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| understand this. Without the yearning for happiness and perfection in the human soul, there would be no | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| weariness. Of course the yearning for God and perfection plays a role here too whether consciously or | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| that knows where true fulfillment, happiness, harmony, and perfection are to be found. This current exists even | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| in your spiritual development on this path toward perfection. We can only help, however: we cannot force | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| First you will have to want to reach perfection, and open the door through wanting it. Only | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| speak, through which they can regain the lost perfection. If complete justice reigned on earth -- and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| imperfection is used as a means to attain perfection, that human injustice is used to bring about | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| going to the roots is the path of perfection or purification, or the healing of the soul | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| speak to you, my dear friends, about the perfection that you should strive for, you may imagine | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| yourselves. This, of course, is not so. The perfection lies dormant within you deep down beneath the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| but it is only covered up -- the perfection is already in you. You need only to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| it impossible to establish contact with your inner perfection. When you clearly understand that perfection is already | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| your inner perfection. When you clearly understand that perfection is already in you, it will be easier | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Then you have to unfold your latent inner perfection. When you have clearly crystallized your lower self | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| seek the contact and walk the path of perfection will also want to free themselves from all | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| first gate that leads to the path of perfection. I addressed the problem of making the decision | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to do when you enter the path of perfection, happiness and liberation, because I have done so | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| threshold of the entrance to the path of perfection. You must understand exactly what this path actually | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| This of course means finding the path of perfection. Unfortunately, this is often not understood. The more | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| but does not personally walk the path of perfection. Again, as in the first case, this kind | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| after the person has entered the path of perfection, of development, of self-knowledge, of self-discipline, of humility | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| forces, while the person on the path of perfection utilizes inner forces. That is the entire difference | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to the extent of entering the path of perfection. But many do not persist on this path | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| others unless most actively pursuing this path of perfection and being solidly rooted in it. You should | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| imperfections in the medium. To help reach personal perfection through overcoming the obstacles is, after all, the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to God? ANSWER: Yes, on the path of perfection you must develop the connection to God's world | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the husks, the crusts that surround your inner perfection and thus knows what the will of God | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you in the other people and visualize their perfection. Try to recognize how and where the divine | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Seek it therefore in yourself, find your own perfection, which already exists, though it may be veiled | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be God's will to follow the path of perfection, in whatever way it offers itself to you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| that you, through being on the path of perfection, by the influence and light you spread, work | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| within you. It is your spirit in its perfection, which waits for the walls of the lower | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you would not come one step nearer to perfection, to true bliss. BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| are contained. God has created them both in perfection, each in its own essence. Therefore, it is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| experience in the spirit, the spiritual development toward perfection has nothing to do with being a man | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| or feminine. The development will bring you to perfection as a man or as a woman. Those | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| during the course of development to regain divine perfection. QUESTION: Does the separation between the feminine and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and narrow path of self-development. The goal is perfection. The basis of this is to know yourself | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| merely a theory, for if this kind of perfection is reached, reincarnation becomes superfluous -- your return | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| individual. Ultimately, and such is the beauty and perfection of God's laws, every single child of God | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the purpose is to follow the path of perfection, to help one's own development, to solve a | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| may have already reached a high sphere of perfection. I will retire now and say to each | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| I just mentioned exist also here. But their perfection is not as complete as those of the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| working spiritually, by walking on this path of perfection, by getting to know yourselves as you really | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| it is the part of you that wishes perfection for the whole human being, complete integration of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| way. Your higher self knows that only by perfection within can you achieve perfection without, and that | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that only by perfection within can you achieve perfection without, and that is happiness. Your lower self | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| or misunderstood positive thinking wants to have outer perfection often too quickly, merely by learning thought control | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the process of purification, or the path of perfection, or psychological therapy, whatever you want to call | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| desirelessness a necessary step toward the path of perfection? I refer especially to the differences in the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| self, and that the higher self, which is perfection, waiting to grow out of these layers of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| completely explored. Your aim must be purification and perfection for its own sake. You do it for | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the way when deciding on the path of perfection and purification. For the most part, the souls | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| do not ever break, because these laws are perfection, love, wisdom and justice. This very same person | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| of you who walk on the path of perfection, which is the only real protection you have | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| their roots. This happens on the path of perfection and self-development, the path of happiness. If you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| individual person -- would walk the path of perfection. Though this path would be different for each | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| developed you are, the more you strive for perfection and work spiritually, the more you are capable | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God, who is perfect, cannot create anything but perfection. Yet, if any creature were to be forced | 18 FREE WILL |
| the individual's own recognition of the wisdom and perfection of the laws. Then God would not be | 18 FREE WILL |
| or not choose to follow His laws of perfection. You may say that it is difficult to | 18 FREE WILL |
| thus to a state of utter bliss and perfection. The equation must come out even in the | 18 FREE WILL |
| move away from God and His laws of perfection, the more difficult it is to find your | 18 FREE WILL |
| back step by step to the state of perfection you once possessed. Yet the further away you | 18 FREE WILL |
| mystic in our eyes is service. To reach perfection and to reach that state of happiness where | 18 FREE WILL |
| who seriously walks the path of purification and perfection must, after a comparatively short time, even short | 18 FREE WILL |
| the cycle of reincarnation is spiritual development and perfection, and wherever this is still lacking, a harmonization | 18 FREE WILL |
| find and reach God, and can we attain perfection only through Jesus Christ? The answer, my friends | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| ground has to be prepared, and this means perfection through purification. For instance, as long as there | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| expects from you and what is part of perfection and development, at least from a certain degree | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| to develop spiritually and walk this path of perfection for which a continuous supply of spiritual food | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| spirits cannot fully grasp the love, wisdom, and perfection of God and the infinite variety of His | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| abusing their power and thus living within the perfection of divine law in a state of eternal | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| finally come to comprehend all the more the perfection of divine law, after having gone through the | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| by furthering other aspects through development, so that perfection would be reached not only in one aspect | 21 THE FALL |
| those who did not abuse this power. Absolute perfection exists only in God and in Christ, who | 21 THE FALL |
| who has most of the divine substance. The perfection of all other beings is a relative one | 21 THE FALL |
| others, of whom more can be expected. So perfection remains relative as long as the plan of | 21 THE FALL |
| human being and are the strongest hindrances to perfection, faith, harmony and love. Whatever the various individual | 21 THE FALL |
| yet ready to take this difficult path of perfection. If in this life they learn just enough | 21 THE FALL |
| good current that once came from God in perfection and the evil current that was accumulated during | 22 SALVATION |
| purpose was for each spirit to extend this perfection into other realms. Let us say one being | 22 SALVATION |
| God's world to use all their strength and perfection in their particular fields to help the Plan | 22 SALVATION |
| instead of continuing and extending their own growing perfection, postponed this ultimate goal for the purpose of | 22 SALVATION |
| one lifetime goes without saying. To accomplish the perfection that is needed to enter into the Kingdom | 22 SALVATION |
| enter into the Kingdom of God -- the perfection that was lost through the fall -- and | 22 SALVATION |
| impossible to reach in one lifetime the necessary perfection needed to enter the Kingdom of God for | 22 SALVATION |
| because you human beings are ignorant of the perfection of the Creation, of the perfection of divine | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the perfection of the Creation, of the perfection of divine law. And whatever happens must be | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| return and resume His former state of utter perfection, or reassume what He left behind. And only | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dual beings, once having reached that state of perfection, will flow together and become one. It is | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| helped you upward, forward, nearer to God, to perfection, to happiness that can never be robbed from | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the lower self that makes you think perfection can be attained by turning away from your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| search for. Do not start to search for perfection immediately. This again would be unrealistic because you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| again would be unrealistic because you cannot attain perfection quickly without having spent much time and effort | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the work that is necessary. You can reach perfection only by going through your imperfections, not by | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your higher self still exists in its shining perfection. How can you reach it unless you penetrate | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| accept your present imperfection in comparison with the perfection you know to be right. Accept this imperfection | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| strength in you even before you have attained perfection in this respect. After a period of this | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| imperfect. In so many others, I have reached perfection. If in the work on this path I | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| if you follow the path of self-knowledge and perfection, and do what God wants you to do | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| would have served the purpose of complementing the perfection in other ways as well, so as to | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| Plan of Salvation is fulfilled, further expansion toward perfection will continue. As it is now, the Orders | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the fallen spirits who have kept the ground perfection in its original nature and talent basically intact | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| of density. The process of uncovering the ground perfection is the path of purification. This may give | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| I spoke about the three basic hindrances to perfection which apply to everyone alike: self-will, pride, and | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| it needs a little effort. Your emotions claim perfection before this perfection can be yours. You place | 31 SHAME |
| little effort. Your emotions claim perfection before this perfection can be yours. You place yourself higher than | 31 SHAME |
| the details of your personality. Thus you approach perfection much faster than you think, in spite of | 31 SHAME |
| words, you invest the loved one with a perfection he or she does not possess as yet | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you silently, or even thoughtlessly, demand too much perfection from someone dear to you? When you find | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| still unaware. So your immediate goal cannot be perfection, even though it is the ultimate goal. Know | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| will one day even out and harmonize in perfection. Moreover, when tests befall you, as they must | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| things. One of the difficulties in experiencing the perfection of divine harmony is to find the happy | 36 PRAYER |
| violated, then free will would not exist. The perfection of the law is that the long-term remedy | 38 IMAGES |
| The child knows only extremes: good or bad, perfection or imperfection, omnipotence that promises security, or utter | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of the three aspects I discussed tonight. The perfection of the reason-personality would be the Angel of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| reason-personality would be the Angel of Wisdom. The perfection of the emotion-personality would be the Angel of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| emotion-personality would be the Angel of Love. The perfection of the will-personality would be the Angel of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| all the fallen spirits again reach their original perfection in one particular way, until the Plan of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| understand why the angel of courage is the perfection of will. I can't understand this at all | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| here. But it is all according to the perfection and wisdom of divine law. QUESTION: Are all | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is perfect, what would the age be within perfection? ANSWER: But my dear, this human sphere, the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| human sphere, the earth plane, will never have perfection. It is a temporary sphere, a temporary stage | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| long as imperfection exists. When any being reaches perfection, that being will no longer have to go | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| hour. Every human being desires to strive for perfection, for the ability to love, and for true | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| apart from this higher-self desire, the desire for perfection comes also from the lower self. This is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| has the courage to admit to oneself that perfection is still far away, in spite of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| only healthy one. This approach leads to the perfection you strive for: facing and admitting the wrong | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your ignorance you think and wish to attain perfection more expeditiously by simply erecting this wall and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| one progresses on the path of self-knowledge and perfection, one slowly begins to take out certain trends | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| I said at the beginning of this lecture, perfection is limitless and eternal, not only in the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| can be successful only where a basic inner perfection already exists to some degree. Otherwise it must | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| say, Does not the divine conscience wish this perfection too? Certainly it does. I said before that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| show you step by step how to attain perfection by degrees, by accepting yourself as you are | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| purpose of loving better; it knows that the perfection of divine truth is the only way to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| will bridge the gap until you reach the perfection of letting your divine self manifest. That is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| principles. But that does not mean that in perfection you represent only one of them to the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| a human being exists no more than complete perfection. This earth plane incarnates only those in whom | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of human imperfection and humanity's desire to reach perfection. Such a universal mass image is the following | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| goal. You then start to strive for such perfection. Needless to say, my friends, although we are | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in agreement that all beings should strive for perfection, this kind of striving is wrong. It is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the motive. Here you do not strive for perfection in order to love better and give more | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| You do not strive for the sake of perfection itself, but seek a selfish end. And it | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |