| Crucifixion.................5 | |
| trials, faith in God in times of adversity, crucifixion of the personal ego with its vanity and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| The purification of your lower self and the crucifixion of the ego are the all-important things. Where | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| cross, to go through the difficulties, through the crucifixion in as positive and healthy a spirit as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I would like to stress here that Jesus' crucifixion did not merely take place to demonstrate symbolically | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| evil alone could never have led to the crucifixion of Jesus. It required the cooperation of the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Crude.......................14 | |
| that you have here is only a very crude copy of what exists in the spirit world | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the words law-upholder and law-breaker only in the crude and outer sense, referring to your social laws | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| other instances your desire may still be so crude that to express it openly might bring harm | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the opposite extreme and give vent to the crude feelings. Having performed a right act out of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| your innermost and rightful desires -- not the crude, undeveloped and destructive desires -- and subordinate them | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a necessity for those whose instincts are still crude. On a deeper level, this commandment means a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as if it were your really immature and crude selfishness. The question now is how to treat | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| These are subtle processes and when explained in crude language they appear exaggerated. You have to uncover | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shame must be hidden at all costs. Both crude types -- often appearing in more subtle mixtures | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| recent lecture -- if people are still so crude in their spirituality that they have no conscience | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the wayside. This applies to the obvious and crude pretenses that can usually be seen by all | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| centers. The human physical body is just a crude reflection of the real body, that is, the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| humanity had to learn to make a very crude kind of distinction between good and evil, between | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| after you have accomplished a great deal of crude purification work, such as you are involved with | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Cruder......................4 | |
| this statement was made, people were generally much cruder in their development. If not made aware of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seen with the eye. This body has several cruder outpicturings, which reflect the various levels of consciousness | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of higher consciousness, transforming and spiritualizing the earlier cruder energies and consciousness. This is the task in | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| your plane you only perceive very simplified and cruder manifestations of these ideas, concepts and laws. To | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Crudest.....................3 | |
| kind of self-love exists in many forms. The crudest is selfishness, putting oneself in a better light | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| its spiritual self. The physical body is the crudest, most temporary outer manifestation, expressing the level of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| from the finest vibrations and radiations to the crudest matter -- is permeated with it. The very | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Cruel.......................58 | |
| an example: A person is responsible for many cruel deaths, like in a concentration camp. Since this | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| god who is severe, unjust, pious, self-righteous and cruel. The person who unconsciously maintains the distorted God-image | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the more powerfully -- that God's world is cruel and unjust, a world in which you have | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is unattainable. The child feels dependent on a cruel world which denies it what it thinks it | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and could have if the world were less cruel. If you think it through logically, you will | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| feel even more inadequate, the world even more cruel and unfair. Needless to say, my friends, none | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| seems unjust, inadequate, weak, and therefore arbitrary and cruel. As such, he is to be feared. You | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| be God. Why should I submit to this cruel, vindictive, vengeful, inadequate god who inflicts so much | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| approved of. I have no intention of being cruel if people do what I want. Therefore, I | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| interpreted to mean that God is a punishing, cruel God of retribution. Of course, it is not | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| leads to the logical conclusion that God is cruel and sadistic. The best way of dealing with | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| truths people often express in a thoughtless and cruel way, which have nothing to do with truth | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pride and superiority, excessive demands and often even cruel impulses toward others. The underlying core always produces | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| us suppose a male child has had a cruel mother, or maybe not even really cruel, but | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a cruel mother, or maybe not even really cruel, but it seemed that way to the child | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| made the world that way would indeed by cruel. You can rest assured in the certainty of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of rejection will disappear, even if they were cruel to you. In understanding what made them cruel | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| cruel to you. In understanding what made them cruel, you will see it as their problem, and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| now deeply understand that no unkind fate or cruel god has punished or neglected you, so you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| idea that foolish candor, or unwise exposure, or cruel honesty are proof of your openness and willingness | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| in will have its effect. If an apparently cruel fairy tale or myth is taken literally, a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the same time, they have violent, rebellious and cruel impulses. This is exactly the stage humankind went | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Do you feel you have to be the cruel one, in order not to be the poor | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| reach out for what you want without being cruel or depriving anyone of anything. In fact, it | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and what remains is a compelling force toward cruel acts. In these instances, all harm, all destructiveness | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| understand and work openly and candidly on the cruel aspects, even before you can totally eliminate them | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| feelings and substituting counterfeit feelings, and also becoming cruel. All these measures serve to make the vulnerable | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| One of the severest forms is that of cruel impulses. Cruelty will truly cease to exist in | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| self and your life situation. Point 3: The cruel aspects in you represent the main reasons for | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| resistance and fear of self- facing. Often, these cruel aspects can be found only when one acknowledges | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of misinterpretation. Question closely why you have these cruel impulses. As you do so, acknowledge what hurts | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| other side of the coin -- namely, the cruel impulses in themselves. Others may be acutely aware | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| now is to ask yourself why you feel cruel. What do you believe is done to you | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| might act -- in the way that induces cruel impulses in you? Acknowledge precisely what it is | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| feel more themselves when they are hostile, aggressive, cruel. All human beings have a similar reaction to | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| The difficulty here is that these forces, these cruel impulses are so contradictory to the image people | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are. When you truly understand that these cruel impulses are not the last and final reality | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into one stream. In your case rage, anger, cruel instincts are there, but not so much sexualized | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fury, perhaps even vindictiveness and varying degrees of cruel impulses. This, in turn, weakens the personality even | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| power, you do not need to be selfish, cruel and greedy. At that point, there is no | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in a position to acknowledge your destructive, negative, cruel, hostile, and selfish feelings and attitudes. You are | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of painful experiences, makes you arrogant and isolated, cruel and greedy, selfish and life-denying. It makes you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| negative experience you had, and no matter how cruel a parent may have been, the real cause | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| even when you own up to the destructive, cruel, and brutal attitudes, you always give an impression | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that part of the self which is destructive, cruel, hateful, spiteful, and soon, this seems the real | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Another reason is that no matter how destructive, cruel, and bad it may be, every aspect of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Middle Ages were apt to act out their cruel impulses. They were not capable of separating themselves | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| If character defects deform one's sexual drive into cruel, destructive fantasies, to act them out is just | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| character tendencies such as finding pleasure in being cruel. There are many variations and details that cannot | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| denying the self and the other. Hating, selfish, cruel sex always produces guilt which is then dismissed | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| The fear is guilt for the hateful, malicious, cruel ways of the mind, for feelings that always | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| see that all negative manifestations, no matter how cruel or unjust they may seem, are self-created medicine | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as the more obvious aggressive acting out of cruel, self-serving, dishonest malice. It is important to be | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| it in terms of a punishing deity, a cruel, unmerciful ruler who would impose more injustice on | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| on them. This ancient concept confused God with cruel earthly leaders and fathers. But the true meaning | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| How can life -- God -- be so cruel as to impose at the end of one's | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| contradictory to divine love, an aspect that seems cruel. Nature's destructive forces, the storms, the floods and | 254 SURRENDER |
| one animal killing another for its nourishment appears cruel and seems to deny God's presence. It is | 254 SURRENDER |