| Led.........................64 | |
| actions to God's laws. They will not be led to such a path as this. It is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you will be ready to be inspired and led even in the smallest things. Sometimes your answer | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be shown to you and you will be led to certain tasks. For instance, one person may | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| incorporates oneself into one's proper place, and is led into harmony with the spiritual laws. Even before | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| cannot ever be taken away. Let yourself be led by God entirely; open yourself to His will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and more people with mediumistic talents will be led to you. You will be able to help | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| think that way. The same spite that originally led to the Fall is still present. It is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that is so, he or she will be led to it in meditation. But more often than | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| lies the germ through which you can be led into temptation. The dark forces serve as instruments | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| from the past. The past action that has led him into the present state is hidden from | 18 FREE WILL |
| break the limitations. QUESTION: But not everyone is led to this path. There are millions of people | 21 THE FALL |
| slightest possibility to take the path will be led somehow, somewhere to the right place, either to | 21 THE FALL |
| who could take this path and who are led to where they could do it, finally do | 21 THE FALL |
| free will of the individuals involved will have led up to the fulfillment of this plan, the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of harm is being done when people are led to understand that by following certain rules of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| aspect. The wrong use of the power ultimately led to evil through a slow process, even if | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you that. Examine the various chain reactions that led you to the present state, consider the repercussions | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and preparations on earth checked, the entity is led into a different sphere. It is a great | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| cannot experience and relive the original feelings that led you to form the attitude in the first | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| found their way here tonight. They have been led here. They listen and see. You too can | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| extreme. They thus act from a wrong conclusion. Led by the wrong conclusion, they feel or unconsciously | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| impure spirit. And the purity of this spirit led to the misunderstanding of the meaning of the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and separate from love. And this, in turn, led humanity to believe more and more that sex | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you have to live through the emotions that led you to create it. Only then will you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your life; you will come to understand what led you to believe -- perhaps unconsciously, but all | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| why? What brought this misconception into existence, what led to it? That will show where the obstruction | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| isolated happening, separated from other events that have led up to it by reaction and counterreaction, through | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to occur soon. The knowledge in your psyche led you to be on such a path at | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| turned out to be so tragically damaging. This led to the anthropomorphic concept of God who is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| solutions are adopted, this instinct can also be led into a wrong channel, thereby generating poison. In | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| alone may be misleading because you ignore what led to this insult. Only the knowledge of all | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| A combination of mixed inner trends may have led to this mixture. If the genuine element is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not sacrifice. Hence you will not be led into the dangerous illusion of relinquishing something that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| for the same motive. Yet, their backgrounds that led to these feelings, that led to this action | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| their backgrounds that led to these feelings, that led to this action, as well as their overall | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| for the sake of loving. You will be led by concern for others and for what is | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to be helped in understanding the aspects that led to this state, without frantically pushing against it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| such cases the pleasure principle has already been led into the negative channel and can be rechanneled | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| integrates with a part of yourself that has led you into blind alleys. But now the wiser | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| who wants to live it successfully, must be led according to these premises. You must find the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| came into existence in the first place, what led to it, what its history was long before | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| seemed insurmountable. Your personal strength and goodwill have led you to this growth, which must be experienced | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| easier to question and challenge the premises that led to the distortions in the first place. The | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| humanity's striving away from the innermost kernel has led to erroneous ideas, destructive reactions and feelings; spiritual | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| suffering made them too blind because their blindness led them into suffering. Thus, they indulged their destructive | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| unconscious misconception. The misconception that sex is dirty led to the above-mentioned conflict, which led to the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| is dirty led to the above-mentioned conflict, which led to the following vicious circle: the more he | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to his irrational thoughts, feelings, and wishes. This led to the awareness that he deliberately chooses his | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| that comes from avoidance of relating has even led to concepts that spiritual growth is being furthered | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| than that of a helpless victim who is led to slaughter. Your fear, my friends, to go | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| having shed the body, some people who have led a difficult and apparently unspiritual life have done | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| process of evolution than some others who have led an extremely spiritual life and who may even | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of our friends to take this step. This led to deep feelings and crying, but we helped | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| inability to assume responsibility for the self then led to the creation of an outer devil who | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| into a benign circle, almost inadvertently you are led naturally to an attitude of selfless giving. It | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| some degree. Through psychology, a person could be led to accept his or her limitation, imperfection and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| active evil? Active evil alone could never have led to the crucifixion of Jesus. It required the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| mistake. You may see the inner current that led you to the act, you may use the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self-will is not fulfilled, then you will be led to believe that you must either become the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| prey to evil influences. Lack of self-knowledge inevitably led to lack of self-responsibility. Thus humanity felt victimized | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| victimized by evil spirits. Fear of them often led to submission to them -- and this happened | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| back to taking responsibility for themselves, and therefore led them to search within themselves, to an ever | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| partners freely, motivated generally by love. This often led to errors, however. Too often individuals who were | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Another kind of contradiction also exists that has led to many confusions in the human mind, particularly | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Ledger......................3 | |
| planned carefully and meticulously according to this general ledger. Before each incarnation, while planning it, the whole | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Before each incarnation, while planning it, the whole ledger is shown to the entity. Whether or not | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| after the last one. Now its particular personal ledger is again examined along with the temporary plans | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Leeway......................9 | |
| a role in it; there is always enough leeway left for that, in both directions. Nevertheless, up | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain number of possibilities are open. We give leeway for all these possibilities when the time comes | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The outer will must be serene and give leeway for life's hindrances and imperfections that make it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| stage of development. There must always be some leeway to see what humanity does with such findings | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| you understand their lack of reason. Giving them leeway, and realizing that they are habit-bound will do | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| their previous actions and reactions. There is some leeway to that, but it is limited. A spirit | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or bad, moralizing occurs. There is so much leeway, so much else that has nothing to do | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| where the parents gave the child too much leeway, continuously admiring it. This was probably due to | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| circuit. Inside that circuit there is a certain leeway for ideas, opinions, and possibilities you have made | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Legitimate..................59 | |
| to do your best. This is certainly a legitimate wish. To be without desire in this respect | 18 FREE WILL |
| your unconscious pseudo-protection is the frustration of the legitimate desire. This is very important to understand, my | 38 IMAGES |
| you do not succeed in a conscious and legitimate desire, and looking at your life you find | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| subtle and unobtrusive. You may have a perfectly legitimate desire, yet it may be unhealthy. Unhealthy and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and wish-fulfillments. Even if the desires are quite legitimate and healthy, you are still uncertain about them | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| dealt with in awareness. As a consequence, your legitimate and healthy desires and impulses, which are not | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| most childish and selfish impulses rather than your legitimate and healthy ones. This must offend others and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a certain stage. They find out that their legitimate desires and impulses were suppressed, but this discovery | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| discuss tonight is connected with the creative and legitimate desires that are often suppressed and the problems | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| soul. This desire in itself is not only legitimate and healthy, but it is also in its | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in detail. In previous talks, we discussed the legitimate desire to be loved. We also discussed how | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to give. Your desire to be loved is legitimate only if you are prepared to give as | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you must give up your personal integrity, your legitimate needs, your dignity. At another time we shall | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| For instance, the desire for love is quite legitimate. But if this desire is used in your | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| geared toward obtaining safety, so it undermines another legitimate need. The soul rebels against this. It continues | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| have shortchanged themselves of the satisfaction of a legitimate need. The first step, as always, must be | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| paradox -- of what is a healthy and legitimate need and what is not. They intertwine and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| but just as often the healthy, normal, and legitimate needs of every healthy human being cause equally | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| force to still the hunger is misdirected. Real, legitimate needs can be satisfied only with full awareness | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of harmony you forfeit your equally healthy and legitimate need for self-assertion, independence, success, happiness, fulfillment -- | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| for love is, in itself, a healthy and legitimate need. But the need for approval, at the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| substitute need is pursued lustfully. No matter how legitimate, constructive, or rational it may be in itself | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| disturb you and you attribute that to the legitimate pain of loss. Thus you have shifted your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| unhappiness. You use a false reason you call legitimate to justify running away from yourself and to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| not know why. One may try to find legitimate excuses and reasons, but in one's heart of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| miss them. You will learn to take seemingly legitimate excuses with a grain of salt. Resistance exists | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| necessarily. You may be as ashamed of very legitimate needs as you are of faults, or of | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| of giving and receiving, or any other natural, legitimate need and self-expression, hidden one-sidedness often creates overt | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| forces you to abandon a different, but equally legitimate need. You may still lack the necessary information | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the need for ego- gratification. All these are legitimate needs, provided they are not overgrown and one | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the childish greed exists, but also about the legitimate, rightful desire to receive. You feel just as | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you have a desire or aim which is legitimate and realistic, yet remains unfulfilled, what blocks it | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of this duality. Intense physical pleasure is a legitimate need and legitimate longing because it is part | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Intense physical pleasure is a legitimate need and legitimate longing because it is part of the universal | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you are supposed to want, what is a legitimate need on your part, you get confused between | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| unreasonable and unrealizable love and attention, and the legitimate adult need for human warmth and affection. In | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| inner will. Often the desire itself may be legitimate and even healthy, as I implied before. But | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| your own experience. Tonight we shall discuss the legitimate need for pleasure and its purpose for the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| gratifying ego goals than fulfilling the real and legitimate need of the entity for bathing in the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| order to find an outlet for itself, for legitimate hostile feelings and activities. This is why you | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| compulsion to overspend and be irresponsible is a legitimate yearning for pleasure, expansion and new experience, this | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| unaware of a great need, perhaps of a legitimate human fulfillment, that creates on a less conscious | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| a deep longing or need. At times, a legitimate human need may be distorted by a so-called | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| need always harbors the germ of a real, legitimate need. Therefore it must not be totally thrown | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| for this higher, more fulfilling state is a legitimate, healthy need. When this need becomes conscious, a | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| most painful element is the unfulfillment of your legitimate needs as a child. As I discussed in | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| need. The more the pain of the unfulfilled legitimate need remains unfelt, or only half experienced, the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and your present real need will be fulfilled. Legitimate needs can be fulfilled only to the degree | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| better. You may indeed deceive others about how legitimate your case is. You may even deceive your | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you find the truth where your non- recognized, legitimate needs as a child created fear and pain | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| enriches you and is a fulfillment of a legitimate need, but it is not the substance of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| give up something precious that is, in itself, legitimate and that you should indeed have. Does letting | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| higher self for perfection is of course a legitimate movement, for the soul knows that this state | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Obviously, every one of these longings is most legitimate. Do not infer from my words that they | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the contrary is true. These longings are most legitimate. However, there is an enormous difference between seeing | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| various ways, such as the conscious, subsidiary but legitimate longings I mentioned before, or in displaced longings | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| into more superficial, even though in themselves quite legitimate fears and longings. Have the courage and commitment | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| impossible, and closeness is surely one of your legitimate needs. So is privacy. If privacy and secrecy | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| for privacy must be shortchanged. Privacy is a legitimate need of the soul. You need to be | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |