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and returns. I recapitulate: The rays of life animate the matter that is the creation of the 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
exist in the now. As these potentialities increasingly animate matter, self-awareness expands and you then know the 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
the more obvious, greater life spark returns to animate it again. Yet you must realize that the 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
 
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precisely due to this letting go and being animated by something other than the usual faculties under 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
it becomes a farce. Humans who cannot become animated by their divinity become a farce. By the 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
the source. Matter or manifestation is enlivened and animated by life until, in the process of evolution 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
on the outer border it is only temporarily animated by the life spark that, however, by its 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
destiny of evolution. Everything that is alive is animated by the eternally divine consciousness. And consciousness is 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
manifestation and you confuse the manifestation that is animated by eternal life with eternal life itself. Only 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
from being identified with the manifestation that is animated by the source. You are the source. Even 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
to be now. The body that has been animated seems to disintegrate from the point of view 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
of the total personality which once enlivened and animated that cell. That again determines the further journey 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
 
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It can only accelerate the will of the animating consciousness to withdraw from this manifestation and start 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
body that has been left behind by the animating life harbors within it a spark, a tiny 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
the void, creating matter and form and eventually animating these forms and irradiating them with life, consciousness 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
 
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reach this stage only when non-fulfillment does not annihilate you. Why does it have this effect on 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
without fear because non-fulfillment will not seem to annihilate it. Consequently, further negative emotions will not be 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
its destructive instincts if it is not to annihilate itself by different but just as fatal ways 174 SELF-ESTEEM
so much worse. Due to this guilt you annihilate yourself and thus become more destructive. You prohibit 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
seem to have no other choice but to annihilate yourself; yet you dread annihilation and thus hold 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
observed, there is no need any more to annihilate yourself, or to limit your identity to the 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
summon your faith that going in will not annihilate you. What I say about this now may 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
a bottomless abyss. Falling into it threatens to annihilate the entity. I said that up to a 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
feelings results from the misconception that they will annihilate you or that they will prove that you 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
split- off ego-consciousness fears that doing so will annihilate you. You ardently protect this limited consciousness, yet 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
feel it without playing games like, it will annihilate me, or it will last forever, the experience 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
the lower self of others not devastate you, annihilate you or make you hate and judge them 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
the clarity of your knowledge and wants to annihilate you and it. You have to go through 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
imagined worthlessness -- is death, that it will annihilate you. When you muster the courage to go 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
same time they are the victimizers, out to annihilate the Jews. The more firmly this belief was 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
find those areas where you may wish to annihilate the other for being different, thus challenging your 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
think of that level where fear and desire annihilate unity and trap the mind into deeper illusions 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
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the case that the individuality is dissolved and annihilated. If it were so, the personal experience couldn't 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
without it you would somehow be threatened or annihilated. Make conscious what it is you fear would 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
to relinquish, and your illusion of being crushed, annihilated and worth nothing if certain wishes are not 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the real self. The weak ego considers itself annihilated when its wishes for omnipotence remain unfulfilled; therefore 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
preserve themselves if they are not to be annihilated. And people hold this false conviction of life's 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
not mean that the ego has to be annihilated. In fact, the ego will eventually integrate with 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
nothing to fear; you cannot be crushed or annihilated. You can only be carried, as planets are 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
is also based on the fear of being annihilated and dissolved if you ever trusted the flow 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
belief did not exist that the self is annihilated the moment the ego is not the sole 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
by the infantile belief that you will be annihilated if you do not have what you want 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
infant grows up. It is not killed or annihilated. It is not exorcised. Its frozen powers resolve 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
or afraid, nor will you be diminished and annihilated. By the same token, when the other person 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
you have inflicted and still inflict without feeling annihilated or worthless, without crumbling under a load of 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
can show you that you will not be annihilated if you abandon your view fixed to the 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
pain of not having it and not be annihilated, defeated, unhappy, then the power of such a 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
in the eyes of others, you must feel annihilated when anyone sees you in a bad light 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
universe -- God -- or you must be annihilated. To avoid total annihilation, you may tend to 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
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were feared. Often they are not painful or annihilating at all. You will find many instances of 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
current must seem unbearable, frightening, overwhelming, and almost annihilating when the personality is still geared to negativity 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
within your self, without using the defense of annihilating guilt and self-blame, which of course eliminates any 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
part of the personality appears hazardous, dangerous, and annihilating. The question then is how to proceed in 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
in a spirit of truthfulness, without denial, without annihilating yourself and believing yourself to be only that 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
you recognize and oust real, justified guilt, without annihilating yourself in the process. I have shown you 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
 
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a divine stream. This does not mean the annihilation of individuality as a thinking being capable of 20 GOD: THE CREATION
represents the abyss; not to get it spells annihilation for you -- unconsciously, of course. This fear 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
find an attitude of battling in fear against annihilation, for instance, you can be sure that this 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
But you also believe that in acceptance lies annihilation. As long as this confusion is not brought 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
protection which alone seem to promise safety from annihilation, they comply with the real or imagined demands 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
not be a need that saves you from annihilation. It will, therefore, cease being self-centered. Your own 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
of others and self. It does not mean annihilation of self for the sake of others in 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
like a tremendous danger, utterly exposing you to annihilation, humiliation and shame. Needless to say, all these 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
to have your way and avoid the imagined annihilation of your cherished images and misconceptions. Now, these 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
the fear that non-fulfillment of a wish is annihilation, creates a must. Whenever there is a must 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
There is nothing in-between perfect bliss and absolute annihilation. This is what makes her so frantic. The 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
illusion. Behind the wall of apparent suffering, or annihilation and fear, stands the spiritual reality of eternal 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
your destructive aims could take over and threaten annihilation. Giving up control must appear as death, as 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
it go. To actually do so appears like annihilation, because your very existence seems threatened. Humanity's separateness 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
Any way you turn you find death, loss, annihilation. The harder you fight for and against, the 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
appears that giving up this ego state means annihilation of your individuality, which, of course, is utterly 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
the self with others. Far from being the annihilation that the ego fears, that truth opens up 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
from there it is only a step to annihilation in your fantasy life. Hence, you feel that 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
of the little ego. This does not mean annihilation, but to the ego it seems to mean 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
But the separated ego thinks this development means annihilation. In its ignorant, limited way, the ego exists 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
fight for life against death, for existence against annihilation. You will see what you evidently believe is 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
that relinquishing ideals and convictions also feels like annihilation, for being wrong means dying, and being right 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
up of what first seemed like protection from annihilation will now be disclosed as what it really 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
lose, and losing, in the last analysis, means annihilation. That is what you are frightened of and 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
analyze it, always boils down to a personal annihilation, a personal form of nonlife. Perhaps you fear 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
erroneous idea that giving in to it means annihilation. Thus you put yourself in the paradoxical position 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
or unconsciously, you equate the life force with annihilation, you struggle against life itself. This is the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
must then appear to the individual as an annihilation of its unique personal existence. This is the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
of the ego, I do not mean its annihilation, or even disregarding its importance, or letting it 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
is exposed, the personality is less frightened of annihilation or danger, but more ashamed. The element of 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
whatever this may mean at the moment. Sometimes annihilation seems a lesser evil than the strange sense 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
unafraid of itself. Giving up guardedness seems like annihilation because then something other than the watchful ego 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
to let go. Letting go would then mean annihilation. But for those who have begun, first here 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
the level of duality, pleasure is feared as annihilation while, at the same time, one fears to 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
might not be reciprocated. It would seem like annihilation. This, of course, is not true. As you 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
react and even believe it to be death, annihilation, the end of their being. Why do you 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
soaked up by it. This is not the annihilation of self, as many falsely believe. For all 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
and vice versa. When you dramatize frustration as annihilation of your world, it soon becomes so convincing 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
admission of what truly exists would mean doom, annihilation, danger, chaos, the logical sequence of this assumption 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
threatens to punish these destructive aspects with total annihilation is not an expression of the higher self 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
choice but to annihilate yourself; yet you dread annihilation and thus hold on to the demon. But 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
with the real self removes the terror of annihilation -- not just death, but annihilation, which is 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
terror of annihilation -- not just death, but annihilation, which is different. We shall now return to 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of this cramped, fearful position is preferable to annihilation. Only after finally summoning sufficient trust to risk 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
feelings is a bottomless pit of horror and annihilation. Thus you waste your life energies by stemming 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
with my demands deserves the punishment of my annihilation. And the blind person who is involved in 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
to ward off what you believe to be annihilation. Hence, the will must be relaxed, so that 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
harden your position, so that your fear of annihilation that would follow if you gave up the 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
ego, enlargement appears, contrary to reality, to be annihilation of your very existence, of your sense of 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
that make the transgression no longer a personal annihilation. You also begin to see and perceive others' 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
or you must be annihilated. To avoid total annihilation, you may tend to bow to substitute powers 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
between hanging on to life because you fear annihilation of all you are and have become, and 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
it or not. This is the fear of annihilation of consciousness -- which you fear will take 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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