| Boil........................7 | |
| negative self-perpetuation stronger and stronger, until the inflamed boil bursts. Then we have an obvious crisis. Crisis | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| disruptive crisis can be avoided, because no inflamed boil will form. The process of death itself is | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| were not allowed to swell to an eruptive boil, but dissolved voluntarily with the available consciousness. Superficial | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| quickly. Once the pus runs out of the boil and the attitudes are adjusted, self-revelation brings peace | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| healing process is at work, even while the boil erupts. The negation of this process, the inner | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| seeks to avoid the necessary eruption of the boil, which consists of a painful entanglement of ever-increasing | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| a way that makes the swelling of the boil impossible. Hence no painful eruption is needed to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Bond........................15 | |
| with every other soul, forming a true, free bond with all its brothers and sisters and with | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| otherwise. And it is not only that the bond of love will remain between you and those | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| very long time according to your perception, this bond will expand and include other beings to whom | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| a certain need. And since there is a bond between you -- and he trusts you -- | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| a person with whom there is a real bond or a task to fulfill. I just mean | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Just a little goodwill can often establish a bond of love between two people at odds. Try | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| time, it will help many to form a bond. We encourage and we bless this undertaking. And | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| living and existing. The spirit's aliveness and its bond with you may cause your subconscious to be | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| relaxed with someone for whom you feel no bond of affection than with someone with whom you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| themselves. This process establishes soul and spirit. The bond of dependency on parental authority is cut. The | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is cut. The healthy spirit will cut this bond, even if the parents do not encourage such | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| unresolved problems will not desire to cut this bond, but instead will do its best to maintain | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the newly developed state of your unity. The bond is as yet tenuous, the strings that hold | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| in truth to each other. This fortifies the bond of love and your ability to sustain the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| out the superficial differences and find the great bond of inner oneness -- not by eliminating Him | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Bondage.....................34 | |
| less free; the vaunted freedom will turn into bondage, and ultimately they will find themselves in fetters | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| become increasingly unhappy with the resulting tight inner bondage. Many people who revolt against human injustice cannot | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the spirits of Hell, since through the strong bondage to material things certain low feelings will be | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is really alive to them, because through their bondage to matter they suffocate the living spirit. I | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| hold onto their past earthly bondages, whether this bondage concerns a fanatic patriotism, family pride, a profession | 18 FREE WILL |
| No, it is a weakness and often a bondage. Real love is freedom, dear friends. It can | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| his or her own opinion, it becomes a bondage. A free person, unconcerned with the opinions of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| from that of the person who is in bondage. In other instances the person will forsake public | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| opinion. You are thus just as much in bondage as by conforming. You are just as dependent | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| us some ideas on the subject of emotional bondage, especially on how to begin searching for it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| briefly, a common denominator. One inevitable factor in bondage is fear. As you well know, fear can | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to a person who has an inclination to bondage. The growing child strives for love, but it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in certain temperaments a tendency to be in bondage. Of course, many other things play a role | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| always be strong enough to be called a bondage. In principle, however, it is the same because | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is stronger than being true to yourself, the bondage principle is at work. It is my advice | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| look for this current, even if an obvious bondage does not exist. You will find that many | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| find that many people who apparently have no bondage at all, who seem rather to be quite | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| opposite manner, they believe they save themselves from bondage. The healthier you are emotionally, the less of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nearer one is to the extreme of outright bondage. One more thing: Where bondage exists -- whether | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| extreme of outright bondage. One more thing: Where bondage exists -- whether manifest or latent -- a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And where there is rebellion, there is still bondage. The rebellion tries to break loose of the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| The rebellion tries to break loose of the bondage, but it chooses the wrong way to go | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| so bound; what misconception leads you to the bondage. Then, and then only, can you free yourself | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| then only, can you free yourself of the bondage and compulsion so that you need no longer | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| it with all other human beings. Find your bondage to public opinion, no matter how subtle. Then | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| conscious, you will be less and less under bondage and compulsion. By understanding your wrong conclusion, you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to them. And if you rebel against this bondage and turn into the opposite extreme with a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| other person. The more you are in anxiety, bondage, and dependency, the less you are able to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| -- any truth -- you will be in bondage to confusion and unreality. You do not have | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| for affection, or to any other one-sided neurotic bondage. Before a healthy relationship can come into being | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| in its full measure. The realization of your bondage to early reactions will free you of it | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is a tremendous difference between acting out of bondage and fear -- in other words by following | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Therefore it is easy to overlook the subtle bondage of squeezing your soul movements into patterns and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| act of releasing the opposite sex from the bondage of hate, distrust, and blame. When this release | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Bonds.......................8 | |
| ever greater happiness, ever greater liberation of all bonds, be they earthly, psychic or spiritual. My dear | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| her eventual and permanent happiness and liberation from bonds, then your prayer will not be lost either | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| itself from its relatives and from its old bonds. That does not mean that their love ceases | 18 FREE WILL |
| In the majority of cases, there are karmic bonds in the immediate family, but not always. It | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the sacraments sufficient to redeem us from the bonds of earthly guilt and earthly death and to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for them to be liberated from their inner bonds. Those who like to believe that often do | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual perception of your remark about removing the bonds that prohibit creativity, so that the soul can | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| take the consequences upon yourself, to cut the bonds of dependency on rules and regulations, and thus | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Book........................17 | |
| answer your questions. QUESTION: I just read a book by Prentice Mulford which almost completely agrees with | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| find a contradiction between your teachings and the book. ANSWER: There is no contradiction. It is a | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Would you say it is like reading a book that takes us back many millions of years | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| forms in your next life. QUESTION: In his book, Johannes Greber writes about the Old Testament, about | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in this field, as well as the whole book of life. Feelings, wishes, or thoughts evolve not | 18 FREE WILL |
| really unimportant for you to know. QUESTION: The Book of Exodus says that the people were told | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being in existence has a record, called the Book of Life, wherein everything is inscribed. From the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| better than the human beings themselves, because the Book of Life is available there. So tentative arrangements | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| planned questions. QUESTION: It says in the Greber book that the only means for spiritual growth is | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| how it all connects. QUESTION: I read a book called Cosmic Consciousness. It says, The loss of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| beginning of wisdom. And also, in the Zohar (Book of Splendor) there is a comparison of love | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a child, you do it through a picture book. The same holds true for humanity as a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| scientific vindication of the cosmogonic myths in the Book of Genesis. There are many myths in Genesis | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it a human relationship, be it reading a book or taking a walk, or going through a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| what belongs on which level. For this great book is a combination of fragments of historical accounts | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| up the jewels of truth contained in this book, separating the grains from the husks, so that | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| of view. One's life is truly an open book. You all contain an inner recording device, if | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |