| from man, means to say yes to this earth life and all it stands for, good and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| be a good mediation exercise to think what earth life includes and what should be accepted. Many | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| memory is only taken away during life on earth. When the spirit comes back the next time | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| sounds like an ideal impossible to attain on earth, and I do not say that you will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the stream of life. All people on this earth who have found ways of exploring the realms | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of metaphysics and spirituality. The more successful your earth methods become, the more will they integrate with | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| plan of evolution is union. Union on this earth plane does not exist. Some people have a | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| friendship, makes no difference. Your world here on earth is, to a large degree, governed by dependency | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| longing is for happiness supreme, but life on earth prohibits such fulfillment. This prohibition creates the world | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| created the prohibition. It created life conditions on earth which made reality something that opposed the pleasure | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| psychological terms; in spiritual terms, that reality on earth opposes the divine principle of bliss. This puts | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| duality out of a single core. Life on earth necessarily involves physical death. Even if we remove | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| avoid confronting the reality of death on this earth. Another attempt to deal with the problem of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| conflict with reality as you know it on earth. This is the result of your inability to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| for bliss will be fulfilled while still on earth. Seek and you shall find an area of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| could be had to some degree even on earth. They are a direct result of the inner | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| within the framework of your present life on earth. In these ways a reality principle is created | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| impossible to gratify such excessive expectations on this earth given the reality that humankind has created. Nor | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| eliminate time as long as you live on earth. You can only develop a different understanding, a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the greatest lived symbolism ever demonstrated. Life on earth is a symbol of reality, and not vice | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| doing so, reality, as you know it on earth, begins to change, first subtly in your own | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| coming home. You may die many deaths, one earth life after another, but if you have not | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| now from Genesis XI/1-9: 1: Originally the whole earth was of one language... 2: And...as they | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5: And the Lord came...to see the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Lord did... confound the language of all the earth. ANSWER: In order to explain fully only the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the soul. If you look at your earth life from any conceivable point of view, you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can see that the difference of languages on earth is indeed a symbol of something more profound | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| just one life span, neither the ones on earth, nor those in other spheres. Conditions on earth | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| earth, nor those in other spheres. Conditions on earth that are called forth through humanity's general development | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the body, enabling the entity to live on earth, occurs at the time of birth. It is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life right for you, to eliminate from this earth cruelty and injustice, suffering and pain. Such general | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| it really is. The child wants heaven on earth. It is true that at this stage you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| perfection. You will no longer need heaven on earth. You will view your own progress with equanimity | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in so many various ways, ever since your earth began to exist -- Jesus Christ. Be blessed | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| an impossibility of yourself. You do live on earth. Of course, you will be insecure, afraid, sad | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| a perfection that does not exist on your earth, you cannot accept what is, and therefore your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| work. Yet, a number of people on this earth may not be spiritually mature enough for such | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| reach surface awareness. Your entire striving on this earth sphere is to increase your awareness of what | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| particularly the words, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven? Could you tell | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| in heaven? Could you tell us what on earth and in heaven mean? ANSWER: Earth and heaven | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| what on earth and in heaven mean? ANSWER: Earth and heaven are not geographical descriptions of life | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| as well as the nonphysical. The symbol for earth might be interpreted in many ways: earth may | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| for earth might be interpreted in many ways: earth may be your outer life, the material life | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and outer facts; in short, everything visible. For earth is visible for you, while heaven is invisible | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of God in heaven, and automatically also on earth. QUESTION: In this connection, is it not rather | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Genesis, in Hebrew, contain the words heaven and earth just as in the Lord's Prayer? An interpretation | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| illusion. There is nothing more destructive on this earth than people unnecessarily defending themselves. There is nothing | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| easier to work on this path here on earth than in the spirit world. Yet we know | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| certainly not to the same degree as on earth. Matter is one constant hindrance. It is one | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| aspect, one small fragment of resistance as such. Earth life, life in matter, is one resistance. If | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| certain limit, you cannot live either. Life on earth requires a certain equilibrium between not too much | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| resistance of matter. That is why development on earth proceeds so much faster. Be blessed, each one | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| case, as it is with all things on earth, that man is actually inwardly already in a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| They are the most beautiful things in your earth life. Only by conquering your own resistance and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is not so. No one goes from this earth sphere if it is not right and good | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your life while you have it. But leaving earth life, as such, is never wasteful, regardless of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to the entire world, not only to your earth sphere, but to all spheres, than the best | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Let us begin with the lowest form on earth, which is mineral. Since a mineral is without | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| moving toward expansion and union. Your world on earth is indeed a troubled one. Life is difficult | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| are no longer involved with the heaviness of earth matter, the wishes are more likely to have | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| an obstruction -- whether between two people in earth matter or between one in it and one | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it possible for such power to manifest. On earth it manifests in isolated instances, because the combination | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Even a much less complicated phenomenon in your earth world can possibly be dependent on a number | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| spirit of Christ manifested in several incarnations on earth, before he was born as Jesus the Christ | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| encrustations. There have been some great spirits on earth of whom one can say that the Christ | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| inner growth. When a new child enters this earth, its soul-stuff is very malleable, very soft. Within | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| body, consisting of matter very similar to your earth matter, although not perceivable with your physical organs | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| have a very practical application. Human existence on earth, in the dimension of the earth and its | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| existence on earth, in the dimension of the earth and its atmosphere, is bound by time. I | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| to mind. One is: Can this happen on earth? And two: I saw a TV program recently | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| bridge distance with thought is not possible on earth with material means. The spirit, the psyche, is | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of view, it will be found that every earth upheaval that humanity has experienced is a result | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| learn, recognize, and overcome the illusions. Therefore this earth life expresses the general state of humanity as | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| a confusion about reality. Many manifestations of your earth life symbolize duality because so many things appear | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| but a few examples of how life on earth presents itself in two-way splits. Humankind thus expresses | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| another symbol of the splits that mark this earth sphere. To the degree that the child's psyche | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| not applicable to the real situation. Observing the earth sphere and humanity from our vantage point, it | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| stream that contain the pleasure principle. Life on earth is a preparation for this supreme pleasure, and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| pain when overcoming the duality of life on earth. The former is a blind attempt to overcome | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the selfish ruling child reigns. The world, your earth sphere, is the same. There are groups, countries | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| exactly what happens to humanity on the planet earth. It, too, is divided within itself. The organism | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a more mature state can be felt on earth, in spite of the remnants of immature trends | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| genuinely find a solution. Permanent peace on this earth can exist only when the overall maturity of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| individual. An individual entity is bound to the earth sphere until it has reached full maturity. It | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| it too will undergo an identical change. The earth sphere itself will become finer, its matter more | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| ANSWER: Of course. Just think how long the earth and humanity are known to have existed already | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| can be experienced right in this life on earth. The disappearance of distinction between the sexes is | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| death is the glory that union on this earth can be and more! Therefore, the struggle of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| ask, why is it that we, on this earth, have to battle against this great unknown? At | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| unconscious than the knowledge of a dozen foreign earth languages. The work of this path is manifold | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| shed, one by one, paradise can be on earth, just as hell can be -- always according | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| theories, or reading even the greatest literature on earth -- even spiritual literature -- you cannot possibly | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| attitudes you collect. It is your job on earth to find the way out of these labyrinthine | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| that the potential, the possibility, even in this earth sphere, is indescribable happiness. Once this is envisaged | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| barricades the way to the positive. The planet Earth, this sphere of consciousness, is characterized by the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| souls who come, again and again, to the earth sphere. When an individual goes through the liberating | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| different lecture, I explained that conditions on the earth sphere are an exact expression of the sum | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| I explained that all the beauty on this earth, in nature, and in that which is created | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| clings to destructive emotions. In other words, the earth, with its conditions, favorable and unfavorable, the greatness | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| This is what makes negative manifestations on this earth plane particularly serious or severe. In other words | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| unwelcome circumstances. All the many souls inhabiting this earth, added together, create the general strife of humankind | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| into yourself. The many possibilities existing on this earth for human concern and philosophies can all be | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| principle of pain and pleasure characteristic of this earth sphere? ANSWER: It is, but this does not | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the individuals, past and present, who inhabit this earth. Each individual has the opportunity to make every | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| many, many others, in many corners of the earth, which are not publicly known -- are ways | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| self-realization impossible. As long as human beings separate earth from heaven, body from spirit, you cannot experience | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to dissolve. And this opens up paradise on earth. There are many, many degrees in which the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| incompatible with living in a body on this earth sphere. Not at all. It merely means harmonious | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| so it is with the consciousness of this earth sphere, of every nation, of every city, of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| are the most important and valuable person on earth, who deserves very special privileges. To ascertain such | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| spiritual realms that further important ventures on this earth. I bless all of you -- all my | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| evening a blessing for your future path on earth. This lecture is an attempt to continue the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| duality, the dichotomy that is rampant on this earth sphere, where it is so often a question | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| outer happenings; so it is with the universal earth phenomenon of physical dying. Dying is a direct | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you divide yourself. Any outer strife in your earth sphere is nothing but a symbolic representation, an | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| who is, of course, way beyond this dualistic earth sphere -- is in perpetual, joyful movement. The | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and error, duality comes into existence. The entire earth sphere, namely human consciousness, is in the dualistic | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| go through a number of appearances on this earth plane in which their activating forces must be | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| must be given time to grow within the earth until the first shoots appear. Agricultural laws demonstrate | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| means that it is humanity's task on this earth to struggle out of its negative creation and | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| reestablish the being you were long before this earth life, before you became involved with negative creating | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |