| happy if you progress and persevere on this path. All of you receive the blessings of God | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| blessings of God. Be in peace, walk your path with courage and the knowledge that all your | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| faith by working spiritually, by walking on this path of perfection, by getting to know yourselves as | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| not only people at the beginning of this path or those on its threshold who need to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| even unpleasant truth. All my friends on the path have experienced how they must occasionally encounter unflattering | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| byproduct of your inner victory in walking the path to God. When you do not need proofs | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| course, one of the fundamentals of a spiritual path. Since your thoughts are reality, they have form | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| With every upward step you take on the path, your feelings will change automatically, naturally, and gradually | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the effort one has to make on the path: self-knowledge, overcoming one's faults, learning the spiritual laws | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| The cause can be found only on a path of self-knowledge. Find the fault in you that | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is therefore of utmost importance on the spiritual path to learn to give up one's life in | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| this affects the process of purification, or the path of perfection, or psychological therapy, whatever you want | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| far is desirelessness a necessary step toward the path of perfection? I refer especially to the differences | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| vitality. And the higher you are on the path, the more alive you become. You do care | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| gradually and organically if you proceed on the path, and you will not even be aware at | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| a byproduct, if and when you follow this path of happiness. This is what I have to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| your inner trend has broken. Whoever follows this path, whoever sincerely wants to walk it, will definitely | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| always will happen because you cannot take this path without teachings from the outside. You will thus | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| fully aware of. This means taking the narrow path, the spiritual path. Many people do not want | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| This means taking the narrow path, the spiritual path. Many people do not want to think that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| person himself. If you want to walk this path and be cured of your emotional sicknesses, it | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your outer actions. Although you are taking the path of purification, you will not have any measure | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| stand in the way when deciding on the path of perfection and purification. For the most part | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| learn from you if you take the spiritual path of self-development. However, if you are not stronger | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you. Those of you who walk on the path of perfection, which is the only real protection | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| growths at their roots. This happens on the path of perfection and self-development, the path of happiness | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| on the path of perfection and self-development, the path of happiness. If you are willing to take | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| happiness. If you are willing to take this path, you will be guided and helped. But first | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you also need in order to take this path. You will be guided to the place and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| -- each individual person -- would walk the path of perfection. Though this path would be different | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| would walk the path of perfection. Though this path would be different for each individual, because what | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| tries, honestly and sincerely, and works on this path, furnishes many stones; not only the medium, but | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| all of you do this who walk this path with my help. And now, before I turn | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| then he or she is on the right path and is not going over the borderline. And | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| here, my dear. When a person on the path wants something, he or she should first of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| voice, if you have decided to take this path and remain on it no matter what, happiness | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you do this, you are on the right path and are already fulfilling a part of your | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| is given as encouragement to stay on your path, or it may be a reminder to take | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| it may be a reminder to take this path. It is, at any rate, a sign of | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| but if you are truly on the right path and fulfill God's will for you, no matter | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| can you cross the first threshold on the path to God. But this fight cannot be won | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| all battles and nothing that follows on this path can be compared to it. You will emerge | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| very personal and serious endeavors. This is the path to God. This is what it means to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| still be lacking at the beginning of this path. Here, too, nobody can have faith by forcing | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| purification process and, on a long and upward-winding path, you will walk out of all the darkness | 18 FREE WILL |
| of my friends who desire to follow this path in a general sense have not yet used | 18 FREE WILL |
| Here, as in everything else, the right middle path is so difficult to attain and to maintain | 18 FREE WILL |
| to attain and to maintain. The right middle path between extremes can be found and adhered to | 18 FREE WILL |
| which, at one point or another on this path, would become available. QUESTION: What about occultism? ANSWER | 18 FREE WILL |
| But when people seriously work on the mystic path, the time comes when this must happen too | 18 FREE WILL |
| ecstasy is reached. Anyone who seriously walks the path of purification and perfection must, after a comparatively | 18 FREE WILL |
| not want to develop spiritually and walk this path of perfection for which a continuous supply of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| coincidental ones. All those who really walk the path actively and with open eyes will observe and | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the divine principles, even though it means a path of suffering for those who wish to get | 21 THE FALL |
| for in your innermost being. No matter what path you choose, if it does not contain complete | 21 THE FALL |
| the knowledge you acquire as you follow the path of soul-knowledge. Now how to accomplish this? Of | 21 THE FALL |
| But its rewards are the richest, for this path is the only one that will bring you | 21 THE FALL |
| be quite sure you are on the proper path. But because the temptation is always so great | 21 THE FALL |
| fringes before they can really go on the path; but whoever does it will, indeed, become free | 21 THE FALL |
| that. As I said, this is a difficult path. But blessed are those who take it, who | 21 THE FALL |
| can accomplish in one incarnation by taking this path would perhaps need twenty otherwise. That is the | 21 THE FALL |
| QUESTION: But not everyone is led to this path. There are millions of people who are not | 21 THE FALL |
| is not the only possibility to take a path such as this, my dear. Certainly, the help | 21 THE FALL |
| has even the slightest possibility to take the path will be led somehow, somewhere to the right | 21 THE FALL |
| arises that someone who is ready for the path may not have the opportunity to find it | 21 THE FALL |
| great percentage of people who could take this path and who are led to where they could | 21 THE FALL |
| of hundreds will really and truly take this path. Every great person, teacher, priest -- any communication | 21 THE FALL |
| is not yet ready to take this difficult path of perfection. If in this life they learn | 21 THE FALL |
| after all, this might prepare them for the path in their next incarnation. So, you see, the | 21 THE FALL |
| higher self, which is the difficult and narrow path. I have also mentioned that communication with the | 22 SALVATION |
| with these explanations. To remain on the right path under these circumstances without fully understanding it -- | 22 SALVATION |
| later period, when a being finally declares: My path leads to God. I will not listen to | 22 SALVATION |
| and remaining with the decision to follow the path to God -- hence the salvation of Christ | 22 SALVATION |
| purification, only if the steepest and most direct path is taken, should or even can such knowledge | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is proven that the person is following this path. Now, as to the technical and practical procedure | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your natural reaction. In the course of this path, you will be guided to situations where you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- and this is priceless knowledge on the path of purification. Go with this resistance to the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ones, be blessed, be in God! 25. THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS Greetings in the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| here. More is expected of you. Primarily this path is about changing your innermost feelings. How to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| really in you. The greatest difficulty on this path is that people tend to fool themselves about | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and one of the basic requirements for your path is that you accept the fact of many | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| my friends, in your decision to walk the path of self-development and purification is to become clear | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| most important half of the truth of the path. If you proceed well on this part of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you proceed well on this part of the path, you have won half the battle already, and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| truth. Furthermore, prepare yourself that going on this path does not mean a constant and smooth improvement | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| for you to face the fact that the path is long and that repercussions and times of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| whatsoever. Such people are certainly not on this path. They may be entities of lower development of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| themselves. But to imagine that going on this path of purification will immediately lessen your troubles or | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| overcome it completely. When you start on this path, my friends, you ought to meditate every day | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| tests before you even started on this direct path, tests will still come your way for quite | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is that a person who is on the path will, after some successful work, understand that each | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| Meanwhile, the person who is not on this path or who has perhaps not completely found his | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| completely found his or her way to the path and is still in the first stages, will | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| this way and if you go on the path in this frame of mind, you will not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| from Him when you chose to follow this path, but also disappointed in yourself and in your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| disappointed in yourself and in your endeavors. This path is not a fairy tale; it is reality | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| thought for meditation: when you go on this path, you must also prepare yourself to abide by | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| all doing it, particularly when you approach this path with only half-open eyes. Realize that there is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| The price you pay by going on this path of development is certainly a high one, but | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your decision. Are you willing to take this path? Oh, you may say, It may take a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| for they are a necessary part of your path to begin with, a challenge you can learn | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| anything that happens to you. Only on a path into yourself will you find out the reason | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you that after a certain time on the path you will enjoy life in spite of your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of work involved in purifying yourself on this path. One is your outer behavior, the recognition of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| can make yourself do is to walk this path, to follow these steps, to overcome perhaps a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| hard for you to work diligently on your path, or tackle whatever else stands in your way | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| may seem to you now, nor is the path a miracle that will procure happiness for you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| itself perhaps by preventing you from following this path at all. The lower self may send messages | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the lower self will try to obstruct your path by other means. It will simply try to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| victory and success. This is part of the path, my friends. If you meditate upon these words | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| can only be unfolded by following this very path onto which I am now leading you. To | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is it possible that a person on this path can be so strongly affected by environmental influences | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you by showing you how to walk the path properly, and I am doing that. The reason | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| soul. The only remedy is to continue this path to the very end, to follow this course | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| be if the person is on the right path, advantage can be a cure, too. Through differences | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| Is there something wrong if, working on this path of development, you find that you have one | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a pretty distant point is reached on this path, is the discrepancy in themselves; how one part | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| reached perfection. If in the work on this path I should find out that I am less | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of will. All this is necessary on your path, and therefore the still existing imperfections fulfill a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| wrong opposite extreme. To find the right middle path in everything is part of the path. Learn | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| middle path in everything is part of the path. Learn to accept yourself without fear, without shame | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| time I talked about the difficulty of this path and the dangers of approaching it with the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the truth to overestimate the difficulties on this path. I can see that some of my friends | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| examine the fears you may have. Certainly the path is difficult, but God is wise and just | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| speaking, the maximum according to your destiny. This path with my instruction and guidance should help you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| take, if you happen to fear that this path is too much for you, is that you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| a temporary one in many cases, that this path is too much for you, and the thought | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is the mistaken idea that to follow the path I am showing you means neglecting your life | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| wrong because spiritual development in general, and this path in particular, is not an extra activity in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| contrary, my friends. The truth is that this path of purification represents the foundation of your life | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| inner victories. Then you will see that this path is well worth taking, even from your selfish | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| yet disappeared. This is so because on this path you will eventually find out where in your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| but show you plainly and logically that this path cannot help but work out because it is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not to consider the decision to take this path as some additional activity in your life, such | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| other necessary of desirable things. Consider rather this path as the foundation of your life; it is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| errors, as you can only do on this path, you must eventually also solve your outer problems | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and more life spark if you follow the path of self-knowledge and perfection, and do what God | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| And purified feelings are your goal on this path, for which you do not need more than | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you who are sincerely willing to walk this path of purification will have many fights with this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not any more as far as taking this path on the whole is concerned, but about individual | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that want to lead you away from the path -- or at least make it more difficult | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| potential in this incarnation. That means following this path of self-development. Not only those traits which are | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| love, understanding, and truth. So, being on this path is not only a matter of overcoming your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| And, if you really want to follow this path, it is not sufficient for you to read | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you should go about actually starting on this path. There are many ways, and each individual reacts | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| which each of you can work on this path. But I will give you certain basic facts | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| personally but are also willing to walk this path, get together with one or two other friends | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| discuss things pertaining to your work on this path. For, in many ways, it is very important | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the first actual and concrete beginning on this path. Before turning to your questions now, I want | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| break the chains of fear by following this path. It is in your own hands. If you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the strength for the necessary work on this path. This strength will be given drop by drop | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| material, when you first decide to choose this path and trust God that He will give you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |