| Slowed......................3 | |
| higher authority planned it--development is speeded up or slowed down. Now, since life on earth is one | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| state, all vibratory functions of life are grossly slowed down. The flow of energy rigidifies and makes | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| The frequency of the vibratory function is so slowed down that the movement is imperceptible from your | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Slows.......................5 | |
| life in general but by the same token slows down individual development. When you keep in mind | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| done in impatience, haste, frustration, or fear inevitably slows down the process of activity. Those who believe | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| twisted, it produces a destructive manifestation. Its frequency slows down and becomes commensurate with the distortion of | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| the movement of the energy current, its movement slows and its form condenses, clogging up the channels | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| creates in a certain direction, the life spark slows down and down, until the energetic stream petrifies | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Sluggish....................7 | |
| to give up its faults, its resentments, its sluggish ways. You must realize that this lower self | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| do so. You have to recognize the ever-present sluggish tendency in every person along with the basic | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| this yearning and to direct it properly. The sluggish tendency in the lower self makes you hold | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| unfaithful is. Women tend much more to be sluggish and are therefore better prepared to compromise. This | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| will exist in the measure that you overcome sluggish soul movements that want to prevent you -- | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| see how your mind is either overagitated or sluggish -- additional manifestations of underlying tension that has | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| all other light centers. The outer mind is sluggish at times and does not immediately comprehend and | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Sluggishness................13 | |
| it may be, enables you to handle the sluggishness of your lower self using the spiritual truths | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| in your soul which tends, perhaps, to cause sluggishness and takes the first opportunity to make the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| an excuse to reinforce a negative trait like sluggishness, say, or where the higher self is diluted | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| do not recognize your own version of this sluggishness, you cannot get ahead. So at one stage | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| congestion, but rather a standstill or stagnation. The sluggishness brought about by the wrong use of the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| matter what the pretexts and excuses are, the sluggishness and the immaturity of your lower self has | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| only wallow in self- pity, but express a sluggishness that prohibits your working actively on the elimination | 31 SHAME |
| of ambition is a very great hindrance. This sluggishness will prevent you from accomplishing your development which | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| can experience. It lifts the soul out of sluggishness, out of mere contentment and vegetation. It causes | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Habit is a great temptress, pulling one toward sluggishness and inertia, so that one does not have | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the temptation of the comfort of inertia and sluggishness. Then the marriage will be disrupted and one | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| great the fight to overcome the temptation of sluggishness and pride! For it also requires a certain | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in facing yourself, in overcoming your resistance and sluggishness and self-pity. You should never believe even for | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Slumber.....................8 | |
| recesses of the soul where all perfect attributes slumber -- partly in response to outside events, to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| conflicts? When difficulties are removed, they continue to slumber in hiding and you cannot do anything to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| necessarily the only existing motivations. Find those which slumber underground. Take them out of hiding and view | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which fear, uncertainty and many other negative attitudes slumber. All this you know, at least in theory | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| obstructions of the no-current do not manifest. They slumber quietly, and only when shaken up do they | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| will you leave important underdeveloped ego faculties to slumber, untended. Are there any questions, first regarding this | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| -- the more must these exact same aspects slumber within yourself, as yet not fully acknowledged. As | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| first and least developed is the state of slumber, where a being does not know it exists | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Slumbering..................7 | |
| to resolve problems on false premises. The question slumbering within yourself -- the question you unconsciously pose | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| as a tool to activate the universal self slumbering within. Now, my friends, many people know this | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and feelings, which may already be unfolding or slumbering as potentials. Since destructive tendencies and evil are | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| follows its own in-built plan. Only its now slumbering consciousness could create that plan, could create the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being. You then conceive of spreading out these slumbering potentials, to awaken and spread them outward, so | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| an aspect of your consciousness that is still slumbering: your power to perceive in reality. In the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| your power to perceive in reality. In the slumbering state you always confuse cause and effect, you | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Slumbers....................3 | |
| set out to find what further undetected cause slumbers behind this resistance. Arrayed behind it there may | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is no more. Only its dormant life potential slumbers in the soil, waiting for the seed to | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the essence of the good. Within every devil slumbers an angel that wants out. If you lack | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Smallest....................52 | |
| to be inspired and led even in the smallest things. Sometimes your answer will correspond to what | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| emotional reaction, thought, opinion or tendency, even the smallest personality trait, is a luminous ray which is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Observe how wonderfully everything is fitted together, every smallest detail that is visible to you. Then consider | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| by anybody. Scientists say that it is the smallest unit that may be grasped by the human | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| magnitude. To say that the atom is the smallest means, of course, that it is the smallest | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| smallest means, of course, that it is the smallest in human measurement; it is the smallest you | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the smallest in human measurement; it is the smallest you can grasp. In spirit, however, the smallest | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| smallest you can grasp. In spirit, however, the smallest is also the largest. For you this is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| turn to God. So each victory, even the smallest one, of each human being, causes a tremendous | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| financially. It hurts least and it means the smallest sacrifice. Everyone knows, on the other hand, that | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| work and care is involved concerning even the smallest detail. The choice of lecture subjects also necessitates | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| has been taken into account, even to the smallest details, so that not only the subjects of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| on earth, how far-reaching the effect of the smallest endeavor in this direction is. No such endeavor | 21 THE FALL |
| But if you are still weak, perhaps the smallest effort will be sufficient for you. At any | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| should understand it in this sense. For every smallest detail has to correspond, because it has a | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to sense the greatness of the Creator? Every smallest inner deviation and obstruction is a hindrance to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| living reality of cause and effect. In the smallest daily issues cause and effect operate, but you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| intelligence is available for every one of your smallest cares and concerns. It is forever ready to | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| no longer a helpless child, this, in the smallest measure, is the beginning of evil; this is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| science of atoms, which has shown that the smallest known particle has power to destroy vast areas | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to be aware of the power of the smallest. The concept is new and strange to human | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| desirable or undesirable, important or unimportant, from the smallest, most mundane occurrence up to the creation of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| functions well in the universe down to the smallest manifestations of mundane life combines these two aspects | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the error of your cells, atoms, or other smallest particles. But these errors do not happen arbitrarily | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| both these possibilities exist. Now, if in the smallest atom -- so small that it cannot even | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| source of all life supplies you with every smallest detail of living that is important to you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of conscious effort and relaxation applies to the smallest details as well as to the most significant | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| great. If you learn eventually to take the smallest shadow of your everyday life and explore its | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| untampered is golden joyousness of ever-increasing beauty. Every smallest shadow is a crisis, for it need not | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the issue that creates crisis. So take those smallest shadows of your everyday life and ask yourself | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| something new. This applies to everything, from the smallest and apparently most insignificant act to the most | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| how effectively it can be used for the smallest and the biggest issues of living. In reality | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| big important issues or the unimportant ones. The smallest neglect causes disorder and creates discomfort in the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to the large vital issues as to the smallest everyday inanities. But you also know that this | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| never believe in your power to change. The smallest inner center, which is now only an obscurity | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| them to make this lecture more comprehensible. Every smallest particle of creation consists of endless series of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| so on and on. Each step in its smallest particle is a creation in itself. Each little | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the creation of each of these examples. The smallest particle of air is in itself a perfect | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| examples. I only wish to convey that the smallest or biggest creation -- from your point of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| is filled with Being, there could be no smallest measure where there is non-being. Each of these | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| with it. Purification and evolution mean that every smallest aspect of all that is must be infused | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| and guidance will come for the biggest and smallest issues in your life. Receptive, creative emptiness must | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| work of art, a scientific project, or the smallest, most insignificant daily chore makes no difference. It | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| unselfishly. Unselfish giving must exist truly in your smallest acts. It is not enough to be unselfish | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| outside -- how these laws apply to the smallest immediate individual life situation as well as to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| growth process. Such movement is necessary in the smallest details of daily living when you are involved | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| on the largest social scale and on the smallest, most temporary scale. The path as you have | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| you find the way to truth in the smallest and largest issues, in personal and impersonal issues | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| also profoundly relieved to find out that every smallest particle of consciousness creates effects which, in turn | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| at the wisdom and foresight manifest in the smallest details designed to protect, sustain and maintain each | 254 SURRENDER |
| of life, principles of life all exist in smallest and in largest measures, based on the same | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| for you, His deep, abiding interest in every smallest detail of your life. As you thus proceed | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |