| Toll........................7 | |
| self- responsibility for freedom -- the heavier the toll becomes. This, too, is unalterable law. The more | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| This very process of concealment takes a heavy toll on your life-force. It induces such a deep | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| directed in the first place, it takes its toll eventually on all concerned. It is very shortsighted | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| as though this correcting process imposes a heavy toll. In reality, the heavy toll is exacted by | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| imposes a heavy toll. In reality, the heavy toll is exacted by shying away from meeting the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| into perfectionism. When this happens, duality takes its toll. One thing seems good, another bad. You must | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| surrender creates an overdeveloped self-will which takes its toll on the personality. The person who refuses to | 254 SURRENDER |
| Tone........................13 | |
| colors and shades, but also by scent and tone and other qualities that are unknown to human | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| or particular with its own different color, scent, tone, and other qualities. If I were to tell | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| possible for you to find out the ground tone or marked quality of your being. Since you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| But their emanation, frequency, rate of vibration, color, tone, scent, and all other attributes vary according to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| measure a person's frequency rate of vibration, in tone, in color, and in certain other manifestations -- | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to generalize. A certain stage of development does tone down your violent emotions. You genuinely feel more | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| way. Whatever you experience will have a new tone and a new flavor, a new color. You | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and unconscious concepts create. So does the feeling tone, the climate of your inner being. If your | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| thoughts are productive and positive, but the feeling tone is depressed and negative, if in your feelings | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and its own emanation of color, scent, and tone. The same is true of its many other | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the balance and coordination you express, in the tone of your voice, in the sparkle of your | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| work of art, a human organism, a musical tone that reaches the ear, a new attitude toward | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| of words, the nuances as well as the tone of voice that also contributes to making yourself | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Tones.......................3 | |
| have different colors and, in many cases different tones and scents. For example, a person may want | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| it kitsch. It is the same with the tones and the odor of the mask self: they | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| senses know nothing. There are infinitely more colors, tones, scents, and so on, then you can perceive | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Tongues.....................4 | |
| Bible refers to it too, using the word tongues for languages -- that a language is spoken | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| may be called transfiguration. The speaking of foreign tongues is an auditory transfiguration. But as I said | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| referred to in the Bible as speaking in tongues. Such phenomena take an infinitely greater strength on | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are living in an age of confusion of tongues. I quote now from Genesis XI/1-9: 1: Originally | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Tool........................36 | |
| all of you to practice using a powerful tool called daily review. You do not have to | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| detail; or rather it may be simply a tool, a means of expressing certain facets. But this | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| truth. Truth is abused by making it a tool for the rulership principle in man. The other | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| brain alone. That may be valuable as a tool for the work of self-finding, which is the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| at the same time, it can become the tool with which to correct the wrong attitudes which | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| locate your inner material first and choose the tool afterward. The latter approach will make you free | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| have given you can indeed be a major tool for all of you. Now, do you have | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| helpless straw in the wind, a little forgotten tool in a vast universe, and feeling one's self | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the ego exclusively, and use it as a tool to activate the universal self slumbering within. Now | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| ego up but of using it as a tool to find the inner being, and then allowing | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| that you have not yet found an important tool to unlock the door, no matter how profound | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| behavior patterns, you are no longer a helpless tool in the hand of fate. If such an | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| instincts. This lecture will give you an additional tool to meet your destructive side. You will learn | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| can reverse these processes you have discovered a tool of creation; you become truly your real self | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you can avail yourself of this immeasurably powerful tool: your contact with your divine reality. Just as | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in its own way be an even stronger tool. The energy of many is not only more | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| believe is the whole truth, then becomes the tool of error and self-deception. Thus what you may | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of inner and outer disorder is therefore a tool of the unconscious negative intentionality. This may be | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| find in the universe. You have now another tool with which to look at yourself in a | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| understanding. Those who are helpers can apply this tool for their own benefit and for those whom | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| have advised you again and again, as a tool of the pathwork to use what I call | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the glory of God in you. Another good tool is to heed your reactions. Assess your feelings | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you; for I am giving you a potent tool for your further development. Do not close off | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| you, my friends, have forgotten this very important tool that I have given you and you have | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| fulfillment as exactly what it is: a necessary tool with which you can serve. For unhappy and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| also fulfilled its function as a very sharp tool of learning, of discriminating. But when it ends | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| The word is the chisel, it is the tool with which you shape and give form to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you are more ready to handle the sharp tool that the spoken word can be. The knowledge | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| of the year you have received a new tool that can now be used meaningfully and that | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| own greater power, to subjugate others as the tool for itself. The divine state of omnipotence enjoys | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| taught so that you could use this essential tool, again many turned away with resistance and rebellion | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| of scientific study, with psychology as a helpful tool in this endeavor. The negative manifestation was that | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| you and inspire you, you unknowingly become their tool. If you do not consider that lies may | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| understand and to use their criticism as a tool to explore the reality of the situation one | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| serves to make the mind into a constructive tool. Then the tool becomes a creative agent. The | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the mind into a constructive tool. Then the tool becomes a creative agent. The aspect of expressing | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Tools.......................49 | |
| of the soul. At this point, too, helpful tools are available. Prayer, as I said, is in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| has promised it to you. There are several tools to liberate the soul forces: For some it | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Bible, a certain prayer or spiritual law. The tools may vary, and each of you need to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| fighting your imagined shames and resistances with the tools of patience, sound endeavor, and willpower is, in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| help without which they cannot attain the necessary tools to remove that which stands in their way | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is strongly at work, you will have the tools to work with on this particular aspect. You | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| This, in turn, will equip you with the tools to make the best out of each opportunity | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| Be in God. 104. INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION Greetings, my dearest friends | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Yet they erroneously try to use the same tools they needed for material life to enter into | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the higher form of being by using the tools of intellect, thought process, or willpower, they construct | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| on trying, the result will illustrate how the tools of intellect and will can be destructive when | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| in your world. Thought and will are temporary tools to give directive to your outer actions and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| try to do that, you again use the tools of mind and will in an area where | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| yet ready for, you would not misuse the tools of intellect and will, creating more obstructions. If | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| real self. You all hold on to these tools because you feel unsafe without them. You do | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| accept yourself without moralizing. Do not ignore these tools, but use them to indirectly bring about the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of this, to give you even more effective tools to discover more of the forces which govern | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| cannot possibly be dispensed with. They are the tools, learning to use them in the appropriate way | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| life. These are not empty promises. All the tools you need are given to you, and you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| use them. Often, instead of fully using these tools, instead of wanting to change the attitudes that | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| may they remain not theory, but become the tools they are meant to be. Thus you will | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have already won, because then you have the tools, and you can safely trust them to work | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| use them all. One of the most constructive tools on this path that none of you can | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| be in darkness. I have given you many tools for reaching yourself and thereby living in the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| try to find and squeeze yourself into the tools given you, rather than locate your inner material | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and more concisely defined. You have the immediate tools to set out and discover what I explained | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| acknowledge the possibility that within you lie the tools with which to correct the situation, then you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| path has to offer you -- all its tools help you in different ways. But you can | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| it, and perceiving these inner activities are the tools of your creative consciousness. Humanity can be divided | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| into those who know this and use the tools deliberately, creatively, constructively, and those who are unaware | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| available to your consciousness can then become the tools to show the way out of negative creations | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| form with your conscious mind are your initial tools. I repeat: clarity and conviction, concise statement and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| into a more expanded state they need different tools. Let us take the simple analogy of someone | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and concentration. Such practices can only be helpful tools when used in addition to or in conjunction | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the way. This lecture will give you many tools and a lot of material for your work | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| have seen your negative creation, you have the tools to institute positive creation where the same principles | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| this path you have a number of good tools to prevent you from the danger of overlooking | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| of at any given phase. By using these tools you can strengthen your determination to observe the | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| once you are in full possession of the tools that I am privileged to give you and | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you still better means to achieve this transformation, tools that you could not have used before you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| to explain as exactly as possible with the tools at my disposal what happens when consciousness and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| try my very best to give you some tools, however. As you listen into your inner chasm | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| fears. On this path you have received the tools to deal with such fears by questioning your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| trained and used as one of the important tools. Without the intellect grasping and understanding these laws | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| already better off, for you then have the tools to work on it and can understand that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| to see them and use them as indispensable tools for the development of your soul. For example | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| law of cause and effect become the very tools the soul needs to transcend this entire realm | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| feelings, while maligning and distortion will become the tools of cruelty and the intent to hurt. Disconnection | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| this battle: do not unwittingly lend yourselves as tools for the aims of the prince of darkness | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |