| Eradicate...................6 | |
| know it takes struggle, willpower and patience to eradicate it, but I can and will do so | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| remain in one's lower self when one cannot eradicate it? ANSWER: Everybody can eradicate it, if they | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| when one cannot eradicate it? ANSWER: Everybody can eradicate it, if they really want to do so | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| them, your knowledge of them persists. You cannot eradicate that. So you seek relief from this unpleasant | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| opposite way. They believe that they must first eradicate the still existing evil, for otherwise they are | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| that are much more severe and harder to eradicate. The longer and harder the resistance to truth | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Eradicated..................6 | |
| only a question of how much can be eradicated in the present incarnation. However, enough can be | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| in the present incarnation. However, enough can be eradicated so that you will not commit crimes or | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Although the desire for happiness can never be eradicated, yet, due to this deeply hidden guilt feeling | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| bridge to the other self cannot entirely be eradicated, no matter how sick the psyche may be | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to contact the real self cannot ever be eradicated from the human heart, no matter how much | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| was created by the individual and must be eradicated by the individual. To the degree that you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Eras........................6 | |
| understanding. The links between new knowledge in certain eras and the subsequent upheavals due to ignorance of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| what way was this path different in former eras and cultures? ANSWER: Humanity's development in former times | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of the spirit possible. This explains the long eras when spiritual exercises were used to restrain natural | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| consciousness is entrapped in dualistic illusion. During different eras and civilizations, and under different cultural conditions, one | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| would never have let himself expose in previous eras. All these pendulum swings have a purpose: to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| name they are given in different cultures and eras -- are removed from this world and that | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Erect.......................9 | |
| kingdom of God, false thought forms that you erect in your imagination. God's kingdom must be created | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to love. Upon this truth you can then erect true love. And now, my dear ones, let | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| all the layers of ignorance and fear soon erect a separating wall again. The aim of development | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to risk your way out of it. You erect a wall around you, be it ever so | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| perfect, causes you to rebel, to resist, to erect barriers which cause more imperfection and suffering than | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a destructive way. So, when reason and will erect a barricade around the realm of feelings to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| from its self- perpetuating negative creativity, they also erect a barricade around the divine kernel, the self- | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| so only because you no longer need to erect barriers of any sort. Barriers can take many | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| a house on unsafe, sandy ground, may indeed erect a lovely-looking structure that holds up for a | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Erected.....................7 | |
| temple, stone by stone. It is not completely erected, the roof is still missing, and it is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| foundation was laid, some of the walls were erected, but the roof was still missing, as were | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| dam in your soul never needed to be erected, but since you chose to build it, it | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| before a foundation of truthful concepts can be erected. Structures built on erroneous concepts must inevitably be | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| tighter the prison doors close. Although you have erected those doors yourself, they are nevertheless prison doors | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| me. All the defenses you have so painstakingly erected serve to protect you not only from the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| before a new and better structure can be erected. Many destructive events on your earth are of | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Erects......................4 | |
| purpose. Thus every human being and every spirit erects the world in which he or she lives | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| ego fall away. It is the ego which erects the wall of blindness and separation around the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and the best they can be. This belief erects an impenetrable wall of errors and defenses. The | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| floats around you, but your clogged energy system erects a wall that closes you off from the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Eros........................87 | |
| either: I am not referring to sexuality and eros. This is according to eternal law, and you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| love should be learned without the help of eros. Exactly this may just be their task. This | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| in the Lord. 44. THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX Greetings in the Name of the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| they are also incapable of attaining ideal marriage. Eros seems in many ways similar to love. It | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| have been incapable of before. This is why eros is so very often confused with love. But | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is so very often confused with love. But eros is just as often confused with the sex | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| often confused with the sex instinct which, like eros, also manifests as a great urge. Now, my | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| particularly as far as humanity is concerned. Without eros, many people would never experience the great feeling | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of love would remain stronger than their desire. Eros is the nearest thing to love the undeveloped | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| separateness, be it only for a short time. Eros gives the soul a foretaste of unity and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for it. The more strongly one has experienced eros, the less contentment will the soul find in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to make a sacrifice during the experience of eros. So you see, my friends, eros enables people | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| experience of eros. So you see, my friends, eros enables people to do things they are disinclined | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| with love. It is easy to see why eros is so often confused with love. How then | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| so often confused with love. How then is eros different from love? Love is a permanent state | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Love does not come and go at random; eros does. Eros hits with sudden force, often taking | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| not come and go at random; eros does. Eros hits with sudden force, often taking a person | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and has built the foundation for it will eros be the bridge to the love that is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| its effect will inevitably remain in the soul. Eros comes to people suddenly in certain stages of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| not experienced some opening in the soul where eros could touch them. For the fear-ridden soul that | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| too ignorant to understand the deep meaning of Eros. They are unwilling to learn pure love, and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for trying to cheat life by hiding from eros and thus withholding from the soul a medicine | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| vulnerable point somewhere in their soul through which eros can enter. There are also a few who | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| former life they had an unhappy experience with eros, or perhaps because the soul has greedily abused | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be that way. These three forces -- love, eros, and sex -- often appear completely separately, while | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| completely separately, while sometimes two mingle, such as eros and sex, or eros and love to the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| two mingle, such as eros and sex, or eros and love to the extent the soul is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| pure sex force is utterly selfish. Sex without eros and without love is referred to as animalistic | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| in all living creatures: animals, plants, and minerals. Eros begins with the stage of development where the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| higher spiritual realms. This does not mean that eros and sex no longer exist in beings of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| blend of all three forces. In rare cases, eros alone, without sex and love, exists for a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| sooner or later with the somewhat healthy person, eros and sex will mingle. The sex force, instead | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| coexistence of genuine love with sex, but without eros. Although love cannot be perfect unless all three | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| erotic spark which evaporated some time ago. When eros is missing, the sexual relationship must eventually suffer | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| present at the beginning; that spark is actually eros. You find yourself in a vicious circle and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| becoming bound by time and habit, because elusive eros has disappeared. With sex it is very much | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to fade -- particularly with women -- when eros has left. Men may then seek eros else-where | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| when eros has left. Men may then seek eros else-where. For the sexual relationship must eventually suffer | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| For the sexual relationship must eventually suffer unless eros is maintained. How can you keep eros? That | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| unless eros is maintained. How can you keep eros? That is the big question, my dear ones | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| That is the big question, my dear ones. Eros can be maintained only if it is used | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| finally bring the entity out of its separation. Eros strengthens the curiosity to know the other being | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| soul and as long as you reveal yourself, eros will live. The moment you believe you have | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and have revealed all there is to reveal, eros will leave. It is as simple as that | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| leave. It is as simple as that with eros. But where your great error comes in is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| down to a placid life without further searching. Eros has carried you this far with its strong | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| own inward search determines whether you have used eros as a bridge to love. This, in turn | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this way will you maintain the spark of eros in your love. Only in this way will | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you are taken by the first momentum of eros. You should use this potent momentum of eros | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| eros. You should use this potent momentum of eros as the initial thrust it is, and then | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| your own steam. Then you will have brought eros into true love in marriage. Marriage is intended | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| new partner it will be different, particularly after eros has perhaps struck again. As long as this | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to another, sustaining feelings only as long as eros is at work. The second possibility is that | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| way, my dear friends, you not only maintain eros, that vibrating life-force, but you also transform it | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Only in a true partnership of love and eros can you discover in your partner new levels | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| way, my dear friends, you not only maintain eros, that vibrating life force, but you also transform | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Only in a true partnership of love and eros can you discover in your partner new levels | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a certain degree -- usually as far as eros carries you. But then you lock the door | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you call falling in love, or romance. Through eros the personality gets a taste of what the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| other, where not even the potent force of eros can enter the tightly locked door. But in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| when the door is not too tightly bolted, eros does come to you at certain stages of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of your life. Whether you can then use eros as a bridge to love depends on you | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| woman to take the first necessary steps after eros is no longer capable of maintaining its own | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and give something divine to another person. When eros comes to you, it will lift you up | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| self, which is longing to reveal itself. Without eros, you are merely aware of the lazy outer | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of the lazy outer layers. Do not avoid eros when it wants to come to you. If | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to the inner nucleus, the door is shut. Eros then departs and a new search is started | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| believe that they can cut out sex and eros and the desire for a partner and live | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| mature and mingle with love -- and with eros, for that matter. How many people exist for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| friendship can also exist between man and woman. Eros may want to sneak in, but reason and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Some I have discussed already, such as love, eros and sex or authority; others I shall discuss | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| than in any other way. Love, kindled by eros and the sex impulse, can flower more easily | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| It is easier because it is nourished by eros and the sex impulse. Without these elements the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| smoothed over as easily as they are when eros is present as a bridge to love. On | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| if it did not have the help of eros and the sex drive. The maintenance of these | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| God. See lecture 44, The Forces of Love, Eros and Sex 63. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, I | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| lecture, this movement necessitates the integration of love, eros and sexuality, which in turn is a consequence | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| occasional outer difficulties. In such a case, love, eros, and sexuality are one force, and there is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| I say here is truth. If truth brings eros, and eros brings union, and these three make | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| here is truth. If truth brings eros, and eros brings union, and these three make fear, distrust | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| occurs when sex and love are separated, or eros and love, or eros and sex. In these | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| love are separated, or eros and love, or eros and sex. In these cases, a semi-conscious resistance | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| spiritual energies involved in the forces of love, eros, and sex between man and woman. This power | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| current that is unified through the power of eros, through the power of mutuality in soul development | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| service of another, both become negative. If love, eros, and sex were given their rightful places, then | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the enormous importance of the wholeness of love, eros, and sex; of affection and respect; of tenderness | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| further sexual liberation -- the unification of love, eros and sex -- can create the new-age marriage | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |