| to succumb to the temptation of abusing this power, the one who is sometimes referred to as | 21 THE FALL |
| that came into existence. This spirit had complete power over all those who followed him, and, contrary | 21 THE FALL |
| him, and, contrary to God, he used this power. God gives the freedom of choice and this | 21 THE FALL |
| necessarily comes the possibility to abuse the given power and to use it contrary to the divine | 21 THE FALL |
| available, there would be no freedom and no power. There can be no divine happiness, in fact | 21 THE FALL |
| to God, they would not have had the power to do so since they were under the | 21 THE FALL |
| so since they were under the dominion and power of the one who reigns in the world | 21 THE FALL |
| him? If He were to use his infinite power by overruling the free will and the choice | 21 THE FALL |
| of those who decided to use the given power in their own way, He would actually be | 21 THE FALL |
| each individual being on this plane possessing the power of free choice. Conditions and circumstances on this | 21 THE FALL |
| well, doing the best in his or her power, this person does not only help himself but | 21 THE FALL |
| help himself but adds the most valuable cosmic power to a great reservoir. It will ultimately have | 21 THE FALL |
| aspect, but in all. This is how the power of creation could have been used by all | 21 THE FALL |
| used by those who did not abuse this power. Absolute perfection exists only in God and in | 21 THE FALL |
| example should give you an idea of your power to break the limitations. QUESTION: But not everyone | 21 THE FALL |
| forth. The aim was to use the divine power that we all once had to make ourselves | 22 SALVATION |
| a number of spirits have used their divine power for this purpose, and a number of other | 22 SALVATION |
| of Lucifer because he did not relinquish his power over this person. Furthermore, no one was at | 22 SALVATION |
| not recognize divine law and would use his power as he saw fit. So Christ said: In | 22 SALVATION |
| if the divine forces won and took my power away, I would still not recognize the law | 22 SALVATION |
| possible. I would offer this person every worldly power and release from all hardship if he forsook | 22 SALVATION |
| equal conditions. It would have been in His power not to take any risks by using greater | 22 SALVATION |
| of the Luciferic world. Lucifer will have no power over such a being whether on earth or | 22 SALVATION |
| cannot create anything, unless they are given the power I was speaking of lately, the power that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the power I was speaking of lately, the power that can be used for good or for | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| used for good or for evil. This creative power, this life force, can be directed into any | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in this way. Therefore, God creates through His power which He has given to His children to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way that all living spirits can use this power in free choice. Part of the expression of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| free choice. Part of the expression of this power are the various worlds or spheres coming into | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you. QUESTION: How come that for the satanic power the name Lucifer, which means light- bringer, was | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the heavens, parallel to the height of power of Hitler before the Russian debacle? ANSWER: Oh | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- to get more land, to get more power. Though people seem to be that way now | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| play into the divine laws, be given great power and it would be according to his free | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| his free will how he would use this power. He even had a great deal of psychic | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| He even had a great deal of psychic power. Up to a certain point, the chances were | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of matter, for this particular substance. As much power as this spirit has, he is still a | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Yes. Thank you. QUESTION: How can a dormant power of concentration be revived? ANSWER: This is very | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to unfold it and enlarge it with the power given to them. Do you understand that? If | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will remember my explaining that God created the power which He then gave to each of His | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| gave to each of His created spirits. This power could be used in any way depending on | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will people -- or spirits -- use this power against divine law. Is that clear? QUESTION: Yes | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| between creating evil, or giving free will and power to God's creatures who can then use the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to God's creatures who can then use the power according to divine law or not. I have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a divine aspect. The wrong use of the power ultimately led to evil through a slow process | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| life. Remember that it is in your own power to break the chains of fear by following | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your own hands. If you wish for this power, you will receive it. No matter how busy | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| very healthy soul, because this means having strength, power, and independence. Such a person lives with the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| make you really strong and give you the power to distinguish when to keep still after a | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| by their own accord, as though an outer power were at work. You will not feel any | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| might gain admiration, appreciation, and some degree of power. However, if true security is desired -- and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| warm and soothing. It will give you healing power for all your problems on all levels of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| completely forget those instants when you have the power to change, if you would only look at | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| look at yourself. For there is so much power given to each one of you! Yet, you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| not realize it. Why? Because you misdirect your power into the wrong channels and it goes to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will and divine law. If people take the power upon themselves to prevent other people from living | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to take place, the lightforce and the divine power that every being has been endowed with would | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| subject. It is to some measure in your power to help destroy the harmful masks of others | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| which are: a certain type of selfishness; a power drive; self-righteousness; a certain greediness to have more | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| person, but hatred nonetheless. There is inevitably a power drive in a person who resents rejection or | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| for it. You could not resent if this power drive did not exist in you, in whatever | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the only person over whom you have the power of bringing about change. You can never change | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| trend, each attitude, good or bad, as a power current, which it truly is. It depends very | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is. It depends very much on how the power currents are treated, insulated, or channeled. All this | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to come to God. Yet, whoever was in power would still enforce his belief and prohibit the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| yourself from the inside out. You have the power to change whatever mishap occurs in your life | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| mishap occurs in your life. You have the power to alter your life completely, but not if | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| rewarded. Nothing will give you as great a power, as great a feeling of security as surging | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| suffering and (b) how it is in your power to change it. (2) Find out about your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that acceptance of pain does not deny your power to avoid it on this path of purification | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| those who will read these words, have the power to change this if you want to. And | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| thing about the images is that they assume power. They will make you see and notice only | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of emotion and meaning, it has much less power and effect, and therefore is a much weaker | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| these spirits would perfect themselves with the creative power that was given to them. In other words | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| would become godlike. Instead, many spirits used their power in the wrong way -- causing the Fall | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| earth sphere, the erotic force is a propelling power regardless of whether or not its real meaning | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| as such will often do anything in their power to avoid -- subconsciously and ignorantly -- the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| them up and therefore give them much greater power than when you recognize their existence. In addition | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is given a guardian. The guardian's strength and power depend on a person's development and responsibility task | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| reasoning process will, among other things, strengthen your power to discriminate in a very subtle way -- | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| for this particular work. For instance: insight, intuition, power of deduction, observation, a very warm interest in | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| must turn to good, finally, because the divine power is the absolute truth and cannot be conquered | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a later stage of your development. So the power to concentrate can be combined with cultivating constructive | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to your present difficulties and inner obstacles. The power of concentration you have learned can then be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| own liking. When this cannot be done by power, other means are sought, such as sickness or | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| time to adjust, while doing everything in your power to give them the opportunity to grow. This | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you are not a victim; that you have power over your life; that you are free; and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| bad. You make it good or bad. This power current is one important aspect of God where | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Rather think of God as the Great Creative Power at your disposal. Therefore, it is not God | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| where and how you have ignorantly abused the power current in you, God will answer you. This | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| try to find where you have abused the power current and connect these instances with the injustices | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of these laws that let you, with the power current of life, do as you please in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the life force? ANSWER: The abuse of the power current of your life force consists of all | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| sense and the human meaning attributed to the power of the Holy Ghost? In some religions and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they are successful. They use their wealth for power over other people, to be important, yet they | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your battle has become conscious, it will lose power. But if such an outer event does recur | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| happiness. Thus, even difficult times will have the power to make you happy. I grant you that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| itself. Help may be given by strengthening your power to recollect your spiritual experiences during sleep, although | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my mind. The great materialism of this tremendous power might be a block to the spiritual development | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| material value through which one may get some power and admiration -- or so one hopes. Whereas | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you come to understand more profoundly, and your power and capacity to love truly unfolds -- not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-unfoldment, makes you an instrument of grace. The power of good and love is infinitely stronger than | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good and love is infinitely stronger than the power of evil and ignorance. Others do not only | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the more constructive when permeated with her intuitive power and her emotional side, the soul qualities of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| If you have a great amount of will power, coming from the outer will, the inner will | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that prayer is the means by which God's power is released onto human life. Perhaps you would | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Therefore you make amends not to a higher power, but to yourself. God's ways, the ways of | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| realize your right to self-government, others lose their power over you. Once this psychological conflict is straightened | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| varying exigencies of human need. However, those in power on either side, because of impatience and frustration | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| liberty, not even outwardly. A few people in power take it upon themselves to be the judges | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to alleviate this insecurity by means of gaining power over others. This does not only apply to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| other ways, methods, systems, that operate by the power of suggestion; many metaphysical movements do just that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| determines the subject's susceptibility to hypnosis? ANSWER: The power to let go. The power to give up | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| hypnosis? ANSWER: The power to let go. The power to give up the self with all its | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| may be a strong unconscious inclination to lose power over the self because the conscious mind holds | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| what is amiss. Recognize your uncontrolled thoughts, their power over you, their significance, as well as their | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| benefits I outlined before, in addition to the power to discriminate between your foreground and background thoughts | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will derive further benefits, such as a general power of discrimination; increased inner and outer vitality; better | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| But these clouds will no longer have the power to throw you, to upset you unduly, to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| rather insignificant one that, nevertheless, once had the power to upset you disproportionately. Your only yardstick for | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| least theoretically and intellectually, love is the greatest power in the universe. Every spiritual teaching or philosophy | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| this truth. Love is the one and only power. With it you are mighty, you are strong | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| first. One who ignores the existence and the power of the subconscious mind will take such knowledge | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| fate. Second, people who have not attained such power would feel extremely frustrated and their sense of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of you who have come to see the power of your hidden trends, compulsions, and images will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the greater truth showed less vitality. ANSWER: Outer power may often bring outer success. Maybe just because | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| certain gnostic religions, there existed less of a power drive in those who practiced them. But this | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| But this does not mean that the inner power of truth did not actually bring more success | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the many, notwithstanding the extent of the outer power a successful religion may have. Here again, it | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| concentrate on the teachings of truth without overt power, in whatever form it may appear at different | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| get out of trouble by using one's own power -- by finding within what has caused it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| they see is in their using all their power, all their selfish, ruthless drives, to defeat the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of inadequacy. You use it to gain respect, power, admiration, unconsciously believing that thereby you also gain | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Yet it is true that nothing has more power than the steady stream of water. It can | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. Moreover, the superimposed faith has no real power to help them. They accept God, and everything | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| bit as reliable to you as your reasoning power and your intellect. All this is the final | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Be in peace, be in God! 84. LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS Greetings | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| like to discuss three major divine attributes: love, power, and serenity, and how they manifest in their | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| aggressiveness, and withdrawal are the distortions of love, power, and serenity. I would now like to speak | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| kind that arises out of the distortion of power. Simultaneously, the submissive type may also admire and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| In the second category is the seeker for power. This person thinks that power and independence from | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the seeker for power. This person thinks that power and independence from others will solve all problems | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the resentment and self-assertive qualities that smolder underneath. Power drive and aggressiveness can manifest in many ways | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the helpless softness of the submissive person, the power type is just as dishonest and hypocritical, because | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| idealized self-image dictates standards of godlike independence and power. Believing in complete self-sufficiency, such a person does | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| type is. Since this idealized self-image demands such power and independence from feelings and human emotions as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| symptom of the aggressive type, who thinks that power is the solution, is the artificially cultivated view | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| other person relates to the submitter. Seekers for power must never fail in anything. Contrary to the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| give them love and protection, the seekers for power take pride in never failing in anything. In | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| type may in certain cases resort to the power solution. Both solutions are equally rigid, unrealistic and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to be always selfish so as to gain power. In addition one also has to be completely | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |