| Humankind's.................8 | |
| is true. You are right in saying that humankind's level of spiritual development did not correspond to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is called communism today. In the first place, humankind's salvation is seen only through material solutions, and | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you compare the individual's period of adolescence with humankind's present development, you will see that this is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| while the truly meaningful and mature solutions for humankind's problems were too often discarded as wrong. The | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| more do you contribute to the whole of humankind's reaching the phase when humanity can really resolve | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| That is why there is nothing to fear. Humankind's unconscious imprints are still so powerful that all | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Now all this has changed. For example, today humankind's greatest hindrance is egotistical pride. People have accomplished | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| unity versus separation there are three stages in humankind's evolution: 1) separation in outright enmity; 2) tolerance | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Humanly.....................4 | |
| an exclusive love that is neither divine nor humanly possible. The love it wants is selfish; it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| arrived at facing yourselves as completely as is humanly possible. In the first place, this very process | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| lie. But for such a group, it is humanly impossible to understand more. Only by gradually bringing | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| its truth -- at least as much as humanly possible at any given stage of personal development | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Humanness...................2 | |
| security. When you react appropriately to your own humanness with all its failings, you build on a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| state. You know that by virtue of your humanness you cannot immediately be the ideal, totally fused | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Humans......................120 | |
| good as evil, evil as good. And so humans get confused -- they who actually want so | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| longing to feel this love drives, pulls, spurs humans and spirits. They will have an understanding of | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| communication. There have always been some exceptional, wise humans to whom others could be guided. In these | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| love, you will get closer to your fellow humans where you need it. It must be so | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| truths and the divine lawfulness to which all humans who wish to live a healthy and harmonious | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| world. Yet it is only too often that humans will pay no attention to the heavenly spirits | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| then it would be too simple for you humans: earth would not be a testing ground, and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| has to be recognized and dealt with. When humans shed their body and enter the realm of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the truth beyond human error is also absolute. Humans will receive as much of the truth as | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of what exists in God's world and what humans have also imitated on earth, and what has | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| this spirit of matter is more dangerous for humans than the Luciferic spirits are right. For Lucifer's | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is so because it needs them, as compensation. Humans could possess many more of these faculties if | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Creation, all the spiritual laws -- everything that humans are at all capable of comprehending -- have | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| cannot be convinced unless spirits who are like humans are at work and influence humans in their | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| are like humans are at work and influence humans in their way. This, however, does not have | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| spirit world is not made difficult. It is humans who hinder it through their overall orientation. Most | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| ever obtain. It cannot be handed over to humans easily and simply, without any effort on their | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| concentration. This is prayer. Do not forget, as humans often do, to ask God again and again | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| are not even clear about your own guilt. Humans tend to produce false, unhealthy, exaggerated guilt feelings | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| nothing smaller. The statement was made that if humans can split the atom, they can come upon | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| promoting war. Look at some of your fellow humans with whom you might have difficulties. They might | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| no longer pretend and make excuses the way humans like to do. They are prone to displace | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| in the spiritual world that are concerned with humans, spirits, and much else. Special spirits are trained | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| different spiritual spheres with their respective creatures influence humans. Human beings are not helpless prey to these | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| world, the more power they must eventually lose. Humans have another kind of influence on the world | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| into the background, so that they could affect humans less and less. As a result, only the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the material world has been created for you humans for a definite purpose which I have mentioned | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| much more exact and profound way than you humans could ever do. But what we were discussing | 18 FREE WILL |
| us spirits just as much as to you humans. When you are accomplishing something -- whatever it | 21 THE FALL |
| was relatively new. Then it was impossible for humans to communicate with God's world because there were | 22 SALVATION |
| other. Lucifer kept all the rights to tempt humans to succumb to him by succumbing to their | 22 SALVATION |
| the particular development of the earth sphere that humans generally cannot see any other substance than their | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are allowed to happen occasionally to show to humans that life does not originate on this earth | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| had to become in a way like other humans. He had to leave behind, so to speak | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not happy, and seek salvation. And as you humans also constantly hope for, they too desire salvation | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| collect themselves later in order to incarnate as humans? ANSWER: Yes. The fluids of the several particles | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and therefore I cannot say it. But where humans do need help is to know how to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Well, my friends, it is extremely difficult for humans to imagine that spirits live and laugh and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is just about a year ago -- as humans measure time -- that this group was formed | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| We spirits of the world of God encourage humans to become independent. We do not like to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| thinking. You cannot avoid it. QUESTION: You said humans were all given the same amount of time | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| a long time, this mass image held that humans reach an average of, let us say, forty-five | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| with them was distorted to an opposite extreme. Humans put the responsibility for everything on influences from | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and effect of your inner and outer actions. Humans like to concentrate unduly on the apparent injustice | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| natural result of the law of causality? ANSWER: Humans have been endowed with free will, contrary to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| calculated into the overall Plan of Salvation that humans are bound to create negative circumstances by their | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| everything that causes emotional problems is dishonest. Only humans draw a sharp borderline between the outer and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Fall, each spirit was created separately. But incarnated humans are evolving in a slow re-climbing from the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not speak of belief -- were given to humans on a silver platter, as you put it | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| unknown danger. The fear of the unknown makes humans distort true concepts into fixed opposites, thereby diminishing | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| very irrational, unfounded fear in the human soul. Humans think that what is fixed is safe, and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the image of God. Is it meant that humans are not supposed to create an image of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the necessary help. QUESTION: To what extent should humans take it upon themselves to punish a criminal | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the law into such a rigid concept that humans fell easily into this submissive and dependent attitude | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| capacities will be paralyzed or incorrectly chaneled. Since humans tend to be underdeveloped in the emotional arena | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| perceive them as groping, vulnerable, blind, and troubled humans? Or do they take on an awesome, strange | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| necessary in order to derive deeper understanding. Were humans able to see what happens constantly, it would | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| haphazardly, and by coincidence, as it were, because humans have not studied and found the laws governing | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| scale is love for living creatures other than humans: plants or animals. They require a certain amount | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you that cause inability and unwillingness to love. Humans need not preoccupy themselves with speculations about the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more. And I say to all of you: Humans so often have a very distorted view about | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| so many people, for their difficulty in communicating. Humans believe that they react to one another, but | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| those who have inadvertently stopped the enlivening stream. Humans often accuse this stream of being evil, because | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| truth. In the last fifty years or so, humans have attained great insights in this area from | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| no code of ethics which ostracized an offender. Humans fluctuated between ruling and being ruled. Their general | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| your happiness. It is often so difficult for humans to understand that when they believe themselves to | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| more practical. When you deal with your fellow humans and are confused about their actions and motives | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| this either/or is false, illusory. As long as humans desire positive experiences out of fear of the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| darkness -- hence, the greater the suffering. When humans realize that their real self is not just | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| state is extremely important to understand, my friends. Humans often overlook it and, even more often, totally | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| self is the state of being. Of course, humans misconstrue the state of being as meaning no | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| ultimate you. This is why you struggle. When humans come to that vital part of themselves which | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| physical system naturally worked in absolute perfection, giving humans strength and wellbeing. Strangely enough, this is less | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| ANSWER: No, this is a matter of degree. Humans are an interim stage of evolution. The entity | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| angles. But how exceedingly difficult it is for humans even to find the subtle, hidden area where | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| channel the life force so it flows in humans where it should and could if an imbalance | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| cannot rightfully be called a feeling. Why do humans fear the involuntary processes? Why, indeed, do you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| at all times. Returning to the question why humans fear the involuntary processes, we have to consider | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| All outer, or apparently outer, experience coming to humans is, as we know, in reality self- produced | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fear of self is fear of pleasure. For humans are created for the purpose of experiencing pleasure | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| bring meaning and fulfillment, gratification and bliss. Perversely, humans fear nothing as much as the very essence | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| must sink -- and so it is with humans in life. The constrictions create all sorts of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| matter which is the substance of material existence. Humans are incarnated in matter because a separated part | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| states and processes in material life which afford humans the possibility of replenishing themselves from the universal | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Therefore it is the most total spiritual experience humans can have. In other states where the ego | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a step further. We can then investigate why humans are so deeply frightened of precisely that which | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| conflict, confusion and fear may exist. Why do humans cling to those attitudes that hinder replenishment, dry | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| wakefulness of an isolated ego becomes unbearable. Thus humans find themselves in ambivalence. On the one hand | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| inner reality is indeed lost. The majority of humans are almost totally cut off from their inner | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| gradually adopt the right one. How often are humans lazy and inattentive to their innermost expressions when | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| changed. At the same time, how often are humans overactive, coercive, and tense toward themselves as well | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| they freely acted out these destructive feelings. Primitive humans knew no inhibition and no conscience. They were | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| they indulged their destructive impulses. At later stages, humans learned that acting out their destructiveness brought them | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| therefore cannot stem the flood of destructive emotions. Humans must spend many lifetimes training reason and will | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| only when one goes the wrong way. When humans go the wrong way, they believe that existence | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| always begins with the outer layer, of which humans are not naturally aware. In fact, you must | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| she feels from it. Thus, in primitive religion, humans believe the universal consciousness resides outside as a | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| it. What you invest will determine the outcome. Humans often desire a change but avoid taking some | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| tasted, and assimilated all of life. Usually, when humans hear the word experience, they think of outer | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| In this stage of evolution, in this civilization, humans frequently find themselves with highly developed minds, but | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| this time. The dualism is always present. For humans perceive reality in terms of either/or, good or | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| events and circumstances, and of life experiences. When humans adopt the limited ego state, they do so | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the ego. One of the tasks of most humans as isolated ego aspects is to learn trustful | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| attitude that sets the circle in motion. When humans find themselves in the illusion of being helpless | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| when it ends there it becomes a farce. Humans who cannot become animated by their divinity become | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| since physicality was the sole expression of early humans, man also assumed a general aura of superiority | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| are there laws of the inner world that humans need to learn and understand. Let us examine | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| can be intrinsically exciting, enjoyable and adventurous. Instead humans attach to it a mass image of boredom | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| as so complex. (Laughter.) What seems to you humans so complicated and complex is often nothing but | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| human being is a thinking and discriminating creature. Humans are not meant to live by blind emotions | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| as individuals and as a new group of humans on whom the spirit world sets so much | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| as absolutes, in spite of the relative perception humans have of them, leads to nihilism, hopelessness, and | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| on animals by the indifference and cruelty of humans. But that animals have to go through this | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| even be angry that you, like all other humans, fall occasionally ill and suffer pain? Yet there | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of the personality that lives forever. When you humans speak about dying, it seems absurd to us | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| differently from other life forms on earth. For humans, consciousness plays a major role. After a certain | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| event. In the same way, a majority of humans have, for the longest time, looked for God | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| eliminating walls of fear that create hate between humans. Therefore communication is an intrinsic part of the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| sea has the wisdom to follow this pattern. Humans, with their disruptive minds, too often make themselves | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| humankind and therefore locked the doors, but because humans were deeply immersed in the conviction that they | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |