| the psychological blocks are not dissolved, the spiritual development cannot go on -- or if it does | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only in order to forgive, but for your development altogether, is the realization that nothing can ever | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| remained in a much lower state of awareness, development, and therefore also personal happiness. All this does | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understood one thing clearly: the necessity for self- development on this earth plane which exists for that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| I have promised to start this course on development so that each one of you can find | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a great accomplishment for people of lower spiritual development if they can be brought to not committing | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of your life and your present state of development. You may all remember the lecture I gave | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| this path. They may be entities of lower development of whom less is expected in this incarnation | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you can come to the point in your development when testing periods and times of trouble will | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you pay by going on this path of development is certainly a high one, but there is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| karma. The more unified humanity becomes through spiritual development, the more will different races cease to exist | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| even at this time the slow but sure development in the direction of eliminating racial differences. In | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| about fifteen hundred years, the effect of this development will be very noticeable; nations, religions, and races | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| life, and it certainly applies also to the development of groups. You may wonder why certain races | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| can become stronger and advance faster in spiritual development precisely because frictions exist. Without friction, development can | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| spiritual development precisely because frictions exist. Without friction, development can never proceed. It is only a question | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| something wrong if, working on this path of development, you find that you have one particular fault | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| course, varies with each individual. The higher your development, the stronger you are and therefore the more | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| amount of time and effort for your spiritual development will take too much time away from your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of thinking is so very wrong because spiritual development in general, and this path in particular, is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| half an hour a day on your spiritual development. You spend time on your physical body, feed | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to think reasonably about this matter of spiritual development, my friends. You are not thinking reasonably about | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of you that it should suffice for spiritual development if you are good and do not harm | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| varies greatly according to a person's overall spiritual development and what he or she is capable of | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| each sphere, according to the height of their development. Let us begin with the highest spheres. There | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| particular denomination. They are ranged according to the development and the desire of the individual in question | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| They know the limitations of spirits of lower development, and they try to slowly eliminate these limitations | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| every religion. Only if a certain point of development is reached, will the realization dawn that all | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| infinitely greater merit than what people of higher development acquire. What counts is the effort to overcome | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| desire to go on the path of self- development, self-recognition or purification, or whatever other name you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you have attained a certain level in spiritual development, even though you do escape from some of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the most important threshold in your entire spiritual development. Everything up to that point is mere theory | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| yourself to cross the great threshold of spiritual development. But if you can use the shortcut of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| forces will occur not only in the general development, but also in particular aspects of the human | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| earth sphere are still so far behind in development that war is necessary, then people have to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| be fought against. In your present state of development, unfortunately, war often is still your means of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| still your means of fighting evil. As spiritual development grows, you will learn to go more to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| war often is in your present state of development. You have not yet found the way to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| It would weaken you. It will serve your development to find out for yourself. And you can | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| In deep meditation, if a certain degree of development has been reached, you may find out or | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| for meditation. At the present stage of your development you need to concentrate on finding out what | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| unconscious desire represents the greatest handicap in your development. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| and paid for with the price of self- development and victories over the lower self. No matter | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| there would be no fight, and therefore no development. It may also be a hindrance to know | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| it -- and this can only happen through development -- it may be harmful for you to | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| depress you and hold you back from your development. God has given you the opportunity to start | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| everything, for knowledge, as well as for spiritual development. By fighting, of course, I mean fighting your | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| on! That does not mean they are developed. Development means independence, the ability to select truth from | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| for humanity; many spirits, in varying degrees of development, are incarnated on this earth; yet human shape | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| does not give an indication of the entity's development. This is the only possible way for you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| who partakes of this most important food: spiritual development. For there is no human being alive who | 31 SHAME |
| you in self-development according to your overall spiritual development. I know, my friends, that no one thinks | 31 SHAME |
| get ahead in some particular respect of your development. You do not admit it, but you are | 31 SHAME |
| Only a person on the road of spiritual development can truly love God. How then can we | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| For the person who follows the path of development and purification, whatever happens must be for the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| when you have reached a certain stage of development will you come to realize the truth of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| started. Up to that time in a person's development nothing is for the ultimate good. However, from | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| This sluggishness will prevent you from accomplishing your development which alone can bring you true happiness and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you emotionally and unconsciously hope to attain spiritual development and thus peace of mind without making serious | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| expected of just such people because their spiritual development would warrant it. And this is the purification | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| self-knowledge that is an indispensable requirement for spiritual development. Some people may neglect this part of their | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the right thoughts in many respects, but as development proceeds, this is not enough, as you well | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| forth if you pursue and accomplish the spiritual development you have planned in spirit for this earth | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| are sincere in their endeavors to pursue spiritual development, yet their faith is not whole. Somewhere there | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| this major experience and fundamental change in soul development by his or her own efforts. Another aspect | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| be considered as a transitory state in your development. Your longing and love of God is awakening | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| than on the earth plane. For that reason, development is slower in the beyond and to effect | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a certain point in the cycle of the development of an individual being, decisions cannot be made | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the individual. But from a certain stage of development on, each spirit entity has the right, and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| said before, up to a certain degree of development a spirit entity is not capable of making | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Recorded also are all the various stages of development since the fall, not only the earth incarnations | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that generally, though not always, the higher the development, the faster the effect will follow the cause | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that, for the sake of your own spiritual development, the curtain must be drawn until you have | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| turn to other things necessary for your overall development. If you do not advance this time at | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| It is not that the spirits of higher development have a dictatorial attitude, but that you can | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the entity has reached a certain degree of development. The different phases--such as taking account of the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in one way or another of your spiritual development, psychological trends, and so forth. But beware of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| too much for them. This will further their development. So such a thing may either happen because | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| very many spirit beings, of all types of development. There is really enough for everyone. You can | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| It is, of course, the general plan of development for the whole Plan of Salvation that humanity | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| only direct for the medium, but through spiritual development and the refinement of the inner senses. The | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| see, it is our purpose to further spiritual development, directly or indirectly, and we are only allowed | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| because this fits into the present stage of development. There must always be some leeway to see | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| it fits into the whole picture of overall development. Since humanity as a whole is farther advanced | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| almost finished. And the coming year promises continued development of this beautiful temple, perhaps finishing touches can | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| mixed; they often are in your state of development. The pure motive will be conscious to you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the mainstream of your life, specifically your spiritual development? You learn to concentrate when you pray, for | 36 PRAYER |
| of love, brotherhood, humility, and the union and development of all beings. Such thoughts create clear, light | 36 PRAYER |
| is a training that is part of your development. In addition to the concentration and discipline prayer | 36 PRAYER |
| many of whom also display goodwill toward self- development -- have an inner image which makes them | 36 PRAYER |
| adjust your prayer to the phases of your development, you need to be watchful and recognize how | 36 PRAYER |
| all that happens from the viewpoint of spiritual development, asking God for help and understanding. You may | 36 PRAYER |
| divorced quite so much anymore from your own development and your sense of participation with every other | 36 PRAYER |
| for you and it is good for your development and spiritual growth. Pray for the ability to | 36 PRAYER |
| matter more while considerations of your purification, your development, and your relationship to God are made secondary | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the body comes at the stage of its development when it is requested by the world of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| When humanity was at a primitive stage of development the outright lie was sufficient to draw one | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the human beings in attendance. I announce this development tonight so that all friends following the teachings | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| have made serious efforts on your path of development, and the spirit world has decided that you | 38 IMAGES |
| is a very important asset for your spiritual development. Those who are constantly reluctant to work with | 38 IMAGES |
| soul. It is a necessary step in your development to give up some of the self-will that | 38 IMAGES |
| the actual next existence will depend on your development during the rest of this life, too. Do | 38 IMAGES |
| pray for at any given stage of your development. People seldom realize that they must pray to | 38 IMAGES |
| you need most at specific phases of your development. You may put emphasis on something that is | 38 IMAGES |
| As in outer space, so in your own development: Only by going down can you go up | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to come to terms with it. In your development so far, you have realized the importance of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| were useful in the last phase of your development, but now you have to shift to a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| yourself from going through this necessary stage of development, is important. Only after having tasted voluntarily the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| them. Gradually, in the organic growth that spiritual development always is, the hurts will become less, not | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| make another person happy. Therefore, your purification and development should be the main intent of your prayer | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| at all? ANSWER: You all know that your development does not proceed upward or downward along a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| some way disregard science? They claim that spiritual development alone would bring the highest good without it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| it is to concentrate mainly on their spiritual development and they fulfill their task by doing so | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to the final oneness, follow their own spiritual development while they simultaneously worked on their particular talent | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| So some human beings may combine their spiritual development with science, others with an art, still others | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| do with self-knowledge, unless it serves and helps development. If erudition is an end in itself, it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| end in itself, it does not enhance spiritual development. Of course, a natural intelligence is necessary for | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| this new outer knowledge for the purpose of development, then the knowledge you are privileged to absorb | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to have them. You create them. QUESTION: For development? ANSWER: No, not for development, but out of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| them. QUESTION: For development? ANSWER: No, not for development, but out of ignorance. From self-will and pride | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| longer be capable of committing because of your development. Nevertheless, the same root must still be there | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| out your problems for the purpose of your development and purification. You cannot purify, you cannot eliminate | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| deviates from divine law consciously, because his spiritual development is still so low, an image will not | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| start on a cleaner slate for your further development? And many a spirit desires this. This is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| previous lives is good and helpful for your development, then it will be given to you, one | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| only one really good way for such a development, and that is the following: First give up | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| concentrate on your own spiritual, mental, and emotional development and on your own path of purification. The | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| desirous of helping in such a way. The development of psychic powers should always be secondary. It | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you are indeed in a higher state of development, which means, above all, the obligation to be | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| person at this moment of his or her development. When you reach that stage, you will be | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| I ask this for the purpose of my development. If they are on the path, all the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| human beings were on the same level of development, is equally immature. The other person may not | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| gone through. The sphere is determined by the development and fulfillment of each existence. QUESTION: Could you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in different forms of existence. The lower the development, the further goes the split. As these separated | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| on many factors. It is a question of development, environment, influence, and most of all, of course | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| is often most important for their lives and development. Due to their overemphasis on the emotional side | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| Does everyone have the same potential for the development of each of these qualities? ANSWER: No. There | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| or not -- than badly applied or arrested development in mediumship disproves the value of that. Communication | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| one purpose, no matter in what stage of development the medium is. Learning about the facts of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the reason for life and the necessity of development, and to give you the incentive to overcome | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| depends on the personality and its stage of development, but the only reason for life on earth | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| if the foundation for it is prepared through development and purification. Love does not come and go | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| life experience entirely and so shortchange their own development. This fear might exist because in a former | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and minerals. Eros begins with the stage of development where the soul is incarnated as a human | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| sex no longer exist in beings of higher development, but rather that all three blend in harmoniously | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| in one very important aspect of their soul development. They find refuge in the steady comfort of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |