| Causality...................9 | |
| or the natural result of the law of causality? ANSWER: Humans have been endowed with free will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. I don't understand if the law of causality is extended in some cases. ANSWER: No, not | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all. Free will works within the law of causality. QUESTION: But then one is not free... as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or the lack of them. The law of causality or of cause and effect does not exist | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that we are living in a world of causality where identical effects stem from identical causes? ANSWER | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| ANSWER: Of course this is a world of causality. As for the identical causes producing identical effects | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| accept that they live in a world of causality is not easy to understand. When you really | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| only freedom and strength, but also shows you causality in its true light. You then know that | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| You then know that the same law of causality must hold true also where you cannot know | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| Cause.......................633 | |
| contemplate them well. Understand that avoiding decisions will cause great harm, not only in spiritual, but also | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| hurt, I might be injured, the other could cause me pain. Fear of disappointment is a sign | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| I mentioned. Short-circuits can, along with other symptoms, cause indefinite longing and sadness, and anyone who is | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| it is in accordance with the law of cause and effect you yourselves have set in motion | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| life, the loss of earthly life means nothing. Cause and effect must work out according to law | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| restless despite its already accomplished spiritual work, the cause could be the avoidance of an unpleasant contact | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a person of lower development may be the cause of your unhappiness. The soul of a highly | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| not commit themselves to anything. This attitude can cause increasing fears. Another frequent factor in fear is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| do this may at first be difficult and cause resistance, because your feelings are not always willing | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| only one of the many obstacles that can cause people to fail. When, however, a person turns | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Karma is also the good; it means simply cause and effect. But in this case, it is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and certain explanations, better understand what circumstances can cause such an incarnation to happen. But there can | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| best, then -- you have to admit -- cause and effect must work accordingly, and it is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| has merited? ANSWER: I would describe it as cause and effect -- or as grace. It can | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| it can be the effect of a self-created cause through a particular way of life. QUESTION: When | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| The answer cannot always be found immediately. The cause of the disharmony is not always on the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| them, following this chain reaction backward. The immediate cause of the disharmony may be another person, either | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| it can only be the effect of a cause. Therefore you should find time to meditate as | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| fulfill your life and so contribute to the cause of peace. Complete this little task, my friends | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| However, a pleasant time passed in contentment may cause you great disquietude if during it the spiritual | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| achieved only by consciously accepting the laws of cause and effect and not trying to escape the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| it, and most important of all, find its cause within you, so as to eliminate it once | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to eliminate it once and for all. The cause can be found only on a path of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| knowing that the outer manifestation of the root cause cannot disappear immediately but has to be dissolved | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| In other words, advertising is not actually the cause of it, but it may encourage it. QUESTION | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| a while in that way without ever connecting cause and effect. The physically undernourished person will complain | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| this deficiency are seldom consciously connected with the cause of it all. Spiritual food does not come | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| happens, the answer must be within me: the cause of it as well as the solution. Pray | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| instance, an inner victory. For nothing happens without cause and effect. The perception of fragrance is already | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Whenever there is a so-called psychosomatic illness, the cause or the root of it has to be | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is only the effect, not the origin or cause. So everything must be created in the spirit | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| has experienced the truth of the law of cause and effect and of reincarnation, this point of | 18 FREE WILL |
| is the creation of free will working through cause and effect. Wherever your free will is hindered | 18 FREE WILL |
| man who invented Sputnik. I mean for a cause that may not be a good one. ANSWER | 18 FREE WILL |
| outer problems are only the effect of some cause which is hidden from you, but not so | 21 THE FALL |
| the greatest effort imaginable into his goal to cause Christ to fall. He used every device possible | 22 SALVATION |
| selfish. The majority of the people follow some cause, some idea, while in former times they had | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because ignorance does not alter the law of cause and effect. But what is absolutely true is | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will realize that there is never any cause for sadness. There is nothing that can ever | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the person who offended you. This may cause you inner resistance at first, but if you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that is not based on the law of cause and effect. By this I do not mean | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is still according to the law of cause and effect. And if you really and truly | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| filled with the desire to find out the cause in you. If you overcome the resistance against | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distortion in your soul which tends, perhaps, to cause sluggishness and takes the first opportunity to make | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| because it is based on the law of cause and effect which works quite naturally and impersonally | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the corresponding inner problem which is always the cause of the outer one. By the same token | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| could have on your surroundings. You not only cause harm through actual bad deeds, bad thoughts, and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| faults. You do not realize that your fears cause great harm, not only in your own life | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| kept to yourself without hearing good advice, will cause it to all of a sudden lose its | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| selfish or vain motive hidden under the good cause. Take the example of a person who is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| other expressions of evil. War is not the cause: it is only an effect. It would be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the laws of their society. Otherwise they might cause more hardship, not only to themselves, thereby becoming | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to war, he may in the long run cause more harm than good. With this I certainly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| this leads to self-despisal which is the true cause of inferiority complexes, no matter how well they | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| ready for. This, too, will hinder progress and cause a temporary setback. Here the entity's view does | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the following incarnation is revealed. The law of cause and effect--or the law of karma--does not necessarily | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the successive life. It often happens that a cause in one life will produce its effect perhaps | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| development, the faster the effect will follow the cause. Thus, you will perhaps understand a little better | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| love was more of a burden than a cause for happiness? Something within you knows that you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| which affect and interact with one another and cause a chain reaction. To break this vicious circle | 36 PRAYER |
| other so as to find the link of cause and effect within your circle. The whole circle | 36 PRAYER |
| overemphasizing the effect instead of going to the cause. People often do not bring into focus what | 36 PRAYER |
| your way. You will see there is no cause for disharmony. All misunderstandings and all hurts are | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| That is possible. This, too, is based on cause and effect as everything in the universe is | 38 IMAGES |
| too. Do not forget that the law of cause and effect or the law of karma specifies | 38 IMAGES |
| it will only hide in your soul and cause you more harm than the clear and courageous | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| only a reflection, a necessary effect of the cause you have within yourself that waits to be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| general conclusions have been drawn. These not only cause a chain reaction within your soul, but eventually | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| friends. QUESTION: You said several times that the cause of sickness is in ourselves. I am meditating | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| is always disease, spiritually speaking. The technicalities of cause and effect work the same way in karma | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| doing the necessary work, no matter what the cause. I can safely say that very few of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| desires and aims of your life, and thereby cause not only a painful discrepancy, but untold conflicts | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| as you all know, is nothing else but cause and effect. The same law works also within | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| own person the truth of the law of cause and effect clearly demonstrated. Thus you will know | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| built on the same principle as in the cause and effect of image-conclusions. Both draw events built | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| cases when the retribution, or effect of the cause set in motion, may be carried out in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the succeeding incarnation, but several lives lie between cause and effect. You must not forget, you all | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| is a matter of karma, a consequence of cause and effect. He chose this life and this | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| self-concern. Courage ascribes as much importance to a cause, to an issue, or to another person as | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| are distributed; on how the distribution works in cause and effect; on the way one current strengthens | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| want to do may be for a worthy cause, indeed, but do you really think one excludes | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| only what is contrary to the law of cause and effect. As you know, a human being | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| whole, amounts to. It is the law of cause and effect and embraces all universal and psychological | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a very common failing, it is a frequent cause of sickness. But there are also cases where | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| at the symptoms of evil, rather than the cause, because of their unconscious fear of the sharper | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| have caused it. You have to find the cause and find a different way to come out | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| your inferiority feelings, they are never the real cause. Others may indeed be more successful in one | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| against it, relaxing inwardly, and concentrating on the cause in you that brought it about. This requires | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the still-lingering emotional false concept. This would only cause suppression. On the other hand, you should not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| convinced that there is no injustice. Find the cause and effect of your inner and outer actions | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| see the connection of your own law of cause and effect. This alone will set you free | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| hardships from you. The realization of how you cause the effects of your life will dissolve either | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the misery the deviation inflicts. This misery will cause you to turn around at one point or | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| by now -- you will come to understand cause and effect in your life; you will come | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you are excluded. Only understanding the law of cause and effect can free you of this fallacious | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is not the negative experience that is the cause of your weakening, but your attitude to the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| -- lies in order to protect a higher cause or prevent hurts? ANSWER: My answer cannot and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| selfless motives -- another person's hurt, a higher cause or whatever -- or whether these valid motives | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| explore the deeper regions and dig out the cause. You will usually find that a lack of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of self-love in the right sense is the cause of your distorted self-love. When you do not | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| not being accepted and loved. All these attitudes cause self- contempt and feelings of inferiority. You always | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| attitude. This is the remedy. It will not cause you to cut off the good and healthy | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| contradict what I said before, namely that to cause any disadvantage to another cannot possibly be wise | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| This, incidentally, applies to everything, not merely homosexuality. Cause and effect in this life, regarding homosexuality, present | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| despises and fears his father, this, too, may cause homosexuality, because he wants to emulate and imitate | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| such artificial means, sought in ignorance, will eventually cause a complete stalemate of fulfillment. No matter how | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| sexual flatness may set in. This may then cause acting out of so-called perversions of all sorts | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is not free... as an effect of a cause. ANSWER: No. You set your own causes in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of them. The law of causality or of cause and effect does not exist as a force | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Besides, doing so would violate the law of cause and effect and free will. They must remain | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is too obviously against the natural law of cause and effect are they drawn into incarnations almost | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the law is part of the Great Cause. One works within the other, one never interferes | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or not, as in others. By finding the cause in your own erroneous actions and reactions, you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are blocked as long as you ignore the cause of your suffering that must lie within yourself | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true personality is in this respect, you may cause further harm to your self by suppressing its | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |