| love depends on you. It depends on your development, your willingness, your courage, your humility, and your | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| it may be within the scheme of spiritual development, that is a subterfuge. The personality is looking | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| supposed to be a highly spiritualized form of development in certain religious sects. On the other hand | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| no other reason and purpose in life than development and purification. Therefore, the person who follows this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| guardian's strength and power depend on a person's development and responsibility task in the divine plan. The | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| quite different from your own present stage of development. So you may have an evil spirit around | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| earth, even war, does not lead humanity toward development and spiritual fulfillment. The fulfillment is so inevitable | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| blindness. Yet, despite the existence of such currents, development cannot be checked, for the result of wars | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| another milestone has been reached in the overall development of the soul. If, on the other hand | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| reached later. As long as this point in development has not been reached, the imperfect soul would | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| beings who have reached a certain degree of development in this respect. You will then learn not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| into the right one by this process of development and purification. Thank you. QUESTION: Isn't self-will the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| deeper levels. On the most superficial level of development, good is done outwardly but one harbors selfish | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| way out? ANSWER: That depends entirely on the development of the person in question. The same is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| age. Everyone has reached a different stage of development in different respects of his or her personality | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| first acknowledge and accept your present state of development -- your present inability to feel different than | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| course, concerned with your progress, with your spiritual development, and with the fulfillment of your personal task | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Yet every child of God is different in development as well as in character and temperament. Each | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| aspect of the human personality. The higher your development, the more of these subtle bodies dissolve, until | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in other words, your true, inner personality. As development continues to the highest degree, the soul-body -- | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| person first comes to a spiritual path of development and is not used to prayer or concentration | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the way for a later stage of your development. So the power to concentrate can be combined | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and attitudes apply to different phases of one's development. Once you have reached a certain point, it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your needs at any stage of your present development, also paying attention to your present difficulties and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| if you think about them and those requiring development from inside -- inner enlightenment that has to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the various universal forces work in proportion, general development, the particular development of certain trends. Out of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forces work in proportion, general development, the particular development of certain trends. Out of all these have | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to beings still in a lower grade of development, such as animals or plants. Free will implies | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| point of view that is important, namely spiritual development. A wiser and higher developed spirit advises and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are they drawn into incarnations almost like the development of growth that you cannot stop. If a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in producing phenomena. We are interested in individual development, for this is the only key to everything | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| energy to overcome all possible resistance to your development and can make the best of each phase | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| negative aspect is the most hindering for human development. This fact should lend itself for interesting speculation | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| It is the product of the labor of development. QUESTION: Can it be possible that a person | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| point -- the purpose and the stage of development in each sphere is a different one. QUESTION | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| and each sphere has a different need for development in a different area of the personality. QUESTION | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| has less of a conscience. The farther your development has progressed, the stronger your conscience becomes, and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| way of fulfillment. With a person of lesser development, this intervention of the conscience may be absent | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| time to grow into the necessary state of development, where to pay the price will not be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the concept of happiness varies according to the development of each individual. Due to a distorted concept | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| beings, belonging to a much higher state of development. Some of you have heard that pleasure and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| joy, leaving no bitter aftertaste. The higher the development of the entity, the shorter the period of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| seems such a terrifying threat, also for spiritual development. Would you discuss the place of such Communism | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| power might be a block to the spiritual development. It might hinder the Plan of Salvation. ANSWER | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reason for that, my friends. Humanity in its development is required to reach a certain basic spiritual | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| accounts for the many souls being born. When development takes place within an individual soul, the soul | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| number of beings have to go through their development in order to come back into light. The | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sphere is a very important part of this development. Whenever they are not incarnated, they live in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from these spiritual realms in various stages of development come to the earth sphere: those who have | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problems can be the stepping stones for further development. QUESTION: You are talking about progress but this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beings from lower spheres to go through earth development now. You only see a very limited aspect | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conditions more favorable for their present incarnation and development -- not favorable from a point of view | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| takes place in the individual soul. In personal development, you often have to go through the process | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and unbalanced and therefore a step backward in development. But in the overall picture it is not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conditions most adequate for their present stage of development, affording them the greatest chance to grow out | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personality. In most cases you cannot compare the development of one individual with another. One person may | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exist definite and crass cases of difference in development. But in many cases this is not so | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the longer waiting period indicates greater or lesser development. There is no fixed rule on that. Each | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and considerations. QUESTION: Is it necessary in the development of the soul to appear and be reincarnated | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| doors, to show the way, to help accelerate development for all, by an act of supreme love | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be an instrument of grace. If, by your development, you come to understand more profoundly, and your | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was male and female in one. When the development of all the fallen beings will have been | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| this before at various times. The lower the development of the entities that have been involved in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| into a greater number of separate parts. The development of humanity has reached a stage where the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| two sexes: man and woman. The aim of development is to find the way back into the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| On the earth plane, one particular aspect of development is union between man and woman. The mating | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| can be overcome, so much can be learned; development can proceed so much better than in any | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| conscious motivations may be. This will cause the development to move into a wrong channel, and the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| will become more of a man, provided this development takes place without encouraging sick weakness and dependency | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| union. As humanity stands today in its overall development, the venture of marriage is a very difficult | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| erect a separating wall again. The aim of development as such is to destroy these separating walls | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| could be accomplished. The tuning-in would further self- development, and at the same time it would furnish | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| about it is not by convincing the other. Development and solution of problems can rarely happen that | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| coming was the turning point in the general development of the fallen spirits. When personal development reaches | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| general development of the fallen spirits. When personal development reaches the optimum point, one is open for | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beings who have reached the highest state of development, or who have never participated in the Fall | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| made, people were generally much cruder in their development. If not made aware of the existence of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this experience in their spirit form toward further development? ANSWER: Of course it is possible for the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| parts. The further the split, the lower the development. The more development progresses, the less remains of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the split, the lower the development. The more development progresses, the less remains of the split of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you said that in a person of lesser development the conscience may not be so strong or | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often the case that people of lower spiritual development, with a lesser conscience, are unhindered by scruples | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| For many, evolution can be reached without it. Development can be brought about without it. However, if | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certainty yet. The prohibition of this knowledge speeds development. On the other hand, if the inner sense | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| as a result of the hard labor of development, it will not reduce the will to live | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| much better state is a byproduct of spiritual development, of a higher state of consciousness. Those who | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| which comes only after a certain stage of development. Knowledge can be given to anyone. It is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| imperfections which at this time of general human development are inevitable anyway. These imperfections in each system | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| so to speak. This might be hindrance for development. But inner knowledge stays. That is not blurred | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| entity. This brought out the importance of personal development and purification. The second phase of my lectures | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| activity that would afford your soul the maximum development. This may apply to a seemingly unimportant detail | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| entirety it is also necessary to approach its development from yet another angle. For a long time | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| healthy; we are interested in the unfoldment and development of the entire personality. Thus, in the coming | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the first important phase in this area of development and growth. I cannot emphasize enough that the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| well what is good and necessary for the development of the personality. Isn't it often true that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| utter honesty with yourself, by working on your development. This is not to be taken literally to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a moment, in this present phase of your development, you have a certain clarity, and with that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time, the liabilities of a person of higher development count more than the liabilities of a younger | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul. The maximum expectancy according to the overall development determines the length and quality of the various | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need most in the present phase of your development. Whenever you feel confused or uncertain about something | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| go on to say that humanity in its development is required to reach a certain basic spiritual | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| would begin a whole new cycle of spiritual development for the individual in society; for science and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| subconscious is indicative of the steadily increasing general development, despite the pitfalls, misunderstandings, and half-truths that go | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you may otherwise be capable of it through development and progress. This hidden conflict eclipses your otherwise | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| role and bring about this mismanagement. Your further development in that direction will be of major importance | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| being who makes an effort toward purification and development. Every effort in this direction counts in the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Where the personality is more robust, due to development in previous incarnations, present problems will have a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not even mention the need for self-search and development in the teacher, because this is so obvious | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in God. 75. THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION Greetings, my dearest friends | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| personal frame of mind, state of emotion, general development, character tendencies, as well as passing moods or | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| No one should contemplate this path and the development taking place on it with the idea that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| though doing so would entail joy, fulfillment, and development. The fear of love and its risks is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| are afraid of selfishness because your purification and development would make you happy -- and this should | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| at all? ANSWER: You all know that your development does not go in a steady line upward | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of attaining his goal on the path of development while having his own difficulties brings a great | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| depends entirely on the case, mostly on the development of the entity, and also on some other | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Only upon reaching certain important stages of overall development -- decisive milestones -- is the spirit given | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the halfway mark of this aspect of your development. Then the next step will not be quite | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| it could symbolize? Sacrifice. Purification. Inner desire for development. ANSWER: The fire of love. The burning of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understanding has not reached a higher level through development. Even today, when humankind is in many ways | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dissolve these obstructions because of a desire for development, peace and harmony, or due to a more | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own communication with nature and the elements. As development proceeds further and the community increases in size | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| these laws, because of ignorance or lack of development, then the laws become broken, twisted, and distorted | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to be tackled eventually along the road of development and growth. For some it will surface sooner | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| I gave on the great transition in human development. In that lecture I showed you the illusion | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| for living. It is much better for the development and growth of an entity to go through | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| are perhaps the most important assets in one's development. If you face your suffering and your joy | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| important step you need to take in your development. Most important in this respect is that so | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| -- if it is genuinely arrived at through development -- and the right and healthy attitude as | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| rest of the personality and therefore become, as development proceeds, all the more receptive to pleasure in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| present phase of our work, of your inner development, fits in with the great events of the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| others, in spite of feeling superior in spiritual development or ethical standards, and may wistfully think, If | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| does not admit that these values still need development, you do not develop them and yet you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is difficult to generalize. A certain stage of development does tone down your violent emotions. You genuinely | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| work. This defensive reaction causes the rigidity. Growth, development, maturity and the healing of distorted soul forces | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| these still-unsolved problems. Not only does general spiritual development vary with each person, but there is also | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| where you stand now; if you consider your development not so much in terms of perfection, but | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you all realize by now that true spiritual development cannot occur without clearing up distorted emotions, your | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of your emotions will you understand that spiritual development deals much more with your unconscious emotions than | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about them will not really help your spiritual development. But each apparently insignificant insight about your own | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more substantial growth has to take place. True development is indicated when your inner life corresponds to | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as you advance in your own growth and development, you will perceive cause and effect in truth | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reaches the heavens. It cannot be done. Attaining development and growth requires much less pretentious and ostentatious | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and prove of utmost importance for your further development because it will bring into clear focus the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| believe. The important thing remains always one's own development and the clearing up of inner conflicts. If | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other planets also afford opportunity for growth and development. That is quite true. However, each planet or | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| earth that are called forth through humanity's general development are particularly impossible to master in one life | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lessons are necessary in every stage of overall development, regardless of what sphere it may be. QUESTION | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| For although it is true that the overall development of humanity is not advanced enough to be | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| who are not yet far enough in their development, human law will suffice to protect society from | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| be skipped altogether; if you do, your overall development will be lopsided, leaving your personality structure crippled | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a little more understanding and truth. Any spiritual development is a farce if you deny this part | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |