| Machinations................3 | |
| it is detected, observed, and followed in its machinations, which must be clearly understood. A stronger no- | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| deal with, others' negativity and see when their machinations could abuse you. The very pain that this | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and bring all your guilts, all your lower-self machinations to the fore, you stand there poor. You | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Machine.....................16 | |
| would have seemed impossible to you that a machine could fly in the sky, or that you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| breakdown. It is as though you took a machine apart and you do not know how to | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| But it may come too, eventually. Such a machine will prove extremely useful. QUESTION: Could it also | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a rule, and second, to become like a machine, I should like to say that you have | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| aim. This seems to me like being a machine. ANSWER: There is another confusion here, my friend | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| from it. This certainly does not make a machine out of anybody. It would be more appropriate | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| appropriate to call the perpetually rebelling person a machine, and an ineffectual one at that, who constantly | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| more of an individual and less of a machine when you constantly scream and fight where there | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| makes you believe that the person is a machine who faces an issue squarely, and upon discovering | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is alive, a distinct individual, and not a machine, divorced from warmth, courage, and humor. The true | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| work -- radio, television, an airplane, a computer machine, and what have you -- you will perhaps | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Take, for example, a motor car, or a machine you use, like a record player, or whatever | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or whatever it may be. You love that machine. You may even use it for your spiritual | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You give it care. Your appreciation makes the machine respond, even with its extremely limited, small inner | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| hyperactive robot. The mind then becomes a computerized machine. True aliveness exists only when you wed the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Modern people are small cogs in a big machine, depersonalized because they halted both movements: their own | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Macrocosm...................5 | |
| and the spiritual organism. They apply to the macrocosm and the microcosm -- to the one-celled life | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| within the human soul also exists in the macrocosm. Every inner drama is a reflection of an | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| deeper. Everything in creation exists in both the macrocosm and the microcosm. It is repeated over and | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| mentioned before that everything exists in microcosm and macrocosm, in many repetitions, for the principles of creation | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| the same principle repeated in microcosm and in macrocosm, you develop a deeper understanding. Through this understanding | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Macrocosmic.................5 | |
| microcosm of an entire universe within, representing the macrocosmic universe. The same laws and conditions apply to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| greater truth, no universal fact of creation, no macrocosmic event that cannot also be immediately applied to | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| is experienced within the human soul. The larger, macrocosmic fear of injustice, that is, meaninglessness, also exists | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| and reveal larger processes, gradually leading into the macrocosmic events. At first, almost all earthly events seem | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| when the microcosmic connections are being made do macrocosmic events reveal their meaning and connections, their causes | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Magic.......................38 | |
| the difference between mysticism and white and black magic? ANSWER: This is too long a subject for | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| mystic and the occult and black and white magic, but there was no time to answer. Can | 18 FREE WILL |
| very well the difference between black and white magic, I am sure. So I will answer the | 18 FREE WILL |
| the question concerning the difference between mysticism and magic. You see, we do not have these exact | 18 FREE WILL |
| of God's will in every particle of life. Magic merely explores the psychic forces. The goal of | 18 FREE WILL |
| the use of certain psychic forces. True, white magic will use these forces for a good purpose | 18 FREE WILL |
| use these forces for a good purpose. But magic will not go further than the control of | 18 FREE WILL |
| will not be sidetracked by the fascination of magic which represents a great temptation and the grave | 18 FREE WILL |
| abandoned it because they were too impressed by magic forces which, at one point or another on | 18 FREE WILL |
| hear. There is no easy method and no magic formula by which you can obtain the happiness | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you should do at present. There is no magic trick to it. After you have kept a | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is no test and no trick and no magic. So no confirmation is really necessary. For if | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a person is capable of. There is no magic key and no shortcut. All that, if it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than anticipating a drastic change. There is no magic formula. You can accelerate the automatic growth process | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| not a projection of a kind of black magic, due to the childish belief in one's omnipotence | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| in order to strengthen one's childish desire for magic, to encourage the equally childish greed for everything | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the necessity to give up the desire for magic? Whether or not you have made such confusions | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| must be free of the childish desire for magic and be able to accept the self-produced misery | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| happiness. You see, my friends, the desire for magic represents the wish to avoid the consequences of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| for this is the law. This is no magic, it is not an inconceivably difficult feat that | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and this cannot happen by wishful thinking, illusory magic, or denial of the facts. Let us take | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| This shaping of circumstances is not done by magic, by exerting power and control over others so | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| avoided, skipped, bypassed or whisked away by some magic spiritual means. Self-realization, self-actualization, reaching your spiritual center | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| his miserable state and from whom he expects magic cure, while he goes on destroying himself with | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| yourself by pretending that this is unrealistic, childish magic -- which was only a pretense to avoid | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| hitherto undreamed-of options and possibilities -- not by magic, but by trying out attitudes that were totally | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| attitude is at your disposal. It is not magic. It is an immediately available choice. You can | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which many individuals wish to cure by some magic -- drugs, pills, formulas, or even meditation. They | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| effortlessness. This desirable effortlessness is not given by magic, however, for this would mean that the ego | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| thoughts, their intentions, their feelings. This is not magic; it occurs naturally because in reality you and | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| to read others' minds would amount to dangerous magic if it came from an individual's psychic power | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| then put into channels of unrealizable fantasies of magic. You believe fulfillment is supposed to be given | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| process is slow and there are no quick, magic results. For a long time, the focus must | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| be or should be or could be by magic. Then you bypass the now point that could | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| must not be approached in a spirit of magic that is supposed to eliminate the growing and | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| because no inspirational response comes forth when using magic to coddle your laziness and self- indulgence. The | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| individual to abandon the claim for omnipotence and magic, with all the negative traits that are inherent | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you that equips you with this kind of magic, while you still remain free. This freedom means | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Magical.....................13 | |
| kind of a hope for a sort of magical transformation of my life. Maybe you can give | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| established as long as the personality plays such magical, childish, bargaining and -- in the final analysis | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| living are loosened up -- not through outer magical means, but through your increasing capacity to cope | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the limitless expansion as the child strives for magical omnipotence because the personality fears and dislikes dealing | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| not want it handed to me as a magical gift. I am willing to pay the price | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| consciousness. Often this is believed to be a magical process that suddenly occurs. It is not. To | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| even more justified negativity. Unrealistic hopelessness and unrealistic magical hope are the two extremes which lead to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be done unto thee. This is not a magical process. If the fear of feeling your feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| unto thee. It does not mean there are magical intercessions from heaven, reward for faith and punishment | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| spiritual self as yet. You may not experience magical revelations, visions, and mystical inspirations. The first answers | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| it will be done. This is not a magical power that works for you without making you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of the outer personality is an insistence on magical solutions that are supposed to eliminate the need | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the infant in you who demands omnipotence and magical solutions. You express these claims and desires and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |