| Teaching....................47 | |
| it concerns the Bible or any other religious teaching. So, to come back to your question, I | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| path of development in the sense I am teaching it. If this is the case, then the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| difficult to understand the real meaning of the teaching that the Kingdom of God is within, just | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| that is in-between is within you. What the teaching describes is not only an emotional state the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| ask the following question: The general conception and teaching is that incarnations change from male incarnation to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| only by praying for him, but also by teaching him certain things. Think about him, his life | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| could help him. You could do this by teaching him in thought. But first think what lack | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| it does not happen for the purpose of teaching the truth to creatures in the lower spheres | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| in a way similar to how I am teaching you now, that is, to cultivate and obtain | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| this happen? It happens when a true thought, teaching, philosophy or recognition serves as a camouflage behind | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| As you have heard from various sources of teaching, death is not necessary in principle and one | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| of the Holy Scriptures or in any spiritual teaching of truth and value will you ever find | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| will find when you apply what I am teaching that there must always be a parallel. In | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| have benefited from many a spiritual truth and teaching through this channel or others, know that no | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| certain place, receiving certain information, or advice, or teaching. In fact, it rarely happens that way. The | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| contact with divine truth. Any help, instruction, or teaching which does not have this clearly as its | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a deep conviction that no word and no teaching can ever give you anything better than your | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| harm us. How about the imperfections of a teaching, a doctrine, a wrong method being practiced by | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fore from within. With a good method, a teaching of truth, they are brought to the fore | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is distortion and what is truth. With a teaching or method of half-truth, this often happens in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to face themselves in truth and honesty, no teaching, method or influence can encourage wrong inner concepts | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problems, while other parts of the very same teaching, which may help them to turn into the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is possible that a person remains with a teaching of relatively little truth, yet will get the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| On the other hand, people may follow a teaching of relatively more truth than many another, but | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If safety could only be found in a teaching, or method, or influence that you know can | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the greatest power in the universe. Every spiritual teaching or philosophy, every religion, even modern psychology proclaims | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| effort of streaming out, reaching the cosmos, and teaching others, they are withdrawn, held back, and made | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| paid off and these two tasks -- the teaching and the paying off -- are combined. We | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| what they see may be correct. And such teaching of truth may just enhance the negative outlook | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of forming. In the right way, the right teaching will be given in the right moment so | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| death -- never life or death. A spiritual teaching, often misunderstood, says that one must rise above | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| regardless of what religion or spiritual philosophy or teaching you follow, that love is the first and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| create fear in their application. ANSWER: Yes. Every teaching, if misapplied and misunderstood, will create fear. A | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you give up struggling. This is a true teaching, but it is often understood as meaning giving | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| People use or even unconsciously abuse every truth teaching and spiritual philosophy in order to avoid going | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| as experienced fact, not as a mere theoretical teaching; at the same time this lecture will open | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| here and now. It is not a theoretical teaching that you can, at best, consider intellectually. The | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| should be dispensed with. Unfortunately, many a spiritual teaching has made this error and thus brought confusion | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of making the ego flexible always comes first: teaching it, bending, changing it; making it receptive and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| not against any human being, helper, therapist, or teaching, or even against any actual domination. For you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| can help you to avoid such confusion by teaching you to know when you are angry. Perhaps | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| with God. Then you create a unification. The teaching you receive from within will be a strengthening | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| The progress is obvious. What were previously words, teaching a way of living that could become reality | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| so that its voice can be distinguished. This teaching must become a substantial aspect of the child's | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of expressed words and explanation, which is true teaching. The other is the level of awareness, feeling | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| fascinating study and will alter the approach to teaching all other topics. Other learning will then not | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of others organically evolve -- such as helpership, teaching, or any other responsible role in the community | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Teachings...................148 | |
| in case I fulfill the conditions to receive teachings, to gain insights, and thus to help my | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| ours who is a follower of Rudolf Steiner's teachings said that there are not only two kingdoms | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| one who carries the heaviest burden. When some teachings say that there are three kingdoms, they are | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Prentice Mulford which almost completely agrees with your teachings, but there is one thing which I do | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| day. Here I find a contradiction between your teachings and the book. ANSWER: There is no contradiction | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| can ever experience. Since the goal of my teachings is to make the contact with God's spirit | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| readiness to allow for new recognitions, inspirations or teachings. Then practical means will also be given to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the iceberg and the water, which in Indian teachings is very much recommended? Or is this perhaps | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to the prevailing philosophies and also to the teachings given here. Only when you bring together knowledge | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| QUESTION: I heard that according to some Eastern teachings a person can incarnate again into a past | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| of my friends who have been following my teachings or to those who have been on the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| I refer especially to the differences in the teachings between East and West. ANSWER: Desirelessness is also | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| happen because you cannot take this path without teachings from the outside. You will thus learn what | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| Does that mean in general that the Eastern teachings have lived through a different phase of Brahman | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| this respect, as far as spiritual and religious teachings are concerned, the Western and the Eastern side | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| then how does it tie in with the teachings of stake your claim? ANSWER: But your claim | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| with higher spheres from where you can receive teachings that further you spiritually and bring you nearer | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| his life was not only to spread his teachings; for true and beautiful as they are, basically | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| and beautiful as they are, basically the same teachings could be found elsewhere too, though perhaps in | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| is not enough. But if you follow the teachings of your religion whereby you learn and do | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| body took so much energy away that the teachings coming from within their own selves would not | 21 THE FALL |
| spirits to live on earth. He also organized teachings for the pure spirits now incarnated to bring | 22 SALVATION |
| no matter how pure or how wonderful the teachings may have been. Christ has shown in deed | 22 SALVATION |
| began. As I have explained to you, the teachings He brought were important and wonderful, but this | 22 SALVATION |
| applies to everyone. However, simply to bring the teachings was not His full reason for living as | 22 SALVATION |
| for living as a man. Beautiful as the teachings are, they were not new. In essence, other | 22 SALVATION |
| essence, other people had also brought the same teachings. He adjusted them according to His times and | 22 SALVATION |
| of love. QUESTION: Are some of the occult teachings true that there is an Antichrist incarnated now | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meaning is this: Jesus entrusted Peter with His teachings, that he might organize the spreading of His | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that he might organize the spreading of His teachings. Now it is a well-known fact that the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Jesus meant was that Peter should spread the teachings exactly as He has brought them. But that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spirits of truth. It was part of Jesus' teachings that Peter was supposed to spread. And also | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prepared? This was an integral part of His teachings that was, unfortunately, for various reasons, not maintained | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| binds himself to God through adhering to the teachings of Jesus that Peter was to maintain, spread | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be lost anymore. But anyone who refuses these teachings and loosens himself thus further from God, will | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would make no sense. Whoever follows the real teachings of Christ and seeks the development and purification | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not be enough. You should meditate on these teachings, so that this knowledge may eventually grow from | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| understand that by following certain rules of metaphysical teachings their problems will altogether cease, or that if | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you are blind to that part of the teachings that could open your eyes, but there is | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| less important for your particular case, then these teachings are an escape. Do not believe that simply | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| for people who do not receive these particular teachings and personal guidance. People who find God in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| easily do that with the guidance of my teachings. Actually, the two possibilities you mentioned form a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| friend, perhaps now, with the help of the teachings you receive here, you will be able to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in many ways. Because you have absorbed certain teachings with your intellect, you may not openly admit | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| development tonight so that all friends following the teachings of this group may be aware that it | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| outer intellectual knowledge you may gain through spiritual teachings may support this very image and can be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| be theirs if they live according to these teachings. Try to visualize and to imagine that such | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| are absent, to all those who follow these teachings. Continue on this path, my dear ones. So | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| spirit communication in some other form. In other teachings it says that one can contact the divine | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| your own divine spark. You should consider all teachings and all religions from that point of view | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| they may ignore the various steps of these teachings, can yet fulfill one another by revealing themselves | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| path, and follow the various steps of these teachings, it will be easier to overcome the pitfalls | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| become responsible for many wrong views, philosophies and teachings. Whenever humanity finds out that an attitude or | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| out for this tendency in yourself. The very teachings I give you can be abused in the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you human beings. You all know from the teachings you have so far received that you violate | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you understand and experience the truth of these teachings, the deeper will you be convinced that there | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| infinite bliss. One hindrance is that, despite the teachings you have received from various sources, you still | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| has been the trouble with all great religious teachings throughout the ages. Detachment undergoes a similar fate | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| given on an outer level. Many teachers and teachings remain on the outer level, on the level | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the illusion of the world of manifestation. The teachings and the path I show you must prove | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the grace of this communication and preserve the teachings in their cleanliness. Do not ever forget these | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: Whether the Holy Ghost is in some teachings represented as part of the Trinity; whether it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and today you are beginning to -- religious teachings will no longer hold that sex as such | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ignorance of these cosmic principles is that Eastern teachings are often misunderstood in the following way: People | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| clearly expressed. It is said in the Gnostic teachings that in the Father we are born, in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| desires are always linked with fear. In certain teachings you hear much about a state of desirelessness | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| my contact with you. I will continue the teachings that had to be interrupted for a time | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| discuss it together. QUESTION: In accordance with the teachings we receive, I wonder how it is possible | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and to deceive oneself. As to philosophies, religions, teachings and methods of self-development, there are none on | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as you all know from the lectures and teachings you have received, is a world of unreality | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| answers and theories; you know all the truth teachings. You may even be convinced that you follow | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of favorable outer manifestations. But according to your teachings, the good outer manifestation, too, must be the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of you and your dear ones. All spiritual teachings and philosophies agree that the world of manifestation | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| supports what you have said. In the Cabbalistic teachings pertaining to the word given to us as | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| consciously is a smaller area. Spiritual philosophies and teachings use the term raising consciousness. It means exactly | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| those of you who have been following these teachings, but perhaps you will now understand my words | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the need for awareness is embodied in their teachings, though perhaps expressed at times in different ways | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| about gnostic religion and I found that the teachings expounded here are very similar to those found | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| this earth and leave the heritage of such teachings in the hands of those who are often | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| religions which are more in accord with your teachings have not survived. It seems difficult to understand | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not remotely so successful inwardly. The neglected truth teachings of gnostic religions may outwardly appear weak because | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| time, the few people who concentrate on the teachings of truth without overt power, in whatever form | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| heard them many times from many philosophies and teachings. You may even be capable of discussing the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to inner fears -- held on to these teachings ferociously. True as a lot of these teachings | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| teachings ferociously. True as a lot of these teachings are, they do not genuinely believe them. There | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| deal more than the mere words of the teachings. Often this is the reason why such very | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to some degree. Only then will the spiritual teachings of all times be understood in their true | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is in many ways more developed, if my teachings were presented to people who are far away | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you. That is the trouble with all truth teachings. The lower self has, of course, nothing to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the great struggle to overcome. All truth teachings observe humanity's fundamental twofoldedness. You see this particularly | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is in no way contradictory to the Eastern teachings. It is just a different approach, which merely | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and taught to assume the right concepts. Such teachings will have to be conducted in a way | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| question; however, if you were familiar with these teachings, you would fully understand that healthy mutuality is | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| fear. Thus religion, no matter how true its teachings, will not really help, just as the wrong | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| limited understanding, they seemed to contradict his other teachings. It is not mere coincidence, however, that his | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| has often been used in spiritual literature and teachings, but it has been much misunderstood. It is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| be that one religious denomination has more truthful teachings, but another that has fewer may, in its | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| general. They vary according to personality, background, early teachings, circumstances, and temperament. What one person may consider | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| not search for Him through knowledge, books, or teachings. Search for Him in yourself and God will | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hears the very opposite. The essence of these teachings and the method of the work is to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your further path make you realize that his teachings, as well as any other teachings of truth | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| that his teachings, as well as any other teachings of truth, do not seek to make you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| contrary! If you truly understand and follow his teachings, and certain aspects of his life, you will | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| families. QUESTION: Why is it that all spiritual teachings in past ages speak of sin instead of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| ANSWER: It is very often so in religious teachings that the effect is spoken about and not | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| God. How would you relate that to our teachings? ANSWER: As you all know by now, faith | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| merely recites and repeats -- either other people's teachings or one's own previous genuine experiences. Superimpositions hide | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| if the child could be educated according to teachings such as this. If self-knowledge and self- understanding | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| mediums, have passed on great wisdom, yet their teachings actually seem to encourage one of those temporary | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| as a phase in the great cycle. Their teachings were adapted to this still immature stage, rather | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| prayer cannot be imitated or learned through any teachings, prescribed practices, or disciplines. It is the natural | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| but to all spheres, than the best intended teachings and ideals that reach merely the surface intellect | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your problems outside yourself -- perhaps through wise teachings, through a helping hand. But the most reliable | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| do not ask you blindly to accept spiritual teachings you cannot verify within yourself right now. For | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| many comes from the fact that all truth teachings postulate that free will is responsible for one's | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| self-government and self-responsibility. At the same time, spiritual teachings postulate that human beings, with their small selves | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| begin to mend through your widened understanding. Spiritual teachings postulate that you are supposed to be happy | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are often confused by apparent contradictions in spiritual teachings. We have discussed this a number of times | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| undoubtedly found both approaches in all great spiritual teachings, as well as in my own lectures. Now | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| person fears being out of control. While spiritual teachings postulate that death is unnecessary, they also claim | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| take one aspect at a time of the teachings, appropriate for you at a particular moment. In | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| this or that lecture or statement of the teachings. This is a very opposite approach. Too often | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| Not only have you all heard from psychological teachings about the childish striving for perfection, but you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| it because they misunderstand the application of the teachings of truth and love. Instead of ridding themselves | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| find salvation and solace through adopting rules, theories, teachings, knowledge. They have it all up in their | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| what is the goal? Spiritual literature and religious teachings, in all cultures and in all places, in | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| importance of love since time immemorial. All truth teachings postulate that love means freedom, peace, life. Lack | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| anxiety, and unhappiness. Even though all important spiritual teachings, including modern science in the form of psychology | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| intense reality makes the truth of all these teachings a profound experience that cannot be denied or | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is being said by all great spiritual teachings that creation is infinite in its possibilities and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| afterward you can verify that it confirms the teachings you have studied and which have penetrated the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| way? Many people gravitate toward metaphysical and spiritual teachings for precisely the wrong reasons. That is, they | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| elsewhere in the world, many times, wherever spiritual teachings are being given. Once, a long time ago | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| APPENDIX A case history According to the Guide's teachings, our entire fate is self-created, whether we live | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is so often true, both of these opposing teachings express great truths, but the exclusiveness with which | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| been asked to give a résumé of the teachings which I have brought to you in all | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| a reality. Many movements exist which have practices, teachings, and exercises which actively and effectively help you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| sexual expression. This is why for centuries spiritual teachings have postulated that sexuality is a hindrance to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| But, using all the principles of the Guide's teachings and working through our deepest personal, irrational aspects | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| the flow of the life force. Hence spiritual teachings often advocate a state of desirelessness as a | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| split dualistically, something I always deny in my teachings. As I will prove to you on a | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| all contradictory to it. When people follow spiritual teachings which emphasize service too soon, there is a | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is a danger that they will use these teachings to escape from their hidden inward selfishness. Thus | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that is usually neglected or denied in spiritual teachings: A person who is truly on a path | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| principle in distortion. This is why many spiritual teachings say that the lowest quality on the whole | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| on showing you these various levels through many teachings and on helping you through guidance, inspiration and | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| has a similar connotation. It is against the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity, at least as | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Our approach on this path is different. These teachings do not want to take you out of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |