| Gloss.......................14 | |
| escape from their unfulfillments, to deny them, to gloss over them and falsify their situation. And then | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of against them. But as long as you gloss over your difficulties, your emptiness, or you pretend | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| like yourself to the degree you no longer gloss over and take for granted those apparently unquestionable | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| on the surface, only most people prefer to gloss over it and do not allow themselves to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| you feel yourself not wanting it, do not gloss over this all-important, crucial obstruction. Rather take that | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you take so much for granted that you gloss over your most obvious attitudes, exactly those which | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| emotional responses and train yourself to no longer gloss over them and take them for granted or | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| listen to your own inner answer. Do not gloss over the inner answer, or the first vague | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| it, really use it, and do not just gloss over it. And now, my friends, before we | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| knowing what has happened to you, do not gloss over it. That will create further layers of | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| are still many areas of your lives you gloss over and fail to give the scrutiny so | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| forget your sadness and pain or let you gloss over those aspects of your personality you like | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| same principles prevail. You have conditioned yourself to gloss over the negative thoughts and interpretations you harbor | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| bother to deal with this attitude rather than gloss over it, rationalize it away, or make yourself | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Glossing....................4 | |
| its effects. As long as such ignorance, such glossing over, such vagueness exists, transformation cannot happen. This | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the emotional reactions you were so accustomed to glossing over. The awareness of your violations of universal | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| consequences and ramifications of your negative production, without glossing over any detail, any effect, or side-effect. The | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you feel resistance, admit the resistance, rather than glossing over it, as you may be tempted to | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Glow........................6 | |
| broken. In such a negative cycle, the vital glow of your energy and feelings becomes a tightly | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the spark of the spirit that puts a glow on life. Such incompleteness is dry and sterile | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| to bring the total consciousness to its eternal glow on the outer level of your manifest existence | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| all you see, touch, hear and feel. A glow of joy and peace is attached to your | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| It will lend to all else a new glow, a glow you longed for, but did not | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| lend to all else a new glow, a glow you longed for, but did not know you | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Glowing.....................5 | |
| no image shows itself to us as a glowing form, and, like the universe, is continuously in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the vacuum. The spark had incredible light and glowing aliveness and allness. The vacuum formed an infinity | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| manifestations must follow suit. Your health will be glowing. You will have vitality and energy as you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| own turn of mind and consciousness, become a glowing light force of beautiful creative verve, love and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| selfless, in order to collect desirable rewards of glowing health and fulfilled living. But it is something | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Gluttony....................12 | |
| distinguish between them. The fifth cardinal sin is GLUTTONY. The deeper meaning of gluttony has to do | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| cardinal sin is GLUTTONY. The deeper meaning of gluttony has to do with need. A need that | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| an outlet, among many other possibilities, may be gluttony. Why would ancient wisdom refer to this as | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of the inner pressure. One of these is gluttony. As I indicated previously, there are also many | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is a primary addiction. Is this connected with gluttony? ANSWER: I would say that this very much | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| practice in adulthood, it is certainly related to gluttony, although the displacement of the real need is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| a rewarding relationship on a mature basis. With gluttony, the displacement is so far removed that it | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| opposites, like sloth contrasted with covetousness or with gluttony. They are not exact opposites, but in some | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is any definite connection, say, between sloth and gluttony? ANSWER: The two are opposites, because gluttony is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and gluttony? ANSWER: The two are opposites, because gluttony is a greedy reaching out, coming from a | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| does not reach out. Yet both sloth and gluttony have the same common denominator: an unawareness of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| childish self-concern and selfishness. Since both sloth and gluttony come from confusion and disorder, they create more | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Gnawing.....................20 | |
| the only remedy of unhappiness and of the gnawing discontentment with the self. QUESTION: How can one | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| more and just suffers vaguely in a continuous, gnawing pain. How sad it is to observe this | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| at best a compromise leaving you with a gnawing, unfulfilled longing. At this point the relationship turns | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| do so. You cannot get rid of the gnawing voice of that which should really be acknowledged | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Accepting it, you would cease to have the gnawing feeling of inferiority. Or, if it can be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| The pain of the accusation is the more gnawing of the two. He searches within, but cannot | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| But the effect would wear off. Inwardly the gnawing question would come up all over again, or | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not found the roots of it. Therefore, the gnawing guilt persists. It is as if the psyche | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you find yourself lonely and unfulfilled. The nagging, gnawing voice of your higher conscience urges you not | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| from them. But there will not be a gnawing feeling in your soul that you are a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| bitter hurt of isolation, of loneliness, of the gnawing feeling of having passed through life without experiencing | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and one loses out by not contributing. This gnawing feeling of missing out makes you strive, and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| need to use healthy introspection to find the gnawing undercurrents that cause the depression. Only then can | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| not love, self-assertion becomes very difficult, because your gnawing guilt either paralyzes you, or, if you manage | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and relate, and assert your rights without the gnawing feeling that you have not really conveyed what | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| emotions, by uncertainty or fear, or the slightest gnawing feeling of real or false guilt. The wish | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a while you may succeed in disregarding the gnawing feeling of insecurity that clamors for alleviation. You | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| may practice giving in order to squelch the gnawing guilt. This impairment encourages the false assumption that | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| doing, and why. It is because of the gnawing guilt -- inevitable when negative desires exist whether | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| this terror is not acute, it remains a gnawing force in your soul, a force that must | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Gnaws.......................3 | |
| therefore the real cure. A deeply permeating guilt gnaws at their soul. This is a different kind | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| your truth can you lose the self-doubt that gnaws behind the suspicions and doubts you harbor about | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you look into the pain of injustice that gnaws at your insides. Furthermore, to the degree you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Gnostic.....................10 | |
| the Scriptures or in some of the so-called Gnostic literature for the same reason that a number | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God! The Wisdom of the Savior, a second-century Gnostic document. 24. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings in the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Sophia about the spheres a factual or a Gnostic concept -- the division of the different worlds | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is clearly expressed. It is said in the Gnostic teachings that in the Father we are born | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| QUESTION: I have been studying a little about gnostic religion and I found that the teachings expounded | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| are very similar to those found in many gnostic speculations. If they are similar, maybe you could | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| reason for the decline and virtual disappearance of gnostic religion? ANSWER: It has not disappeared. It has | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to survive until the present day, while the gnostic religions which are more in accord with your | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| just because more truth was rooted in certain gnostic religions, there existed less of a power drive | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| so successful inwardly. The neglected truth teachings of gnostic religions may outwardly appear weak because there are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Goal........................280 | |
| the most difficult to reach, this is the goal to which you all aspire: it is the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| who claim their own happiness as the ultimate goal -- which is usually the case, even if | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the good you have received has its ultimate goal in yourself, it cannot remain alive in you | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| guide you, so that you can achieve this goal. A person who does this is indeed a | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| more and more fully the connections. Then your goal will no longer be immediate happiness through the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| at first you learn how to attain your goal with the help of spiritual protection. Then this | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| this material. Whenever human beings set themselves a goal, whether consciously or just emotionally, and this goal | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| goal, whether consciously or just emotionally, and this goal is a selfish one, they will often not | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| your own happiness is no longer the ultimate goal of your endeavors. That is, the I will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| because you want it; on the contrary, the goal will be to give happiness to the other | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| will no longer want to be the ultimate goal, but rather a link in the chain, it | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| it. However, if the intellect becomes the ultimate goal and not a means to an end, a | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| easy to misunderstand this. To want the overall goal with a healthy will is very important, but | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| else human beings can ever experience. Since the goal of my teachings is to make the contact | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| and does not think of having reached the goal once and for all -- because that does | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| That is really all you need, since the goal of the contact cannot be anything else. You | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| as a means to an end, not a goal in itself, then the integration is right. When | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the purpose of this path, this is the goal, which, however, you cannot expect to attain right | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| ready to move freely from within you. This goal can be achieved only by following a slow | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| advantage of the possibilities to reach this wonderful goal, for whatever reasons -- laziness, love of comfort | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the small and narrow path of self-development. The goal is perfection. The basis of this is to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| this, each one of you can approach this goal much faster than you may think possible. And | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| words. For instance, since you cannot reach your goal without finding your own truth, you can free | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| harming other people in order to achieve his goal. A more highly developed person will not act | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| this is the end of the world. Your goal is to be always happy and to eliminate | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| mystic way, therefore, means complete purification, and the goal remains utterly and solely God, fulfilling His will | 18 FREE WILL |
| this highest of all experiences as the ultimate goal because this again would be a selfish goal | 18 FREE WILL |
| goal because this again would be a selfish goal, and selfishness is diametrically opposed to mysticism. Therefore | 18 FREE WILL |
| selfishness is diametrically opposed to mysticism. Therefore, the goal of the true mystic in our eyes is | 18 FREE WILL |
| of best service to your fellow-creatures is the goal. And only a very healthy, very integrated, and | 18 FREE WILL |
| can really give, love, and help. Thus the goal of the mystic is God, not because the | 18 FREE WILL |
| life. Magic merely explores the psychic forces. The goal of the magician, even the white magician, is | 18 FREE WILL |
| mystic will, on the way to his ultimate goal, also encounter some of the same psychic forces | 18 FREE WILL |
| and may even use them occasionally, but his goal will always remain clear in his mind. The | 18 FREE WILL |
| cured forever. Union with God, which is the goal, is the opposite of splitting and separation. The | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| of the beyond depends entirely on the attitude, goal, and general development of the medium as well | 21 THE FALL |
| want to develop your attributes, what is your goal, and in what direction should willpower and self-control | 21 THE FALL |
| be utilized. In order to have willpower, the goal has to be clear in your mind, yet | 21 THE FALL |
| that you should remain this way. The ultimate goal must be to change the negative trends, but | 21 THE FALL |
| extending their own growing perfection, postponed this ultimate goal for the purpose of using their powers to | 22 SALVATION |
| who put the greatest effort imaginable into his goal to cause Christ to fall. He used every | 22 SALVATION |
| doubt. And if you have not achieved this goal yet, you know what remains for you to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| change these emotions is not only an impossible goal and therefore your hurry is futile and unrealistic | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| by purified feelings. And purified feelings are your goal on this path, for which you do not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| friends who are interested in reaching the same goal. Some of you who read these words may | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| as yet, but we work best for this goal not by trying to destroy, but by building | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| do not fight. They all have the same goal. They know the limitations of spirits of lower | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to pay the necessary price for a desired goal, you leave the issue in the unconscious, thinking | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| must want the right thing and the ultimate goal. The outer will must be serene and give | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| become stepping stones on the way to the goal. The outer will must be flexible; it must | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that his judgment is wrong. More precisely, his goal or endeavor is a good one, just as | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| endeavor is a good one, just as the goal of a sincere soldier may be a good | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| your own happiness will no longer be the goal. It will be a means to an end | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| higher realms for others. In lower realms the goal becomes the self. Use the positive aspects to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| current that they become ruthless in attaining their goal at the expense of others. Again I say | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| which you are still unaware. So your immediate goal cannot be perfection, even though it is the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| be perfection, even though it is the ultimate goal. Know this ultimate goal but work first toward | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| it is the ultimate goal. Know this ultimate goal but work first toward the immediate one, which | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| find your way, with God as your final goal. Your inner stubbornness and prejudices create conflicts in | 36 PRAYER |
| go on again. Sometimes you cannot see the goal for a long time; you know what it | 36 PRAYER |
| divine attributes. Prayer is essential to achieve this goal. How? -- you may ask. In the first | 36 PRAYER |
| front of your mind's eye what your immediate goal is -- the goal you can see now | 36 PRAYER |
| eye what your immediate goal is -- the goal you can see now. It will also give | 36 PRAYER |
| how much you continue to deviate from the goal when you observe yourself in your daily review | 36 PRAYER |
| be much easier for you to reach the goal. In this way, when you delve into the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| at all times. Until you have reached the goal, keep on trying to penetrate your own disharmony | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| truth. It is always good to approach the goal from two sides, the outside and the inside | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| do not meet this demand, they forfeit the goal for which their soul strives. This extreme of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| with the higher ones in the very same goal. Even long before you can purify yourself to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the wrong alternative must also lead toward the goal of unity and freedom from illusion, or mass | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| wise, good and understanding authority will remain a goal to be attained. You will understand that even | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| still what you are, you obstruct the very goal you want to attain. I know, my friends | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| divine conscience has time; it desires its ultimate goal for the purpose of loving better; it knows | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| point by point, you will finally reach the goal of unfolding your inner voice of wisdom that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| only the motive varies. In other words, the goal may be right. God's will is relaxed, patient | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| necessary instrument to be used, but as a goal for unity. You all know that selfishness, self-centeredness | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In its positive aspect it represents the ultimate goal, the highest stage one can reach: the state | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| than what financial security is in itself. The goal then is distorted to serve a need other | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |