| difficult to overcome any aspect of the lower self, but also because one has the misconception that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| You must achieve a breakthrough to your inner self. You know very well that it is not | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a breakthrough in your soul to the higher self. Whoever asks God, Show me the truth and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| layers of the crust, hidden by your lower self, but it is only covered up -- the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and so allow the breakthrough to the higher self in those places where your faults have so | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| perfection. When you have clearly crystallized your lower self into definite form and see it as a | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| see it as a foreign body within the self, you can begin to build the positive form | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| overcome the resistance and to nevertheless accept the self as it is in the moment. Persevering in | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| which is still a residue of the lower self. You will always be aware of the discrepancy | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| own development; it is getting to know the self; it is, first and foremost, the acceptance of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| a victory over yourself, an insight into the self that is real, complete and wholehearted. When you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in them which will clearly indicate their higher self and entitle them to be regarded children of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| a line separating the higher and the lower self, to pinpoint what belongs to each one. The | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| pinpoint what belongs to each one. The higher self is eternal, immortal, and is of God. The | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| eternal, immortal, and is of God. The lower self is temporal, and not of the true reality | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| or sister. You will then allow your higher self to unite with the higher self of your | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| your higher self to unite with the higher self of your neighbor. All this is contained in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| which waits for the walls of the lower self to be broken through. The God in you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| on to recognize your guilt, but your lower self interferes with its pride and laziness, so you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| it may feel at first. Examine your own self in this respect. Only those who penetrate all | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in error. For in you, in your lower self, in the crust that envelops your perfect self | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| self, in the crust that envelops your perfect self, lies the germ through which you can be | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| longing there is in you to dissolve the self, not only in the union of love, but | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| unhappiness and of the gnawing discontentment with the self. QUESTION: How can one fulfill one's task to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| speaks to me? How is my own divine self or this medium's divine self related to such | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| my own divine self or this medium's divine self related to such a master? ANSWER: I will | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is between the divine spark or the divine self, as you call it, or an entity of | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the superconscious, or the divine spark or higher self -- whatever name you care to give it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| matter whether it is through one's own divine self or through an entity belonging to God's world | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| overcome, the answer can be given from the self to the self -- or from the guardian | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| can be given from the self to the self -- or from the guardian spirit or what | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| your question about the difference between the higher self and a spirit creature of God. It actually | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| interesting only in a technical sense. The higher self certainly manifests itself. But it cannot always come | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| on earth would be superfluous. If the higher self could manifest itself as easily as all that | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| wherever there are faults and imperfections, the higher self is barred. And that is the reason God | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| work through your blocks where your own higher self cannot yet do so. Furthermore, the voice of | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| so. Furthermore, the voice of your own higher self is so far away and soft, sometimes so | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| heed what you call conscience. Thus the higher self can influence you to fight your lower self | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| self can influence you to fight your lower self. The higher self, when listened to, can make | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you to fight your lower self. The higher self, when listened to, can make itself known in | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| in the case of a medium, the higher self cannot manifest itself to such an extent that | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| were accomplished by mere contact with the higher self, it would be just as easy to have | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| be just as easy to have the higher self always on the surface in all conditions of | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| this one hour. In other words, the higher self acts and guides to a certain extent, but | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the whole truth within you, including your lower self. QUESTION: Even the honesty is very difficult. ANSWER | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| not wish to pay the price. The lower self likes to remain in the same old hole | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you to handle the sluggishness of your lower self using the spiritual truths you have learned so | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| two forces within the human soul. The higher self or the divine spark is the part of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| complete integration of all separated parts. The higher self knows the greater truth your conscious being doubts | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| your consciousness. The other part is the lower self, which comprises not only your faults and weaknesses | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| freed from the obligation to conquer your lower self, which is indeed not easy to accomplish. Yet | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| means eternal happiness and bliss. But your lower self with its fear, and for its own reasons | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| truth in order to avoid disappointment. The higher self and the lower self are therefore at war | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| avoid disappointment. The higher self and the lower self are therefore at war with one another. Whenever | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| fighting. Whenever doubt reappears, it is your lower self speaking. When the doubt is gone, the higher | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| speaking. When the doubt is gone, the higher self is speaking. Then you know that God, His | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| no unhappiness may exist. But when the lower self is stronger, you believe that doubt, despair, hopelessness | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you real peace, for deep down your higher self always has the correct answer and you must | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| You have to learn to view your lower self, accepting its present temporary existence -- how temporary | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| how temporary depends entirely on you. Your lower self is still a reality on the plane where | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| most natural wish, which comes from the higher self as well as from the lower self, but | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| higher self as well as from the lower self, but only the higher self knows that there | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| from the lower self, but only the higher self knows that there is a price to be | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| particularly and personally, and so on. The lower self, on the other hand, wants to attain happiness | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| knowledge, honesty toward oneself, and self-analysis. The lower self, in its pride, wants to be perfect without | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is that both the higher and the lower self want happiness, but each in a different way | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| but each in a different way. Your higher self knows that only by perfection within can you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| perfection without, and that is happiness. Your lower self is not prepared to pay any price; it | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| their desire for happiness comes from the lower self, they are inclined to quarrel with God and | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| be there without getting there. Again, your lower self does not want to pay the price. So | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| come later. First, the clinical observation of the self, the lower self from the perspective of the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the clinical observation of the self, the lower self from the perspective of the higher self, has | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| lower self from the perspective of the higher self, has to be practiced and fully mastered before | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that you can rest assured. 14. THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK Greetings in | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| rest assured. 14. THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK Greetings in the name of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| subtle body. Each living being has a higher self or divine spark. This is the finest and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Since the fall of the angels, the higher self surrounded itself slowly and gradually with various layers | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| physical body, but infinitely denser than the higher self. Thus did the lower self come into existence | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| than the higher self. Thus did the lower self come into existence. From your perspective, these layers | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of spiritual development is to eliminate the lower self so that the higher self becomes free again | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| eliminate the lower self so that the higher self becomes free again of all outer layers it | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| or others, that certain parts of the higher self are already free, while other parts are still | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| overall development of the respective person. The lower self consist not only of the common faults and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| these characteristics are generally part of the lower self, regardless of other individual faults. There are many | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and possible forms however, in which the lower self can display these general trends. Such manifestations depend | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| effects on these common traits of the lower self. The qualities of the higher self, as well | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the lower self. The qualities of the higher self, as well as various other circumstances, also influence | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| trends may take. We see both the higher self and the lower self. However, not all spirits | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| see both the higher self and the lower self. However, not all spirits can see all the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| not only be able to interpret the lower self, but will also be able to see through | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to see through it to discover the higher self in all its splendor, because dense or physical | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| very well which thought-forms come from the higher self, and which from the lower self. We can | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the higher self, and which from the lower self. We can also determine which wishes and endeavors | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| determine which wishes and endeavors of the higher self may be mixed in with tendencies from the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| be mixed in with tendencies from the lower self, the original shade twisted, colored, or dirtied. When | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| colored, or dirtied. When messages from the higher self are tainted with lower-self motives, a disorder is | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| among human beings. The forms of the higher self have an entirely different character than those of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| entirely different character than those of the lower self. There is another layer that is, unfortunately, not | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that is what I might term the mask self. The mask self is created in the following | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| I might term the mask self. The mask self is created in the following way: When you | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your surroundings by giving in to your lower self, you may still not be ready to pay | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to pay the price for eliminating the lower self. This would mean first of all that you | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| react emotionally without thinking about facing the lower self. The subconscious feels it necessary to present a | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| necessary to present a different picture of the self in order to avoid certain difficulties, unpleasantness, or | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| sorts. Thus people create another layer of the self which has nothing to do with reality, either | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| with reality, either with that of the higher self, or with the temporary reality of the lower | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| or with the temporary reality of the lower self. It is what you might call phony or | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| will return to the above example. The lower self dictates to the person to be quite ruthless | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| feelings and actions. In this way, no mask self can form. However, too often people try to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that in one way or another a mask self has been created. They do not realize they | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that you should give in to your lower self, but that you should be aware of it | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| realize that underneath the layers of your lower self lives your higher self, your ultimate and absolute | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| layers of your lower self lives your higher self, your ultimate and absolute reality which you must | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| reach it, you must first face your lower self, or your temporary reality, instead of covering it | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| you and absolute reality, or your own higher self. To face the lower self you must at | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your own higher self. To face the lower self you must at all costs tear down the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| must at all costs tear down the mask self. You can bring yourself to do so when | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| harmony with God and thus with the inner self, to find the answer to these questions once | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is the actual me? What is my higher self? What is my lower self? Where may there | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is my higher self? What is my lower self? Where may there be a mask, a falsehood | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| mask, at least in some respects. This mask self presents to us a very ugly color, my | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| sinister as are the trends of the lower self in different variations; the colors of the mask | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| in different variations; the colors of the mask self are sickeningly sweet. If you are an artist | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the tones and the odor of the mask self: they are sickly and nauseating. We spirits prefer | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| prefer the emanation and effects of the lower self, unpleasant as they may be for us, but | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| When you come in contact with the higher self once your intuition has awakened through your personal | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| distinct difference between the mask and the higher self. You will feel the nauseating manifestations of the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| will feel the nauseating manifestations of the mask self, first of all of your own, no matter | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and study, determine easily which part of the self they are dealing with at a certain phase | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| respect, the conscious and will-directing part of the self is on the proper road. What then remains | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and the patient is confronted with the lower self, the experience may be so shattering that the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| he or she has to face the lower self, which exists in every human being, and also | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| human being, and also knew that this lower self, unpleasant as it may be, is not the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| be, is not the ultimate I or true self, and that the higher self, which is perfection | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| I or true self, and that the higher self, which is perfection, waiting to grow out of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of these layers of imperfection, is the true self, then this shock would not occur. Therefore, this | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| inner reaction; or a revolt by the higher self may create certain physical symptoms in order to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| inner fight cannot be settled. However, the lower self works against bringing anything out into the open | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| this world, which is of course the mask self. It is encouraged by the world, because the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| a mask, than to remain in one's lower self when one cannot eradicate it? ANSWER: Everybody can | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to choose between giving in to the lower self and creating a mask self. As I have | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to the lower self and creating a mask self. As I have explained it, even if the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| society, as opposed to believing that the mask self is your true nature and real self, thus | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| mask self is your true nature and real self, thus fooling yourself and creating an inner lie | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| becoming a cannibal, if this is your lower self, and becoming hypocritical and fooling yourself. Even if | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| yourself, you should be aware of your lower self and know that you act according to necessity | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is it possible to undo what your lower self has manifested in the way of physical illness | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that would be too easy. If your lower self has created an illness, the illness has to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the roots or the part of your lower self that has created this illness. The lower self | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| self that has created this illness. The lower self has to be met and completely explored. Your | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your life. So begin by meeting your lower self with courage, optimism, humility, and in a spirit | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |