| Device......................8 | |
| to cause Christ to fall. He used every device possible, and in so doing he organized all | 22 SALVATION |
| is often a useful and quite realistic protective device. Likewise, when children are confused because they perceive | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| from a subtle process of strengthening the protective device of numbness. At first, this may appear incomprehensible | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| ability to feel. Hence, it is a stronger device to attain numbness. You must always distinguish between | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the separating forces of nonlove as a protective device. It has become increasingly urgent to comprehend this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| even from the conscious mind. Many a different device is invented in order to hide this weakness | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| guilt about the dishonesty of such a shrewd device, it also creates a false reality. You begin | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| open book. You all contain an inner recording device, if you will. One of your greatest illusions | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Devil.......................33 | |
| a being that is not Lucifer or the devil, but Ahriman, who is the ruler of matter | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| own. Only in that notion lies temptation. No devil, no Satan could get at you if you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| sometimes referred to as Lucifer, Satan, or the Devil, who influenced others to follow him, would naturally | 21 THE FALL |
| opposites as the struggle between God and the devil. The confusions originating from this duality are said | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| principle stands for God and which for the devil. Is the pleasure principle selfish and therefore destructive | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| sinful. It opposes the spirit. It represents the devil and therefore I must sublimate my fleshly impulses | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| division, explicitly representing God as the affirmative, the Devil as the negating power. This is, at best | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is the eternal fight between God and the devil, between good and evil, between life and death | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| one principal source, a specific entity called the devil -- just as good stems from a personified | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| the distorted, good and evil, God and the devil, exist. It is the task of every human | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| then led to the creation of an outer devil who would possess an individual and an outside | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| evil is really distorted beauty and love. The devil that resides in everyone was initially an angel | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| initially an angel. How can you confront this devil? All of you have made substantial progress in | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| to your ignorance of the nature of the devil in you. Not only do you believe that | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you. Not only do you believe that this devil is the final, real you, but you also | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| consciousness for the idea that this very same devil, with all its cruelty, malice, dishonesty, pettiness, hate | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| takes place within your psyche, my friends. The devil is your fear. The fear is guilt for | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| arms, your consciousness, your positive will to the devil in you, in faith and fearless confidence in | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| original nature will be revealed. Fully embrace this devil in the idea that the devil is an | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| embrace this devil in the idea that the devil is an angel. The power and vitality of | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| an angel. The power and vitality of this devil can indeed, by your own turn of mind | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| wisdom. The puny, jealous, separative consciousness of the devil, constantly battling against the beautiful laws of life | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| And I say to you: the stronger the devil, the stronger the angel. For the strength in | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| and be a-tremble of your own evil or devil. Approach your devil with the ultimate of courage | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of your own evil or devil. Approach your devil with the ultimate of courage and faith and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| life, who does not fearlessly meet the inner devil and expose it. Only in this way can | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| contains the essence of the good. Within every devil slumbers an angel that wants out. If you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| such as good and evil, God and the devil, heaven and hell. Yet these expressions merely describe | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| generous, then your resistance will wane and the devil in you will turn into an angel in | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| treat the mind as if it were the devil and to oust it from your life is | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| in which people could no longer blame the devil for their own misdemeanors. They had to look | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| evil is the most obvious to humanity. The devil was always associated with the principle which aims | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| have associations with the words sin, hell, evil, devil. All these words have been grossly abused. That | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Devilish....................4 | |
| honestly own up to the full force of devilish attitudes and to all their puny details. Only | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| real you, but you also believe that the devilish part of the self is intrinsically foreign and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| clearly aware of this can you recognize when devilish forces and spirits want to destroy you and | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| into ecstasy. This phenomenon is known to the devilish practitioners who torture human beings for political and | 254 SURRENDER |
| Devils......................11 | |
| transformation work. You do not cast out any devils. That is a misunderstanding of certain religious orientations | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| a misunderstanding of certain religious orientations. When the devils are cast out, you do not perform the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| of transforming. You may succeed in casting out devils, but the devils live on -- maybe not | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| may succeed in casting out devils, but the devils live on -- maybe not attached to you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| as spirit entities -- as angels and as devils. It has always been said that the individual's | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| for the individual's fate or the angels and devils are. Humanity has matured sufficiently to be able | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| manifest as an entity, two different kinds of devils were also recognized by some visionaries. They represented | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| of spiritual presence lead you to fear the devils you sporadically attract according to certain cyclic rhythms | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to certain cyclic rhythms. Like all disease, the devils near you are cause, effect, and medicine. Their | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Your unpurified consciousness has the effect of drawing devils near you who confuse you with lies so | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| parts of your soul. Instead of fearing the devils or denying their existence so you can overcome | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Devil's.....................3 | |
| no longer distinguish between God's way and the devil's. That which is intrinsically selfish and destructive often | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| blissful destiny, and often ascribes it to the devil's temptation. As long as human beings cannot discriminate | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| material, three-dimensional reality, or you can do the devil's work -- unwittingly in your case, but no | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Devious.....................14 | |
| self works, how it manifests, and in what devious ways it hides behind handy excuses, you will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| get to the image itself, to all the devious ways in which it was formed, and to | 38 IMAGES |
| life force will then seep through all your devious channels and affect them, so that slowly but | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| but it can only express itself in a devious way, which is responsible for your not getting | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| We also discussed that inner, subtle, and very devious current with which you try to force others | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the forcing current works strongly, although in very devious and hidden ways. When, in the course of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| other reasons, so it comes out in a devious, hidden way, which in turn brings on further | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and unless you become fully aware of the devious, subtle, unconscious ways in which this idealized self-image | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| only after you gain sufficient recognition of its devious ways. Now, my friends, when you come across | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| yourself. Constant self-moralizing, which often happens in subtle, devious, hidden ways, keeps you from understanding that which | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| a free giving of love. In its own devious way it causes an inner no to giving | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| that does not want to see in what devious ways this can be accomplished. Illusion does not | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| from them and do not notice in what devious ways their destructiveness manifests. I might say that | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| create crisis. The lower self is not merely devious, dishonest, and selfish; it is also ignorant. This | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Devoid......................10 | |
| enough to see yourself with all your faults, devoid of defensiveness and feelings of disharmony, as an | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| general attitudes toward life. They are not completely devoid of a certain logic, albeit limited and erroneous | 38 IMAGES |
| routine of prayer which makes it rigid and devoid of aliveness. Different activities and attitudes apply to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to be loved, and yet the heart is devoid of loving. For the greater the need, the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| hitherto submerged. However, there is no person entirely devoid of emotions. They are on the surface, but | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| relationships exist on the surface, but they are devoid of depth and inner meaning. Then it is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the same token, a smooth outer relationship, apparently devoid of friction, is not necessarily an indication of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| inspection you will find that this very softness, devoid of healthy resistance, cannot let go of impressions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| yes-current with a fullness and wholeness which is devoid of anxiety and doubt and greed. Yes or | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| quietude that is, at first, empty of meaning, devoid of anything that spells life or consciousness. I | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |