| if it seems so at the moment. The higher your consciousness is, the more absolute will this | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| valuable. Therefore you make amends not to a higher power, but to yourself. God's ways, the ways | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be in the Lord! 66. SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF Greetings. I bring you blessings, my dearest | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of the human personality, the shame about the higher self, the best and noblest in the human | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| love, while your natural desire coming from the higher self and truly wanting to love is stopped | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the universal conflict around the shame of the higher self, of beginning to feel how it exists | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is a byproduct of spiritual development, of a higher state of consciousness. Those who have succeeded in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| have succeeded in working themselves through to a higher consciousness know they are immortal. They know so | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| cannot be in eternal life -- in the higher sense of the word. In that sense, immortality | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| The last lecture about the shame of the higher self is a very general and universal introduction | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in the lecture about the shame of the higher self. Another of these, to be found in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| cycle happens to be on a deeper, or higher level. Seven indicates the phase that is most | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| same time, the liabilities of a person of higher development count more than the liabilities of a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| attain even the slightest glimpse of reality? The higher spiritual, absolute reality cannot be found by a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and unfulfilled. The nagging, gnawing voice of your higher conscience urges you not to withdraw. But you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| change, subtly and slowly, but surely. With a higher degree of awareness the tuning in takes place | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you believe that, then it would seem a higher aim to remain unpurified so as to be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| its existence. Know that the aim is a higher one, but know that you are emotionally not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| realize that this downward curve is a step higher than the last upward curve you were on | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| realize that this downward curve is a step higher than the last upward curve you were on | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| proper self- evaluation is still lacking do the higher spirits step in. For this purpose, certain past | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| This is symbolic. Broadly speaking, you have your higher self, your lower self with all its different | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| if the outer will is still paralyzed, the Higher Self speaking and working and showing you the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| for those whose understanding has not reached a higher level through development. Even today, when humankind is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| confused about all the selves. The lower self, higher self, inner self, mask self, psyche and all | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: Well, my dearest friends, you see, the higher self and the inner self, are of course | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reason for that. When I first discussed the higher, lower and mask selves, it was a considerable | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| For instance, an original tendency, coming from the higher self, can be distorted by your inner deviations | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lead to oversimplification to stick to the terms higher self, lower self and mask self. The term | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at the lower level, cooperation, and, at a higher level, communication. No living creature can exist without | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the more receptive to pleasure in a much higher form than the primitive, unchaneled instincts. This heightened | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and part bad, as consisting partly of the higher and partly of the lower self. These two | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| it as well as the duality between the higher and the lower self. By nonacceptance you increase | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| ANSWER: It can be interpreted to mean the higher and the lower self. And it can also | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| real self. The lack of peace between the higher and the lower self brings the idealized self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| think, meditate, contemplate, and raise your thoughts to higher things. That is much easier than truly getting | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If the conscience is the voice of the higher self speaking to us, how do you distinguish | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| two kinds of conscience: the conscience of the higher self, and an artificially constructed, superimposed conscience which | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| each. If it is the voice of the higher self, the real conscience, then there will be | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happen to want the same thing as the higher self. You should go on doing that which | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when humankind is ready to give up killing higher animal species, but it is not too distant | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| down on both, while the person with a higher capacity of perception will understand and help and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| whole, although it is true that in a higher state of being harmony and happiness are the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| anything to do with your real self, the higher self, or with the lower self, the part | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and is somehow always perceived by others. The higher the level of the other people's consciousness, the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| philosophies tell them in various terms about a higher state. They not only wish for this higher | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| higher state. They not only wish for this higher state because they are unhappy, or because they | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not work. When they attempt to reach the higher form of being by using the tools of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the state of atheism, of denial of any higher being, he does not pray, of course. At | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| many religious concepts, the divine spark, or the higher self, is also called the Christ within. The | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is the aim of evolution to liberate the higher self -- or the so-called Christ within -- | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| freed. Whether you call this liberation of the higher self, the divine self, or the Christ within | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| dimension inaccessible to human language. This is why higher dimensions can never be made accessible by verbal | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| One side of the personality has acquired much higher standards than another side -- and I do | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| separate elements of reality. When humanity reaches a higher degree of consciousness and with it an extended | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is an error to believe that the next higher dimension is timelessness. There are many extended times | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| if I may use this expression, in the higher realms of being, long before you reach the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| general, overall readiness of this earth-sphere to grasp higher truth. If, in spite of its possibility for | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of its possibility for growth that brought such higher truth into its grasp, humanity still does not | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| almost imperceptible. A plant's degree of consciousness is higher. This is noticeable by its obvious response to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| consciousness. They are: determination, perception and love. The higher the degree of consciousness, the wider the range | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| problem you uncover is always a distortion of higher reality. When you are governed by such distortions | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| certain connections, such as the shame of the higher self, or shame of certain shortcomings. I now | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| moving; for the latter, consciousness must function. The higher the overall development of an entity, the greater | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| thereby relating more and better to others, the higher it raises its consciousness. A highly developed human | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| subtle, its vibration faster due to its correspondingly higher degree of consciousness. At this time of the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and create a wall of clouds between their higher consciousness and their momentary awareness. The three basic | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the clouds, the barriers, between you and this higher consciousness, the timeless stream. This consciousness furnishes you | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| clouds disperse and the warm sun of your higher consciousness regenerates you with strength and well-being, with | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| smooth harmony, must reach perfection and fulfillment on higher levels, must extend the range and experience of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| stand on their own feet. They desire a higher authority to be responsible for them, but lack | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| without self-deception, and requesting the help of your higher self, success will come. You will then know | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| then can you perceive the voice of your higher self should it wish to convey something different | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| let go of before true control, in a higher and wider sense, can come. True control comes | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| control in order to gain it in a higher sense, I am explaining one of the most | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| may experience yourself in an essentially different, either higher or lower way, than others, singling yourself out | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the picture humanity represents when viewed from a higher vantage point. This perspective has a bearing on | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| within yourself, the answer must come from your higher self. You will find the capabilities you need | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| all consciousness, too. If the overall consciousness is higher than this one, conditions are accordingly more harmonious | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| sphere where the general level of truth-perception is higher, it is inevitable that the circumstances that arise | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| long as consciousness is not raised to a higher degree of truth-perception, a new sphere cannot be | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| each is matter of a special density. The higher the consciousness, the finer the consistency of the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| uniting, identifying with this inner intelligence, this true, higher self, in acting with the force purely as | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| get to the point of reaching for the higher source of wisdom within yourself. It does not | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| says no to the possibility of its own higher consciousness. This negative voice is frightened even of | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| must be this transition, this uniting with the higher self? ANSWER: Yes. Only it might be misleading | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| there before you can abandon it for a higher state is extremely important to understand, my friends | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| will bring you to a state where the higher self attains these initially childish wishes on a | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| out of the way and claiming that different, higher functions fulfill their role for you. When this | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| calling upon the intuitive levels of self for higher inner guidance from the real self. QUESTION: I | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| I wish to contact my inner being of higher intelligence and greater power than my outer mind | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| an overall attitude deep within compatible with the higher powers in the kernel of your being. Such | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| best that I am. I surrender to those higher forces so that this self-giving may occur in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| overall, fundamental levels of the human personality: the higher self, meaning the real potential in everyone, the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| phenomenon, that you are often ashamed of your higher self -- of the best in yourself. For | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the ego, one cannot, of course, experience the higher faculties and the greater reality of the real | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of the two forces must exist. Conversely, the higher the development of consciousness -- the more the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| unconscious powers to grow and function according to higher laws. It implies distrust of all universal and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| at the same time deliberately call upon a higher wisdom and power deep within the self to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| finally open. Thus an inner connection to your higher wisdom will be established. You will not get | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of this intention and the calling upon the higher powers in you to help you is step | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| leads to the new, greater consciousness, where a higher unification is established. Most individuals, with the exception | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) Greetings, all my friends here. Love and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| The other direction must be toward the universal higher self, which has powers that surpass the limitations | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| surpass the limitations of the conscious self. These higher powers should also be called upon to expose | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| ego can and must meditate to request the higher powers to help. The universal consciousness should also | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| your willingness to accept your lower self, the higher self will become more of a real presence | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| shame disappear. Through the steady activation of the higher powers, the self feels less and less forlorn | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| This determination of mine will bring in the higher powers that will make me capable of experiencing | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| extreme, in which you profess the belief in higher power, or God, who is supposed to do | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| and/or are doubtful about the reality of the higher forces within you. This confident, patient waiting, this | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| evasion. Such understanding requires continual inspiration from the higher forces within and deliberate requests for help in | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| reality. It wishes to be already in a higher state of consciousness; it wants to be better | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| my friends, from the vantage point of a higher degree of consciousness, that all the separateness that | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| so busy that it cannot attune to the higher voices within the self, to the deeper truths | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| a spiritual healing force which comes from a higher realm of being and affects your inner, spiritual | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| you are also unable to live in the higher climate of pleasure, joy, bliss, and finally even | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and finally even ecstasy. You can attain the higher vibration, the raised level of functioning of the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| vibration, the raised level of functioning of the higher realms of life experience, only when you go | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| still bar the ability to live in a higher state of functioning. Again there is a correlation | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| grows. You become acclimatized to functioning on a higher level of being. This is a very important | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the level of human consciousness, but also to higher states of consciousness where the struggle is no | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| longer as severe or painful. Increased awareness of higher states of consciousness facilitates the synthesizing process immeasurably | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| I started giving lectures, I used the terms higher self, lower self, and mask self. These are | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is, needless to say, an expression of the higher self. But there is also another will for | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| total annihilation is not an expression of the higher self, although it may easily pose for it | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a misplaced, misunderstood, and misread message of the higher self. It is a wrong way of applying | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your good will, and also contact through meditation higher realms of spiritual reality and power to help | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self manifests in two entirely different ways: the higher wisdom and guidance just mentioned, and the surfacing | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| a state of disunity. You can achieve a higher unified state of consciousness only by going through | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| an undeveloped state of the soul, the much higher frequencies of spiritual powers can destroy health and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| present state of development. Your reaching for this higher, more fulfilling state is a legitimate, healthy need | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| by the following three levels of consciousness: the higher self which is the God consciousness; the lower | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| split off from the reality of one's real, higher, divine self. But one is also split off | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and lower selves dissolve and only the true higher self manifests and expresses itself. Only when the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| mask self, the lower self, and finally the higher self can be attained through various processes and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| speed up if the conscious mind calls the higher self into play and directs it to give | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| that such practices genuinely bring out the real higher self and yet leave the undeveloped aspects of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to the other; when to concentrate on the higher self so as to strengthen its staying power | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| again to attempt getting in touch with the higher self, the divine consciousness that is ever-present, immutable | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| from the one that concentrates solely on the higher self and disregards the dark side of human | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| will not be aware of the already manifest higher self. You may pay lip service to the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| that you must be an expression of a higher, divine consciousness, but you cannot possibly feel it | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| cut off from it. Just as both the higher and the lower self can be fully conscious | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| part of yourself, you inevitably also mask your higher self from yourself. The more you try to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| side -- what is genuinely there in the higher self, but not in the mask self -- | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in the mask self -- the more your higher self is masked. Again, you can be conscious | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| use, whether they know it or not. The higher the development, and the more truthful an entity's | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| can it be destructive to identify with the higher self? Or, conversely, How could it be desirable | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| can be either. If you identify with the higher self or your spirit, without truly being aware | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| your negative intentionality, then your identification with the higher self becomes an escape and an illusion. Under | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the spectrum of human emotion there is none higher and closer to divine reality than love. The | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| from moving your mind and inspiring it by higher truth. I am not just talking about general | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| spiritual practice that aims a priori at reaching higher spiritual consciousness. There are many methods and practices | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| work of reintegrating the relationship on both a higher and more profound level. This can only be | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to constantly integrate each level on a yet higher plane. The physical level will then not only | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| if the negative characteristic were recognized is incomparably higher in intensity and quality, and nothing has to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| through these steps, you become aware of your higher self, not as a theory or a philosophical | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| It carries you through the landscape of your higher self, which is beautiful and brilliant. But if | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| you have not succeeded in unifying with the higher self remain separated fragments in their own self-created | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the cause of helping other souls advance to higher states of inner truth. Perhaps by making this | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the sense of it. But this requires much higher states of conscious ness, which must be earned | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| The conscious ego must make this decision. The higher self will not and cannot force it upon | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| inner peace are not necessarily a result of higher development. The more highly developed personalities often have | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| if the outer and the inner self, the higher self and the ego personality, the will of | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the inner being may decide to die. The higher self knows that to continue in the established | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| though it is organic in relation to the higher self. In these instances, the outer personality is | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| many possibilities. Will these individuals interact from their higher selves? Will their lower selves affect one another | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| selves affect one another? How much should each higher self infuse its guidance, inspiration and energies? Too | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| answers about itself. You cannot awaken into a higher state as long as you do not know | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| trust divine life. I do not trust my higher self. I do not trust God's creation and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| be able to establish more contact with your higher self, and that some of your lower-self aspects | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| that in your present state of development, the higher and the lower states of consciousness and energy | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| exists in the lower spheres. And the now-manifest higher self could not by any means approach the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| life means in these terms. You, as your higher self, have taken on a task and have | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| align your conscious mind and will with the higher self, without pushing out of awareness the will | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| or crass; it gives off distinctly unpleasant colors; higher self emanations, in their color and brilliance, convey | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| by other energy bodies. The energy of the higher self is felt as soft, nurturing, vitalizing; you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and the more you act in accordance with higher self principles, the shorter the crisis will be | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| little meannesses. That mask makes you comply with higher standards and appear to be a very good | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Often the real surge and message from the higher self is interwoven with the masking cloak, the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| circles, the mandala-shaped design. In this figure the higher self is surrounded by the lower self, which | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to reap tangible fruits of fulfillment, represent the higher self of the group. You have traveled through | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You can identify more and more with your higher self, since you are increasingly able to differentiate | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| come to hear the true voice of your higher self, which you can increasingly trust. Your community | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| number of the inner nucleus function as the higher self of the community. This does not mean | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| sufficiently capable of establishing the channel to the higher self. You are increasingly capable of totally committing | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| at first cannot find the channel to your higher self, and thus do not even want it | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| responsibility for and not be ashamed of your higher self. Admit where you have indeed already arrived | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and prejudices. The new consciousness always consults the higher self and learns to wait quietly and patiently | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a great pianist can be a channel for higher inspiration only when he goes through the finger | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Only then does the receptacle become commensurate with higher truths and values, fit to be influenced and | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| values, fit to be influenced and used for higher purposes to enrich the world and the self | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| that is in truth and commensurate with the higher laws of life conciliates opposites that are mutually | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| level is mutually helpful and interactive on the higher level. More and more you will discover the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| it means you should open up to a higher realm of consciousness within you and let it | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| now seems hard to find contact with the higher self. The new person has established a new | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| is receptive, it can be filled with the higher spirit within you. Then the functioning becomes totally | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| personally, for the individual. In each phase a higher level of development is reached, so that what | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lower levels can now be applied to a higher evolutionary level. The lessons learned recently in the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| same level. They repeat on ever deeper, or higher, levels: higher in development, deeper in consciousness. Let | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| They repeat on ever deeper, or higher, levels: higher in development, deeper in consciousness. Let us look | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| released into the planet or the individual from higher spheres. This manifests on the inner plane as | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| also going through them on deeper, and respectively higher levels of consciousness-organization, until total oneness with the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beings. But humankind has now reached a much higher potential of development and those who follow this | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with eternal life itself. Only after you achieve higher realizations of consciousness does this focus switch -- | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| real. These phases always mean change, growth, and higher levels of creative self-expression in dealing with the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| scientists. Others are more intricate and remain unrevealed. Higher mathematics beyond your level of reality contains the | 228 BALANCE |
| a step toward an order of a much higher organization. On the emotional level balance means harmony | 228 BALANCE |
| eventually lead to a greater harmony of a higher order. On the mental level, balance means sanity | 228 BALANCE |
| leading eventually toward the greater sanity of a higher organization. The greatness of divine law is that | 228 BALANCE |
| can open your heart and mind to your higher self and request guidance for the balance. As | 228 BALANCE |
| love and blessings that come from your innermost higher self. The truth of being, the beauty of | 228 BALANCE |
| the power of truth and love, from the higher self. Whenever something real is denied because of | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| always a denial of the integrity of his higher self in one form or another. Therefore the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| that is what it is all about. The higher self is always there, and you can always | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| your connectedness with your greater reality, with your higher self, can make you aware of when such | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| it must bring out what exists within the higher self -- its uniqueness and limitless potential for | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| about the inner being, on bringing out the higher self, on purification of the lower self. The | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| education will deal with the realization of the higher self as the fundamental road to learning. Intellectual | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| will be sufficiently united with his or her higher self. Conscience and integrity will be sufficiently strong | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| created from within that will help the child's higher self express itself to everyone's immense joy. Communication | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| -- both as the lower self and the higher self while the mask begins to dissolve -- | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| disconnects you from your inner reality, from your higher self, from the truth of the situation and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| level of appearance. You cannot connect with your higher self. Since you know that you only appear | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| really want. If you do not know your higher self, if you are disconnected from it and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| being value exists as far as your own higher self is concerned, with all the infinite varieties | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| all the infinite varieties of self-expression of all higher selves. Your being value can never interfere with | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Your being value can never interfere with the higher self value system of another person. When conflict | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| your energy system functions contrary to your true higher self, to your reality, to who you really | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| notwithstanding the continuing presence of lower-self aspects. The higher self is becoming constantly predominant. This is not | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| be very aware of the fact that the higher purpose of this movement goes far beyond your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| a task without pride and vanity for a higher cause of the deepest significance. By doing this | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| not raised, as it is often said, into higher realms of being. This is a reversed view | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| It would be more accurate to say that higher realms come down and penetrate the lower realms | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| concept that lower realms raise themselves up into higher ones, the earth sphere would remain at its | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| earth is increasingly penetrated by the energies of higher consciousness, transforming and spiritualizing the earlier cruder energies | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| with your own personality, then in conjunction with higher plans for others. In the process of your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| reality from realms that might be designated as higher, more evolved and purified. As this happens, petty | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| for yourself and lack of faith in your higher self to deserve fulfillment and to expand and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| world and have created a different configuration. Your higher self is of course the ever-existing grace of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and beauty that permeates all of existence. Your higher self knows states of reality that your conscious | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| experience and the knowledge that come from your higher self, allowing it to penetrate the mind of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of the conscious mind, the truth that the higher self knows to be real becomes somewhat distorted | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| to be real becomes somewhat distorted. Perceiving the higher self's knowledge through the maze of the ego | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| such particular states of reality, which in the higher self are beautiful, but in the ego-consciousness become | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| us begin with perfection. The striving of the higher self for perfection is of course a legitimate | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| view to truly reach the perfection of the higher self. Let us consider the motives for perfection | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the conscious ego personality and that of the higher self. Along with that, let us look at | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| immortality is the state of reality that the higher self knows exists. However, the consciousness that is | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| However, the consciousness that is disconnected from the higher self warps this truth. The conscious thinking process | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of death, just as the message of the higher self that perfection is possible reaches the conscious | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the connection between the conscious mind and the higher self: As you can perceive quite clearly from | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| mind should not attempt to connect with the higher self. Quite the contrary, of course. But what | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| who have established a good connection with their higher selves. In that area they may have a | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| perception of reality and your channel to your higher self. Even where the open channel already functions | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| state of defendedness, distorts the messages from the higher self, whether they come in a longing, a | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| acquaint myself with my lower self and my higher self without exaggerating or belittling either one. And | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| seeing where your life already expresses a much higher reality. This reality is not wishful thinking, this | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| than by the desire that comes from your higher self, your inner spirit. In these dreams a | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| be further from the truth. Only when your higher self functions, when you are free from self-serving | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the real needs of the spirit, of the higher self, or even of the body. False needs | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| without losing sight that you also have a higher self. Yet this higher self must not be | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| you also have a higher self. Yet this higher self must not be confused with the mask | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| time. You confuse this mask self with your higher self. To remove the mask self is complicated | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| differentiate between the mask self and the real higher self, and that you believe that if the | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| it so that you will find the real higher self, not the false version of it. In | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| lack of trust that there is a real higher self in you. Your distrust is that you | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| I feel also that I strongly mistrust my higher self and even to ask for help from | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| you wish. If you do not wish the higher task of assuming the responsibilities to lead, to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| it for the purpose of truly serving a higher cause, then you have no right to complain | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| your talents lie, you contain the possibility of higher rulership in the best sense of the word | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| superfluous. This is the only road to the higher self. You, as individuals, are already beyond that | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| what I mean. People usually assume that these higher states of consciousness -- whatever name they are | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| is far more correct to say that the higher spiritual states I attempted to describe here are | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| impossible. How then can it be that in higher realms there is no cause and effect? Perhaps | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| effect you have brought about. It is your higher self which is unaffected, the divine part of | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| opened up to you the vista to your higher self. I have re-entered into the spiritual realms | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Individuals who follow their true destiny are humanity's higher self. Those who resist it are humanity's lower | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| respect. Because the stronger you become in your higher self and its positive intentionality while at the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the forces of light and darkness, between the higher self and the lower self, is also waged | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| when the helper does not ally with your higher self, no matter how covered up it may | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| friends, your sphere is ready for new and higher values, for new understanding and a deepening of | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| this pain is denied, the price becomes much higher, for such pain must turn against whoever inflicts | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| and much later, the person's spiritual nature and higher values may be born. However, they may often | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| the voice of your inner God, of the higher self, sends its inspirations through your mind, not | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| lower-self material, and eventually the reality of your higher self and the vast world of eternal life | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| beautiful theory. In effect, the voice of the higher self is often the weakest at the beginning | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a most undesirable result at the moment. The higher selves of both entities are always at work | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| of both entities are always at work. The higher self has not created the negative interaction per | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| level of self-righteous one-sidedness, they nevertheless serve a higher purpose. How much more does this happen when | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| may well be quite consciously connected with the higher self of that person. Never forget that love--union | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| It is again, as I explained before, the higher self of such a person working in conjunction | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| worth. You will know that the already developed higher self is the part that makes the exposure | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| the same with the planetary entity. The earth's higher self is conducting all the exposures that occur | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| growth and the expression of your group entity's higher self. At times one is ahead of the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| to find Him. His presence merges with your higher self. You truly become one. Thus all interdependence | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| rhythm, a rhythm that has been established under higher orders. This rhythm is never broken. Only when | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| some lower-self gratifications for a while, so that higher pleasures can take root in you. No one | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| to change them. So you constantly need the higher powers to help you find the way into | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |