| God-........................5 | |
| that the sex instinct is as natural and God- given as any other universal force and in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of God, common to all human beings. The God- image may be life, the rules of life | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of creation. 2) a reaction to the superstitious God- Image and self-projection of man, denying self-responsibility. This | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| so, only the part that obstructs your real God- experience will crumble. Is it so difficult to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| above others? Your God-consciousness and the other person's God- consciousness are never in conflict. Only the ego | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| God-authority...............2 | |
| have to convey the idea of a stern God-authority in order to prevent crime. There are other | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| succeeds in really making you helpless, while the god-authority you desire to take over your responsibility is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| God-carrier.................1 | |
| know that you are a creator and a God-carrier as it were. The pendulum must swing until | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| God-concept.................3 | |
| to God, as well as an entirely different God-concept. Emotionally, the words may often remain the same | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| there is no prayer, because there is no God-concept. In the next stage, when man begins to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and emotional development, the weaker they became. Their God-concept was based on being ruled; government was arbitrary | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| God-consciousness...........10 | |
| will grow up with a strong feeling of God-consciousness, perhaps even in spite of atheistic and materialistic | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not wish to obtain for yourself. But the God-consciousness will reveal to you that His world is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and strength, and creative living that is the God-consciousness. Although the ego-consciousness is ill equipped to handle | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| consciousness which is now in harmony with your god-consciousness. Many of you find yourselves in an interim | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| because you have not totally surrendered to the god-consciousness, or you have not sufficiently faced negative aspects | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| not wish to set yourself above others? Your God-consciousness and the other person's God- consciousness are never | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| divided, and often in conflict and contradiction. The God-consciousness in you is One. The Godself does not | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| approach the state in which you know that God-consciousness is within everything. The ego only decides which | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| carried by the surge of the glory of God-consciousness, but they would not be totally infused with | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| those who are fully centered in their own God-consciousness, thus able to create their lives according to | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| God-creature................1 | |
| strengthen the independence and self-responsibility essential to the God-creature you wish to become. If you understand these | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Goddess.....................1 | |
| of spiritual truth. QUESTION: Are the god and goddess Shiva and Kali in any way connected with | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God-eclipsing...............1 | |
| human soul which are what you might call God-eclipsing. Last time I explained that pride, self-will, and | 31 SHAME |
| God-experience..............11 | |
| dualism and monism. People who have had a God-experience in the state of being, in the state | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to attain selfhood. You cannot have a genuine God-experience and trust and belief in God if you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| No outer knowledge provides you with a genuine God-experience, and, for that matter, you would not even | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wonder and perception, he often has a genuine God-experience and relationship. But then, as he grows more | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| all these emotions and attitudes color this first God-experience and he relates no longer according to a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| his psyche become liberated. In this liberation, genuine God-experience is the inevitable outcome. This genuine God-experience is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| genuine God-experience is the inevitable outcome. This genuine God-experience is very different from the childish belief in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| facilitates the proper attitude toward one-self. This genuine God-experience is being. God is not perceived as acting | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| truth and without love, there can be no God-experience. Love cannot grow out of trying to pretend | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| pointed out again and again, before the true God-experience can occur, you all must learn to stand | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| God-image need to be changed before a true God-experience is possible. Every desire for escape must disappear | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| God-experiences.............1 | |
| the contradiction, and I tell you that both God-experiences are equally true. Each divine aspect must also | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| God-expressing..............1 | |
| If you are a highly developed, conscious, and God-expressing individual, no fear of death would mean unending | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| God-given...................3 | |
| sight of the fact that reason also is God-given. Such people are just as arrogant as the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| unconscious thinking is. You feel guilty about a God-given force instead of feeling guilty about your fear | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| true that these acts indicate denial of the God-given unification of love and sexuality, of the greatest | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Godhead.....................1 | |
| make connections is already a manifestation of the Godhead within. Now let us come to immortality. Again | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Godhood.....................1 | |
| eventually equivalent to being in a state of godhood? ANSWER: Yes, of course. But when this state | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| God-idea....................1 | |
| escape under an unhealthy preoccupation with an abstract God-idea that could anyway never be really understood through | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| God-image...................53 | |
| peace, my friends, be in God! 52. THE GOD-IMAGE Greetings. I bring you blessings in the name | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| cruel. The person who unconsciously maintains the distorted God-image rightly fears this deity and resorts to cajoling | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| she can get away with practically anything. The God-image resulting from such a condition is, at first | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| stronger to begin with. The pampering and indulgent God-image is not simply added to the monster-image, but | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| important, my friends, to find out what your God-image is. This image is basic and determines all | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| about God rather than what you think. Your God-image reflects the whole scale between the two opposite | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Once you experience this, you can dissolve your God-image, whether you fear God because you believe in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the effects of your life will dissolve either God-image. This is one of the main breaking- points | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Your reactions will have a connection with your God-image. Are there any questions regarding this subject? QUESTION | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| but realize the significance of this, the terrible God-image people generally have would automatically vanish. Whenever you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| despair and depression, as long as a false God-image exists in you, you keep blaming God, perhaps | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| ask how this mass image affects the individual's God-image? ANSWER: God-images have many forms. But whatever they | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| between the mass image of self-importance and the God-image is this: it creates a further conflict in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| mass image of self-importance and the stronger the God-image, the more the personality will be disturbed, because | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to one particular wrong concept. But when the God-image and the mass image of self- importance work | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of two different directions: one direction is the God-image, the other direction is the real self in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and is identified as the voice of the God-image. Thus the contrary pull, which draws you away | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| self and the illusory side, where the false God-image rules, do not coincide, they are not at | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| wonder how all this ties in with the God-image. Since both the God-image and this condition are | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| ties in with the God-image. Since both the God-image and this condition are basic, how do they | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| do they combine? In your work on the God-image or Life-image - - for some people the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in your unconscious. As you know, in your God-image this god seems unjust, inadequate, weak, and therefore | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of your conscious concept. This aspect of the God-image ties in quite easily with the subject just | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| But there is one further aspect of the God-image that has not yet been found, or at | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you try to find this aspect of the God-image in you, my friends, if you have not | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| what. At any rate, your understanding the unconscious God-image will not be complete unless you include this | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you are thus deluded. According to the distorted God-image, people feel that God requires them to be | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| connection, have very much to do with the God-image, as well as with the fear of the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you learned that it is always the distorted God-image which is responsible for that fear. You may | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the main image, the idealized self-image and the God-image, particularly in regard to prayer? How does this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prayer or any other constructive activity impossible. The God-image is not an actual concept of God, common | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cope with unless special defenses are established. The God-image plays a major role in building these defenses | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dictator in your environment. In either case, the God-image is the first obstacle and, according to character | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| speaking, either one of these attitudes to the God-image determines the type of idealized self-image that you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has a further purpose in connection with the God-image. To obey the hated rules against one's will | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| viewed as stupid. In such a case, the God-image will subtly merge with the idealized self-image. You | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you see how the basic helplessness links the God-image and the idealized self-image, creating the fundamental problem | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are adopted in order to cope with the God-image, and that, in turn, creates the idealized self-image | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Be in God! world-weariness see lecture 52 The God-Image 88. RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE Greetings, my dearest | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concept of God, which then leads to the God-image I have discussed before. False religion and your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| on remaining an infant combine to produce this God-image. In the transitional state between giving up false | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| all. But as the false religion and its God-image vanish, even while you feel temporarily alone, an | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| But how can we go about it? This God-image is so embedded in us after so many | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you cannot say, Now I will discard my God-image. It is not something you can simply decide | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| this discussion. This will help to dissolve the God-image because your attitude will naturally change. You will | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| very fact that you are aware of this God-image makes you extremely fortunate; many others are not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| do not connect certain emotional reactions with this God-image, with the false religious attitude. They are filled | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| submit to, and become subdued by, this imaginary God-image. To recapitulate: the first state of awakening causes | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| almost there. You will also understand your specific God-image. Love streams to each one of you. It | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| found, they are often connected with the faulty God-image. Such false ideas make your wish capacity weak | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| true and the false God concept. The false God-image has to be dissolved before the genuine God | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the wish for a fruitful career. The false God-image, also existing in those who consciously deny a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| attitudes which make you cling to a false God-image need to be changed before a true God-experience | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |