| yourself and so allow the life force to work in you. Whoever has experienced even a slight | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| divine law is violated, the life force cannot work. Note that the word law has very often | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| hold of it and pulling it out? This work is not exactly pleasant, for the poison may | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| this, it may be easier for you to work your way out of the trap you now | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| necessary strength to do your part. But the work has to be done. That of the living | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| And now a little more advice for your work on image-finding. What I have said in the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| be incorporated as an integral part of the work. It is this: Take all general ideas, concepts | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| shall discuss in the future. Think of money, work, various emotions, human relationships, plus a number of | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| no rigid system; you know you have to work with your intuition and according to the personality | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| let me make a new suggestion which should work out very well, if you use it. You | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| detached from the conflict, perhaps the person you work with, and repeat this process in her presence | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| may also be a good idea for group work. First state briefly your own case and then | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| together, are the talents required for this particular work. For instance: insight, intuition, power of deduction, observation | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Some people may be capable of doing this work sooner than others. It depends on them. It | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| images be found and dissolved before one can work with others. That is not necessary, although some | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| absolute prerequisite is to have done some successful work on one's path, felt the relief of the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the regenerating forces of nature can begin to work. But try to realize what it means to | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| truth is God. On this path, in the work you are doing, you find in your images | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| part of being bad. Evil and destruction can work in you through the basic misconception that self-centeredness | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the human personality. If all of you who work on this path go through your images from | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| may be conscious. It is important in this work that you follow the circle until you uncover | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to make the chain reaction conscious in your work on this path of self-finding and self-development. Becoming | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| The bargaining you wanted to do did not work out. It could never work out. So the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| do did not work out. It could never work out. So the price you pay for the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of this basic unfairness, such a scheme cannot work. For, divine law is always just and fair | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| well. Thus the circle closes. It is your work on this path to find this circle within | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| once you find this circle in your personal work you can break it, but only after realizing | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| childish requirements and aims. So, my dear friends, work through this vicious circle and experience how it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| for the purpose of self-finding in all the work you do on this path. That is much | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the opinion? This is the difficulty in the work. The validity of the opinion may be so | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| strongly formed opinions and examine them in the work you are doing by yourself and with your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the way the magnetism of the soul currents work. In the measure that you are intolerant of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| You yourself have to find out in your work or yourself how much of this holds true | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| images, rising to the surface due to the work you have done so far, make you believe | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| laws are made once and for all and work automatically. Emotionally, you are somehow bound to a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| right away, I will help you, and further work will show the connections quite clearly, provided you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| life, and that the available life force can work only in a negative way. This may sound | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Yes, thank you. QUESTION: In connection with our work, the word detachment has come up. Would I | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and confusing. As you all know from your work, a word can mean one thing to one | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| constructive way. ANSWER: Unfortunately, it does not always work out this way. It would be extremely comfortable | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you, God bless this hour. God bless our work. Now that I will part from you in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| learn from them individually and collectively; and also work on each participant's contribution to the friction even | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| one of you has by participating in this work. Try to become clear, each one of you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| clear, each one of you, what the group work is supposed to be, what it should accomplish | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and then meet in three separate groups again. Work out some plan. You will be inspired. Try | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| well as by the self-searcher. This requires depth work such as you are pursuing on this path | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| experienced and trained to some degree in the work we are doing can easily misunderstand me. Your | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that comes up so often in the image work. As a compensation for this so-called humility, you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the emotions coming to the surface as you work, which otherwise you could not understand. When the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| at least being partly responsible for it, would work this way: identification with the beloved self, which | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be in other ways. Thus, these two currents work together, expressing themselves in choosing a partner of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Even those who do not participate in group work may derive some benefit from my words. God's | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these lectures but do not participate in group work can observe the very same thing in your | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| build this wonderful temple and contribute in this work by learning from the frictions in your everyday | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and messenger to humanity. In our life and work can we or should we be so devoted | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and to Christ, who has contributed such great work in the entire Plan of Salvation, can only | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to begin searching for it in the image work? ANSWER: There is not only one explanation for | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| temperament, character, the way the various universal forces work in proportion, general development, the particular development of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true to yourself, the bondage principle is at work. It is my advice for anyone on this | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will does not manifest so easily. God's laws work within the soul. If people who are unable | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| upon it. You will see in your further work that it is exactly as I say here | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nature, if and when you permit them to work through you, are in fact and in reality | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it, take it into consideration in your personal work. Why do you resist? It should be interesting | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| peace, my dear ones, be blessed in your work, in your relationships, in your endeavors, in everything | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this hour. With great joy we resume our work together in this coming season. Let me express | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| psychological point of view, so that in your work you can benefit from this knowledge. Let us | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the principles of expansion and restriction have to work in harmony and complement one another so that | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| steady. Here the principle of restriction is at work. Unchecked growth cannot be assimilated, and is, therefore | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| destructive, unless the other two principles are at work as well. In its negative sense, the principle | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| are influenced by it. All three principles must work together in the harmonious person. They must sustain | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| You have found that out already in the work you are doing. As I said, these three | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| try to force this new knowledge into your work. Remain aware of it, think about it. Knowledge | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| your outer will, yet some unconscious factors within work against the fulfillment of this wish. First of | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the price without forcing yourself, it would not work anyway. But at least you will now understand | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| or seemingly disadvantageous. You will be able to work calmly on the reasons, now out in the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| them slip back into hiding, for then the work has to be done all over again. It | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| just one more word of advice concerning your work in self-search. Many of you believe that to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| could be of the greatest value in your work. Learn instead to investigate these reactions, and ask | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| human nature and needs further understanding in your work of self-finding. I think you understand clearly by | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| image, it is illusory. The purpose of this work is to free you of the illusory. For | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| in this particular method. The method of the work itself cannot be conveyed by the lectures. The | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Once you have understood, once intelligence is at work, a wrong concept can be corrected. But when | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| be disturbed, because two conflicting needs and compulsions work against one another and cause a short-circuit. In | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| God-image and the mass image of self- importance work against one another, the person who has this | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| find these emotions by various ways in the work you are doing on this path. You can | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and reactions by applying certain methods in your work, by learning how to analyze your findings from | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| experienced other truths in the course of your work on the path, you will be well on | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| has come now for all of you who work on this path to investigate it as closely | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| we are approaching a deeper level in your work. I have also referred in some private sessions | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| are basic, how do they combine? In your work on the God-image or Life-image - - for | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a new and very important phase in your work now. Are there any questions on this subject | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| will discern it clearly within yourself as you work on this path. What can be said is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this direction, for, as you well know, this work is not always easy. But contact with the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a question as to what way these forces work and manifest. If humanity had properly understood this | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| freedom without self-responsibility. With the method of our work, it should not be too difficult to find | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that. You will observe the same law at work even in the animal world. A pet has | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| be something to shy away from. If this work is done in the right way, you will | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| yourself. This can only be done by hard work in the proper direction and by your utter | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| before you can set out to do the work. A person not knowing all these circumstances, just | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ebbs and flows. There are times when the work goes much better, and then it seems like | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| universal psychological law and as such it must work properly for everyone concerned. QUESTION: But since there | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not come to you. Then it would not work itself out against you. Then a positive and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| law of cause and effect is constantly at work and the individual himself or herself has set | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be doubtful. You know this from your personal work; it is no different in these universal trends | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| tries to superimpose the right way. This cannot work. If attempted, one will be driven by rebellion | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| also have to be done in your personal work. Let this lecture be a rough sketch of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| misleading. It can only be found by individual work. It could perhaps correspond to an overactivity in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| these cycles and the principles by which they work will be discovered in man. In order to | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| We cannot honor Him better than pursuing this work in which we all have the privilege to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Here we are taught that salvation comes through work, through self-search, through effort and through the finding | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of faith in salvation through another with our work on the path? And further, is this faith | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| coming of Christ exempted the individual from personal work and effort. Quite the contrary is true. It | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the inner deviations straighten themselves out through the work on the path. This comes always as an | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| command yourself to love, but in this in-depth work, you eventually learn and understand why you have | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it cannot be. You have to do the work yourself. QUESTION: You said that when the obstructions | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| real you will not desire harmful acts. This work will bring out the real person, hidden behind | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if it exists at all, would not really work, not in the long run. The only durable | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a major part of this portion of the work. At the same time, you will then be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mental, spiritual and psychological help as well. All work hand in hand. One level is interwoven and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| common sense to find the proper balance between work, spiritual unfoldment, rest and pleasure. You should all | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will not clear up unless you do the work of self-search and self-finding. The vague feeling of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| give you a renewed incentive for doing this work. If you discover that your inner will functions | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| strength that does not make you tense. This work is very important for you, my dear friends | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| to is lacking, you have to continue the work of self-search, of examining your motives and concepts | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| crucial and widespread. We shall probably have to work on this subject with each one of you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of your selfish actions. This part of the work is essential although sometimes a bit painful, for | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| act as before. In the course of this work you may discover that some of your actions | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| at the start is difficult. The necessary initial work is often harder than you may now think | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| before a certain point is reached in this work, you don't really know what is going on | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| this fault, is useless, senseless. It does not work. When you clearly see that, you will be | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| amends. To find these answers by the piecemeal work, the patience, the perseverance and the relaxed, continued | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you experience a few major liberations in this work that I show you, will you discover that | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to worry about. Whether you succeed in your work a little faster or slower makes no difference | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are often quite subtle. Such subtleties are at work when you are ashamed to ask for something | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| in your soul. In the course of your work it is necessary to find that part in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is a subtle thing. Only in your personal work can you feel whether or not this is | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| can see where this particular phase of the work will lead you. By finding and understanding how | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| evolve, to come out in the open. This work is not as easy as it may seem | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| this path. May this will of yours to work yourself through to real freedom bring you the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| they do more in order to complete the work of purification. It is to be hoped that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| It is to be hoped that then the work of purification will extend into several incarnations where | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the next incarnation. QUESTION: Would positive karma also work in this way? ANSWER: Yes, it would. It | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| if by itself as a result of the work that has been completed -- then they know | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| term, but also as a preface to the work to be done in the new working season | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| be gradually implanted in the psyche. Therefore our work until now dealt mainly with facing the repressed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of you believe that this part of the work is over. We will, however, add a new | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of his or her nature is by such work as we are doing, in the course of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the suppression of the negative aspects. In the work ahead we will approach this facet of your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your childish selfishness, and your various misconceptions. The work becomes a liberation only after full understanding, but | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| might also persist in this phase of the work. But on the whole, it will certainly be | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| mastery over your self, just as the psychological work does, from another side. If you are governed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| link up and connect is part of the work and is of utmost importance. I should like | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| with this summer in preparation for our later work together. Sit down twice a day for five | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |