| Vantage.....................27 | |
| solution of a problem is sought, from what vantage point. Only if you solve the problem on | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| apocryphal copy? ANSWER: I would say, from our vantage point this does not make any difference. This | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and pulls in all directions. Seen from our vantage point, it is a harsh, uneven current, like | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and no. It depends on the angle or vantage point from which you look at it. If | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| You all stand more or less at different vantage points in this respect. Some of you recognize | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in their lives in greater measure. From our vantage point, we see you barricading yourselves behind a | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| a spiritual point of view, which is our vantage point, one person who gains inner truth in | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to an unhealthy one, as seen from our vantage point. In the healthy soul the form is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| important to discuss the same subjects from different vantage points at specific phases of your pathwork. What | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Observing the earth sphere and humanity from our vantage point, it is indeed sad that people so | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| can infancy and childhood be counted from your vantage point? Also in millions of years? ANSWER: Of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| picture humanity represents when viewed from a higher vantage point. This perspective has a bearing on the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| humanity's spiritual history and evolution from a certain vantage point. At one phase in this history, human | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| let me say here, my friends, from the vantage point of a higher degree of consciousness, that | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| can be important or unimportant, depending on your vantage point, everything can be taken into meditation. As | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the question from a more profound and broader vantage point, what appear as opposites suddenly reconcile and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| responsible for the energy flow. Anyhow, from your vantage point this expression will be quite adequate. The | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| is a necessary defense. Viewed from this narrow vantage point, the position seems right. Thus when you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| never broken. It only seemed broken from the vantage point of the limited outer consciousness. The task | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| The economist will solve problems from a different vantage point. Every area of work will embody the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| movement must make the exchange. From the human vantage point the inner universe offers different kinds of | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| only your awareness is growing, but from the vantage point of the still-imprisoned individual it appears that | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of view this seems impossible, but from our vantage point it is not. Nevertheless, in order to | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| down that the movement is imperceptible from your vantage point. Viewing the universe in terms of degrees | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| the one reality it is from our spirit-world's vantage point. Although I have discussed the existence of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| dying, it seems absurd to us, from our vantage point. There can never be death, there can | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| to disintegrate, to no longer exist. From your vantage point on the shore, where there was water | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Variables...................4 | |
| or is not the case depends on many variables impossible to enumerate now. But, in principle, it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| creations and the most complex systems imaginable. The variables are indeed infinite. There is no particle of | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| friends, contacts in later life, and many other variables, that you cannot possibly envisage requires exacting research | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the total spectrum of consciousness. And if such variables exist at all, which is reasonable to assume | 254 SURRENDER |
| Variance....................4 | |
| strange. Your divine conscience will never be at variance with divine ethics and morals. So if you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| life experience and your conscious concepts are at variance, this is proof that your unconscious concepts must | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of self. The inner reality may be at variance with the environment; the real values of the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| These levels of consciousness are often at total variance with each other, expressing different states of development | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Vast........................80 | |
| imagine this as a house, but as a vast sphere. A being who enters the House of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the question how the entire universe, with its vast size, could exist in every human being. I | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| not also in your heart. There is a vast difference between intellectual knowledge and what is termed | 18 FREE WILL |
| person who has experienced it can confirm the vast and tremendous difference between the ecstasy of experiencing | 18 FREE WILL |
| included any one of you. Only by the vast and elaborate Plan of Salvation is it possible | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| of the fallen beings one day see the vast difference between these two ways of being and | 21 THE FALL |
| hasty in your conclusions. This is such a vast subject, new in many respects even to some | 21 THE FALL |
| all circumstances, take the trouble to study the vast subject of how to test spirits. Only then | 22 SALVATION |
| an infinite number of lightforces exist in one vast reservoir or pool. What are these lightforces? The | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the respective lightforce. The lightforces gather in a vast reservoir. Just as all is one with God | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| If knowledge of the existence of spirits, the vast worlds that exist beyond your earth sphere and | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| lower self in your deeds. There is a vast difference between that and a simple recognition and | 31 SHAME |
| my dear friend, the Spirit World is so vast that you cannot have an idea of it | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| As I have said before, there is a vast difference between knowing and knowing. To what depth | 36 PRAYER |
| you humbly accept temporary unhappiness. There is a vast difference between resigning yourself to unhappiness without understanding | 38 IMAGES |
| the beginning stages. First you will gather a vast amount of isolated information about your inner reactions | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| least, his soul is open to tap the vast universal cosmic knowledge at everyone's disposal, provided the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do from various spheres. There is such a vast world in the universe, with so many beings | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the Fall. Ever since the Fall, a vast number of beings have to go through their | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the intellect alone. I have touched upon this vast subject only in the broadest outlines tonight. Many | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| certain childish emotions, you have to have a vast amount of insight, since no inner deviation is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to a symbol, concisely put together, is a vast truth in picture form, like the picture language | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| circumstances outside your control, you will find a vast accumulation of smoldering emotions that you often believe | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and closer, they can contribute something to the vast reservoir of cosmic forces and influence evolution and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| embedded in your own psyche. There is a vast difference between the perfectionistic demands of your idealized | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| there. A group like yours contributes more than vast masses of people who preach doctrines, who force | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| other words, self-knowledge is still lacking to a vast degree. The confusion arises out of the very | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| held in check, denied, and hidden. Hence a vast confusion exists in you. You suppose the confusion | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the human spirit. But they usually ignore the vast difference between the inner and the superimposed conscience | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| question indicates a tremendous step forward and a vast new opening of insight into yourself, of clarification | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| considerable progress and resolved certain inner conflicts, but vast areas of their psyche remain unknown. To the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| hiding, is so very important. It is a vast step forward compared to the belief that one | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and contradictory but interdependent, you will comprehend the vast difference between the real self and the insignificant | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| force which can give you access to the vast intelligence which knows of no disadvantage in any | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| feeling of security about yourself and life. This vast intelligence is available for every one of your | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and its selfishness, not entrusting yourself to the vast power at your disposal. These inner deviations, ignorances | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| door to, and then become part of, the vast limitless power that gradually enables you to truly | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| discoveries in that light, you can determine the vast difference between giving the best impression, so that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| sphere, is indescribable happiness. Once this is envisaged, vast and beautiful possibilities are opened up. Be blessed | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| blockage of the free-flowing energy current or the vast possibilities for creation and expansion. Human beings are | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of your outer ego. But there is a vast area of your body the outer will cannot | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| You feel you have no power over a vast area of your body, and are at its | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| psychic processes. You have indisputable control over a vast area of your actions, over the words you | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| has been understood in some measure, but the vast significance in terms of civilization and its fate | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in the nucleus of your being is so vast that you cannot conceive of it, my friends | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| being, you will find it to be so vast that you cannot conceive of having it, or | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| active outer mind and personality, and that inner, vast divine self, the center of your inner being | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the wind, a little forgotten tool in a vast universe, and feeling one's self to be self- | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| states of pain and deprivation. There is a vast difference between these two goals. As long as | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a minute part of you, compared with the vast areas of your personality where you do love | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the smallest known particle has power to destroy vast areas of human habitation and millions of human | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| volitional self with the unvolitional processes of this vast power becomes more firmly rooted. Each step of | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| You should also understand that there is a vast difference between conceiving of further possibilities of expansion | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| at your disposal, is the fringe of the vast universal mind. To express the thought that humanity | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in your daily living is separated from the vast whole, the universal mind, only by an illusory | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| possible for the ego to dip into the vast sea of universal power and beauty. This happens | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| long for. Once the ego dips into the vast ocean of universal force, the personality can never | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are not so different when one considers the vast stretches of possibilities. When you assume that reality | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| head. The center between the eyes possesses a vast capacity to visualize, to see, to comprehend. If | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the initiating negativity has been wiped out. The vast majority of the human race are still in | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| without losing identity. You were moved by a vast force, by an inner volition that was not | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| order to dissolve it. There is also a vast difference between an overt action of destruction and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| human personality or life experience. Meditation is too vast a subject to include in detail in this | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in charge than the observed. This is the vast difference between identifying something and being identified with | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| life and creation. Imagine, as an analogy, a vast picture of which you only glimpse a small | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| emotional state. The inner reality is the wide, vast universe, and you as a personality stand on | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| personality stand on the borderline between this wide, vast, endless, infinite inner space of creation, in which | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| reasons. You produce and create, often on a vast scale, painful, debilitating, and frustrating experience. Then you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| thus chosen to fulfill specific tasks in a vast overall plan. The fragmented aspects have certain basic | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| may perhaps also perceive that there is a vast plan behind your individual path that transcends the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| for the forces of good. Meditate on these vast issues that fill your universe and are of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| life into the void. When you perceive this vast, universal issue as the key to all other | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| outline here, must be pursued. There is a vast difference between hanging on to life because you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| but perhaps because the present task is so vast and all-encompassing that it suffices for this embodiment | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| This is not so. Inner space is a vast reality, a real world. It is in fact | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| being can live, breathe and move, and cover vast distances within an atom according to your outer | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the reality of your higher self and the vast world of eternal life in which it dwells | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| should understand that these experiences will open the vast inner spaces in which many worlds, many universes | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| in the past made the world appear too vast to be encompassed. One's own tragedies seemed unique | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| personal aspect of God, the undertaking is too vast for you to accomplish. These three categories may | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |