| I retire and leave you with blessings, with divine love for each one of you. May this | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| might also call it the super-conscious, or the divine spark in you -- the instructions which I | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| friends. God bless all of you. May the divine blessings extended to every one of you help | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and error, which cuts you off from the divine stream. You may oversimplify this by saying, Things | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is why I am cut off from the divine flow. You are right, but it is a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| with the basis of all religions. For the divine laws work eternally within the psyche and this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the true meaning of self- responsibility and of divine justice, without any thought of punishment and retribution | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the spark in others. QUESTION: Is that the Divine Spark? ANSWER: Yes. QUESTION: May I ask something | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual terms, that reality on earth opposes the divine principle of bliss. This puts you into a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and abstract. When you try to imagine the divine bliss that spirits enjoy, your automatic association produces | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| unselfishness, both of which are part of the divine purpose. How is one to cope with this | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| for progress. Be blessed, each one of you. Divine strength and love envelops you. This love is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| wisdom that knows that the laws of the divine world take care of everything. But this certainly | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| be in God! 84. LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS Greetings, my dearest friends | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| hour. I would like to discuss three major divine attributes: love, power, and serenity, and how they | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| one-sided solution. This is a distortion of the divine attribute of love. The idealized self-image of this | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and self-contempt. Let us now consider the third divine attribute, serenity, chosen as a solution and being | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| different. More and more you will combine the divine attitudes of love, power, and serenity in a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| can they go hand in hand in the divine way, but actually they are byproducts of each | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| person is more receptive to one manifestation of divine life. But this very same person may be | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Blessings for all of you. Throughout the ages divine effort was focused on conveying true religion to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| truth, of the dignity of the freedom and divine strength in humanity. It puts a powerful argument | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a being outside of yourself is no less divine. Quite the contrary. With this understanding, you will | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your own creativity. God is in you. The divine forces are in you if you mobilize them | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| outlook, and I open myself so that the divine can come to me. It will not come | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| from this realization. Experience of unity with the divine can happen only if you learn to let | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| from their untamed and destructive impulses. The truly divine can function only in free souls, and this | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| self, we know that it stands for the divine spark. Your unconscious concept of the real self | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the superficial layers. You assume that the real, divine self appears in the form of rigid perfection | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| way more than your imperfections. Your misconception about divine perfection leads you to rigidity and compulsion on | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in the present. For perfection in the real divine sense is relative and depends on one's attitude | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| or quality contains such two-foldedness. Even an unquestionably divine quality like love, the most potent force in | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| not that one is human and the other divine. Both are human. It is the same with | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| ones, and all my friends not present here, divine blessings go to each one of you. If | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| truth and wisdom, as well as any other divine manifestations, are all one. The lower the state | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of this particular one, but of any other divine truth that has reached humanity? Any truth can | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| in the soul may be very opposite to divine law. That place is heaven, the kingdom within | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to grasp the Creator, may come simultaneously. A divine aspect in yourself begins to fill you, first | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT Greetings, my dearest friends. Divine blessings and love are with you tonight, and | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| Faith in God and hope, like any other divine aspect, can be well rooted in the personality | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| him or her. For, in truth and in divine reality, there is no difference between person and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| As you know, in many religious concepts, the divine spark, or the higher self, is also called | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| call this liberation of the higher self, the divine self, or the Christ within, is a question | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| to all friends, both present and absent. Universal, divine gratitude truly exists, my friends. May all of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| now housed in new quarters represents a milestone. Divine blessings go forth to all of you who | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| on help from an outside source. Blessings and divine help are possible only through the strength that | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| grows, and through that a perception of the divine. An intense relationship that is often turbulent because | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the innermost core -- with the treasure of divine love, wisdom, and strength that lies embedded in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| think of the inner conscience, coming from the divine center of the human spirit. But they usually | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| imposes shackles which prohibit the manifestation of every divine quality inherent in the soul. It certainly never | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| only truly become human -- and therefore eventually divine -- if man accepts his manhood and woman | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| They must be deeply examined. Only then can divine attributes be found and accepted -- not because | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| one finds it to be true oneself. The divine attributes and eternal values are unchangeable in themselves | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and women masculine. You all know that every divine truth can be distorted; so it is here | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| due to unresolved problems, but also utter wisdom, divine truth, and the most constructive elements in the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| than another who has not yet tapped the divine channel. They just have a different rhythm. In | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| are unlucky and inferior. Suddenly the truth of divine order will come so near that you can | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| be divided into two major phases: first, enlisting divine help for recognition of truth; second, enlisting this | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have also often mentioned that contact with the divine spark, or your real self, is an outcome | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and transform yourself. In order to have the divine spark manifest, you must deliberately contact it and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| not shy away from any effort, for without divine help you are incapable of accomplishing any great | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to recognize that their greatness lies in their divine self. The divine self, however, is not up | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| their greatness lies in their divine self. The divine self, however, is not up in heaven, but | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| consulted. More and more it will be this divine self that manifests and the little self will | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| set in motion when you deliberately tap your divine self for answers and guidance, and when you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| state of oneness with yourself, with your innermost divine self, in the flow and harmony of the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| following the voice and the will of your divine self, that these two concepts are not mutually | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| that the tremendous power and immanence of the divine is at your immediate disposal; that without it | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| time you ask for the manifestation of the divine within yourself it comes, whether to know the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you meditate in such a way, enlisting the divine forces inside your being, you will indeed experience | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| their disaster seems like safety. Once more: If divine truth and reality were not all good, happy | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| that becomes accessible through your desire to tap divine truth, the life force in you. As more | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| for everyone concerned. That is the rightness of divine truth, that is the wonder and beauty of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| I wish to be in possession of the divine truth, where decisions are right and harmonious for | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| laws. Knowing them opens up the world. Knowing divine principles can come about only through a highly | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the human language, appear as contradictions. For every divine law contains two complementing principles -- the masculine | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| inner resources and to find the well of divine strength deep within the psyche, with all its | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| self-expression, expansion, and the inner manifestation of the divine, but must do the same also for others | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| that is wholeness, health, unfoldment, and expression of divine aspects. They strive toward healing the place where | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the first step toward your reunification with the Divine. You are no longer completely separated from it | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| Integration means nothing other than reunification with the Divine. Psychology also acknowledges that the integrated, healthy person | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the familiar personality. This inner center is the divine consciousness. It permeates the entire universe, it comprises | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| extent that these are changed, awareness of the Divine in you will follow. The negative part of | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| The process is identical when you meet the divine center. You are at first as unaware of | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| In this process the negative dissolves, and the Divine activates and moves the conscious ego more and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| responsibility for the best in creation -- the divine in you. When you are no longer ruled | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| destructive in you, you must also fear the divine in you. You will cease to fear the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| to face it squarely. Becoming integrated with your divine center does not happen all at once. As | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| outer mind and personality, and that inner, vast divine self, the center of your inner being, which | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| to reach inside and deliberately activate the vaster divine self that dwells deep within you. This is | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| do the only purposeful thing, to activate the divine nucleus within yourself. It is the only real | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| center, from your innermost self, your nucleus, the divine substance that is with you and in you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| must want to entrust the self to the divine power within. You must make that effort. You | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the outer you will be compatible with the divine powers within you. There are those who cultivate | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| error and to give myself over to the divine powers to which I open myself totally. I | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| The activation of your real self, or the divine center, is not something that you gain from | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| up my destructiveness and cruelty and enlisted my divine self. I was going along nicely until the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| realize unification within yourself. The real self, the divine principle, the infinite intelligence, or whatever you wish | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| proving that you are right you contact the divine principle of transcendent, unified truth. If the desire | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| The unified plane is the world of the divine center, the larger self. The ego finds its | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| will be motivated and lived through by the divine principle operating in you and expressing itself through | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| good, coming from the innermost self, from the divine inner being, the wish for the good of | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| of error so that the real self, the divine, eternal inner being, comes to the fore. You | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to you. You are then open for the divine source to fill you and convey the reality | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| go induces relaxation, without which contact with the divine inner self or ultimate reality is impossible. Letting | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| ego and strive toward the voice of the divine within you, again, regardless of appearances? This way | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is love and perpetuates love. Whatever ignores the divine and benign nature of the universe and of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| every one of you. A great stream of divine strength and blessings is permeating you and flows | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| What does union with God, or with the divine self, really mean? What does union with another | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| unity. Therefore when you separate nature from the divine principle, or your own innermost nature from spiritual | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of your own nature, be opposed to the divine evolutionary plan? It is the counter-pull in this | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| transcend the blocks that deform creative energy and divine substance and reconvert them into creativity. It is | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| interfered with; they are part of the most divine power and not in the least hostile to | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| not misjudged, denied, and split off from their divine origin in an artificial duality that presupposes they | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| evil and regards them as the opposites of divine life, or spiritual life. So you can come | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| do not want to see. I request the divine wisdom and power within me to help me | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION Greetings, my dearest friends. The divine blessings streaming in the atmosphere around and within | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| so that you become undivided and whole. The divine then lives in you and you live in | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| life. Dip deeply into the reality of the divine within yourself, to strengthen you in your determination | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This will also affect the availability of the divine in you, with which you can then integrate | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| set in at different times. One is a divine feeling of freedom and bliss. The other is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stupid. This does not make it any less divine as far as its origin and essence are | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Just as individuals are an expression of the divine and can manifest the unified power and goodness | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and transcend them by reaching into the unified divine depths, the more the world consciousness must change | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| self-willed part and a still more hidden infinite divine power -- both being essentially of the same | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| wherefrom all life springs. That source is the divine universal self within each individual being. The process | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| come from other states of immersion into the divine ocean of being. When a person's ego is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| mind, but a giving oneself up to the divine, to the intelligence and truth of the universal | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| greater order of the real self, of the divine being in you. Needless to say, the reasons | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the greater reality and lawfulness of the divine substance. Violation of these attitudes nurtures hate, separateness | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the precise opposite of the lawfulness of the divine within. It is not equipped to take care | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the will cannot function either, if the greater divine will is negated or unconsciously defeated. This is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| kind of constructiveness that is compatible with the divine substance. The moment you approach yourself with a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| trust in. By calling upon and activating the divine will through the manifestation of the real self | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| its all- encompassing love that knows no conflict. Divine will works toward everyone's fulfillment, bliss and happiness | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that I do not give myself to the divine within me? In the last analysis, my friends | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| can your ego safely give itself to the divine being within. Are there any questions about this | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| yet, I herewith request the real self, the divine substance in me, to help me see where | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| abandoned through your squarely facing it. Then the divine can be activated. This transition is the most | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| universe embraces every manifestation and individualization of the Divine Being, especially when the outer, separated self strives | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| creates forever new manifestations and individualizations of the Divine Being. I do not refer solely to the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the less it is aware of its true divine identity -- the more painful must be the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and noninterference. To make this possible, request the divine being that you are deep inside to guide | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and the wisdom, truth, and love of the divine self can be established when the ego is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in a receptive, quiet attitude, and once the divine self unfolds through new ideas, feelings, and depths | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| instructed and suffused by the manifestation of the Divine. Thus, the two aspects of growth and integration | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| integration -- transforming destructive elements and manifesting the divine self -- presuppose the identical dynamics of doing | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the real you, this particular individualization of the Divine. You never experience things as they really are | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |