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 Races.......................11
any spiritual significance or reason for the different races? ANSWER: Oh yes, indeed. There is no such 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
becomes through spiritual development, the more will different races cease to exist. You can begin to see 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
development will be very noticeable; nations, religions, and races will have few of their differences left. This 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
development of groups. You may wonder why certain races do not suffer from being different from others 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
QUESTION: But is not the variety of different races and their trends part of the beauty of 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
earth where you have what you call better races and inferior races. That, of course is karmic 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
have what you call better races and inferior races. That, of course is karmic for both groups 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
are there more births now in the colored races or in Asia and China, and in all 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is not so. The same applies to groups, races and nationalities. QUESTION: Is the total number of 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
for the rise and fall of civilizations and races if you generalize now the state of adolescence 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
sphere. Others come again in different civilizations and races for the completion of their evolution. It is 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
 
 Radiant.....................17
divine spark. This is the finest and most radiant of the subtle bodies, with the quickest frequency 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
and automatically connects with the highest and most radiant spheres, even though you still live on earth 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
and even though, measured by distance, these very radiant spheres are hundreds of thousands of miles away 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
is also organic, for all organs exist in radiant matter. And certainly there is consciousness! But there 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
planets is not exactly in your material form. Radiant matter varies greatly. What may be for you 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
matter varies greatly. What may be for you radiant matter which you cannot perceive with your eyes 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
you cannot see it either. It is not radiant, but quite to the contrary, too coarse for 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
In the region of the solar plexus, in radiant matter not visible with your human eye, is 18 FREE WILL
described as a fluid substance of the most radiant matter. It is the life force. God, as 20 GOD: THE CREATION
or that the spiritual matter there is of radiant matter. In fact, the substance there is much 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
densest degree. The higher the development, the more radiant or the finer the degree becomes. While the 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
These psychological layers exist as various substances of radiant matter. Such stages occur at certain intervals before 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
energy, the faster its frequency and the more radiant its matter. The more distorted and destructive a 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
the whole process. If this happens, the more radiant energetic matter cannot express itself on the levels 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
into a much deeper, more subtle and more radiant world. When you have passed the previous steps 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
of, the one love that colors everything into radiant beauty, the one peace that surpasses all understanding 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
the flow of divine energy. In inertia the radiant matter of divine influx thickens, hardens, blocks, and 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
 
 Radical.....................6
go to the flawed roots within yourself. This radical approach, this going to the roots is the 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
here-and-now or in the beyond -- the more radical must be the separation. Because of the limitations 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
to new findings the same way. They form radical assumptions, to which they temporarily give serious consideration 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
If it is the latter, which would require radical changes in one's lifelong commitments, then it could 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
falls apart. False structures always collapse. The most radical collapse is physical death, which always affords the 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
All regressive and reactionary attitudes, as well as radical revolutionary ones are nothing but blockages. The latter 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
 
 Rage........................68
the destructiveness of the forces of evil that rage in you due to your ignorance and emotional 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
results in guilt, fear, uncertainty, anger, resentment, helpless rage, and confused fluctuation between giving in too much 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
negative emotions in the inner makeup, such as rage, fear, anger, from arising. These emotions cannot be 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
fearing the cruelty from the outside, fearing the rage and the indifference of the world. The injustice 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
of this injustice, this insensitivity, indifference, cruelty and rage, I make myself as numb as they must 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
on certain emotions, I cannot desensitize my own rage and anger. This, then, compounds the guilt. QUESTION 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
that are beyond our control: is it this rage and anger, as well as the guilt, that 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
immediately bring out the negative, the hostility and rage, and I am blinded by these negative feelings 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
meet your own negativity -- your fears, anger, rage, the traits you do not like -- in 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
comes newly into existence, as you know. The rage is not a new emotion or energy current 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
this is its natural form. For example, once rage is admitted and fully experienced under the proper 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
rejecting the total personality because of it, the rage will transform itself into warmth, pleasure, and love 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
as outlined here is avoided. The greater the rage, the worse the fear of it becomes; consequently 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
spontaneity impossible. Frustration and emptiness increase anger and rage, thus fear of self grows, and so on 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
temporarily melded into one stream. In your case rage, anger, cruel instincts are there, but not so 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
hand, you need to express the anger and rage and want to let it out -- this 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
cooperate and to give, brings into your soul rage, fury, perhaps even vindictiveness and varying degrees of 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
of other emotions you had denied -- perhaps rage, hurt, sadness. When these emotions are fully experienced 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
dependent on; weakness, helplessness, false humility -- therefore rage, anger, rebellion. The more these must be kept 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
assumed, sacrificial unselfishness becomes, the more the ensuing rage and hostility will build up hidden destructive selfishness 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
pain, with no apparent way out, induced violence, rage, greed, separateness, and other destructive emotions. This still 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
feelings. There is hopeless agony, there is violent rage, there is the feeling of absolute helplessness -- 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
seems to cause the agony and thus the rage, then toward the self because the ego does 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
of all the haplessness and agony, in the rage that develops as a consequence, you have decided 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
this attitude that makes the facing of the rage and the agony perilous. Rage and agony must 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
facing of the rage and the agony perilous. Rage and agony must indeed seem endless as long 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
destructiveness -- to the fear and pain and rage, and also to the deliberate, although possibly unconscious 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
painful: greater dissension with yourself and even more rage toward the world follow. A great part of 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
the world follow. A great part of the rage, anger, and pain are not so much a 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
vastly responsible for the apparently bottomless despair and rage we were talking about. When you perceive yourself 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
and fear, as well as the anger and rage that develop as a consequence. Your nonacceptance of 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
when his unconscious is still steeped in hostility, rage, and anger, because the activating principle then threatens 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
As you discover this, you will weaken the rage with which you blame others, circumstances, people, life 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
therefore more and more permeated with hostility and rage. When people are subtly infused with such emotions 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
a result of his own defensive hostility and rage. He seemed unable to move from this point 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
beliefs, its stubborn resistance, its spitefulness and murderous rage, must be reoriented. Reeducation, however, cannot take place 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
are not direct primary emotions: fear may disguise rage; depression may disguise fear. The problem is that 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
that may now manifest as hostility, envy, hatred, rage, bitterness, self-pity, or blame -- can become a 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
all the feelings involved, with their meaning -- rage, hate, fear, guilt, blame -- and all the 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
Which is your best self? Is it your rage at the demon in you or your total 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
flow of life. When strong inner denial exists, rage and violence follow. Rage dissolves when the fear 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
strong inner denial exists, rage and violence follow. Rage dissolves when the fear of pain is given 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
the vicious circle is the denied anger and rage for being made sad by life and by 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
tension comes from a feeling of hate and rage, an overactive outer will that is being prevented 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
First you will truly know how unjustified your rage is but then, if you truly understand it 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
but then, if you truly understand it, your rage must vanish and you will allow others to 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
most negative feelings -- hate, cruelty, anger, and rage, and their byproducts of envy, jealousy, greed, dishonesty 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
to go into a pain or into your rage, it is only dishonesty that makes you reluctant 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
is that it should be completely without anger, rage, fear, pain, or sadness. This idea is distorted 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
life situation is painful and you defend with rage, complaints, and other defenses against cleanly experiencing this 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
feelings. When you physically, emotionally and conceptually express rage, hate and fury, you make new connections about 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
as negative intentionality and feelings of hate and rage and attitudes of greed and distrust come out 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
your intuitive inspirations. At this point a tremendous rage, anger and hostility is created in others by 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
level and may create a rationale for the rage. At this point you may not understand at 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
and without distortion. But your seeing creates intense rage and intense attacks on the part of those 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
you had denied: pain, hate, self- rejection, guilt, rage, all shades of fear and terror, as well 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
You express these claims and desires and your rage when these desires cannot be fulfilled. You learn 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
with. One of these is the violence and rage that you have told me about here before 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
the most superficial level, manifests as violence and rage. Courageously express it with your physical being, but 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
a question of minutes in the form of rage, violence, cruelty. Very soon, in this attitude of 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
Such a misperception sometimes creates fear of and rage against this path, and you cling to the 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
have taught you how to experience pain, helplessness, rage. I have helped you to see and accept 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
ill and suffer pain? Yet there exists a rage toward life and creation in all human souls 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
die, in this very acceptance lies the ultimate rage. Atheism itself is a manifestation of extreme bitterness 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
fear and your previously unconscious anger, bitterness or rage at life for imposing death and pain on 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
life's stepchildren, this, too, must create bitterness and rage. Often, these feelings augment the pain, extend it 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
and death, or against one's own feelings of rage and bitterness about what seems insane to resist 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
is liberating and will eliminate the existential anger, rage and fear about life and death that we 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE

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