| Vegetate....................3 | |
| think they do not miss, whereas now they vegetate without any real life experience. Although a person | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| voice will state that it just likes to vegetate and do nothing; that it does not wish | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the distortion, in which one wishes merely to vegetate and not shoulder life at all. Only when | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Vehicle.....................10 | |
| a metaphysical sense, the brain as the physio-psychological vehicle for intelligence and intellect? ANSWER: This experiment is | 21 THE FALL |
| existences; how the subtle bodies surrounding the physical vehicle of the incarnate being are prepared so that | 38 IMAGES |
| particular sphere; it creates the outer shell or vehicle of the entity destined to live in that | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| plane, the matter the entity produces for the vehicle of its spirit will vibrate accordingly. The denser | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| this principle change when the entity changes its vehicle? The principle is perfect and needs no exemption | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the manner of severing ties with the physical vehicle. In such cases, as the life forces recede | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| a fragmentary personality aspect, embodied in a physical vehicle, is not highly developed at all. Nevertheless, this | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| still in the body than to change the vehicle and choose different stage settings, so to speak | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| on which the boat of your life, the vehicle of this incarnation, constantly swings and rocks. It | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| turn create limitation of language. Language is your vehicle to communicate, not only with others but also | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Veil........................13 | |
| love. Fear covers your eyes with a heavy veil, so that you become blind. You can neither | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| after fulfilling certain conditions, people occasionally lift the veil that covers it and see a small segment | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| one particular time, sees one detail behind the veil; another, at another time, or in another place | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the wheel is turning and whoever lifts the veil may see just then something different. What they | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of the whole cannot be seen through the veil. If the whole wheel were visible, the seemingly | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| they base on their various glimpses behind the veil. They purport that everything connected with God and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| become passive, you are unable to lift the veil and to personally experience the truth. This is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a turning point it is as if a veil had lifted, and the person is able to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| this opens the door somewhat; it raises the veil a little more. Until now people were influenced | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| so you make it possible, by lifting the veil, to be seen and understood. Life: If you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| immediate life. As long as there is a veil over these links between cause and effect, it | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and is thus capable of quickly penetrating the veil of illusion. However, some clouds still remain, and | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| become negative because they are enveloped in a veil of secrecy. Merely believing that there is something | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Veiled......................4 | |
| perfection, which already exists, though it may be veiled and covered up. And seek Heaven, seek God | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you have given up nothing! This paradox is veiled in a cloud of unknowing, which automatically disappears | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| ago, truth can be given more directly, less veiled. But still, misunderstanding cannot be avoided, and therefore | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of making room for a new, as yet veiled, possibility is a substantial first step in the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Vein........................4 | |
| it was done in ignorance. In the same vein, the over-fearful coward will have to make up | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of you who are seriously working in this vein advance a great deal. I would now like | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| than judge, which are which. In this same vein I should like to discuss the very important | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| In such a moment love flows through every vein of your body and soul -- so you | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Veltro......................3 | |
| even Lucifer. QUESTION: Did Dante's prophecy of the Veltro refer to the coming of the Holy Ghost | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in de Fiore's Eternal Gospel, and is that Veltro taken from the Vangelo Eterno, in other words | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| QUESTIONER: Yes, except the last part, whether the Veltro actually refers to the prophecy by Joachim de | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Veneer......................8 | |
| loneliness. The latter causes you to assume a veneer of outgoingness, expressing emotions and love that are | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| although on the surface you may have a veneer of indifference. The desire to see the truth | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| this stage you believe that only the superimposed veneer that covers the foreign body gives you the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| covered feelings opposite to love with a superficial veneer that gave the appearance of love. Such cover-up | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| layer does exist, but only as a thin veneer. Once the reasoning faculties have been sufficiently developed | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| realm of feelings is not bottomless, and its veneer is relatively superficial. Once you learn to cope | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| This seems true especially when an actual phony veneer is used to cover up the reality of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| You no longer cover up with a false veneer. You no longer try to avoid the poverty | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Vengeance...................8 | |
| while he goes on destroying himself with a vengeance. This is true despite the fact that, on | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| possible to recognize the unreal need and the vengeance with which it is perpetuated, pursued, and justified | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| from insistence on the false needs contains the vengeance. The suffering itself is a frequent weapon for | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the venomous forcing-current that sends a message of vengeance into the world. The mellow sadness of real | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you do not, I will perish with a vengeance. This voice, my friends, must be discovered. It | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you which questions the voice that cries for vengeance, that has a dialogue with it and probes | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and dishonest; it is also ignorant with a vengeance. It totally resists the new consciousness the soul | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| other, you are that one thing with a vengeance, thus you cannot be it in its best | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Vent........................9 | |
| a distance and consciously controlling them, neither giving vent to them nor suppressing them. If you listen | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| are concerned, who lack the courage to give vent to their true feelings, their predominant qualities and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| will fall into the opposite extreme and give vent to the crude feelings. Having performed a right | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| may feel endangered if it were to give vent to it. In such cases the perverted instinct | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| aware of what you feel and to give vent to it in action are one and the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| deeply in your psyche: that if you give vent to the live energy in your body, you | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| different but just as fatal ways as giving vent to those negative instincts. This lecture will give | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| responsibility for them. They felt compelled to give vent to them and became wholly enveloped by them | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| way. You take responsibility for them and give vent to them in a framework where no one | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Ventures....................8 | |
| limited accomplishments were not a satisfactory solution. These ventures, fraught with tension and anxiety, always failed without | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of isolation in B becomes unbearable, and B ventures out while A is in a dark hole | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| influx from the spiritual realms that further important ventures on this earth. I bless all of you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of self-expression, bliss, pleasure supreme, and stimulating new ventures exist in the most peaceful and secure state | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| be perceived as your own consciousness grows and ventures forth. I would like to talk about aspects | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that living inevitably means creating. The person who ventures forth into life in the spirit of overcoming | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| does not apply only to great and significant ventures, such as your spiritual path of self-evolution, which | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the coming age will know that the spirit ventures out into the earth realm, that curiosity is | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Venturing...................7 | |
| despair over letting go of a desire and venturing into what often seems fearsome to you. The | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| roundabout, narrowly confined channels of thinking and never venturing beyond them. Let us suppose that you are | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Each phase of a human being's life signifies venturing into a territory that has not been mastered | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| level and dismantling untruthful unifications. The search, the venturing forth, must never be relinquished, or you will | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| helpers around you and around everyone who is venturing on such a path of self-development. Some of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| desire, there cannot be expansion. There cannot be venturing out into new ground, into new realizations and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| safety of a little back door open, never venturing forth completely into a new situation. That is | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Verbal......................4 | |
| This apparent contradiction cannot be squeezed into your verbal concepts, just as it is impossible for me | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| It is not a question of whether a verbal discussion serves in reaching the other soul. Certainly | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| higher dimensions can never be made accessible by verbal learning, but only by inner experience which, in | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to assume that awareness of anger and even verbal expression of it results in physical violence or | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |