| outpicturing of what goes on in so many individual personalities. It cannot be eliminated by collective means | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| cure has to start from within by each individual. Otherwise you will only succeed in eliminating one | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| else equally terrible. In the case of an individual, it is possible to make a mistake in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| these lightforces. They constitute one whole. Yet each individual lightforce stands out as something individual or particular | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| Yet each individual lightforce stands out as something individual or particular with its own different color, scent | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| or Middle Lightworld, spirit beings or personifications of individual lightforces have their organization, or as it is | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| particular incarnation. It varies, of course, with each individual, for not everyone has to fulfill an incarnation | 31 SHAME |
| you were soon very successful in overcoming your individual faults, it might make you even prouder, and | 31 SHAME |
| one most difficult right middle path concerning every individual human trend. Therefore, perhaps you will come to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| of this divine grace -- complete faith. Each individual has to gain this major experience and fundamental | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| as complete as can be possible for the individual in question. For every impurity of the soul | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| in the cycle of the development of an individual being, decisions cannot be made by the individual | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| individual being, decisions cannot be made by the individual. But from a certain stage of development on | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| test, and afterward it is explained to the individual why this or that alternative would be bad | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a particular purification sphere, again according to its individual needs. The sequence of these different phases varies | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| for contact with the Divine World by an individual or a group. If the effort is not | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| be made, though we cannot foresee an occasional individual setback. You will come to feel in your | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| crowd at these sessions. Spiritual progress in one individual means more to us and makes us happier | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| circle in your soul. This circle consists of individual faults which affect and interact with one another | 36 PRAYER |
| vicious circle, you have to understand thoroughly the individual faults that constitute your vicious circle. You have | 36 PRAYER |
| slightly profounder understanding of the various highlights and individual points in the circle until eventually you see | 36 PRAYER |
| On the path, the forms vary with each individual, for no two people are alike or have | 36 PRAYER |
| receptive one is. It is up to the individual, in the body or as a spirit, to | 36 PRAYER |
| is different for each person. There is an individual rhythm for everyone. Be blessed, my dear ones | 36 PRAYER |
| has no life apart from complete humility. The individual whose ego currents are so strong that self-will | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| an either/or judgment also holds true for every individual tendency -- good or bad. If you have | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| mean that time is something different to each individual spirit? ANSWER: What I mean is this: Let | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| error and self- deception. And only you, the individual, can be the judge of how useful it | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| taking responsibility for one's life vary with each individual. Everyone is made up of different currents, faults | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| do not say that this applies to every individual case. There may be cases when the retribution | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| carried out in a different way in an individual fate. Then again, some victims may have undertaken | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Brashness is another. It is a question of individual temperament and character. All inferiority complexes have the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| most of all, of course, personality traits and individual character. Often, no two people will react the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| willpower toward others? I mean, can the same individual react in one way toward one person and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| finding and purifying oneself, can a predominantly intellectual individual release more of the other two currents also | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| always a rationalization and subterfuge to which the individual soul constantly resorts. This is an attempt to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| further food for thought. Not only personal and individual images but mass images, race images, national images | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| much as it would if you had an individual image that fits in some way with the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| than another. As the mass image changes, the individual plans will be adjusted to it, so that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| humanity develops as a whole, the more each individual has the chance for fulfillment in one lifetime | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| But there will always be cases when the individual life span is much shorter than the present | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a little differently. As it works in the individual, so it works for humanity as a whole | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is not in itself sufficient to solve your individual problems, my dear ones. You have to come | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to the point where you understand your own, individual existence; where you understand the origin of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| reason and purpose of your life, your own individual existence. When this is discovered, an entity has | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| step is to find out which type an individual is and, if both, at what opportunities one | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not again enumerate, the life story of the individual, and the practice of the daily review. With | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Find out what is the attitude of each individual toward that subject. Let people tell you first | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the relative proportions of the traits vary from individual to individual. In every image you will find | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| proportions of the traits vary from individual to individual. In every image you will find inferiority feelings | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| second, artificial conscience. For what lives in the individual always lives in humanity as a whole. Only | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| cared for and admired even by people the individual has no intention to love in return. And | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| weaker elements during childhood, the impression on the individual soul may be much stronger, thereby creating a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| way, and why, what the attitude to the individual parent or parent-substitute was and is -- all | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| what they express. The borderline lies within the individual; it is the inner truth of each person | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the product of chaos, the split in the individual entities was also a chaotic one; that is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| an outcome of the free will of the individual. It is the product of it. I suggest | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in infinite wisdom and farsightedness; not only the individual entity in question is considered in these laws | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in connection with the Plan of Salvation. Every individual entity, believing in Christ or not, will have | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| interested in producing phenomena. We are interested in individual development, for this is the only key to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this mass image varies according to temperament and individual characteristics; according to other trends, healthy or sick | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| fact abstain from. Being a decent and honest individual, you do not give in to the temptation | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| happiness varies according to the development of each individual. Due to a distorted concept of happiness, another | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| basic condition. The personal or mass-images affecting the individual are always determined by the particular way the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| what shape or manner it takes in the individual personality. You ferociously hold on to this basic | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to find the approach best suited to each individual. This will be a new and very important | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| will success come upon certain outer actions any individual may undertake in order to contribute to the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be done because the approach varies with each individual. I shall be glad, however, to point out | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| being born. When development takes place within an individual soul, the soul generates more strength, which remains | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the Fall. It also takes place in the individual soul. In personal development, you often have to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cases you cannot compare the development of one individual with another. One person may be more developed | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can ever be generalized. So many personal aspects, individual influences and reactions play a part. Even if | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may still be a half-truth applied to any individual case, for many personal characteristics have to be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whatever. The solution must always lie with the individual. Whenever an entity is ready to face himself | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is, by analyzing your innermost emotions in each individual case; finding those desires that may run contrary | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and effect is constantly at work and the individual himself or herself has set it in motion | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| comes one way or another depends on the individual case. QUESTION: What exactly is grace? ANSWER: I | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unfortunate for humanity as a whole. In the individual personality a state of imbalance and disharmony is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| a balance of these forces is established in individual souls. Not until it is recognized that both | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of the spirit is always given to each individual. The individual often follows that direction, but misunderstands | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| spirit is always given to each individual. The individual often follows that direction, but misunderstands the necessary | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| both together make a harmonious whole in the individual entity, ready to join another individual in an | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in the individual entity, ready to join another individual in an ideal union. As humanity stands today | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| from mass images firmly engraved in many an individual personality. Take the mass image that love is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| and misleading. It can only be found by individual work. It could perhaps correspond to an overactivity | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| useful recognition. Man's cycle changes according to the individual. It might be compared to the principle of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| astrological chart that has been made for each individual separately. The man's individual cycle is thus similar | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| been made for each individual separately. The man's individual cycle is thus similar in principle to a | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| principle to a horoscope. The rhythm of these individual cycles has a great significance in a man's | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| stated that the coming of Christ exempted the individual from personal work and effort. Quite the contrary | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this state is the thought that consciousness ceases, individual will ceases. This is not so. And yet | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prayer has effect, sooner or later, on one individual, it certainly has effect on humankind as a | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if the many little issues in thousands of individual cases were not a precedent to the creation | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| varies in extent, detail and manifestation with every individual. When a child feels rejected -- and you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| some of this basic conflict exists in every individual. Certain particular circumstances also play a role and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| to anyone. It is then up to the individual whether or not to believe it. There is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| world conflict is an exact duplication of the individual conflict. The elements we constantly observe between two | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| in the conflicts of nations. As in the individual conflicts, so in world conflicts, often one side | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| never can be. In the second place, the individual does not count in this ideology. The individual | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| individual does not count in this ideology. The individual is supposed to serve the state, and the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| state takes the form of a god. The individual has no right for freedom and liberty, not | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is good and what is bad for the individual, not only infringing on the person's self-expression, but | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| are concerned less with the discomfort to the individual than with the crippling effect this has on | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| lead you to personal growth as befits your individual personality. You will come to see how often | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| such universal conditions, there are many very personal, individual suppressions that have nothing to do with good | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| with the suppressed negative traits. Apart from these individual and very personal suppressions of your most creative | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| as the materialistic philosophy of life. Whenever the individual bends to the rules of society at the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| at the cost of suppressing his or her individual spiritual unfoldment, the soul begins to suffer and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| born into life, you carry within yourself your individual life plan. In order to fulfill it, your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| so do they ignore the difference between true, individual spirituality and the escape into a pseudo-religion out | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| it will bring you to your best: your individual fulfillment in the highest spiritual and emotional sense | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the form of self-expression best fitted for your individual personality. In either case, working this through need | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you, leading you to the fulfillment of your individual personality. My dearest friends, let me give you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| best, the most creative that you, as an individual, can be. Thus you will make the best | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not work by static general rules, but by individual soul laws. So, my friends, when you say | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| be discussed personally, as they apply to the individual. QUESTION: We learn that every sickness, or every | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and length of each cycle is an eminently individual process. They not only vary from one individual | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| individual process. They not only vary from one individual to another, but also vary with the same | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stages, they grow out of your work, your individual needs, your personal problems and characteristics. And also | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it represents a great step forward to the individual and to humanity and it would begin a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| whole new cycle of spiritual development for the individual in society; for science and philosophy could find | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| can be dangerous and cause damage to the individual, as well as to humankind as a whole | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| ANSWER: Both are necessary functions of the healthy individual. As I once put it, they are like | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to know also what a teacher, as an individual, could do to promote creativity in his students | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the teacher sufficient intuitive insight into what the individual students need. You all know that progress on | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is unjust. It is the same with an individual. You may ask why certain people are outwardly | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| different person, while yet remaining essentially the same individual. The second basic force is the inverted, egocentric | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| essential step on the evolutionary path of an individual spirit entity. At some time, in one life | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| When exactly this will occur varies with each individual. But on this path the time must come | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| whole and can no longer be the separate individual you have felt yourself to be. I do | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| limited thinking capacity that only as a unique individual do you have dignity and a chance for | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| have to be opposed to giving up your individual right to be happy and important. If the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| its creation and the Fall down to each individual existence. That may occur at various high points | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| conflict with one another. All this is very individual, and it is necessary to find out how | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| this general answer is not sufficient because many individual variations are possible in which this is experienced | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the opportunity to get private help for their individual work, who still have to wait -- the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to the need of the present in your individual work. The psyche indicates your inner world of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| extent. But here again, it varies with each individual and with each problem. There are certain problems | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be found as they manifest in each individual. Only when you grow, and therefore become aware | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is projected into the outside world is highly individual and relative? In other words, what one sees | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of the happiness that could be yours. Here individual inner problems have collectively brought about a state | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| meant much more than a lesson to each individual about the history of evolution, life after death | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| personal self-analysis can provide the answer to each individual. There is no other way, no general rules | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in the particular way it manifests in your individual case. This requires a great deal of work | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in progress. There are many more facets, possibilities, individual pseudo-solutions combining all sorts of mutually exclusive trends | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that matter? That depends entirely on you, the individual, whether or not you can or want to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of death, I venture to say that every individual has to go through that personally, whether it | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |