| Biggest.....................4 | |
| thing may be a stepping stone to the biggest and most important. The littlest thing may be | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| can be used for the smallest and the biggest issues of living. In reality there is no | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| only wish to convey that the smallest or biggest creation -- from your point of view -- | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| inspiration, wisdom and guidance will come for the biggest and smallest issues in your life. Receptive, creative | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Billions....................3 | |
| the millions of Milky Ways and in the billions of stars there must be life similar to | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| illusion that you are but one out of billions, and therefore your happiness is not important. Another | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| appears, the star disappears, perhaps one beat has billions of years of duration. But time is an | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Billowing...................4 | |
| it is ready to thrust itself forward anew, billowing further into the void, fulfilling its innate plan | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| spirit should be strong and cause a strong, billowing pulse beat, unconscious levels of the personality interfere | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| perfect the life manifestation. Each pulse is a billowing force. When you observe a life where there | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| pulsated through. It is a process of constant billowing, thrusting, expanding and withdrawing, pulsating forward and pulsating | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Bind........................16 | |
| with becoming free. They avoid anything that could bind them. But the same law applies here also | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and whose vision will get worse as they bind themselves more to matter. They don't enlarge their | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| following way--for there are certain spiritual laws that bind me to the kind of statements I am | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| well or better developed if one does not bind oneself pedantically. This depends on the person's way | 36 PRAYER |
| which of these motives apply to you and bind you. Perhaps a combination of them applies to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| So he often finds himself in a double bind. The real, healthy male aggressiveness is confused with | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| make you free, while the former continues to bind you. Only the authority has changed, not you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| impulse to be so bad that you must bind yourself into inactivity, into holding back, into non- | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of all mental and emotional states: a double bind from which there seems no exit, until the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| evil. It is not difficult to see the bind that this puts you in. If on a | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| their own unconscious conflicts, into your negativity. You bind them in a struggle equal to the one | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| misconception leads to a dualistic conflict, a double bind. Movement is one of the essential byproducts of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| for your feelings, you will be in a bind because you will either deny them or act | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| get out of the vicious circle and the bind that you are caught in between your unfulfilled | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| in fact, you only tighten the chains that bind you. We come now to another aspect of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| remove an obstruction that can only limit and bind you. In either case, your liberation and your | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Binding.....................3 | |
| within your personality, it automatically loses a certain binding power. You become more detached by the very | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to the universe is real love, not the binding, clinging love you often give. Real, genuine love | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| itself in many ways, not just as a binding force between a man and a woman. It | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Binds.......................5 | |
| nothing more or less than a chain that binds you. By the shedding of each imperfection you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| that anyone -- then or now -- who binds himself to God through adhering to the teachings | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| purpose of eliminating this weakness in you that binds you and that wastefully and needlessly holds you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the negativity eventually superfluous. Rejecting the negative experience binds you to it for as long as you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| This is altogether different from repression: the latter binds vital life energy, whereas the former frees it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Biological..................7 | |
| medium wanted to ask a question: Apart from biological reasons and the civil law, what are the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| cycle which works individually, rather than by set biological rules as in woman. This will be a | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| exception. QUESTION: Would it be possible for a biological scientist to experiment and apply scientific methods in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as perfectly and completely as many of your biological processes which you take for granted and the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| outer ego faculties, in order to have your biological functions work in their own perfect way, you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- according to lawful procedures -- as the biological ones. If the ego does not interfere, self-regulation | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| as well as degrees. There is no physical, biological, electrical or atomic energy that could be anywhere | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Bird........................3 | |
| fear of God to the wings of the bird. I wonder if you could speak a little | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| flower is not better than another flower. One bird is not better than another bird. The mountain | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| flower. One bird is not better than another bird. The mountain is not better than the sea | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Birth.......................99 | |
| time of year, when you are celebrating the birth of Christ, I feel my choice of this | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| beforehand and arrangements are made before the first birth. And this infant is carried to the mother | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in rare instances that the spirit, prepared for birth, is awake at short intervals and then retains | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be very psychic, clairvoyant, or clairaudient. After birth it can perceive -- and remember -- certain | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that other spirits repeat the same words after birth and the child can hear and remember them | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I shall speak tonight about the process of birth. I have received permission to do so from | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| understanding. Before I explain the technical procedure of birth, I will have to talk a little about | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of you. However, since the technical procedure of birth is directly connected with, and dependent on, karmic | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| so that you will be able to understand birth as such to some degree. Your next life | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| certain fluidal matter that has been prepared before birth. This preparation determines what urges, trends, and leanings | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| also fulfill the best conditions for a premature birth. In such a case a premature birth will | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| premature birth. In such a case a premature birth will occur. In other instances, birth may be | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a premature birth will occur. In other instances, birth may be delayed a little. At this point | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| change enough during the time of preparation for birth to warrant their receiving a different child, the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| attitude during pregnancy. When finally the time of birth arrives, many spirits assist, so that the fluidal | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is it possible that sometimes babies die at birth after they have already received their souls, so | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| down have already been chosen before the first birth occurred. The spirit of the baby will thus | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| spirit to be incarnated before it undergoes the birth process. It will mean a merit for the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| adjustments will be made, and without gaining consciousness, birth will occur with the other parents, chosen as | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of that question. QUESTION: Is it correct that birth, and time and form of death, are determined | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| ANSWER: No, it is not correct. As to birth, I have just explained how it is, so | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the lecture I gave some time ago on birth, now that you have learned about the images | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| purity and that the mother of Jesus gave birth as a virgin in the physical sense. That | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| longer have to go through the process of birth and death. He or she will be an | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| that humanity has to go through death and birth and death and birth and so on and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| go through death and birth and death and birth and so on and on, is the result | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| token, it is not only woman who gives birth. Woman gives birth physically, while man can give | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| not only woman who gives birth. Woman gives birth physically, while man can give birth in soul | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Woman gives birth physically, while man can give birth in soul, so to speak. The same laws | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| so to speak. The same laws governing physical birth hold true for spiritual birth. According to the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| laws governing physical birth hold true for spiritual birth. According to the health of his soul, the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| What exactly is meant by man giving spiritual birth? ANSWER: Man in his real creative self can | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Man in his real creative self can give birth to beautiful and constructive ideas which can become | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of speech. In reality the process of the birth of an idea takes place according to the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| place according to the same principles as physical birth. Since woman is also creative, she too can | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is also creative, she too can give spiritual birth -- and she does. It is only the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| an entity's nature which is capable of giving birth. In woman, the female side is mostly turned | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| turned outward on the disc, so that physical birth manifests. However, this does not prevent her from | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| prevent her from also giving mental and spiritual birth at other times, when this face of the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| particular time of the year to celebrate the birth of one who has come to demonstrate, in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| subtle way, as He often did, that His birth happened in accord with universal law which God | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| distorted by well-meaning people who thought that the birth of Christ would be slighted if He, too | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and destructive struggle against death or unhappiness begins. Birth is a painful experience for the infant. Other | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| learned that it is at the moment of birth, which also corresponds with astrology. The same person | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enters the body at the time of physical birth. If this decisive entry were to occur earlier | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But there are additional periods of completion before birth, as well as afterward. But these stages are | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| matter. Such stages occur at certain intervals before birth, as well as after, until maturity has been | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| live on earth, occurs at the time of birth. It is not coincidence that this event is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as for the infant. The event of physical birth corresponds with something equally decisive spiritually. Yet even | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we may not know the circumstances of the birth? ANSWER: Your unconscious knows everything about your life | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on your life. In the case of illegitimate birth, certain souls with specific problems are chosen. This | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will and motivations, you indirectly bring about the birth of the real self. Here is a brief | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| thought process, intellect, mind, and will obstruct the birth of the real self, of love, of all | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| these very destructive impulses. I talk about the birth of the real self, of love. Can love | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| entity. I said in a different context that birth is a traumatic shock for the baby. When | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| experienced it within yourselves. The little child at birth does not yet possess an ego. It seeks | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and heredity works and how the process of birth takes place. Does the soul exist before the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| personality which, of course, exists before the baby's birth. The personality's thinking, attitudes, emotions, actions, all have | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| confusion. Karmic law, heredity, and specific conditions of birth are then no longer a problem. The way | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| The way you now perceive the process of birth is as if a body were built by | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| It is the principle, for instance, of painless birth. It is the principle of non-struggle. It is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| cannot discover a new dimension of life without birth pains, for each new unification is a spiritual | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| the time. For being is a continuous process. Birth is not a one-time occurrence. Life bears new | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| changes, it is in a process of perpetual birth. In this lecture I would like to discuss | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the task you came to fulfill through your birth. It is your divine center. You are thus | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| to relate to the process of connection to birth and death from the human standpoint. Let us | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Let us first take the process of death. Birth will be better understood as a sequel to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| choose to look at it. Since humanity sees birth as the beginning and death as the end | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| you will see that you can properly understand birth only if you see it as a sequel | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the organism lives, expands, dies, reincorporates itself, gives birth to itself, expresses itself and goes on in | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the obstacles. At this particular time, when the birth of the Christ consciousness is celebrated, we shall | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Can you, at this time of commemorating the birth of your eternal Christ child within, commit yourself | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| of the infantile egocentricity can you find the birth of the Christ within, of the eternal consciousness | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Actually, the anesthesia sets in well before the birth process. In your spiritual reality, where the total | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| takes possession of the human body in the birth process, the entity is already in a sleeping | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| in a sleeping state, anesthetized and unaware. At birth, there is an awakening to a slight degree | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| That comes later. The state of awareness after birth is increased, but is still very limited. Becoming | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| around you back into your innermost being. The birth of Christ celebrates and symbolizes birth -- not | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| being. The birth of Christ celebrates and symbolizes birth -- not only birth of an entity, of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Christ celebrates and symbolizes birth -- not only birth of an entity, of a human being, but | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| of an entity, of a human being, but birth of new expressions, of new ways of expressing | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| of new ways of expressing God in life, birth of new levels of consciousness. The celebration of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| of new levels of consciousness. The celebration of birth always follows the celebration of what you experience | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| endless chain, a continuum of consciousness, but each birth always gives rise to new joy. And death | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| death is nothing else but another form of birth. It simply is the reverse side, symbolized in | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| follows death. At one time in your history, birth had to be celebrated and symbolized by the | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| and has consciousness. The Christ has been given birth by your work, my beloved friends. At each | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| can experience the Christ within. You can give birth to the Christ in you. At the same | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| breath of love, every change of attitude gives birth to the Christ, until all these many little | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| to the courage and the trust to give birth to the Christ in you as you go | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| any negative connotations. The ancients, long before the birth of Jesus Christ, always knew of this great | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| pulsating life, within and without. There is no birth and no death, yet the unchanging existence here | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| pain without fully understanding how and why, gives birth to yet another pain, which is related to | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| waited for a subsequent embodiment. The process of birth is never, under any circumstances, a one-time phenomenon | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| all the childhood years are part of the birth process. The mind is gradually freed, released, born | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| It will also make you realize that divine birth is never a onetime event. It is always | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| as a birthing process. For you truly give birth to your unobstructed, unencumbered spirit in its full | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| struggle, on your current task. The process of birth is, as I said, always ongoing. Perhaps it | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| the real has been severed from the temporary. Birth is always traumatic and painful. I spoke about | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |