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| developmental stages. Yet it often happens that more incarnations are used than strictly necessary to set the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| death, as the Indians say, that after repeated incarnations the soul finally returns to nothingness, that the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| all entities must, in the cycle of their incarnations, prove themselves capable of standing fast under any | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| far. Be in God. 10. MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES I greet you in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| question: The general conception and teaching is that incarnations change from male incarnation to female and vice | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| being is male or female, and in most incarnations the entities follow their basic nature. However, in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the original balance. If you knew how many incarnations you lived as a male or a female | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| a compensation is needed. The purpose of alternating incarnations is not to gather experiences. If you meditate | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| woman. Those who have to go through compensatory incarnations in which they are not born according to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| incarnate anymore? ANSWER: Only then. As long as incarnations are necessary, the unification in the form of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| truth. This also pertains to the question whether incarnations occur alternating as male and female as against | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| contradictory positions. As far as masculine and feminine incarnations go, you can come to realize that both | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| enough not to have to go through further incarnations. Yet wherever there are faults and imperfections, the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| have reached such heights in development that future incarnations would be unnecessary. If this were accomplished by | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| different departments, there are specific places where the incarnations are prepared. In hospitals of a very specific | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| time. In another part of this sphere the incarnations are discussed. Here specifically trained higher beings know | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| beings know exactly the laws and the past incarnations of an individual soul, have studied the load | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| you are capable to know about your past incarnations. Then such knowledge will be used for a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| sufficient maturity in the course of their various incarnations, where they gather experience and wisdom, and, step | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you have succeeded in purifying yourself in previous incarnations back to your original state, it is not | 18 FREE WILL |
| you have overcome these trends during your past incarnations, must begin to apply divine law within your | 18 FREE WILL |
| one's separated other part. Every being passes certain incarnations with its true double or counterpart, because through | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| lies a duty to fulfill something. Certain other incarnations have to be gone through without this counterpart | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| and everyone who goes through the cycle of incarnations, in other words, who is not a pure | 21 THE FALL |
| done in one lifetime. Many, many lives or incarnations are indeed necessary. Life on earth is like | 22 SALVATION |
| and then you may have one or several incarnations in succession where you accomplish a great deal | 22 SALVATION |
| very low and coarse instincts. Only after many incarnations and worked off karmic debts -- and often | 22 SALVATION |
| self-purification begins, and for this phase again, many incarnations, accompanied by changing conditions and circumstances, are necessary | 22 SALVATION |
| in the spirit world. He had, through previous incarnations, deserved certain merits and even though he was | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| planet. All that you hear today about previous incarnations and knowledge that is supposed to be so | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| etc. You could never understand it. QUESTION: Between incarnations, is the density there indicative of the development | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and around existing conditions and blindnesses. Without such incarnations in different churches and groups it would be | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| accomplishments are measured individually according to one's previous incarnations, merits, omissions, and so forth. People may have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| very young, who have only had a few incarnations. Their instincts are still low and coarse. Now | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that will flow into them in their next incarnations. In the spirit world evaluation is never general | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| these images you bring with you from previous incarnations, of course, but, due to their existence in | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| a human being, still in the cycle of incarnations, to bring out the knowledge I can put | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the soul's existence in the spiritual worlds between incarnations is blotted out. If knowledge of the existence | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| world, you often have insight into your previous incarnations, into the reasons for this present life, and | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| have been ingrained in you often for many incarnations, so you cannot expect to get rid of | 31 SHAME |
| begin to work for the good in future incarnations at the moment this path has been started | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| development since the fall, not only the earth incarnations, but also all activities in-between. Each incarnation is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| produce its effect perhaps only three or four incarnations later. For no one is asked to bear | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of merits you have earned three or four incarnations ago. Similarly, a very difficult life may or | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| many different levels in the beyond. Periods between incarnations can also include a time of service and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| entity's activities in the beyond, but also its incarnations. As your spiritual consciousness is raised, you will | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| As you can see, how the time between incarnations is spent also determines the life to follow | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| life to follow. The length of time between incarnations may vary as well. I want to emphasize | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of its whole cycle, who has arranged previous incarnations with the entity and done the accounting after | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| there who are out of the cycle of incarnations, as well as some who have never been | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| You are always extremely concerned with your previous incarnations. It might be even more beneficial to be | 38 IMAGES |
| as you are still in the cycle of incarnations and as long as you have not reached | 38 IMAGES |
| a seed you have brought over from former incarnations. The definite knowledge that a certain state is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| so concerned with finding out about your previous incarnations. It would be more useful if you would | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| can very well figure out what your future incarnations might be if you were not to take | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| extended in time, over a span of several incarnations. QUESTION: If, for instance, somebody dies in a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| all went through periods of cruelty, some ten incarnations ago, some even less. If great disasters and | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| are no more extremes. This balancing in future incarnations always applies to all aspects of the personality | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| timelessness. QUESTION: Are any of the guardians in-between incarnations or are they all out of the cycle | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are they all out of the cycle of incarnations? ANSWER: It depends on the human being. Many | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are not yet out of the cycle of incarnations. Someone who develops very fast and desires to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| not always -- out of the cycle of incarnations. QUESTION: I suppose that racial and religious images | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Of course. QUESTION: So, in the cycle of incarnations, a soul goes through all kinds of race | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of race and especially religious images. Then the incarnations are all mixed up. This would then help | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the image for some time to come. Several incarnations are necessary before a rigidity can loosen up | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| phase in his or her whole cycle of incarnations. That this knowledge can be brought forth is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and the tasks are different, according to former incarnations. If, for instance, someone capable of searching and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| entity will benefit by this habit in future incarnations. I will retire into my world and leave | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| There are lower spheres before the cycle of incarnations begins, where matter is even denser than yours | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| The more the entity has developed in former incarnations in this area, the less will the environment | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to be complete. So for four or five incarnations one might be male and then one might | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| one might be female for four or five incarnations. Consequently one might be a homosexual in the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the evenness or unevenness of the split, the incarnations change from one sex to another. If one | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| sex occur less often in the cycle of incarnations. In cases where the change has to occur | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| psychological factors in the least. In fact, all incarnations exist so that you become more healthy and | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of cause and effect are they drawn into incarnations almost like the development of growth that you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| produced circumstances in your life, in your former incarnations as well as in this life, by conscious | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many beings waiting to start the cycle of incarnations, and so many waiting to continue it. There | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who are at the end of their earth incarnations. The reason for more human beings now than | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need less time in the Spirit World between incarnations. This accounts for the many souls being born | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Indeed. QUESTION: What is the average time between incarnations? ANSWER: That depends. Incidentally, this question was answered | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| brought its entire life plan, its cycle of incarnations into this life. Everything is engraved in its | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| part of the soul -- perhaps in previous incarnations -- so that creativity in one special direction | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instead of working off the effects of former incarnations, they accumulate and collect new entanglements in addition | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the work of purification will extend into several incarnations where they do not heap up new conflicts | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the fore. But deeper conflicts, existing from former incarnations, far back, remain hidden deeper. Only if you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is more robust, due to development in previous incarnations, present problems will have a weaker effect and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| plan and how this is connected with previous incarnations. In some cases it is necessary to see | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| cases it is necessary to see a few incarnations in order to evaluate the task and the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the spirit comes back the next time, other incarnations will be shown to it. Only upon reaching | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| on the upward path. At every few hundred incarnations or so there may be such a point | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| such a point. And when the cycle of incarnations is completed, then the degree of consciousness is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| your free will. But when the cycle of incarnations is over and the soul is ready to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to find out whether one is aware between incarnations or not. ANSWER: Of course, I just said | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| You do not have to look to past incarnations, for if you really want to, you can | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from such knowledge. Problems you carry through many incarnations and through your childhood are instrumental in bringing | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| very gradually, perhaps over a process of several incarnations, the unhappy outer events cease more and more | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| great cycle. Primitive man, during his first few incarnations, is still near to this state of being | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| that the spirit of Christ manifested in several incarnations on earth, before he was born as Jesus | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| memory. It is the result of all previous incarnations. Karma is the effect the soul has produced | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the human sphere of consciousness, with its repeated incarnations serving as schools of experience, is all about | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| may go along for extended periods -- even incarnations -- without feeling their inner discontent, without registering | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| You have learned, through much effort and many incarnations and experiences, to channel and control the destructive | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| longing for expansion and mutuality perhaps through entire incarnations without becoming aware of the feeling that so | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| which may last for weeks or for many incarnations. You may hide this terror from yourself or | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| previously accumulated waste material. But memory of previous incarnations is blotted out, so that you have only | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the knowledge a psychic gives you about former incarnations. Inner knowledge comes about organically. The ability of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| It is your task, in the cycle of incarnations, to reintegrate this split-off ego-consciousness and to regain | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to the immobile, rigid state, perhaps for many incarnations, thus making healthy ego transcendence as impossible as | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| be refined. The total entity figures out the incarnations, in conjunction with specialized, highly developed beings. The | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| which you have contracted for a chain of incarnations. You thus are part of the divine plan | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| go on and on during a succession of incarnations carrying these manifestations with them as karmic ballast | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| happens through a process of development over many incarnations. The real sinfulness of the attitude toward marriage | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| experience, many lessons, many trials and errors, untold incarnations until your soul emerges as a complete being | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the shortest time. What might otherwise take many incarnations for the individual could be accomplished in one | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| be brought to the fore in the previous incarnations where circumstances and surroundings had to activate other | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| would otherwise have to be distributed over new incarnations, particularly destined for fulfilling these tasks. Also, do | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| a greater leveling. Less-highly-developed souls made the primitive incarnations less noticeable. Now the differences are striking. For | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| expectations are unrealistic, for it may take many incarnations of development before a human being can come | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |