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| building block in that enormous spiritual structure -- war -- which must first be formed in spirit | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| is a significant contribution to the outbreak of war. This does not apply to thoughts and feelings | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| ways, this energy will contribute to precipitate a war or another mass catastrophe. Only when you purify | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| spiritually, people can do more for or against war than politicians or statesmen, my dear friends. Question | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| poison that aids and abets the powers promoting war. Look at some of your fellow humans with | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| self and the lower self are therefore at war with one another. Whenever there is an inner | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| unpurified feelings, and therefore the person is at war within. The proper act becomes an act of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and disharmony, evil and envy, hatred and prejudice, war and greed would be cast off and gradually | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| asked them about decisions. Should they begin a war, will it bring victory, and such. But we | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| said: In this case there must be a war between us, between your forces and the forces | 22 SALVATION |
| impure ones. Lucifer said: Even if such a war took place and even if the divine forces | 22 SALVATION |
| And Lucifer answered: I would fight such a war if one being -- from the world of | 22 SALVATION |
| from? They are only an outpicturing of spiritual war. Of course, a spiritual war does not take | 22 SALVATION |
| outpicturing of spiritual war. Of course, a spiritual war does not take place in exactly the same | 22 SALVATION |
| in exactly the same manner as a material war on earth, but the essence is nevertheless there | 22 SALVATION |
| be symbolic to a certain extent. So a war took place between Christ and Lucifer. You have | 22 SALVATION |
| inner vision and imagine it as though a war with guns or spears, as on earth, had | 22 SALVATION |
| way it was. However, there was a spiritual war. Again Lucifer had to admit the justice of | 22 SALVATION |
| differently. QUESTION: Is it true that during World War II there was a danger point also in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through Christ would make no sense. Since that war between Christ and Lucifer, and since the salvation | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sides, certainly. In recent times, when people make war, they may be mistaken in their ideologies, but | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in former times they had to go to war like sheep. Their rulers forced them and they | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| view, the question is not how bloody a war is, how effective your weapons are. From our | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a sincere but mistaken motive to go to war will not save you from the consequences, because | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not too faraway future -- an understanding that war can never be a solution. There was and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of this state will be, among other things, war. But when this fight in individual and personal | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their own lower nature, and thus finishing the war that is raging in almost every human soul | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person, even in this room, in whom a war is not going on inside, a war that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a war is not going on inside, a war that is not recognized as yet, where one | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| population will reach that stage, I assure you, war will be impossible. But to say that this | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will be impossible. But to say that this war was created because of the war of the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that this war was created because of the war of the spirits cannot possibly be right. QUESTION | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| question how many people were killed in a war is not the important matter. There, the important | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your other questions. QUESTION: In the case of war, is the act of killing by a soldier | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are still so far behind in development that war is necessary, then people have to fight for | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| refused to fight, evil would not be eliminated. War may be temporarily eliminated, but certainly not evil | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| may be temporarily eliminated, but certainly not evil. War is only one of many other expressions of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| only one of many other expressions of evil. War is not the cause: it is only an | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| against. In your present state of development, unfortunately, war often is still your means of fighting evil | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| means as yet to eliminate this wrong, then war is the lesser evil. You know from the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| judged separately, and if a man goes to war simply to defend his country, this will not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| but it is not. In the case of war, it is a question of defending a nation | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of defending a nation and humanity. For humanity, war is often the last resort. And even the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| true. Capital punishment is not a necessity. However, war often is in your present state of development | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| have not yet found the way to eliminate war. The only way to do so is when | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| something different. QUESTION: A question in connection with war and killing: How are we to regard a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| his immediate fellow-creatures. By refusing to go to war, he may in the long run cause more | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| wish to give the impression that I advocate war. By no means. But war cannot be eliminated | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that I advocate war. By no means. But war cannot be eliminated by refusing it. This cancer | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| against him, the same as killing in a war by a soldier will not be held against | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to oust an evil. Refusing to go to war could not be the right curative means against | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| could not be the right curative means against war. For as long as there is hatred within | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| feelings, there cannot be peace. It is impossible. War is an outpicturing of what goes on in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is just the same with disease, my friends. War is nothing else but a disease. Your human | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| as the disease is not cured from within, war or other diseases will exist. If it is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| other diseases will exist. If it is not war, it will be something else equally terrible. In | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| even the upheaval and the dreadful sorrows of war have their good points. For without these upheavals | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| that a dreadful occurrence on this earth, even war, does not lead humanity toward development and spiritual | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| hatred, prejudice and selfishness, all the causes of war, are unspiritual. But many people still find themselves | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| That does not mean that you should propagate war. QUESTION: Would you consider the proposal of the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| this earth, the real problems such as criminality, war, injustices of any kind, disease, and other serious | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| remedy is applied of necessity. So, for instance, war is certainly tragic, but it is in certain | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| aspect, the principle of expansion manifests as aggression, war, on the material level, and on the psychological | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| disharmonious person, the three principles will be at war with one another; they will be in contradiction | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| influence and to frustrate the adversary. The cold war is on. The Iron Curtain not only separates | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| one another. But they can cause the greatest war within yourself if distorted. Now my friends, are | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and love. These two attitudes are constantly at war with one another. On the one hand, the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| self-image? While you struggle within yourself, being at war with yourself, you nevertheless wish to attain heights | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| danger. You live in a constant state of war, with most of your mental faculties focused on | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| your individual pseudo- solutions are, to go to war. Needless to say, you are no longer in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the world. As long as you are at war with yourself, outer war is a result. As | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| as you are at war with yourself, outer war is a result. As long as you are | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| why you are disturbed, why you are at war with yourself. This is exactly what happens to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| harmoniously, in union with itself, must be at war with itself as long as it is divided | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| with the universe. Conversely, all strife, such as war, poverty, quarrels, difficulties of all sorts, sickness and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| The question is often asked why destructiveness, illness, war and cruelty exist. The answers that have been | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| understand that this is the actual nucleus of war -- of cruelty as a whole. This should | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| mates or as a conflict between countries at war. It exists in all difficulties humanity encounters, individually | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| because you offer it in a spirit of war. When you give of your accomplishments in order | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| way than being in a tense state of war and defense. This new attitude seems to require | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one's own creative output and is thus at war with oneself. This means total lack of comprehension | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| perceive in yourself? If you are not at war with yourself, your perception will be clear. If | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| perception will be clear. If you are at war with yourself by demanding to be other than | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| between these two undesirable alternatives. A tug of war was going on in him. He could not | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| you obstruct this longing and are therefore at war within yourself. I do not wish to dwell | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| parental authority against which he continues to wage war. This behavior is among the obsolete waste material | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| violent deaths, as when young people die in war, often, though not always, fall into this category | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| as in Germany before and during the last war. The few perpetrators could not have gotten very | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| untruth, are evil and create sin. They create war within the soul, war within the personality, and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| create sin. They create war within the soul, war within the personality, and therefore also outside with | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is not true that there must always be war, suffering, injustice on earth. This only holds true | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| clear map of this phenomenon. Whenever there was war and world catastrophe, the entity earth was ready | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| country goes through severe crisis -- riots, revolution, war, financial collapse -- it is a result of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| your world how two self- wills clashing create war on a small or a big scale. To | 254 SURRENDER |
| be established. This is how fear and hate--hence war on all levels--will increasingly disappear. In other words | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Just imagine: two people--or groups of people--are at war on the surface. They hate and accuse each | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |