| Gracefully..................5 | |
| others and learning to give up your will gracefully. Thus you learn human affection and respect for | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| wave of time will bring you naturally and gracefully into the next extended dimension, which you fear | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is a natural, effortless stream that flows as gracefully as any natural phenomenon. When you hinder this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| with your good feelings. When you can lose gracefully, you will find a treasure within, a new | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| use positive aggression and when to give in gracefully, will be in you as an almost instantaneous | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Gradations..................14 | |
| strongly present in all people; there are many gradations. Therefore it is not a matter of either/or | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| harmony or in disharmony with all the in-between gradations. This explanation, however, still may not make it | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| it will tell you there are many, many gradations; many, many hierarchies. Above all is the spirit | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| most impure, with -- for you -- unfathomable gradations in-between. Not all the beings who are no | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| understood. The world of spirit, in all its gradations, is much more specialized than your earthly sphere | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| dire darkness and misery. As there are many gradations in the divine spheres, so there are similar | 22 SALVATION |
| in the divine spheres, so there are similar gradations in the Luciferic ones. When enough beings were | 22 SALVATION |
| it, where spiritual spheres are designated in various gradations. Immediately below The Ineffable, or the House of | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| serves the entire Plan of Salvation in different gradations as a sort of hierarchy. These Orders may | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| self, your lower self with all its different gradations, and you have all these in-between stages. Each | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| being in growth or not, there are many gradations. We have discussed life, its meaning, significance, definition | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mutuality, humanity's development can be determined by three gradations. The human being who is least developed and | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the consciousness of humanity, group consciousness has definite gradations and categories. There are three major phases of | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the fact that personification does exist in all gradations, and to deny this would be far from | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Grades......................3 | |
| and lower development live together with all the grades in-between, having no outer mark that indicates their | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| best or the worst -- or the many grades in-between. Life is no more and no less | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of human consciousness. These states are very specific grades of development which I have not discussed before | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Gradual.....................40 | |
| result was not an immediate change, but a gradual one. The change from harmony to disharmony took | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| phase come in which the process of very gradual purification begins. In each life, conditions are prepared | 22 SALVATION |
| mentioned that the Fall was also a very gradual process. But the earth sphere did not come | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| To find God is perforce a slow and gradual process. To seek and to find God means | 36 PRAYER |
| happen, particularly to a child, in a more gradual discovery that things are contrary to one's dearest | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| see going on in your time is a gradual but very definite destruction of mass imagery about | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you on this path of self-finding is a gradual, slow way -- and there is no faster | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| very process of facing oneself can only be gradual. No one can ever face all that is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is created. Yes, to some degree a very gradual change is taking place by virtue of the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you will not fear loving others. In the gradual process of growth and maturity, you will not | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| awake in an unforced way. It is a gradual process of growth that happens without direct volition | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| concentration exercises, you will eventually discover a very gradual and slow change. You will become naturally more | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| can only be reeducated by the slow and gradual process pursued in our work. Most important is | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| adoption of new opinions, but a very natural, gradual, organic, inner growth. The change comes slowly; it | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| mood. There is no such thing. It is gradual work and if one has fear for a | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| do shed some negative attitudes, it is so gradual that, even after three and a half years | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meaning. Becoming aware of your emotions is a gradual process and happens only when you truly want | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will be able to determine an obvious though gradual trend with many a relapse, leading from the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| all know, actual change is such a very gradual process that it passes by almost unnoticed and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happen in various ways. It can be very gradual and automatic, so that you are not even | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of insight and understanding. Such change is less gradual. It consists of a new and very decisive | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| some instances the growing process is indirect and gradual, the person being unaware even of the possibility | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and dramatic occurrence. It is, as always, a gradual process. Often you may not even be aware | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| at once. As you know, these processes are gradual. In some areas you may already be quite | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| life force cannot enter the physical system. Thus gradual illness, decay, and physical death come about. You | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| threshold to self-realization. Self- realization will become a gradual process, where you feel yourself flowing with the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of course. Growth means, among other aspects, the gradual thinning and eventual dissolution of this film, so | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| usual anxious, hopeless, unhappy state. It is a gradual transition in the course of which the old | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| accept and change your destructive inner child. This gradual change enables you to accept all your feelings | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Each in its own way will effect the gradual maturing of this infant. The ego determines its | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| passive, patient waiting for the final, but always gradual, manifestation of the universal powers. It is they | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| crossing a sharply defined line, but through a gradual process. Before describing this process, I wish to | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| a limited consciousness. The awakening is partial and gradual. As you grow physically, mentally, and emotionally, you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| very limited. Becoming aware and awake is a gradual process. The first years -- roughly, the first | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| flows into your outer being. It is a gradual process, yet it can be sudden in its | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| change may at first be so subtle and gradual that it is hardly noticeable, but cumulatively it | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| level, you may experience it first as a gradual change of attitudes, interests, activities, environment, or expression | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and the forces of evil engaged in the gradual penetration of life into the void. When you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| compatible with the will of the Highest. This gradual growth process depends on your willingness to open | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| any circumstances, a one-time phenomenon. It is always gradual. Even on the purely physical plane, a human | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Grandeur....................6 | |
| by it, you cannot experience the dignity, the grandeur, and the beauty of it. You go to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| never even remotely conceive of. The harmony and grandeur of creation could not exist without the underlying | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| your negativities and destructiveness can you find the grandeur of your creative self and know that you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to awaken, you must be overwhelmed by the grandeur of this divine scheme in which all is | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and carried by a balancing system of such grandeur, of such purpose, that it can never be | 228 BALANCE |
| it defies human understanding. It is of a grandeur that cannot yet be encompassed by your mind | 228 BALANCE |
| Grant.......................13 | |
| and not without logic -- why should God grant a human being help or grace simply in | 36 PRAYER |
| have the power to make you happy. I grant you that as long as you are incarnated | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| often have much less than life would actually grant you, creating the preposterous situation that the means | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| unconscious expectation exists that now life will always grant you what you wish. No, my friends. However | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| it does not matter. Do not refuse to grant the other the right you wish for yourself | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you embrace that of others, being willing to grant and give it to them. Conversely, the less | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| worth. Continue your question. QUESTION: After I could grant freedom to others -- that they did not | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to fulfill the role of the authority and grant you what you need in the way of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you deeply resent others when they do not grant it to you. You are unable to defend | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| because on certain emotional levels you do not grant this same freedom to others. When you look | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| yourself where every conceivable power exists. As you grant others the right to be, whether it is | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| -- with respect. It is the respect you grant a being who must not be coerced, but | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Aren't you entitled to love? Doesn't the universe grant you this very necessary fulfillment? How can you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |