| Divisions...................14 | |
| the proper manner. The borderline between these three divisions -- conscious, unconscious, and subconscious -- cannot always | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| remedy lies in finding one's own obstructions and divisions within that make such an attraction possible. To | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a major part of your compulsive drives. Subdivisions, divisions of this drive, such as the desire to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| interacts with the other. Each of these three divisions contains a number of layers. For instance, an | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need to think in terms of such limiting divisions. What served once as a mere sketch is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even by the irreligious person. The splits and divisions, the contradictions and either/ors are a product of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| The great spiritual love force knows no such divisions, and its cultivation is impossible if a continuously | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| lacks integration, wholeness and union due to unconscious divisions. In the course of your self- exploration, you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the basic point of unification when encountering inner divisions. The same applies to this triad. Pride and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| with this duality, is imbued with its false divisions. When you come to the point where you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| universal consciousness is only constructive. Here again, arbitrary divisions are made that do not exist. As you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| concerned. When the duality splits selfishness into false divisions and false values so that untruthful, pretended and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| likewise divided. Whole philosophies are based on such divisions; painstaking treatises are written in which a lot | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to see how untrue this is. Such artificial divisions burden your soul substance, your inner consciousness, your | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Divorce.....................7 | |
| explain this phenomenon. I beg you, my friends, divorce yourselves of the preconceived idea that a spirit | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| from going into an improper channel. QUESTION: Is divorce against spiritual law? ANSWER: Not necessarily. We do | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| fixed rules like that. There are cases when divorce is an easy way out, a mere escape | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a mere escape. There are other cases when divorce is reasonable because the choice to marry was | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| only one is willing -- or neither -- divorce is better than staying together and making a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| one's past and present mistakes. To generalize that divorce is wrong in any case is just as | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| with you -- you will be able to divorce yourself from the generalization that one automatically has | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Divorced....................6 | |
| for all these highest values will not be divorced quite so much anymore from your own development | 36 PRAYER |
| now or in the long run. It is divorced from reality. As long as you see only | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| alive, a distinct individual, and not a machine, divorced from warmth, courage, and humor. The true self | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| feeling. Pure, abstract thought may appear as totally divorced from feeling content. This is not so. As | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| state. But even the former can never be divorced from feeling -- that is, energy content. The | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| selfishly toward at least minor fulfillments, which are divorced from Christ. And the greater this separation is | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Doctor......................11 | |
| reached that stage in practice, turns to a doctor for help, does he show a lack of | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Doctors are also God's instruments. Where a doctor can help, one should go to a doctor | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| doctor can help, one should go to a doctor. Where he cannot help, one can search for | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| through a learning period very similar to a doctor or a teacher who attends a university for | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| he can be an honest, conscientious and good doctor, even though he earns money with it. If | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| happens that a person undergoing psychoanalysis with a doctor who rigidly follows a school of thought that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| will at all be possible for a human doctor, who cannot see into a soul as a | 18 FREE WILL |
| understands you better than any human being, psychoanalyst, doctor, or scientist. You should know definitely and consciously | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| person wants to know the truth from a doctor or an astrologer, what should the doctor or | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a doctor or an astrologer, what should the doctor or astrologer do? Tell the truth, lie, or | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| activities, whatever they are. Whether you are a doctor, a teacher, or a shoemaker, makes no difference | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Doctors.....................9 | |
| the illness without using medical help? ANSWER: No. Doctors are also God's instruments. Where a doctor can | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| before treatment. Of course, there may also be doctors possessing good intuition and a strong sense of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| this knowledge is important for your psychologists and doctors of all kinds, as well as for all | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the spirit world. QUESTION: Are the spirits or doctors or masters in the spirit world limited in | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| beings, and there is no doubt that human doctors using it will have considerably more success and | 18 FREE WILL |
| of harm has been done, also by qualified doctors. I have mentioned that too. If the subconscious | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and that is its ultimate purpose, whether your doctors know it or not -- than badly applied | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| sickness we should try to find the right doctors and the right treatments. One fights to get | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so exhausted all the time? I have seen doctors and they don't find any physical reason. ANSWER | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Doctrine....................7 | |
| How about the imperfections of a teaching, a doctrine, a wrong method being practiced by, let us | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is: how are we to reconcile this Church-proclaimed doctrine of faith in salvation through another with our | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and not by any outward acceptance of a doctrine or a belief. And it is equally possible | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| As to doctrines, no matter how beautifully-sounding a doctrine is, nothing cripples spirit and soul more than | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| spirit and soul more than adopting a superimposed doctrine, even a right one. I have spoken much | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| sinners. Such people will use any kind of doctrine to reinforce these denials. They will flock to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| a frightening world. Submitting Christians accept their parents' doctrine unquestioningly also because they cannot bear the thought | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Doctrines...................13 | |
| more. Until now people were influenced by the doctrines of the churches to believe that everything is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to extremes on which various religions base their doctrines. This represents one of the main difficulties for | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other free, even in his incompleteness. As to doctrines, no matter how beautifully-sounding a doctrine is, nothing | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you will come to experience inwardly what some doctrines may teach you in words. That is the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| learned by rules and regulations and laws and doctrines you absorb with your brain. This is an | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| concepts you learn; philosophies and practices you observe; doctrines you follow. If you are unwilling to live | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| more than vast masses of people who preach doctrines, who force away the emotions, who feel they | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it is no longer a question of superimposing doctrines or postulates. Various happenings and results have puzzled | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| by collecting outside knowledge of spiritual theories and doctrines, without taking the decisive step within one's own | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are no more concerned with creeds, dogmas, and doctrines than a worldly psychologist when working with his | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is the willingness and eagerness to question all doctrines, rules, regulations, and opinions handed down to you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to tend toward the opposite direction and embrace doctrines that exonerate the individual from all personal responsibility | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and rationalize their narrow attitude by using religious doctrines. Or you may project self-indulgence and guilt in | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Document....................3 | |
| The Wisdom of the Savior, a second-century Gnostic document. 24. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings in the name | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Scriptures are such a magnificent, outstanding and unique document. Meaning is to be found on each of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and willing to help you understand this great document, to disentangle for you what belongs on which | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Dog.........................6 | |
| intelligence. The same process exists with animals. A dog, for example, may hear the same kind of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| he will come to the place automatically. The dog has thus formed an image, in this case | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| conclusion. Or, to use a different example: One dog is burned by a fire and gets hurt | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the conclusion made that all fire hurts. Another dog may experience fire only as something pleasant. When | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| has time to play with him. So this dog will not have a fire image. So you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of this limitation of time, straining as a dog pulls at its leash. Time holds you in | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| Dogma.......................12 | |
| absolute, divine truth into one basket with human dogma, and thus they lose the solid ground from | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to some sect and blindly accept a set dogma. Religion means re- connection with God, and everybody | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| any fanatic, in anyone who adheres rigidly to dogma, in whatever religion. Such a person may commit | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| -- thereby forcing themselves to live by misunderstood dogma -- they are living in error. Something is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tendency which caused religion to be distorted into dogma. Rigidity satisfies the very irrational, unfounded fear in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| want to understand. It wants to lean on dogma and rule, so as not to have to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| out of your own strength, not out of dogma. It will come from within and not, as | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| be attained by responsible thinking and evaluating. Rigid dogma is based on such rules. The life has | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| individual way and not merely by adhering to dogma. Under whatever guise dogma appears, it shows rigidity | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| merely by adhering to dogma. Under whatever guise dogma appears, it shows rigidity and lack of self-responsibility | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| become a superstition, with less truth and more dogma. When this goes on and on, man comes | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| clear that you should never accept anything as dogma. You are invited and advised to give yourself | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |