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| Can I ask the following question: The general conception and teaching is that incarnations change from male | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| anything they please without causing any effect. This conception of free will is of course a gross | 18 FREE WILL |
| the spirit takes over at the time of conception. The movement in the womb is an automatic | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of density. It is only for your human conception that you think this is physical and then | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| made, the entity to be incarnated waits until conception has taken place. For the conception, astrological factors | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| waits until conception has taken place. For the conception, astrological factors are taken into consideration, as well | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| know very little or which you completely ignore. Conception by the future parents cannot happen unless it | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| it is the will of God. If a conception today is not to serve a definite purpose | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| extremely difficult to explain to you. The moment conception has taken place, the entity to be born | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| allow yourself to see. Thus you have no conception of his or her entire personality. You see | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the misunderstanding of the meaning of the immaculate conception, which refers to her unfallen nature. I often | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| was and is a pure spirit, but the conception took place like any other conception. God's laws | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| but the conception took place like any other conception. God's laws are perfect, regardless of whether humanity | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| a long tradition of misunderstanding, an often unpronounced conception that to be godly means to be unhappy | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| life span will extend way beyond your present conception. Very simply, when the whole personality is in | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Conceptions.................4 | |
| but in good faith. And ignorance and wrong conceptions of some of these points may seriously hinder | 21 THE FALL |
| stemming against them, and thereby mastering them. Human conceptions create a duality here, an either/or. You feel | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| transcends both. Time, space, and movement are limited conceptions of the human mind with its particular state | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and unconscious opinions and convictions are, by your conceptions, which determine your actions and reactions, by your | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
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| possible that there are so many different religious concepts on earth? You think, Everybody says something different | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| explain why there are differences in the human concepts and how they should be viewed -- and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| I exclude errors which have slipped into the concepts through faulty transmissions. As everything has form and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the difference between the Indian and the Western concepts about the continuity of life after death. Which | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| often make the mistake, by confusing the basic concepts, of believing that the ego is identical with | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| not matter so much unless they confuse the concepts. Now, what is temptation? Temptation is within you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| dimensions like above, below, right, or left are concepts that you can grasp in your earthly habitat | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to comprehend, but you have intuited that the concepts are related. When one says that the splitting | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is and sustains, consequently also dissolves itself. These concepts are extremely difficult for you human beings to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| because if I tried, you would lack the concepts and I the words. One side of the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| usual, inadequate; it is hard to force the concepts into your language, so infinitely hard. In order | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| through. Of course, we deal with such difficult concepts that it is not so easy to penetrate | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| words to describe it and you lack the concepts. Everything is created from rays, all is in | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| apparent contradiction cannot be squeezed into your verbal concepts, just as it is impossible for me to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| or rather in an extension of these two concepts. God has made perfect laws and given His | 38 IMAGES |
| image was created when the orderly world and concepts of the child were destroyed. The wrong conclusions | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| which do not violate your personal standards and concepts. To judge people harshly, as though all human | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| force creates spiritual life, spiritual ideas, and spiritual concepts and principles. On the lower planes, the pure | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| done to your own soul by harboring wrong concepts in your unconscious. You may discover your fear | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a change of consciousness, a change of inner concepts when your emotions really begin to be different | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| only extremely difficult to squeeze these very subtle concepts into human language, but also that it will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| shown you that various overall general subjects and concepts play a role in the human psyche. Therefore | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| work. It is this: Take all general ideas, concepts, and principles, and make a list of all | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| chain reaction point by point and create new concepts within your emotional self. Whatever rationalizations you use | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| do not correspond at all to your conscious concepts. The less the unconscious concept coincides with the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| personally. Is your soul impregnated with similar wrong concepts? If and when a growing human being becomes | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| concept. The personality may grapple between these two concepts, unconsciously trying to find out which is right | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is right, never winning the battle because both concepts are false. In every child's life both kinds | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the case. Realize that the hitherto suppressed wrong concepts and ideas have to evolve clearly into consciousness | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| wise to it. As I have said, some concepts are easy to formulate. They are obvious. It | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| concerned, you must differentiate between two kinds of concepts: those that are obvious if you think about | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| free of images, illusions, wrong conclusions and wrong concepts, the wrong deeds of others can never affect | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| seeking the remedy for past erroneous attitudes and concepts is an utterly constructive and strengthening activity. But | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in self-recognition, you become aware of the false concepts you harbor unconsciously. Each time such a false | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| yourself -- and you will be free. False concepts are always held on to in the mistaken | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| for the rest of his life. All wrong concepts are distortions and misunderstandings of the right concept | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of self-inflicted suffering due to errors and false concepts. This is very important for all of you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| have inner problems and imperfections, images and wrong concepts. They manifest at times very strongly. Those who | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| teaching, method or influence can encourage wrong inner concepts any longer. In other words, the more people | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| supposed to be active, a woman passive. These concepts and many more variations of them have existed | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| will from functioning. I am speaking about your concepts of selfishness and unselfishness. People very frequently think | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| work of self-search, of examining your motives and concepts in comparison with objective truth, until you arrive | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| You will then be able to re-form your concepts. In many therapies people become stuck at a | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| motives, and reactions; your inner, and often unconscious concepts; and, most important of all, your self- deception | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| correspond to this misconception, you can reconsider the concepts and form new ones according to truth. You | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| will find your self-betrayal. By finding the wrong concepts and then, little by little, adopting the right | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| and then, little by little, adopting the right concepts, you will cease to fear that love is | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| for the superimposed layers, created out of unreal concepts, cannot live in a world of reality. You | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| with many and long-standing images, wrong conclusions, false concepts, compulsions, and so on, which are all interwoven | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| are based on erroneous assumptions, can the truthful concepts be gradually implanted in the psyche. Therefore our | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| that you can change it all into true concepts, it feels certainly more painful than facing something | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| their significance. Thus you find the unconscious erroneous concepts that you have harbored so far. You then | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| -- that is, by seeing how untrue your concepts have been and perhaps still are -- you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| can never be gained by forcefully superimposing right concepts on childish, illusory fears that continue to fester | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| gain in stature, in certainty, in clear-cut, realistic concepts that you can rely upon deep within yourself | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to analyzing your emotions in order to change concepts that are not in accord with reality. This | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| into yourselves, proving again how contrary your unconscious concepts, attitudes, and ideas may be to your conscious | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of what love is, which parallels the general concepts of love, at least in outer appearance, taught | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| find it possible to truly apply the great concepts of universal truth about love in your practical | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| fear of the unknown makes humans distort true concepts into fixed opposites, thereby diminishing their truth. It | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| rearrange your former unconscious wishes, regrets, thoughts and concepts by aligning them to the reality of each | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to judge, to evaluate, to discriminate, to form concepts, to plan, to use your will, to use | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| reeducate the childish emotions by implanting your own concepts that you have arrived at independently, by thinking | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it is of utmost importance to make such concepts of life conscious. Some of you have succeeded | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| subjects, all separate. The separateness, fostered by intellectual concepts, is bound to divert the soul forces and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| knowledge and the understanding of your unconscious problems, concepts, and attitudes. Self- knowledge and self-acceptance are the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| deviations, as you begin to solve them, your concepts, outlook and values begin to change, subtly and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| are finally bound to reevaluate your thinking, your concepts, and thereby straighten out the existing confusion. Often | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| who are far away from such thinking, such concepts, such ideas, my words could not possibly be | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It helps you to avoid stagnation in your concepts. It avoids clinging to ready-made words which have | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| surface. The trained eye will discover where wrong concepts are in the process of forming, due to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be guided and taught to assume the right concepts. Such teachings will have to be conducted in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| invest your energies, your personality, your thought processes, concepts, ideas, and ideals into it, the more strength | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| arbitrariness of your emotions and how your unconscious concepts and ideas govern their origin and their aim | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| with their conscious right beliefs, while their unconscious concepts are still too far from awareness. QUESTION: What | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| other person. You will eventually come across other concepts which are confusing because they are split. If | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| shall be happy to clarify the confused, split concepts the way I have tonight. QUESTION: I always | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and not by badness, but by ignorance, distorted concepts, and shortsighted defenses -- once you truly see | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| well as how you experience others and yourself, concepts, ideas and convictions. It is here that you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| a very imperfect world? People's conscious or unconscious concepts of a joyful life are always connected with | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| unpleasant truth as harsh and unloving. Separation of concepts exists where imperfection and separateness of soul exist | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and separateness of soul exist. Unification of these concepts, when they all become one, comes as development | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of certain aspects in yourself, or about general concepts, but you are not conscious of their entire | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| The real answer can never be found in concepts, no matter how true. Such concepts may be | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| found in concepts, no matter how true. Such concepts may be helpful indicators to open the way | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your mental faculties is bound to suffer. Your concepts will remain immature and limited, even if you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| limits your thoughts, your range of emotions, your concepts and your creativity, your spiritual life, your ability | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the wrong, childish, untrue, and distorted reactions and concepts. The more you observe them, the better you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| their emotional deviations, understanding them and correcting false concepts, then they will see that irrational fear is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it and comparing it with reality and truthful concepts; as you go through this pathwork -- this | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| generous way, not by framing your own limited concepts either by wishing this particular success or that | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| thought and of will, by indoctrinating yourself with concepts -- in other words, by intellectual processes. This | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| only you could attribute lesser importance to the concepts than to what you really feel, you would | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not trust yourself to be without rules, laws, concepts, and ideals from outside. Without the knowledge of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not ready to dispense with the superimposed, intellectualized concepts, and thus look at yourself naked. No matter | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to the world what one person experienced. Such concepts as slaying lead further away from the real | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| now. Nor can you come to it by concepts you learn; philosophies and practices you observe; doctrines | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| It will not only transform your attitudes and concepts of God, but concepts also of yourself, or | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| transform your attitudes and concepts of God, but concepts also of yourself, or your place in life | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the way man prays, but also to certain concepts he clings to, in his conscious mind, while | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of set habit patterns; of clinging to old concepts and ideas that once gave you an experience | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| an eternal conflict in mankind, conflict in religious concepts. On the one hand, man postulates that God | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| prescribed rules. Between these two, apparently mutually exclusive concepts, man is confused. The question you asked is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| applies to everything, even to inanimate objects, to concepts and ideas. It applies to the circumstances of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| loved. Second, they have to find the distorted concepts and understand why they are distorted. Third, they | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| paralysis of their faculties, by false impressions and concepts, and even by the opposite of self-condemnation, namely | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| God. 110. HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Greetings, my dearest | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| have said so many times, so many true concepts, principles, or attitudes can be distorted and become | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and interpretation. As you know, in many religious concepts, the divine spark, or the higher self, is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the inner personality: the thinking, the feeling, the concepts, the potentials, the attitudes, the patterns, the characteristics | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| tensions arise. All truthful spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical concepts, ideas, or postulates have their practical application to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| this path. Then you no longer deal with concepts which you adopt or reject, which you agree | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is often partly justified, because your destructive, unrealistic concepts and attitudes prevent fulfillment in the now. But | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| pushing it back because you cling to false concepts without realizing it. Part of the work on | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a profound penetration, your personal attitudes, outlooks and concepts must be questioned, stated and restated. Your automatic | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |