| Polarity....................14 | |
| in peace, be God! 164. FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS Greetings, my dearest friends. As always | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| bad is not ever divisible, so that one polarity is one, the other the other. Each polarity | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| polarity is one, the other the other. Each polarity is all good when in its natural, undistorted | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| good when in its natural, undistorted state. Each polarity is bad when distortion and error set in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is most difficult to experience with the greatest polarity of all: life and death. Perhaps the foregoing | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| for a solution with such erroneous premises, one polarity is always set off against the other. Thus | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the psyche of the self-sacrificing person. When the polarity of selfishness/unselfishness is reconciled, the self is accepted | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| evil. Humanity's beliefs are always characterized by this polarity. Since the totality of human beliefs creates your | 254 SURRENDER |
| creates your environment, the earth sphere reflects this polarity exactly. Its presence can be observed in the | 254 SURRENDER |
| reflects the combination of both extremes creating this polarity, there must also exist other worlds in which | 254 SURRENDER |
| one side so outweighs the other that the polarity disappears. Spheres of evil or of hell would | 254 SURRENDER |
| in-between sphere, in which one side of the polarity does not exclude the other, and this reflects | 254 SURRENDER |
| as consciousness gradually expands does the other positive polarity appear on the horizon and creates duality. In | 254 SURRENDER |
| overcoming another aspect of the ever present, painful polarity against which you constantly battle. You often use | 254 SURRENDER |
| Poles.......................7 | |
| entities in which both the male and female poles are contained. God has created them both in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| reflects the whole scale between the two opposite poles, from hopelessness and despair -- believing that the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| just as positive circumstances are. Between these two poles, many degrees exist. You can see the evolutionary | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| the unified plane of consciousness combine both dualistic poles, so no conflict exists. This is why living | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| hence they must produce more opposites, more irreconcilable poles. For example, a false feeling of excitement is | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| At a certain stage between these two extreme poles is the phase in which the opening, relaxed | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| over your destiny. The stages in-between these two poles -- ascribing one's fate to a removed God | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Policy......................3 | |
| then know that shying away was an ostrich policy that never got rid of the pain deep | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| or she is escaping from something, pursuing a policy of avoidance and creating the darkness of disorderliness | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| indeed create real riches, based on a healthy policy. You are constantly running on deficit, giving out | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Political...................29 | |
| feelings only, or to individual reactions to general political issues and opinions. Even when people are free | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| many people would believe, of not participating in political activities, but in the sense that your personal | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| working, with all their musts which stem from political, economic and sociological factors, which again are themselves | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| among individuals, but also among national, religious, and political groups. In this psychological distortion, even minority groups | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is of the type you have asked, or political, social, religious, or relating to any other human | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the conditions of a specific society. Social, economic, political factors play a role, as does geography, as | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| develop a different approach to world government and political ideas than what the ordinary politician has now | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Go in peace. 242. THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS Greetings, my beloved friends. May the blessings | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| community. The topic is the spiritual meaning of political systems. I will speak about the best known | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| systems. I will speak about the best known political systems on your earth plane at this point | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| took advantage of their power. How does this political system exist in the inner world of a | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of the word. Rulership is not just a political expression. It can be expressed in every area | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| then the model for the feudal and monarchical political system, which is part of the scheme of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| their own, self-serving purposes -- individually or in political life -- and who do not care if | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| inner expression, in its purity, of the outer political expression of socialism or communism. Now let us | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| can observe this in various ways in your political life, if you look at the public expression | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| swing from being submissive to being a rebel. Political systems swing from authoritarianism of one form or | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| humanity fluctuate from one form of expression of political life to another and work its way through | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| The general majority of human beings, especially in political life, still operates on the mask-self level. In | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the generally accepted rule and pretended necessity for political life and politicians. You do not need to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| in your social environment. It is a new political system, for you learn to combine both tradition | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| so? At one time the resistance was entirely political and power-oriented, just as new and honest political | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| political and power-oriented, just as new and honest political approaches are resisted now. Those in power would | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| religious backgrounds is prevalent among you. In your political committees you learn how politics could be based | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| The new-age person is not bound to nationality, political party, race or creed. He or she combines | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| be associated with any group consciousness, religion, nationality, political party. True individuality blossoms only when God's truth | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the devilish practitioners who torture human beings for political and other power reasons. When they see this | 254 SURRENDER |
| communication, through exposure, the whole world knows of political misdeeds that would previously have remained secret. Through | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| all the exposures that occur now on the political front. Do not think of the New Age | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Politicians.................7 | |
| wars and other mass disasters. Not only the politicians or those few who visibly and publicly shape | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| not exist, in spite of a few unscrupulous politicians. Most people, including you, my friends, harbor thoughts | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| can do more for or against war than politicians or statesmen, my dear friends. Question yourself honestly | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| right here on this earth. Little by little, politicians and people of influence will be drawn into | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| what the ordinary politician has now. Your current politicians come from the old-age school system and the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| principle to this very topic. The New Age politicians must beware of embracing one form of government | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| rule and pretended necessity for political life and politicians. You do not need to be in this | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Politics....................17 | |
| firm opinions about any subject from religion to politics. The moment these opinions are fanatical and inflexible | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| doing by yourself and with your coworker. Take politics, religion, your idea about love and sex, or | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| very same principle underlie what manifests in world politics, but is partly responsible for it. Each emotion | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bound by their allegiances and loyalties to religion, politics, or anything else to which they adhere, that | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| usually resolve collective problems in this manner. In politics, economics, and even religion, humanity approaches life and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| thirsty for this approach. The new kind of politics, science, economics, sociology, art -- everything that is | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| perhaps gain a clearer vision of New Age politics. Let us take first of all a by | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| this be integrated with and become part of politics in the New Age? What is your idea | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| more specific. In the first place New Age politics must, above all, always be carried by those | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| selflessness as the primary concern and focus, world politics in the New Age will contain every one | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| can unclog itself. It is so with world politics in the New Age. Humankind has been going | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| form of government. The nature of New Age politics will be precisely that it will not be | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| directly or indirectly, influential in creating New Age politics. This will perhaps disseminate the truths I speak | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of habit, makes a great deal of difference. Politics and religion, to name but a few aspects | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and meaninglessly create extreme orthodoxies in religion and politics -- and of course within the human soul | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| you. In your political committees you learn how politics could be based on the principles you are | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| what I explained in the lecture about new-age politics, in which democracy, communism, socialism, monarchy and capitalism | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |