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| veil a little more. Until now people were influenced by the doctrines of the churches to believe | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the spirit-creatures to say that an evil spirit influenced them. When they say this, and mean by | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| protection you have, will not be bothered or influenced by spirits who do not fulfill the will | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| was speaking about, although it can also be influenced by advertising, is something that existed long before | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| people in whom you trust and who have influenced you in your life have said may not | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| to as Lucifer, Satan, or the Devil, who influenced others to follow him, would naturally have been | 21 THE FALL |
| low in their development that they were constantly influenced by their own sphere. If God's world had | 21 THE FALL |
| fact that the expression of manifestation is also influenced by other beings who, as you know, are | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| idiosyncrasies; even your good qualities may be partly influenced by an unconscious fault or wrong inner current | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| are primarily psychological. When the soul is strongly influenced by outer happenings of whatever kind, it is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| constitutes the method of purification of emotions not influenced by an act of direct willpower. This cannot | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your thoughts and feelings that have probably been influenced by hurt pride. Show your own good sides | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| say, you discover that you were very strongly influenced and dependent on one of your parents, something | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| how much and in what manner you were influenced and how dependent you still are on the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| meaning and to recognize how these emotions have influenced your life. Many of you constantly doubt God's | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| start meditating on how these wrong conclusions have influenced your life. For you know that nothing is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| mind and you have recognized how it has influenced your life, start to reverse the circle and | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| for you -- habit and your surroundings have influenced you to maintain the opinion, so that it | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| They think it a childish superstition. They are influenced by a present mass image that is a | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| there is. ANSWER: The moment you are emotionally influenced, the subject is of importance. It is unimportant | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| toward God will, most probably, be colored and influenced by it. Children experience all kinds of authority | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a young person looks up to and is influenced by someone who happens to be a homosexual | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| homosexual leaning at all, he will not be influenced by it. But the point is that under | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| All created beings in the entire universe are influenced by it. All three principles must work together | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of one principle, the other two will be influenced. Let us say, your overemphasis is on the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| any adult, and therefore the child is greatly influenced for his or her whole life by certain | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of bad influences. The independent person cannot be influenced. Your security will lie in the calm, serene | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But in reality you are not dependent and influenced. As I pointed out before, even in national | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The healthier a soul is, and the less influenced by mass-images in this respect, the more its | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| important for you. For your whole personality is influenced by many seemingly unimportant details. By now, you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| are here tonight because they have been greatly influenced by your discussion and they were helped very | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| mull them over and over and are persistently influenced by what should already be obsolete. The soul- | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Moreover, when motives are split, the effect is influenced accordingly. For example -- as I pointed out | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| soul-particle that is already afflicted will be negatively influenced and impressed. The healthy soul-substance will not even | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| life never knowing to what extent they are influenced in all their present-day dealings by their past | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| were to view it afresh and not be influenced by standards you have assumed without ever questioning | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| drive is acute. Every experience in infancy is influenced by the pleasure principle. This principle enters into | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| form of human communication, is therefore even more influenced by inner conflict and strife. When a barrier | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| so that you formulate further concepts that are influenced by all these ensuing interactions. And so it | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of the distortion. A general ignorance has also influenced those who were responsible for your upbringing: they | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| within yourself you will find that you are influenced by it to a greater extent than you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the person who is very distorted, very subjectively influenced and disturbed -- and even then it is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and independent you must become not to be influenced and feel falsely guilty for that which truly | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| there is an inner functioning that cannot be influenced directly by your will: the heartbeat, the bloodstream | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| well as all other inner functioning, can be influenced indirectly. In quite the same way there are | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| that the level of your conscious thinking is influenced by both your destructive side and the universal | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| deny its existence. All these procedures -- being influenced by the past, striving toward the future, displacement | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| own self, rather than being constantly swayed and influenced by others and thus losing autonomy. My friends | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| it, and to influence it rather than be influenced by it. This aspect has its own separate | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the body or not. Your energy body is influenced by the sights, sounds, odors, touching, and many | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| with higher truths and values, fit to be influenced and used for higher purposes to enrich the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| friends, a human life pulse beat can be influenced by the consciousness that is truly the prime | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| in the personality. All aspects of society are influenced by each individual's attitude to tradition; whether a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| a few aspects of life, are very clearly influenced by and also reflect a specific society's attitude | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| they believe their weakness stems from having been influenced in childhood to accept Jesus Christ and from | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the many areas of your soul may be influenced by the highest or by the lowest forces | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| that you are a free agent and not influenced or influenceable, the more likely it is that | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| and every time. Once in a while spiritual influences may lift a human being into a higher | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| are still present in the soul, but these influences are rare. A person should not evade the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| will be done there? Could you exercise such influences there? Certainly not. Of course you can, to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in you, which attracts harmful energies and dark influences. Think what these words contain: God should not | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| or masculine? ANSWER: Yes, that is true. Such influences manifest in different periods. Certain spiritual beings work | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| destinies of the entities unfold, how the unfoldment influences the purification process, and in what this process | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| let us say, a spirit of murder who influences a human being. If your fault is selfishness | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| go, and then you become prey to these influences which, as we said, can have an effect | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Human beings are not helpless prey to these influences, but determine them. And by rejecting any influence | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| functions are completely controlled. When this happens, certain influences from the spirit world can occur. Such phenomena | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the spirit world they would receive inspirations and influences of all sorts. This is why development cannot | 21 THE FALL |
| after some suffering and a number of divine influences -- will the attitude begin to change, slowly | 22 SALVATION |
| present for them not to succumb to the influences of the Luciferic world, whether the influence comes | 22 SALVATION |
| that on the earth you are open for influences of the higher, as well as of the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| accept by weighing the meanings of the various influences. The choice has to come freely by proper | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to be understood with respect to the influences and connections they have. There is nothing in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| trends from all masks of self-deception and from influences caused by character weaknesses. The higher self in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| path can be so strongly affected by environmental influences? Can you help me in this respect? ANSWER | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| I am doing that. The reason why environmental influences are strong can be manifold, since there are | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| different outer challenges. With one person, the cosmic influences affect the soul more strongly; with others, human | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| affect the soul more strongly; with others, human influences will have a stronger effect, and so on | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| image you may have that often comes from influences in the home or from religious teachers who | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| question. For every impurity of the soul somehow influences also the completeness of faith. Perfect faith would | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Order or not must be considered. This decision influences to a great extent not only the entity's | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| spite of atheistic and materialistic parental and other influences. In another case, it is the other way | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| or a scientist, in spite of contrary environmental influences in youth. This is due to the effect | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| you were still affected by the often unspiritual influences of your usual surroundings. Developing a concise understanding | 36 PRAYER |
| every personality forms certain impressions due to environmental influences or to sudden, unexpected experiences. These impressions or | 38 IMAGES |
| extreme. Humans put the responsibility for everything on influences from spirit entities, good or bad, and thus | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| surface, where you have been affected by intellectual influences, then certainly way down deep in your emotions | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| grown up in a different environment, if different influences around you had prevailed, or if your life | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| no means recognize all its implications, effects and influences on your personality. You may not have recognized | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| not exist during the process of maturing. Outer influences may encourage the inclination unnecessarily, while the personality | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of the static? ANSWER: You mean that one influences the other? Yes. Nothing in the human soul | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you find out how one thing causes and influences another. What was first a mass of isolated | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| subconscious direction you are taking as a whole influences you to be able to have certain intuitions | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you will easily see how this basic condition influences and underlies all of them. I have occasionally | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| ever be generalized. So many personal aspects, individual influences and reactions play a part. Even if this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| temporarily fortify a wrong concept, just as other influences in life constantly seem to do. But this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| themselves, the more will they be drawn to influences which apparently foster tendencies of escape. Or they | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| able to discriminate, yet it is subject to influences which may be quite far removed from truth | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- he or she will constantly encounter damaging influences. These damaging influences have no effect on the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| she will constantly encounter damaging influences. These damaging influences have no effect on the person who is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a person prey to the fear of harmful influences from outside. Once people are well established on | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| extreme to another. They will cease fearing forces, influences, people and happenings outside themselves, in the belief | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| independent person need not be afraid of bad influences. The independent person cannot be influenced. Your security | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conditions so imperfect that it is subject to influences it cannot handle properly. You can understand this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| best fulfill his or her life. The karma influences the plan and the plan determines the parents | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the outer subtle body is concerned. All these influences that later form prejudices and images have not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| self, depending on personality, life conditions and early influences, which are not and cannot be considered good | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you show, the severity of your conflicts proportionately influences your activities, thoughts, feelings, and motives. This may | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deviations that can always be traced to parental influences and early experiences. It is also important to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a misunderstanding. The truth is that the experience influences one's actions and attitude to obtain improvement through | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| consequences that sap your energy, strength, and self-respect, influences your ability to relate and to react. This | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your intellectual view or opinion, but it nevertheless influences your actions and governs your reactions to life | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| seek a way of fighting against the unwelcome influences that have created the original pain. The pseudosolutions | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| outer behavior will influence outer behavior, while thought influences thought, and unconscious feelings influence unconscious feelings. The | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| with the other, but instead one affects and influences the other. So it is with these sins | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is superimposed by outer means, determined by educational influences, by others' opinions that you may have adopted | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| fully lived through but repressed due to outer influences and pressures. So my description is only a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| all myth is truthful. Untruthful literature, or other influences, as well as misunderstood and misinterpreted truthful influxes | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is given a chance to assimilate such helpful influences. Whether or not it does so, depends on | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| individual has gained through absorbing good education, good influences, and intellectual truth. Certain groups within the human | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the original need. Whatever the specific circumstances, early influences or personal images may be, you must recognize | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| putting yourself unnecessarily under the power of detrimental influences which encourage that in you which is so | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you find your particular No, and how it influences your behavior, whether obvious or subtle, you come | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| on individual character traits, on circumstances and early influences. Whatever they are -- and there are three | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| This duality does not merely come from personal influences in an individual's early surroundings. They existed, of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| examine for a moment how a weak ego influences the functions of the two aforementioned centers: If | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| what I said before about the effects and influences of hidden attitudes. Yet to assume self-destructive, self-eroding | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| defensive tightness is put into both desires, which influences the soul current. Approach the current of these | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| explained away with people's backgrounds and with early influences. Nothing is as dangerous as using a powerful | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you become aware of how your past still influences you only after much laborious groping. This influence | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| to take, how many favorable and unfavorable outer influences should exist in the life not necessarily coinciding | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| others. There is a cross-fertilization. Your negative state influences others in a similar state and vice versa | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| consciousness is in harmony with divine reality. This influences the reliability of the channel, as well as | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| their own souls. They can use existing family influences as a challenge and thus help dissolve the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| self, frequently made them the prey to evil influences. Lack of self-knowledge inevitably led to lack of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| case, it certainly occurred unconsciously by choosing the influences that corresponded to the intentionality of the lower | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| invisible forces do exist and do have their influences. In other words, we are dealing once again | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to, the more you become prey to evil influences who are much more concerned with you than | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| for all creatures captivated and weakened by satanic influences. This has to do precisely with the fact | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| truth, and not succumb to the strongest of influences and temptations that the personification of evil could | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| that a person does not experience temporary evil influences because he or she is undeveloped, or evil | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| substance who may be less accosted by demonic influences. I mean this in an absolute sense. The | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| merely a result of social mores and bigoted influences, but are actually products of the inability to | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| inner reality, undisturbed by even the most favorable influences and vibrations from others. At times you even | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| problems. You need to become aware of these influences, and you desperately need to challenge and refute | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| these fluctuations. The outer experience in no way influences which level of reality he or she is | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| influx, the demonic forces send out their own influences to corrupt those who are not purified, to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| a destructive way and give in to negative influences without using any of your aggressive aspects to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| service of positive aims. You can refute negative influences. You can talk to your own false thoughts | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |