| Dedicated...................9 | |
| clarity of vision. Let this blessing be particularly dedicated for this purpose. And so I bless you | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| season I announced that the winter would be dedicated to the beginning of transforming work. Transformation of | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| genius to add to creation who is not dedicated to a cause outside the self. This is | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| force yourself in a dutiful way to be dedicated and selfless, in order to collect desirable rewards | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| fill the void with life and being. I dedicated a whole lecture to this and I recommend | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| its cause-and-effect chain-reactions. As I said, this requires dedicated, committed, wholehearted work, the utter will to be | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| your soul. Conversely, the more your life is dedicated to the pursuit of selfish ends, the greater | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| can exist only when your life is totally dedicated to God and His will and plan. The | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of subliminal forces and whose life is not dedicated to God. Now is the time when you | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Dedication..................10 | |
| self-purification has been achieved or not. Only complete dedication, watchfulness, awareness, readiness to dismiss wishful thinking and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| to go beyond yourself. Perhaps you believe that dedication to a cause beyond your little ego implies | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| key I have given you. It is your dedication to truth and love. Long before you experience | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| truly complete that approach, that attitude of total dedication to self-confrontation and self-respect, self-love and self-forgiveness in | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| an integral part of creation. The misconception that dedication of your life to God's greater plan brings | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| of your will to God's will and the dedication of your life, your talents, and attributes to | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| God. Your primary attitude in life must become dedication to God's will and plan, your giving over | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| fulfillments flow as a natural byproduct of your dedication to your task for God, the task you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| implies the wish to continue living a lie. Dedication to the truth must bring the willingness and | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| it need to be aggressively activated by your dedication to your path, by the many daily decisions | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Deduced.....................3 | |
| increases his inner insecurity and inferiority. He originally deduced that if he had been more lovable, his | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| are therefore blocked, the existing image can be deduced infallibly by looking at the life manifestation. Life | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| instruments at this time: They can only be deduced. This does not mean that they have no | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Deducing....................3 | |
| to be shifted from thinking, intellectually evaluating, and deducing to feeling and experiencing all your positive and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| or demonstrating love. Now he is incapable of deducing that he himself forfeits love, not because he | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of it will come, first, maybe indirectly, by deducing certain manifestations, and subsequently by bringing out the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Deduction...................8 | |
| or may not be objectively correct, still, the deduction the child is capable of making must be | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you recognize that this has been your faulty deduction, your wrong conclusion for years and years. Now | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| An image is the result of unconscious reasoning, deduction, and conclusion. A conscious, willful law- violation will | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| particular work. For instance: insight, intuition, power of deduction, observation, a very warm interest in other people | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| as well as your range and power of deduction. Without being allowed to make mistakes in your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| by inference, by intuition, and even by logical deduction, if the deduction is carried far enough. They | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| intuition, and even by logical deduction, if the deduction is carried far enough. They can also be | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| learn. A process learned merely as a mental deduction is not truly absorbed. It has to become | 254 SURRENDER |
| Deductions..................7 | |
| Actually, this part continues to make the same deductions, emotionally and unconsciously, as the child had made | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| is, in this type, used mainly to follow deductions made with the reasoning process, seldom paying attention | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| a temporary reality. The things you experience, the deductions you make with the surface logic of the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| The same relationship exists between the conclusions and deductions the intellect forms correctly as applied to the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| spiritual laws of absolute reality where these same deductions and conclusions are wrong. Sin, as you all | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of these answers are either theoretical and logical deductions or they are only vaguely felt emotions. This | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| my friends, this cannot be done by intellectual deductions and findings, but only when you allow yourself | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| Deed........................36 | |
| with renewed force in remembrance of the greatest deed that has ever been accomplished. The light is | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| Christ saved humanity? In what way was his deed the greatest? What was the purpose of his | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| on, is gratefulness to the person without whose deed no one could come back into divine light | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| could come back into divine light, without whose deed the stream back to God would have been | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the time comes and gratefulness for the greatest deed without which you would be lost pervades you | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| but also to Lucifer himself, who through Christ's deed alone would one day in the far future | 22 SALVATION |
| teachings may have been. Christ has shown in deed and in fact what others have taught, and | 22 SALVATION |
| many good purposes are fulfilled with one divine deed. This again applies to everyone. However, simply to | 22 SALVATION |
| a good act and consider this a good deed. Yet it is not really a good deed | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| deed. Yet it is not really a good deed if it is not supported by purified feelings | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| every decision, no matter how small, and every deed or attitude of yours, stands in direct relationship | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| His will and its fulfillment is expressed in deed, in word, in intention. That others around such | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| impossible. An unhappy person may do a good deed, a single unselfish act, but cannot possibly make | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| dear friends, have you ever thought about the deed of Jesus Christ as the greatest act of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| motive, or should one refrain from performing the deed? ANSWER: Oh no, one should not refrain. One | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| constantly within your soul -- if not in deed, word or thought, at least in your unconscious | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| no difference whether I inflicted the hurt by deed, word, thought, or emotional reaction; by what I | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in the emotions and not displayed in outer deed and manifestation. It may, at times, even be | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| more harmful than the worst outer conduct or deed. Therefore, begin to search for your own inner | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| provided it is combined with action. The best deed is very often a recognition of deeply hidden | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| By such honest recognition, you truly combine the deed with the prayer. QUESTION: I know that to | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is impossible. One may do a certain good deed, a single unselfish act, but cannot make another | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| called sin is the outer manifestation, either in deed or thought, of psychological deviation and immaturity. In | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you disregard what is behind it. The same deed or attitude, coming from two different people, or | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| be a petty and degrading one. The loving deed comes from true concern for another, or from | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| more noble is inwardly less so than another deed that has the opposite appearance. This is very | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| actual selfishness and lack of love, manifesting in deed, thought, or feeling, and the second by the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| not overlook cowardice. One may omit a constructive deed out of cowardice, but one may just as | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| one may just as well commit a destructive deed for the same reason. When the consequences are | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the negative feeling. Confusing the impulse with the deed and therefore denying both, results in extreme disturbance | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| There the thought immediately takes form and becomes deed. It is only in the human ego that | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| ego that thought seems separate from form and deed. The less awareness an entity has, the more | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| entity has, the more separated thought, form, and deed appear, to the extent that the form seems | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that the form seems entirely independent from the deed, the deed from the thought or the will | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| form seems entirely independent from the deed, the deed from the thought or the will. None of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| inexorably following another, until the word has become deed, fact, and finished creation. The word creates an | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Deeds.......................40 | |
| What do my reactions -- not only my deeds and thoughts -- really mean? Are my actions | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| everything is the result of thoughts, feelings, and deeds. Therefore, spirits of the same development are always | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| emotional reactions, and not only in your outer deeds. Changing your thoughts is not sufficient. Your feelings | 18 FREE WILL |
| mentality, their longing, their goals, their feelings, their deeds and thoughts. Is that clear? QUESTION: Is it | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they can be brought to not committing wrong deeds, but this is certainly not sufficient for any | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| feelings, reactions, and thoughts, if not in your deeds, you have broken many a spiritual law. This | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| You not only cause harm through actual bad deeds, bad thoughts, and impure feelings, but also by | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| by simply refraining from the more obvious evil deeds. As long as there is fear in your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the impulses of your lower self in your deeds. There is a vast difference between that and | 31 SHAME |
| yourself so thoroughly that not only are your deeds, your words, and your thoughts in conformity with | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| decision. This is true not only of your deeds, your obvious and material choices, but also of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and testing, severe self-criticism and analysis of your deeds, thoughts, and emotions as compared to spiritual truth | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| be that one opinion stands against another. Your deeds, your thoughts, your feelings, your reactions and your | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of his emotions, as well as with his deeds is a dark and dismal one. Afterward, an | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the soul closer to God than lukewarm good deeds. QUESTION: I was going to ask a question | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| understand yourself, I do not mean your outer deeds, decisions, and reactions. These you can often explain | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| criminals have to be prevented from continuing their deeds by law-enforcing institutions that are, perforce, themselves imperfect | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| far away, in spite of the outer good deeds one performs mainly in order to conform and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The sphere is built up by the person's deeds, thoughts, attitudes and feelings. It does not change | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| egocentricity and blindness. These qualities make you commit deeds and think thoughts that are bound to bring | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a direct or indirect result of your attitudes, deeds, thoughts and emotions. As far as the latter | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| illusions, wrong conclusions and wrong concepts, the wrong deeds of others can never affect you. You will | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is the same that Jesus demonstrated in outer deeds. But I would like to stress here that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person is out, it will understand that unconstructive deeds, thoughts or tendencies are unconstructive as such. If | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| actually betray the weak parent in words or deeds, or if you merely desire to do so | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| looking at your outer actions only. No overt deeds can be found to prove the act of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| and reject others. This may not manifest in deeds or words, but exists as a hidden, well-camouflaged | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of actions, I do not mean only outer deeds. All thoughts, emotions, attitudes, inner decisions, and behavior | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| it turns destructive. Whether the anger manifests in deeds or words, or whether it is merely an | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| whatever you may be able to do in deeds, try to find these similar conditions within yourself | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| yourself are. By the same token, your good deeds, your productive attitudes, your genuine feelings affect all | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| numbness. You must always distinguish between the active deeds of either indifference or cruelty, and emotional tendencies | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| they influence actions, behavior, responses, reactions, emanation and deeds. Such an attitude brings forth desirable experience, fulfillment | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| way, even if the personality refrains from active deeds. Holding back from loving and giving is also | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| only. But the underlying seething hatred prevents positive deeds of loving and giving; it prevents one from | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| counts most. You may give things, money, good deeds, even tenderness and concern, but they are hollow | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| conscience and therefore does not act out evil deeds, turns relatively quickly into a spirit of light | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS My beloved friends! Greetings and blessings for | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| perpetrators seem to remain unapprehended, or when good deeds and genuine love and giving seem to elicit | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| the cause. How is it possible that all deeds, all attitudes, all ever so secret intentionalities can | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |