| Connects....................11 | |
| the lower self, it reaches out and automatically connects with the highest and most radiant spheres, even | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| investigated. Then one can see how it all connects. QUESTION: I read a book called Cosmic Consciousness | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| only understands this as a principle, but actually connects the links, he will no longer fear it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you gain an overview of how this process connects with your deep- rooted guilt for not loving | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Look for the shame, and how it also connects to certain pleasurable circumstances in childhood. Perhaps you | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| begin to fall into place when the ego connects with universal life. When I speak of letting | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| your search for your real self? This immediately connects with looking at the various layers of your | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| stems from childhood and personal traumatic experiences, or connects with the deeper human problem applying to all | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is a mechanism in the psyche that directly connects this displacement with the prohibition of pleasure. The | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being. The opening of the solar plexus channel connects you with the ongoing, ever-present truth and goodness | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| In the solar plexus is the center that connects you with the supreme wisdom about anything you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Connotation.................7 | |
| the word law has very often a wrong connotation for you. Most human beings, when they hear | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| here, for example, that fear has a negative connotation and stands for a destructive emotion. And then | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and false love always have the strong emotional connotation of need. True love and true faith come | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| love means to impoverish oneself. Loving acquires the connotation of self-sacrificing deprivation. If one does not suffer | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is tight, locked and bitter, with the added connotation of hopelessness. It is very different from the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| many people the word reincarnation has a similar connotation. It is against the teachings of both Judaism | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| others, but these imperfections will have a new connotation that will free you of hurt and shame | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Connotations................4 | |
| It is the broken awareness with all its connotations that is responsible. Thus you do not want | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| new. Often these words carry positive and negative connotations. It can be either way. Some people think | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| itself would not, could not, carry any negative connotations. The ancients, long before the birth of Jesus | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| spoke about tradition in its positive and negative connotations. I also spoke about certain movements within this | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Conquer.....................21 | |
| and you will need all your willpower to conquer the resistance. The longing for God and for | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| resolution to be in readiness; you must consciously conquer your resistance. Do not push it into unconsciousness | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| progress? Think about it. Is it not to conquer matter? Each technological achievement is nothing but an | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| they fail to recognize and therefore fail to conquer. For a medium the great temptation after having | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| by possessions. You can enjoy wealth when you conquer the temptation that money, more than anything else | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you are thus freed from the obligation to conquer your lower self, which is indeed not easy | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| ignorance and laziness. It hates to change and conquer itself; it has a very strong will that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| all its motives and drives, since you can conquer only that which you are fully aware of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| comparable to the one that comes when you conquer yourself, when you decide, I am no longer | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| way than those dark spirits. So when you conquer yourself, you are in fact a vital part | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you have to enlist your conscious willpower to conquer your lower self. Combined with your higher self | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| live with this truth and knowledge, you will conquer. Then you will meet your fear realistically, and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the principle is always the same: you cannot conquer any feeling as long as you are afraid | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the self-will. Treat it similarly. If you can conquer both self-will and pride in this particular connection | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and circumstances to succumb to your will, to conquer the reality in which everything cannot go according | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and certainly he gets impatient, and he can't conquer it in this life. ANSWER: The outer, physical | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love and be loved by everyone and to conquer them. For such a goal one needs to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in God. Only in this way can you conquer fear. QUESTION: It seems to me that the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| fear, and the best way to meet and conquer this enemy is first to ascertain, admit, and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and they make use of their powers to conquer it. The little entity has now discovered a | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| never allow the dark forces within you to conquer you, or make you believe that all is | 254 SURRENDER |
| Conquered...................4 | |
| learned to give up and after you have conquered your pride and self-will. Thank you. QUESTION: In | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| power is the absolute truth and cannot be conquered by destructive forces. But that does not mean | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| see it in yourself, and you will have conquered a great deal. Of course, these words are | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| anything foreign and different was feared, rejected, and conquered by force. In the New Age, differences will | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Conquering..................12 | |
| truth by observing yourself with all your faults, conquering all resistance. The spiritual laws can, and should | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| development back to God must always consist in conquering the difficulties one has originally created. QUESTION: Does | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| as well as the outer, by finding and conquering your inner blocks and hurdles, in short, everything | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| by outer means and without the price of conquering itself. And the basis for conquering the lower | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| price of conquering itself. And the basis for conquering the lower nature is self- knowledge, honesty toward | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of all chains only by knowing, facing, and conquering yourself. Observe yourself clinically. Then just note your | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| them anyway. But they are particularly keen on conquering people who love God, who seek God, so | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| I speak of accomplishment, I do mean the conquering of your lower self. Here is another thought | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| that the problems he has to solve in conquering mind and matter are beautiful. They are the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| beautiful things in your earth life. Only by conquering your own resistance and blindness, your lack of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| The three basic pseudo-solutions are simply means for conquering life on the dualistic plane to guarantee your | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| expansion manifests as negative aggression, as a hostile, conquering force that disregards others, it creates more separation | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Conquest....................3 | |
| religion in the postulate of overcoming, or the conquest of sex. This is also postulated in some | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Be in God! Lecture No. 75 82. THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| same with hate and with anger. QUESTION: The conquest of fear in Matthew is by way of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Conscience..................154 | |
| will upset him and give him a bad conscience. These feelings in turn will create a resistance | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| soul currents. You may act right because your conscience says that you must follow what you have | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a deep-seated unrest, would have an undefinable bad conscience. Why? Because happiness does not depend on outer | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| by guiding you to heed what you call conscience. Thus the higher self can influence you to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| do not mean the satisfaction of your surface conscience: that is not enough. But if you follow | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| securely in the self, accounting to his own conscience and to God, will examine each issue separately | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| from love! They not only suffer from bad conscience when the sex urge manifests, but they also | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| can avoid punishment. In this way a second conscience is being created. In reality only one conscience | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| conscience is being created. In reality only one conscience does exist: it is the higher self, which | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| human being's divine spark. Do not confuse this conscience with the second conscience that has been artificially | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Do not confuse this conscience with the second conscience that has been artificially created out of compulsion | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be atoned for by the artificial and over-demanding conscience; in reality no one needs to be punished | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you finally differentiate between these two kinds of conscience, you will have taken a great step forward | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| great step forward. The good and pure divine conscience is, of course, concerned with your progress, with | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| still so strong that their real and divine conscience has that effect, but perhaps it is leading | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you. On the other hand what your real conscience wants you to do may at first appear | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| deeply it is not so strange. Your divine conscience will never be at variance with divine ethics | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| As you hear the voice of your divine conscience, it will give you peace and freedom. Let | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in the same sense as your second, artificial conscience. For what lives in the individual always lives | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| grasp the meaning of the true and real conscience that will guide you right if you do | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| not let the voice of the second compulsive conscience overrule the real conscience. When your real conscience | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of the second compulsive conscience overrule the real conscience. When your real conscience speaks to you, you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| conscience overrule the real conscience. When your real conscience speaks to you, you will be liberated, my | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| rules. At one time your real and divine conscience may tell you to do what is unflattering | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| against your selfish desire may be your compulsive conscience is unjustified. At times the right way may | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be what both your real and your compulsive conscience are saying -- only the motives may be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| may be different. At other times, your real conscience directs you toward the very thing you desire | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| no courage to obey it because your compulsive conscience speaks too loudly. This voice says, I am | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it. But when the voice of your divine conscience speaks to you, you must feel liberated; you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| can penetrate to the voice of the divine conscience at all times and be conscious of it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| whipped by the slave driver of their compulsive conscience, which has come into existence by the chain | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| chain reactions I mentioned earlier. The compulsive second conscience makes demands that are impossible to fulfill. Each | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| dejected. With each failure to satisfy the compulsive conscience, you feel more strongly that you cannot avoid | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| even more than before you invented this second conscience. You say to yourself, If I am not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| So the price you pay for the second conscience is high -- so much higher than the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| not know that the standards of your compulsive conscience are irrational, unreal, and impossible to realize, and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| perfect. You may say, Does not the divine conscience wish this perfection too? Certainly it does. I | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that at times the divine and the compulsive conscience may strive for the same thing. In the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is achieved differs in each case. The divine conscience knows you cannot be perfect yet; it wants | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| are now without guilt and fear. The compulsive conscience does not know anything of the kind; it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| motives of these two voices vary. The divine conscience has time; it desires its ultimate goal for | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to become happy and be loved. The second conscience is motivated by weakness and fear. It bargains | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| live up to the standards of my compulsive conscience. Naturally, these thoughts are never reasoned out consciously | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| wisdom that guides you according to the divine conscience, according to your personal plan. When the divine | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in your inner and outer reactions, your divine conscience leads you inexorably in such a way as | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| eternal, which lives in you, containing the divine conscience I have spoken about tonight. It contains all | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that such a person has less of a conscience. The farther your development has progressed, the stronger | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| farther your development has progressed, the stronger your conscience becomes, and it registers wrong motives very accurately | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| it registers wrong motives very accurately. Thus the conscience puts prohibitive currents in the way of fulfillment | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| person of lesser development, this intervention of the conscience may be absent. In that case the wish-capacity | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to acknowledge that it exists in you. Your conscience neither allows you to act in accordance with | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| not perfect, I am worth nothing. The second conscience, as I once termed it, continues whipping and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| someone else. Hence, it is inevitable that your conscience bothers you every time you are happy, whether | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that in a person of lesser development the conscience may not be so strong or even be | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people of lower spiritual development, with a lesser conscience, are unhindered by scruples. Thereby the wish-capacity is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unfulfilled. The nagging, gnawing voice of your higher conscience urges you not to withdraw. But you cannot | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of pressuring yourself into a state of bad conscience, relax in the knowledge, I know where I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| utterly unaware of these things. QUESTION: If the conscience is the voice of the higher self speaking | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to us, how do you distinguish between this conscience and, say, guilt feelings? ANSWER: In a past | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a past lecture I discussed two kinds of conscience, but I will gladly answer you again since | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at the time, there are two kinds of conscience: the conscience of the higher self, and an | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time, there are two kinds of conscience: the conscience of the higher self, and an artificially constructed | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the higher self, and an artificially constructed, superimposed conscience which derives from the idealized self. The moralizing | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I discussed is a part of this latter conscience. Whenever you do not live up to the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself, it may appear as the voice of conscience. The only way you can distinguish between the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the voice of the higher self, the real conscience, then there will be no destructive hopelessness, despair | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the question regarding the two kinds of conscience, you should examine what you feel about this | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the world for these vague pangs of conscience. Take any of the aspects we have worked | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of the other; not merely to free your conscience, but because you actually experience the other's hurt | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| speak of people who seem to have no conscience. Compare them with people who are overloaded with | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Compare them with people who are overloaded with conscience. The latters conscience is bothered by the least | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| people who are overloaded with conscience. The latters conscience is bothered by the least and the most | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| come from the very same root. The too-troubled conscience substitutes for the inner lack of awareness, the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| appease, whether someone else or your own offended conscience, then it is healthy. But it might be | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| crude in their spirituality that they have no conscience, nothing will interfere with the bad motives, which | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| an apparently favorable effect. Only later, when the conscience has grown, will the retroactive guilt have an | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE LOWER SELF AND THE SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings for all of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| have called the lower self and the superimposed conscience. So often an expression or a term used | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Now what is the other? The concept of conscience is vastly misunderstood by humanity. Quite a few | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| I explained that people have two kinds of conscience: one emanating from the real self, the other | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to review briefly some characteristics of the superimposed conscience. When religious people speak about conscience, they think | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the superimposed conscience. When religious people speak about conscience, they think of the inner conscience, coming from | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| speak about conscience, they think of the inner conscience, coming from the divine center of the human | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| vast difference between the inner and the superimposed conscience. In their eagerness to make the human being | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of this pressure from the outside the superimposed conscience is strengthened and the inner, real conscience becomes | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| superimposed conscience is strengthened and the inner, real conscience becomes more covered up. Yet the superimposed conscience | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| conscience becomes more covered up. Yet the superimposed conscience is not necessary to prevent a person from | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| out primitive destructive instincts. For those whose inner conscience is not sufficiently developed to restrain them from | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| serve as well, or better, than the superimposed conscience. The latter only does harm. As explained before | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| first phase of this inner struggle the superimposed conscience hides the lower self, instead of bringing it | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| out of the infantile state. But the superimposed conscience hides also the most constructive and creative life-force | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| because you have too long used the superimposed conscience, instead of giving yourself the chance to finally | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| yourself the chance to finally contact the inner conscience which is part of the spiritual center. Last | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| she does so because of the harsh superimposed conscience which knows no mercy; which is inflexible in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Yet one never rebels against the real, inner conscience. Understand, my friends, that what stands between you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| distortions, your lower self, but also the superimposed conscience. It is the latter that creates so much | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| reaching freedom and truth. It is the superimposed conscience that induces you to reject yourself as a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| both these unrealities. You cling to the superimposed conscience in the false belief that it alone can | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| alienate yourself further by clinging to the superimposed conscience. You find yourself in one of those vicious | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| real self, one must cling to the superimposed conscience, obeying, conforming, appeasing, and blindly following it. Never | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| -- in other words by following the superimposed conscience -- and following the voice of your real | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| -- and following the voice of your real conscience in a spirit of freedom, derived out of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the same. If you rebel against the superimposed conscience, you are no more free than if you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you obey it. If you obey the superimposed conscience, and the result of such a decision is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and the world. If you obey your real conscience, you will take all the responsibility upon yourself | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your own standards. The fight between the superimposed conscience and the primitive, self-centered, destructive child is a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is noteworthy that you adhere to the superimposed conscience and do not accept your shortcomings or your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| or fear of, usually stands for the superimposed conscience, because one so desperately tries to win his | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| only social rules are incorporated in one's superimposed conscience, but also particular rules of the superimposed conscience | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| conscience, but also particular rules of the superimposed conscience of the parent in question. It may often | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the actuality. You cannot possibly recognize the superimposed conscience in its full significance unless you view it | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| whole picture will your struggle between your superimposed conscience and your actual and/or imagined lower self take | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| fight between your lower self and your superimposed conscience may be completely different from the fight of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| battle. You will liberate yourself from the false conscience and therefore become capable of hearing the voice | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| capable of hearing the voice of your real conscience. Are there any questions regarding this topic? QUESTION | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the superimposed standards and thus to the superimposed conscience. With it, you hope to appease, coerce and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| their deep inner self uninfluenced by the superimposed conscience, as being right for them, then it is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| still live under the yoke of the superimposed conscience which is supposed to make everything so easy | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| primitive little child in you and the superimposed conscience. If you were not engaged in this fight | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| have stricter standards than those of the superimposed conscience. The real self's standards are often more difficult | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| may lie in a different direction. The real conscience is very discerning about any kind of self-deception | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| tries to cheat life, often using the superimposed conscience and the ready-made rules as a shield against | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your inner brain, your inner will, your inner conscience. This occurs when you thoroughly explore and understand | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| consciousness that cover your real self, your real conscience, by using profound understanding and truthful evaluation, you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| guidance, wisdom, understanding and creative outlet. Your inner conscience conveys the truth without the burden of destructive | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| it too will learn to develop its inner conscience, its inner will, its inner thinking process. You | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| it in shame spurred on by a false conscience. This may happen in an ever so subtle | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| as if it were a duty demanded by conscience and obedience, the less does it truly manifest | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| how to take command. Now, you, with your conscience and your spirit, cannot take command consciously to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| deforms the character structure. Hence, the deep inner conscience feels undeserving of all good and cringes from | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to comply with the requirements of your innermost conscience, which can never be completely squelched. Last but | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| not only become isolated and distrustful, but your conscience cannot ever give you rest. Even if nonlove | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of your personality where you do love, your conscience will still not let you rest. This may | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| consequence is that the deep-seated self-regulating process of conscience says no to this endeavor and stops the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of difference whether one abides by standards of conscience in the free spirit of self-choice or acts | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| messages. Sometimes this is experienced as having a conscience. Less- developed individuals, whose real self is deeply | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| feelings. Primitive humans knew no inhibition and no conscience. They were too disconnected from their fellow creatures | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| would eventually produce more pain. Thus a social conscience developed from the instinct of self- preservation. But | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| preservation. But mere expedience dictates this kind of conscience. It is still far removed from the inner | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| uses others as a substitute for his own conscience or authority. The abdication of responsibility may happen | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to the real guilt but pressed by your conscience, produces an unjustified guilt to mask the real | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| in their manifest human personality, no pangs of conscience exist. A temporary negative unity exists instead. Cruelty | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| spirit has freed itself sufficiently to create a conscience will disunity manifest on the upward scale. Thus | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and goodwill is beautiful. Even your pangs of conscience, notwithstanding the misplaced guilt, spring from the best | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| best qualities, or if you are your over-severe conscience which annihilates you for your negative traits. Or | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| neither your negative traits nor your self-punishing superimposed conscience, nor even your positive traits. Even though you | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to ascribe your tensions, anxieties, discomforts, pressures, bad conscience, nagging discontent, to other matters. The fact remains | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| brutality and bestiality through their sexuality. Consciousness and conscience, the influx of the spirit, existed to a | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| not act upon it. Today there is a conscience in people that makes them quite aware when | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| evil traits, but who already has a developed conscience and therefore does not act out evil deeds | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| self or the other, and the conflicts of conscience that result are often quite severe. Needless to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| for a new inner sense of morality and conscience. The Christ consciousness that evolves within brings humanity | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| sufficiently united with his or her higher self. Conscience and integrity will be sufficiently strong so that | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| see others as imperfect to relieve your own conscience. In this new kind of perception the awareness | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |