| full use of free will. The will of God cannot be fulfilled unless you use your free | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| ability. QUESTION: Is not the will to serve God and to be a better human being also | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you and hold you back from your development. God has given you the opportunity to start on | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you, for instance, say If I could see God, or if I could see an angel, I | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the world of darkness. Then the angels of God show themselves. There are good reasons for that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| or learn about spiritual truth or law, about God and His creation. It does not even mean | 31 SHAME |
| for your misfortunes; you blame fate, you blame God; you blame the alleged injustice of the world | 31 SHAME |
| yourself up to try again, then you pay God the debt you owe Him; then you are | 31 SHAME |
| The help you need is the grace of God. Without it you cannot reach your unconscious and | 31 SHAME |
| But if you wait for the grace of God in defiance and anger, saying to yourself, Why | 31 SHAME |
| Nurse these words instead of turning away from God the moment things become difficult for you. This | 31 SHAME |
| attached to some of your faults, pray that God may help you to recognize why this is | 31 SHAME |
| direct hindrance to love -- and therefore to God. I will also point out what the underlying | 31 SHAME |
| grow. Be blessed, all of you. Be in God. 32. DECISION-MAKING Greetings in the Name of the | 31 SHAME |
| together for the good for those who love God. Let us examine this statement of the Scriptures | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| its deeper meaning. The words, those who love God do not mean merely that you believe in | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| do not mean merely that you believe in God or that you profess to love Him or | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| prayers. As you know, the true love of God means to work spiritually, to develop, and to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| also your emotions. You must come to love God in your emotions. To achieve that is, of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the road of spiritual development can truly love God. How then can we explain that all things | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and thus proves his or her love for God. Yet so many of you do not know | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| other words a person who does not love God above everything, will find that the best things | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| words of tonight's lecture, my friends. To love God means naturally, among many other things, to abide | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| patiently and humbly wait until the grace of God is given to me. If you cultivate these | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| must be yours. Then you will have experienced God in such a way that you will be | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| that he or she is something special to God, a favorite child; he holds a very particular | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| something quite unique and thinks he can possess God for himself. This is a harmful feeling -- | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| motives -- the desire to come near to God, the love for the Creator -- mingle with | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| that such feelings exist in your relationship with God, it is your task to test yourself if | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| more than anyone else in the eyes of God. The feeling that you are something special to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| The feeling that you are something special to God can be considered as a transitory state in | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| in your development. Your longing and love of God is awakening before your pride and self-will have | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to test your feelings when you think about God, when you feel God, and when you strive | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| when you think about God, when you feel God, and when you strive to get nearer to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| which you believe yourself nearer and dearer to God than other people? The root of this feeling | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| in people who feel themselves specially loved by God. There is often even a kind of arrogance | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| particularly irritates you. Then think how very much God also loves this particular person, just as much | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| developed, he or she is still loved by God. This will be a wonderful exercise, exactly the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| work at all times for the sake of God because you are not always sure that He | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to you to ask for the truth of God, because even for that your thoughts are too | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| yourself many a difficult hour by turning to God at once and by realizing what I am | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to judge the justice of the laws of God. You often feel inclined to say that something | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| even against the advice of an angel of God. Consider that, my friends. I started this lecture | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| cannot happen unless it is the will of God. If a conception today is not to serve | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| And when it says in the Bible that God has counted every single hair on your head | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| particular to become quiet within, to turn to God, and to spiritualize her whole being and attitude | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| say--when an intermediary human authority between man and God will no longer be necessary. Then the various | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| because of their different ways to come to God. Yet, whoever was in power would still enforce | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a personal contact with the Spirit World of God, through his own channels. Spirits of the World | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| his own channels. Spirits of the World of God who talk through a medium can only show | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| you are cut off from the World of God. You yourself should make an effort to remain | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| souls, and for your spirits. Be in peace, God bless you, be in God! 35. TURNING TO | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Be in peace, God bless you, be in God! 35. TURNING TO GOD Greetings in the Name | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| bless you, be in God! 35. TURNING TO GOD Greetings in the Name of the Lord. Blessings | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| a group striving sincerely to get nearer to God is building a veritable temple in the spirit | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to ask a favor of you. Always glorify God; do not ever glorify me. For I am | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the help I am allowed to give, thank God and only Him! Never forget that it is | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| and only Him! Never forget that it is God who is responsible, that without His strength and | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| creatures could lift a finger. Many people seek God in the wrong way. I will try to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| amount of disappointment. Sometimes human beings turn to God only because contact with other human beings proves | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| hurt. The person in frustration often turns to God. The feeling is, God will not disappoint me | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| frustration often turns to God. The feeling is, God will not disappoint me. God has enough love | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| The feeling is, God will not disappoint me. God has enough love. God is far away and | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| will not disappoint me. God has enough love. God is far away and intangible: I risk nothing | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| my friends, is the wrong way to seek God. It is infinitely better than the primitive reaction | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| infinitely better than the primitive reaction of blaming God for one's disappointments and the failures of others | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| is to doubt or deny the existence of God because of one's personal disappointments. The human being | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| entered the school of life. To turn to God because this is less disappointing and hazardous represents | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| grade of elementary school. The way to seek God is out of the fullness of your life | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| fullness of life. But if you turn to God because it is safer and because He represents | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| and then ask yourself whether your striving for God does not amount to using Him as a | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the only motive in your desire to find God. Motives can be mixed; they often are in | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| may ask, should we not then turn to God? Yes, you should! But it depends again on | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| go about doing it. If you pray to God in your disappointment, asking Him, Father, help me | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| such inner action is that you can find God better by renouncing the world, then you are | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| world, then you are misdirected in two ways: God is really a substitute for you; and secondly | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| deceived by the part of you that seeks God in truth; look for the hidden part that | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| So test yourself. The best way to find God is always by learning to love other people | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| not allow the fulfillment to come to you. God answers your prayer by making you conscious of | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| planted between themselves and the infinite bliss that God wants all His children to enjoy. Before I | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| a service. We spirits of the world of God encourage humans to become independent. We do not | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| on the right road can receive answers from God. It is our job to train you, not | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| friends of this group. Convince yourself how much God likes you to do that. You will receive | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| my dear friends! Be in peace. Be in God! 36. PRAYER Greetings in the Name of the | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| my friends; blessed is this hour. To seek God is the most glorious and gratifying of all | 36 PRAYER |
| glorious and gratifying of all activities. To find God is perforce a slow and gradual process. To | 36 PRAYER |
| and gradual process. To seek and to find God means liberation; it means freedom from your inner | 36 PRAYER |
| from your inner chains. In order to find God, you must go, as we say, on the | 36 PRAYER |
| which you have to find your way, with God as your final goal. Your inner stubbornness and | 36 PRAYER |
| way and not without logic -- why should God grant a human being help or grace simply | 36 PRAYER |
| and God's light exist all over the universe. God does not decide to give or to withhold | 36 PRAYER |
| so that someone who has no belief in God may at least learn concentration. Daily prayer is | 36 PRAYER |
| clarify and to present your problems concisely to God and to yourself. You must know God wants | 36 PRAYER |
| to God and to yourself. You must know God wants you to find out the truth within | 36 PRAYER |
| element of prayer is that anyone who approaches God in prayer will automatically have a more humble | 36 PRAYER |
| blame others and the world, or fate, or God for their miseries will, at least during the | 36 PRAYER |
| creatures in the universe. Even their idea of God is cut to order to suit their personal | 36 PRAYER |
| my friends, do not tell me, I love God and I try to be a good person | 36 PRAYER |
| to overcome what is most difficult for you. God will not make it easier for you to | 36 PRAYER |
| happens from the viewpoint of spiritual development, asking God for help and understanding. You may have to | 36 PRAYER |
| forming the thought form from various angles. Ask God each day what you have to learn. Ask | 36 PRAYER |
| Isn't prayer also a confirmation of faith in God? ANSWER: Of course it is. That is part | 36 PRAYER |
| be living a lie. Try it and ask God to help you to feel wholeheartedly within yourself | 36 PRAYER |
| and feel differently from what is pleasing to God. Pray that you may find out specifically what | 36 PRAYER |
| reach a certain point on your road to God, you will not know the difference between pain | 36 PRAYER |
| but they should still rise and retire in God and with God. This does not take more | 36 PRAYER |
| still rise and retire in God and with God. This does not take more than a few | 36 PRAYER |
| my dear ones. Be in peace, be in God. 37. ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY | 36 PRAYER |
| in the name of the Highest Lord and God. I bring blessings for all of you, my | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| is the person who has truly declared for God! But how few such people are there in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| half-hearted compromises. What is a wholehearted decision for God? It always involves giving up something. It may | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| proven the willingness to sacrifice something important for God. Many people have mistakenly interpreted the law that | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| interpreted the law that governs a decision for God to mean giving up the world and retiring | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the wholehearted declaration that they have made for God, His will and its fulfillment is expressed in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| may never know this is quite natural. Often God gives back what one has first given up | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| friends, if you are not willing to let God take over entirely? How can you be a | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| entirely? How can you be a child of God if worldly considerations matter more while considerations of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| your purification, your development, and your relationship to God are made secondary? You cannot compromise with God | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| God are made secondary? You cannot compromise with God, though this is often what you want to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you go on with your life as though God and His call did not exist. You cannot | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| when it is requested by the world of God to put belief into practice at last. But | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to see the light, senses the existence of God, and comes to believe in Him. Then the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Events will occur in such a way that God speaks clearly to the seeker: Do you mean | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| anything else? An occasional prayer is not enough. God wants the whole of you so that He | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| whole of Him. Only by giving yourself to God will you be at peace with yourself. A | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| of your soul. A part of you wants God, wants to experience yourself as a child of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| wants to experience yourself as a child of God, wants to develop and purify. Yet with another | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| know better. You want to come nearer to God on your terms, not His. You think it | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you to surrender yourself completely and wholly to God. Thus do you project your own limitations on | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| on your part. The act of sacrificing for God and overcoming your self-will is the right kind | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| disharmony, and so on. For any child of God and for any created being no longer in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you learn from the hard times and ask God in your darkest hour what it is that | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| be a great joy for the world of God if all the very human animosities and misunderstandings | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| is not without problems -- then pray to God. He will give you further guidance and lead | 38 IMAGES |
| be cheated. This is the merciful law of God. Otherwise you could never emerge from the misery | 38 IMAGES |
| spirit world will choose to help you, then God will lead you to further victory. Do not | 38 IMAGES |
| trials, and hardships. One school of thought claims God does not send tests. God is love; how | 38 IMAGES |
| of thought claims God does not send tests. God is love; how could He want us to | 38 IMAGES |
| rather in an extension of these two concepts. God has made perfect laws and given His children | 38 IMAGES |
| eventually change the direction of your will. In God alone lies infinity, and if you choose any | 38 IMAGES |
| unhappiness, yet when you realize that you, not God and the fates, are to blame, your revolt | 38 IMAGES |