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| QUESTION: A friend of ours who is a follower of Rudolf Steiner's teachings said that there are | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| may try to be a good little obedient follower of a powerful authority figure in order to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| citizen than the leader of a nation. The follower can afford to be lazy, even if the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| cultivate this talent, then you will be a follower who has much fewer rights and privileges. It | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| framework, a leader, a monarch, or simply a follower. Both roles have their value and carry their | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and carry their distinct differences. But when the follower resists his -- or her -- talent to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| both aspects exist -- the monarch and the follower or citizen without responsibility. The one is rich | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| to another human being, or to being a follower. Yet you also need to fight for these | 254 SURRENDER |
| be a true leader and to be a follower as well; and, last but not least, your | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| give up the dominion he held over his followers. If, for instance, a human being, due to | 22 SALVATION |
| various churches and religious organizations will teach their followers in a way similar to how I am | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| enrich? Nor is it possible to pretend, for followers do know, in a deep inner place, whether | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| bear them out through experience. More highly developed followers of the inner religious movements always knew that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| influence and positive power widen and encompass more followers. A beautiful, harmonious, organic monarchy is then a | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| out -- by leaders as well as by followers. Nobody bothered to even conceal it. The individual | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| know the necessity for it and help the followers to summon the energies and the stamina. But | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| can be strong leaders, as well as willing followers, because their vision is clear and their selfhood | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a healthy relationship with your leaders and your followers. Without that proper center of gravity in God | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| gain understanding and, second, make the decision that follows from it. Therefore, if you feel that you | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| change in the life of the person who follows this path, who commits himself or herself entirely | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and foremost, the acceptance of one's imperfections. Then follows the inward integration of spiritual laws which with | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| law which your inner trend has broken. Whoever follows this path, whoever sincerely wants to walk it | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| person undergoing psychoanalysis with a doctor who rigidly follows a school of thought that does not admit | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| will get the answer as inevitably as sun follows rain, as life must follow death. And this | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the call is felt, I will explain what follows it and what is expected of you. Your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| practical consequences of your decision will be. What follows next will be made known to you through | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| most difficult of all battles and nothing that follows on this path can be compared to it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of darkness. This would make no sense. Whoever follows the real teachings of Christ and seeks the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we to regard a conscientious objector who sincerely follows the admonition not to kill and considers the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the truth, my friends! For the person who follows the path of development and purification, whatever happens | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| does not carry some good for one who follows this path and thus proves his or her | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| rule governing which phase comes first and which follows after. Purification work in the spirit world is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| turn, will only bear fruit if spiritual improvement follows, at least to some degree. So science on | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| are mustered in easy circumstances, the life that follows must necessarily be a little more difficult. And | 38 IMAGES |
| with your superficial outer knowledge, if the latter follows a higher ethical line as is often the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| than development and purification. Therefore, the person who follows this path will not have lived in vain | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you feel and react differently inwardly. The rest follows later. So, my dear friends, let the life | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| a threefold principle, where one rhythmically and naturally follows the other. If you imagine it as a | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in the wrong concept of happiness, is as follows: If I am loved, I am paid homage | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| always given to each individual. The individual often follows that direction, but misunderstands the necessary procedure of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| said that when the obstructions are removed, faith follows. But I know people who have faith and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the conflict I have discussed is as follows: The awakening sex instinct mingles with the longing | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| participate in the new state of being that follows the transition. You may obstruct it and fear | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| comparable to the Eastern concept, the one that follows the Buddha? ANSWER: The symbol of the cross | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| approval. But let us assume such a person follows a path of this sort. He will first | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| they themselves work on such a path. This follows the law of affinity -- the attraction of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| evaluation and leaning on rigid rules. Intuition alone follows the constant flux of life. QUESTION: I understand | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| have remained there and have not seen what follows. I hope you will see it, because even | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and, after having done so, nothing but bliss follows. In the last analysis it is true, of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| Each individual entity, being a universe unto itself, follows this movement toward growth and outgoingness. If these | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you see it clearly. From this insight it follows that you can change; that you do not | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| deliberating on it from different angles. This, too, follows the spiral movement according to the capacity and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mischanneling are further results until the soul ultimately follows its destiny and brings all its faculties into | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| In other words, it is not that good follows after all the bad has come out; it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| important activities will be experienced by anyone who follows this advice. Again, I emphasize, no one needs | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| longer prohibit your fulfillment. Every aspect of living follows this principle. If you desire health in a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| The attitude necessary to awaken the inner center follows universal values. Truth, love, and beauty are universal | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| can be sensed only when the personal psyche follows its own life-movement. This is a mathematical equation | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| real. Therefore the rules one establishes, or blindly follows, find their confirmation. Yet the moment a person | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| destructive, blocked energy contains blocked sexual energy. It follows that outer problems must be symbolic or representative | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| effort is often all you need. The rest follows by itself, and the ego is carried by | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the process. Once the tension is abandoned, pleasure follows. The flexibility of relaxing into what is, even | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| form, was necessary to lead up to what follows. The next step is this: How can you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| or trapped. Healthy unfoldment of the real self follows the creation of a healthy personality. This can | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| not. The question is only whether the ego follows erroneous destructive drives or whether it is activated | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| path. No new expansion can come unless it follows the downward movement of the spirit. Translated, this | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you find that your own private personal path follows the same order. Yet you cannot force your | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| specifically your pathwork, may best be described as follows: the outer, deliberate, conscious ego and its willpower | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| or spiritual work can never succeed unless it follows these laws of creation. So your work must | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| about how it should experience life. Another ambivalence follows from this: the desire for and the fear | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| finely attuned to the cosmic rhythm within. It follows the soul movements -- not the distortions, but | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| is thoroughly understood. Every one of you who follows this intensive pathwork should use this key. Although | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| an inner growth, an inner, involuntary movement that follows indirectly, as if it had nothing to do | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| creative forces, so they stagnate. From stagnation, putrefaction follows. Matter putrefies when it stagnates, when it can | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and awareness must be cultivated. Then everything else follows naturally and organically. The change may outwardly create | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| fundamental question which can be summed up as follows: Is there really a bottomless pit of negativity | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the all-important aim, out of which everything else follows. As you see how you now avoid the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| with your conscious mind. Like all acts, it follows from a decision of will and intent. The | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| or whatever else you are concerned with. Visualization follows proper conceiving. Conceiving means considering the desired state | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| him or her. Ask in the meditation that follows, with which you generate more of this beautiful | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| it is momentarily difficult, valuing the peace that follows. Creating order always requires an investment of effort | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| self- assertion stems from the guilt-free state that follows the truly giving attitude. If you can say | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| matter that a self-perpetuating chain-reaction of immense intensity follows inexorably. These points constitute the underlying principle of | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| momentum has reached its highest charge, an explosion follows. This is the culminating point of a specific | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| form. A new movement of psychic chain reactions follows with the recharge. I will say more about | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| this pathwork. A simple overview would go as follows: First, the search for your conscious and unconscious | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| to give spring to the creative movement that follows from it. This alternating movement of charging and | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| flow. Each reunification movement back to the source follows a spreading out process, so that the unified | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| patterns of creation, self-creation, which that particular organism follows through in a deeply meaningful, purposeful way, always | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for example the life of a plant: it follows its own in-built plan. Only its now slumbering | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| threshold of self-awareness cannot make choices. It blindly follows the in- built pattern implanted in its substance | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the train does not wait? Your inner movement follows its innate plan and when the ego gets | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| self. The question can be simply stated as follows: Are you totally committed to all of yourself | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| ultimate self- evolution and fulfillment. This plan always follows its own organic way. You have experienced some | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| plan automatically releases new energies. When the entity follows its plan, these energies become extremely beneficial. They | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in the universe move toward an expansion, which follows the seedplan within the organism. What is the | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| also following the being values. The struggle that follows will produce life and light rather than chaos | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| and groping may be necessary before outer consciousness follows suit and brings into fruition what the plan | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| that has remained estranged from you. What then follows suit is no longer quite so difficult. Once | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| levels of consciousness. The celebration of birth always follows the celebration of what you experience as death | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| in your religious history by Easter, where resurrection follows death. At one time in your history, birth | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| intention, or, to put it differently, the emotion follows reason and will. If you have misconceptions that | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| it is widely denied that the inner reality follows identical rules and laws. If these rules and | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| entity inadvertently and unwittingly stops the movement, damage follows. The entity is being forced by the ignorant | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| like you, autonomous people whose inner soul movement follows the call to set God ahead of all | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and constantly eliminate values no longer applicable. This follows the same laws of digestion and elimination that | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| between an individual's lower self and evil spirits follows certain very definite laws. When one makes the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| through straining from the undesirable alternative, then it follows that you must give up the straining. Yet | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |