| Dared.......................5 | |
| despair of helplessness and insecurity you had never dared to face. So by struggling to repress your | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| uncertainty. You must raise questions you have never dared to face. You must bring out exactly what | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| freedom fearlessly after discovering that you had not dared to do so before. It is important, in | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| feel the sweetness and fullness of life, but dared to do so only in fantasy. It lacks | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| deep feelings that you have perhaps never before dared to experience or accept, and you learned how | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Daring......................14 | |
| opinions. Another motive for conforming and therefore not daring to seek one's own opinions is in the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| struggles to get both safety and pleasure without daring to risk, without coming out of its shell | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the submissive attitude demands; the false guilt of daring to rebel and to hate whatever contradicts the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reactions derive from clinging to illusion and not daring to see what actually is. For example if | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| not originally, you will finally become capable of daring to react unconditionally, originally, and thus produce primary | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| or hopelessness about them, which comes from not daring to leave one's isolation and separateness, may paralyze | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| realization of this core problem in you. Not daring to love may apply only to certain areas | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| wrongs committed. You can inflict pain by not daring to give your best, be it due to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| The procedure is simple, provided you take the daring step to own up to your unreasonable feelings | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| on your decency, while you are merely not daring to defy the world and the rules which | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| dramatization, and pretense with yourself and others, not daring to be your real self as you happen | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| front of this abyss, holding on and not daring to jump. The individual is very, very miserable | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| is supposed to be intelligent without ever even daring to let their divine selves inspire them! These | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| trying to cover one hole after another, never daring to trust that real wealth can be reestablished | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Dark........................114 | |
| the plaything of the forces of darkness. The dark world takes its material from these currents, from | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| behave when such tests come along, for the dark forces know only too well how to make | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| deal with it. In order to part the dark clouds and see the truth it is important | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to the tangle of threads, woven by the dark forces; and often one person contributes especially much | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| decisions. You have to learn to pierce the dark cloud which obscures the truth and creates confusion | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the magnificence of creation, and see how the dark forces must ultimately play into God's hands. I | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| greatest. Thus, the lower he sinks in the dark spheres, the higher he actually rises. The farther | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| so to speak, from the divine and the dark forces. You have to stand your ground alone | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| then, when you have withstood the test, the dark forces will be periodically allowed to get quite | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and I am not even talking about the dark ones -- who would gladly give you instructions | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| directly, Lucifer indirectly. For the aim of the dark powers is to turn all beings away from | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| forgive them, then you are liberated from a dark spiritual form in you, which attracts harmful energies | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| form in you, which attracts harmful energies and dark influences. Think what these words contain: God should | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| which you can be led into temptation. The dark forces serve as instruments to draw it out | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| ugly color, my dear friends. It is not dark, black, or sinister as are the trends of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| gets more and more involved with the respective dark spirits, with the world of darkness altogether. You | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| through them can you be tempted by the dark spirits -- do you know what happens? The | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| spirits -- do you know what happens? The dark spirit will rise higher in its development; it | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in a much more direct way than those dark spirits. So when you conquer yourself, you are | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the world of the fallen spirits has become dark and ugly. Since the great plan was put | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| created new worlds according to their changing attitudes, dark worlds often referred to as Hell. The attitudes | 21 THE FALL |
| between the material and the Luciferic worlds. The dark spirits claimed to be gods and to favor | 21 THE FALL |
| is he without great resources in his own dark powers. On the one side Christ experienced nothing | 22 SALVATION |
| partly, let us say, medium spheres, but not dark spheres anymore. At that time, this ability to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And once entangled only a little with the dark powers, he could never muster the strength anymore | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that he did not come from such a dark sphere as Hitler. But on the other hand | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one type of person will have some very dark spheres as their homes, but several spheres of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Reality is not only hard and difficult and dark, but is also more beautiful than anything else | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| self. Whether the lower self still contains such dark trends in a younger spirit, or whether the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| apart from God. It surrounds you with a dark wall behind which you must be unhappy, quite | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| yourself will you be able to overcome the dark walls that stand in the way between you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| life's adversities does not mean to take a dark view of everything. The true and right course | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| also find your own inner causes for the dark hours. Apart from all hardships there are certain | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| dear friends enter this threshold and leave the dark tunnel behind. Joyful blessings of love envelop and | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| as well as with his deeds is a dark and dismal one. Afterward, an incarnation is waiting | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you have taken is wrong and bitter and dark. Therefore you will have the incentive to turn | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of this knowledge? Your soul was in a dark night of unbelief and doubt. Deceiving yourself about | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| experienced. The great mystics designate it as the dark night of the soul. The saying you just | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| feeling this way because I grope in the dark, and I, as a human being, often grope | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| as a human being, often grope in the dark. I do not know many answers. I do | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you can own up to groping in the dark, you might be able to pinpoint in your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| as you are puzzled and grope in the dark about what effect you have on others and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in what respect you are still in the dark and therefore need further insight; and in what | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and depression. But the more you master the dark phases by the will to understand their inner | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the phenomenon. It will be as though a dark curtain fell away from you. Misunderstandings, hurts, fears | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| no-current, that has a deeply hopeless, doubting, destructive, dark, negative outlook, into the yes-current with its promise | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| clues and enlightenment wherever you struggle in the dark. The human struggle is a continuous striving toward | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| there is no necessity for groping in the dark, fearfully half-trusting, half- distrusting, thrown between one's needs | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| areas of your personality are still in the dark regions of conflict, error, separation, doubt, ignorance and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| B ventures out while A is in a dark hole. Now, this goes on and on, sometimes | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| never questioned, since all is kept in the dark of vagueness and easy rationalization. This is why | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| never enter into the closed chambers of your dark, dismal misconceptions about life and your own innermost | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| you practically forced to ascribe your unhappiness to dark powers that seem to have nothing to do | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Your state of consciousness remains fixed in this dark imprisonment as long as you know nothing else | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| became fragmented. How did he turn into those dark, destructive channels? Any such account, given here or | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| short, selfwill, pride, and fear -- create a dark climate and dissension in the soul. They make | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| unending possibility for blissful expansion -- and the dark, constricted, hopeless negativity and destructiveness. To put it | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| reerect a new and better functioning one. The dark night of the mystics is such a time | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| consciousness. Growth is indeed possible without intense painful dark nights, if honesty with the self becomes predominant | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| in the world. For who has not the dark nights to put up with? Some have many | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to put up with? Some have many little dark nights coming and going, or their dark night | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| little dark nights coming and going, or their dark night is gray. They may not be in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| for deeper joy and self- expression. Then the dark nights will become more circumscribed, experienced either as | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| that will make the sun rise, and the dark night will turn out to be the educator | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| at all. Then, and only then, will the dark nights turn into instruments of light. QUESTION: This | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| only an illusion; as long as any blocked-off, dark, and distorted cosmic substance exists, suffering is inevitable | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of realizing the divine self while disregarding the dark aspects of the self. It is a current | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| latter approach to meditation automatically deals with the dark side of human nature. This cannot be so | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| solely on the higher self and disregards the dark side of human nature. As you know, meditation | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| was at first frighteningly foreign, unknown, and apparently dark but will become familiar and light. With this | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| negative attitudes that express the struggle against the dark vacuum seems to threaten the individual with extinction | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| up evil seems like voluntarily going into the dark nothingness -- which is confused with physical death | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| as a byproduct of your going through the dark spots within you. Make no mistake: this is | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| strong resistance or revulsion to go into the dark areas of the self. This path demands from | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| themselves than to face and deal with their dark aspects. The guilt for the latter is constantly | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you is powerless. No matter how hidden a dark aspect might be, it creates life conditions that | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| fulfillment, one that will lead them around their dark spots. They do not want to know that | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| not want to know that it is those dark spots that render them unhappy and lonely. Some | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Some make beginnings, but when they approach those dark spots they pull back in self-revulsion and turn | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| and disorder interact as you grope in the dark, struggling to make a patchwork of the half-truths | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you continue to avoid, you dwell in a dark mire which feels very uncomfortable. A third aspect | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| undesired affords you the possibility of transcending this dark point and finding the light behind it. The | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and blind human consciousness merely gropes in the dark, very often your attraction to another person is | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| long time, the focus must be on the dark areas. That is for your own protection, my | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| only when you work your way through your dark areas. Be blessed, every one of you. Feel | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| whatever you experience to heighten your blissful life. Dark spots become opportunities for further light and no | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Of course, sometimes you may say that your dark mood is a result of so and so | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| And so it is with the bleak or dark or negative mood. See it as a cloud | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| is the little ego that gropes in the dark and fights in all the wrong directions. This | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| state of ordinary, physical consciousness all the more dark. In Scripture the Fall of the Angels is | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| hatred, and it is no longer quite so dark. You light a candle with this truthful admission | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| only distortion. No matter how negative, destructive, evil, dark, bad something may be, it is but a | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| not knowing or comprehending, of groping in the dark, floating on a groundless, unreal -- reality-less, if | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| nuclei that spring up out of the gray, dark matter of untruthful thinking and living. So further | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| acted out in the same way, but a dark corner in the psyche remains that needs to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| uncertainty, where you were truly groping in the dark in an eternal either/or, in an eternal duality | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| your awareness from the inner source of this dark fear, then superimposing the truth from outside will | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you avoid experiencing them and going through the dark tunnel they seem to be. Only going through | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| When you are not even conscious of the dark part, it creates commensurately painful experiences. For experience | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| that there is a direct connection between the dark corner of fear, doubt, terror, and the longing | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| to work on establishing awareness both of the dark level of doubt and fear and of the | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| are to become the shining light that repels dark spirits. The purification process of this path is | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| a much lesser degree of course than the dark spirits. You have come in touch with a | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| his or her soul may be much less dark than another person's soul substance who may be | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the truth leads through the mazes of the dark areas in your own soul; through encountering the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the record. Much argument, dissension, painful struggling in dark and confused states of mind, is based on | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you because you are still groping in the dark about how to establish an economy that functions | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| do not share all of themselves, represent a dark barricade that hinders the growth of the whole | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| your choice to follow the voices of the dark forces who inspire you to trust in your | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| too tempting to follow the way of the dark forces and too undesirable to give them up | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| need active, positive aggression to never allow the dark forces within you to conquer you, or make | 254 SURRENDER |
| influx, most human beings were completely in the dark about themselves, their feelings, their needs, their true | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| another person. Without communication, you live in the dark, alone in a fog of confusion, isolated from | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| if the entities involved are totally in the dark about the part they themselves play in this | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |