| Carriers....................4 | |
| you can become more fully active as the carriers of this new, bright culture. The new person | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| can be, and many of you will be, carriers, in one form or another, of new truths | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| nothing to mourn. You, my friends, who are carriers and instruments in this important historical time at | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| self-purification, thus spreading this great light and being carriers of the Christ. The love that envelops the | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Cast........................14 | |
| and perhaps mean the maximum of achievement to cast off a particular fault, to set something right | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| easy to deceive yourself. Then you have to cast them off or revise them. This work is | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| hatred and prejudice, war and greed would be cast off and gradually dissolve. Divine creation, however, can | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| personality, many faults to become aware of and cast off, and many things to learn. All this | 18 FREE WILL |
| a method to recollect instructions would limit, would cast aside, what should be accomplished inwardly. This would | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and through the finding of images to be cast off. Today, a man who calls himself a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| choose to disclose all previous self-deceptions. It can cast off all the illusions nurtured about the self | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| sounds truly preposterous and they may at first cast such an idea completely aside. However, I say | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| your further intensified transformation work. You do not cast out any devils. That is a misunderstanding of | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| of certain religious orientations. When the devils are cast out, you do not perform the task of | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| those aspects to rule you, nor do you cast them out and separate yourself from them. Instead | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| your godself? If you do not have to cast it out, you will not be so resistant | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| yourself being selfish and you believe you must cast out the selfishness, it will be impossible for | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| can you begin to see this assumption and cast doubt on your self-doubt. In that way you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Casts.......................3 | |
| So here is a contradiction. Actually, nuclear physics casts a light on the contradiction that reveals that | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| death, since it is this particular fear that casts such a shadow into everyone's life. If you | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| your life which seems difficult to resolve, that casts a shadow over your joyousness, this approach can | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Casual......................5 | |
| behind the emotions you register in the most casual incidents of your life? What is the emotion | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to love. On the other hand, a more casual relationship has less of a chance to bring | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in such a case, not even one of casual friendship. Mature men and women will have understanding | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| infinitely more ecstatic than the power of any casual fusion could ever be. It is so powerful | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| will become very different. Sex will never be casual or haphazard; you will consider it a holy | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Catastrophe.................16 | |
| ago, when the world was destroyed in a catastrophe. Is this true? ANSWER: Yes, it is true | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| danger would be much greater than any earthly catastrophe can ever be. Compared to the loss of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| impossible to avoid spiritual destruction except by material catastrophe. History often demonstrates this. Only when spiritual development | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| infallibility? ANSWER: Absolutely. INTERJECTION: The reason for each catastrophe is that again the law be fulfilled. ANSWER | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| contribute to precipitate a war or another mass catastrophe. Only when you purify yourself from within, cleanse | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| insistent on some outer event to prevent the catastrophe which, as he mistakenly believes, will overtake him | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| If a disagreeable occurrence is made into a catastrophe -- often only in one's emotional reactions, which | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| defenses, hopelessness, unrecognized and mischannelled anger, a mass catastrophe will include you because this is the image | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| being sad is catastrophic and that, if this catastrophe befalls you, you must perish. This unspoken, unarticulated | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| everyone. If I am not, it is a catastrophe. The self then talks itself into believing this | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| conditions arise in your environment. The belief in catastrophe is rarely thought about in such clear-cut terms | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| make it impossible for you to believe in catastrophe quite as much any longer. The difficulty is | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| that your understanding of your reaction that equates catastrophe with the unfulfillment of your demand to be | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| will not act as if it were a catastrophe. Perhaps it is not a catastrophe, perhaps something | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| were a catastrophe. Perhaps it is not a catastrophe, perhaps something good can come from it. That | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| this phenomenon. Whenever there was war and world catastrophe, the entity earth was ready to take a | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Catastrophic................3 | |
| reaction that what comes forth is devastating and catastrophic. The panicky attitude toward one's own unfolding destructive | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the misconception in you that being sad is catastrophic and that, if this catastrophe befalls you, you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| gratification of selfwill and pride seems indeed a catastrophic fact of life. No matter how mature you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Catches.....................4 | |
| your inner picture. This other side very gradually catches up, as it were, with the side that | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| so elusive they almost seem non-existent, until one catches them and looks them squarely in the face | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Rather, the ever-growing fullness of the spreading spark catches up with the aspect that has moved ahead | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| in which a hidden corner of your soul catches up with the rest of you. You have | 254 SURRENDER |
| Catching....................3 | |
| ashamed, and apply your conscious knowledge to them, catching yourself whenever you fall back into old, bad | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| fully to whatever you do. This activity of catching one's little hidden dishonesties is the kind of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and nurturing to grasping, grabbing, stealing, holding tight, catching, and taking without letting go. These principles manifest | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Category....................61 | |
| no coincidence that more people from this latter category come at the beginning stages of your community | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| same time, people who fall into the above category and approach you at the beginning of such | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| great prophets and so-called saints belonged in this category. Not only did they bring wisdom, love and | 22 SALVATION |
| perhaps some of you fall into the same category -- who have a very strong inclination toward | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| physical and then you imagine just one other category -- the spiritual. But this is wrong. There | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| did not have. However, there is also another category, and it will be important to look at | 31 SHAME |
| whether you may not perhaps belong in this category. All of you who hear or read these | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| raised, you will come to discern in which category among your fellow-creatures you belong. As you can | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| defensive measures. This behavior falls into the same category as blindly idealizing the person in whose love | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| toward achieving a proper balance. In the third category is the will-type who is altogether different. Will | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| valuable if used properly. Most people in this category have a vulnerable point somewhere in their soul | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| as the openly rebellious reactions. In the other category are those who at one time have turned | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| apparent safety leads the extreme type in this category to become a strict law-upholder -- not necessarily | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| but intuitively. Now, as far as the other category is concerned, if you find out that you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| would call hypocrisy. Many people fall into this category. This type of behavior is so crass and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| misunderstanding exists here: you realize that the first category, the most primitive form of hypocrisy, is distasteful | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| drastic. Let us establish what belongs in the category of the forces of darkness or evil. It | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and untouchable would all fall into the same category of subtle matter. Actually it is not so | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| manifestation and phenomenology; it belongs more into the category of a psychic phenomenon. In this category belong | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the category of a psychic phenomenon. In this category belong materialization, transfiguration, direct voice, and aural transfiguration | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| direct and stronger type of mediumship, in the category of psychic phenomena wherein a much coarser force | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I list just a few aspects in each category. You can surely enlarge on it. In its | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| majority of my friends fall into the latter category. With some people the means might be a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| serve the same end. There is even a category of people who use misfortune as a means | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| in need may be in an altogether different category. Entirely different currents and reactions may bring them | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If these do not belong in the first category, they are completely without significance. Your mind has | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| thinking. There are a few subdivisions in this category. You may reexperience a conversation, going over how | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| can be had. Many people belong to this category, and not only those who belong to a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this can be done. People in the other category say that ritual means nothing, and to some | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| freely and independently than people of the other category. Ritual in itself has nothing to do with | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which could really be genuine. In the second category is the seeker for power. This person thinks | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| asked this question would fall into the same category as the friend who asked the last question | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| what seemed to you a protection. In this category belong the attitudes of submissiveness, aggressiveness, and withdrawal | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| receiving admiration -- which all fall under the category of approval -- you are bound to pursue | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to be a natural, organic process. The second category of wishful daydreaming is emotional and comes from | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| lie, or harmful rumor. This falls under the category of realistic defense, which can be adequately handled | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| state of becoming, in awareness. But within this category, there are many different stages and degrees. Let | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| feel. Both thought and willpower belong in the category of becoming, but are often used wrongly, in | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| readiness to do so. People belonging in this category love not only abstractly and generally, but they | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| submitting. Those of you who belong in this category deny the best in you for the sake | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| remedy for those who belong predominantly in this category is threefold. First they need to face their | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| for one's profession can also fall into this category. Love for abstract ideas evades personal involvement with | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the love for God would fall under the category of love for abstract ideas and principles. You | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an idea or ideal, it falls under the category of love for abstract ideas or principles and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more obvious. You belong undoubtedly to the latter category. This is a two-edged thing because -- due | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| self-rejection falls into either one or the other category. The first kind of self-rejection is based on | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| falling into the former, another into the latter category. Each individual will be in different inner places | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the mind with would-be situations belongs to this category. So do day-dreaming, playful thoughts of conversations as | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| reality regarding the spiritual self, belong in the category of pride; they are tricks of the ego | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ego's trick is to remain isolated. Under the category of fear belong all worries, anxieties, and apprehensions | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the striving for fulfillment that falls under the category of letting go wrong? These questions are important | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| war, often, though not always, fall into this category. Nothing can be generalized. But when death occurs | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| plants, minerals, and inanimate matter fall under this category. I wanted to show that nothing exists that | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| infinitely more connected understanding of life. The second category, making connections between inner aspects -- problematic aspects | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| indeed be gullible. That would fit into the category of the wrong and distorted version of faith | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| your own way. They are in a different category from the laws that hold life together. Yet | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| world, and let us classify it in one category as monarchy and feudalism. What are the divine | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of all things. But so is the second category which I wish to discuss, a part of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Let us take socialism and communism as one category. What is the divine expression and meaning in | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| manifestations of nature's cruelty fall into a different category. For example, one species may depend on another | 254 SURRENDER |
| of evil, and those that fall into the category I just described. The distinction is not always | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |