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| and of their faults, just as you are currently doing for yourself. Then ask some mutual friends | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| seems so much the opposite of what is currently believed. But let us look a little closer | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| truth goes farther and deeper than what is currently understood by this term. What you call transference | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| try to rationalize and explain them away. Even currently fashionable psychological truths serve to camouflage this simple | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| necessarily a matter of self-punishment, as it is currently interpreted. The violation of spiritual law within the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| that need to be discarded so that the currently valid thoughts and feelings can fit into the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| interesting and fascinating. Unfortunately, education as it is currently practiced smothers and discourages the child's innate curiosity | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
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| The dark world takes its material from these currents, from the lack of self- discipline and self-awareness | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the right way. Often their own inner sick currents, of which they are unaware, contribute not only | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| do not believe in God, harbor these strong currents in their soul. Those who experience a complete | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| cannot make the inner decisions, however. Their emotional currents and inner, emotional reactions make them completely incapable | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| greater the disharmony, the more strongly the inner currents will need to harmonize. This continues until such | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| willpower, perseverance; you have to fight your negative currents. But the reward is great and truly blissful | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| or they give over to sick, unpurified emotional currents. These use up much energy. It is yet | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| caught up in negative circles of spiritually unproductive currents, it gets depleted and wasted, because it cannot | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| do, and the increasing awareness of your inner currents will help you quite a bit forward. Again | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| friend. There are so many varieties of love currents, and they all have substance and form in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| large enough to produce all the diverse energy currents if only the sick tendencies of the ego | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to observe that there are always two opposing currents. Think about it, my dear ones. Fear -- | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| is based on pride and vanity. Such wrong currents in the soul then produce warning signals in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of the soul resist this striving, two opposite currents come into existence which tend to cancel each | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| It is impossible to do justice to both currents at the same time, since they desire directly | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| become aware, in time, of these opposing soul currents. Only when you know of their existence can | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you have become aware of the hidden emotional currents and can pinpoint where they run into the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| from emotional short-circuits. The more frequently the opposing currents clash within the soul, the more the person | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| so easy to uncover deep and often unconscious currents, and you will need all your willpower to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| not making any choice and allowing all emotional currents to mingle in the unconscious, without the effort | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| should know that his or her unconscious emotional currents are not completely healthy and free. You should | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| have explained, such woes stem from distorted soul currents, which you have the power to correct. The | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| detail is often the root of all unhealthy currents in the soul. You, however, do not recognize | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| giving up self-will, spite, self-righteousness, and other negative currents. The magnitude and glory of God's creation lies | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| which is so often deeply split into opposing currents and works against the conscious mind. Some of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a glimpse of it. Encountering these previously unconscious currents and tendencies feels as if you met a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| work, discipline, and training to feel into these currents and recognize precisely what they are. The encounter | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| I said, this is not enough. Disturbed soul currents cannot be set on a right course until | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the open and unhindered manifestation of your unconscious currents when you shed your body. Then the conflict | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| strictly necessary to set the imperfect, blind, unconscious currents right; some future earthly lives could be avoided | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| people are ready to approach the hidden soul currents; today more people have the maturity necessary for | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| purification of your soul, the more the unhealthy currents will get entangled in the unconscious, and the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| long as one has not looked at these currents in the light of one's consciousness, one will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| wish, the more peacefully and harmoniously the soul currents will flow. People may even find their way | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| vices. They are embodiments of all these base currents. However, no such spirit has access to a | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| better understanding about his personality and unconscious emotional currents. After a certain time these efforts of daily | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| repression which give rise to the unhealthy soul currents. You may act right because your conscience says | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| avoid the lie and identify the false emotional currents underlying your correct outward actions. You will know | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| being upset by it. Slowly, slowly, old, false currents will transform themselves and be in line with | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| they can be linked to other personal, inner currents. As I said before, all this can only | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| time will affect and alter the imperfect emotional currents in the soul. Who does not work in | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the sense necessary to heal the sick soul currents present more or less in all people. For | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| in prayer, and the liberation of the feeling currents, which brings about some loosening of the spirit | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| enter into this vibration. I say: All inner currents diverted into wrong channels create obstacles. All that | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Self-recognition, self-analysis, and the digging out of these currents are the only means, and to do this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and weaknesses but also to anxieties and unhealthy currents -- the more the person fears self-surrender, in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| this about. The more you direct the inner currents into the right channels, the more the respective | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| and wear a mask so that their pure currents are polluted by the unpurified qualities. But here | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| reflect the outer life but also the soul currents and reactions. You will understand that it was | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| person's goodwill does not relax, the unconscious negative currents will eventually penetrate into consciousness. Here they can | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| side in you which hates to recognize unpleasant currents within yourself. You then disregard what actually exists | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| great strain and friction. As long as these currents are not brought into consciousness, so as to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| observing again and again how far your inner currents still deviate from what you wish them to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| spiritual sphere, and when your mood changes, the currents coming out of your soul, your subconscious, and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| development, as well as with the forces and currents generating from our particular sphere. Some people make | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the next lecture I will discuss how the currents of the higher self come forth, penetrate the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| an inventory of your emotional trends and soul currents. By re-examining them you can oust whatever has | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| validity for you any more and change your currents accordingly. Thus you put order in your soul | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in the light of spiritual law and truth. Currents coming from the higher self are often distorted | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God will help you. If all your inner currents were flowing according to divine law, you would | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| powerful weapon to cure yourself of the sick currents within your soul, and you will unfold the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| be accomplished is the reeducation of certain emotional currents. If you go about it seriously and not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your soul of all the sick and wrong currents that deviate from divine law. That is when | 18 FREE WILL |
| one's life, there are many subtle inner will currents one should become aware of and learn when | 18 FREE WILL |
| in the wrong way, thereby mingling in wrong currents or wrong motives. Let us assume, for instance | 18 FREE WILL |
| soul, in your inner trends, in your soul currents, in your emotional reactions, and not only in | 18 FREE WILL |
| unconscious, not only do sick, wrong, and twisted currents become apparent along with ignorance and shortsightedness, and | 18 FREE WILL |
| prepared in quality for the influx of divine currents. Then the real ecstasy can happen, not otherwise | 18 FREE WILL |
| own nature, you can of course find both currents: the good current that once came from God | 22 SALVATION |
| during and after the fall. Between these two currents the conscious self stands, able to decide either | 22 SALVATION |
| world because there were still too many unpurified currents and attitudes in the soul, too many evil | 22 SALVATION |
| understood your inner makeup and rearranged your inner currents. In this way you will dissolve inner images | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| alike, but how all these various trends and currents work, what plays into the lower self or | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| or where the higher self is diluted by currents of the lower self to constitute a mask | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| when you can quietly realize these two contradictory currents in you: the one in which you see | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| as yet do so. First compare these two currents and learn for the time being to accept | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and further, although you will not change these currents immediately. You will grow in self-recognition and self-understanding | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| realization will enable you to gradually change inner currents and emotional reactions, and this will automatically free | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to understand the workings of all your inner currents in relationship to spiritual law and truth. However | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to other people as long as your impure currents force you into thinking things that are not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| on the whole is concerned, but about individual currents and trends within you which the lower self | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| For there is nothing as contagious as inner currents, be they positive or negative. So do not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the law which then sets up very disharmonious currents. On the other hand, it should be clearly | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| self simply contains the faults, weaknesses, and sick currents that any of you possess, is immaterial. The | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| furnish you with some clue about the conflicting currents in your own soul. There is one part | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| reactions and the behavior of your various soul currents. Merely by doing this consistently for some time | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| it, and this little is diluted by impure currents, you will lose the little you have. It | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| break the respective spiritual law. Then the negative currents in you are so much stronger that you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| because you are made up of many contradictory currents. Do not fear to face that one part | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to what your feelings are, what your desire currents really want, and whether these feelings and currents | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| currents really want, and whether these feelings and currents are truly in accordance with divine law. Ask | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| used in the channels destined for the passive currents, a congestion occurs, and the result is frustration | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will rechannel the wrongly used active and passive currents. This also means to accept the imperfection of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the moment you start allowing your wrong overactive currents to become passive and the wrong passive currents | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| currents to become passive and the wrong passive currents to become active. For those purified currents will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| passive currents to become active. For those purified currents will emanate from you and indirectly affect the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| necessary to recognize your innermost motives and hidden currents. Only a free person can do that. Conversely | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| obviously deviated from divine law in your emotional currents. Sometimes, when you discover the nature of a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| be applicable. We are focusing on the emotional currents of self-will within each one of you. For | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the hindrances so as to eliminate them. The currents within you run in different directions: the self-will | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| that is wrong, impossible, or contradictory to other currents within you, while at the same time you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| our help, to try to find what unconscious currents lie behind them. That is then the work | 31 SHAME |
| person. You can never reach the hidden motives, currents, and emotions without that. If you fulfill the | 31 SHAME |
| human being is ambivalent; there are many contradictory currents in you. The harm of lack of ambition | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| feelings. In learning to become aware of these currents, you must first get to understand and interpret | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| as long as you hold on to these currents, as long as you cannot give up what | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| strivings. The human soul is full of contradictory currents in all respects. The sooner you understand this | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| and in fact do, consist of two contradictory currents simultaneously. Whether this concerns the issue of faith | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| work on in this life are energies or currents. These are treated in the fluidal bodies in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| It depends very much on how the power currents are treated, insulated, or channeled. All this may | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| one's own violations and how to change inner currents indicates the true and mature spirituality that we | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| problems. An infinite variety of good and bad currents influence one another. I promised you that I | 36 PRAYER |
| of the lower self; the rechanneling of wrong currents, and the attainment of love, brotherhood, humility, and | 36 PRAYER |
| the innermost recesses of the mind. If emotional currents do not follow suit in harmony with the | 36 PRAYER |
| in prayer that gradually will affect their emotional currents and their entire outlook on life. People who | 36 PRAYER |
| this earth. One of the most misunderstood divine currents is love. Many other things pose as love | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| apart from complete humility. The individual whose ego currents are so strong that self-will has the upper | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| careful, my friends, with masked and misrepresented divine currents that pose for what is true and good | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| with an image flow harmoniously with the divine currents, adapting themselves spontaneously to your immediate needs. But | 38 IMAGES |
| changing circumstances. Thus, they create disorder. The pure currents flowing through a human soul become disturbed and | 38 IMAGES |
| will also become impatient with yourself. With such currents, you will never succeed in finding and dissolving | 38 IMAGES |
| who are on this path can evaluate these currents, viewing them from a distance and consciously controlling | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| soul that is contrary to divine law. These currents can not merely be regarded as sinful but | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| harmonious interplay between the active and the passive currents. So you cannot sit with your hands in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| each individual. Everyone is made up of different currents, faults, and qualities that interplay differently in different | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| emotional person chooses, because of fear and immature currents, a mask of intellectuality that is foreign to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| passive forces, in which I said that both currents are necessary for the healthy human soul. It | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| out where and how all these aspects or currents function -- where one interferes with the other | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| physical body is an outpicturing of the soul currents, and this outpicturing can occur in many ways | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| there was no disharmony in the distribution of currents. The highest angel of the active forces is | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| each current. Balance depends on the way the currents are distributed; on how the distribution works in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| not discussing the many possibilities of mixed-up soul currents, where the will may be broken and then | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| intellectual individual release more of the other two currents also? ANSWER: They must, because that is the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |