| Benefited...................4 | |
| remains. Why? You on this path who have benefited from many a spiritual truth and teaching through | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| even see that you are harmed rather than benefited by it, when you also see the harm | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| strongly. Not only those who came forward personally benefited from this force, but to a degree all | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| relatively recently can be included, for you have benefited from the work that others have done before | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Benefits....................15 | |
| worst cases, something is gained, even if the benefits can only be fully experienced at a later | 22 SALVATION |
| yourself, you shall be able to reap more benefits. In addition, by finding your image, even to | 38 IMAGES |
| striking proofs, but who can give you different benefits of a higher and more subtle nature. Even | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no right to desire something so strongly that benefits just me. Who am I to deserve this | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and takes effect in the universe and therefore benefits many, including yourself and even the particular person | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thought process, as an additional help yielding other benefits for the unfoldment of the personality. Although there | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will feel rested after such periods. Many other benefits will befall you. You will also get accustomed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| improvement in many ways. In addition to the benefits I outlined before, in addition to the power | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| foreground and background thoughts, you will derive further benefits, such as a general power of discrimination; increased | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| toward suffering determines whether or not your soul benefits during the experience or only much later. Even | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| also the group work in which, among other benefits, you get more understanding of how you affect | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in your failure to take advantage of the benefits they could bring to your real life. A | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| greater awareness of your daydreaming can bring many benefits. My advice to you on this path is | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| The work has visible results, but the invisible benefits surpass your comprehension at this stage. Your commitment | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| proclaim that such people should reap the same benefits as those who invest their whole being into | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Benign......................114 | |
| affect it. A continuous cycle, whether vicious or benign, is set in motion between the two. This | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| flow back to you, this time in a benign circle. What you give out will flow back | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| indulges a child, authority will be felt as benign. When there is a predominance of one kind | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| examine the case in which a child experiences benign authority to a greater extent than fear and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| day be capable to partake of the impersonal benign forces available to all beings in the universe | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| it so much better. I would be more benign than he is if my will were done | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| desires just that. You want to have a benign authority above you who steers your life in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| inner conviction that the universe is good, loving, benign, friendly. There cannot be death, hate cannot win | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of chaotic forces or is the universe as benign and as loving as metaphysics, religion and some | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of whether your will is met. Thus the benign circle continues. In such inner freedom -- the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be accepted. When you do so, an entire benign chain-reaction is set in motion, replacing the vicious | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| people in your environment -- so that a benign chain reaction can start. Such a realistic self- | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to his or her optimum, to establish a benign circle between the two people involved. I cannot | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the assurance, once again, that this is a benign universe, that you have nothing to fear if | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| must you become of the marvel of this benign Creation. That is the meaning of these words | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the child. And the child only deserves such benign care if it maintains its goodness. By the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| know perfectly well that God is neither a benign nor a hostile authority, that God has freed | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| It is self-evident that in thus entering a benign circle, negative emotions such as self-pity, helplessness, hostility | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and only then, will you enter into a benign circle, after having broken a vicious one. QUESTION | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| accord with reality, you will express all the benign forces -- reason, love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Thus the laws may at times have a benign effect and at other times a momentarily negative | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| may you come to know that life is benign and that your depressions are unreal. The flow | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| a medicine. In that lies one of the benign qualities of spiritual and universal law. On the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| hope and security that you live in a benign universe in which you have nothing to fear | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| you could trust the flux of time, the benign quality of its movement and the growth it | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| productive warm feelings of love that create a benign circle connecting the three life-aspects. My friends, try | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| false modesty does not understand. It misinterprets this benign voice that invites it to follow its blissful | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| self-sufficiently as an individual. To begin establishing this benign cycle of interflowing movement between the masculine and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| into this stream, it cannot help but be benign, bringing happiness, fulfillment, and meaningfulness. Distrusting this stream | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| externalized God to take the place of a benign parent, rejecting the need for self-responsibility. Concomitantly, as | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| way for order and unity. This creates realistic, benign, constructive feelings, concepts, opinions, and corresponding actions. Change | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| in the nature of the universe and its benign character. As you remove fence after fence, you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you have more reason to trust, and a benign cycle is established. Moreover, it is necessary for | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| power is at work: it is the same benign force which was forced to make a detour | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| fear and distrust. Thus that which is most benign, which is power, liberation, bliss, is blocked. A | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| longer a risk, for it embraces the entire benign universe. Then it is no longer a question | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| will a person find that life is as benign as his or her innermost self -- no | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| The principle of cycles or circles -- whether benign or vicious -- is always the principle of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| possess confidence and a genuine sense of the benign nature of the universe, you can find within | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| self is not activated, the doors to the benign universe are closed. This is not because some | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| of life and the universe that holds a benign fate for humanity, the freedom and fearlessness to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| it is impossible to have confidence in life's benign nature; it is impossible to be fearless about | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the knowledge, the experience of life as utterly benign. Whenever you stray from truth, you must experience | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| furthers unity, inclusion, expansion, union, and manifests the benign nature of the universe, is love and perpetuates | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and perpetuates love. Whatever ignores the divine and benign nature of the universe and of life and | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| If it is true, however, that life is benign, liberating and giving; if it is for rather | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| freedom from fear of loving with a positive, benign concept and expectation of life on the other | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| least; give yourself the chance to experience the benign nature of life, and therefore of humanity, for | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the natural law by not trusting in the benign nature of your feelings. You cut them off | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| and you can never convince yourself of the benign nature of the creative forces within you. Productive | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your own destructiveness. You thus enter into a benign circle. When you no longer wish to hurt | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the balance structure of soul forces so that benign circles can begin to perpetuate themselves. You also | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| circles you stubbornly refuse to change into a benign one. The creative power within is not only | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| The creative power within is not only constructive, benign, good and wise. It is also destructive, vicious | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of fear? Do you still expect an omnipotent, benign authority to remove it from the outside? Could | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| comes, in the trust that the universe is benign, even if I cannot at this time know | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| trust, you will experience the truth of the benign universe in which nothing need be feared. QUESTION | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the knowledge that life is intrinsically the most benign and joyful fact. It is a constant, immutable | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a truthful concept creates unity which creates a benign circle of pleasure and happiness. For example, a | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| substance with the truth, with the picture of benign circles; and (2) it must actively call upon | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| emotions. Someone who is in truth perceives the benign nature of the universe. He or she is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| pleasure. Further pleasure leads to more unification. This benign circle is the stream of life. Unification brings | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| that enables the conscious ego to assert its benign dominion over violently destructive and stagnant psychic matter | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| both nonfulfillment and fulfillment, and therefore with a benign universe, capable of yielding to you what you | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| fear also denies the justified faith in the benign order of Creation. If truthful admission of what | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| spread its light further and further. An increasing benign circle is beginning to establish itself: the effectiveness | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| life -- and on and on goes a benign circle. Contraction takes place when a negative attitude | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| your creative substance. When this occurs, a positive, benign circle will very definitely and solidly build itself | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| that need not exist? If the universe is benign and trustworthy, good and safe, then you cannot | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of spiritual reality -- that life is ultimately benign. And when I say ultimately, I do not | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| into a wide open world and into a benign cycle of creative self-expression? All this must be | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is also your inherent nature to know the benign presence of the cosmic spirit within yourself and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the choice of either a vicious or a benign circle. The vicious circle is: If I unconsciously | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of truth -- hence resistance -- negates the benign quality of the universe; it negates the truth | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| it is. The process is awesome in its benign violence. New movements come forth, old movements change | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| soul material is concerned. The eternal, ultimate, essentially benign nature of creation is most eloquently demonstrated in | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| the feelings are loving or hateful, angry or benign, fearful or peaceful, their energy must create according | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| not express the magnitude of a divine and benign creation. The more aware you become of it | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| that your true desire is to accept this benign force and set it in motion. You distrust | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| can observe two circles, one vicious, the other benign. When you stay in fear and hide from | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| As you transform the vicious circle into a benign circle, almost inadvertently you are led naturally to | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| aware of the truth that the universe is benign and giving and that they are not required | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| is the deep faith that the universe is benign and that you can have the very best | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| in me. I will trust in the ultimate benign nature of life to give me what I | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| for quite a few years the principle of benign and vicious circles of human attitudes, which is | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| where you transform the vicious circle into a benign circle by changing the specific attitude that sets | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| stages in life the temporary numbing fulfills a benign function until the soul is sufficiently aware and | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Mind at work at all times, in its benign, loving wisdom and power of creation. Understanding these | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| or joy. But it is one of those benign circles working where it is hard to say | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fear and resist the truth and beauty, the benign reality you could live in. All this may | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| essential divine consciousness, in its beauty, wisdom, and benign power, functions in a limited and distorted way | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| closed channel that is alien to its own benign nature and thus creates negative conditions. The group | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| law working in utter perfection, as well as benign love and justice. The child, the lower self | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| used to confine him will now turn into benign circles. Instead of inferiority feelings closing the heart | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| frustration and blame of the other sex, the benign circle will open the heart. The fully autonomous | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| one of the most remarkable manifestations of the benign nature of creation: the evil unwittingly or wittingly | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| in which the involuntary process carries you in benign love, in ever-expanding joy and abundance. When you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| a gently rolling sea with an immense and benign energy cannot be set in motion unless you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| and believe. You lose sight of its regenerative, benign nature and meaning. The same is true, in | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| of life, where you are carried by a benign and meaningful force, reality, entity -- call it | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| her and that a new and more powerfully benign force will bless the Pathwork. The room was | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the positive. Assert your faith in the ever- benign universe. Express the truth that all possibilities exist | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| of attaining self-love through others, or placating a benign authority in return for a life of unrestricted | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| truth of God, of eternal life, of the benign meaning of everything in every crevice of consciousness | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| all that exists has a purpose and a benign meaning. Do not push this fear and longing | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| think of the old as all good, all benign, unthreatening and full of values, while anything new | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Obviously this is a cyclic process, leading to benign or vicious circles. A fuller understanding will take | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| the sequential emotions within a vicious or a benign circle are different, even though they create one | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| very nature of ultimate reality, which is thoroughly benign. Grace means that all must work out for | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to fear, that you live in an utterly benign universe, that you are filled with the living | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| condition creates chain reactions and circles -- either benign or vicious ones, according to the truth or | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| poverty of life and self. In contrast, the benign circle can be established by risking giving out | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| By risking giving out you enter into a benign circle; you can afford to release more of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| come to yet another obstacle to establishing the benign circle in which you flow in harmony with | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |