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of the spiritual laws from which you have deviated within your soul. The recognition of your faults 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
whatever aspect of your personality you have not deviated from divine law -- for this did not 18 FREE WILL
whatever individuals do -- even those who have deviated from His laws -- they must ultimately find 18 FREE WILL
symptom that the soul is sick and has deviated from one or more spiritual laws. For only 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
it lies in every instance where you have deviated from or broken a spiritual law, be it 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
a while in what respect you have obviously deviated from divine law in your emotional currents. Sometimes 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
face the final outcome of a conglomeration of deviated reactions and chain reactions from the past. The 53 SELF-LOVE
be possible whenever you find that you have deviated from truth. Thus will flow through you the 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
element, or any other number of sick or deviated reactions must exist. In a case like this 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
forever greater realms of light and bliss, who deviated from this course, separating himself from his innermost 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
within an intimate and established relationship. Often the deviated sexual expression is quite conscious and is indulged 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
righteousness of men and women toward those who deviated from the accepted standards, you can see the 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
 
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organism, and if the use of the intellect deviates from this direction, the resulting disharmony will lead 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
What people do not recognize in themselves, what deviates from spiritual law, cannot be penetrated by us 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
crime or sin as usually understood. Anything that deviates from spiritual law is sin -- or ignorance 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
be surprised how this newly- discovered inner wanting deviates from your conscious desires. But do not believe 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
principle remains the same. But when a person deviates from divine law consciously, because his spiritual development 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
aware of the hidden part in you that deviates from divine law. Because the deviation is negative 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
one another. To the degree that the entity deviates from divine harmony, the three principles will clash 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
necessary procedure of first finding all within that deviates from the right principle. One vaguely feels one's 62 MAN AND WOMAN
The no- current is destructiveness because it inadvertently deviates from truthfulness, thereby breeding hate and disunity. This 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
 
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in spiritual endeavor where they are still unconsciously deviating from the laws. And then there are those 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
honesty -- and how far you are still deviating from the right course. Realize at the same 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
according to the soul's plan, or partly so, deviating a little bit but not enough to lose 47 THE WALL WITHIN
you do not superimpose right reactions on still deviating emotions, and thereby avoid the pitfalls of self-deception 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
to get you all through the temptation of deviating from this course. But I am here to 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
An example would be demonstrating healthy assertion without deviating into unhealthy aggressiveness or hostility. Nor will you 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
must be done is to bring out the deviating, conflicting side and face it -- face the 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
that dislikes and wants to change destructive, untruthful, deviating aspects remains basically intact, even while noticing that 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
 
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the more unconsciously this happens the greater the deviation is -- then a vague feeling of sadness 4 WORLD WEARINESS
woman rebels against her femininity it is a deviation, if only on the emotional level. In this 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
you these unpleasant occurrences willfully. Due to your deviation from divine law at one time or another 18 FREE WILL
certain personality trends which lend themselves to the deviation from divine law. Nevertheless, the entire being fell 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
only to a lesser degree, involved in the deviation from divine law. You all know that certain 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it did not become evil at the first deviation. I have explained all this very thoroughly. If 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
the extent you are still lacking purification. The deviation from divine love may take place in various 32 DECISION-MAKING
hurt unnecessarily, for people who are in any deviation of spiritual law and are therefore suffering often 32 DECISION-MAKING
It is merely confusion, error, lack of self-knowledge, deviation from divine law: it is ignorance that creates 36 PRAYER
view of your faults in relation to their deviation from the divine laws? Until you reach such 36 PRAYER
degree. It does not make any difference if deviation from law and truth occurs out of ignorance 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
you that deviates from divine law. Because the deviation is negative, it must materialize as something you 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
forms. It is all ignorance, all error, all deviation from truth in every possible form. For truth 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
the greatness of the Creator? Every smallest inner deviation and obstruction is a hindrance to understanding. We 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
more you approach them through the misery the deviation inflicts. This misery will cause you to turn 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
in the law, as is the fact that deviation from it is the very medicine to cure 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
medicine to cure the pain caused by the deviation and, therefore, brings you closer to the aim 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
allow the right concept to cover up your deviation out of a sense of guilt. Look rather 53 SELF-LOVE
the two emotions is very thin. The slightest deviation from the feeling of gratitude and rejoicing in 53 SELF-LOVE
in their pure form as well as in deviation and distortion. I will discuss these principles from 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
these three principles are interdependent. If there is deviation from the proper working of one principle, the 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
you. The overemphasis causes a negative effect, a deviation in the expansive principle. The effect must also 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
respect a neglect and underdevelopment -- and therefore deviation in another sense -- occurs. Everything is connected 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
it is impossible that a great degree of deviation exists in one respect and a minimum degree 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
But it is true that the degree of deviation may be stronger in one respect than in 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
one way, you may find exactly the opposite deviation in the other way. In a mirror, your 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
help one another. None is ousted. Only the deviation or overemphasis is smoothed out. Certainly there is 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
successful. No human being is in untruth and deviation or imperfection in all areas of his personality 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
in the formative years. But this basic human deviation exists, at least to some degree, in everybody 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
with them, they may then blame the actual deviation from truth on that particular philosophy and hold 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
extent. The sooner you realize the inevitability of deviation from truth anywhere on earth, and that this 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
may be that an unsolved problem, an unconscious deviation of the hypnotist, may particularly affect one person 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
of the inner tension that self-will produces. Any deviation produces an inner tension, whether it is self- 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
a vast amount of insight, since no inner deviation is separated from other inner conflicts. They are 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
You now know quite well that wherever a deviation, misconception or conflict exists in you, vicious circles 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
love is its own proof of distortion and deviation. In order to avoid that, you do not 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
The more you are engulfed in this emotional deviation, the more you repress your real needs, the 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
part of one's being. There is another subtle deviation in the wrong attitude of perfectionism; it is 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
being freed of your shackles of error and deviation is bound to bring you happiness. But until 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
manifestation, either in deed or thought, of psychological deviation and immaturity. In other words, the result of 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
awareness essentially means becoming conscious of error, of deviation from truth. The moment you know you are 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
process; reason and intelligence will adjust imbalances and deviation from reality. But when reason is used to 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
outer manifestation; it may be a hidden little deviation that does not seem to harm anyone, but 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
are at the root of all destructiveness and deviation: pride, selfwill and fear. I said many years 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
distorted by a so-called neurotic need, but the deviation is seldom a total illusion. Such need always 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
but later becomes sufficiently open to sense the deviation and thus changes course. Also, the same talents 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
 
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this direction, the effect of all the neglected deviations will descend upon you, as it were, in 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
a religious sect. Then the minor errors or deviations do not matter; in this case they are 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
the angle is not so wide, where the deviations from the middle line are relatively small, and 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
called a neurotic, and there are only minor deviations from the law within you, it will be 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
enlightenment. Therefore, do not compare your faults and deviations from spiritual law with another's. Your comparison may 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
present life. If you go about finding your deviations from divine law, you will be able to 18 FREE WILL
way: Roughly speaking, it is correct with minor deviations, with minor errors and omissions. I mean, there 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
love, its meaning, its perfect ideal, and its deviations. However, that is not my subject tonight. Tonight 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
based on willpower, cannot function because of other deviations in the personality does not negate the principle 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
additional factor, but rather an explanation of the deviations. The misinterpretation of these soul-forces causes emotions to 53 SELF-LOVE
this life, by conscious as well as unconscious deviations from truth and divine law. This is a 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
regions of the mind and soul where the deviations are very subtle and unobtrusive. You may have 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
reasons for your inferiority feelings are the little deviations that result from your trying to deceive yourself 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
result from your trying to deceive yourself. These deviations are registered, but as long as the registering 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
one's inferiority feelings as one finds one's unconscious deviations and comes to term with them. Let me 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
in your way to complete fulfillment, but the deviations and self-deceptions do. If you could but clear 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
of intellectual ignorance could not unfold. But where deviations, complications, and confusion reign in the soul, there 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
on this path, you inevitably find that all deviations, so-called neuroses and sicknesses are in one form 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the right principle. One vaguely feels one's inner deviations and tries to superimpose the right way. This 62 MAN AND WOMAN
these are locked away by the obstructions and deviations. All these divine attributes are automatically released in 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
automatically released in the measure that the inner deviations straighten themselves out through the work on the 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
after fully understanding the inner causes, misconceptions and deviations with all their ramifications and chain reactions, will 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the rebellion. It causes all sorts of inner deviations and errors. It leads people into confusion. It 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
objectivity, self-honesty and the removal of one's personal deviations will enable the human being to find the 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is caused by the various layers of error, deviations from truth, and illusions that are prevalent in 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
and healthy motives, but also because the unconscious deviations and misconceptions, apart from the desire itself, suffice 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
realize that, in truth and reality, your inner deviations and errors affect and involve just as many 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
selves, their faults and weaknesses, their misconceptions and deviations. Tonight I should like to discuss another aspect 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
come with the solution of inner conflicts and deviations. I would like to suggest to whoever has 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
due to conscious or unconscious misconceptions, wrong conclusions, deviations -- in short, the images which cause conflict 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
Therefore, we shall certainly go on treating the deviations in you as we have done so far 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
or to do. By freeing yourself of your deviations with all their negative motives, you will be 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
inner call, be it for the reason of deviations, images, wrong conclusions, or because you believe the 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
finding and dissolving your images, wrong conclusions, and deviations. (2) Finding your suppressed creative forces, directions, and 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
reactions. When you face your lower nature, your deviations and the phantom world of your illusions, so 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
equipped to deal with the culmination of your deviations that have finally manifested openly. You have chosen 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
wrong conclusion or erroneous tendency. But sometimes the deviations and tensions are so deep-rooted that they cannot 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
mind -- that is, our images, wrong conclusions, deviations, and so forth -- on our physical bodies 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
shall then compare the right concept to your deviations. To benefit truly from my words, you must 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
creative faculties is due to negative aspects and deviations, images and misconceptions. We still have to deal 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
If you thwart your instincts, due to the deviations under discussion, you do not trust them. So 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
at resolving childhood conflicts and straightening out psychological deviations, you are bound to fail in fulfilling yourself 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
a deeper understanding of your innermost problems and deviations, as you begin to solve them, your concepts 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
more one advances, the less knowledge of previous deviations will be burdensome. Even if some information is 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
bring freedom. What causes all your conflicts and deviations is your desire to be happy, or to 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
develop freely. This cannot happen with all the deviations and basic false premises. In an artificial manipulation 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
higher self, can be distorted by your inner deviations and conflicts and therefore be abused by negative 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
more you realize how your unresolved problems, conflicts, deviations and images negatively affect your surroundings, yourself -- 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
personal work -- your personal search for these deviations, distortions, and errors -- will show you the 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
healing the soul of its misconceptions, distortions, and deviations. The true experience of pleasure on all levels 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
mixtures and combinations -- represent, of course, psychological deviations that can always be traced to parental influences 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
you must see that such immaturity and soul deviations play hand in hand with false authoritarian religion 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
more spiritual approach to see where the psychological deviations -- the images, the distortions, the wrong conclusions 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
a fairy tale in which you find your deviations and misconceptions and evasions, and, after having done 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
they slowly unroll the processes of their emotional deviations, understanding them and correcting false concepts, then they 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
we have tried to understand what misconceptions and deviations prevent you from being in harmony with the 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
using an issue to cover up hidden psychological deviations. In healthy struggle you never fight against yourself 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
toward a physical predicament does not preclude psychological deviations. A realistic fear will be coped with in 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
life can be met only if the psychological deviations are recognized. If a real outer fear overwhelms 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
you have fully comprehended your inner disturbances and deviations. Nevertheless, by now you have sufficiently penetrated into 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
this particular struggle are connected. Personality problems and deviations come, as you know, from childhood hurts and 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the vast power at your disposal. These inner deviations, ignorances and misconceptions, the insistence on a childish 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
qualms, anxiety, doubt or pain about their outer deviations from the lawfulness of universal life. They do 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
for the next occasion. In other words, psychological deviations are associated with a fixed, inflexible mind that 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
force, neither is it to be found in deviations that occur as a result of incomplete development 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE

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