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| three to five years, however, doesn't only mean developing the capacity to channel, but, most of all | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| not want to make the effort involved in developing yourselves and often you, or at least a | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| that people shy away from knowing themselves truthfully, developing themselves on the path, and overcoming their resistances | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| us -- to continue his creation ourselves, by developing all other characteristics, aspects, or talents in a | 21 THE FALL |
| unconscious the fact remains that you are not developing as you should; that you are breaking a | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| respect yourself if you do the utmost in developing spiritually, in sacrificing for others. And only when | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the often unspiritual influences of your usual surroundings. Developing a concise understanding of yourself and your problems | 36 PRAYER |
| face yourself and to overcome your resistance to developing yourself, there is nothing selfish in that. If | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| remaining where you are for a while, learning, developing, purifying. This is the explanation for all life | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| can combine love and sexual energy only by developing your soul by the very path you are | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| nature, and everything falls into place. Go on developing, finding yourself, and believe that whatever happens in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sensitivity, and your ability to understand only by developing yourself. This is the only healthy and good | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human race today after two billion years of developing life on earth. The other theory, which is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do you want it to be, apart from developing yourself to the best of your ability? Then | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| one path, this path of finding yourselves and developing yourselves to become the person you are meant | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to face yourself, to overcome your resistance to developing yourself, there is nothing selfish in that, though | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| one to achieve a maximum of happiness through developing one's inherent talents, leading a constructive life, and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| as you now unconsciously expect it, from without. Developing your own resources and strengths instead of obtaining | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| religion is a matter of each individual soul developing to its optimum point by way of search | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| people follow a path of self-recognition, growing and developing their own resources, they will no longer need | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| life without experiencing its heights and depths, without developing yourself to the most and best you can | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| needs. For that, the freedom and strength of developing primary reactions are a necessary prerequisite. This has | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Yet we know that our loved ones are developing too. They, too, are working for their self-realization | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| feelings exist, but they have been prohibited from developing and this must be made conscious. Repeated unfulfillment | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| violation of the soul that prevents it from developing its potential. This is always a personal matter | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| by standing on their own feet financially; by developing their capacity to love so they do not | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| obeying, conforming, appeasing, and blindly following it. Never developing the independent faculties of thinking and discriminating, one | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| can do to actually bring about the seed developing into the plant. A creative process is at | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is sought after artificially because the task of developing the ego seems too difficult, it is not | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a way of becoming a better person, of developing spiritually. All this happens, of course. But it | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| only on negative views of life and thereby developing negative attitudes and experiencing life exactly as you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of the cosmic feeling that encompasses everything. 3. Developing positive intentionality. You must develop positive intentionality not | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the group with the power that you resist developing within yourself. You therefore go into the second | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not perfect, shirking the process of becoming, growing, developing, of transforming in a realistic way. So you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| different way by becoming overly permissive and sentimental, developing a false, mask-self acceptance that is only an | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and the honesty of paying the price for developing slowly into a more genuinely perfect being are | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| a great step toward your liberation and toward developing the capacity to become a trustworthy, reliable leader | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and included to accomplish the process that is developing, that is organically waiting to materialize. The time | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| consciousness go through all the painstaking steps of developing and cleansing itself, of growing and expansion, with | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| will not be still so low in its development that that person becomes the plaything of the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| different levels -- and the higher the person's development, the deeper it is possible to penetrate into | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| spiritual awareness that can come only through higher development. Thus Christ brought you an expanded understanding of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| For those who are more advanced in their development, this process of purification automatically leads to the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the human soul, there would be no spiritual development. But there are only very few who ask | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| of the yearning according to their state of development, will draw conclusions, and follow through with their | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| fulfillment. However, those who reach the stage of development where they already understand what these hitherto inexplicable | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| who experience a complete turnabout in their spiritual development and recognize God in consciousness enter into a | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| one of the parts necessary for your further development, namely intake from the outside. Furthermore, it gives | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| problems, which is the second necessary part of development. For this, you need constant encouragement, strength, and | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| learn to achieve the utmost for your spiritual development and purification through solving hitherto unresolved problems. You | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| exactly what this entity needs for its further development. Meditate on these words, for they contain much | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the further and actually more difficult steps of development will seem much easier. I can promise this | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| need to sense the next step of your development, and when you are not aware of it | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| -- and as long as your state of development still keeps you in the cycle of reincarnation | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| individual task, which corresponds to their state of development, will be free of any kind of inner | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| few of a very high state of spiritual development, would not find the way to health. When | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| completely fulfilling you wherever you are in your development. Last but not least, consider this also: By | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| are struggling with the difficulties in your spiritual development on this path toward perfection. We can only | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| that which is the determining factor in their development and fulfillment. What appears to be an unimportant | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| unless still on a very low level of development, will in theory feel glad when good things | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| bound inside. Giving energy to further the upward development of human consciousness, this person will be free | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| can come, provided you follow this path of development and purification. Helpful insights are given by heaven | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| not; it will determine the direction of your development. It is a special grace -- and I | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the criminal kind; all depends on the person's development. A higher developed individual's negative traits weigh as | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| prevent spiritual growth, or at least hinder maximum development. Therefore I cannot urge you enough to devote | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and have just as tangible consequences. Also, the development of the personality takes incomparably longer and is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| could be avoided by a stronger commitment to development in the present. Human development has advanced so | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| stronger commitment to development in the present. Human development has advanced so far that at least a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| able to understand and assimilate, according to their development. There are many, however, to whom more could | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and separation around the soul. The higher the development, the more will the band of love which | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the House of God right away; often the development continues in other spheres first. Now, human beings | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| -- and also because of their high spiritual development, have reached the capacity to free their spirit | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| So that what is achieved through your spiritual development -- love, understanding, and so on -- can | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the being is in its momentary state of development, including the lower and the higher self. What | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| entities also have independent power according to their development; their area of activity increases and expands continuously | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| person has gone beyond a certain level of development -- if only in certain respects, since, as | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| for the human being, especially for his ascending development, because the executive will is part of it | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and lawfulness require. The purpose is the harmonious development of your total spiritual and psychic organism, and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| once before reached a very high state of development, perhaps higher than what we have today. I | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| right in saying that humankind's level of spiritual development did not correspond to the technical progress and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| much discrepancy between the material and the spiritual development, then certain events will take place in order | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| catastrophe. History often demonstrates this. Only when spiritual development, that is re-connection with God, is commensurate with | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Here is an example: The higher a person's development, the more important it becomes that he surround | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| who have already achieved a higher level of development and possess sufficient strength will, because they are | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| namely, that contact with people of a lower development is harmful. Here one can sometimes make a | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| avoiding a task with a person of lower development may be the cause of your unhappiness. The | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| for you, in a certain period of your development, to obtain answers in a different form. You | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| is an intensive, continuous work on one's own development; it is getting to know the self; it | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| person has entered the path of perfection, of development, of self-knowledge, of self-discipline, of humility, when he | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| spirit contact must only serve one purpose: spiritual development. When this truth is recognized, help will come | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| answers to their questions relating to their own development, then their faith will be immeasurably strengthened. The | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| experience and see how it might further my development. Again you will receive answers. I wish to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| those who are not that far in their development. Remember my words, though, because you will find | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| is there, at least to this extent. Her development, however, has not progressed far enough for me | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| now. I will answer the question whenever her development is far enough advanced to eliminate the block | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| When people have reached the stage of development that a connection with God's spirit world can | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| their imperfections. The communication will always promote their development and bring them closer to God and the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| I know that it is necessary for our development, but it still seems too hard. ANSWER: It | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| therefore God created the present conditions. Unfortunately, the development can happen only through the path of suffering | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| can provide to intensify his or her spiritual development, then the integration is just right. This is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| unless you cultivate systematically your spirit and your development. You need to become master of yourself, not | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| all, concentrating on walking the spiritual path of development in the sense I am teaching it. If | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| which the medium pursues his or her spiritual development. When the time is ripe, then, as I | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| found within the human being. Beyond a certain development, every single spiritual being reaches a stage of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| have not yet reached a high state of development cannot perceive it. Everyone can experience a faint | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| vice versa, in an arbitrary fashion. In the development that takes the spirits back to God the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| that the experience in the spirit, the spiritual development toward perfection has nothing to do with being | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you are in essence, masculine or feminine. The development will bring you to perfection as a man | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| be gathered and realized during the course of development to regain divine perfection. QUESTION: Does the separation | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| fulfilling his destiny by carrying out his own development to its maximum -- then the feminine tendencies | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| depends on how much one wills one's own development. Do you understand? QUESTIONER: Not entirely. But I | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| masculine element seems to hinder a woman, her development lies in purification, overcoming, healing, and integrating. This | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| seemed most comfortable at the time. Therefore the development back to God must always consist in conquering | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| offered with the purpose to further an accelerated development. This might happen in the following way: Someone | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| being can attain -- his or her own development -- must be fought for. And if you | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| because it is for the good of the development of humanity. QUESTION: Is it true, for example | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| When one truly repents and by this development overcomes the fault that caused the sin, the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| unpleasant things in order to help further spiritual development, it will never humiliate or hurt in an | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| that can come only with reaching for spiritual development. It is the only purpose for such a | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| accept this principle when it comes to spiritual development and spiritual values. Yet whatever you give you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the path of perfection, to help one's own development, to solve a particular problem. And this wish | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| this medium would have reached such heights in development that future incarnations would be unnecessary. If this | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| But aside from answers that pertain to personal development, to self-knowledge, to one's own faults, it is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| of the great geniuses are in their spiritual development as far advanced as in their particular talent | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |