dark tunnel behind. Joyful blessings 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
of happiness carelessly and greedily, never passing the threshold into true love. True love demands much more 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
overcoming and working in order to pass the threshold I mentioned before. In cases like this, the 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
will stand guard, so to speak, at the threshold of your thinking process. You will begin to 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
standing poised on guard at a sort of threshold. If you succeed, be it only for half 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
long you have battled to step across this threshold. The cultivation of this new approach to life 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
it. That is the very point, the very threshold you must step through at one time or 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
up. Some of you have actually reached the threshold opening the way to a new inner life 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
place, the psyche is ready to cross the threshold. But the act of crossing it is painful 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
beginning. You would expect, when crossing this important threshold, that the new, constructive patterns can immediately replace 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
period or another of your spiritual development this threshold has to be crossed. The pain is a 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
well as for the pain of crossing the threshold into emotional adulthood. Can you imagine being spared 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
have made your first tentative steps over the threshold -- there may be occasional relapses for no 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
When you experience the pain, before crossing the threshold into emotional maturity and productive patterns, you have 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
this stage. They are supposed to approach the threshold of the state of being, in awareness. They 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the second half of the cycle, approaching the threshold of the state of being in awareness, yet 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
truth for the sake of truth is the threshold to love. Without truth and without love, there 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
almost there; you actually find yourself on the threshold of the full realization of this core problem 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
rejoice, for this brings you closer to the threshold. QUESTION: We had a discussion about blessings. We 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
growing into death -- which is actually a threshold of life. Therefore you hold back while you 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
will humankind. Hence, humanity is now on the threshold of greater maturity and is therefore in a 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
gone by and humankind is now on the threshold of maturity. But I repeat that phases of 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
realize at this moment. It is indeed a threshold. QUESTION: In an involvement with a new person 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
a revolutionary liberation. This is, indeed, a vital threshold in your development. When this happens, you will 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
my friends have made first steps toward the threshold of knowing; they can now cross it. Others 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
control and letting go. When you cross the threshold from understanding to knowing, you find the deep 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
glory of being. When you pass over this threshold, all contradictions become a complementary whole, which you 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
of what it is to come near the threshold between understanding and knowing. Perhaps you could say 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
it. For beyond this fear lies the greatest threshold of evolution to which this, or any other 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
understand; and to what degree you approach the threshold to the fourth state -- knowing. The way 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
you make the first steps in crossing this threshold. You have all the help and guidance you 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
to change, you will pass through this decisive threshold. Formulating clear-cut thoughts and expressing the intent of 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
it. Then you are truly over a major threshold. But the voluntary effort has to be exerted 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
key that could get you across a major threshold, if you only use it. Use control the 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
you, my friends, are quite close to this threshold, to this all-important transition when you leave the 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
or she must be deeply troubled. But the threshold to pass over from this alienated state into 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
words, you come closer to passing over this threshold. All of you can make the first step 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
number of my friends have crossed a major threshold on their path in the discovery and awareness 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
areas are observed, you have truly approached the threshold to self-realization. Self- realization will become a gradual 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
of life. One who has not approached the threshold of self-realization cannot grasp the wonder and beauty 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
significant progress find it easy to cross the threshold and to reach the state of mind that 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
them through, will prove indeed a gate, a threshold through which you can move. You can move 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
have no more room. You can approach the threshold through your understanding. For this understanding will release 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
everyone's path when this becomes the most important threshold to cross in the evolutionary process. Before we 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
makes it quite impossible to step over the threshold. It is absolutely necessary for you to see 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
creatures. But eventually the individual comes to the threshold where he or she learns to keep the 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
indeed know that you are at a vital threshold. The living spirit you are, which is perpetually 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
of hard work -- are suddenly approaching the threshold of this feared area in themselves. This is 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
do something about it. When you approach the threshold where you meet the apparently uncontrollable agony, pain 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
strengthened, more yourself than you ever were. This threshold is essential on anyone's path of evolution. It 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
you who is now so close to the threshold of your inner destructiveness -- to the fear 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
many of my friends, who have reached this threshold, this is indeed a key. Now, before turning 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
feel as if you were standing on the threshold of an apparent nothingness or void. Do this 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
ideal solutions, so you always agonize on the threshold of this total commitment. But what are ideal 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
experienced consciously. Only when you are on the threshold of these states, making the change from being 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
more and more. You can systematically lower the threshold of defending against your deep accumulated experiences which 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
but will sense that they are on the threshold. But most of my friends are exactly at 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
Every single soul who comes nearer to the threshold, who finally passes this threshold, releases untold energies 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
nearer to the threshold, who finally passes this threshold, releases untold energies of beauty, wisdom, strength, love 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
even, to an extent, think, but below the threshold of self-awareness, like a mineral or a plant 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
limited state. The state of consciousness below the threshold of self-awareness cannot make choices. It blindly follows 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
for you even to want to approach the threshold where you seem to be stuck. But if 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
it in the best possible way. On each threshold from one new phase to the other, new 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
accepting your imperfection. And that is indeed the threshold you must go through in order to make 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
learn from it and use it as a threshold. That is courage. It is courage to risk 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
in which a little frustration can become a threshold to freedom and expansion for you. Think about 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
life, even if you still stand on the threshold of this new phase, it will be very 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
This living, healthy, loving pain is also the threshold to joy and ecstasy. Another aspect of this 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
overcome. Focused emptiness is therefore nothing but a threshold to a fullness that exists only in the 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
turn out to be a stepping stone, a threshold, a necessary lesson. The strength to do this 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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