| Pictures....................14 | |
| -- the experience of looking at the unfolding pictures of your last life is entirely different. It | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| actual life and its problems by conjuring up pictures of how you would like it to be | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| that you could turn a knob and see pictures. Often, because some people whom you trust declare | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in the spirit world, have a language of pictures, as you know. We do not pay too | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by the forms in the soul, by the pictures within, whether he or she is going entirely | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| body, sometimes more, sometimes less. It produces the pictures that you translate into symbols in a dream | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| aura, but human beings do not always carry pictures of their sphere with them. How can that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| different mode of expression, the symbolism of the pictures is something you have to translate. This, incidentally | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| what the inner problem is. It projects these pictures, but then there is this other part in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| overemphasized reasoning faculty, to fit your feelings into pictures, to build theories about why you feel a | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| through fulfillment in a concocted series of mind pictures. All this belongs to the fantasy state. All | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| begin to see -- perhaps symbolic forms or pictures. It may see on an inner level, where | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| has painted a false picture of life. False pictures are reinforced by belief, just as true pictures | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| pictures are reinforced by belief, just as true pictures are. Only when they are questioned do they | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Pieces......................14 | |
| with a puzzle, when you look at the pieces, you cannot see the picture, but if you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not be dismayed. On the contrary, finding the pieces of information will be extremely useful, even if | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| work, you will see that all the isolated pieces of information will connect. You will find a | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| The puzzle begins to fit. You see certain pieces have fallen into place. For a moment, in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| discourage you. You have to gather the little pieces of information about yourself bit by bit, while | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| present phase we are able to put the pieces together, so as to gain a more overall | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| such answers and the enlightenment they bring are pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, forming little by little | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Much in the person's life may go to pieces. The energy movement of the soul substance tears | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| means that temporarily all seems to go to pieces. However, what is of true value will automatically | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| finish thinking this minute. After this explosion the pieces will again fall into place, re- forming either | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| reveal itself to you. Then all the little pieces of your life, your experiences, your state of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| cause and effect, between the various apparently fragmented pieces of experience and consciousness. You learn to discover | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you need in order to put all the pieces together. So realize, my friends, that the topic | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| and insight into apparent conflicts make all the pieces of the great puzzle of life fall into | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Pin.........................7 | |
| you have fears. The second step is to pin down exactly what it is you are afraid | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| they overlook this fact. Thus the struggle to pin the fault outside the self goes on and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| ever be yours -- no matter what you pin your hopes on. You may flock to this | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to make you responsible for their suffering and pin their evil on you will be unsuccessful because | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| -- not false hope, but realistic expectation. You pin so much on false hopes, my friends -- | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| more frustrating than a case when you can pin this fluctuation on some outer reason. At the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| fear, something you cannot name or label or pin on anything. That is the creative emptiness you | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Pinpointed..................3 | |
| through a subtle process. It can rarely be pinpointed or proven, except in very advanced states. Most | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to a severe disappointment whose origin cannot be pinpointed -- which is the worst part about it | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| sense of worthlessness that is diffuse and not pinpointed in conscious awareness. The superimposed perfection -- or | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Pioneers....................8 | |
| acting out. You on this path are indeed pioneers in learning the all-important art of making this | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| as I have occasionally hinted at. You are pioneers. Other groups of pioneers are springing up in | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| hinted at. You are pioneers. Other groups of pioneers are springing up in various corners of the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| sense this consciousness already exists. They are the pioneers. They create a new civilization. The beginnings have | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| who have attained the new consciousness, who are pioneers in creating a new civilization. You are also | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| important that you, my friends, who are the pioneers of the New Age, create the new consciousness | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| person. The new society, of which you are pioneers, cannot afford to live with frozen images in | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the nations just as by individuals. You are pioneers, bringing a new model to this world. In | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Pistis......................11 | |
| ask, in connection with the discussion on the Pistis Sophia , whether after giving excerpts and covering the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if we ask first the questions on the Pistis Sophia? ANSWER: Yes, I would suggest that you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you ask first the questions on the Pistis Sophia and then deal with the other general | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: Is the scheme or skeleton of the Pistis Sophia about the spheres a factual or a | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| finished, my friend, with your lectures on the Pistis Sophia, I will then give you at one | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I.A.O., Sabaoth, Barbelo, etc.; of the Pistis Sophia -- are they of any importance to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the universe. According to the scheme of the Pistis Sophia, these forces are concentrated in the highest | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and combination of them is possible. In the Pistis Sophia the expression twenty-four invisibles refers to the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| immediate and direct bearing on it. In the Pistis Sophia, on which my friend is lecturing, you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| or as it is referred to in the Pistis Sophia, the Orders. Each Order represents one of | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| make my inquiries. QUESTION: With regard to the Pistis Sophia, we have read that the so-called servitors | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Pit.........................5 | |
| and they are like a stone in the pit of my stomach. I just can't let them | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one's feelings were leading one into a bottomless pit. For anyone who is new on this path | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| up as follows: Is there really a bottomless pit of negativity, destruction, and evil at the foundation | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the tunnel of painful feelings is a bottomless pit of horror and annihilation. Thus you waste your | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| vision so as not to fall into the pit of resignation and giving up, instead of just | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Pitfall.....................8 | |
| routine. Routine is always apt to become the pitfall for many good things. One of the difficulties | 36 PRAYER |
| and yet the partners cannot get around the pitfall of becoming bound by time and habit, because | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| already knowing each other fully. This is the pitfall. It is the beginning of the end at | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| blinded, just because you do not realize this pitfall. Then, if after further disharmonies and depressions, you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one must be on the lookout for this pitfall, which is all the more difficult to detect | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| by now not to be tempted into this pitfall. The process must be a conscious dialogue, as | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| be reinforced. Now, my friends, here is a pitfall I wish to warn against. The courage to | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| there exists a healthy and constructive struggle. The pitfall of this approach is that through its very | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Pitfalls....................15 | |
| different manner of operation. Beware of these two pitfalls, my friends. The only way to work is | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| teachings, it will be easier to overcome the pitfalls and dangers of the marital relationship and to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| my dear ones, and you can avoid unnecessary pitfalls. To find the answer to your life, you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| on still deviating emotions, and thereby avoid the pitfalls of self-deception and suggestion. Prayer, if rightly understood | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of the steadily increasing general development, despite the pitfalls, misunderstandings, and half-truths that go with such exploration | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Progress brings you face to face with your pitfalls, with those things you have so busily ignored | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| problem that can avoid either one of these pitfalls. Let us try to reconcile these two general | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| All these distortions must disappear, for they are pitfalls, much more disastrous than whatever aspects you hate | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| is now much more aware of its own pitfalls and is thus capable of quickly penetrating the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| manifestation will bring out, the greatest dangers and pitfalls, how much risk to take, how many favorable | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| needs to learn the laws and also the pitfalls of the lower self so that its voice | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| about this, so that you can avoid the pitfalls. Many highly developed spiritual innovators and channels have | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the other all bad. One of the greatest pitfalls for human understanding of universal truths and the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| to God, one avoids one of the greatest pitfalls of humankind, which is the temptation to surrender | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and overcome duality so you can see the pitfalls and mental difficulties that assail the human mind | 254 SURRENDER |