| Agenda......................7 | |
| will take care of another question on the agenda. Some of you have wondered whether a spirit | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person that thwarts fulfillment. Even when this hidden agenda is glimpsed and conceptual acceptance develops, it still | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| submitting to them because of your own hidden agenda. People with the right kind of selfishness feel | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| hiding and your pretenses, of disguising your hidden agenda and the negativity it perpetuates, you will not | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| light as long as there exists a hidden agenda in your soul. In that area you react | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| happiness, eternal fulfillment, and life itself. Your hidden agenda makes you react with pain to Christ's light | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| you truly manifest if you have a hidden agenda? How can your divinity unfold if you are | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Agents......................8 | |
| understand that all thoughts and feelings are powerful agents of creative energy, regardless of whether the thoughts | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| conscious level. Fear and guilt are potent creative agents. They contain a great deal of energy. On | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| joy, vitality, interestedness, stimulation are also potent energy agents. A path such as this must therefore be | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| with every attitude you display. These are powerful agents, my friends, and you need to know what | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| feelings, and attitudes are seen as the creative agents. Thus thoughts, opinions, beliefs, feelings, attitudes are no | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| unfulfillment of the soul to be the only agents that keep you connected with your body. Such | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| expand without the simultaneous expansion of the self-purifying agents, evil could destroy the divine. So, as an | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is when the result of these inner creative agents is so separated from what created the experiences | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Age-old.....................4 | |
| fear. The life of Jesus Christ symbolizes this age-old truth in a very wonderful way. It has | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| The same applies, of course, to a woman. Age-old misconceptions handed down from one generation to the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| all-important it is to find this out. The age-old question is: What brought all this about? Why | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| recognition is very good. It touches upon the age-old alternatives of taking refuge or driving through. It | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Ages........................15 | |
| sight. With this influence growing steadily through the ages, the fallen spirits during their incarnation on earth | 21 THE FALL |
| trouble with all great religious teachings throughout the ages. Detachment undergoes a similar fate. People who are | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| spiritual truth has been so obscured throughout the ages. But there is a good reason for that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| reading. Even studying the greatest wisdom of the ages will give you only theoretical knowledge that has | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| friends. Blessings for all of you. Throughout the ages divine effort was focused on conveying true religion | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| is it that all spiritual teachings in past ages speak of sin instead of sickness or neurosis | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| been expressed in many different ways throughout the ages. If it is fully understood, no possible doubt | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| schools of thought that have existed throughout the ages. One says that you are not responsible for | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| different approach. For example, people in the Middle Ages were apt to act out their cruel impulses | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the void, and, sooner or later through the ages, the distorted, inverted, separate piece of consciousness and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| become unified with the greater consciousness. For many ages people believed that the intellectual faculties were the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| ever differ from that of others. In previous ages this distinction could not be made. Humanity was | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| humanity. The God consciousness that existed in previous ages was always projected outward, as you well know | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| of the word has been postulated throughout the ages and is professed in various corners of the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| many times, as different enlightened ones, throughout the ages. But never has he come as fully and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Aggrandize..................5 | |
| powerful ego, one's energies are used to further aggrandize it. The law that you have to reach | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| or other destructive emotion, you will not masochistically aggrandize and exaggerate it. Nor will you deny it | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an attitude that puts the woman down to aggrandize himself and makes her fear of surrender justified | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| through the very exposure of your ugliness. Neither aggrandize the guilt, so that it keeps you cowering | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Part of the dishonest game may be to aggrandize the suffering in order not to give in | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Aggrandized.................3 | |
| modicum of sanity. The exaggerated self-governing of an aggrandized ego condition is preferable to disintegration, which is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| appears more difficult to bear than the artificially aggrandized one, because the latter seems to promise dramatic | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| all these threatening feelings become more and more aggrandized, exaggerated and misunderstood. Then it seems indeed as | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| Aggrandizement..............3 | |
| sexuality is used in the service of ego aggrandizement and lust for power, it cannot help but | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| want to do this not for my ego aggrandizement nor for any other ulterior motive or advantage | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| experience frustration, of unlovingness and ungivingness, of ego aggrandizement, of jealousy and resentments, when you give up | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Aggravated..................6 | |
| God and not give in to these temptations aggravated by hardships. If the conditions of His task | 22 SALVATION |
| a sense, it is that. The betrayal is aggravated because you abandon the very thing you yearn | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Whenever this is the case, the conflict is aggravated. When the awakening sex instinct turns to the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| met, you would see that your unhappiness is aggravated by comparing yourself to others. Diminishing the urge | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| hence the fiercer the pain. The pain is aggravated by the struggle that sets in with the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and relatively soon, becomes more firmly entrenched and aggravated. It is, once again, not so much the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Aggression..................69 | |
| will find inferiority feelings, guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish selfishness, fear, and a few | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| enough that you try to replace hatred, resentment, aggression with love and unselfishness. But before you can | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| nor as bad -- as full of hate, aggression, rebellion, and anger -- as you are behind | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| channels until they finally dissolve. If hostility and aggression are suppressed, if fears are suppressed and not | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| which, in turn, causes hatred, resentment, hostility, and aggression. This is the second part of the vicious | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| negative aspect, the principle of expansion manifests as aggression, war, on the material level, and on the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| In woman it often serves to encourage her aggression and hostility; in man, his weakness and dependence | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of a woman, provided she does not use aggression, hostility, and rebellion as the supposedly male qualities | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| and dependency in the man or rebellion and aggression in the woman, the two partners cannot truly | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| hand, the woman may suppress and hide her aggression, hostility, and resentment for the man behind the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| they think the entire world is hostile and aggression is the only means of getting the happiness | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Yet where they should not, they often use aggression most violently. The healthy way will never cause | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mutual exclusiveness. The desire for love and healthy aggression are meant to live peacefully side by side | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| communication can be established. Another such measure is aggression, to which you resort as a protection against | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| type may also admire and envy the despised aggression of others, in spite of feeling superior in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| find this level of rebellion, bitterness, hostility, and aggression. This battle is caused by resistance to giving | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| begin to realize this deep frustration, this deep aggression you have, which is caused by the neurosis | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| says, I should not have these feelings of aggression. I should know better because he acts out | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the activity of correcting life in fantasy removes aggression, hostility and destructive impulses. Another benefit is daydreams | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| feelings that you would rather evade -- doubts, aggression, jealousy, possessiveness, self- centeredness, and self-importance -- in | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| mistaken fear that all his male and healthy aggression is the same as his unhealthy aggression and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| healthy aggression is the same as his unhealthy aggression and hostility -- the result of an accumulation | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| So he feels guilty also for healthy male aggression and energy. He cannot separate the two. Simultaneously | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| desired because one feels insecure and helpless. Often aggression and hostility are taken up by the pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| He no longer expresses the healthy facet of aggression, but, instead, a negative version of it. Some | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| have no reason to feel hostile, so expressing aggression will not create guilt. You will also be | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| unity. QUESTION: Do I understand you correctly that aggression is sometimes a good thing? ANSWER: Yes, there | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| good thing? ANSWER: Yes, there is a healthy aggression. Healthy anger does exist. These are byproducts of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| submissively to assuage your guilt, or with hostile aggression to assuage your self-contempt for your uncertainty. Whatever | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| desire to hurt expresses itself in quarrelsomeness, hostility, aggression. On the sexual level, such an individual is | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| other emotions, such as sadness, self-pity, pain, healthy aggression, and self-assertion. All negative energy currents must be | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| resistance, spite, withdrawal, refusal to cooperate, forceful outer aggression, intimidation, and persuasion through false strength and assumption | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| activity. On the one hand they find false aggression, hostility, violence, overactivity, impatience, refusal to wait for | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| activity, without falsely feeling guilty about your healthy aggression. The creative activation will do justice to both | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| center is also the center of the ego, aggression, self-assertion, backbone and self-responsibility. All these attitudes are | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| pleasure with humiliation and shame, self-assertion with unacceptable aggression. These are typical examples of false unifications that | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Hate will turn into love, cruelty into healthy aggression and self- assertion, stagnation into joy and pleasure | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and your fight is ineffective. Effective fight, healthy aggression, becomes possible only when you no longer hide | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and serious commitment, endeavor, focused will and healthy aggression on the other. This process is the key | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| tribe would act out enmity, suspicion, and negative aggression, not so much by fighting between individuals within | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| opposing other tribes. In the expression of negative aggression, loyalty to one's tribe and protection of the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the part in her where she, too, wants aggression, power, strength -- not only in the real | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| worst excesses and distortions of manhood, the negative aggression and the power games. It has to be | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of the pendulum, man has left his positive aggression behind and has expressed a weakness he would | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| reality surge forth in the state of positive aggression, as well as in the state of soft | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| facets of expansion? When expansion manifests as negative aggression, as a hostile, conquering force that disregards others | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| expanding principle: you seldom recognize in a negative aggression the negative manifestation of the expansive movement. There | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| The wisdom to choose when to use positive aggression and when to give in gracefully, will be | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| dignity intact. Or you may find that positive aggression is in order. Then, where formerly you would | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| others and on yourself. The tenor of your aggression will be different. Or you may come to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| no injustice or abuse that would require your aggression. Positive aggression is not only necessary to expose | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or abuse that would require your aggression. Positive aggression is not only necessary to expose injustice and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be an initial action. This kind of positive aggression is necessary to move out, to expand, to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this is only so with the appropriate, organic aggression that is in accordance with God's will. The | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| autonomy and the strong energy that creates positive aggression and self-assertion. Thus a very confusing mixture in | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| deny their sexuality, and put reins on their aggression, which they identify with evil. Underneath this restraint | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| should indeed deny the prohibition of feelings, positive aggression, sexuality, self-responsibility and autonomy. But they certainly should | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| my energies in an aggressive way, for all aggression must be bad. I would also be guilty | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| oppressive to them, and the light of positive aggression is fearsome and terrifying. Only God manifest can | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| it all for you. You need active, positive aggression to never allow the dark forces within you | 254 SURRENDER |
| 258. PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST -- POSITIVE AGGRESSION -- THE REAL MEANING OF SALVATION Joyfully I | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| you can easily dispel it. Bring your positive aggression to bear upon it, which is very contrary | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| you usually do. By habit, you put all aggression into the service of lower-self aims, while keeping | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| It then seems much easier to let all aggression out in a destructive way and give in | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| a tight urge to pursue, often with undue aggression, untruthful and therefore negative and constricting aims. Visualize | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| all the vigor at your disposal, all the aggression you are beginning to transform from negative to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| you need to rid yourself of. The more aggression you put into such declarations and intents, the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| seeds will grow in your soul substance. Your aggression itself needs to be transformed. This will enable | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| it, the moment has come to transform your aggression. This is also the moment when a further | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |