| Foothold....................5 | |
| of all spiritual security, harmony and a firm foothold. QUESTION: How shall we feel or react toward | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| allowed to be selfish. This notion gets a foothold within you, and you unconsciously believe that to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| within that stream, who have reached their first foothold in that cosmic current, which constantly expands, will | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| experience its beauty when you find your first foothold in true security. Security lies in your first | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| as self-love has not yet quite found a foothold in you, particular kinds of fear may arise | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Footsteps...................7 | |
| much easier for you to follow in His footsteps and remain humble, letting God take over. Immediately | 22 SALVATION |
| emotionally, still a child. So follow in the footsteps of Christ in this respect, too. Crucify your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| this way will you follow Him in His footsteps. You should not do so because of a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| our holy Lord, Jesus Christ. Follow in His footsteps the way it is rightly understood, by finding | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to agree with you, to follow in your footsteps, or, you may have to prove to them | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| all those who are to follow in His footsteps. They react to the identification of Jesus Christ | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and dedicate your life to follow in Christ's footsteps, spirits cannot approach you. But it is not | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Forbid......................3 | |
| are far from perfect. It is another to forbid yourself to feel what you cannot help feeling | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| ill to some degree. The fact that you forbid yourself on all levels the intense pleasure you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| hanker after authority figures who allow everything and forbid nothing, who promise to take away all hardships | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Forbidden...................20 | |
| God's spirits. It is not that they are forbidden from manifesting because the medium has not deserved | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| in childhood as well as later -- were forbidden by some authority. They know, or think, that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| discrepancy. Practically everything the child enjoys most is forbidden. Whatever gives most pleasure is prohibited, usually for | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| her nature. Whenever she sensed in herself these forbidden qualities of intelligence and creativity, she was quick | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of harmonization, of unfolding the hidden and heretofore forbidden side in each. But this aim is mostly | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| misconception, that happiness is selfish and is therefore forbidden, exists because of this misconception. Because of these | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden -- because we have to get it slowly | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| have already eaten the fruit. Why is it forbidden? ANSWER: It refers to your life on earth | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| emotional reactions. You will unlearn the repression of forbidden feelings and will acknowledge them without censorship. Only | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| because you believe, mistakenly, that certain needs are forbidden and wrong, and thus defend against these needs | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the conscious self does not realize that this forbidden area has to be touched, because its existence | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| have been eliminated, freeing some streams, before the forbidden areas can be touched. The areas you do | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| fulfillment. It is exactly the same with the forbidden immature sexual feelings. They, too, must be faced | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is to grow harmoniously and fulfill itself. These forbidden feelings are frequently on a layer below hate | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| hate is artificially fostered as an antidote to forbidden pleasure, and repression of hate and anger occurs | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| rejection and hurt, but equally to what seems forbidden love. In your work on this path, it | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| hold back the constructive forces that were originally forbidden by others. Here, again, is one of those | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| emotions are your true nature, that in these forbidden emotions your true personality is revealed, that this | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The other seems to be too aggressive, vigorous, forbidden. Hence, the spiritual pleasure of knowing the power | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| also discover the miracle that these pleasurable and forbidden desires which you thought were the expectations of | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Forbidding..................4 | |
| control increases awareness and raises consciousness. Instead of forbidding yourself to think, do the opposite: transfer background | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a false serenity or into a domineering aggressive, forbidding attitude. This makes the attainment of love impossible | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| unnecessary cruelty. This step cannot be skipped by forbidding meat-eating. Until such time, you can only find | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| universe are closed. This is not because some forbidding authority decided that you are not worthy of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Force.......................896 | |
| penetrates the entire creation. It is a living force, a beam that meets itself in an eternal | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| these feelings correctly and will allow this driving force to act through them and even lead them | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| God, the longing for God, is the driving force in every human being. Even those who have | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| that cannot be taken away by any outside force. Now I would like to talk about the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| healthy love be attained? Not by trying to force yourself to love; this does not work. It | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| perfection. We can only help, however: we cannot force. First you will have to want to reach | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| if the instructions received there activate their soul force and open the door to self-search and through | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| learn from it, but none of you should force themselves to act in one way or another | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a certain kind of energy, the so-called odic force? ANSWER: Yes, the odic force has something to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the so-called odic force? ANSWER: Yes, the odic force has something to do with it, as the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Some people, as you know, receive this special force before entering this path. This is what you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| can be a great test. When the spiritual force is given to a person who does not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| a trial. The spiritual world intends this spiritual force to be a signpost so that the individual | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| who surround him or her. When, however, the force manifests after the person has entered the path | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of this kind if the observers did not force their own conditions upon the spirits, but would | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| are, as usual, inadequate; it is hard to force the concepts into your language, so infinitely hard | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| outside the world of God. God does not force any creature: choice has to come from the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is a quiet, almost impersonal voice without any force behind it, contrary to what so often comes | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| this inner current merely because you try to force yourself. Similarly, if you do not love a | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you do not love a person you cannot force yourself to do so, as much as you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| by the lower self and becomes an impure force. Let us take, for example, a criminal. He | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| prayer -- then you would add a great force to the Plan of Salvation that is working | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not all of you can see this shining force, you may feel it and receive it and | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| -- the light of Christ returns with renewed force in remembrance of the greatest deed that has | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| is not of substance, being solely principle and force. As I have already said, both views are | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the most radiant matter. It is the life force. God, as well as all creatures in their | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| fulfillment, however, depends upon how you direct this force. Lower developed beings, like animals and plants and | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| love, the fire of divine love. This love force would turn around into its opposite and create | 21 THE FALL |
| this special creative power. Directed to its opposite force, this power would create a world of icy | 21 THE FALL |
| that he not use the same means of force as his opponent, even though his purpose might | 21 THE FALL |
| nothing can be created without the creative divine force. However, it is equally true that the material | 21 THE FALL |
| born as men and women, the spiritual life force first acted to create other forms of life | 21 THE FALL |
| create other forms of life. The original life force that works and manifests itself in each created | 21 THE FALL |
| different one. This one aspect is their particular force with which they help in the great Plan | 21 THE FALL |
| fault is just that. It blurs the love force in the soul. If you proceed in this | 21 THE FALL |
| or for evil. This creative power, this life force, can be directed into any channel and can | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so fast in comparison to spiritual progress will force people to come to this conclusion and this | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to create worlds and types of manifest life- force. The more your desires and goals are purified | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| go through periods when they cannot muster the force to be active. They are tired, they have | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as stealing or killing, but you cannot possibly force yourself to feel that you do not want | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| may act kindly toward another, but you cannot force yourself to feel kindly. Neither can you force | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| force yourself to feel kindly. Neither can you force yourself to have love in your heart or | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| enough faith, but realizing this and trying to force yourself to have it by telling yourself, I | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| would set free in yourself a wonderful life force and a spark that will change your life | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| put order into your soul, this vibrant life force will fill you. Life will be beautiful to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you are lacking faith or love. You cannot force yourself to have faith or love, no matter | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to have love or faith, eventually the life force will fill you and will automatically generate these | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| happens because everybody's different odic forces. The odic force is composed differently in each individual and thus | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is to not try for the moment to force yourself to feel what you have been so | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| this will automatically free a strength and life force that was previously locked or blocked. So I | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| other people as long as your impure currents force you into thinking things that are not according | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| be physical healing forces present, or some spiritual force that you need, and perhaps a force that | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| spiritual force that you need, and perhaps a force that will help you to overcome some of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| actual life, right here and now. Since every force or principle present in the universe also penetrates | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are other positive, constructive desires. Therefore the active force must be put in use in order to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is a negative desire and therefore an active force is used instead of a passive one. Since | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the act of revolting you set an active force in motion where a passive one should exist | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| passive one should exist. Only after the passive force has been cultivated can a different kind of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you do not relinquish or relax this pushing force going in the wrong direction, you cannot make | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the good and proper desires where an active force is badly needed but where you are presently | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| appear weak and without will use less active force than the obviously strong and self-willed ones. Often | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you will have a new strength and life force that you have not known before. For this | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| love. Though the highest angel representatives of each force have all other qualities as well, they have | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| for your purification and to realize its particular force. In a previous lecture I spoke about the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| any self-deception. Feelings change indirectly and not by force, nor by simply trying to tell yourself that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| even more. The vicious circle continues in full force and carries you into deeper emotional conflicts until | 31 SHAME |
| fault as long as you still have to force yourself to do the work. This means that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| do goes against the grain and I must force myself to do it; if I cannot do | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| help even more and inject the more constructive force of truth into the person's psychological and emotional | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| know there are many people, particularly nowadays, who force themselves to think positive thoughts. But that is | 36 PRAYER |
| some of you. You should not try to force the state of being I am explaining here | 36 PRAYER |
| of being I am explaining here. You cannot force it. Anything can be perverted, especially when it | 36 PRAYER |
| coexistence of truth and falsehood accompanies every divine force, aspect, or influx on this earth. One of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |