| Erroneously.................38 | |
| the difficulties which you so often, and so erroneously, believe to be blows dealt to you by | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| from blindness, ignorance, and a great inner insecurity, erroneously attempting to protect himself. Consider how often you | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to become an adult so that what it erroneously believes to be restricting walls will cease to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| manifests, the person feels guilty and ashamed, trying, erroneously, to tear out the sex force. True, in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| core. By denying in himself that which he erroneously had thought to be unmanly and feminine, he | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| facing something you have suppressed because you thought erroneously that you must be guilty and ashamed of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| idea is conveyed in the word that was erroneously translated as fear. But it is not meant | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| exactly what I was trying to convey: you erroneously feel that you are safer in your isolation | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and the forces of darkness which human beings erroneously imagine to be raging outside themselves; they tend | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| preservation shifts into a wrong channel and manifests erroneously. Your soul believes that in order to preserve | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| becomes nullified, as it were. You fear -- erroneously of course -- that if you accept the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| for your surroundings. Whenever you are hurt, you erroneously believe yourself to be under attack. You think | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| more or less permanently defensive because you believe, erroneously, that any hurt or frustration, any criticism or | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the full truth about their own side. You erroneously believe that if your weaknesses, or at least | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| will experience failure and frustration. Often you may erroneously believe that such a failure comes about for | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| toward a new way of life. Yet they erroneously try to use the same tools they needed | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of this hidden conviction against which they may erroneously battle with an over-assertiveness -- which, of course | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| feelings that you hold down artificially because you erroneously believe them to be wrong. Accepting your self's | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| renounce the privilege of being loved, which he erroneously believes is given only to women or children | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| associates with a state of humiliating helplessness. She erroneously feels that being hurt and being helpless against | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| them in a subtle but distinct way. You erroneously fear that your undeveloped, primitive instincts will lead | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is denied and superimposed with substitute needs. Feeling erroneously guilty about the natural need to receive, automatically | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| give itself up. It seems to you -- erroneously, of course -- that only when you obey | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the early stages of this path. You are erroneously convinced that to understand what occurs in your | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to it. Regardless of what I ignorantly and erroneously fear, I wish to penetrate behind the resistance | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| new beginning and a way out of an erroneously assumed, devastating judgment that you thought applied to | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to life, you will deprive yourself. Conversely, you erroneously believe that only when you grab and are | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| experience of physical death itself which human beings erroneously assume to be sad or horrible. This is | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| be disappointed with such an answer and may erroneously believe that this is a rebuff or a | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| divine wisdom makes you completely self-responsible, which you erroneously consider a disadvantage, overlooking the fact that only | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| That is the great struggle, my friends: you erroneously believe that what is most obnoxious to you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you were too ashamed to admit it. You erroneously thought that there was something especially wrong with | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| is all there is to you, or, equally erroneously, imagine that you have the power to make | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that if you can create unconsciously, inadvertently, and erroneously such tangible events and states of mind, you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| yourself to be fully open and undefended. You erroneously assume that in this open state you cannot | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| are in a state of painful duality. You erroneously attempt to reduce the tension of this painful | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| into the inner world, not as is often erroneously assumed, into heaven. It does not lift out | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| in reality, this other person fears you and erroneously uses a coldness or rejecting attitude as a | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Error.......................250 | |
| elevating it above all else. By embracing this error, you become passive, you are unable to lift | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| is truth, and therefore the truth beyond human error is also absolute. Humans will receive as much | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| came into being. Nevertheless, it is a gross error. As a matter of fact, it is an | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the Fall is still present. It is an error in healthy, logical thinking. A revision of thinking | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| have violated a divine law. No wrongdoing or error of another human being can give you disharmonious | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| On the other hand, where you are in error, the truth cannot penetrate. When the thought forms | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Satan away from you, you are therefore in error. For in you, in your lower self, in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| or vice versa. To believe this is human error. Just as God is perfect in His/Her masculine | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| all possible that in the incarnation a technical error may occur? ANSWER: No, no. This is not | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| incarnation to happen. But there can be no error. QUESTION: Is there absolutely no error of any | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| be no error. QUESTION: Is there absolutely no error of any kind in Creation? Is there a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| too complicated to explain this now, but no error is possible. Helping interference by God's world happens | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| of free will is of course a gross error. God has created the Universe, which is governed | 18 FREE WILL |
| Luciferic world. To deny this is a great error. QUESTION: May I ask, in connection with the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Luciferic powers too? ANSWER: That is a great error, and you will readily understand it now when | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| last lectures, The Fall, that explains how this error could have happened. You will remember my explaining | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will. Now that explains why or how this error could have occurred. It is technically correct to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| about the matter, but herein lies a fundamental error, my friends. For it is not in the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you feel so. And that is your great error and your tragic illusion. On the other hand | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| all bad or criminal. It is merely confusion, error, lack of self-knowledge, deviation from divine law: it | 36 PRAYER |
| unconscious attitudes rooted in pride, self-will, fear, and error. They equip you to be the pathfinder through | 36 PRAYER |
| Regard your wrong inner attitudes as ignorance and error. Actually, that is what all faults really are | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| way renunciation and desirelessness can be obtained without error and self- deception. And only you, the individual | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| This means going through the unhappiness, self-inflicted by error and ignorance. The outcome will be the clear | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| delve into the darkness of your confusion and error, and that cuts you off from the divine | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| they fear in life: pain, suffering, disappointment. The error, the wrong conclusion lies in failing to realize | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| inner errors. But once you have overcome this error by accepting yourself as you are now, without | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| law and truth occurs out of ignorance and error or is committed willfully. The principle remains the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| prayer was answered. When you see your inner error, all the friction between you and your brothers | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| her unfallen nature. I often say that each error in the various religions has some background that | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| various religions has some background that makes the error understandable. Through spirit communication humanity was told that | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| as that with eros. But where your great error comes in is that you believe there is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for the woman. ANSWER: Here is a great error, my dear. But let us first establish one | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for unity with God? ANSWER: There is human error in every religion. In one religion it may | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| one religion it may be one kind of error, in other religions another. Here you simply have | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| person out of his or her brand of error with your understanding. You can do this only | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| their extreme forms. It is all ignorance, all error, all deviation from truth in every possible form | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a reward. If you can detect this basic error in your images, you will make a great | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| will truly free yourself from the chains of error caused by the egotism that is so destructive | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| eliminate your own. You do not realize your error because you see your own case so clearly | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is not so. Again, generalizations may lead to error. You see, the original spiritual entity is one | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| by misunderstood dogma -- they are living in error. Something is wrong. For the only way to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| made without further thought. It is a complete error to believe that independent decisions are necessarily selfish | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may be -- there is much falsity and error, my friends. You often believe something is selfish | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| from some imagined disaster. When you discover the error of this assumption, you can then get rid | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| into behavior patterns. But this, too, is an error. You actually rebel against your dependency on the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| clarification in response to your question. A great error in human thinking concerns the supposed difference between | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are one hundred percent truth, perfection, and without error, since you are living on this imperfect earth | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prohibition is caused by the various layers of error, deviations from truth, and illusions that are prevalent | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| where and in what way this element of error exists -- and it exists in all of | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whose love may penetrate the many layers of error and misconception. Yet, you also withdraw behind your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Once you raise yourself above this state of error, you will see that all evil on this | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| conclusions. Where you have found and removed the error, you have a true concept of reality, you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| has any reality whatsoever. Even when you see error in others, with this raised consciousness you will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you will realize its very temporary effect. Actually, error, or sin, has no effect on reality at | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of their labor they have freed themselves of error. They will then find beauty in earth life | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| in the illusion of evil and sin, in error and misconception. But no matter how hard you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| worked yourself out of this darkness, resulting from error, you cannot be in eternal life -- in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| be careful not to fall into the same error. Thought control can be mastered without rigidity and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Why do you want it? Beware of the error that one motivation necessarily excludes another. You know | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to be happy and important. If the inner error, that you are fighting for your individuality and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to take away from others. That is the error and the conflict. In the old state, that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| are bound to see that you are in error. All fears, with the exception of the healthy | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to go through the self-inflicted unhappiness out of error and ignorance, not to shirk it. At the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| into the darkness of your own confusion and error, which cuts you off from the divine stream | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| have nothing to fear from the overlayers of error, illusion and compulsion you have. They can only | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| can only lead you into further illusion and error, and therefore into unrest. The ultimate aim of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| give up the fear, as well as the error, that your little self can be the judge | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| have no influence over it. This is an error, even if it is only in a vague | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| attract more positive experience. In your soul-sickness and error, productive of fear, pride, arrogance, ignorance, darkness, confusion | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meaning the sick, the ignorant, the ones in error and darkness. The rich meaning the ones who | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to understand this phenomenon and detect the inner error of action and reaction responsible for this confusing | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the will of God. Many religions teach this error. The healthy way to meet suffering is perhaps | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| QUESTION: Yes, but your statement as to the error of this thinking would lead one to conclude | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| few of the negative emotions thus generated. The error is all the more tragic because the psyche | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| for you to go through those times of error. How could you appreciate truth if you had | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| appreciate truth if you had not gone through error? You can never gain truth by avoiding error | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| error? You can never gain truth by avoiding error. It strengthens your mental faculties, your logic, as | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and will indeed bring you disadvantages. But your error lies in the conscious or unconscious thought that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| can then see them without falling into the error of picturing yourself as all bad. Exaggerated self-condemnation | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| claim for success itself there is no logical error. However, the unconscious aim and claim for gaining | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| believe so, consciously or unconsciously, is a logical error, a misconception, and therefore it cannot work. By | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| attack. If you realize that this is an error, you will be capable of softening up the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| connected with unresolved problems that are based on error. It is very easy to misinterpret these words | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| world's injustice and arbitrariness rather than your own error. You are looking in the wrong direction. It | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the surface, and then you can eliminate the error in this respect. Therefore, do not force yourself | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| as a treasure within you. Free them from error, evasion, the fear of facing the truth about | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| moment you think this way, you are in error, my friends. Such erroneous thinking shuts a door | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |