| Separates...................29 | |
| a different sense than you had imagined. It separates you from your surroundings and makes you blind | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| indeed was! For everything is a burden that separates you from God, my friends. And do not | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| put an even tighter shell around themselves. This separates them even more from their brothers and sisters | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you are ashamed. This is the wall that separates you from others. But in this way you | 31 SHAME |
| as a spirit, to breach the wall that separates the lower self from God's grace, God's strength | 36 PRAYER |
| fellow-creatures before you have penetrated the wall that separates you from your innermost self. Thus you can | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| war is on. The Iron Curtain not only separates the world geographically, but the ideological curtain separates | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| separates the world geographically, but the ideological curtain separates even brother from brother. At present, about half | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| nature of the idealized self-image is self-aggrandizement, it separates you from others. Since its nature is separateness | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not be aware. Covetousness, as well as pride, separates you from others and from your real self | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| free flow that brings awareness. The outer focus separates one more and more from the real control | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| barrier to the opposite sex. This not only separates man from woman, but it splits the great | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| currents going in conflicting directions -- but also separates you from the highest self. Wisdom, intelligence, strength | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of matter that, as the ego perceives it, separates them from life. Thus you equate your physical | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| The former conciliates both sides, while the latter separates them. This can be ascertained in any individual | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to hide yourself from yourself and others that separates you from them. In the deep recesses of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| ways to experience itself. As an individual consciousness separates itself further and further from its original source | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| between you and your life center. This, too, separates you from reality, for it is the reality | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| glazed film, like a plastic wall. This wall separates you from the ability to be touched by | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| reality in you -- right now. All that separates you from it is your lack of knowing | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| focus on the other person's shortcomings or evil separates you from where you should be. Whatever you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of truth, finally eliminates the strong wall that separates your ego from the greater reality. Meditation can | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| who does not fear death. A wall within separates people from the process of life beyond death | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| is resistance to the oneness between entities. It separates itself from others and elevates itself -- and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| doing so you will eliminate the fear that separates you. QUESTION: Well, I'm really afraid that my | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| the void and, in the outward-spreading movement, temporarily separates itself from the whole. In that state of | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| an indirect one because they create fog that separates the consciousness from the words spoken within that | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| In religion, too, truth combines and unifies, untruth separates. Untruth and separation create evil, dissension, hostility, outer | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| you fear will take place after the body separates from the spirit self. To no longer exist | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Separating..................46 | |
| It is so important to draw a line separating the higher and the lower self, to pinpoint | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| spirit, brings about a separation. The moment the separating wall falls because you leave your body behind | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| all religions. Religion will no longer be a separating factor. And that is the Age of the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a way on the path gradually dissolve the separating wall around the soul, then divine strength and | 36 PRAYER |
| to it. You will free yourself of the separating wall that encloses you in darkness, loneliness, fear | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Also realize that secluded happiness is impossible. The separating wall must crumble, and that is what all | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| You do not realize that by keeping your separating wall you defeat your own purpose and you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| yourself. You can never really penetrate the wall separating you from your fellow-creatures before you have penetrated | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| it is often difficult to break through the separating wall between reason and emotion. The resistance to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| layers of ignorance and fear soon erect a separating wall again. The aim of development as such | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of development as such is to destroy these separating walls, whether they stand between human beings and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| half of your question, there is really no separating line between the spiritual and the psychological nature | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience life within the confines of your restricting, separating barriers of false beliefs and misconceptions. Then you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| Also realize that secluded happiness is impossible. The separating wall must fall, and that is what all | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| not realize that in desiring to keep your separating wall, you defeat your own purpose, and you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| There seems to be a very fine line separating healthy and unhealthy dependence, as well as healthy | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| see that irrational fear is always selfish and separating, and they will no longer find cause for | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| but it splits the great cosmic force within, separating affection from the procreative urge. When human beings | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| proceed in the work you gradually eliminate the separating factors. You begin to own up to and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| do it, you remove another brick from that separating wall. More understanding, more life must result, so | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| give you the right ideas for removing the separating wall. Request it to inspire you with the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you really are, without masks and pretenses, without separating mechanisms which you still think you have to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| means to inactivate the live center are various: separating and withdrawing, toughening yourself, numbing your feelings, denying | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| relatively accessible. You think you defend it by separating it from your ego and trying to numb | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| hide yourself. These are precisely the main barriers separating you from the life stream. The solitude of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the freedom of love and cling to the separating forces of nonlove as a protective device. It | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| confusing fragmentary aspects of the unitive state and separating them from their complementary fragments. In the dualistic | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| appear to be risky, and the old, cold, separating way to be safe, although you all know | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| peaceful. There is no longer any split from separating these concepts and making them mutually exclusive, which | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fear and resistance is the elimination of this separating wall. You struggle so fiercely against it. This | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| fact of life, and the elimination of the separating wall between the conscious and unconscious mind. You | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| result of a process of drying out, of separating the self from the source of all life | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| subtle ways in which the ego-self clings to separating attitudes -- perhaps not wanting to expand and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| inadvertently. It is frightening to me how this separating attitude makes it impossible for me to appreciate | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it may easily mislead childish, self-centered, falsely selfish, separating personalities, who may desire to proclaim their destructive | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| can be productive and growth-bringing or self-centered and separating. Its opposite, concern for others, can express genuine | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| light and bliss, who deviated from this course, separating himself from his innermost Godself, and became fragmented | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the result of either adopting a false, escaping, separating spirituality, or negating the greater reality altogether. In | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and deprive you, for you are driving a separating wedge between yourself and the richness of creation | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| like and thereby transform their energy, instead of separating yourself from them so that they manifest as | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| their cruel impulses. They were not capable of separating themselves sufficiently from their impulses in order to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| love and joy, for it is an intensely separating expression. But when you conciliate your ego-split with | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| inner spiritual truth and beauty behind a wall, separating it from the material reality. The individual with | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and environment. If nothing else, they create a separating wall of loneliness and fear. To break through | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the jewels of truth contained in this book, separating the grains from the husks, so that you | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| inspire you to trust in your false, destructive, separating devices for safety and for the resolution of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Separation..................131 | |
| ego which erects the wall of blindness and separation around the soul. The higher the development, the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| every higher level reached, and exactly because the separation of the ego has been overcome. Since this | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| people who surround themselves with a wall of separation will become lonely and detach themselves more and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| social life, which might be very active. The separation then will increase the fear. These are the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| body, which houses the spirit, brings about a separation. The moment the separating wall falls because you | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the spheres where there is no longer any separation. The lower the sphere in which an entity | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| beyond -- the more radical must be the separation. Because of the limitations of human speech when | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Let me explain: Before the Fall -- the separation from God -- all beings were unified, encompassing | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| elements have become one. The Fall is the separation from the One, from God, and at the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| The breaking apart was the result of the separation from God, and this was a chaotic event | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| development to regain divine perfection. QUESTION: Does the separation between the feminine and the masculine continue all | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| have its effect. Each thought of hate, of separation, of egoism, of injustice, of discrimination, of wanting | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| not thoughts of hate, then of mistrust and separation, such as between one group and another -- | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| into darkness, depression, self-despising moods, and thus into separation from God. It is not so much the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| exist in you. Separate them. After making this separation, let go of the ego-will that acts against | 18 FREE WILL |
| with all its miseries and hatreds. Splitting is separation from God, and this initial tragedy, which took | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the goal, is the opposite of splitting and separation. The splitting between Judaism and Christianity after the | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| of unhappiness gradually came into existence and the separation from God took place for a great number | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| into its opposite aspect. In this way a separation occurred between those who had abused their power | 21 THE FALL |
| the breaking down of their own walls of separation. The erotic experience puts the seed into the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| must finally bring the entity out of its separation. Eros strengthens the curiosity to know the other | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| does not mean living in a fortress of separation, sometimes by one's own law of selfishness. Such | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and since you believe, behind your wall of separation, that others can succeed while you alone do | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| prepared for incarnation? Are they subjected to this separation with their consent, without their consent, or in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the sex impulse. Without these elements the separation is more difficult to overcome. Frictions cannot be | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| understanding other people, to bridge the wall of separation. It must happen through your own efforts. If | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the departed one, understandable as this pain of separation is, then this motive or emotion should be | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in a different way. In addition to the separation and loneliness that this distortion generates, there is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and ability, produce artistic truth. There is no separation. The overwhelming existence of truthfulness will produce an | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if your personality feels impoverished by such a separation, then there must be an unhealthy grief, perhaps | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| search by any other name. There is no separation between spiritual living and psychological processes, if you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you experience unpleasant truth as harsh and unloving. Separation of concepts exists where imperfection and separateness of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the gap between yourself and others. Eliminating the separation between yourself and others, or communication and union | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and on those around you, creating disharmony and separation, are impossible to describe fully. When you are | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| overcomes the resistance of matter, the resistance of separation. If the will is too strong, it is | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| adjusted to the limited dimension in which a separation between time and space exists, and the bridge | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the contradictions and either/ors are a product of separation, error and confusion. In truth, all is one | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| if there are taboos, fears, and an artificial separation of instinctual drives. Their existence prohibits the natural | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| can be said that there is no arbitrary separation between the various facts of the great life | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of your feelings that stems from humanity's strong separation of general human affection from the erotic sexual | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| becomes your outer self. There is no longer separation or conflict between the two. The superimposed intellect | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| one consciousness, though still separated or divided. This separation constitutes what in religion is referred to as | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the center of his or her being. The separation from the center is the wall of not | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| are of this inner center, the greater your separation from it will be. When, due to increased | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| process is all one and the same. The separation of matter and consciousness is illusion. This illusion | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| real meaning of what religion refers to as separation from God, or the Fall of the Angels | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| their potency you will no longer feel a separation between your conscious intelligence and will, which form | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| still in the dark regions of conflict, error, separation, doubt, ignorance and destructiveness. There, if you use | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| of development. False control strengthens the wall of separation. Eliminate this wall by contacting deeper and vaster | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| alive, and blissful. Behind the wall one suffers separation from the best of life, which includes the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| an adult, when the ego becomes mature, the separation becomes an unfortunate handicap. The individual lives in | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| result of the inverted power must be chaos, separation, disintegration, confusion, suffering, and an inner division and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| can exist only as a result of a separation between the live center and the ego. To | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the awareness that the effect was self- created. Separation between cause and effect in one's consciousness must | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is impossible to completely want isolation, withdrawal, and separation. If it were possible to fully want this | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the outer ego is overemphasized, the result is separation from the autonomously functioning center, which is constantly | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| one with the universal stream. This is the separation we have discussed in this lecture. When you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| your ego, you will continue to cultivate more separation, and self-idealization must be the consequence. Self-glorification and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| have and everything you do not have. The separation between your conscious and unconscious mind is your | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| mind is your greatest enemy. The moment the separation is eliminated you are no longer governed by | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| This is such folly, for only in this separation are you helpless. And only in this separation | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| separation are you helpless. And only in this separation are you practically forced to ascribe your unhappiness | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| are a manifestation of the latter. When the separation vanishes, the illusion vanishes as well -- namely | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| thus your very life, when you lose your separation. This is totally false. The separation must vanish | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| lose your separation. This is totally false. The separation must vanish. The separation exists due to innumerable | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is totally false. The separation must vanish. The separation exists due to innumerable errors, which in the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and death. If a human being overcomes the separation, then the process of dying must equally be | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in the world. If the illusion about the separation between your true being and your momentary consciousness | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| true being and your momentary consciousness, or the separation between the universe and yourself, did not exist | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| can affect life; and it leads to more separation, frustration, and unhappiness -- to the painful tension | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| center, which enlivens the rest. Death means a separation from the center, so that its light can | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| constant, immutable, unalterable fact that no amount of separation from the spiritual center can deny. Ultimately you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| it has the same powers and possibilities. The separation is not even real; it exists only because | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| this presence, you will no longer feel a separation between your thoughts and those of the greater | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| gap between duality and unity. Wherever there is separation, mutuality must come into being in order to | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| come into being in order to eliminate this separation. Nothing can be created unless mutuality exists, be | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| entity has become ready to come out of separation. But at one point on the road of | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| about all apparently separate entities. Here, too, the separation is an arbitrary, artificial construct of the mind | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to the deeper truths of the universe. More separation is thus engendered. Mental noise creates more disconnection | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of your inner being. Your consciousness, in its separation, cannot reconcile itself to these destructive aspects. It | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| negativities create. It penetrates the poisonous walls of separation created by ignorance, illusion and malice. And you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and to make forms. Consciousness has experienced a separation, through processes impossible to convey to the human | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| therefore unavoidably painful. Resistance, matter, blindness, spells dualism, separation, evil, and suffering -- these are one and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| put in the service of maintaining the ego's separation. It is always I versus you, and this | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| comparing and competing to best others increases the separation and sharpens the illusion that this pitiful existence | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is also caused by pride. The illusion of separation is so strong at this point that it | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the others and the others are you. The separation is as much an illusion as the either/or | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| is complicated by the multiplicity of the ego's separation from the oneness. In that state of separation | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| separation from the oneness. In that state of separation, the word love is empty of feeling and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the negative creation and you strengthen the imaginary separation from all that has meaning and is good | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| personal fear, from a state of egotism and separation -- me versus the other. It is therefore | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| annoyed with them, and they respond accordingly. The separation of consciousness that you experience is therefore a | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that state all is one, there is no separation. In that state of consciousness all is known | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it only seemed that way in the imaginary separation of the little ego. At this point you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| as long as you stay in hiding and separation and keep up your pretenses. Many of you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Many of you have laboriously stripped off this separation and these pretenses to quite an extent, and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| itself from the whole. In that state of separation it will find, through its own inner life | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| darkness and distortion that are byproducts of the separation. So these aspects of consciousness and energy, now | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| has truly been affected. The distortion that marks separation from the divine essence is only temporary. It | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the earth. The old consciousness still makes for separation. But humanity is now ready for a new | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| penetrate and fill the void, the temporary, illusory separation fulfills its task, spiritualizing the void and bringing | 228 BALANCE |
| you speak behind that curtain, that fog of separation. There are many powerful words you speak, with | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| universe and vice versa. Truly, there is no separation between them. As time is an illusion, so | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| from the inner riches, and eliminating walls of separation. It implies courage and strength. It is an | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| conquering force that disregards others, it creates more separation rather than less, and thus contrasts with positive | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| walls begin to crumble, and what was illusory separation turns out to be what it always was | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| longs for. When this longing is unfulfilled, the separation between the created being and the Christ exists | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| unconscious fear and doubt will remain unconscious after separation from the body. Because of this process, the | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| state of union is most certainly not a separation from the matter you are meant to imbue | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| course, part and parcel of the state of separation. Meet the doubt, as you meet the fear | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| least in part, in a state of painful separation and darkness, in the fear of not knowing | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| you cannot always sense it, your state of separation still prevents you. So be patient and surge | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| are divorced from Christ. And the greater this separation is, the more meaningless all life will appear | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| a few courageous ones turned to Christ. The separation was enforced by those who refused to consider | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to abdicate their negative self-serving power. Once the separation became a reality, more of the pagans turned | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| belief was held, the more hatred and discrimination, separation and enmity grew in the consciousness of many | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the best sense, while the untruths which create separation and set one person against the other are | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| truth combines and unifies, untruth separates. Untruth and separation create evil, dissension, hostility, outer and inner warfare | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| way. See a society in which dissension and separation no longer have any room, because when they | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| not, but surely a difference. Regarding unity versus separation there are three stages in humankind's evolution: 1 | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| there are three stages in humankind's evolution: 1) separation in outright enmity; 2) tolerance; 3) union, unity | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and to inflict suffering at all cost. The separation between the self that perpetrates suffering and the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| known that everything about Satan is earmarked by separation -- not only from God, but also from | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| others and from the self. This aspect of separation exists in the case of all three principles | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| postulate this nihilism. It obviously expresses the same separation from deeper and cosmic realities as the second | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| never fulfilled emotionally. They keep a wall of separation between themselves and others and then wonder why | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| So, my beloved friends, when the walls of separation and secretiveness fall from you, you step out | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| and consider them irrelevant only leads to further separation -- the duality of spirituality versus practical life | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| merely a physically separate entity. Even the physical separation is not complete right away. It takes a | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| aspect that improves interaction until there is no separation. The more individual cells of consciousness begin to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| your particular divine manifestation, is dependent on your separation. You falsely assume that in oneness with the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |