| Materialism.................5 | |
| one other thought in my mind. The great materialism of this tremendous power might be a block | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| opiate. By the same token, the enemies of materialism are right when they reject the materialistic point | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| harm to true religion than complete atheism and materialism because it makes a farce of truth, of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and pain. The second principle of evil is materialism. This not only applies to the earth sphere | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and cosmic realities as the second principle of materialism. The confusion and half-truth inherent in the denial | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Materialistic...............10 | |
| God-consciousness, perhaps even in spite of atheistic and materialistic parental and other influences. In another case, it | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| or even an atheist, who tends to be materialistic. However, it would be a gross generalization to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| which I mean that we live in a materialistic and rather selfish world, and what the world | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is hindered by new dogmas, such as the materialistic philosophy of life. Whenever the individual bends to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of materialism are right when they reject the materialistic point of view, not only because it is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is still geared to a very superficial and materialistic plane, the matter the entity produces for the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| overall consciousness. Human science, even from the merely materialistic point of view, shows this to be so | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| are varied. One of them is, for example, materialistic blindness, where only what is seen and touched | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| resist going beyond the faulty, limited logic of materialistic consciousness in which life appears a given fixed | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the need for companionship were polluted by opportunistic, materialistic, and exploitative ends. Even worse, this pollution and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Materialization.............11 | |
| different part of the room. There may be materialization, levitation, and many more phenomena that I cannot | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is necessary. It is a different form of materialization or transfiguration. There are, for instance, mediums whose | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| different degrees of density. Unless there is a materialization, you cannot see the texture of matter existing | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the problems? They are nothing else but the materialization of your faults. When you purify your faults | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| applies to your world. You may see a materialization or other sights, if the spirit world fulfills | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of a psychic phenomenon. In this category belong materialization, transfiguration, direct voice, and aural transfiguration -- speaking | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| abstain from all manifestations such as direct voice, materialization, et cetera. QUESTION: The only thing I do | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and age it is called, I believe, a materialization of spirit substance. It is condensation of spirit | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the idea that later materializes. Without an idea, materialization is impossible. Attitudes, ways of being, and patterns | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| no material existence, however. Every cell is a materialization of psychic nuclear points with all the chain | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| that created the specific situation, that is, the materialization of a psychic nuclear point. It cannot be | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Materialize.................12 | |
| of different density. Those spirits can, of course, materialize. We can do so and have done so | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| law. Because the deviation is negative, it must materialize as something you feel in a disharmonious way | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| are illusions, and even if, at times, they materialize, they will not really satisfy you. These aims | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of letting go, of relaxation, can your wishes materialize. When you are in a state of I | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| state of I must have it, they cannot materialize. The tension itself is hostile to the necessary | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| you fear that what you want will not materialize, the less faith you have in your life | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| soul, whose inexorable, lawful effects cannot fail to materialize. This process is so often misunderstood. It is | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| as your possibility. You will be able to materialize it because you already are essentially that person | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| some time before the inner meaning can fully materialize. More steps, effort and groping may be necessary | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| that is developing, that is organically waiting to materialize. The time has passed when it was enough | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| self into play, the expected bliss can never materialize. I have discussed this before, specifically in connection | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| have sown. When the emotional experience fails to materialize for a while, it is not that He | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Materialized................4 | |
| If this happened you would think such a materialized spirit was of flesh and blood. But life | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| like to tell you that a plan has materialized for a second smaller group to be formed | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| nuclear point. Although some psychic nuclear points are materialized, you cannot measure or discern them with your | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| existence. But they are just as important as materialized psychic nuclear points, for they certainly affect you | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Materially..................6 | |
| the background; for another, to give something, whether materially or spiritually. Everyone has different difficulties, and each | 21 THE FALL |
| having someone care for you -- not necessarily materially, but emotionally -- that is equally shortsighted and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to excel over others, or even physically and materially dependent. Her resourcefulness as a human being suffers | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| stands on her own two feet, not only materially, but also intellectually, mentally, and emotionally. By that | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| innate riches, talents, everything you possess spiritually or materially. You are holding in rather than giving out | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| it possible for those who need to be materially sustained at the beginning, to have scholarships until | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Mates.......................10 | |
| that every quality is a healthy strength that mates with a corresponding strength in the universe, whereas | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| at all times, not just in relationship between mates and sweethearts. It is also in the love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| can take shape as a small squabble between mates or as a conflict between countries at war | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| All this applies to any kind of relationship: mates, parents and children, friendships, or business contacts. The | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| relationships -- especially the intimate one between two mates. Relationships are not recognized as a mirror for | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| simple object, or the unifying of two loving mates. This point of fusion which you may call | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| power, and social advantage became motives for choosing mates. Mass images, appearances, idealized self-images were nourished; pride | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| before, specifically in connection with the relationship between mates. I need to repeat it here in the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| for instance, you will recognize to what extent mates keep secrets from one another -- not only | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| not seem to work very well and that mates cannot stay together? Yet the marriage relationship is | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Mathematical................7 | |
| you refuse to receive. It is a simple mathematical equation, or a law of physics. These laws | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| but a compounded fourfold one. Imagine the many mathematical possibilities that arise from such a situation, with | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| psyche follows its own life-movement. This is a mathematical equation. QUESTION: I can see that, but I | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| which works out with the exactitude of a mathematical equation. Of course, people are totally unaware that | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| order; this universal order has an exactitude and mathematical precision that escapes human vision. Only at times | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| expresses your inner state exactly, like a faultless mathematical equation. Thus you can use your life as | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| a planet, of the human anatomy, of a mathematical system, of the literally infinite qualities contained in | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Mathematics.................6 | |
| Others are more intricate and remain unrevealed. Higher mathematics beyond your level of reality contains the key | 228 BALANCE |
| enlightened human beings have sensed the relationship between mathematics and the key to the universe, the key | 228 BALANCE |
| be measured with figures and equations of the mathematics you know. It is not a fifty-fifty proposition | 228 BALANCE |
| within. The inner balance comes from a different mathematics, a measurement that comes from wisdom on a | 228 BALANCE |
| laws of physics and chemistry and laws of mathematics, so are there laws of the inner world | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| These principles are just as basic as language, mathematics, or any other topic, but are even more | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Matthew.....................4 | |
| loose on earth shall be bound in Heaven. (Matthew 16: 18-20). ANSWER: The meaning is this: Jesus | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love. COMMENT: May I add something too? In Matthew 5:38, Jesus says: Ye have heard that | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ban against pork. In the fifteenth verse of Matthew, Jesus said, Not that which goeth into the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| with anger. QUESTION: The conquest of fear in Matthew is by way of faith in God. How | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Mature......................267 | |
| laws are accomplished within you, is your soul mature enough to encompass happiness. People often wonder about | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| brings with it the corresponding consequences, which the mature person is able to distinguish and accept. He | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| spiritually immature person is of this fallacy. Spiritually mature people know this. They know that they themselves | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| this is achieved happiness will follow. The spiritually mature know that it is exactly the other way | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| see first what happiness means in the spiritually mature sense. It means, simply: God. Finding God is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| have overcome the hurdles within you and are mature enough to remain in a state of truth | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| in some respect, and often in many respects. Mature people have to be prepared to accept the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| afraid of emotions which you are not yet mature enough to sustain. So be not afraid, my | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| this knowledge will be theirs. When they are mature and courageous enough to include spiritual reality in | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| people daydream, it is one thing; when they mature, they will get over it. If people continue | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| be understood by those not yet ready and mature. This may give you an idea of the | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| different. Whenever the soul is not healthy and mature, certain occasions will bring this out and the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your endeavor toward self-knowledge, self-honesty. The wise and mature attitude, of course, is not believing that you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of human beings are incapable of making clear-cut, mature decisions. That is why their souls become sick | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| wrong choices and one that is right. Only mature and responsible searching will eventually show you what | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| right attitude. Now what is the right and mature attitude with which to decide? The answer is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to be faced and accepted. To make a mature decision means therefore to deliberate each alternative thoroughly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| friends. In that way you act as a mature being and your soul must benefit from it | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| little than too much to a person not mature enough to understand the nature of the soul | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| develop and become a better and emotionally more mature person, so as to handle life better and | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to change inner currents indicates the true and mature spirituality that we want for you. Only in | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| it happens that a part of an otherwise mature being remains immature. Actually, this part continues to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| immaturity takes over wherever your image is affected. Mature beings know they can control life only by | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| make you strong and safe. You will become mature by the mere acknowledgement of the principle and | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| ready to love in the most vital and mature way, you will not try to close your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the people you love, and your love will mature and grow in stature. Thus you will grow | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| been reviewed and reevaluated in the light of mature judgment and reality. When you look at your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| your love, instead of weakening, must grow and mature, you can overcome your resistance to finding out | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| truth in others, as well as in yourselves. Mature love means to love others in spite of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| may be unhealthy. Either way may also be mature and harmonious. With the mature and harmonious person | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| may also be mature and harmonious. With the mature and harmonious person, however, there is no pattern | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| on a relationship where the choice is a mature one and yet the partners cannot get around | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| herself, to let the emotions come out. The mature woman who is earnestly willing to undertake the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the adventure of true marriage will have the mature and healthy instinct to find the right partner | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for the other to start. Whoever is more mature and courageous at a particular instant will start | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| more human beings would let their sex drives mature and mingle with love -- and with eros | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| I discussed tonight. Few people are ready and mature enough for it. You can make yourself ready | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| new opinion may evolve. Or, after conscious and mature deliberation, you may decide the old opinion seems | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| that the part in you that could not mature because you kept it suppressed wants just that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| steadfastly in one direction. You will then become mature enough in your soul to realize that the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| law-upholder who is governed by healthy, conscious and mature motivations based on strength, not weakness. Please, my | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a child who is forced to obey. The mature attitude is the free one. This real kind | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| child. Because of your lack of knowledge and mature insight, the forces of evil could take a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you could. Hence your sexual drive could not mature with the rest of your personality and integrate | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| living includes an occasional hurt or disappointment. The mature person knows this, expects and accepts it, and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| conflict with themselves and their surroundings. The emotionally mature person knows that there is always a price | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| on its own two feet; it cannot make mature decisions; it cannot be independent of weak and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the child is incapable of unselfish love. The mature adult grows into it provided the whole personality | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| There are very few adults who are as mature emotionally as they are intellectually. The child desires | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| when you desire love in a healthy and mature way which does not cover sick motives, and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| then only, will these emotions slowly begin to mature. So far you have not realized that your | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it is not your own, arrived at through mature deliberation, it is more harmful to the soul | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is a healthy kind that exists in the mature soul. But wherever unconscious attitudes and currents are | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| one. It is God's will that you become mature, independent, and responsible for your decisions. By no | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| depends entirely on the motive. Whoever interprets free, mature decision-making as self-will, should question himself -- or | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sexual drive was kept hidden. Nothing hidden can mature. As you know, it works the same way | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| face their sexuality consciously so that it can mature with the rest of the personality. Hence they | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concept of its sinfulness, the less can it mature and integrate with love. Whenever it manifests, the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how hard you may try; it lies in mature growth into integration with love. No force, no | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with them on the basis of your more mature intellect. Find specifically: What are your desires? Why | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |