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| henchmen; in his realm too there is a hierarchy of very powerful and less powerful beings. If | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| many beings live together: a certain order, a hierarchy. Here, in God's divine kingdom, the spirit entities | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Salvation in different gradations as a sort of hierarchy. These Orders may also be designated as Choirs | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| or world, deals with exactly this task. A hierarchy of highly developed spirit beings are experts in | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| many spirits of lesser power serving it. The hierarchy that is recognized in divine spheres also exists | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and like them also has its own personification, hierarchy, and realm. It is the principle of confusion | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
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| all. For a person who strives toward a higher spiritual awareness it is often extremely difficult to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| reality on three different levels -- and the higher the person's development, the deeper it is possible | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| a spiritual awareness that can come only through higher development. Thus Christ brought you an expanded understanding | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and fulfill the conditions necessary to enter a higher state of existence, a permanent happiness that cannot | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| lower he sinks in the dark spheres, the higher he actually rises. The farther removed he is | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| that one finds oneself without assistance from the higher spheres just when one goes through the most | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| comfortable as possible, but to develop toward a higher state, to reach perfect bliss as rapidly as | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| Before incarnation, therefore, a spirit may ask the higher beings: I beg you, help me, not only | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| them at times; it is as if their higher selves would respond and encourage them to sense | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| thus in harmony with God and your own higher self, at least in this respect. Do not | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to their personal preferences. Yet they pay a higher price than they are initially aware of. They | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| act contrary to spiritual law and so their higher self makes itself known by causing them to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| seriously. Such an emotional current comes from the higher self that knows where true fulfillment, happiness, harmony | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| meaningless to strive for the attainment of a higher consciousness. The attaining of a higher state of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of a higher consciousness. The attaining of a higher state of consciousness is the utmost grace, to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| act right; one part of the unconscious, the higher self, also strives upward. But in every human | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| kind; all depends on the person's development. A higher developed individual's negative traits weigh as heavily as | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| partly because they run contrary to what the higher self desires. The opposing tendencies clash and exhaust | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| utterly lost. Those who are already on a higher level -- or think they are -- should | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the door to self-search and through that to higher perception. This is the essence of religion that | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| help others. Whoever can awaken and cultivate these higher feelings within the soul will truly come alive | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| This will shed light on the contradictions. The higher evolved an individual is, the more will the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of blindness and separation around the soul. The higher the development, the more will the band of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the I is expanded and intensified with every higher level reached, and exactly because the separation of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| feeling is difficult to express in words. The higher, the more beautiful and blissful an experience is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| state of development, including the lower and the higher self. What passes is only the lower self | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| placed their intellect into the service of a higher end. This, too, will happen one day. You | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| reached a very high state of development, perhaps higher than what we have today. I mean this | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| a human being who has already reached a higher level on this path, or through one of | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| achieved a breakthrough in your soul to the higher self. Whoever asks God, Show me the truth | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| they are extremes. Here is an example: The higher a person's development, the more important it becomes | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| other hand, people who have already achieved a higher level of development and possess sufficient strength will | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you are necessarily in the position of a higher developed person, just because that idea suits you | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| out and so allow the breakthrough to the higher self in those places where your faults have | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the path will either be given an additional, higher, and more powerful spirit guide, or there will | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| help many, to raise their practice to a higher level and thus help in the Plan of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| level leading to monism, and is monism the higher truth? ANSWER: One can look at dualism as | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| influences may lift a human being into a higher vibration even when the inner obstacles are still | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| qualities in them which will clearly indicate their higher self and entitle them to be regarded children | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| so important to draw a line separating the higher and the lower self, to pinpoint what belongs | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to pinpoint what belongs to each one. The higher self is eternal, immortal, and is of God | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| brother or sister. You will then allow your higher self to unite with the higher self of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| allow your higher self to unite with the higher self of your neighbor. All this is contained | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| formless, is form in spirit, form composed of higher matter. The difficulty you may first encounter in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| a lawful rhythm, as it is with all higher beings. These aspects of God are what you | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you have no basis of comparison and lack higher spiritual perception. QUESTION: When a person is incarnated | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| meld and the whole personality will reach a higher degree of integration. Here again everything depends solely | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to blame fate, the injustice of destiny and higher powers, or circumstances brought about by other people | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| their own accord and without the help of higher entities. This is not so. For whether they | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| be the highest, for there is always someone higher. The highest is God. Any claim that a | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| authority for all and can decide without consulting higher spirits should be enough proof that it is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you buy a house the price will be higher than when you buy a shack. You accept | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| subconscious, the superconscious, or the divine spark or higher self -- whatever name you care to give | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| of your question about the difference between the higher self and a spirit creature of God. It | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is interesting only in a technical sense. The higher self certainly manifests itself. But it cannot always | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| life on earth would be superfluous. If the higher self could manifest itself as easily as all | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| Yet wherever there are faults and imperfections, the higher self is barred. And that is the reason | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to work through your blocks where your own higher self cannot yet do so. Furthermore, the voice | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| do so. Furthermore, the voice of your own higher self is so far away and soft, sometimes | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to heed what you call conscience. Thus the higher self can influence you to fight your lower | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| influence you to fight your lower self. The higher self, when listened to, can make itself known | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| instance, in the case of a medium, the higher self cannot manifest itself to such an extent | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| this were accomplished by mere contact with the higher self, it would be just as easy to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| would be just as easy to have the higher self always on the surface in all conditions | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| for this one hour. In other words, the higher self acts and guides to a certain extent | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| those very few who have already reached a higher state of purification, is also sharing the responsibility | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| is not to be understood literally. Spirits of higher development who do not yet live in the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| sphere the incarnations are discussed. Here specifically trained higher beings know exactly the laws and the past | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| be incarnated discusses the coming life with the higher beings, speaks its wishes and listens to advice | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the mission angels can lift them to a higher sphere. Other specialists among the mission spirits take | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| exist simultaneously in the same person. Faith is higher understanding, faith is knowing, and this knowing is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| are two forces within the human soul. The higher self or the divine spark is the part | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| being, complete integration of all separated parts. The higher self knows the greater truth your conscious being | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| desiring truth in order to avoid disappointment. The higher self and the lower self are therefore at | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| self speaking. When the doubt is gone, the higher self is speaking. Then you know that God | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| gives you real peace, for deep down your higher self always has the correct answer and you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| a most natural wish, which comes from the higher self as well as from the lower self | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| as from the lower self, but only the higher self knows that there is a price to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| accomplish this. Thus it is that both the higher and the lower self want happiness, but each | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| happiness, but each in a different way. Your higher self knows that only by perfection within can | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| being alive, not vibrating with vitality. And the higher you are on the path, the more alive | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the lower self from the perspective of the higher self, has to be practiced and fully mastered | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| about that you can rest assured. 14. THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK Greetings | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| respective subtle body. Each living being has a higher self or divine spark. This is the finest | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| with the quickest frequency of vibration, because the higher the spiritual development, the quicker the vibration. Since | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| vibration. Since the fall of the angels, the higher self surrounded itself slowly and gradually with various | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the physical body, but infinitely denser than the higher self. Thus did the lower self come into | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to eliminate the lower self so that the higher self becomes free again of all outer layers | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| yourself or others, that certain parts of the higher self are already free, while other parts are | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of the lower self. The qualities of the higher self, as well as various other circumstances, also | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| general trends may take. We see both the higher self and the lower self. However, not all | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| able to see through it to discover the higher self in all its splendor, because dense or | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| determine very well which thought-forms come from the higher self, and which from the lower self. We | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| also determine which wishes and endeavors of the higher self may be mixed in with tendencies from | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| twisted, colored, or dirtied. When messages from the higher self are tainted with lower-self motives, a disorder | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| common among human beings. The forms of the higher self have an entirely different character than those | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| do with reality, either with that of the higher self, or with the temporary reality of the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the selfishness. They hate the pressure of their higher selves to act contrary to the desires of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the layers of your lower self lives your higher self, your ultimate and absolute reality which you | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| between you and absolute reality, or your own higher self. To face the lower self you must | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| What is the actual me? What is my higher self? What is my lower self? Where may | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| others. When you come in contact with the higher self once your intuition has awakened through your | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| a distinct difference between the mask and the higher self. You will feel the nauseating manifestations of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| ultimate I or true self, and that the higher self, which is perfection, waiting to grow out | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the inner reaction; or a revolt by the higher self may create certain physical symptoms in order | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| last lecture I explained to you about the higher self, lower self, and the mask self. Every | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| lecture can be more fully understood. Wherever the higher self has been restored to its original state | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is still stronger and does not permit the higher self to shine through, connection is made with | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| crimes or recognized sins, you are responsible. The higher your development, the more it is your responsibility | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| free of very wicked or evil trends, the higher your development evidently is. Therefore you possess more | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is merely coincidental. By the same token, if higher entities from the world of God can guide | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| divine truth and will, and tries to strive higher. Otherwise they have to stand back and watch | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is incorrect. Between these low creatures and the higher entities of the world of God there are | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| and beautiful forms to the degree that their higher self is allowed to function. Let us imagine | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to search for spiritual life? ANSWER: Because the higher self or the divine spark is in everyone | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| more layers of the lower self cover the higher self, the more this urge is covered up | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| certain development is reached, the wish of the higher self pushes you. And again some voices of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| wage within yourselves, each one of you. The higher your development, the unhappier you must become if | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you do not follow the voice of your higher self, or, for that matter, the voices of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the voices of divine spirits inspiring you. These higher spirits can only be around you because your | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| spirits can only be around you because your higher self has freed itself sufficiently, at least to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| But it is always the divine spark, the higher self that urges you on, and you will | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will find. QUESTION: In trying to separate the higher self from the lower self in order to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| ourselves, it sometimes happens that part of the higher self becomes mixed up with the lower self | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| In my last lecture I spoke about the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| I will discuss how the currents of the higher self come forth, penetrate the lower self and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the sphere it has reached. It cannot get higher until it reaches the respective development. QUESTION: In | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| spiritual law and truth. Currents coming from the higher self are often distorted by the lower self | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| be any spiritual progress. Willpower comes from the higher self; it will remain a pure current of | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| more of the curtain will be withdrawn. The higher developed you are, the more you strive for | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| have spiritual guardians and do lower spirits have higher spirits helping them? ANSWER: The lower spirits also | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| around a human being, spirits of darkness and higher spirits: I wonder if our calling for them | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| know what happens? The dark spirit will rise higher in its development; it will learn -- not | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| has at least a feeble belief in a higher intelligence, in a superior wisdom that created this | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you who admit God exists. God or this Higher Intelligence -- or whatever you choose to call | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in this wonderful Creation for an entity of higher intelligence than human beings to manifest to you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| It is certainly not unimaginable that creatures of higher intelligence, of greater wisdom, endowed with more love | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| deny the possibility of such a communication with higher entities than themselves. This is even more unreasonable | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| have given you the means of communing with higher spheres from where you can receive teachings that | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the human being consists of two natures: the higher and the lower self, which are in conflict | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| which are in conflict with one another. The higher self registers the call and pushes the person | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you with many excuses not to follow your higher self. The excuses are manifold. Some are quite | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| lower grade than of a child in a higher grade. You must be dissatisfied with your outer | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to conquer your lower self. Combined with your higher self, your will-directing consciousness must win. But do | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the same way as a person of much higher development or someone of much lower development would | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| for them to do something toward reaching a higher degree of consciousness and therefore also of happiness | 18 FREE WILL |
| and resigned. One will-stream comes out of your higher self, the other out of your lower self | 18 FREE WILL |
| hamper the free flow of your willpower. The higher your development, the stronger your subconscious handicaps your | 18 FREE WILL |
| thinking from the spiritual field involves a person's higher self or divine spark. Whoever has experienced this | 18 FREE WILL |
| term the lower self. One also encounters the higher self. Sometimes it is way down, deeply hidden | 18 FREE WILL |
| self. At long last, the part of the higher self that was so far not allowed to | 18 FREE WILL |
| far not allowed to function emerges. In this higher self or divine spark, which is to some | 18 FREE WILL |
| development, purification can real ecstasy happen. When your higher self becomes free of the layers of your | 18 FREE WILL |
| some of this substance which I call the higher self or the divine spark; it has to | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| Why should he be better, more exalted, or higher? Why? This is not just. These thoughts and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| that which your spirit demands and which your higher self longs for. The rest will come by | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| is also referred to as a human being's higher self or divine spark. It is also referred | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| by the longing of enough spirits for something higher. The world in which you are now living | 21 THE FALL |
| is the product of the desire to strive higher. Here conditions exist in which spiritual development can | 21 THE FALL |
| for the sake of your own spirit, your higher self, for the sake of your development, for | 21 THE FALL |
| no created being is anything without God. The higher developed a creature, the less it will want | 21 THE FALL |
| a breakthrough has been accomplished in a person's higher self. Then you will feel that something thinks | 21 THE FALL |
| always man's lower nature, or to follow his higher self, which is the difficult and narrow path | 22 SALVATION |
| in touch with the world of darkness. The higher self, which is much further in the background | 22 SALVATION |
| step: I declare myself for God, for my higher self, with everything that it entails, disregarding the | 22 SALVATION |
| the thickest or heaviest or densest degree. The higher the development, the more radiant or the finer | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the earth sphere, but does not apply to higher spiritual spheres. One of the particular purposes of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| earth you are open for influences of the higher, as well as of the lower spheres, and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they come into contact with the light of higher spirits. You said that the lower spirits don't | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| said that the lower spirits don't see the higher. ANSWER: It is this way: As a rule | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot see it. As a manifestation from the higher worlds, at exceptional occasions, the higher spirits can | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from the higher worlds, at exceptional occasions, the higher spirits can manifest, either in the form of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| light or in their actual form. If these higher spirits do not take certain measures to manifest | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see, feel, or perceive in some way the higher beings. The same applies to your world. You | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but also due to the longing of the higher spirits who have remained faithful to God and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and is part of the personalities involved, the higher as the lower ones. The spiritual worlds are | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to Him again. The same principle reigns when higher beings of the world of God occasionally visit | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| means the beauty of spiritual robes. The moment higher beings descend into darker worlds, their appearance automatically | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the lower- developed beings would see an obviously higher spirit -- an angel for instance -- they | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instance, also on this earth sphere, people of higher and lower development live together with all the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these measures. Yet as a rule, whenever a higher being manifests to beings of lower development, they | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in lower worlds than the earth sphere. The higher the curve goes upward, the more these particle-souls | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| several particles will connect when they reach a higher form of existence, just as when the dual | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and then ask God for enlightenment, strength and higher understanding, to help you want with every particle | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lecture I gave some time ago about the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the human soul that comes entirely from the higher self or the lower self, because everything mixes | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and from influences caused by character weaknesses. The higher self in you says, I want to be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| high position, but for different reasons than the higher self. Your higher self seeks to advance for | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| for different reasons than the higher self. Your higher self seeks to advance for the love of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| way. Here is an example where both the higher and the lower self want the same thing | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the fight between the lower self and the higher self, and your conscious self will determine which | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| real you -- at least not entirely. Your higher self, which is partly free, already manifests through | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| there is in you that belongs to the higher self. But even where it cannot manifest as | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is deeply hidden behind the lower self, your higher self still exists in its shining perfection. How | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| enjoy themselves -- and work. Spirits in the higher realms do all that, of course, in perfect | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| that? If you develop yourself, you make your higher self free of the shadows and layers of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| can develop it. And this divine spark or higher self is the substance to which we are | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| negative trait like sluggishness, say, or where the higher self is diluted by currents of the lower | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| That, of course, varies with each individual. The higher your development, the stronger you are and therefore | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| they are still imperfect and therefore cannot reach higher spheres after shedding their bodies. When they enter | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| they will always be surrounded by spirits, both higher and lower, who are compatible with them and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and therefore belong to this religious group. The higher spirits may be trying to give certain advice | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of infinitely greater merit than what people of higher development acquire. What counts is the effort to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| guardian spirits and partly emanating from your own higher self that wishes to draw your attention to | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| not merely to give you information about the higher spheres, for that in itself would not be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| consists of layers which may be called the higher self and the lower self. Accept that both | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| can we tell if desires come from the higher or the lower self? ANSWER: By examining the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a certain direction, and sometimes it is the higher self which recognizes that this is not good | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Further along this plan you will find the Higher or Middle Lightworld, where these lightforces are gathered | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| all other worlds. But in this sphere, the Higher or Middle Lightworld, spirit beings or personifications of | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| get to know the special individuality of your higher self so as to use it for your | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the inner knowledge of your deeper being, the higher self that knows very well that these wishes | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| in your feelings: you put yourself on a higher plane than your brother. The moment your vanity | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| form do spirits who are still undeveloped see higher spirits? ANSWER: When undeveloped spirits come into contact | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| ANSWER: When undeveloped spirits come into contact with higher spirits, they do not see them as angels | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| Again the same law holds true here. If higher spirits go into lower spheres, which they do | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| not see the angels as they really are. Higher spirits appear to them just like one of | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| this perfection can be yours. You place yourself higher than the efforts you have so far taken | 31 SHAME |
| until you have worked yourself up to those higher spheres where no disadvantage can befall you, even | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| see if perhaps you prefer to risk a higher price because the possible advantage seems worthwhile. You | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| stand out and shine and be better or higher than others, for it does not add to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| a desire to work, to serve in the higher realms for others. In lower realms the goal | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| - - even if it is coated with higher motivations -- you must be in constant fear | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| -- think that you are not rated any higher or any more than anyone else in the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| I have received permission to do so from higher authority. My dear friends, let me first tell | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of comfort. They do not particularly strive for higher forms of consciousness and happiness. Their choice may | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| yet developed far enough, decisions are made by higher authority. But even in these cases, the entity | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| too difficult--or too easy. In such instances, the higher authority, advising and planning the next incarnation with | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| plan--whether the spirit to be incarnated or the higher authority planned it--development is speeded up or slowed | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| add, however, that generally, though not always, the higher the development, the faster the effect will follow | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| argument. It is not that the spirits of higher development have a dictatorial attitude, but that you | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a heretofore unsolved psychological problem. For entities of higher development--all this is, of course, relative--tasks for the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| All these spheres and hospitals and physicians and higher placed authorities and assistants and ledgers and plans--all | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the wrong kind whenever you struggle against your Higher Self. In the course of the Fall every | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| genuine goodness in the human personality, namely the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| not enough if you want to attain a higher level. The highest and the best you can | 38 IMAGES |
| self-will, pride, and ego claim gratification that your higher self deems wrong. Those who know that the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| unpurified and unhappy would seem to be a higher aim because it would seem selfless! In this | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| its existence. Know that the aim is a higher one, and know that you are emotionally not | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you do not realize you are a step higher than the last upward curve you were on | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| superficial outer knowledge, if the latter follows a higher ethical line as is often the case. That | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a shorter span and then start on a higher level. You know that entities have their own | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you do so, you are indeed in a higher state of development, which means, above all, the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| pure love is to be found in the higher spiritual realms. This does not mean that eros | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and sex no longer exist in beings of higher development, but rather that all three blend in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to another, do you mean that, on a higher level, this is the way the soul reveals | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| are in accord with the goals of your higher self, but simultaneously lower and selfish aims are | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| motivation. These lower aims find justification in the higher aims, which serve very well to hide their | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| cannot see the lower motives coexisting with the higher ones in the very same goal. Even long | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| thoughts into actions. Thus you live in a higher degree of consciousness than when you act without | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the personal plan, one human being reaches a higher age than another. As the mass image changes | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and ultimately fulfills a mission, is given a higher and more powerful guardian. Such guardians are often | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the borderline between unconsciousness and consciousness with a higher degree of awareness. The true understanding of one's | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of authority -- the self-righteous kind and the higher kind that is with you -- you will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| does not necessarily and exclusively come from your higher self. This is a confusing problem for many | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| partly due to the sincere strivings of the higher self and partly to the selfish ends of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| only one conscience does exist: it is the higher self, which is eternal and indestructible; it is | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the second conscience is high -- so much higher than the price everyone must pay to live | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a certain aspect of the human personality. The higher your development, the more of these subtle bodies | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| unpurified ones of the human personality. Your own higher self, the divine being living within yourself, registers | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| refined and much wiser. The aim is much higher. It has an infinitely wider, longer-range outlook. QUESTION | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| lies -- lies in order to protect a higher cause or prevent hurts? ANSWER: My answer cannot | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| on selfless motives -- another person's hurt, a higher cause or whatever -- or whether these valid | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of action and reaction and God's will, the higher self will, free will, and self-will? ANSWER: The | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| self will, free will, and self-will? ANSWER: The higher self will is God's will. There is no | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| thereby suffers a disadvantage ultimately demands a much higher price from you than what you lose by | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| a partner of the same sex. QUESTION: The higher self has a desire for femininity, the state | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| just the opposite? Yes, because you see, the higher self is male and female, or contains masculine | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is important, namely spiritual development. A wiser and higher developed spirit advises and points out certain things | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for it as yet. With very few exceptions, higher developed spirits do not use the more direct | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be in contact with spirits on a higher plane who may not have the type of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who can give you different benefits of a higher and more subtle nature. Even as far as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of most human beings, belonging to a much higher state of development. Some of you have heard | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and constructive joy, leaving no bitter aftertaste. The higher the development of the entity, the shorter the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| spirit instruction during sleep, or because now your higher self can penetrate better and manifest into your | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more subtle quality, and its frequency rate infinitely higher. Only after the Plan of Salvation is completed | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| correct. Evolution goes through mineral, lower animal, plant, higher animal, human being, spirit being. I explained that | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reasonings. The inner will comes entirely from your higher self. Let us consider now why the inner | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |