| Swung.......................3 | |
| were times in certain cultures where the scale swung strongly to the opposite extreme, as it happens | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| trend, as a result of the pendulum having swung away from the opposite extreme, makes all guilt | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| that makes her weak. Temporarily, the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme. The woman has become | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Symbol......................36 | |
| does not matter, for humankind has made a symbol of these three days. The new conditions meant | 22 SALVATION |
| meaning of this? ANSWER: The manna is the symbol for spiritual strength, spiritual truth, divine blessing, all | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Trinity? ANSWER: It cannot be said that the symbol of the trinity only represents these three principles | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| emotional level. For the body is always a symbol for the spirit and the psyche. Now, to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be taken as historical fact, but as a symbol. Now, Eve symbolizes the idea that activity becomes | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does, if I think of Adam as the symbol of man and of Eve as the symbol | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| symbol of man and of Eve as the symbol of woman. But I thought that the actual | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| existing in both sexes. It is the outer symbol. It is only a question of the proper | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| week after the other. They are merely the symbol for the small cycles in the larger ones | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not serve any purpose. It is a symbol, a reminder, an invitation, so to speak, to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it in symbols. For life itself is a symbol, much more so than your dreams. So with | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| detail, my friends. The purpose may be a symbol, yet there is a significance. QUESTION: If our | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and we can go on with the next symbol after that. QUESTION: You mentioned an inner psychological | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| same. Now let us go to the next symbol. Hand: What does a hand stand for? Has | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which can be extended in friendship. Hence, the symbol of the hand represents a certain type of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| chose the word image because, as again the symbol will clarify, an image is something like a | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the one that follows the Buddha? ANSWER: The symbol of the cross represents a person's twofold being | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see that the subway problem is more a symbol than a symptom of the underlying core. QUESTION | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not lie in the misunderstanding of myth, symbol, or anything else for that matter. The core | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to human beings. A myth, similar to a symbol, concisely put together, is a vast truth in | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you experience in dreams. The difference between a symbol and a myth is that you can have | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a myth is that you can have a symbol for anything, important or unimportant. In your dreams | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you perceive it. The principle of myth and symbol is the same. QUESTION: Is it true that | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| symbolism ever demonstrated. Life on earth is a symbol of reality, and not vice versa. And so | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to perceive anything in material existence as a symbol of the soul forces or inner attitudes. You | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difference of languages on earth is indeed a symbol of something more profound. As the inner barriers | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the physical as well as the nonphysical. The symbol for earth might be interpreted in many ways | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| visible for you, while heaven is invisible. The symbol of heaven, therefore, is all that which cannot | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| all levels. Again, the outer is merely a symbol of the inner. A combined purification of body | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| child to both father and mother is another symbol of the splits that mark this earth sphere | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you say the word table, it is a symbol for the object you use and know. The | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| pinpoint that? ANSWER: Yes. It is an outer symbol of the inner fear mentioned in this very | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| experiences that are a total outer projection and symbol of inner reality. At this stage you may | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| see the tree that you light as a symbol: many, many candles have to be lit and | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| brings more light, until finally, as in the symbol of the Christmas tree, the lights converge into | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| your life -- Jesus Christ. One such beautiful symbol is the sea. Just observe the ebb and | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Symbolic....................49 | |
| the actual reality, not even in a figurative, symbolic sense; it is only a reflection, an image | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to act against it. You can find the symbolic explanation of this in the story of Adam | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| in a somewhat condensed way that may sound symbolic and may be symbolic to a certain extent | 22 SALVATION |
| way that may sound symbolic and may be symbolic to a certain extent. So a war took | 22 SALVATION |
| reincarnate again and do they represent in a symbolic form psychological aspects of human types? ANSWER: There | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to you, my friends. Just now, in this symbolic time, two new groups have formed, and I | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| words I bless all of you on this symbolic day. And now, my dear ones, I will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the resurrection that Jesus Christ showed in the symbolic act he demonstrated, apart from the spiritual meaning | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| activity as such is damaging for womanhood. The symbolic incident with Adam and Eve shows that active | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that the actual symbolism was not of a symbolic man and woman, but of the active and | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the next hurdle. All this is not merely symbolic. These forms truly exist. They are the product | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| steals without need. ANSWER: Exactly. It is a symbolic outer act. The other cases may have a | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time measurement on your earth plane is entirely symbolic, whereas in real spiritual understanding there can be | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| realize, my friends, that this saying is entirely symbolic. As I have said repeatedly, the flesh means | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| it with you, so to speak. This is symbolic. Broadly speaking, you have your higher self, your | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| spoke in parables and why the Bible is symbolic? ANSWER: Part of the reason, but not entirely | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| items cited in this saying are, of course, symbolic. If you want me to, I shall explain | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| facet of Jesus' life and death has deep symbolic meaning for humanity's personal problems, so this utterance | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| contains the deepest wisdom and truth, but in symbolic form. This symbolism I explained extensively in the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to buy things, when analyzed as to its symbolic meaning, will show that it represents an acquisitiveness | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| groups, nations, religions, languages. All of them are symbolic of the inner world. The world of reality | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| factual. It can be an emotional climate, a symbolic association that lodges exclusively in the subconscious. As | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| senseless. As to your second question: The original symbolic meaning of the time of Lent was to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| spirit has gone out of it. The original symbolic meaning was that of purification, contemplation, a time | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| wish to be accepted and belong to a symbolic superior world. When this seemingly superior world happens | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| why I draw this parallel, which is not symbolic or arbitrary. It is an actual fact that | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is so. How is your outer situation a symbolic representation of your inner state of being? When | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| see that, finally, the outer difficulty is a symbolic representation of your inner quarrel where you fight | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| energy. It follows that outer problems must be symbolic or representative of how sexual energy was first | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| only reality. This analogy is more than merely symbolic. It is a sign that could widen your | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in your earth sphere is nothing but a symbolic representation, an outpicturing, of the self-division in all | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| inner eye will begin to see -- perhaps symbolic forms or pictures. It may see on an | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the same process holds. It is not merely symbolic of the inner life, it is an expression | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| deep spiritual significance. All human experience is always symbolic of a wider, deeper, and fuller meaning. Tonight's | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| connecting link by using the event as a symbolic outpicturing of an aspect of your inner landscape | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| The inner landscape is then no longer some symbolic or colorful analogy. It is indeed stark reality | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| and vice versa. What first seemed merely a symbolic analogy, namely the inner landscape, is now stark | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| now stark reality, while the outer events become symbolic representations of this inner condition. This new perception | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| used in dreams as well as in other symbolic language is that one's sojourn in a human | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| in your realm of consciousness, you celebrate a symbolic event. You celebrate the Christ-consciousness, or the divine | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| because it is a recurrent thought form in symbolic spiritual expressions might be useful here also: the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of daylight you become active. This is a symbolic manifestation of the inner level where you need | 228 BALANCE |
| as you experience in your outer world, in symbolic reflections, how the lower self of nations becomes | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| lecture, in a different context, I used the symbolic analogy of a person's life being like a | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| to do. Outer journeys and travels are merely symbolic representations and messages to be applied to the | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| a combination of fragments of historical accounts, of symbolic meanings, of the greatest truths, of distortions deriving | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| original form in a modified way, in a symbolic way, in an adjusted way that fits the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| beings think of inner space as merely a symbolic description of a person's state of mind. This | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| that these inner spaces are not abstractions or symbolic expressions; they are much more real and accessible | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |