| Masturbation................3 | |
| such as alcoholism. QUESTION: Some psychologists say that masturbation is a primary addiction. Is this connected with | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the age of the person. To a degree, masturbation is normal. If it is a constant practice | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| difficult to recognize the underlying real need. However, masturbation is also a substitute. It may be an | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Mate........................47 | |
| mother is different from your love for your mate, that your love for your sister or brother | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to such a strong degree that it can mate with divine forces; it is thus prepared in | 18 FREE WILL |
| compatible person elsewhere. Whether this applies to a mate, to friends, or to general human contact, makes | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| as they are, depend on your finding your mate again. This is not so! If it were | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| is based on fear of not seeing your mate again, of not being good enough, this very | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| much. And believe me, your reunion with your mate does not depend on what you do or | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| shall be happy to make contact with your mate and will let you know. COMMENT: Thank you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| role of a friend. You may love a mate as much as possible under the present circumstances | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| parents in your other relationships, particularly with your mate. The more fixed your emotions are, the more | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| unfulfilled need for a mutual relationship, for a mate. You have to specifically recognize that several needs | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| with all the unfulfilled needs of the missing mate, you must become overintense, anxious, hostile, insecure. Every | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| place while the barrier to union with a mate remains can be only partial and conditional. For | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| in the highest bliss of union with a mate, and that you experience in the highest bliss | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| to the barrier between the self and a mate. Pride enters because, whether you are man or | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| blissful experience of self-forgetfulness in union with a mate. Some of you may sense the similarity, at | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and privileged to have when you find your mate. And this will ultimately be the experience of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| fear of letting go into union with a mate and, the third in the triad, the fear | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the unknown qualities of life itself, to a mate -- the stronger you must be. You will | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| a woman who surrenders her autonomy to a mate because she is too fearful and lazy to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| caricature out of femininity. Her surrender to the mate will never be motivated by love and trust | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| activate a sublime power in him and his mate for the purpose of enriching them both. Her | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| woman heightens the mastery of self-activation in her mate. She will encourage his full selfhood, not competing | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| that you meditate for more fulfillment with a mate. The force of your own conviction that you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| an overt condition, such as unfulfillment with a mate, or lack of the proper mate? Ask yourself | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| with a mate, or lack of the proper mate? Ask yourself: what is your intentionality in this | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| bliss of the most intimate relationship with one mate, and the satisfaction of deep, open friendships. Pleasure | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| all possibilities. Thus it will be able to mate with the inner stillness and what appears at | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| found your dependency, be it on family, a mate, the group. First unconsciously, and later consciously, you | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to be truly fulfilling. If you use a mate because you do not wish to fend for | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more, you will need the group, or the mate more. The hate for those one needs and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contributing member of society, and being a loving mate. In fact, real love is not possible for | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| less loving, less equipped to be a giving mate, has never had any substance. This new state | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| superior father authority you have shifted onto a mate. You also know how such an implicit desire | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| New Age will no longer need a weaker mate in order to deny his own weakness. He | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| an equal. He does not require an inferior mate to convince himself of his acceptability, which, of | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| well as a sense of gratitude toward the mate. Thus two equals help each other in their | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of self-worth, emotional fulfillment in love with a mate, all these are desired by all human beings | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Perhaps you put emphasis on your profession, your mate, your personal fulfillment, rather than letting these other | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| on whom you are financially dependent, or a mate whose love you crave and need. If your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| new boss, a new relationship or a new mate. The new authorities in your life will be | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that the very same people -- boss or mate -- will react differently to your changed attitude | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to another, stronger or seemingly stronger person: a mate, a boss, a dictator. By serving them, you | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| new consciousness becomes complete, and commitment to one mate is experienced as freer, more liberated, and infinitely | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| but with God. You realize God in the mate and God in yourself. No wonder the power | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| decisions and their outcome. When you choose a mate, a friend, a teacher, or someone with whom | 254 SURRENDER |
| to risk following a teacher or loving a mate. This never means closing your eyes to reality | 254 SURRENDER |
| to a leader, a teacher, a helper, a mate, and to certain conditions is often a necessary | 254 SURRENDER |
| Material....................389 | |
| forces of darkness. The dark world takes its material from these currents, from the lack of self- | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| human being does not follow divine law. Spiritual material resembles threads, fine, ray-like threads -- in this | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| not only this one person who furnishes the material for the confusions, but all the other people | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| You can use the knowledge thus acquired as material, as the building blocks, with which you build | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| life is over and it has discarded the material shell that it has not fulfilled everything it | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| in other areas either -- whether spiritual or material. Emotional cross-currents or short-circuits are not equally strongly | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| who hears or reads my words has ample material for self-search. Whoever has such longings should know | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| feel it can you absorb and assimilate this material. Whenever human beings set themselves a goal, whether | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| from the outside; this outside help constitutes the material with which they must build their own house | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| ANSWER: What you have in mind is a material object which you can give to only one | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| by giving happiness was much more than giving material things. Such giving is not always possible and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a fault. For someone who is very avaricious, material giving would be a helpful practice to overcome | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| people are more easily inclined to make some material sacrifice with which to buy their way out | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the question is not the giving of some material thing; this would be much easier, much more | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| 6. THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES My dear friends, you have had many | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the topics of my lectures; they always contain material referring to it. I could give you a | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| no room for doubt, that overshadows any outward, material proof. And you can experience that. Therefore they | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of Hell, since through the strong bondage to material things certain low feelings will be awakened. This | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| but the sense that perceives what is not material. This sense is more developed in animals because | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| we have today. I mean this in the material and not the spiritual sense. He says that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| When there is too much discrepancy between the material and the spiritual development, then certain events will | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is impossible to avoid spiritual destruction except by material catastrophe. History often demonstrates this. Only when spiritual | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| that is re-connection with God, is commensurate with material progress, will history move in a living and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| will and not claim any personal advantages, either material or spiritual. Even a person who fulfills the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| understand. QUESTION: How about the connection between the material and the spiritual, God and Mammon? What is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| it is necessary for the person who has material goods to give them away so as not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to develop spiritually if one does not have material worries, but when one worries about the daily | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| whose life is marked with an absence of material cares is tested to prove that he or | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| You believe it is less important than the material bread. No, my dear ones, the spiritual bread | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| working on the path of self-development, then neither material self-interest nor vanity or any other obstacle will | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| hundredfold when spiritual values are concerned; whereas in material goods, there is an exact exchange at best | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| spirit before it can manifest destruction on the material plane. If only a small part of humankind | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| symbols standing for spiritual reality. There is much material in this to meditate upon. However, the things | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| easier to guide. In the West, technique and material progress are farther advanced because this, in turn | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| 15. INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD Greetings in the name of the Lord | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| speak about the influence between the spiritual and material worlds. Much has been said about the influence | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| spheres to exist on the same geographical or material spot and to overlap. For example, one human | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| blind. Sometimes their guidance may be to your material advantage, which may or may not interfere with | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| less they have to work with in the material world, the more power they must eventually lose | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| have an effect. Humanity would thus constantly furnish material to the world of darkness, and its influence | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the background so that it cannot affect the material world as long as the negative attitude remains | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| This will never change as long as a material world exists; it must be this way. For | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| meant by complete surrender to God is that material comfort, the desires of the ego, become secondary | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| are so often about your daily bread, about material needs. Yet important as this daily bread may | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| such a tremendous discrepancy between the concern for material nourishment and the lack of spiritual nourishment. The | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| needs automatically be taken care of, including your material daily bread. Your spirit's starvation must have its | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| spiritual point of view often contrasts with your material point of view, and one day your outlook | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| consciousness! But there is no life like your material one. The matter is just different, of different | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the other planets is not exactly in your material form. Radiant matter varies greatly. What may be | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| of their ability to advise us in some material problems? ANSWER: Oh, yes, they are, indeed, limited | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it this way: The earth sphere or the material world has been created for you humans for | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the laws long before this earth and this material world came into existence. The keeping of these | 18 FREE WILL |
| thought or attitude, which started long before the material earth existed, caused the coming into existence of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| real understanding; in a sense it may be material containing seeds for enlightenment. To begin with, what | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| many beings and many worlds, long before a material world existed: worlds of harmony, happiness, infinite beauty | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| they are unsubstantial and formless. Only in your material world are thoughts and feelings abstract: in other | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| which the once fallen spirits had reached. Your material world is one of these in-between worlds. Most | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| explained how long before the existence of the material world, some of the created beings who had | 21 THE FALL |
| longing increased, the time was ripe for the material world as you know it to come into | 21 THE FALL |
| existence. You may say that God created the material world, and this is true, for nothing can | 21 THE FALL |
| force. However, it is equally true that the material world was also created by the longing of | 21 THE FALL |
| Very gradually, human beings came into existence in material form through various intermediate states. When this happened | 21 THE FALL |
| On the other hand, God's world co-created this material earth and thus, according to the law of | 21 THE FALL |
| early times, a great interchange existed between the material and the Luciferic worlds. The dark spirits claimed | 21 THE FALL |
| pure spirits had no evil in them, the material shell of a body took so much energy | 21 THE FALL |
| that he or she may receive the necessary material to work with. It may be through a | 21 THE FALL |
| imitation of what existed in spirit before this material world and in much greater variety. Human beings | 22 SALVATION |
| concrete, everything is form. In your world only material objects have form and the so-called abstract things | 22 SALVATION |
| but his were intensified to a maximum degree. Material substance is a curtain and man has to | 22 SALVATION |
| place in exactly the same manner as a material war on earth, but the essence is nevertheless | 22 SALVATION |
| planet and have such a very physical and material life in order to achieve this. ANSWER: In | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through His law that makes this possible. This material world was, and still is being created in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| technical progress. The mere fact that technical and material progress has been going on so fast in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give to God. This knowledge must be the material for further self-purification -- nothing less. And before | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Sophia , whether after giving excerpts and covering the material in about five or six sessions, can we | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual strength, spiritual truth, divine blessing, all the material you need to advance spiritually, to find yourself | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the price of a shack. On the material level, you have no quarrel with this truth | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| by drop for all your needs, spiritual and material, when you first decide to choose this path | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| purification. This may give some of you good material for meditation. At the present stage of your | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| them you have indeed a treasure of helpful material and a key to your problems. And now | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| not only of your deeds, your obvious and material choices, but also of every emotional attitude a | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| decisions maturely. I am again giving you strong material to work with on your path. Wherever conflicts | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| most people are greedy, not necessarily in the material sense, but emotionally. And when I say greedy | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| what I have said will add to the material you need for your progress, if you assimilate | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| this should be both food for thought and material for meditation. The meditation should make it clear | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that are as substantial and visible as any material object is to you at present and even | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| evil, selfish, destructive purposes. In the latter case, material progress will ultimately wither away, as it has | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| your feelings. Take your daily needs -- not material needs -- into your prayer and consider all | 36 PRAYER |
| my dear friends. Blessed is this hour. The material world constantly presents you with obstacles that prevent | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| think about it. Pray to assimilate the new material properly. Pray that you will be able to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to proceed from here. Those for whom this material is new may not be able to understand | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| while, in the wisdom that this is dangerous material unless self-awareness is present to a marked degree | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a substance every bit as real as your material substance. So this wall is a reality and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| my friends? For spiritual substance is not a material that you use because you choose it as | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| as when you build a form in your material world. You make your choice of material according | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your material world. You make your choice of material according to taste and necessity, but the material | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| material according to taste and necessity, but the material has nothing to do with you. Spiritual substance | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the practice of the daily review. With this material at hand, you can certainly be successful -- | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| as your client he will give you additional material, so that you can succeed better. Listen to | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| of expansion manifests as aggression, war, on the material level, and on the psychological level as hostility | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in part at least. Without going outward, no material would be given to you to point in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| be outright wicked, or a wish to inflict material disadvantage on another person. Your petty vanity, your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the resistance you have to face from the material which is ready to come to the surface | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in various ways. One person may believe that material wealth will gain him greater stature in the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| by the lectures. The lectures serve as general material, but they cannot give the method itself. You | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| or not one should pay attention to this material. ANSWER: That can never do any harm. Since | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| answers exclusively, such questions may be very good material. Let us discuss it together. QUESTION: In accordance | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| - - and you know that even your material objects are full of energy -- has or | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| object and the other. This depends on the material of which they are constructed, and it even | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| even varies between two objects of the same material, because many, many other factors also play a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| be ripe. You have to have the necessary material, all the essentials you need for the new | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In this case, one acquires things of actual material value through which one may get some power | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of things has nothing to do with actual material value with which to impress others. It is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the possibility that you may not remember the material I give. Had you retained the lecture about | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| he can relate the relative truths of the material world to the spiritual world? ANSWER: Yes, that | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more and more the relative truths of the material world to the absolute truth of spiritual reality | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If the same resourcefulness, powers of intelligence and material were used to unfold this energy in a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by looking at the stone: the quality and material, as well as the color. But you cannot | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| dearest friends, may my words give you further material and food for your inner progress. They contain | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| first place, humankind's salvation is seen only through material solutions, and that never can be. In the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| one's own involvement and interest -- outer, conscious, material ones, or inner, unconscious, emotional ones. World peace | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| unconstructive. You will also notice that background thought material consists mainly of the following: (1) Symptoms of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| automatic repetitions make up, in the main, the material of the unbidden background thoughts. Coming and going | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to think, do the opposite: transfer background thought material into conscious foreground thought. First learn to evaluate | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| discard them. This process will bring forth additional material about your unconscious conflicts and teach you to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| elect to, undisturbed by the wasteful, fluctuating thought material that has no importance, and serves only to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| sudden you find yourself involved in background thought material that you can only now begin to evaluate | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a chance to be quite calm. Background thought material makes this impossible. It disperses the mind in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| both approaches are followed through properly. Background thought material appears to us in the spirit world in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| than the others'. Let my words again be material for your further self-search. And so I retire | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| said today and in recent lectures can be material for many months of work. Try to make | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| this one, should furnish quite a lot of material for your further work, and also for questions | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| nourishment, and by using this lecture as additional material. All of these together are bound to bring | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| By doing this, you yourself will produce the material that needs to be worked on. Your inner | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you at any given moment, this is the material that should be discussed in your work. And | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exist without cooperation and communication. Even on the material level humanity could not survive without them. Food | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the community's life function on the most basic material level. This is so obvious that I need | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| will give you much food for thought and material for progress. Be blessed, each one of you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Outwardly, for instance, you may be generous with material things, but in certain areas of your inner | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| letting go of obsolete things so that new material cannot be assimilated by the soul. This is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| this area. You may regret or dislike any material disadvantage resulting from the setback, but you will | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| form or another, these may serve as additional material for search. The idealized self-image shows up in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the only reality that counts. It determines your material life just as much as your spiritual life | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others. You will learn to perceive anything in material existence as a symbol of the soul forces | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- in a hurry and by shortcuts through material means, is a venture bound to end in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ignorance of this fact, life conditions produce sufficient material to work out the existing problems without this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for next time. I have given you much material. If out of this material you have sufficient | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| given you much material. If out of this material you have sufficient questions for discussion, and you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| lectures. You have received a great deal of material that you could not possibly have absorbed intellectually | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this time with a rapid succession of difficult material is not advisable. So, if you have some | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| May it help you to absorb all the material you have received, even though some of it | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very subtly. Relinquishing may not require outer or material giving up, but rather letting go of an | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in tolerance and understanding; the charity of giving material things; the charity of feeling with and for | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| emotions and self-alienation. When much of the past material is forgotten and thus cannot be linked with | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and thus cannot be linked with the current material, so much understanding is lost. How can you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| their general goal. This will offer you invaluable material about the root of your problems. Instead of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| ways: earth may be your outer life, the material life, physical life, physical actions and outer facts | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| This may not apply to all your outer material life, but may affect the emotional plane. If | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |