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| wider being can manifest: not by escaping into cut-off spirituality, but by complete integration of the ego | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| well as false guilt for being dirty. The cut-off sexuality becomes therefore more and more permeated with | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| When you human beings only experience yourselves as cut-off, powerless egos, and when you consequently try to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| thought -- even the most mechanical, dead, sterile, cut-off thought -- that does not also contain feeling | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| commensurate with it. You must also differentiate between cut-off thought and abstract thought. Don't confuse them. Cut-off | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cut-off thought and abstract thought. Don't confuse them. Cut-off thought is a defense against feelings and undesirable | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| aware of it. The most mechanical, fragmented and cut-off thought breeds a series of energy chain reactions | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be emphasized enough in this context -- dry, cut-off knowledge must also contain feelings. The underlying feeling | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you with peace and joy. It is dry, cut-off knowledge. I am talking about a different kind | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| become a vibrant truth -- not just a cut-off intellectual understanding. You live and move and have | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| imagine it. The truth is that the dualistic, cut-off life is not raised, as it is often | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the divine will or the will of the cut-off, ignorant and destructive particle of consciousness. Be it | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
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| darkness of your confusion and error, and that cuts you off from the divine stream. You may | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| opposite type's. The reason-type, afraid of losing control, cuts out not only a major part of life's | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| darkness of your own confusion and error, which cuts you off from the divine stream. You may | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of your pathwork. When the distortion you discover cuts deeply into your soul and makes you hopeless | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is, half- consciously, deliberately cultivated and nursed. This cuts you off from the life-stream. The reason for | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| spontaneous manifestation, then it becomes wicked, or one cuts out the very feeling that makes up its | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to challenge one's tightly cherished convictions. Such challenge cuts out the negative self-perpetuation, the motor force that | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| does the depriving, but in reality that person cuts himself or herself off from the reality of | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| more of other people's behavior than necessary. It cuts off the vision of real life that exceeds | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| no recourse exists. Atheism is the movement that cuts off any sensibilities and sensitivities to the perception | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
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| or of mustering up courage, approaching the problem, cutting open the wound, and thus allowing the healing | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| sight what still exists. Therefore, any exercise of cutting out the mind by cutting out thoughts, emotions | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| any exercise of cutting out the mind by cutting out thoughts, emotions, or attitudes that are not | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is used as a force, superimposing and forcefully cutting out something. Even the word slayer suggests this | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it. This is the only way, my friends. Cutting out or slaying would be a shortcut, and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| evil and be reborn into your real self. Cutting out, forcing, disciplinary action, slaying, are all forms | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| others is by curbing your natural feelings, thereby cutting off the love current from within. Conversely, you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the following sequence: The misunderstanding causes the deliberate cutting off of naturally arising feelings; this in turn | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| fearfully watches over every stream of feeling, anxiously cutting out of the life stream that which it | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fears come into being as a result of cutting off from the real self and remaining in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| movement, a movement that is full of sharp, cutting edges which are pointed and hurtful. Both wanting | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| painful in every possible way. It can be cutting or scratching or itching or pinching -- many | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
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| are not conscious of it -- break the cycle of the living flow of energy which is | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| everything that is spiritual. And the moment the cycle is interrupted, it is also dead. Let us | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| of short duration. Only those who keep the cycle actively flowing by being constantly conscious of and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| state of development still keeps you in the cycle of reincarnation one cannot expect you to believe | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you as a wave in an eternally pulsating cycle. Of course, you have to start the cycle | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| cycle. Of course, you have to start the cycle by giving first and not waiting for the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| will history move in a living and positive cycle instead of the negative, which always extinguishes itself | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| here is that all entities must, in the cycle of their incarnations, prove themselves capable of standing | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| and the masculine continue all through the incarnational cycle? Does the androgynous union happen only in the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| who are no longer subject to the incarnational cycle are already in the highest spiritual spheres. They | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| but also how you affect it. A continuous cycle, whether vicious or benign, is set in motion | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| but where all factors pertaining to the entire cycle of existence of an individual are marked and | 18 FREE WILL |
| in his last life. The reason of the cycle of reincarnation is spiritual development and perfection, and | 18 FREE WILL |
| to each and everyone who goes through the cycle of incarnations, in other words, who is not | 21 THE FALL |
| QUESTION: It means putting yourself into the great cycle of love? ANSWER: Yes. QUESTION: I read in | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| impossible for a human being, still in the cycle of incarnations, to bring out the knowledge I | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| difficult. Up to a certain point in the cycle of the development of an individual being, decisions | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| For all who still find themselves in the cycle of incarnation, the time comes for rebirth on | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to the authority in charge of its whole cycle, who has arranged previous incarnations with the entity | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| also active there who are out of the cycle of incarnations, as well as some who have | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| hold on to, a clear picture of this cycle. The vicious circle consists of a multiplicity of | 36 PRAYER |
| as long as you are still in the cycle of incarnations and as long as you have | 38 IMAGES |
| incarnations or are they all out of the cycle of incarnations? ANSWER: It depends on the human | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| but who are not yet out of the cycle of incarnations. Someone who develops very fast and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| often -- not always -- out of the cycle of incarnations. QUESTION: I suppose that racial and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| images? ANSWER: Of course. QUESTION: So, in the cycle of incarnations, a soul goes through all kinds | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| an important phase in his or her whole cycle of incarnations. That this knowledge can be brought | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| sphere upwards. There are lower spheres before the cycle of incarnations begins, where matter is even denser | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| changes of sex occur less often in the cycle of incarnations. In cases where the change has | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| new momentum for the preparation of the new cycle. The static principle is essential to the rhythm | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| rhythm. Try to become aware of this ever-recurring cycle. The static principle in its negative aspect manifests | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the other. If you imagine it as a cycle, a circular motion, you will come closer to | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| with so many beings waiting to start the cycle of incarnations, and so many waiting to continue | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conditions prevail. More souls can begin their earth cycle and more souls can come back sooner, that | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time in the Spirit World. This is a cycle that will last for a while; then a | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will last for a while; then a new cycle may come when fewer beings will come to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| child has brought its entire life plan, its cycle of incarnations into this life. Everything is engraved | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will then be able to find his own cycle which works individually, rather than by set biological | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| This will be a very useful recognition. Man's cycle changes according to the individual. It might be | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| made for each individual separately. The man's individual cycle is thus similar in principle to a horoscope | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is like the closing of a circle or cycle. When you close a circle, it is a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the figure seven is the closing of a cycle. Then you go on, starting on the next | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Then you go on, starting on the next cycle. You all know, this path is like a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out that it is not so. The similar cycle happens to be on a deeper, or higher | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| come to the next stage in the ascending cycle, when you may become upset and restless again | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| peace at the next resting point, when this cycle closes again, provided your work on the path | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ones. Actually, the timing and length of each cycle is an eminently individual process. They not only | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but also vary with the same person. One cycle may be long, another short. There is no | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will understand that they are going through a cycle of favorable outer manifestations. But according to your | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| humanity and it would begin a whole new cycle of spiritual development for the individual in society | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| may be such a point. And when the cycle of incarnations is completed, then the degree of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| up to your free will. But when the cycle of incarnations is over and the soul is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of clarity. In the first half of this cycle, it is important to cultivate and develop intellect | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| will. But in the second half of this cycle, people have fully mastered this stage. They are | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| ready to enter the second half of the cycle, approaching the threshold of the state of being | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to discuss man's relationship to God in the cycle of development, in the various stages of this | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of development, in the various stages of this cycle that man goes through. In the last lecture | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| awareness, as the first stage in the great cycle. Primitive man, during his first few incarnations, is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you see. But generally speaking, this is the cycle that humanity goes through. Self-awareness must eventually lead | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| I mentioned as a phase in the great cycle. Their teachings were adapted to this still immature | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the second and third stages in this great cycle, a spirit will have to talk in such | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is determined by curves and cycles. If the cycle is stopped, growth is stopped and the person | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| be compared to streams. They move in a cycle in which inside and outside forces influence one | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| Only after having overcome negative involvements will the cycle of births into this sphere cease and human | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| both parents. The child, starting a new life cycle, contains its personal unresolved conflicts. Its duality is | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| years to come in order to complete the cycle. In what way can infancy and childhood be | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| as an individual. To begin establishing this benign cycle of interflowing movement between the masculine and the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| have more reason to trust, and a benign cycle is established. Moreover, it is necessary for the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and push away the other. And so the cycle goes on with human beings first erecting and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| positive movement, which then begets a positive self-perpetuating cycle. If you are not yet willing to do | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| on the dualistic plane move in a perpetual cycle of life and death, construction and destruction, of | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| rhythmic. They appear irregular and haphazard. The expansion cycle, for example, may be longer or shorter than | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| may be longer or shorter than the restricting cycle. Or one expansion cycle may last longer than | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| shorter than the restricting cycle. Or one expansion cycle may last longer than the next. Yet, according | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| meeting their inner fears are caught in this cycle. Encounter with their fears is the one thing | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| ego state, thus material life, and therefore the cycle of life and death. If a human being | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in which I am caught in a hostility cycle with my boss. At least on my part | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| balance. It is a constantly changing rhythm or cycle on each individual's path. Each step involves both | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| This error is only the beginning of a cycle of further errors, creating many chain reactions of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the circle is broken. In such a negative cycle, the vital glow of your energy and feelings | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| gradually. Eventually you will come out of the cycle where you constantly fear death because you court | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| feel somehow...well, it seems that in the cycle of life, abandonment plays a big role. You | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you cannot hope to come out of the cycle of false doom. The false doom must be | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| negativity is prevented from starting the self- perpetuating cycle. It is confronted right at the start. Crisis | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| difficult to alter the course. The ongoing negative cycle and its futile, automatic repetition that the consciousness | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| path of each entity. You remain in the cycle of death and rebirth, of pain and struggle | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| with increased frequency in order to transcend the cycle of suffering, so that you can enter into | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| so that you can enter into a new cycle of joy and peace. Every day you can | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you contract, the more you perpetuate the negative cycle. But not fighting must never mean giving in | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and over again you are entrapped in the cycle of reproducing the past in one way or | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| more waste material. After you terminate this life cycle, the conditions, circumstances, and environment of your next | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of memory is a byproduct of the life/death cycle in which everyone is caught who denies feeling | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| process of dimming memory. Thus you perpetuate the cycle of dying and being born, and this process | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| discontinuity of awareness, and with it the entire cycle of dying and being born, by living through | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| also an organic sequence, a completion of a cycle in which new material can be assimilated. This | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| point and go on from there, completing the cycle from wherever the starting point was. This explains | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the old ways of avoidance and prolong the cycle. But the day comes for every entity when | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| a wide open world and into a benign cycle of creative self-expression? All this must be clearly | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| humanity's plight. It is your task, in the cycle of incarnations, to reintegrate this split-off ego-consciousness and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this fragmentation, and that means anyone in the cycle of being born and dying, to enlarge their | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| within the framework of its own inner life cycle, the nuclear point must augment itself. The more | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| strongly your capacity for loving, in an ever-increasing cycle. This is why it is such a misconception | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| follow through with the decision to break the cycle there. The explosion or breaking point I mention | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| expresses itself and goes on in that same cycle. This requires an immensely intelligent plan that only | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| question. Collectively speaking, at different periods in the cycle of evolution, one or the other of these | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| than the uncommitted free-floating exchange of partners. The cycle had to move from involuntary monogamous commitment -- | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| animals in order to sustain the greater life cycle and to fulfill their function. In one sense | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |