| Christian...................29 | |
| Indian, as well as in the Jewish and Christian concept, though they seem to contradict each other | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| dissolution of the ego, while the Jewish and Christian concept deals only with the individuality of the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| world of darkness. Now who is Christ? Some Christian religions claim he is God. This is not | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| even if you do not recognize officially the Christian religion. Just as all religions have enough of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| Creation and the Plan of Salvation as the Christian religion does. I have explained this already. If | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religions? For instance the Brahmic Trinity or the Christian Trinity? ANSWER: It cannot be said that the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Today, a man who calls himself a twice-born Christian asked me whether I accepted Jesus as my | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an ecumenical conference to bring together the whole Christian Church. With this convocation, he specifically expressed his | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| seemed to make hating communism a prerequisite to Christian unity. I ask, first of all, whether this | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| I ask, first of all, whether this is Christian and whether it is consistent with Scripture, both | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| should like to raise one point here. The Christian religion, or, specifically, the Catholic Church did manage | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a question regarding the possible unity of the Christian churches. There have been attempts made by the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| first return to the personal reactions of a Christian child who grew up with this confused perception | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| concept of what it is to be a Christian. They will fear their feelings, deny their sexuality | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| very primitive, childish level the threat the rebelling Christian experiences now, when Jesus Christ is being reintroduced | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| image is created. The mass image of the Christian rebel harbors underneath it the possibility of the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| rebel harbors underneath it the possibility of the Christian submitter, and vice versa. Christian rebels fear that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| possibility of the Christian submitter, and vice versa. Christian rebels fear that if they recognize, challenge and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| dissolve their image, they will have to become Christian submitters. And Christian submitters are equally afraid to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| they will have to become Christian submitters. And Christian submitters are equally afraid to let go of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| that would seem to mean they must become Christian rebels who throw out the beautiful truth of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| we deal much more often with the rebelling Christian image. The submitter exists only as an underlying | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| indeed a manifestation of God. Like the submitting Christian, Jews who deny Christ feel immensely threatened about | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| personal/psychological issue which parallels that of the submitting Christian. The part of the soul which has not | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| consciousness of the Jews, the pagan and the Christian became one and the same. Jews considered both | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| any image exists. The image of the rebelling Christian is: If I embrace Christ, I must give | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| emotional reactions, whether this word be Jew or Christian, Jesus Christ or religion. For many people the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| I am a Jew, I cannot be a Christian. If I am either, I cannot believe in | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| for being a Jew or for being a Christian. Now when I say this, I mean that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Christianity................11 | |
| never have been a split between Judaism and Christianity. This was never meant to happen by God | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| special implications. For us, labels like Judaism and Christianity do not mean anything. Why Christ was born | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| splitting and separation. The splitting between Judaism and Christianity after the life of Jesus was another fault | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| There should have been oneness between Judaism and Christianity, one wholeness and one completion. Since Christ represents | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| that of their flesh shall we not eat. Christianity has no ban against pork. In the fifteenth | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| all. 247. THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY This lecture grew out of an answer to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and expressions. This is the mass image of Christianity. Like all mass images, this too stems from | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| had happened, no such conflict as Judaism versus Christianity could have come about. Christianity would simply have | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| as Judaism versus Christianity could have come about. Christianity would simply have become an extension in the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| anew. The new-age society knows no Judaism, nor Christianity as they are known now. Yet it knows | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is against the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity, at least as they are taught today. Yet | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Christians..................20 | |
| at that time, the time of the first Christians. Jesus was much too wise to suggest that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| However, during Lent, dietary restrictions are observed by Christians. My two questions are: Are the dietary laws | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and the collective. Let us begin with individual Christians who feel a strong reaction against Jesus Christ | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| exist, but they are very threatening. Such submitting Christians feel themselves to be sinners whenever they register | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| its very being. Such children become the rebelling Christians we are concerned with on this path. The | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| are concerned with on this path. The submitting Christians I first spoke of would never enter such | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the safety valves they have created. The rebelling Christians need reinforcement for their rebellion, for underneath it | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to take Him into their own lives. Submitting Christians suffer from the same confusion, the same false | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to do exactly the opposite of what rebelling Christians need to do. They must question the tradition | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is no protection against a frightening world. Submitting Christians accept their parents' doctrine unquestioningly also because they | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| that their parents may have been mistaken. Rebelling Christians, on the other hand, find security in totally | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| self and, by extension, to the parents. Rebelling Christians can deal with the possibility that their parents | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| now. On the collective level, both Jews and Christians have failed the test. This is obvious. The | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| victims of the pagans, that is, of the Christians, even while continuing to look down on them | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| pleasure, for all these are sinful. Therefore rebelling Christians create a defense that shuts out Christ in | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| within. Therefore, instead of becoming stronger, the rebelling Christians become weaker. They may cover up the weakness | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| He was a fake, that the pagans and Christians are lying, are deluded, are inferior and at | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| on the surface, is for Jews to tolerate Christians, and vice versa. Underneath the surface, you need | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| never a dividing force. It was Jews and Christians who in their distortions, created this impression. Jesus | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| act of love for His Jewish children. If Christians feel that they must deny their energies, their | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Christmas...................8 | |
| can think of further ways. My dear ones, Christmas is approaching, and the Light of Christ is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| again. Be in peace. Be in God! 42. CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY Greetings in the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| they have never seen before. This is their Christmas gift from the world of God. The way | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| my dearest, dearest friends. Be in peace. 219. CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN Since no | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| December 1973 at the Center -- one on Christmas Eve, and the other on the occasion of | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| listen to music and be by themselves. I. CHRISTMAS MESSAGE After giving his blessings, the Guide said | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| until finally, as in the symbol of the Christmas tree, the lights converge into one point. In | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| are, every level of your blessed being. 239. CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 Greetings, my beloved ones. The blessings | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Christ's....................23 | |
| power alone is just as insufficient as God's, Christ's, or any spirit's help would be without your | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| creatures, but also to Lucifer himself, who through Christ's deed alone would one day in the far | 22 SALVATION |
| significance and the reality of all this. After Christ's physical death, He returned to the world of | 22 SALVATION |
| call it the divine substance, God's substance, or Christ's substance makes no difference. God has given most | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| dear ones. You will not only better understand Christ's life and death, but you will also be | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| only the purity of the spirit of Jesus Christ's mother but also that Christ was the inborn | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| of life. Therefore, they need to interpret Jesus Christ's reappearance as a physical resurrection. The other aspect | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| I explained extensively in the previous lecture. Jesus Christ's resurrection teaches symbolically that if you do not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in the simplest and most humble way for Christ's intervention to help you attain the state that | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| understood and emotionally experienced, even only occasionally, then Christ's important injunction, Be in the world, but not | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| lead you astray. If I speak of Jesus Christ's reality, which is an aspect of God's reality | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| So their violent reactions against the possibility of Christ's existence, when truly analyzed, turn out to be | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| highest and dedicate your life to follow in Christ's footsteps, spirits cannot approach you. But it is | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| hidden agenda makes you react with pain to Christ's light. In this area you become connected to | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| when I discuss the demonic spirits' flight from Christ's light. You will also comprehend what history has | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| instrument for God's Great Plan, put yourself under Christ's protective energy and consciousness. You live in a | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| might be illusory wishful thinking. My dearest ones, Christ's embrace enfolds all of you and accompanies you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| pray, and search for a realization of Jesus Christ's personal love for you, the answers will come | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| will experience what it means to feel Jesus Christ's personal love for you. You are always involved | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| may not have experienced the emotional reality of Christ's sweet and loving presence. You may wait for | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| perceive the truth. Salvation means, among other things, Christ's endless forgiveness and acceptance. It means that you | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| it fears due to a break in consciousness. Christ's demonstration of supreme love, forgiveness and mercy -- | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| if it were not for the experience of Christ's personal love, forgiveness, acceptance and total vision of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |