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 Universes...................6
THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES My dear friends, you have had many discussions 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
one. When the ego deals with both other universes to establish a connection, you are active. But 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
simplest form, or the creation of worlds and universes, material or spiritual realities. Of course, it is 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
of all life, the creative principle of all universes, as the opponent against whom all his efforts 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
unnecessary. If God, the creative principle of all universes, is not the enemy of personified evil, who 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
vast inner spaces in which many worlds, many universes, many spheres exist, endless plains, mountains, seas of 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
 Unjust......................46
or will you assume that God cannot be unjust and therefore begin to explore whatever it is 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
them. You will find yourself saying, This is unjust, it is not true that I have these 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
And I tell you, verily, it is not unjust. The greatest and highest happiness that a human 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
convinced that being imprisoned is indeed a very unjust fate because he only sees one part, the 18 FREE WILL
deserves, you will not think that this was unjust or that you lack anything. Nowadays people do 19 JESUS CHRIST
keep people from ever saying that God is unjust or that God has used His own power 19 JESUS CHRIST
at any time claim God's laws to be unjust, but at the same time He set an 22 SALVATION
of the laws is so perfect that nothing unjust can come to any single individual. But that 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
even if they say something that may seem unjust to you. My friends, you know it is 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
say something that at first will seem entirely unjust and hurtful to you. You may also, for 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
not correspond to spiritual laws. Thus, you are unjust in your feelings: you put yourself on a 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
this attitude becomes more and more unreasonable and unjust, for you demand and expect respect and love 31 SHAME
chains, you kick against the world, feeling it unjust, and often even wallow in self-pity while you 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
often feel that the authority is not only unjust, but generally harmful, narrow-minded and unconstructive. Now, if 47 THE WALL WITHIN
for an instant that what you experience is unjust and unfair, no matter how much it may 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
injustice. True, something may seem or even be unjust. But you will regard it differently when you 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
punishing and severe, often even an unfair and unjust force that one has to contend with. I 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
extreme of fearing a god who is severe, unjust, pious, self-righteous and cruel. The person who unconsciously 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
and despair -- believing that the universe is unjust -- to self- indulgence, rejection of self-responsibility, and 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
how you have caused happenings that seem entirely unjust. The better you understand the magnetic force of 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
is not God, nor the fates, nor an unjust world order where you have to suffer the 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
disposal. Therefore, it is not God who is unjust, as your subconscious may believe, but it is 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
powerfully -- that God's world is cruel and unjust, a world in which you have no chance 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
difficulties by trying to tell yourself that an unjust fate has come upon you, nor do you 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
on the part of the world that seem unjust and uncalled-for. I assure you, my friends, you 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
in a particular person. This may still seem unjust to you. You may think, As long as 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
you know, in your God-image this god seems unjust, inadequate, weak, and therefore arbitrary and cruel. As 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
conditions are a convenient hitching post. The more unjust and crass they are, the more they can 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
may seem to you that this disadvantage is unjust and unbalanced and therefore a step backward in 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is not so. The universe would be supremely unjust if this were so. In any successful self- 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
understandable why you would think that it is unjust for a child to be born into conditions 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
again, lead you to believe that this is unjust. It is the same with an individual. You 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
insistence that the hurt inflicted on you was unjust in the extreme, your own value will be 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
for it. In other words, it is either unjust, or chaotic coincidence. But once he realizes that 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
growth -- brings disharmony, resentment, self-pity, and invites unjust exploitation. A good example is the need for 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
I pretended then their reaction would indeed be unjust. This thinking harbors the illusion that life can 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
real giving knows no self-deprecation, no martyrdom, no unjust treatment from the world. I would even suggest 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
that of being persecuted by the hate and unjust accusations of others, in this pretense lies the 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
strengthened in order to ward off the imagined unjust life experience. What a waste of valuable energy 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
and your unfair, one- sided demands are truly unjust. Only then will you also understand that healthy 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
which the negative result becomes the medicine. However unjust an evil manifestation may now appear to you 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
all negative manifestations, no matter how cruel or unjust they may seem, are self-created medicine for the 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the lower self is the pain of an unjust, chaotic, meaningless creation. Or, to put it a 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
the pain of believing you live in an unjust universe. Only when you establish full awareness of 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
prefer to struggle with the pain of an unjust universe, rather than see the beauty and justice 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
that degree you feel the pain of an unjust universe, and to the exact same degree you 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
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his or her channeling is of course quite unjustified, after having invested in her profession just as 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
professional person -- and often even more. Equally unjustified would be to imply that simply because a 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
friends have become a little afraid, and this unjustified fear serves as an excuse for the lower 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
that there are two kinds of guilt -- unjustified guilt and justified guilt. Often you unconsciously use 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
justified guilt. Often you unconsciously use an absurd, unjustified guilt as a shield and hide the true 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
Why? Because deep down you know that the unjustified guilt is ridiculous. It is as though you 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
I want to stress that it is an unjustified guilt feeling when you blame yourself for not 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
blame yourself for not being perfect now. Such unjustified guilt extends into all areas of the human 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
viewpoint, you will find where your guilts are unjustified. Another unjustified guilt -- fueled by a mass-image 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
will find where your guilts are unjustified. Another unjustified guilt -- fueled by a mass-image -- is 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
your emotions. Guilt about the sexual drive is unjustified, absurd guilt. It may be true that your 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
So here we have a few very common unjustified guilts. What, on the other hand, is justified 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
image conclusions, for your own clarification separate the unjustified from the justified guilts. Find where you might 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
selfish desire may be your compulsive conscience is unjustified. At times the right way may be what 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
always exists a suspicion that the hate was unjustified -- which it was, but in a different 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
my lecture on the subject of justified and unjustified guilt-feelings and the proper attitude toward shortcomings. If 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
fear and resistance regarding recognitions. There is an unjustified fear of change. So do not fear, my 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to convince yourself that your inferiority feelings are unjustified. You believe, deep in your heart, that you 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
may discover that some of your actions were unjustified and unnecessary, that other people have taken advantage 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
One often feels guilty when that feeling is unjustified, as I said before. As I also said 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
I said before. As I also said, these unjustified guilts are a camouflage for the real reason 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
emotionally it seems harder to bear than the unjustified, imagined guilt. The real guilt may be that 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
does -- whether this feeling is justified or unjustified makes no difference -- in most instances it 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
The moment you find it, the justified or unjustified disapproval will no longer hurt. In this attitude 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
often you have found that your fears were unjustified. As a consequence, you cease heeding them when 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
changes the procedure, not by outwardly submitting to unjustified demands out of weakness and fear, but by 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
They do not see that such resentment is unjustified because they themselves chose this behavior pattern. They 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
you will find that not all resentments are unjustified. Some are, because you have caused the conditions 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
inwardly or outwardly -- aggressive where it is unjustified; and you will be aggressive where it is 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
between justified indignation due to actual provocation, and unjustified indignation due to unreal or self-caused provocation. Only 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
to verify that this is not so. Even unjustified criticism cannot endanger you, provided your attitude toward 101 THE DEFENSE
for you to prove that the accusation is unjustified, even if it contains elements of truth, rather 101 THE DEFENSE
You will soon discover that your fright is unjustified, even if the criticism is wrong. Nothing can 101 THE DEFENSE
too often, you are convinced that it is unjustified before you even give yourself the chance to 101 THE DEFENSE
it from this point of view? Justified or unjustified criticism cannot really harm you, unless you think 101 THE DEFENSE
from the fact that some demands are really unjustified and unreasonable, and they can only be recognized 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
kind of guilt than the more specific, often unjustified guilts that smolder closer to the surface of 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
the surface of the psyche. These little and unjustified guilts substitute for the real guilt of withdrawal 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
all the little ones which are often so unjustified and function only to conceal the real ones 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
and lead you to give in to the unjustified demands of others. This will only simply strengthen 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
do not know when to assert yourself against unjustified demands, and when to give and act unselfishly 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
source of the real guilt that produces the unjustified guilt, as well as the perfectionism. My dearest 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
is bothered by the least and the most unjustified reasons. Both manifestations come from the very same 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
you may give in to the most immature, unjustified demands from others to avoid feeling guilty or 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
and your fright and refusal to engage are unjustified. Such reaction indicates an excessive demand on your 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
know that you have been clinging to an unjustified hope, and that you did not wish to 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
elements of life. Harming oneself also arises from unjustified guilt feelings and eventually is bound to harm 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
any form of criticism, even if it is unjustified. What these two resent most in the other 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
of self-responsibility. The fear is, of course, completely unjustified. It may help you if I show the 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
than I am now. I do not need unjustified hope. Even if my doubts -- that I 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
when to assert your rights without hostility against unjustified demands, where compliance would be destructive for all 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
guilt that often manifests on the surface as unjustified guilts you cannot give up. The conflict also 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
guilt but pressed by your conscience, produces an unjustified guilt to mask the real one. The false 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
person may indeed unload a great deal of unjustified hostility on you, it is an illusion to 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
not want it, because of some misconception or unjustified fears, or an unwillingness to pay the price 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
Even when you unearth mistaken conclusions, false and unjustified fears which determine the negation, even then it 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
pain of other people's cruelty and hostility, the unjustified demands they make on the world and therefore 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
and on a certain level is -- totally unjustified? Do you deplore your weakness, your lack of 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
guilt may find its outlet in an artificial, unjustified guilt as I have explained many years ago 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
you senses that your demands and responses are unjustified; another part feels so deprived and demanding that 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
accept this. First you will truly know how unjustified your rage is but then, if you truly 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
pathwork. Your fear of your negative feelings is unjustified. The feelings in themselves are not terrible or 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
In the last analysis the fear is always unjustified, no matter how difficult it may first be 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
what it is behind every so-called neurotic and unjustified guilt. Only now, in the evolutionary spiral movement 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
remorse. I have often referred to justified and unjustified guilt. I have also spoken about the destructive 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
they do not want to find out how unjustified the fear is. They are not necessarily new 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
which is very wasteful because the fear is unjustified. How can you ever live in peace with 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
are supposed to substantiate and justify your very unjustified feelings and thoughts. You reactivate, often unnecessarily, your 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
highlight experiences that you find undesirable. They appear unjustified to you. Certainly, whatever intelligence you bring to 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM

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