| so to speak. Once you discover your lower self, and shed all the masks and all the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| work on the different aspects of the lower self. You do this by daily observation and self-testing | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| do so, and become master over your lower self, you learn real self-honesty, and your motives for | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that you can do battle with your lower self, since no one can do it alone. QUESTION | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| lecture I explained to you about the higher self, lower self, and the mask self. Every human | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| explained to you about the higher self, lower self, and the mask self. Every human being has | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the higher self, lower self, and the mask self. Every human being has the first two, and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| has to some degree the third, the mask self. For those of you here for the first | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| can be more fully understood. Wherever the higher self has been restored to its original state by | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| by shedding the surrounding layers constituting the lower self, it reaches out and automatically connects with the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| thousands of miles away. And wherever the lower self is still stronger and does not permit the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| still stronger and does not permit the higher self to shine through, connection is made with the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| and development. In other words, one person's lower self may be lower than another's. Since each sphere | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| people make evil spirits responsible when their lower self takes over, meaning that they are not to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| incarnated. People who give in to the lower self create forms that correspond to the quality, strength | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the quality, strength, and type of their lower self. This does not exclude their simultaneously creating harmonious | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| beautiful forms to the degree that their higher self is allowed to function. Let us imagine that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| least resistance and give in to the lower self, and nurse it instead of fighting it. What | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| search for spiritual life? ANSWER: Because the higher self or the divine spark is in everyone, and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the development, the more layers of the lower self cover the higher self, the more this urge | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| layers of the lower self cover the higher self, the more this urge is covered up and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| development is reached, the wish of the higher self pushes you. And again some voices of your | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you. And again some voices of your lower self try to keep you away from it. That | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| do not follow the voice of your higher self, or, for that matter, the voices of divine | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| can only be around you because your higher self has freed itself sufficiently, at least to some | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| it is always the divine spark, the higher self that urges you on, and you will not | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| find. QUESTION: In trying to separate the higher self from the lower self in order to really | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to separate the higher self from the lower self in order to really know ourselves, it sometimes | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| it sometimes happens that part of the higher self becomes mixed up with the lower self and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| higher self becomes mixed up with the lower self and vice versa. Is there any clue that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| my last lecture I spoke about the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self; and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| I spoke about the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self; and perhaps in the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| higher self, the lower self, and the mask self; and perhaps in the next lecture I will | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will discuss how the currents of the higher self come forth, penetrate the lower self and in | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the higher self come forth, penetrate the lower self and in some spots come through clean and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| and put into wrong channels by the lower self through certain faults that you have. QUESTION: Is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| law and truth. Currents coming from the higher self are often distorted by the lower self. Now | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| higher self are often distorted by the lower self. Now here is a good example, because willpower | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| any spiritual progress. Willpower comes from the higher self; it will remain a pure current of light | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| wrong direction it is distorted by the lower self and becomes an impure force. Let us take | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| overcome a fault, you fight against your lower self, you desire above all else to fulfill the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| token, if you give in to your lower self, if you violate divine law, you emanate a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| of two natures: the higher and the lower self, which are in conflict with one another. The | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| are in conflict with one another. The higher self registers the call and pushes the person in | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| person in a certain direction which the conscious self cannot immediately interpret. The conscious self just feels | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the conscious self cannot immediately interpret. The conscious self just feels a certain longing, a certain dissatisfaction | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and do not give in to your lower self. If your lower self were not also alive | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in to your lower self. If your lower self were not also alive within you, it would | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| easy to follow the call. But your lower self does not want to make any effort, it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| with many excuses not to follow your higher self. The excuses are manifold. Some are quite transparent | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| pretexts and self-illusions, the voice of your lower self, because you want to believe these rationalizations; it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and what is expected of you. Your lower self has some idea of it. If it had | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| have to go to battle with your lower self; you have to enlist your conscious willpower to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| enlist your conscious willpower to conquer your lower self. Combined with your higher self, your will-directing consciousness | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| conquer your lower self. Combined with your higher self, your will-directing consciousness must win. But do not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| mean, and until you have made your lower self submissive -- and this can be done if | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it? How much still remains of your lower self that is powerful enough to pull you into | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of the inconsistencies of the blind and undeveloped self. You have given up your vanity. You have | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in receiving the other way, which your lower self has chosen until now in its blindness. If | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| resigned. One will-stream comes out of your higher self, the other out of your lower self. If | 18 FREE WILL |
| higher self, the other out of your lower self. If you will something that is against divine | 18 FREE WILL |
| from the spiritual field involves a person's higher self or divine spark. Whoever has experienced this will | 18 FREE WILL |
| and weaknesses manifest which I term the lower self. One also encounters the higher self. Sometimes it | 18 FREE WILL |
| the lower self. One also encounters the higher self. Sometimes it is way down, deeply hidden, first | 18 FREE WILL |
| true nature, and then hidden under the lower self. At long last, the part of the higher | 18 FREE WILL |
| At long last, the part of the higher self that was so far not allowed to function | 18 FREE WILL |
| not allowed to function emerges. In this higher self or divine spark, which is to some extent | 18 FREE WILL |
| purification can real ecstasy happen. When your higher self becomes free of the layers of your lower | 18 FREE WILL |
| becomes free of the layers of your lower self, it shines through to such a strong degree | 18 FREE WILL |
| of this substance which I call the higher self or the divine spark; it has to come | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| satisfy your spirit. The purification of your lower self and the crucifixion of the ego are the | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| which your spirit demands and which your higher self longs for. The rest will come by itself | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| other question can only come from the lower self, even if clothed with apparently high-sounding motives. Be | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| also referred to as a human being's higher self or divine spark. It is also referred to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| yet found his or her place. Your innermost self will give you the message whether or not | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| your quest for the answer. Right within your self are all the answers you need in order | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| an open, unbiased mind, not pampering the lazy self that likes to wallow in the swamp of | 21 THE FALL |
| require considerable effort to guard against your lower self that tries to stifle the aspirations of your | 21 THE FALL |
| You may be the loser if your outer self allows all the excuses your lower nature furnishes | 21 THE FALL |
| the sake of your own spirit, your higher self, for the sake of your development, for the | 21 THE FALL |
| breakthrough has been accomplished in a person's higher self. Then you will feel that something thinks within | 21 THE FALL |
| the fall. Between these two currents the conscious self stands, able to decide either to take the | 22 SALVATION |
| man's lower nature, or to follow his higher self, which is the difficult and narrow path. I | 22 SALVATION |
| God in reality. Too much of the lower self is still present for them not to succumb | 22 SALVATION |
| so that a certain side of the lower self has the opportunity to transform itself best. You | 22 SALVATION |
| God. I will not listen to my lower self, that self which is constantly and magnetically in | 22 SALVATION |
| will not listen to my lower self, that self which is constantly and magnetically in touch with | 22 SALVATION |
| touch with the world of darkness. The higher self, which is much further in the background and | 22 SALVATION |
| I declare myself for God, for my higher self, with everything that it entails, disregarding the laziness | 22 SALVATION |
| I gave some time ago about the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self. What | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| time ago about the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self. What I have explained | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| higher self, the lower self, and the mask self. What I have explained is part of the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| I have explained is part of the mask self, but it is not only a mask. I | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a mask. I may call it the exterior self which does not always correspond to the inner | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| If these feelings still exist in your lower self, you turn away from them, thinking you have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| human soul that comes entirely from the higher self or the lower self, because everything mixes constantly | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| entirely from the higher self or the lower self, because everything mixes constantly. Purification means to separate | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| from influences caused by character weaknesses. The higher self in you says, I want to be perfect | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| But it is the ignorance of the lower self that makes you think perfection can be attained | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and disregarding them. It is also the lower self that always wants to have everything so comfortable | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| wants to have everything so comfortable. The lower self wants to be in a high position, but | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| position, but for different reasons than the higher self. Your higher self seeks to advance for the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| different reasons than the higher self. Your higher self seeks to advance for the love of God | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of loving your fellow creatures. But your lower self wants to be perfect in order to have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| example where both the higher and the lower self want the same thing, but their motives are | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| must also recognize the reasons why your lower self turns you away from facing yourself. One reason | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is unpleasant. The other is that the lower self is lazy and never wants to work. Yet | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| aware of yourself, I mean knowing your lower self utterly and completely, which does not have to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is something quite special to learn about the self is conveyed by each difficult period and every | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| I do mean the conquering of your lower self. Here is another thought, my friends, for this | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| It will be the fight between the lower self and the higher self, and your conscious self | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| fight between the lower self and the higher self, and your conscious self will determine which side | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| self and the higher self, and your conscious self will determine which side will win. It cannot | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| from following this path at all. The lower self may send messages such as, I do not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| in good stead later on when the lower self will try to obstruct your path by other | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of what may come out of your lower self, though you may not be conscious of that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| why a person shies away from meeting the self. It is childish to imagine that whatever you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| exist because you avoid facing it. The lower self is immature and ignorant -- its very nature | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| they come face to face with their lower self in the course of the treatment. This cannot | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| those of you who know that your lower self is not your ultimate being. However, in psychoanalysis | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| mistaken idea that they are really their lower self can lead people to such self-rejection and self-disgust | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| All of you here know that the lower self is merely a temporary layer and does not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you -- at least not entirely. Your higher self, which is partly free, already manifests through your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is in you that belongs to the higher self. But even where it cannot manifest as yet | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| because it is deeply hidden behind the lower self, your higher self still exists in its shining | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| deeply hidden behind the lower self, your higher self still exists in its shining perfection. How can | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you reach it unless you penetrate the lower self? So do not be afraid; do not be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| be shocked when you first encounter your lower self where heretofore you had no idea of it | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| be aware of your fear of your lower self, and your shame of it, and if you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| If you develop yourself, you make your higher self free of the shadows and layers of the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of the shadows and layers of the lower self. That is the presence you have constantly in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| develop it. And this divine spark or higher self is the substance to which we are referring | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and currents work, what plays into the lower self or what the lower self will use as | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| into the lower self or what the lower self will use as an excuse to reinforce a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| trait like sluggishness, say, or where the higher self is diluted by currents of the lower self | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| self is diluted by currents of the lower self to constitute a mask or subterfuge, varies with | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| one particular direction perhaps too forcefully. Your lower self resists that. Maybe I can help you by | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| I meant just that. It takes the lower self a very long time to become ready to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| sluggish ways. You must realize that this lower self lives in you strongly, even though you are | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| also emotionally. Then try to let your lower self come to the surface, so that you can | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| achieve that end, and then let the lower self come out. Listen to your feelings in connection | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| process only in your brain, but your inner self has not yet perceived or understood it entirely | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| QUESTION: Yes. How do you get your inner self to understand the emotional self? ANSWER: Do not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| get your inner self to understand the emotional self? ANSWER: Do not try to make it understand | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| process. You cannot educate or reeducate your emotional self before it is completely on the surface. To | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| proper attitude with which to meet your lower self, accept your inability to change something by a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| fundamental. The proper spirit of accepting the lower self with the necessary humility is of much greater | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| fear serves as an excuse for the lower self that always wants to avoid purification and improvement | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| thoughts and feelings. I can see your lower self that fights constantly against the right decisions, delivering | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| because you are inspired by your own lower self. As long as you do not recognize how | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| as you do not recognize how the lower self works, how it manifests, and in what devious | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |