| Darken......................3 | |
| which they are unaware, contribute not only to darken the situation further, but also prevent them from | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| also to your own life force, how you darken and deaden life itself. The more you advance | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resistance and the slowing of the energy movement darken the vision and the scope of experience. Life | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Darker......................6 | |
| the others that surrounded him, who were much darker spirits, the very strong inclination existed -- comparatively | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual robes. The moment higher beings descend into darker worlds, their appearance automatically, according to law -- | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| never emerge from the misery of the lower, darker planes of consciousness. Only when you begin to | 38 IMAGES |
| because you often do not fear your real darker side, but what you believe it is. Only | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| may rule you unbeknownst to yourself. Fearing your darker side, you do not dare to look at | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| - to change this very negative level, this darker part of the personality. When this part remains | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Darkest.....................4 | |
| the hard times and ask God in your darkest hour what it is that He wants you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| of the darkness light develops. Even in the darkest, most ignorant part is the essence of knowledge | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| from outside. But this applies only to the darkest, most undeveloped aspects of the lower self of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| pleasure and excitement. For beings in the lowest, darkest states of consciousness, or worlds, all light is | 254 SURRENDER |
| Darkness....................243 | |
| person becomes the plaything of the forces of darkness. This does not mean that he or she | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to become the plaything of the forces of darkness. The dark world takes its material from these | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| unawareness, become a plaything of the forces of darkness, your boat will be blown hither and thither | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to give yourself over to the forces of darkness, consciously or unconsciously, that is, to cut yourself | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to the return of all beings from the darkness back to God, into happiness. Those who use | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| For otherwise there could not be so much darkness in some of your life situations. If you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| happiness, and raises you up from all the darkness and imperfection that has burdened you through so | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| time into the depths, into the spheres of darkness, to bring light and help certain beings, if | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| accordance with the laws of the powers of darkness. They are very effective, very quick, but never | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| not let the clouds of the powers of darkness destroy your sight and your sense of truth | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| through, connection is made with the forces of darkness, according to each person's attitude and development. In | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the divine order and to the world of darkness as well as all the variations in-between. Each | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| order. Some may belong to the world of darkness. If this person is not a criminal or | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| everyday human faults belong to the world of darkness. They also operate according to their own laws | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| own life but also weakens the forces of darkness, for the less they have to work with | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| thus constantly furnish material to the world of darkness, and its influence in turn would be that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| development, would try their best, the spheres of darkness and disharmony, evil and envy, hatred and prejudice | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| other hand the matter of the powers of darkness is so coarse, so much coarser than even | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| who are around a human being, spirits of darkness and higher spirits: I wonder if our calling | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| at least as far as the spirits of darkness are concerned. If someone really does that, he | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| emanate a quality that draws the spirits of darkness near you, like a magnet. For instance, when | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| also learning. You see, with the spirits of darkness it goes like this: they fulfill a task | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| they fulfill a task in their world of darkness when they win out over a person, particularly | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| such a person slowly but surely further into darkness, depression, self-despising moods, and thus into separation from | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the respective dark spirits, with the world of darkness altogether. You do not have to commit a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in order to live in the world of darkness. There are other vibrations that can accomplish this | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to be an instrument for the powers of darkness, if you fight -- and you can only | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| immediately, because it is still so much in darkness that at first it will only know defeat | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| it can claim victories in its world of darkness, and has power there, it will never turn | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| understanding of the coming into existence of evil, darkness, and cruelty -- in short, the fall of | 18 FREE WILL |
| path, you will walk out of all the darkness into which you have put yourself by choice | 18 FREE WILL |
| to some small degree into the world of darkness. There may be just a gleam of it | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| when the beings living in the world of darkness encounter the light, they have a different reaction | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| be protected against creatures from the world of darkness. Now who is Christ? Some Christian religions claim | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| turned to disharmony, beauty to ugliness, light to darkness, wisdom to blindness, love to hatred, fear, or | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| spheres came into being within the world of darkness, always corresponding to the individual's state of mind | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| would create a world of icy coldness, icy darkness, and desolation. There are many more possibilities of | 21 THE FALL |
| create the corresponding spheres in the world of darkness, of which there is also an infinite variety | 21 THE FALL |
| the one who reigns in the world of darkness. On the other hand, how could God not | 21 THE FALL |
| more detail the next time. The spheres of darkness first came into existence where the spirits lived | 21 THE FALL |
| occur as an exceedingly slow process, however. Spiritual darkness annuls knowledge, which is spiritual light. Just as | 21 THE FALL |
| -- which is impossible in the worlds of darkness. In other words, this earth sphere is a | 21 THE FALL |
| both the divine worlds and the worlds of darkness helped in the creation of this earth sphere | 21 THE FALL |
| sphere and a sphere in the world of darkness. You must all realize, my friends, that I | 21 THE FALL |
| beings who were incarnated from the spheres of darkness? This would be an impossibility since according to | 21 THE FALL |
| of a hundred creatures of the world of darkness. The spirits who were incarnated from the world | 21 THE FALL |
| any communications other than with the world of darkness. But the pure incarnated spirits had communication with | 21 THE FALL |
| who have fallen and who have lived in darkness for a long time. I also said that | 22 SALVATION |
| of the divine spheres. In the spheres of darkness, some time had to go by before anything | 22 SALVATION |
| hell is not only one sphere of dire darkness and misery. As there are many gradations in | 22 SALVATION |
| challenges, hardships, and temptations that the powers of darkness could think of seemed indeed an impossible task | 22 SALVATION |
| offered all the temptations of the world of darkness. Of course, Christ was what you would call | 22 SALVATION |
| coming to Him originated from the world of darkness. Clairvoyantly, He came in contact first with high | 22 SALVATION |
| fulfilled the conditions by which the world of darkness could never at any time claim God's laws | 22 SALVATION |
| fought a spiritual battle in the world of darkness. That spirits should have wars, my friends, may | 22 SALVATION |
| the earth sphere, and in the world of darkness. After the battle was over, new conditions were | 22 SALVATION |
| in exactitude, the activities of the powers of darkness are limited and must stand ultimately under the | 22 SALVATION |
| is only possible after one has gone through darkness. That such enlightenment cannot come in one lifetime | 22 SALVATION |
| the fall -- and to shed all the darkness that has come upon a soul can never | 22 SALVATION |
| beings who are incarnated from the world of darkness first come with very low and coarse instincts | 22 SALVATION |
| and magnetically in touch with the world of darkness. The higher self, which is much further in | 22 SALVATION |
| at one time part of the world of darkness does not have as a consequence eternal exclusion | 22 SALVATION |
| in thinking that, for instance, the world of darkness is not physical or that the spiritual matter | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| special degree of density of the world of darkness we cannot see it and we cannot touch | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lecture once that the spirits who are in darkness actually wince and shrink away and feel physical | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this light then manifests to those spirits in darkness, it creates a pain or discomfort of some | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| question do not produce spheres of ugliness and darkness anymore, but have, at least to some degree | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enslaved to them and to the powers of darkness, the outer expression of this state will be | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all spirits who come from the world of darkness and who are still entrapped in that darkness | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| darkness and who are still entrapped in that darkness, are all Antichrists. Everyone who does not see | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instruments, consciously or unconsciously, of the world of darkness. But there is no particular, single, incarnation representing | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| entirely wrong. Hitler came from the world of darkness. That is quite true. But, particularly in the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| still very much connected with the world of darkness, these merits warranted that he be given certain | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was much too bound to the world of darkness for that, not enough developed by far. But | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| development. He could have overcome some of the darkness that was still in his soul. And he | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| then more and more for the powers of darkness. But that was not determined from the beginning | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the twisting of truth the world of darkness has always aimed for and which will succeed | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thus to the influence of the powers of darkness. This would make no sense. Whoever follows the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| worlds -- from the Ineffable to the Outer Darkness? If not, it is no use going too | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| earth sphere and afterward to the spheres of darkness, had to become in a way like other | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Yes. And my question was: The spirits in darkness, do they have to go through all these | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: I always thought that atheists remained in darkness because they are separated from divine light? ANSWER | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| an instance where an atheist is not in darkness. He or she will certainly not be able | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| it will lead you out of your own darkness. So it depends entirely on how you go | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| penetrates to some degree into the world of darkness. Then the angels of God show themselves. There | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| not exist anymore. In the lower spheres of darkness, however, no alternative carries with it a so-called | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| a human being bound to the world of darkness will have to accept the conditions that govern | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that you come out of the webs of darkness, loneliness, unhappiness, but not until after you have | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| for that your thoughts are too encased in darkness. Only after you come out of the darkness | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| darkness. Only after you come out of the darkness will you be aghast at your having been | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| hardship and joy, unhappiness and happiness, periods of darkness, periods of light, disappointments in other human beings | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| steep at times and often shadowed, enveloped in darkness. At other times, when you have won a | 36 PRAYER |
| all the blind creatures who are still in darkness. Pray for the purification process of more and | 36 PRAYER |
| for any created being no longer in deepest darkness, these extremes represent no danger. There is, however | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Your lower nature, abetted by the forces of darkness, likes to believe that to be pessimistic and | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| from life's clouds. I will not fear the darkness. Only by going through adversity courageously will I | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| will never shine again you shall accept the darkness constructively, you will also find your own inner | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| very strong. In former times the forces of darkness did not need to resort to such means | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| have the effect at which the forces of darkness constantly aim. Their new tactics do make it | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| in which you live, partly at least, in darkness. You think so many times you have reason | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to voluntarily step across the threshold from the darkness into the light. I beg any of you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of the separating wall that encloses you in darkness, loneliness, fear, guilt, and false shame. Only in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| curve comes again, you must delve into the darkness of your confusion and error, and that cuts | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| quite natural that in such periods of temporary darkness you cannot feel God's absolute truth, that you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| way you will go through a tunnel of darkness and emerge on the other side to encounter | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you have recognized your own responsibility for the darkness while passing through the tunnel -- which is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you left the entire reasoning process in the darkness of your unconscious. It will help also to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| has driven the law-breaker deeper into ignorance and darkness, instead of lifting him out of it. You | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| taken place, you would be so much in darkness, so ensnarled in your own difficulties, that you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| belongs in the category of the forces of darkness or evil. It is not only all the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is no other way than penetrating your own darkness and obstructions. I am afraid I have to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you forevermore of some chains of ignorance and darkness. The moment this recognition is reached the pain | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| is all relative. Of course, the forces of darkness are still very strong on the earth sphere | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| progress has not taken place. These forces of darkness do exist, of course, but they do not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| where the spreading of light penetrates confusion and darkness in order to hasten the realization of the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a nation is dominated by the forces of darkness because of the people's ignorance and the outcropping | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their negative currents. To come out of this darkness unassisted, without grace, would mean to go through | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and even the particular person who is in darkness, but at a later time. For the love | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right or wrong, truth or untruth, light or darkness. From our view it makes no difference whether | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| remove the part in you that was in darkness, that was selfish and unloving because of the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| but also in the sense that sorrow, unhappiness, darkness, disappointment, hurt are each a little bit of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you have not worked yourself out of this darkness, resulting from error, you cannot be in eternal | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| healthy. It may be completely light, without any darkness, without any shadow, so that you find a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| understanding grows, each mishap loses more of its darkness and terror, and thus you master your mishaps | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| happy times. The person who is still in darkness and ignorance about the facts of human existence | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the wider truth of your situation is in darkness. Let us take a common and simple example | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| being untrue, must perforce, cause unhappiness and conflict, darkness and ignorance. Thus, maturity is really the ability | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| struggling to maintain is a state of isolating darkness. It is a senseless struggle from which you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| curve comes again, you must delve into the darkness of your own confusion and error, which cuts | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| quite natural that in such periods of temporary darkness you cannot feel God's absolute truth, that you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a different way. Prejudice is a wall of darkness, while a child is usually without prejudice, an | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that not getting what you want means terror, darkness, and unhappiness. Simultaneously, the evolving conscious part has | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and error, productive of fear, pride, arrogance, ignorance, darkness, confusion, you are not only unhappy, but, with | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sick, the ignorant, the ones in error and darkness. The rich meaning the ones who understand. Now | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the supposed hopelessness of some obstruction's temporary darkness. We come to realize that we must encounter | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happiness and unhappiness, love and selfishness, light and darkness. Your confusion comes about because a certain attitude | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the forces of light and the forces of darkness which human beings erroneously imagine to be raging | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| -- although emotionally you may be plunged in darkness, rebellion, cowardice and self-pity -- the outcome will | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| self-deception that delays your coming out of your darkness. Jesus illustrated this most clearly. He, the greatest | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of the original whole entity created confusion and darkness. As long as you find yourself in such | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| through understanding. Then love can blossom. But where darkness and confusion exist, and the partners do not | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| who have to pull yourself out of the darkness. Be blessed, be open, my dearest ones, to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| noticeable by its obvious response to light, water, darkness or dryness. Therefore its movement is also more | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| As everyone on the path experiences periods of darkness before the dawn, so does humanity -- over | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you are slowly stepping out of confinement and darkness into the freedom and light of truth. Anyone | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| what motivates them creates a cloud of unrest, darkness, disharmony, which even the most insensitive can distinctly | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| absence of pleasure is not an abyss of darkness to shrink from, fear will no longer prohibit | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| greater the ignorance, error, misconception, prejudice, limitation, and darkness -- hence, the greater the suffering. When humans | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| at this moment, you cannot possibly be in darkness. I have given you many tools for reaching | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| these two activities, there must be confusion and darkness. No matter how important each of these two | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| from constriction into limitless possibilities. It will change darkness and isolation into light, union, companionship, intimacy, and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| new land where light is never threatened by darkness. You have constructed the old state on a | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| mutual exclusiveness, they create a short-circuit. In the darkness of the confusion, the individual is called upon | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| seriously and contemplate its meaning, where there is darkness light will come. Each second of your life | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| own -- and it comes out of the darkness that does not see other ways and possibilities | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| see how it is to feel and experience darkness. Creating is pure fascination. This fascination is not | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| your basic reluctance, are the reason for your darkness, for the difficulties of your fate, which you | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| some lives, bunched up in stronger episodes. Utter darkness, loss, pain, and confusion alternate with heights of | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| an unpleasant mood, a threatening situation, confusion and darkness, you can be sure that regardless of the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| gathers momentum. It seeps through the murkiness and darkness that the negativities create. It penetrates the poisonous | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| for the true nature of life is not darkness -- it is light. It is not destruction | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| trust it when you come out of your darkness, to plough your way between the two extremes | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| awareness and experience upon one's inner distortions, ugliness, darkness, evil, and suffering, as well as upon the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| forget. Any question, any problem, any conflict, any darkness, can and should be taken into meditation and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| defenses and undissolved negativities, your resistances, distortions, and darkness. Hence we must plough ahead in our work | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| groping, and so was I. They were in darkness and I was in darkness. This is regrettable | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| They were in darkness and I was in darkness. This is regrettable, but this is what we | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| spark began to spread and slowly penetrate the darkness and nothingness of the vacuum. The spark had | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| isolated dots of consciousness, thrown into the outer darkness and struggling against being swallowed up by it | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| diminished state there are times when the outer darkness seems nearer and more real than the inner | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Your spirit wants to bring light into the darkness and movement into the stagnation. If you stop | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| out unless the personality deals directly with the darkness within. Then sacrifice and deprivation become not only | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| taking the path into and through your own darkness. Spiritual practices alone can not fulfill your longing | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| or on finding the way through their own darkness. But for those who have the courage to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| pursuing a policy of avoidance and creating the darkness of disorderliness. You can perhaps see also another | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| and you increase your suffering, your confusion and darkness. You may think that there are areas that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| a minimum of faith, you will penetrate the darkness and come to what I call the golden | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the golden point of life. There is no darkness that does not contain the golden point of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| avoid, but to go through the tunnel of darkness, into the golden area. This is my message | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Creation, and becoming yet another torch in the darkness of the void that is destined to be | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| all is one, until there is no more darkness and only spiritual light, truth, and beauty prevail | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of identifying with it through the layers of darkness, you must discover the unending beauty of the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| There is always a way out of every darkness and therefore never a reason to despair. You | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| that there is such an inner world. The darkness of the limited mind makes it almost impossible | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| you are in the only final world of darkness. I say to you, my friends, the mere | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| means for you. Instead of struggling against the darkness, accept it as a temporary state and move | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| about a re-transformation: from Satan to Lucifer, from darkness to light. This process takes place within your | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| genuine divine law, to experience what is. Whatever darkness or negativity may be there temporarily must be | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| into a lesser expression, then distortion, misconception, suffering, darkness and disconnection seem to be the common lot | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| if they resolve their problems and eliminate their darkness and thus become happy and fulfilled, then they | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| steadfastness necessary to grope one's way out of darkness and suffering? Only desire does. This kind of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| can boast of never going through periods of darkness and crisis. They are inevitable, and it is | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| into your soul by bringing truth into your darkness. But as long as you project your darkness | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| darkness. But as long as you project your darkness outward, in order not to face your own | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| and judge. In your hatred you are in darkness. In your denial of the hatred you are | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| the hatred you are in a much bleaker darkness, much further away from the light. You then | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| When you no longer turn away from the darkness within you, realistic hope will grow where now | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| of knowledge, knowledge is developed. Out of the darkness light develops. Even in the darkest, most ignorant | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| denies all that. It wants to remain in darkness, in spite of the obvious pain that this | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| bringing eternity and light into the nonlife and darkness until the void no longer exists. Eventually the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| It has to battle its way through the darkness and distortion that are byproducts of the separation | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| sub-humans -- exist in a world of such darkness that indeed there seems no way out, until | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| moment on the physical level. Take light and darkness. The balance between them creates a beautiful harmony | 228 BALANCE |
| a unitive whole, fulfilling a purpose. In the darkness of night you rest, in the brightness of | 228 BALANCE |
| entities who are very deeply involved in their darkness and who are struggling for their supremacy. They | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| you learn to have faith in periods of darkness in your life, these very periods will -- | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| consciousness and go through a period of confusion, darkness, or crisis. Then you may already understand the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| around you that seem to justify misery and darkness, but you must have been courting that misery | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| you must have been courting that misery and darkness. To the degree you refuse purification, you lack | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the extent he or she is still in darkness, but also within the personality. The personality is | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| is fulfilled. The other part is still in darkness, therefore in fear, doubt, suffering; for that part | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| a human being dies in that state of darkness, the disruption of conscious connection will temporarily create | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| while the personality aspects that live in the darkness of unconscious fear and doubt will remain unconscious | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| part, in a state of painful separation and darkness, in the fear of not knowing the reality | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| creating, in turn, further evil attitudes. Light meeting darkness initially distorts vision; then being is fraught with | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| the forces of light and the forces of darkness, as well as their manifestations, their effects, their | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to the ultimate aim of the forces of darkness: to alienate creation from the Creator. Here is | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| chosen thoughts and actions that plunged them into darkness. It is to ensure this ultimate overcoming of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| forged ahead, enabling those who were submerged in darkness to gradually find their way back to light | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| of the cosmic Christ reaches a soul in darkness at first through pain. To some degree all | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| area you become connected to the forces of darkness and you are a target for them. When | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| human soul between the forces of light and darkness, between the higher self and the lower self | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| or interests that belong to the realm of darkness, and these personal emotions are not recognized as | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| tools for the aims of the prince of darkness. Use your good will to see the truth | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| a destructive course bringing clouds of pain and darkness to you and those around you. The key | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| in depth, you will dispel the clouds of darkness which carry the three principles of evil. Clarification | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| are still relatively undeveloped find themselves in the darkness of groping through the webs of cause and | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| entity is acting upon. In that way, no darkness or confusion can ever exist in the record | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| whispered into your ears by the forces of darkness whose interest it is that you remain in | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| from the greater reality of life. In the darkness you prefer to struggle with the pain of | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| spreading from various sources. Since the forces of darkness have their power over your sphere, it is | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| been prepared for this step. The forces of darkness know this and use every means at their | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| thought drive you back into your world of darkness, fear, resistance, distrust and pain -- the pain | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| meditations. When you are unhappy, fearful, discouraged, in darkness, know at least that you are not in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| will arise through different means. The forces of darkness can again distort the truth and tempt people | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| by the soul that still lives partly in darkness. Another human error is the belief that a | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| something secret. The weapon of the forces of darkness is always to confuse by using a truth | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| to hide creates an aura of fog, a darkness that gradually encompasses the best in a person | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| totally ignored by the personality because too much darkness and fog still cover up the reality. So | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| matter how much good also exists. Light opposes darkness, night opposes day, where there is health there | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| life and death, pleasure and pain, light and darkness. When you can maintain this vision even while | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| to those who are still deeply submerged in darkness, such divine reminders and expressions are as painful | 254 SURRENDER |
| sense. When consciousness first meets the void, the darkness is so great that a negative unity comes | 254 SURRENDER |