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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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

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