| in one of the past lectures that no human being can love completely or be perfect. Then | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| authority. In addition, you are bound to encounter human injustice in the course of your life, in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| similar wrong concepts? If and when a growing human being becomes conscious of such an impression, he | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| change and growth. The lower self of the human personality is very shrewd. Be wise to it | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of reactions that are not always obvious. Each human fault contributes to separateness and is of itself | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the point of healthy detachment and objectivity. Being human, it is understandable that you fear life and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is the connection between the interplay on the human plane of action and reaction and God's will | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| it actually never is. Believing that is the human blindness of this earth sphere, due to restricted | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to discuss the role of punishment in the human personality. I discussed your need of self-punishment at | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| inner attitude. It is well known that every human being, as a child and occasionally also later | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the childishness still living in your soul. All human beings carry the children they once were through | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| truth of each person. It differs with each human being. QUESTION: Perhaps you might clarify in what | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the beloved self, which is substituted by another human being, because the unquenchable desire of the soul | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| regarding this particular subject. There are comparatively few human beings in whom at least a small degree | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| May I ask the cosmic sense and the human meaning attributed to the power of the Holy | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I have to repeat again and again: Whenever human beings try to seek salvation and union with | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for this, but as many as there are human personalities. What is the sum total of the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personalities. What is the sum total of the human personality? So many factors are involved: temperament, character | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Perhaps to a very small degree any unpurified human being may have a little of this tendency | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| else. I realize that I am a limited human being and therefore I am bound to make | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right or wrong. It is inevitable in every human being's life to make some wrong decisions, but | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of growth that you cannot stop. If a human child wishes to remain a child in body | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| comprehend. Incidentally, by looking at and knowing another human being you may sometimes quite easily tell whether | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be torn out without grave harm to the human personality -- if such an attempt succeeds at | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is rather difficult to translate it into human language. I was wondering whether you can tell | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| like to know whether you can understand every human language and express yourself through a medium in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that I give you an explanation of it. Human beings simply cannot grasp this much wider means | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is as though you would try to explain human language to an animal. As far as my | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my -- or any spirit's -- knowledge of human language is concerned, I have this to say | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I do not have to understand the particular human language. I see the forms of thought in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and try to express it in the respective human tongue through the medium utilizing her sense organs | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| however. They serve to open the eyes of human beings to perceive that other worlds exist beyond | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will be created. There is no branch of human science where these principles cannot be found. They | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| cannot be found. They penetrate and form the human soul as well. In other words, they exist | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| its negative aspect is the most hindering for human development. This fact should lend itself for interesting | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| that no change is possible. Of course, no human being is in the static state with all | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| one influences the other? Yes. Nothing in the human soul is separate. Every quality, reaction, attitude, or | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| movement. This may sound utterly paradoxical according to human logic, but I cannot explain it any further | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| not as simple as all that, for the human personality is a very involved and complicated machinery | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| explain when such shortcut methods are successful. No human being is in untruth and deviation or imperfection | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| areas of his personality. Complete imperfection in a human being exists no more than complete perfection. This | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| true origin. This is an important trend in human nature and needs further understanding in your work | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| are a product of a particular blend of human imperfection and humanity's desire to reach perfection. Such | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the demand for approval is obvious to other human beings, it does not necessarily mean that such | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| see that this mass illusion, existing in every human, may at times compel you to sell your | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| image -- you share it with all other human beings. Find your bondage to public opinion, no | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the laws of the soul, the laws of human relationship, and the laws of the universe. Then | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you where you separate yourself from your fellow human beings, out of wrong conclusions, because of imagined | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| happiness, another desire comes into existence in the human soul which is often overlooked. And that, strange | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for happiness is already in existence when the human entity is born. It exists in the small | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| is never the intellectual conviction of an adult human being, but emotionally it holds true; for when | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| absolute. It is impossible, of course, for any human being to remember these early emotions, for you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| reactions continue to exist without exception in all human beings is a fact, and you can find | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| or not you love me. Indeed, very few human beings have come that far. If you are | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for unhappiness -- how it arises in the human soul out of the complex and universal basic | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| phenomenon of misunderstood happiness. As I said, the human personality finds it more and more impossible to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| state of being beyond the experience of most human beings, belonging to a much higher state of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| no greater guilt feeling and shame in the human soul than the guilt due to provoking and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| hands. I repeat: there is no exception. No human being is completely free of what I have | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in many different ways and degrees in different human beings. One person may provoke unhappiness and collect | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| factors in the formative years. But this basic human deviation exists, at least to some degree, in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| is determined by the ability of the growing human being to come to terms with the world | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Perhaps you may have guessed that the universal human attitude or inner process just described is not | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| always determined by the particular way the basic human condition described here is expressed, and by the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and self-destructiveness are very strong factors in the human makeup. If you add what I have told | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| it is difficult to convey in the limited human language something that can hardly ever be experienced | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that can hardly ever be experienced by a human being and is therefore outside the realm of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| being and is therefore outside the realm of human understanding. Let me try to put it this | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| fulfilled, it ceases to be pain. With a human being who is truly advancing on this path | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| often, indeed. QUESTION: In other words, what the human being can do, if I understand it right | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| also sought with the aim of avoiding certain human difficulties that other, less privileged people, do not | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| response to your question. A great error in human thinking concerns the supposed difference between man and | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the male. Understanding the anatomy of the human body should translate into a deeper understanding of | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also illogical. For Adam and Eve symbolize original human entities, the basic qualities present before the Fall | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that is, lastingly and profoundly successful. If the human heart does not change, nothing will ever be | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| called forth by the free will of the human being, is rather unsubstantial. It is calculated into | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| form which, to some degree, exists in every human being. I will call this the abyss of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| I discussed the function of Utopia in the human personality. I said that the infant in you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| have of this god you also project onto human beings, either to a specific person or a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to a specific person or a group of human beings, or onto a philosophy, creed, or teacher | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| without self-responsibility, is not outside but within the human soul, and in the human attitude toward life | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| but within the human soul, and in the human attitude toward life as such. The infant in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| unalterable law. The more you understand about the human soul, the more clearly you will observe this | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| confirmed in your life. You know that the human personality consists of various levels or, expressed in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and a plant, between two animals, between two human beings, let alone between all other things. Everything | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| them and therefore they are unnamed in the human language. Some you may never even discover on | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of the importance of proving the existence of human beings beyond the physical level. Since we have | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of their earth incarnations. The reason for more human beings now than ever before is that, as | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tremendous. If you had the same number of human beings in former times, the cruelty, crime and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would have been so much greater that the human race would have found it almost impossible to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| progress of the soul, not of the temporary human personality. QUESTION: In the previous question the word | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yes. But backward would certainly apply to earthly human advantages. Spiritually speaking, it is hard to generalize | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| generalize. There are so many aspects of the human personality. In most cases you cannot compare the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is according to spiritual law that a human being who tries very hard to develop spiritually | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whether or not such fluctuation is exceptional. All human beings have inner problems and imperfections, images and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| principle has not been understood. In fact, every human being is constantly dependent -- in the apparent | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own causes? ANSWER: Death must come to every human being at one time or another. The very | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the result of many basic misconceptions in the human race. Whether death comes one way or another | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| anything divine because you did it. But any human being can be an instrument of grace or | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as far as the negative currents in the human soul are concerned, as you all have had | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| various chains of instruments of grace -- also human instruments -- does not alter the fact that | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lacking to a greater degree than in other human relationships. Hence, marriage is on the one hand | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| and the most blissful one. Ever since the human race appeared on earth, certain misconceptions and mass | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| it is recognized that both sides of the human personality have to be equally developed and understood | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| universal rulership principle of the infant in the human personality. Yet the cosmic current sweeping the earth | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| will affect marriage more adversely than any other human relationship. Some of the things I have said | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| destroy these separating walls, whether they stand between human beings and God, between humanity and spiritual truth | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| by removing all blocks and errors in the human soul. Ego-importance and preoccupation are directly opposed to | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| bring about union. This holds true for all human relationships. In marriage, the love between two people | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| that marriage would be practically unfeasible for the human race if it did not have the help | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| and the understanding. What holds true for all human relationships certainly holds true even more in marriage | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| do not manifest in the same way. When human beings become more advanced along these lines, these | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| a complete misunderstanding on the part of many human beings to think that any act, even the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Faith comes naturally when obstructions are removed. All human beings possess an inner storehouse of faith, love | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is always a question of degree for any human being. It cannot be said of any human | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human being. It cannot be said of any human being that he or she has complete faith | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| some degree it is part of almost every human being. It is extremely important to become aware | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no one can truly benefit. With many a human being, it would be valuable to explore good | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| entity, similar in shape and form to the human form which is a reproduction of the form | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| therefore not spiritual entities, assuming the form the human being has been shaped in -- although the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have many difficulties to overcome. The limitation of human language is a tremendous obstruction in itself. There | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| There are far fewer words available in the human language than we would need in order to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Creation. Add to that the obstructions in the human instrument -- not necessarily or solely because of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| any of you. We realize that that is human. Many things will appear as contradictions -- and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| represents one of the main difficulties for the human being. Only inner health and objectivity, self-honesty and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| removal of one's personal deviations will enable the human being to find the truth between two extremes | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| speak. And there is such matter in every human soul, without exception. QUESTION: Would it be possible | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| great talent and yet they are deeply troubled human beings. They just happen to have freed one | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is possible for the spirit of a human being to use an earth experience in the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| asked of you spirits concerning thoughts in other human beings? There is someone I would love to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may not want to be understood by another human being and may decide to hide behind a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mammalian stage of today, and here is the human race today after two billion years of developing | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| goes through mineral, lower animal, plant, higher animal, human being, spirit being. I explained that many times | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that exists in the immature part of every human being. The usual and wrong way to handle | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| now see what utter confusion exists in the human soul. I am sure, you will not have | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| this conflict exists to some extent in all human beings. This wrong conclusion accounts for the utter | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and outer actions, attitudes, and reactions of the human being. By considering only the immediate effect, you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the existence of an additional conflict in the human soul. It touches a very basic problem of | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your question, I will mention that this general human conflict adds to the confusion. On the one | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| means by which God's power is released onto human life. Perhaps you would be willing to tell | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of you may feel it about asking another human being for a favor. Basically it is the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| goes on between two or three or four human beings. From the point of view of spiritual | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personal fear of death -- which, again, is human and understandable? What exactly is it you doubt | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| intelligently deal with it. In my observation of human souls, the strong desire to communicate with departed | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| any contact in this way, whether spirit or human, you will be safe. You will not have | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be ashamed of them. They exist in most human beings to some extent, whether consciously in some | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the fear of life, the fear of other human beings and yourself, the distrust because of this | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forces or beings, or any other area of human life. QUESTION: That is most helpful. But in | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| departed dear one without actual mutual contact. The human who talks to the departed just sends thoughts | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |