| Circular....................7 | |
| eternal round, as everything spiritual must move in circular completeness. All creatures are in search of this | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| everything in the spirit is in continuous, ever-vibrating, circular motion. Nothing is static, neither feelings nor circumstances | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| If you imagine it as a cycle, a circular motion, you will come closer to the truth | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| and stagnation often seem similar, because both follow circular movements. Only a closer perception and deep penetration | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| justifying it. You indulge in compulsive, negative, hopelessly circular thinking, and your present consciousness cannot be fully | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is a continuous process. These chain reactions are circular. They are highly charged, and instead of diminishing | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| your spiral and find yourself on a deeper circular motion, leading to the treasure of your inner | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Circulation.................4 | |
| are going to perform. Over your heartbeat or circulation, however, you have no direct control. The same | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| In a similar way the heartbeat and the circulation can be regulated indirectly by using faculties you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| sheer outer will, a change in your blood circulation? If this effort would have any effect at | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| many means at their disposal for improving their circulation, but these must not be executed with the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Circumference...............6 | |
| with because they were dealing merely with the circumference of the problem, while as you proceed you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a tiny point of security within a narrow circumference is an abdication of your universal destiny. It | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| think in different ways, to expand its present circumference. This is its task. Without this you cannot | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| you frequently remain in a constricted and confined circumference to avoid the imagined danger of the unfamiliar | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| new becomes the familiar, and you expand your circumference; you expand the territory for your psychic at | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| to imagine expanding your space, transcending the narrow circumference that some of you feel content with, or | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Circumstance................13 | |
| will of God may be in any given circumstance. Apart from the willpower to make single decisions | 18 FREE WILL |
| an active pressure to change a condition or circumstance where acceptance should reign. Find out what this | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| something in you that contributed to the undesirable circumstance to begin with and be willing to find | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| when you came into this life, you draw circumstance toward you that will finally corner you and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| supposed to fill in a healthy way. This circumstance may be entirely unrecognized. You may feel only | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and whole, you are not dependent on outer circumstance. You can cope with the situation, and even | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| but you are sad due to an outer circumstance, knowing it is going to pass. There is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| no shifting of emotions. In depression the outer circumstance may be the same, but your feelings of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| outer occurrence. Although you cannot change the outer circumstance, you can change something within yourself, if you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| feeling of sadness it is because the outer circumstance is not the real or entire reason that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| wanting to know the truth of this particular circumstance and its causes. Then you need to quietly | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| this now -- that no matter what external circumstance seems to be the cause of your unhappiness | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| valid about one and the same situation, condition, circumstance. By knowing this, you will beware of quick | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Circumstances...............329 | |
| try to reproduce this remembered feeling, but in circumstances which are no longer the same; when the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| circular motion. Nothing is static, neither feelings nor circumstances, nothing at all. Imagine a wheel, unchangeable in | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| prove themselves capable of standing fast under any circumstances. QUESTION: I perceive a great conflict in what | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| away what creates uneasiness, or blaming others and circumstances to avoid the necessity to seek the wrong | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| always be under divine protection, regardless of external circumstances. Of course, a medium should not refuse help | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| ascribe their unhappiness to all kinds of external circumstances and conjecture about every kind of possibility except | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| through examples and certain explanations, better understand what circumstances can cause such an incarnation to happen. But | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Why? Because happiness does not depend on outer circumstances or other people, no matter how convinced the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| created first on the outer level because outer circumstances, which are not necessarily brought about by them | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the injustice of destiny and higher powers, or circumstances brought about by other people, than it is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| are prepared to accept the truth under any circumstances, even if you should hear what you least | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| capable of ascertaining and planning the most advantageous circumstances and conditions for the next life on earth | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the higher self, as well as various other circumstances, also influence the outer manifestation, intensity, degree, and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| lives. The country is rarely important, but other circumstances are important. Whenever truth pervades you about a | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| consciously or unconsciously -- blame some fate or circumstances or other people for what has happened to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to you in the next, even though your circumstances may be different; you may live in a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| However, I will do my best under the circumstances. At this time, I would like to stress | 18 FREE WILL |
| and their power over you or over your circumstances. The only happiness that is durable and cannot | 18 FREE WILL |
| place during this incarnation or, due to certain circumstances, afterwards. The ground has to be prepared, and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| sent as scouts to consider all the relevant circumstances pertaining to the individuals in question. If it | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| wish to get out of the self-created miserable circumstances. Since life in spirit is in direct relationship | 21 THE FALL |
| possessing the power of free choice. Conditions and circumstances on this earth sphere are different, of course | 21 THE FALL |
| to the new form of matter; but then, circumstances vary in all spheres. Long before the fallen | 21 THE FALL |
| Anyone who wants to judge must, under all circumstances, take the trouble to study the vast subject | 22 SALVATION |
| and He did it under infinitely more difficult circumstances than anyone else ever had to bear. So | 22 SALVATION |
| To remain on the right path under these circumstances without fully understanding it -- my friends, you | 22 SALVATION |
| again, many incarnations, accompanied by changing conditions and circumstances, are necessary. Even in this secondary phase, many | 22 SALVATION |
| earth sphere, with its degree of density and circumstances arising from it, are certainly more difficult. But | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that he would, by a conglomeration of many circumstances that all play into the divine laws, be | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God makes the plan according to the given circumstances, always within the framework of the law. But | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this may account for his mistakes, although other circumstances may also play a role in that, such | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| directions, the plan is modified accordingly, fitting the circumstances exactly. All the alternatives are prepared beforehand. Nostradamus | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as in the beyond, but these are particular circumstances that warrant these measures. Yet as a rule | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that one cannot see them? ANSWER: In ordinary circumstances, unless special measures are taken, as I said | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time than is reasonable according to your life circumstances. All of you without exception are capable, with | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you are still willing to continue under these circumstances, you will be tested for it. And if | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| all the instances in which you cannot change circumstances or other people. People are inclined to revolt | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the actions and attitudes of other people and circumstances outside your control. Accept these really and truly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| for each desired gratification, does not alter the circumstances in the least. In your unwillingness to pay | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is you who must change, not others or circumstances. However, you can even control circumstances and other | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| others or circumstances. However, you can even control circumstances and other people the moment you start allowing | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| judged individually, and the judgement comprises also the circumstances and the environment in which he or she | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| direction. It might also be that in certain circumstances your will is counteracted by unconscious conflicting desires | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| there must not be clear remembering unless the circumstances are exceptional. This may happen too. QUESTION: In | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the duty, to make personal decisions about the circumstances of the following incarnation. Depending on the character | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| tasks in each life depend on many, many circumstances. As I mentioned before, each being in existence | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| nationality, religion into which to be born, life circumstances, certain phases in life that are called fated | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| on in a later incarnation if the first circumstances considered had turned out as expected. When the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| inactive, and may only emerge depending on certain circumstances and on whether or not the person is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| for these parents would not fit into those circumstances any more. This may be because, if their | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in the last moment. And the time and circumstances of death can also be changed. As I | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| life, on his or her character; on many circumstances. One cannot make a rule. QUESTION: But to | 36 PRAYER |
| They do not give in accordance with changing circumstances. Thus, they create disorder. The pure currents flowing | 38 IMAGES |
| the basis on which families and other life circumstances are chosen. When an image carries over from | 38 IMAGES |
| of looking away. If the image is ignored, circumstances will be much more difficult in the following | 38 IMAGES |
| chance to solve their problems in the easiest circumstances possible. When not enough courage and willpower are | 38 IMAGES |
| enough courage and willpower are mustered in easy circumstances, the life that follows must necessarily be a | 38 IMAGES |
| latter may be. Your images draw you into circumstances that correspond to them; they draw the people | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to them; they draw the people and the circumstances to you. Therefore, it should not be too | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that very few of my friends have karmic circumstances that cannot be changed. Here is a room | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| opposite extreme will follow. In the next incarnation circumstances will be chosen in such a way that | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| many people you know in your present life circumstances, as well as in the past. Think how | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| be as far as other people and outer circumstances are concerned. Ask yourself, what might be the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and thoughts are potent magnetic fields, they attract circumstances that correspond to the inner conflicts. And you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| prevent such influence. This depends on so many circumstances that they cannot be enumerated here. But it | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Otherwise, if certain other character traits and outer circumstances combine, their rebellion will be dimmed to a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| will choose the right way and the right circumstances where no abuse is ever possible, where the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not noticeable by others or manifest in changed circumstances. The first manifestation must always be that you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| crises and breakdowns. It is never the outer circumstances that lead to them, but your wrong attitude | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| to them, but your wrong attitude in such circumstances. In reality a breakdown is a childish temper | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| much. I will be well again if the circumstances I abhor change to my liking. This, my | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| hidden hope that this will change people and circumstances. And when you come back to the earth | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is not the issue here. But under no circumstances do you eliminate possibly wrong desires by conforming | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| around you had prevailed, or if your life circumstances were different? This self-questioning is healthy because it | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| from the reaction of a child in certain circumstances. If the child's favorite doll is broken, it | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that you are not ever a prey to circumstances and other people's imperfections, but really the master | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and are afraid of being the prey of circumstances over which you have no control, or whether | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| when something that may be true in some circumstances is misapplied in others, distorted and rigidly set | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| fault, how much I became the victim of circumstances over which I have no control. I want | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| trends. Out of all these have arisen the circumstances in this life and also in previous lives | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| What does that mean? That you have produced circumstances in your life, in your former incarnations as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| highest unfoldment is: I am independent of outer circumstances, regardless of what they are. I can be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| they are. I can be happy under any circumstances, because even the disadvantageous or unpleasant events will | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| may be emotional. And also, if others or circumstances prevent you from doing or getting what you | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may be quite healthy, at least in some circumstances. The wish may be due to unhappiness, to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or may not leave home, depending on the circumstances, but one will try to find the inner | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Salvation that humans are bound to create negative circumstances by their limited view. But the very result | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| result of this limited view -- the negative circumstances -- are most instrumental in waking you to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make the out-picturing of it and the unfortunate circumstances you may have to go through as a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the work. A person not knowing all these circumstances, just seeing a building being torn down, may | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at all that way. Souls incarnated into these circumstances are, for the most part, spirits who find | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not say that communication is inadvisable in all circumstances, especially if it is approached with the attitude | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being hurt and disappointed than by the parental circumstances disclosed here. It is important to recognize this | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| basic conflict exists in every individual. Certain particular circumstances also play a role and determine the intensity | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| intellect forms correctly as applied to the temporary circumstances of certain conditions in this life on the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| gained will always be yours, regardless of the circumstances of you life. I bless all of you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| creates one's own fate may, due to certain circumstances and conditions whose true origins the person ignores | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| regard yourself as lost, helpless, a prey to circumstances beyond your control, you grasp for chance and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| may be smooth and carry you into lucky circumstances. You say, There is nothing I can do | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| it could not be. This was due to circumstances you may ignore and not because the message | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the same talent because in all other respects circumstances fit perfectly, so that this spirit can best | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the plan determines the parents, the country and circumstances into which the spirit is born, and which | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| all of you, at least occasionally. Under certain circumstances your real being could express and manifest, unhampered | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| pushing ahead, trying to force life, people, and circumstances to succumb to your will, to conquer the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| or an unhappiness, no matter how much outer circumstances lend themselves to explain it, an inner wrong | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and will continue to be known, if certain circumstances prevail. In your time and age it is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| As a child, regardless of what your particular circumstances were, you were indoctrinated with admonitions on the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| has been built that, as long as life's circumstances permit, this person is convinced of having attained | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in one situation and another trend in different circumstances. QUESTION: You have shown us how the distortion | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| real self of the other person. Under no circumstances are you a prey to distorted forms of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| all levels of being. When, due to life circumstances on the one hand, and to personal limitations | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| outer pseudo-calm, which is so easily disturbed by circumstances outside your control, you will find a vast | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| life that have not be resolved. Your life circumstances and environment have been chosen -- perhaps by | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| unconscious, even though we may not know the circumstances of the birth? ANSWER: Your unconscious knows everything | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| particular problem with the ensuing difficulties. However, if circumstances occur that remove the difficulty, such as ignorance | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the person is unaware of their existence. Unhappy circumstances exist in every child's life; pain and disappointment | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| must increasingly crave for makes you blame others, circumstances, the fates, or bad luck, instead of seeing | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a result, we would stop reacting emotionally to circumstances and situations around us, sublimating them into the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| They vary according to personality, background, early teachings, circumstances, and temperament. What one person may consider wrong | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in the manner most appropriate under the particular circumstances. It will enable you to make a choice | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your free and spontaneous reactions will produce favorable circumstances for you, so that you will be liked | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that your dependency often hinges on completely illusory circumstances. So you battle against something that does not | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| be that you ascribe less power to outside circumstances than you did before. You will feel less | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| inherent powers onto life and fate and unalterable circumstances. Then you helplessly await fate's favor, and if | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you truly feel yourself victimized, a prey to circumstances. Then observe how you feel frustrated when expressing | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |