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 Middle......................49
a generally valid rule for establishing the right middle ground; everything depends on the character. If a 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
carelessly. Everyone must find his or her own middle ground, and you will certainly find yours on 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
halves were rarely split apart exactly in the middle. The breaking apart was the result of the 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
Are there entities who split exactly along the middle? ANSWER: Hardly; very rarely. But as I said 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
not so wide, where the deviations from the middle line are relatively small, and where less of 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
alive. Here, as in everything else, the right middle path is so difficult to attain and to 18 FREE WILL
difficult to attain and to maintain. The right middle path between extremes can be found and adhered 18 FREE WILL
and you stand, so to speak, in the middle and can choose. This gives you a much 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the wrong opposite extreme. To find the right middle path in everything is part of the path 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
is the way to get right into the middle of this path. Without God's help, it would 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
this plan you will find the Higher or Middle Lightworld, where these lightforces are gathered again, concentrated 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
worlds. But in this sphere, the Higher or Middle Lightworld, spirit beings or personifications of individual lightforces 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
are. Again you have to strive for the middle path. Accepting does not mean wanting to stay 31 SHAME
as well as the one most difficult right middle path concerning every individual human trend. Therefore, perhaps 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
or wrong. How it is done, whether the middle path between the two wrong extremes is found 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
decisions not deviate too strongly from the right middle course. When an entity is not yet developed 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
friends. But the full truth lies in the middle, or rather in an extension of these two 38 IMAGES
and erratically. The harmonious personality finds the healthy middle way and uses the will rationally or emotionally 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
Both are wrong -- for only the harmonious middle path leads to the complete solution. Although there 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
friends, as usual, the truth lies in the middle. Some, out of the mistaken idea that everything 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
is: Examine your love and find the right middle path. One extreme is the inability to give 47 THE WALL WITHIN
Then, gradually, your emotions will find the right middle way. The person for whom the loved one 47 THE WALL WITHIN
creates another. Thus the healthy way is the middle path: accepting the effects of one's imperfections and 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
one has to try and find the right middle way between these wrong extremes. At one extreme 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
a sick kind of self-love. So the right middle way has to be found in this respect 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
others. This is always the difficulty. The right middle way is, briefly speaking, that life brings all 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
one does not dare to look. This right middle way demands a certain objectivity. But do not 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
are concerned, you have to find this right middle way by testing yourself constantly. Whatever your extreme 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
extremes have to be experienced before the healthy middle road is found. This applies to any issue 53 SELF-LOVE
compromise. You have difficulty in finding the right middle way perhaps? Yes. Let me try to show 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
are not expected to decide what the right middle way is. You couldn't do that. The moment 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
not apply to weighing and measuring the right middle way. It applies much rather to your facing 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
Once you have gained this freedom, the right middle way will not be something you have to 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
need in you to prove anything, the right middle way will be as natural as breathing. Do 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
completely natural process. You have found the right middle way without having to deliberate and choose: not 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
are to begin, those who are in the middle, and those who are at the end of 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
from one class to another. While in the middle of learning, it does not have the perspective 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
that they are merely victims caught in the middle. Having to choose between everyday alternatives that confront 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
dynamic and flexible and therefore always requires the middle road which can only be attained by responsible 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
not destined. Humanity now finds itself in the middle stage. It is the state of becoming, in 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
mind, the emotions and the body. In the middle of the body is the solar plexus. For 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
pain. Many human beings find themselves in the middle state, where one universal pulse is felt as 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
all perceivable creative functions are split in the middle. The principles discussed here are also affected by 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
ill. Most human beings are somewhere in the middle. They have some positive and some negative chain 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
use this powerful energy to come into the middle of the circle and honestly confront each other 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
a different approach. For example, people in the Middle Ages were apt to act out their cruel 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
would rather avoid, the golden point in the middle, the wonderful point of truth and reality will 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
do with the Center. We are in the middle of a very complicated transactional situation in relation 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
Only then can you truly stand in the middle of life as it unfolds around you, never 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
 Mild........................4
insanity is the same as that of the mild tantrum. The basic attitude is the same both 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
that you shrink from -- whether it causes mild annoyance or stark fright or anything in-between -- 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
strongest human love experience is only a lukewarm, mild shadow of the cosmic feeling that encompasses everything 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
out the stifling heat of the climate. The mild arctic sunshine may provide the warmth and balance 228 BALANCE
 
 Milder......................3
working with others. If you can translate the milder cases into stronger cases of law-violations, then you 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
only in the following life -- than the milder neurotic person who continues to evade. As long 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
influxes lend themselves more to distortion than the milder forms of creative manifestation. With the knowledge you 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
 
 Milestone...................10
sign that a soul has reached a significant milestone on the upward road. At that point you 47 THE WALL WITHIN
can adjust to authority maturely and freely, another milestone has been reached in the overall development of 47 THE WALL WITHIN
childish because unconscious compulsive attitudes prevail, then this milestone remains to be reached later. As long as 47 THE WALL WITHIN
victory is, in most cases at least, a milestone indicating that you will not leave this path 47 THE WALL WITHIN
particular phase. It is a crucial and decisive milestone on your road. When you get over this 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
are now housed in new quarters represents a milestone. Divine blessings go forth to all of you 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
It is, as you can see, an essential milestone on your whole road of evolution. It constitutes 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
to such dictates. And that is a tremendous milestone on the road from infanthood, childhood, adolescence, into 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in the new one. Each battle indicates another milestone that makes the attainment of the real state 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
to overcome them. This lecture can become a milestone indeed for some of you, my friends. It 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
 
 Milestones..................4
certain important stages of overall development -- decisive milestones -- is the spirit given the whole chain 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
constitutes maturity and immaturity. One of the great milestones on the road to maturity is the ability 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Every living organism experiences visible changes, which represent milestones in its process of growth. When I speak 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
growth possible; the new venture is blessed. Whenever milestones are passed in the growth process of an 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
 
 Militant....................4
of it. They do not have to be militant about it. So, a rebellious nonconforming minority may 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
often see individuals who become very combative and militant for a good cause. They are no longer 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
defensive about what you see -- and consequently militant and hostile. Again, emotional fusion can exist only 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
to the opposite extreme. The woman has become militant, thereby often forgetting her heart and her love 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
 
 Millennia...................11
or another, just as humankind has done for millennia, by saying that pleasure is wrong and frivolous 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
pain and frustration. You have been indoctrinated for millennia with the conviction that any frustration is pain 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
destroy in abeyance. Through many life experiences, through millennia of living under varied circumstances, each entity learns 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
sacrifice? Religion has taught this for centuries, for millennia, because it misunderstood the meaning of acceptance. It 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
how to handle it. So civilization has for millennia denied the instinctual life in order to preserve 174 SELF-ESTEEM
made available to yourself in the course of millennia of evolution. What are your choices as you 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
These feelings are often accumulations of centuries and millennia -- not just decades. Each life incarnation presents 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
spirituality. This is why people acted out for millennia the most bestial drives in sexuality, thus giving 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
is a psychic explosion that has run through millennia to the last half hour you have lived 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
human beings have been praying for, addressing for millennia a God outside themselves, thinking that dispensations given 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
the tight lock -- that has existed for millennia -- from your heart. The more your heart 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE

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