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 Perceptions.................68
way, the faculties of instinctual and extra- sensory perceptions -- including mediumship -- will not become paralyzed 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
as you cannot imagine possible: creative forces, new perceptions, a growing and unfolding intuition that will give 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
progress on this path brings out the intuitive perceptions. One of the most important motives for a 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
for otherwise, with only your normal reactions and perceptions at your disposal, you could not muster the 101 THE DEFENSE
not put any value on themselves and their perceptions. They may be feeling so inferior that they 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
certain process of growing and experience that their perceptions are often valid. This is a great relief 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
because the senses that are destined for such perceptions are dulled by your fears, shame, and urgent 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
are bound by the old images, the faulty perceptions, which make you respond and react in an 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
being if you do not detect your wrong perceptions. No amount of knowledge you take in from 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the understanding of the inner errors, misconceptions, faulty perceptions. Only this will bring true security, resting on 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
about the essential issues of life, such faulty perceptions, such wrong values! Often what you consider bad 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
taken place in you to manifest! These new perceptions are so much more reliable than your often 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
in a state of fear, all faculties and perceptions become dulled. The truth of the experience is 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
self is not just in the body, their perceptions will widen and the matter of their entire 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
impossible. It is unthinkable when your innermost concepts, perceptions, and value systems are in accordance with reality 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
and disharmony follow. The disturbed emotions and distorted perceptions form a nucleus, almost like a foreign body 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
perceiving reality. It is the nucleus of distorted perceptions, this foreign body, that prohibits the soul from 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
-- due to this unreality, to your unreal perceptions -- you suffer more while you are in 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
breathe. Your gaze will change. Your realizations and perceptions will change to the degree that the love 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
conscious mind is an instrument of the unconscious perceptions and connections that actually exist, but is only 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
established by accepting, for the time being, that perceptions, attitudes, and feelings exist that are often diametrically 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
later to the most subtle emotional reactions and perceptions. More and more you will come to the 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
beautiful new feelings, and eventually with new insights, perceptions and intuitions -- even new faculties. They will 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
it. Little by little, you will recondition your perceptions, your emotional reactions, your deep inner knowing of 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
knowledge but is not sustained by your unconscious perceptions and reactions. So the work is long and 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
yourself within the narrow framework of your limited perceptions of yourself and of life, you cannot use 174 SELF-ESTEEM
have used this as an escape, change their perceptions, and this heralds a new dimension of being 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
distorted due to specific wrong ideas, concepts and perceptions. Thus it is no longer rejected in its 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
human body, this pull manifests in different moods, perceptions and experiences. How often do you discover that 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
apprehension, fear, and despair are inevitable. These illusory perceptions can only be eliminated by the arduous work 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
affects their soul substance, and thus their unconscious perceptions. The average person's perception will remain on the 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
mature individuals are able to make the unconscious perceptions of negative intentionality conscious -- and that is 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
disconnection. How can all the different philosophies and perceptions of life be true when they appear to 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
in your thoughts, in your vision and your perceptions, so that decisions will be made from the 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
they remain in the psyche, all your opinions, perceptions, actions and decisions will be based on half-truths 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
and where it permeates all your thoughts and perceptions, your decisions and actions, your feelings and reactions 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
and conditioning. The mind conditions its own beliefs, perceptions, and observations and perpetuates them as long as 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
But as long as these conditioned beliefs and perceptions are being taken for granted as truths, the 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
finds itself becomes painfully narrow and limited. All perceptions are untrustworthy because the main perception of life 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
mind remains proportionately childish and blind and its perceptions are commensurately limited. Once you have reached the 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
focused and attentive way, using your finest inner perceptions, you cannot fail to perceive that within you 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
result of slowly earned development will the new perceptions be truly yours. Otherwise you will put a 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
you see what your moods, your experiences and perceptions reveal about your process. Then you will go 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
dishonest because you take your very limited present perceptions as the final reality. Moreover, such a statement 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
sights, sounds, odors, touching, and many other sense perceptions of others. There is a cross-fertilization. Your negative 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
a while. This attitude of lightness in your perceptions, of flexibility, of motility of mind will make 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
expressed. Unless they are encouraged to take these perceptions seriously, they cannot learn two important lessons. One 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
way your own lower self threatened you. Your perceptions may have been only partially accurate. They were 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
can choose when and how to communicate your perceptions -- if that is appropriate and to the 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
You may instead decide not to communicate your perceptions if that feels more appropriate. In this free 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
choose to express or not to express your perceptions according to your intuitive inspirations. At this point 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
this even when you do not express your perceptions. The lower self is infuriated. The conscious personality 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
function with appearance values, you cannot trust your perceptions or your desires. They are not trustworthy when 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
the wholeness of the utterance. Feelings, desires, concepts, perceptions, knowing must all be one cohesive and compatible 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
in your thinking, in your being, in your perceptions to Me. As you give yourself to Me 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
not in a state of love, your sense perceptions highlight experiences that you find undesirable. They appear 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
want to perceive. In other words, your unloving perceptions appear absolutely correct. But, my friends, question this 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
it or not. There are many other experiences, perceptions, sensations, some of which you do not even 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
your personality that are still involved in false perceptions and therefore in untruthful attitudes and unloving, destructive 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
can be the medicine needed to overcome distorted perceptions which create the causes which in turn create 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
gain great harmony and peace of mind. Conflicting perceptions, confusion, and therefore frustration, will disappear. Enlightenment and 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
all is right with you, your actions, your perceptions, your knowledge, your reactions and your feelings. The 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
as if good or evil were merely subjective perceptions. Here again we are dealing with a half-truth 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
level according to limited, personal, and highly subjective perceptions. When the issues are seen on a deeper 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
influence more of your thinking and acting, your perceptions and your reactions, than you wish to admit 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
as though the whole personality with all its perceptions were dulled, so that the total vision of 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling -- and many other perceptions you know nothing about on your level of 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
with others to be able to set distorted perceptions right. You need the mirror of others. You 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
 
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believe it, for you have a very limited perceptive capacity. The individualized forces are recognizable in this 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
language of your unconscious obstructions, you develop third perceptive organs and forms of communication in every respect 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
the organism. However, when a person is very perceptive, intuitive, and finely attuned to inner reality -- 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
no longer be questioned. As you become more perceptive and attuned as a result of your accelerating 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
as an in-built protective mechanism, negativity closes the perceptive organs: blindness, deafness, dumbness, and numbness set in 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
 Perfect.....................270
to develop toward a higher state, to reach perfect bliss as rapidly as possible -- a state 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
assume. Only when a human being lives in perfect harmony with God's laws can the longing for 4 WORLD WEARINESS
of His truth. If you sincerely wish to perfect yourself -- and therefore first to know yourself 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
its opposite: wanting to see oneself as already perfect. A person with spiritual understanding who tries to 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
than you actually are. You want to be perfect without taking the trouble to become perfect. When 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
be perfect without taking the trouble to become perfect. When you have to recognize that you are 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
Thus you find hardly ever a complete and perfect instrument. It is difficult to make you understand 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
lower self, in the crust that envelops your perfect self, lies the germ through which you can 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
and over again into the purest and most perfect form. Thus the element of God that simply 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
chaotic event which did not belong in God's perfect order. As a result, the break did not 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
divine and each in its own way is perfect. QUESTION: Must not everyone go through the experience 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
to be gathered, but not so that the perfect masculine being must become feminine or vice versa 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
this is human error. Just as God is perfect in His/Her masculine and feminine aspects, each one 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
Eventually this must be healed. Everyone can find perfect happiness only by fully accepting and saying yes 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
I believe, indicate the existence of only one perfect hermaphrodite, who was half man and half woman 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
woman. Maybe even that proportion was not exactly perfect. ANSWER: You have brought up a very interesting 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
my friends, even death! If people were really perfect -- and this is merely a theory, for 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
you -- then you will gradually establish a perfect and wonderful contact. Perhaps it will feel quite 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
connection with their talent, or they have to perfect something else now. And some of them may 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
lower self, in its pride, wants to be perfect without doing the necessary and often tiresome work 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
you lack because you all want to be perfect and to be on the top of the 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
more it is your responsibility and duty to perfect yourself. The more you are free of very 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
as you do. If they see you as perfect as you want to appear, their sense of 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
will feel, consciously or unconsciously: He is so perfect -- or she is so perfect -- why 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
is so perfect -- or she is so perfect -- why can't I be that way? They 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
hard to appear independent, hard, and oh, so perfect! Yet if you show yourself as you really 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
light, and supreme wisdom, because God, who is perfect, cannot create anything but perfection. Yet, if any 18 FREE WILL
who dishes out arbitrary punishment. God has created perfect laws and perfect conditions for His children to 18 FREE WILL
arbitrary punishment. God has created perfect laws and perfect conditions for His children to follow freely or 18 FREE WILL
as they truly are. God's creation is so perfect and His laws are of such supreme wisdom 18 FREE WILL
stronger both spiritually and emotionally and become more perfect, not only will your personal conflicts diminish but 20 GOD: THE CREATION
suppose, for instance, that a being in its perfect state had the particular characteristic of great strength 21 THE FALL
us suppose another individual in his or her perfect state of development had the particular characteristic of 21 THE FALL
one: the spiritual body, where all purified and perfect thinking and feeling will have integrated into the 21 THE FALL
is a relative one, but it could become perfect by their becoming co-creators. The so-called bodhisattvas are 21 THE FALL
only Christ, except of course for God, is perfect in all ways, and has all talents completely 21 THE FALL
all other characteristics, aspects, or talents in a perfect way. So it is not quite correct to 21 THE FALL
say that all created beings were once completely perfect, as the Absolute is. We were perfect in 21 THE FALL
completely perfect, as the Absolute is. We were perfect in our own ways which, of course, is 21 THE FALL
of course, is always relative. You can be perfect within the frame of your present development, for 21 THE FALL
that does not mean that you are absolutely perfect. Someone of a much lower development than anyone 21 THE FALL
than anyone of you here can be relatively perfect compared to others, of whom more can be 21 THE FALL
question, for the beings you have mentioned are perfect only in some ways, while Christ is perfect 21 THE FALL
perfect only in some ways, while Christ is perfect in all ways. QUESTION: Last time, you answered 21 THE FALL
other realms. Let us say one being was perfect in love, another in wisdom, and so forth 22 SALVATION
that we all once had to make ourselves perfect in every other respect and thus eventually become 22 SALVATION
that the clockwork of the laws is so perfect that nothing unjust can come to any single 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
self in you says, I want to be perfect. I know this is the will of God 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
and enlightenment, aware that only when you are perfect will you be truly capable of loving your 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
creatures. But your lower self wants to be perfect in order to have more ego-gratification and to 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
higher realms do all that, of course, in perfect harmony. What their recreation is depends entirely on 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
I should find out that I am less perfect than I thought, I will accept this too 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
one active or passive principle. They are all perfect in their own way. The whole universe is 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
with humility, knowing that since you are not perfect, you cannot and must not resent others' imperfections 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
Purifying does not mean that you are already perfect; purification is the process of becoming perfect. An 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
already perfect; purification is the process of becoming perfect. An integral part of the process is to 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
by now that all beings in Creation are perfect in one particular way. Also, if the Fall 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
many, many beings belonging to them, are particularly perfect in one way. This applies even to the 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
have disappeared. You do not have to be perfect in order to respect yourself. All you have 31 SHAME
of pride and falsity long before you are perfect in all the details of your personality. Thus 31 SHAME
person you do not want to appear more perfect than you are. That is one of the 31 SHAME
completely purified, your love cannot be divine and perfect. Your love will be blurred to the extent 32 DECISION-MAKING
deeper and hidden reasons for needing a more perfect love subject than reality produces. In all probability 32 DECISION-MAKING
soul somehow influences also the completeness of faith. Perfect faith would mean no disharmony in your life 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
imperfections in the environment, for if everything were perfect, the shortcomings would not have an opportunity to 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
to you about erotic love, its meaning, its perfect ideal, and its deviations. However, that is not 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
do not want to be unhappy! Only a perfect being could rightfully make the demands you so 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
extension of these two concepts. God has made perfect laws and given His children free will. If 38 IMAGES
search. Once you accept your inability to become perfect quickly, you humbly accept temporary unhappiness. There is 38 IMAGES
it. In your emotions you want to be perfect, and when you discover an imperfection that seems 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
wish to be more than I am, more perfect, more highly evolved. Something in me does not 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
were to hear that the greatest and most perfect treasure can come easily. But your efforts, as 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
lives with the idea that its parents are perfect and omnipotent. When the realization dawns upon the 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
that your case was singular. Everyone else had perfect parents, perfect home conditions, and only you alone 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
case was singular. Everyone else had perfect parents, perfect home conditions, and only you alone experienced this 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO

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