| Forming.....................23 | |
| in an ever-growing unity with every other soul, forming a true, free bond with all its brothers | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and examine it. It does take training, and forming the habit of observing yourself from this point | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| penetrate your unconscious with these new insights by forming the thought form from various angles. Ask God | 36 PRAYER |
| friends. Be in the Lord. 51. IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS Greetings, my dear friends. God bless | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| part of this conflict. The entire topic of forming one's own opinions -- which we have examined | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| where wrong concepts are in the process of forming, due to certain emotional distress. The child will | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problems exist or are in the process of forming. In the right way, the right teaching will | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| physical subsistence. Similarly, children are not capable of forming their own ideas. They cannot discriminate between reason | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| closely related, also play a significant role in forming the original impressions in the child's malleable soul | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the tendency to forsake independent inquiry and the forming of one's own concepts in harmony with the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| alarm. It requires a period of re-orientation, of forming new methods of operation which are more realistic | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be very highly developed, provided the individuals forming the group are predominantly in a state of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| consciousness perceives, creates, and formulates something important, world forming, or just a passing insignificant attitude, the principle | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| dropped out of college. He was incapable of forming any relationships. He felt constantly threatened by people | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| tie. This will prevent him or her from forming a new relationship with similar underlying currents and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| pure and are thus part of the individual, forming an integrated whole. Other aspects of consciousness are | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not been fully experienced and thus lie stagnant, forming a block in your system. When you fear | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| they bring are pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, forming little by little a comprehensive picture. Eventually you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| for you. You could play at first with forming new thoughts, weighing new possibilities and alternatives in | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| available to new possibilities in conceiving, perceiving, and forming new inner attitudes will experience the richness of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the pieces will again fall into place, re- forming either the same pattern of chain reactions or | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| feel as an energy movement in your body, forming successive tiny explosions as if stars were dancing | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| to pass, and thus be responsible for re- forming the creative energies. Sometimes -- but not always | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Formless....................6 | |
| concrete in spirit; everything that for you is formless, is form in spirit, form composed of higher | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| It is real. For you, abstract ideas are formless. In the spirit world all abstract ideas have | 18 FREE WILL |
| does not mean that they are unsubstantial and formless. Only in your material world are thoughts and | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| Considered superficially it would seem that water, being formless and fluid, would be weaker than the sturdy | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the matter. But this does not make them formless or their existence less real. According to people's | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| not bodiless, for even unstructured consciousness is not formless. Unstructured consciousness creates so-called subtle bodies of streaming | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Forms.......................281 | |
| others. The knots and tangles are also spiritual forms which are a reality, my dear ones. We | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| person's individual attitude and outlook, but the spiritual forms so constructed indicate exactly what this entity needs | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| events that fate brings to you are spiritual forms which have to manifest in a concrete way | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| way. If through ignorance of these laws unfavorable forms are created, each being has to dissolve them | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| now that all thoughts and feelings create spiritual forms of the greatest reality, even if you cannot | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| reality, even if you cannot see them. These forms have far-reaching effects: in ever-spreading circles, actions create | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| then, in your meditations, build good, healthy spiritual forms -- for instance by visualizing yourself free from | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to ask for signs and answers, but the forms these take cannot be determined by you. Perhaps | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will feel, and so on, in many different forms. The modalities in which the contact with God's | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| like air, but for us they are solid forms, walls built of granite. When, however, a medium | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| have to be formulated again and again; thought forms have to be built and rebuilt. With time | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| With the thoughts of prayer you build harmonious forms, so that the thought- prayer activates favorable energies | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| have learned the feeling-prayer or meditation. Yet thought forms, though they may not have the power of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| they may not have the power of feeling forms, can nevertheless manifest their own greatness when coming | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| ideas about the kingdom of God, false thought forms that you erect in your imagination. God's kingdom | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| error, the truth cannot penetrate. When the thought forms are false, God's kingdom cannot come to you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| explain to you that thoughts and feelings are forms, it becomes somewhat easier for you to understand | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| somewhat easier for you to understand that these forms build corresponding spheres. Landscapes, surroundings, clothes, whatever it | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| be readjusted, and this takes time. The outside forms have to be remodeled, remade. You yourself have | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the right channels, the more the respective outside forms will change gradually but surely. Until this process | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| a reflection, an imitation of the corresponding spiritual forms. They actually could not exist in your world | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| have form and substance. Unclean thoughts build disharmonious forms, which must eventually affect your lives and destinies | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is enclosed in the subconscious mind. There disharmonious forms build themselves every bit as destructively as from | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| also know that your thoughts have definite spiritual forms, and that such forms are created not only | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| thoughts have definite spiritual forms, and that such forms are created not only by thoughts, but also | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| does, nevertheless, both create very definite and substantial forms. Each subtle body, as well as the physical | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| feeling-forms reflect their image in the aura. These forms really do exist in the spirit. The auras | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| images themselves, only reflections of the images. These forms create the spheres in the spirit world and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| strong, and durable. In other words, all these forms fluctuate and change since everything in spirit is | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| individual faults. There are many shades and possible forms however, in which the lower self can display | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| self-deception is very common among human beings. The forms of the higher self have an entirely different | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the subconscious where it will ferment and create forms that have their effect and cannot be eliminated | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| thoughts and feelings are spiritual creations. They create forms of all kinds in the spiritual world. If | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is very rarely the case -- you create forms that will build harmonious spheres, structures, and landscapes | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| who give in to the lower self create forms that correspond to the quality, strength, and type | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| not exclude their simultaneously creating harmonious and beautiful forms to the degree that their higher self is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| thought without substance and form. Daydreams create their forms, too, and these thought forms stand in the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Daydreams create their forms, too, and these thought forms stand in the way of any fulfillment you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to let yourselves be tempted, because these thought forms prevent your true fulfillment. In addition, you waste | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| use up their energy to build these thought forms. In this way, they withdraw from the reality | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| they would not indulge in these particular thought forms. Are there any questions in connection with this | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| not make any difference. We see the thought forms. QUESTION: In other words, you do not see | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| do that, your problems will reappear in other forms in your next life. QUESTION: In his book | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| The attitudes of disharmony and hatred created such forms. There is not just one possibility in this | 21 THE FALL |
| spiritual life force first acted to create other forms of life. The original life force that works | 21 THE FALL |
| and deciding, can development take place. All the forms of life which existed before human beings have | 21 THE FALL |
| namely what you now call mediumship in various forms. Communication with spheres of the beyond depends entirely | 21 THE FALL |
| in language, but also in any sort of forms you know is only a limited imitation of | 22 SALVATION |
| almost every human soul, the outpouring of energy forms in the form of warfare will cease to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it can perceive -- and remember -- certain forms. You know that thoughts create forms in the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- certain forms. You know that thoughts create forms in the spirit world and the child perceives | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a form of communication. There are many different forms. Later on Jesus would not appear Himself anymore | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| various stages of the Fall manifested in other forms. In explaining part of this, I will take | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these expressions existed in other worlds or other forms, and when the world of matter came into | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into existence, these part-souls incarnated in these various forms. In other words, mineral, plant and animal life | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not always have to go through the same forms of existence on the downward curve as on | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mineral, plant, and animal life, and why these forms of existence should in many cases be still | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| been and still are dying out and other forms of animal life come into existence. The same | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| worlds or parts of worlds, spheres, or certain forms in accordance with their own particular individuality. So | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| their own particular individuality. So there are all forms of recreation in the spirit world. There is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| see, my dear friends, I can observe the forms of your thoughts and feelings. I can see | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| comfort. They do not particularly strive for higher forms of consciousness and happiness. Their choice may often | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| feelings, your reactions and your attitudes create definite forms that are as substantial and visible as any | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| square--as though this were a matter of opinion--the forms perceptible in spirit cannot be argued about. Do | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Since all thoughts, endeavors, and feelings create spiritual forms, such a group striving sincerely to get nearer | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| process. In this jungle you constantly create soul forms with your thoughts, feelings, and actions. In the | 36 PRAYER |
| speak of is not merely an analogy. These forms exist in actual fact. They exist in subtle | 36 PRAYER |
| you would not do you any good. The forms I speak of do exist, my friends. And | 36 PRAYER |
| can see them clearly. On the path, the forms vary with each individual, for no two people | 36 PRAYER |
| more and more individuals. Concentrate on the thought forms of everything you have learned: the necessity for | 36 PRAYER |
| beings. Such thoughts create clear, light, and good forms that will definitely have effect. This most creative | 36 PRAYER |
| and concise expression -- at least in thought forms and clear statements -- will you reach this | 36 PRAYER |
| Just as your negative reactions and thoughts create forms of confusion, so thoughts and feelings you cultivate | 36 PRAYER |
| cultivate in prayer create good, clear, and harmonious forms. These forms will eventually help you change your | 36 PRAYER |
| prayer create good, clear, and harmonious forms. These forms will eventually help you change your inner and | 36 PRAYER |
| even in earliest childhood or infancy, every personality forms certain impressions due to environmental influences or to | 38 IMAGES |
| themselves spontaneously to your immediate needs. But the forms of the thought/feelings emanating from wrong images are | 38 IMAGES |
| certain incidents in one's life. An image always forms some sort of pattern, whether it is a | 38 IMAGES |
| wrong impressions and conclusions that a human being forms over the course of several lifetimes. I spoke | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| emotions, dissolve your images and create new, productive forms in your soul that correspond to divine law | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| problems have recurred. They may have taken various forms, but there is always a repetitive pattern. This | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| are so afraid of hurt that you create forms in your soul that bring you more needless | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| do not believe that emotions and thoughts are forms, creating emotional magnetic fields that draw events, people | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| he has created for himself with his thought forms, the forms of his emotions, as well as | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| created for himself with his thought forms, the forms of his emotions, as well as with his | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of many particles which are incarnated in different forms of existence. The lower the development, the further | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| You know that in spirit both are concrete forms of subtle matter. The way we see it | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| opinions unfortified by emotion are weak, and the forms can dissolve much faster than those in which | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| applies to positive as well as negative thought forms. The strongest conscious conviction or thought is nothing | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| based on the law of affinity, because the forms of thought, feeling, and desire attract that which | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| confronted with such a situation there are two forms of behavior. On this path one tries in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| You all know that thoughts and feelings create forms of subtle matter which are of a substance | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| punishes them, but because they have set certain forms in motion that oppose their life plan. When | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| human being we know at once by the forms in the soul, by the pictures within, whether | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the manifest cruelty and wickedness in their extreme forms. It is all ignorance, all error, all deviation | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the self is destroyed. The self-destruction takes different forms and creates different symptoms in different organisms. Tiredness | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| You must differentiate between the right and wrong forms of both these basic religious attitudes. The wrong | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| also intensify your fear of God. All this forms an image which makes, if properly analyzed, a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| well. Wrong kind of self-love exists in many forms. The crudest is selfishness, putting oneself in a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| them to be tender, sympathetic, considerate! Many other forms exist as well. Find them. If you can | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the same sex is sought, just as other forms of perversity are sought for the same reason | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the way, is also one of the many forms of rebellion against authority. It is also quite | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| life? Is it really devotion to God that forms this concept or is something else hidden behind | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand the particular human language. I see the forms of thought in picture language and try to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they exist on all levels and in all forms, from the most subtle to the coarsest. They | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you find life in the same or similar forms on other planets has nothing to do with | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| particular misconception. This mass image takes on many forms in your unconscious. Therefore, the outer manifestation varies | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| affects the individual's God-image? ANSWER: God-images have many forms. But whatever they may be, the connection between | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is one form of compulsion. There are other forms, but they are not connected with your question | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |