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| the character of a human being or any creature never dissolves, it exists forever and in its | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| man is supposed to be the highest developed creature on earth, in certain areas animals are; hunting | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| therefore, God is within each person. Each living creature has a part of God within. The only | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| world of God. God does not force any creature: choice has to come from the free will | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| difference between the higher self and a spirit creature of God. It actually does not make much | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| can see all the subtle bodies of a creature; only those can who have attained a certain | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| cannot create anything but perfection. Yet, if any creature were to be forced to stay within the | 18 FREE WILL |
| be happy in an enforced system. Thus each creature -- human or spirit -- has the possibility | 18 FREE WILL |
| As you may understand now, He gave each creature the opportunity to freely choose or not choose | 18 FREE WILL |
| is simply the divine substance that every living creature possesses to some degree whether freed to some | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| Lucifer. Since it is God's plan that every creature should recognize him and at one time come | 21 THE FALL |
| is anything without God. The higher developed a creature, the less it will want honor and admiration | 21 THE FALL |
| blessings, my dear friends, as usual. Every living creature is seeking God; every human being is consciously | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| feel as though you are one with every creature. QUESTION: If our soul is taught during sleep | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| for love and respect are due every living creature. In the distorted view you suffer loneliness and | 31 SHAME |
| and your sense of participation with every other creature in existence. The self-will, pride, and fear inherent | 36 PRAYER |
| more dignified than saying humbly to a fellow creature, I was wrong; forgive me. In spite of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| arises in the infant. The more immature the creature, the more sexuality is separated from love, and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| law of affinity. The emanation of each living creature, which is often referred to as the odic | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and, at a higher level, communication. No living creature can exist without cooperation and communication. Even on | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| can you perceive, determine and love. A living creature is always the product, the sum total, of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| eagerness to make the human being a better creature, the forces of society coerce the individual to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of consciousness. The human being is the first creature in the upward scale of life that possesses | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| supreme, regardless of the consequences. In the immature creature, the pleasure principle would like to function, but | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| The infant is not only entirely a physical creature, but also utterly self-centered. The same condition exists | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| individual planets, from mineral to the highest spiritual creature. The regulating universal forces must be the same | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| next moment. For you are no flat, one-dimensional creature, but dynamic and many-dimensional. You consist of infinite | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| complex physical, mental, emotional organism of the human creature lies the proof of this intelligence and power | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| unless you discover that you are a free creature with self- responsibility. Part of this is the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| not interfered with, that you are a free creature even before you become conscious of your own | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| your birthright to be a happy, free, unfolding creature who gives and receives in full measure. As | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| the miracle must come to each and every creature in the universe. It is as logical a | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| an individual can change from being an isolated creature keeping your assets for yourself, sometimes leaving them | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| The universe is so constituted that each individual creature is capable of being in a constant state | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| first discovered. It appears then to be a creature completely unconnected from conscious aims and desires. Only | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| fundamental respect that you deserve as a human creature. As long as you confuse life with death | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the more you can accept the mean little creature, the ignorant little infant in you without losing | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you deserve because you are such a miserable creature -- but rather in the attitude of I | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| a commitment to the all-consciousness indwelling in every creature. It can be called by any name you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the human being is a thinking and discriminating creature. Humans are not meant to live by blind | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| within yourself. For you cannot subsist alone. No creature can. All created beings hang together on a | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| everything spiritual must move in circular completeness. All creatures are in search of this powerful beam of | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to Him would be assured eventually to all creatures. It is, therefore, understandable that a philosophy experiencing | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and guilt, it is incorrect. Between these low creatures and the higher entities of the world of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| how the different spiritual spheres with their respective creatures influence humans. Human beings are not helpless prey | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to believe? It is certainly not unimaginable that creatures of higher intelligence, of greater wisdom, endowed with | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| offer the greatest gift. Why? Because your fellow creatures feel just as insecure as you do. If | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| this before -- there are special spheres. Different creatures work and create in the respective spheres. When | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| but a god of slavery, even if His creatures could be happy in an enforced system. Thus | 18 FREE WILL |
| ceases, but spiritual growth means that gradually all creatures are included in one's love, not only the | 18 FREE WILL |
| some people, you will then have for all creatures. So, some deceased people still feel very much | 18 FREE WILL |
| and the same light, will be protected against creatures from the world of darkness. Now who is | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| Had He done this a great number of creatures who were not yet ready to find their | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| down to the very last of the fallen creatures everyone can at one time find the way | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| but to a degree greater than all other creatures, can best be described as a fluid substance | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the life force. God, as well as all creatures in their highest form of development, can dissolve | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| person. After the spirit of Christ, many other creatures came into existence; so many that you could | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| idea that God should not have endowed His creatures with free will for then the fall could | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| that is unimaginable. The possibility existed for all creatures, ever since they came into existence, to choose | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| simply reflect the state of mind of the creatures living there; these spheres came into existence as | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| means had to be found so that the creatures who desired to return to God and to | 21 THE FALL |
| vague longing that first some and later more creatures felt was sufficient to bring a glimmer of | 21 THE FALL |
| far the strength and influence of a hundred creatures of the world of darkness. The spirits who | 21 THE FALL |
| for the purpose of bringing back the fallen creatures. This was, indeed, a very difficult task to | 22 SALVATION |
| work, not only to all the other fallen creatures, but also to Lucifer himself, who through Christ's | 22 SALVATION |
| as the very last of all the fallen creatures, since he was the first to turn away | 22 SALVATION |
| beings of the world of God occasionally visit creatures dwelling in spheres of lesser light and development | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| doubt flock to it and follow it. These creatures are obviously not happy, and seek salvation. And | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you be truly capable of loving your fellow creatures. But your lower self wants to be perfect | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| or giving free will and power to God's creatures who can then use the power according to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| there would be no freedom. And if God's creatures are supposed to become godlike, they must be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| with the basic evolutionary drive in all living creatures to strive upward to God. Though your yearning | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| make you understand that you are not unfree creatures if you decide to fulfill the will of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| person on an elevated level above your fellow- creatures, in an emotional sense. Only in that way | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| do not see them as angels or light creatures. That would be much too easy. Again the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| it would be much too easy for these creatures to accept God's word because an obvious angel | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| for the purpose of teaching the truth to creatures in the lower spheres. Be blessed. 31. SHAME | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| without His strength and grace none of His creatures could lift a finger. Many people seek God | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| on this. Nothing but love of your fellow creatures can open you to the fullness of life | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| Plan of Salvation. Pray for all the blind creatures who are still in darkness. Pray for the | 36 PRAYER |
| feel that they are the highest, most important creatures in the universe. Even their idea of God | 36 PRAYER |
| selfish to pray for the good of other creatures. If you can bring yourself to pray for | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you may form certain conclusions about your fellow creatures from the angle I have described. In most | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| as animalistic. Pure sex exists in all living creatures: animals, plants, and minerals. Eros begins with the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| favors a few and punishes some less fortunate creatures. The other imagined god who rewards you for | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the joy that all of you are divine creatures and contain within yourselves so much that is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| understanding, as demanding and one-sided as all immature creatures are. Its impossible wants are: to be loved | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| state that is natural for all of God's creatures -- the state of union -- there is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| nothing selfish in it if you wish other creatures well and if you can bring yourself to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| people have to organize communication with their fellow creatures accordingly. The better people get along with each | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| Next on the scale is love for living creatures other than humans: plants or animals. They require | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| their fear overcome it and evolve as free creatures. Many others -- even those who have the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you are separated from others, from your fellow creatures, you must be in the negative world, in | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| strives toward wholeness and union with your fellow creatures in many different ways, toward love and understanding | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| conscience. They were too disconnected from their fellow creatures to sense others' pain as their own. Their | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the inner experience of oneness with one's fellow creatures. But eventually the individual comes to the threshold | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| abundance the universe has in store for all creatures. The first step must be knowing of its | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| sense that even the lowliest of all destructive creatures has every possibility for change and for goodness | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| which is ongoing and available to all living creatures. To know this is key to the human | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| who came to open a way for all creatures captivated and weakened by satanic influences. This has | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |