| Polluted....................7 | |
| a mask so that their pure currents are polluted by the unpurified qualities. But here everything is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| by the unconscious negative thoughts and feelings, the polluted energy, of other people, thus they remain victimized | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| you really want when you are governed and polluted by appearance values. You borrow an imagined desire | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| used to distrusting your desires. They have been polluted for such a long, long time -- centuries | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| so can the mental and emotional organism become polluted by its false need to escape from some | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| these new values and ideas are, at times, polluted and distorted. Nevertheless, the power of awakening and | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| as well as the need for companionship were polluted by opportunistic, materialistic, and exploitative ends. Even worse | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Pollution...................4 | |
| all souls: the beauty on one hand, or pollution, dirt, barrenness on the other. Significantly, nature and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this power, for it will be free from pollution, perversion, and distortion. You can then claim your | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| removing more of the obstructions and halting the pollution of these clear waters. The earth consciousness is | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| opportunistic, materialistic, and exploitative ends. Even worse, this pollution and displacement was looked upon as if it | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Polygamous..................3 | |
| more active and adventurous, they tend to be polygamous and are therefore more tempted by infidelity than | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| or the right partner is there and the polygamous person is simply carried away by eros' momentum | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of this attitude and a consequent libertinism and polygamous expression. From there the movement can proceed to | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Ponder......................24 | |
| irritated with somebody. Go into your stillness and ponder that these people are the children of God | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| purification. One of the best meditations is to ponder: What are my faults? And how could any | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| nature, it is not real. If you now ponder the significance of the images within yourself, you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conflicts. If you independently think things through and ponder this subject, you will come to the conclusion | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seek further to understand that this is wrong. Ponder this lecture and see how both parts of | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| overlook the importance of such vague glimpses. Please ponder over them. Look at the first rare occurrences | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| interpreted as the ability to love. If you ponder the above, you cannot fail to see that | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| my friends, you have a few weeks to ponder this lecture. Since you will have an opportunity | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you consciously think and strive for. If you ponder your images from this angle, you will clearly | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with the lower degrees of love. If you ponder this question, you will find many other reasons | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be a valuable task for my friends to ponder over all this during the summer months in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| means, not by temporary, shallow ones. You may ponder the question of what will happen to humankind | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and other negative emotions. Then examine and deeply ponder the needs which lie behind the activity or | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| knows no barriers and no fear. When you ponder this phenomenon, you must come to the realization | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| ascertain the truth of this statement when you ponder a minute the heightened moments in your life | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| important for all of you to understand, to ponder on, and to meditate with this material. It | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| reasons for this, which you must acknowledge and ponder if you wish ever to come out of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and of people. You can then begin to ponder, Maybe it is not so dangerous, after all | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| as being in all that exists. If you ponder and meditate about the deeper meaning of these | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and unnecessary struggle. Consider all this, my friends. Ponder the question of misplaced trust and misplaced distrust | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| suddenly changes into an opposite. If you truly ponder this, you must come to the realization that | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| my friends, I have given you material to ponder; go deeply into yourself. Most of you are | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| eternal life, goodness, joy, total justice. When you ponder your progression on your path, it will become | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| case, but no less harmfully. Allow yourself to ponder, to meditate, to visualize that -- by simply | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Pondering...................6 | |
| My dear friends, since some of you are pondering the subject of world weariness -- an indefinable | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you want to do. You think praying and pondering a little bit about your mistakes is sufficient | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| at the slightest unpleasant reaction you have when pondering these words, you will quickly close the door | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| very helpful, if you take the trouble of pondering them and trying to apply them to yourself | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| living and only half-living. You cannot do enough pondering over this lecture. Try to make it a | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| risk of rejection, nor taking the trouble of pondering what the other's needs are, or the effort | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Pool........................7 | |
| of lightforces exist in one vast reservoir or pool. What are these lightforces? The lightforces represent every | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| feelings and emotions drain into a big ugly pool and finally are responsible for all the hurts | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| who have already reached their original state -- pool their resources to help in the Plan of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| wish to return it to the great cosmic pool to bring more benefit to others. This, in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| good behavior is not superimposed over a seething pool of anger, fear, anxiety and all sorts of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it will not add to the repressed residual pool. But those who still have to battle within | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| continues to be, to exist in the greater pool, never losing its unique quality, and will return | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Poor........................51 | |
| and find the path easier when they are poor. What is left out of consideration here is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| should not refuse help to someone who is poor and cannot afford to pay. But it wouldn't | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in the universe. You can only have very poor substitutes, very poor ones. Only through personal endeavor | 18 FREE WILL |
| You can only have very poor substitutes, very poor ones. Only through personal endeavor, development, purification can | 18 FREE WILL |
| not want it? -- these aims are indeed poor substitutes, especially if they take the place of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| on your earth plane that is not a poor copy of what exists first in spirit, even | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| understand and for which you often find such poor rationalizations. When a person near you does not | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is free of self-pity, of the flavor of Poor me. I could not help it. I should | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| outer will is always unhealthy. It is a poor substitute. It is full of tension, anxiety, and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| deep down in you that says, Look at poor little me, how I suffer, how unfairly I | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| strong, you are safe. Without it you are poor, you are separate; you are isolated and fearful | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in people. Your emotions become full of self-pity: Poor little me, I am not good enough, as | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| experiencing the dreaded defeat, never realizing what a poor bargain they have made with life. They may | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| unhappiness, you compound the unhappiness. Thus, from the poor will be taken away. The poor meaning the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from the poor will be taken away. The poor meaning the sick, the ignorant, the ones in | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on a false freedom and independence in a poor imitation of the real qualities. Because such people | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| for companionship springs, at least partly, from a poor motive. If you want to be alone out | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| springs, again at least in part, from a poor motive. In other words, either tendency can be | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that comes from this tendency is always a poor and shallow imitation of the real goodness. Only | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| primitive example: Let us suppose some people are poor; they are not starving, but they have less | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to know, however, that not only ignorance and poor guidance are responsible for the struggle within yourself | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| cruel one, in order not to be the poor, stupid one? Or do you resign yourself to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| shed a dismal light on life. Both are poor and between the two it is impossible to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the commitment must exist, for otherwise you are poor and empty. Is that clear? QUESTION: Yes, it | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and tightly held together. Thus living becomes a poor imitation of what it could be, and should | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| other sources of wisdom that are at best poor substitutes. These may be your intellect; your unexplored | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of abandoning these pseudo- satisfactions and pleasures, these poor substitutes? As long as you are convinced that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| yourself you have nothing to give. You are poor. For the richness of life is within you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you are closed in and must therefore remain poor. You cannot receive and are therefore deprived. The | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| is why it says in Scripture that the poor will become poorer and the rich richer. This | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| full self-responsibility without self-manipulation. Neither do you say, Poor me, all this is done to me, nor | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| so that you can then let yourself be poor and dissolve the illusion of poverty. Only after | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| richness grow. Only when you first can be poor can you allow yourself to be rich as | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| where you feel rich and where you feel poor. Perhaps you feel rich in having certain creative | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| But at the same time you may feel poor in regard to ever finding true mutuality. Another | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| where you feel rich and where you feel poor. Where you feel rich, you will always be | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| giving and honest attitude. But where you feel poor, you will continue to be poor until you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you feel poor, you will continue to be poor until you establish richness within through giving and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| what happens when you believe yourself to be poor. I said before that every kind of pushing | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| in the deepest sense, dishonest. Because you feel poor, you think you must steal; because you continue | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| must steal; because you continue stealing, you remain poor, for only the honest can feel deserving of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| dishonesty, and negativity, you cannot help but stay poor. Out of that courage of really seeing yourself | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| setting a desirable example. For how can the poor enrich? Nor is it possible to pretend, for | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| ungiving, stingy, withholding, hoarding, tight, ungenerous, leaving you poor. You expect from it exactly what you sense | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| without responsibility. The one is rich, the other poor. The one has rights, the other does not | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| strengthens the illusion that you live in a poor, empty universe. It increases the belief that your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the belief that your inner universe is equally poor and empty, that you have nothing to give | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| intrinsically connected with the belief in an empty, poor, ungiving universe. Let me now be more explicit | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| illusion is that the world is mean and poor. To put it differently, you believe only in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| lower-self machinations to the fore, you stand there poor. You no longer cover up with a false | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| is lacking, the false world picture of a poor, untrustworthy, empty universe makes this step toward honesty | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |