| Religionists................4 | |
| words innocence and purity as used by bigoted religionists. The person who has this innocence and purity | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| risk believing and then being disappointed if the religionists are wrong. Both types are incapable of admitting | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the personality into becoming self-righteously severe with others. Religionists often distort reality in that way and rationalize | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| easily to misunderstanding, although the more enlightened among religionists do perceive the truth. Salvation means, among other | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Religionist's...............1 | |
| be a distorted and harmful process in the religionist's as well as the psychoanalyst's concept. The religionist | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Religions...................71 | |
| of darkness. Now who is Christ? Some Christian religions claim he is God. This is not so | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| development through every one of the great world religions, including the non-Christian ones, in which you can | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| spiritual development is contained in all the great religions. It is up to you to find out | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| recognize officially the Christian religion. Just as all religions have enough of the truth to further your | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| of the truth to further your purification, all religions also contain errors. It is important for you | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| God is person as well as principle. Human religions and human philosophies have always debated this question | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| this divine substance is in Christ. Therefore, some religions refer to God the Father and God the | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| for the same reason that a number of religions do not refer to the Fall and Creation | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of this development will be very noticeable; nations, religions, and races will have few of their differences | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| possible self-observation. QUESTION: How do the different main religions continue their activities in the spiritual world? Do | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the highest to the lowest, the different main religions are represented. It is self-explanatory that they work | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| world needs workers in all groups, in all religions, to attain the one great aim of final | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| which counts. In God's world, therefore, the different religions certainly do not fight. They all have the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| as yet, conditions are different. There the various religions do not fight either, because they do not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will see that there is no division among religions; there is no longer any attitude of only | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will then see the many errors of particular religions, and still work with the truth. QUESTION: What | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| find God in any of the current existing religions or philosophies and people who are not particularly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and the refinement of the inner senses. The religions will subtly, gradually, but surely change in the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| will see the one truth that underlies all religions. Religion will no longer be a separating factor | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| will not come about by destroying the existing religions suddenly. As Jesus has said, he did not | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| spark. You should consider all teachings and all religions from that point of view. The knowledge of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| often say that each error in the various religions has some background that makes the error understandable | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| other hand, polygamy is also recognized in some religions -- the Mormons, for instance. I understand what | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| may be one kind of error, in other religions another. Here you simply have two extremes. When | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| or rules come into existence in the various religions, whether at one extreme or another, it is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| maturity. These are universal truths, taught in all religions and philosophies of any value. Humanity has tried | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the power of the Holy Ghost? In some religions and philosophies the Holy Ghost is considered as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is also postulated in some of the oriental religions. ANSWER: The sexual impulse in the infantile and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such is sinful. Of course, lacking deeper knowledge, religions had to assert the sinfulness of sex because | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is it expressed in the trinity of different religions? For instance the Brahmic Trinity or the Christian | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| from and to deceive oneself. As to philosophies, religions, teachings and methods of self-development, there are none | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how they lead to extremes on which various religions base their doctrines. This represents one of the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the certainty or the sense of immortality. All religions teach that the soul or the spirit is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| do it effectively if distracted by other things. Religions have made a rigid rule out of this | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at least in outer appearance, taught in some religions and philosophies. It seems to you when you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| common denominator that will unite all sciences, all religions, as well as all the other branches of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of religion closely, you will see that all religions, including the traditional ones, contained the life-spark of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| spread, the truth faded out and they became religions of letters, instead of heart and soul. Humanity | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| survive until the present day, while the gnostic religions which are more in accord with your teachings | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| because more truth was rooted in certain gnostic religions, there existed less of a power drive in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| successful inwardly. The neglected truth teachings of gnostic religions may outwardly appear weak because there are few | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| All their lives they heard what their respective religions taught and -- due to inner fears -- | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| will they integrate with the basis of all religions. For the divine laws work eternally within the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the only reason for the failure of various religions to come together. If this problem were solved | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| true. But you see, there are so many religions which originally possessed this truth when they taught | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| are contrary to the will of God. Many religions teach this error. The healthy way to meet | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| all times. It is represented in many philosophies, religions and myths. Through Jesus Christ it has been | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your inner problems exist in different groups, nations, religions, languages. All of them are symbolic of the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the effect. Whether you examine nations, languages and religions, or atmospheric conditions, it makes no difference. All | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is one of the great strongholds. In all religions -- in some more, and in others less | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| entirely different. Both the false and the true religions say that God's grace exists. Even though you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the Lord an element out of the ancient religions where religion had a punitive character? ANSWER: Yes | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of their natural channels, love cannot prevail. All religions have always taught that love is the key | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| as unhealthy and destructive struggle. Various philosophies and religions ask that you give up struggling. This is | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| is the same. There are groups, countries, nationalities, religions, sects, sections -- geographically and ideologically -- with | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| free will is responsible for one's fate. Divers religions and philosophies may word this fact differently, but | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| no love, there can be no fulfillment. All religions, philosophies, and psychologies agree that love is the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| purpose, as postulated by the various philosophies or religions? Or do we regard life as merely a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| increase of pleasure and not, as many authoritarian religions want to have it, denial and sacrifice of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| process will set up a stumbling block. Most religions take a dualistic approach to the great question | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this is what happens all too often in religions, with very undesirable results. It discredits spirituality itself | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| These words have often been spoken by all religions and philosophies of value. They are surely not | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and puts down those who are being judged. Religions have been particularly guilty of this distortion. A | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| been said, sometimes in oversimplified terms, by various religions. But do not forget, my friends, that religions | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| religions. But do not forget, my friends, that religions, when they first appear, are channels that in | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| risks involved in personal growth. This is why religions lose their power of truth after a while | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| on the outer levels, so that eventually nations, religions, and all such differences will disappear. This does | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| has unfortunately been made by almost all organized religions. This is why organized religion has fallen into | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| pleasure or pain is strongly fostered by Eastern religions, as well as by the Western mystics. These | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| There are several ways of doing it. Eastern religions usually approach it by long practice and discipline | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| spiritual laws and values are generally known through religions, but few are truly understood and experienced in | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Religion's..................1 | |
| confused with negativity, resignation, and even masochistic self-denial. Religion's postulate that the good person must sacrifice is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Religious...................102 | |
| it possible that there are so many different religious concepts on earth? You think, Everybody says something | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| reality this is not so. Even when a religious concept contains definite errors, one can find the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the truth that can be found in each religious concept, people dismiss everything, at least emotionally, as | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| assure yourself and others that you are not religious. You make the mistaken assumption that being religious | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| religious. You make the mistaken assumption that being religious means to adhere to some sect and blindly | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| people can discover also by adhering to a religious sect. Then the minor errors or deviations do | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to God does not lead through joining a religious sect; they must be shown another road. But | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to mention again that there is hardly any religious concept which does not contain a kernel of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| whether it concerns the Bible or any other religious teaching. So, to come back to your question | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the only reason for the connection. QUESTION: Various religious philosophies differentiate strongly between dualism and monism. Is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of the basic conditions, laid down in all religious philosophies: to follow the will of God, to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of disharmony might take the form of general religious doubts which ultimately are connected to personal problems | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in this respect, as far as spiritual and religious teachings are concerned, the Western and the Eastern | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| many reasons you cannot recognize Christ in a religious affiliation. By self- purification alone, you will raise | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| begin with the highest spheres. There, the different religious denominations also have their own organization, but in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the falsehoods and truths of both their own religious groups and the others. They continue to work | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not also come to earth within the different religious organizations via certain people of a particular church | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| compatible with them and therefore belong to this religious group. The higher spirits may be trying to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| imperfection and has nothing to do with their religious belief. Only at a later state of purification | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| comes from influences in the home or from religious teachers who are also infected with such ideas | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| longer be necessary. Then the various churches and religious organizations will teach their followers in a way | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Some people -- often those who are devoutly religious -- think that they must accept any difficulty | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a highly spiritualized form of development in certain religious sects. On the other hand, polygamy is also | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of incarnations. QUESTION: I suppose that racial and religious images also form part of the mass images | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| goes through all kinds of race and especially religious images. Then the incarnations are all mixed up | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| their view. It is the same with the religious mass-images. One person is still more involved, the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is a sign of a slow destruction of religious mass imagery, step by step. My dear friends | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| sorts of wrong reactions, while he propounds the religious truth of his choosing. But do not forget | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| truth as a shield. This may be a religious, spiritual, metaphysical truth, a philosophical truth; it may | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| may be pure ethics and morals, without any religious implications; it may be psychology, or psychoanalysis. Many | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| opposed to acceptance? ANSWER: Each of these basic religious attitudes has a healthy form, which become distorted | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| right and wrong forms of both these basic religious attitudes. The wrong kind of positive thinking is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| This has been the trouble with all great religious teachings throughout the ages. Detachment undergoes a similar | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| may be turned into a virtue under various religious or spiritual masks and into the denial of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| God, with the divine, by outer means, by religious theories, theological interpretations -- thereby forcing themselves to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- and today you are beginning to -- religious teachings will no longer hold that sex as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: Since these principles have to permeate the religious mythology too, in what way is it expressed | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| first place, I need special consideration. Because of religious mass images about God, one feels all the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| can never be forced directly. When your earthly religious teachers drum into you that you must have | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other theory, which is still held by orthodox religious people, is that God created each species in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and not only those who belong to a religious denomination. There are subtler ways in which this | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because you become a more selfish person. Many religious practices, however, will not make you happier. That | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other words, as explained to you before, great religious teachers took suffering upon themselves not because it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this way they are not able to. Great religious teachers want to set an example. This is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to be true, not only as a known religious concept, but also from your personal work experience | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mystery, unknown, and therefore frightening, in spite of religious faith. It seems to be an end; as | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| And life, in essence, means bliss. All the religious explanations, however true they may be, are still | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of trying to deal with the problem. Many religious people who cling to faith out of fear | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| problem of death. The atheist/materialist and the superficially religious who wants to avoid death by superimposed faith | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| with the process of arriving at it. Many religious philosophies have taught this truth. But the end | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| quite the contrary. Only those who cling to religious faith out of fear and weakness will come | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| struggle against death. One person will be a religious fanatic who has accepted a belief out of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in the wrong way, just as the ungenuine religious person does. The latter says, I want to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to consider these manifestations from the spiritual and religious point of view, however. Complete awareness and understanding | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your conscious beliefs. So where there is outer religious faith, obedience, and appeasement, try to find not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your soul; where you borrow, as it were, religious precepts behind which you hide and excuse your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| removing your own obstacles to fulfillment. The false religious attitude arises when you ask God to help | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| emotional reactions with this God-image, with the false religious attitude. They are filled with their conscious right | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| such a statement. It may be that one religious denomination has more truthful teachings, but another that | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| unless you have first reached this true inner religious experience. When you no longer need grace as | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| avoid. Not only is it found in well-known religious denominations, it can also be found in individuals | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this aspect is very much neglected by all religious denominations and societies. They still deal with the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| psychological terms neurotic, is in essence what in religious or spiritual terms is called sinful or evil | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| time. ANSWER: It is very often so in religious teachings that the effect is spoken about and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| good or bad. So many theories -- spiritual, religious, philosophical or psychological -- exist about the use | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| something more than a life of material satisfactions. Religious philosophies tell them in various terms about a | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| false structures came into being. There are many religious systems which realize the danger of the mind | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| free will to two people -- one very religious, and the other a scientist. They then asked | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| contains an eternal conflict in mankind, conflict in religious concepts. On the one hand, man postulates that | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| terminology and interpretation. As you know, in many religious concepts, the divine spark, or the higher self | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| this subject before, only that any spiritual or religious belief, if it is superimposed from the outside | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| only occurs among individuals, but also among national, religious, and political groups. In this psychological distortion, even | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you from limitation and from frozen feelings. When religious teachers preach about the importance of love, they | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| briefly some characteristics of the superimposed conscience. When religious people speak about conscience, they think of the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the type you have asked, or political, social, religious, or relating to any other human activity or | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| assuage these fears, humanity has created philosophical, spiritual, religious concepts. But concepts, even if they result from | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| Now, what is the goal? Spiritual literature and religious teachings, in all cultures and in all places | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| manifesting universal consciousness has nothing to do with religious precepts of a removed deity, or a life | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| to put something in motion within. For some, religious memories and considerations may represent such a push | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| is eternal. This is, I repeat, not a religious concept for a faraway future. It is immediately | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of self-rejection. People also ignore that all the religious commands to love cannot be fulfilled until this | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the struggle is between good and evil. All religious philosophies of all times have postulated the same | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| are many different kinds of meditation. There is religious meditation, which consists of reciting set prayers. There | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| illusion. This philosophy is as true as its religious opposite, which recognizes the danger of evil, its | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| fact observable by anyone who faces reality. Some religious philosophies contend that evil stems from one principal | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| angels, or whatever it may be called in religious terminology. Let me now give you a new | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| deep inner spiritual reality, and not some illusory religious escape. Quite the contrary, this path is immensely | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| not so far removed from your own, a religious counter-movement had taken over in which human beings' | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| any devils. That is a misunderstanding of certain religious orientations. When the devils are cast out, you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the transformation of nations into one human government; religious differences would disappear because the One would be | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| way and rationalize their narrow attitude by using religious doctrines. Or you may project self-indulgence and guilt | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| experience. More highly developed followers of the inner religious movements always knew that these states of perfection | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| will no longer be attached to nationality, or religious affiliation. Thus a defiant rigidity will no longer | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| simply is the reverse side, symbolized in your religious history by Easter, where resurrection follows death. At | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| a very real concept, by no means a religious fanatic's whim. The terminology may possibly offend you | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| yet they frantically strive to maintain it there. Religious people who deny the importance of physical life | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| obstructed. Stagnation was the fate of many spiritual, religious, psychological truths that have been filtering through into | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| it is no coincidence that a mixture of religious backgrounds is prevalent among you. In your political | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| then, would you have a different approach to religious affiliations and beliefs? To dissolve the particular mass | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| challenging your insecurity about your spirituality and your religious background. Some of you have already done this | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to taking responsibility for it. Scriptures of many religious and spiritual movements have always hinted at ultimate | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| law that it is taught in all the religious scriptures that ever existed. Yet it is usually | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |