| Dominion....................13 | |
| that the aforementioned brother of Lucifer was given dominion over the earth and that he rules over | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| in his own image and also gave him dominion over the earth. If I have been given | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| over the earth. If I have been given dominion over the earth, I must also possess dominion | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| dominion over the earth, I must also possess dominion over myself, my health, and everything. Consequently, I | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to do so since they were under the dominion and power of the one who reigns in | 21 THE FALL |
| into existence where the spirits lived under the dominion of Lucifer. In the beginning there was no | 21 THE FALL |
| to the beyond, they were still under the dominion of Lucifer. For, as I explained last time | 22 SALVATION |
| of course, Lucifer would not give up the dominion he held over his followers. If, for instance | 22 SALVATION |
| but even these spheres were still under the dominion of Lucifer as long as the salvation work | 22 SALVATION |
| than the weaker parent who is under the dominion of the strong one. Each parent may then | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| desire for rulership, for mastery over others, for dominion. One must inevitably interfere with the other. One | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| different order. The rule then may be ruthlessness, dominion over others, selfishness. This then is regarded as | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enables the conscious ego to assert its benign dominion over violently destructive and stagnant psychic matter. As | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Doom........................7 | |
| brainwash the multitudes that one way leads to doom, the other to utopia. Passions are aroused and | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| self-responsibility leads to false acceptance -- hopelessness, resignation, doom. When the small, momentary frustration or difficulty or | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to come out of the cycle of false doom. The false doom must be challenged, and only | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of the cycle of false doom. The false doom must be challenged, and only you can do | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you succumb to the temptation to play the doom game with life, thus fortifying a negative chain | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| truthful admission of what truly exists would mean doom, annihilation, danger, chaos, the logical sequence of this | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| past. When you totally identify with gloom and doom, you perpetuate the negative creation and you strengthen | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Doomed......................8 | |
| solve psychological problems by shortcuts and evasions are doomed to fail. Instead of facing the issue squarely | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| one open to abuse and it is equally doomed to failure. People choose this solution in the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| are so many beautiful possibilities. Then you are doomed to making choices between equally undesirable and painful | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| often way beyond your actual control and therefore doomed to failure. This futile struggle hardens your psychic | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| with your ego-self, which attempt, of course, is doomed to fail. As I have said before, the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the ultimate you to which you are either doomed or from which you must hide. By admitting | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| wrong conclusion that by doing so you are doomed to accept the reality of poverty. You cannot | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| cannot be forgiven and that they are therefore doomed to suffer eternally. This, in turn, took all | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Door........................91 | |
| and the same incarnation. Whoever steps through this door will already live in a much lighter world | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| Such a safe bargain not only locks the door, but causes a distortion in the soul which | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| relieve them if only you opened the inner door. Regardless of the burden of your past lives | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to want to reach perfection, and open the door through wanting it. Only then will you perceive | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| with all their problems. Thus they close the door and may continue walking on a wrong path | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| consciousness is the utmost grace, to which the door must be opened by the entity itself. So | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| absolute spiritual truth. That would necessarily close the door to personally experiencing the truth. In this respect | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| can find only if they first open a door within themselves, perhaps a door to their unconscious | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| first open a door within themselves, perhaps a door to their unconscious. What is religion? There is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| there activate their soul force and open the door to self-search and through that to higher perception | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| reason. But to those who truly knock, the door will be opened. QUESTION: You spoke to us | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| lacks. Or our cats, who run to the door before they could possibly hear that one of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| don't budge when a stranger is at the door. How can this be? ANSWER: It is like | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| also. Those who always look for a back door, who always take precautions and do not commit | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| suffice to do this only once. If the door is closed, truth cannot get through, and the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| is closed, truth cannot get through, and the door is closed when one is not completely ready | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| get a response. To him who knocks, the door will be opened. Whoever is determined to do | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| answer. But you always keep a little back door open as an escape route, a reservation; you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| without reservations and without keeping an open back door, will get the answer every time. Do you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| is what is meant. All this opens the door somewhat; it raises the veil a little more | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| does not take advantage of it, then the door to the spiritual experience will have to be | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to be overcome, especially those that bolt the door to the spiritual path. This must have its | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| questions will be answered if you open the door for truth. And this can happen only if | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to hearing an unflattering or uncomfortable truth, your door is open and we can get through. I | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| key were put into a keyhole and a door were opened, and all of a sudden you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| And yet, to go from here to the door may be an unsurpassable distance for a spirit | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| possible consequence. But it leads often through a door that appears like a sacrifice at present, when | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| This is the way Christ has opened the door. You may now understand why it is said | 22 SALVATION |
| For whoever needs help and knocks on the door, knowing how to ask, will be answered. I | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| doing just that much, you can open a door to the very people you had hoped to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| in what is said may open a new door of understanding for you. It may not even | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| in it. Once you have accomplished this, the door will open for further self-understanding. This might be | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| go of yourself constitutes the knocking on the door -- only this and nothing else will open | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and he or she will only close the door of the soul even more tightly. A safe | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you say. It is nothing new, and a door automatically closes within yourself. In this way you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| effort to overcome the slightest fault opens a door to grace. It is pride that makes you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| but by no means does it open the door that will make you fully understand your whole | 38 IMAGES |
| Pathwork principles. These glimpses may eventually open the door for the active, personal search so necessary for | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in their souls. My words may open the door a little wider, so that the new friends | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| eros carries you. But then you lock the door, and that is the moment when your troubles | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| force of eros can enter the tightly locked door. But in most cases, when the door is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| locked door. But in most cases, when the door is not too tightly bolted, eros does come | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| when it comes to the inner nucleus, the door is shut. Eros then departs and a new | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is not so simple. It may open the door, but it can only be the beginning of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| His contribution was and how it opened the door and showed the way. I do not have | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong conclusions are that make you close the door to your inner wells of faith and love | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| before you are able to open the prison door and let your real self out, will cause | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| pondering these words, you will quickly close the door tighter. You will say to yourself, Oh, this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the alert for the tendency to close the door, to avoid facing yourself. So I say to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| eliminating your unreality can you slowly approach the door through which you may occasionally glean a sense | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you, will be of help and open a door toward knowing yourself better, toward evaluating your life | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| be a revelation to you. Then a new door will open through which you will gladly enter | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| understand that this hitherto unconscious current causes the door to close in the other person. You will | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| experience, to that extent you also close the door to the experience of happiness. Moreover, the emotional | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| error, my friends. Such erroneous thinking shuts a door. You believe an illusion, a superficial manifestation. When | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to shy away from will you find the door behind which lies the answer. I cannot emphasize | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| courage and strength to pass through the closed door within yourself, so as to gain light, safety | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| it is God. Only that can be the door to an eventually greater Reality. With this, I | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| dangerous procedure. With it you somehow close a door to further understanding. Try rather to deal with | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Negative emotions are a result of closing the door to reality and to loving. That they are | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| gives you an opportunity to open this particular door a little further. Each time you will find | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| separateness, and stagnation. Such objectivity must open the door to full relating and living, to that immeasurable | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| responsibility, rather, you are responsible for opening the door, not to an outer deity -- for another | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| that provides the initial momentum to open the door to, and then become part of, the vast | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of it. Such an attitude will open the door further. Because the human being is, in its | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| fear pain or the absence of pleasure, the door to pleasure remains closed. Once you have learned | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| need for selfwill. Fear is the great locked door which prohibits you from entering, right here and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| words so often has still not opened the door to the truth that sets you free. Some | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is dangerous. And this fundamental error barricades the door to transition into the wide open world of | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| done everything possible to attain it, but the door remains closed. You discover that you are terrified | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| without incurring the past danger of closing the door through your damaging moralizing. Your freedom in this | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| ready to transform them, you will find the door no longer closed. You will feel it swing | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| come into your personality almost by the back door, as it were. But when this is impossible | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| were. But when this is impossible because the door is too tightly locked, you cut yourself off | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| yourself, you can truly proceed to unlock the door, and learn how you make yourself sick needlessly | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of decency and honesty, you can unlock the door which has closed your access to transforming the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a universal law of life you close the door to the universe. Often the most rebellious human | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| spontaneous moves of the soul close the very door you hate to see closed. Since you do | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| yet found an important tool to unlock the door, no matter how profound previous insights and changes | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| strength that can become an incentive and a door opener for you, should you so desire. Be | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| changes your despair about yourself. It opens the door to knowing your potential for goodness, regardless of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you begin to open a crack in the door. Your being unaware that you are convinced of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| life can be experienced once you open the door and life begins to present you with its | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| since you have this or that little back door, which you wish to keep in reserve, so | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to admit. But once this is done, the door opens to freedom, even before one is actually | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| raise these questions honestly will already open a door. Even before the answers come -- and they | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| wrong, you merely open yet another little back door. You seem to do the right thing, but | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| therefore unnecessary. These words will help open the door to deeper knowledge and to the experience of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and have the safety of a little back door open, never venturing forth completely into a new | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| of the meaning. For him who knocks, the door shall be opened; he who searches must find | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| your lower self still wishes to do. The door is always open, you are never, never locked | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |