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| under way. Do not think that I speak symbolically; I am speaking the truth. This temple already | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| still not the main one, was to show symbolically through his life and death the course and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| not work half-heartedly. In other words, and speaking symbolically, your money must first be paid in full | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| life. It is the ground you walk on, symbolically speaking! When you decide to take it, you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| crucifixion did not merely take place to demonstrate symbolically what everyone must experience inwardly. The greater significance | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impress others. It is completely irrational. It outpictures symbolically the petrified impression in the soul, that only | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of your mind and heart, you reside -- symbolically speaking -- in the sphere that is the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in the previous lecture. Jesus Christ's resurrection teaches symbolically that if you do not flee from your | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you may need this very parent -- however symbolically and in a displaced way -- even now | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| insignificant attitude existing in the human personality reappears symbolically in one's sexual expression. The way sexuality expresses | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| then seems remote from your inner state, only symbolically reflecting aspects of your inner self which you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| between you and the event can only be symbolically interpreted. Later they will be incontrovertibly recognized as | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| and fear is essentially an angel. Allegorically and symbolically, Lucifer was an angel of light. He turned | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you do not understand it intuitively and, perhaps, symbolically. Big and small are really not matters of | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| heaven and hell. Yet these expressions merely describe symbolically a state of consciousness that is very difficult | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| you lift your face to it, allegorically, inwardly, symbolically. Lift your hands to it, allow it, and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| pour out my heart. Your hands are clutched symbolically, as it were. Therefore the next experience cannot | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
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| Then there is the level of spirituality and symbolism -- the level that you might call metaphysical | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meaning and significance than you can possibly imagine. Symbolism does not work the way humanity thinks it | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the Spirit? ANSWER: There is a very deep symbolism in that, my friends. In a forthcoming general | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Now, to come back to your question: The symbolism shown in Eve, taking the active part, hereby | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| active where she should have been passive. This symbolism does not show that man should be entirely | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manifest. If humanity had properly understood this deep symbolism, it would not have suppressed a valid part | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of woman. But I thought that the actual symbolism was not of a symbolic man and woman | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| activity and passivity. Many other interpretations of this symbolism can be given on other levels, dealing with | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that these good things bring increased unhappiness. The symbolism of Jesus' blood is pain. Blood is associated | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| His death and spiritual resurrection. That is the symbolism of these words. QUESTION: In astrology it is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| lesson, why then are they so covered by symbolism? ANSWER: In the first place let us not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to a completely different mode of expression, the symbolism of the pictures is something you have to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in which both considerations can be achieved. The symbolism protects the truth from those who would misunderstand | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all other meanings. Here is the greatest lived symbolism ever demonstrated. Life on earth is a symbol | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| wisdom and truth, but in symbolic form. This symbolism I explained extensively in the previous lecture. Jesus | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in the now, is explained by the deep symbolism of the story of Adam and Eve. The | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| are all blessed and loved. 207. THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY Greetings and blessings for | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
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| misunderstanding, and also illogical. For Adam and Eve symbolize original human entities, the basic qualities present before | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| merely the active and passive elements. They actually symbolize manhood and womanhood with all their various aspects | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In different words, the actions of the hand symbolize your everyday activities and reactions -- the outer | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to you. The major actions -- feet -- symbolize decisive change, great decisions, self-propelling movement -- or | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Do you have any idea what it could symbolize? Sacrifice. Purification. Inner desire for development. ANSWER: The | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aspects of the human soul, art and artificiality symbolize others. You will learn to perceive anything in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| invented for the purpose of destruction -- that symbolize your inner pseudo-defenses that are so destructive for | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not the attempt to reach the heavens clearly symbolize your idealized self-image? While you struggle within yourself | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about reality. Many manifestations of your earth life symbolize duality because so many things appear as pairs | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| related to the parental situation. The parents express, symbolize or manifest your own basic split, your way | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| meaning in the greater scheme of things. Both symbolize creative forces and currents indispensable to physical growth | 228 BALANCE |
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| with its vanity and self-will: all this was symbolized by the body of Jesus. The resurrection of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| difficulties by various, often unconscious means. Imbibing matter, symbolized by Jesus' body which came from man, means | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Lecture No. 75 82. THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS Greetings | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and myths. Through Jesus Christ it has been symbolized in his actual life and death, for Jesus | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you. Because of these contradictions, which can be symbolized as different languages, you do not understand yourself | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reverse of your conscious aim. Again, this is symbolized in the story of the Tower of Babel | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only when you glimpse your personal twofold split, symbolized in your attitudes to both parents. The child | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the flight from the self. This then is symbolized outwardly by running away. QUESTION: In other words | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Scripture the Fall of the Angels is often symbolized as a one-time happening. But it is a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| of birth. It simply is the reverse side, symbolized in your religious history by Easter, where resurrection | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| your history, birth had to be celebrated and symbolized by the appearance of a human being. At | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| you because you can receive it. Your offerings, symbolized in the ornaments on your tree, are very | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
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| it will be opened unto you. The knocking symbolizes being alert and interested enough to figure out | 38 IMAGES |
| historical fact, but as a symbol. Now, Eve symbolizes the idea that activity becomes destructive if not | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meaning of these symbols. Please. Eye: The eye symbolizes seeing, the capacity to see, not only outwardly | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| makes it possible to see while the eye symbolizes the end result. Some time ago, I mentioned | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their hands while they remain in place. This symbolizes a certain kind of inner action. Such actions | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to them. The activity of the feet, however, symbolizes movement of the entire person -- or lack | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to your life, the movement of your feet symbolizes major changes, decisions, attitudes. All life is differentiated | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and reaction responsible for this confusing result. Religion symbolizes the struggle between opposites as the struggle between | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| which you fear. The life of Jesus Christ symbolizes this age-old truth in a very wonderful way | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| This, too, is the Tower of Babel. It symbolizes your inner world and the result of it | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difficulty of communication. The East, whence you came, symbolizes one point of eternity, if I may express | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| putting one's ego out of the picture. Nature symbolizes certain aspects of the human soul, art and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| within and estranges you from yourself. The estrangement symbolizes the foreign language you do not understand. You | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them. What does the word kingdom mean? It symbolizes the absolute power and wealth which the spiritually | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| innermost being. The birth of Christ celebrates and symbolizes birth -- not only birth of an entity | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
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| things are not, as human beings often think, symbols. It is the other way round: the earthly | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the other way round: the earthly things are symbols standing for spiritual reality. There is much material | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| objects are not as you may think, merely symbols that express a meaning for you human beings | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| here on this earth sphere, are nothing but symbols of what exists in the spirit world. In | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are the expression -- you might say, the symbols -- of His knowledge, His glory and elatedness | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other way around. Your bodies are often symbols in one way or another of your spiritual | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| It produces the pictures that you translate into symbols in a dream. If the feeling-body remained during | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| have talked about. He has demonstrated it in symbols. For life itself is a symbol, much more | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| The reasons that dreams are blurred by complicated symbols are manifold. I could not go into that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to, I shall explain the meaning of these symbols. Please. Eye: The eye symbolizes seeing, the capacity | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who can understand, the concealed one, hidden in symbols, has an additional meaning and revelation that cannot | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth can bring. Hiding the inner sense behind symbols is one way in which both considerations can | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not happen because the truth was presented in symbols and parables, but because the person's understanding was | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In your dreams, you have your own personal symbols for your personal little idiosyncrasies. A myth, on | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| goes beyond that. A myth, contrary to many symbols, is something that is actually true. But it | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of formula we might adopt for interpreting dream symbols? ANSWER: Yes, my friends, I have interpreted dream | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| ANSWER: Yes, my friends, I have interpreted dream symbols in many years of training. But I cannot | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| at the point on the curve where the symbols of your inner problems exist in different groups | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of Babel. Here you have just a few symbols of this important myth. QUESTION: Why is it | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and patience in order to learn the new symbols. Language in any shape or form is a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| any shape or form is a conglomeration of symbols. What else is language? When you say the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you learn to interpret and heed your outer symbols, the indirect signs and manifestations of your unconscious | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| has filled your earth sphere with signs, with symbols which say loudly and clearly that nothing is | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| or disintegrate into nothingness. You will recognize these symbols as you awaken. The awakening depends utterly on | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |