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that lies between the divine spark and the physical body translates the longing to love into a 35 TURNING TO GOD
of it unless the difficulty manifested in your physical surroundings. You could not become aware of and 35 TURNING TO GOD
subtle bodies, as well as eventually in your physical body. Most people are not capable of cultivating 36 PRAYER
previous existences; how the subtle bodies surrounding the physical vehicle of the incarnate being are prepared so 38 IMAGES
follow day. It is like a magnet, a physical law, like the law of gravity. Your images 38 IMAGES
the pain itself. It is the same with physical pain. If you push against it, if your 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
karmic sickness. This does not apply only to physical sickness but to every other hardship in life 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
know that when you die, not only your physical body disintegrates but the outer subtle body as 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
the moment the animal slips out of its physical body, it is awake and free. It is 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
words, the personality types are combined with the physical habitus of human beings? ANSWER: Yes, of course 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
No soul current is entirely independent of its physical manifestation. The physical body is an outpicturing of 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
is entirely independent of its physical manifestation. The physical body is an outpicturing of the soul currents 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
Jesus gave birth as a virgin in the physical sense. That is the whole misunderstanding. Many people 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
to another -- not just a partial revelation. Physical revelation is easy for many. Emotionally you share 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
emanates from the subtle bodies and penetrates the physical body. It reflects, in fluctuating colors, various moods 47 THE WALL WITHIN
not die, yet would not remain in the physical body either. For your matter is petrified life 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
spirit. Thus you will readily believe that all physical sickness is only a chain reaction, a final 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
and the regenerating. You have that in the physical realm as well. There is the kind of 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
This may happen in various ways, either by physical disease that the psyche produces, or by various 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
and spirit? ANSWER: You have not only a physical body, but several subtle bodies. Each subtle body 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
density. The densest is the human form, the physical body, at least from your sphere upwards. There 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
that is so dense that you, with your physical perception, can no more see it than you 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
your plane of perception, the densest matter is physical matter. For each life on earth you need 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
For each life on earth you need this physical matter, but you shed it after each earth 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
life. You also shed, soon after the so-called physical death, another body of matter subtler than the 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
death, another body of matter subtler than the physical one. Then the soul-body or the feeling-body remains 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
There are various subtle bodies that leave the physical body in different states of unconsciousness. Usually in 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
in sleep the feeling-body is removed from the physical body, sometimes more, sometimes less. It produces the 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
If the feeling-body remained during sleep in the physical body, sleep would not be profound; it would 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
your feeling-body or soul is out of the physical body. That is the physical rest. The feeling-body 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
out of the physical body. That is the physical rest. The feeling-body can expand nearer or farther 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
the more removed is the feeling-body from your physical body. QUESTIONER: I have known some people who 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
that are still hidden. QUESTION: After death, the physical body disintegrates. And after that one of the 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
Now that I will part from you in physical manifestation for a short time, we in our 53 SELF-LOVE
in various ways, not necessarily in the obvious physical sense of being in love with one's outer 53 SELF-LOVE
while I manifest, and through her mouth and physical knowledge -- language, for instance -- I express 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
mediumship exists from the point of view of physical manifestation and phenomenology; it belongs more into the 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Could it also be used for therapy? ANSWER: Physical as well as mental therapy. It could be 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
proving the existence of human beings beyond the physical level. Since we have a question session next 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
for you. This principle applies also to the physical aspect of your question, although you may find 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and centuries man has developed and nursed his physical prowess and his intellectual capacity -- his active 62 MAN AND WOMAN
developed one-sidedly, emphasizing his intellect, his resourcefulness, his physical strength, but thwarting his emotional and intuitive nature 62 MAN AND WOMAN
her. It is a blending of two people's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual natures. It can be 62 MAN AND WOMAN
ANSWER: The male and female hormones are a physical aspect of this entire subject. In fact, both 62 MAN AND WOMAN
hormones and a man without female hormones. This physical manifestation is a proof of both aspects existing 62 MAN AND WOMAN
soul, so to speak. The same laws governing physical birth hold true for spiritual birth. According to 62 MAN AND WOMAN
workable in all realms, not only in the physical realm. Ideas and thoughts are alive. You have 62 MAN AND WOMAN
takes place according to the same principles as physical birth. Since woman is also creative, she too 62 MAN AND WOMAN
mostly turned outward on the disc, so that physical birth manifests. However, this does not prevent her 62 MAN AND WOMAN
possible? ANSWER: Absolutely. You should seek all the physical help possible -- and the mental, spiritual and 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this way. QUESTION: I have been wondering if physical pain has spiritual value and what kind of 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
only in the sense of having to endure physical death after each life and being reborn and 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
life and being reborn and again going through physical death, but also in the sense that sorrow 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
and pain. It is also bound to bring physical death. Part of the acceptance of life is 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
can be hypnotized away. This can apply to physical as well as to emotional symptoms. If hypnotism 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
how much mental and emotional -- and eventually physical -- strength they consume. Some exercise and concentration 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
that a person loses an ulcer or other physical illness. Also, other emotional problems may clear up 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
case, a sickness may remain, but the suffering, physical and mental, will decrease in proportion to one's 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
conclusions, deviations, and so forth -- on our physical bodies, its processes, developments, its degeneration through disease 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and fear, indirectly creates a weakening of the physical body, and directly an unconscious desire for sickness 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is part of the whole scheme. QUESTION: And physical resemblance? ANSWER: The same thing. I explained it 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
genes work in such a way that certain physical resemblances will occur, others will not. There is 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
subtle bodies leave that particular area of the physical body? ANSWER: Sleep, as well as anesthesia, or 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
or several of the subtle bodies leave the physical body. The etheric double, as it is often 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
is the subtle body most similar to the physical one. It is of subtle matter, but of 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
natural sleep, the etheric double remains in the physical body, while the astral body leaves. If sleep 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
Therefore, it is sensitive to pain or other physical sensations. Under anesthesia, the etheric double goes out 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
double goes out: therefore one is insensitive to physical pain in that state. In various states of 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
of course, they are still connected with the physical body by a cord, or elastic spiral-like band 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
the subtle body will remove itself from the physical body. 77. SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
teeth to bite, to chew, to prepare the physical food so that your body can assimilate it 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
all of your real organs manifest in the physical body. QUESTION: I am very confused about all 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it. By that, I mean more than just physical life. I mean all that the essence of 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
can promise you, in spite of the outer physical difficulty, strength will come to you in a 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
conquer it in this life. ANSWER: The outer, physical deformity is no graver than the soul deformities 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ambition. That is what blocks success, not the physical impediment. QUESTION: Is it possible to do image-work 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
does not merely refer to the act of physical killing. As you rightly said, thoughts and emotions 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
life and death do not merely mean the physical manifestations, as I have often discussed at length 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to psychological reasons, but could there also be physical causes? ANSWER: No. My advice here is not 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
shelter -- all that you need for your physical survival -- depend on cooperation and communication, although 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
the need for communication and cooperation on the physical level will make you realize that mental, emotional 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
a single core. Life on earth necessarily involves physical death. Even if we remove many of life's 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
miseries as unnecessary, as created out of confusion, physical death still remains. It is still a mystery 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
the word death, I do not mean merely physical death. I refer to all the negative aspects 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
do not have to wait to experience actual physical death in order to learn how to die 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
become aware also of the illusion of actual physical death, not by intellectual superimposition, but by the 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
that we cringe from it. ANSWER: There is physical death and sickness, and the world of matter 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
real fear of death in any form -- physical death itself, or a negative occurrence -- you 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
-- death -- and the acute suffering of physical, mental and spiritual pain. Jesus met it squarely 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
it. You do not have to wait for physical death, because you die many deaths every day 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
If you meet that which is inevitable -- physical death as well as the results of your 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
misconception that stems from the inherent fear of physical death. People want to believe in a physical 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
physical death. People want to believe in a physical continuation of life. Therefore, they need to interpret 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
need to interpret Jesus Christ's reappearance as a physical resurrection. The other aspect has a much deeper 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
on all levels of your being, including the physical level. Is that clear? QUESTION: Yes, but your 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
It is condensation of spirit matter, as all physical life is. But the fact that this happened 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
to enjoy and take pleasure in this present physical life -- meaning the body and the pleasures 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
and experience of the continuation of life after physical death -- if it is genuinely arrived at 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
of a spiritual life to come after the physical one. It is quite the contrary. Only those 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
capable of pleasure on all levels, including the physical one. However, this complete pleasure can be experienced 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
primitive, unchaneled instincts. This heightened pleasure includes the physical level. Such inclusion comes, in turn, from facing 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
mean the return into the spirit world after physical death. Much more is meant by coming home 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
go through that personally, whether it be actual physical death, or the many little everyday dyings I 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
serious repercussions on the personality, also manifesting in physical symptoms of all sorts. Anger, fury, shame, frustration 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
The instinct of procreation includes more than the physical continuation of the human race. It includes every 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
something about themselves. It might be something either physical or psychological. We give ourselves the excuse, If 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
and maturity, real dangers - - not only physical ones, but any threat to the healthy growth 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
the entry of the spirit's soul-body into the physical body. We have learned that it is at 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
way, enters the body at the time of physical birth. If this decisive entry were to occur 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
well as for the infant. The event of physical birth corresponds with something equally decisive spiritually. Yet 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Human beings who function harmoniously have developed the physical, mental, and emotional sides of their nature. These 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
universal. Most human beings look mainly after the physical self. They do more or less what is 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
a predominant emphasis in your world today on physical and mental growth and a conspicuous neglect of 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
who can still change it, regardless of your physical age. Another reason for resorting to this unsuccessful 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
of the immaturity and to reach a certain physical and mental maturity. Let me give you an 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION

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