| Instrumental................12 | |
| taken. This applies particularly to those who are instrumental in bettering the world, whose task it is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| view -- the negative circumstances -- are most instrumental in waking you to the truth. Sometimes you | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| insight of honest self-recognition is in some measure instrumental in changing the course of universal and cosmic | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| through many incarnations and through your childhood are instrumental in bringing these unconscious conflicts to the surface | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| or connection between pleasure and destructiveness has been instrumental in the widespread guilt human beings feel about | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| joy will increase in your life, the more instrumental you will become in shaping your fate -- | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a specific crossroads where this inner guidance becomes instrumental for an outer decision and commitment to a | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and the consciousness of those who teach is instrumental. A child can understand that the creative, free-flowing | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| other light centers and could thereby become very instrumental in extending this so essential aspect of the | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| through obstructions. Every one of you can be instrumental in removing more of the obstructions and halting | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| way, as responsible as those who were directly instrumental in halting the process of unfoldment. Now your | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| of what is at stake here, of how instrumental you, as an individual, can be: first by | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Instrumentality.............4 | |
| as this lecture is flowing through the human instrumentality. The blessing lasts; it stays and slowly awaits | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all your being, so that you become an instrumentality for Him. Make it a reality. Be blessed | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the very beginning of my manifestation through this instrumentality. I also explained that concentration on these various | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Plan. They, too, become instruments, even though their instrumentality may appear entirely negative. Through their sphere of | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Instruments.................16 | |
| medical help? ANSWER: No. Doctors are also God's instruments. Where a doctor can help, one should go | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| led into temptation. The dark forces serve as instruments to draw it out, to bring it into | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in communication with the world of God as instruments. For without the mediumistic connection, not enough truth | 21 THE FALL |
| form of direct inspiration or through unwitting human instruments. Then it will again take a considerable number | 22 SALVATION |
| they will not always be. They may be instruments, consciously or unconsciously, of the world of darkness | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the hypnotist should feel themselves to be instruments and should surrender to God and ask for | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in an ordinary airplane, they do not need instruments to indicate whether they are ascending or descending | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| so they cripple one of the most important instruments in life, namely, the intuition. Those who are | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| it finally takes effect through various chains of instruments of grace -- also human instruments -- does | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| chains of instruments of grace -- also human instruments -- does not alter the fact that it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only then, will the dark nights turn into instruments of light. QUESTION: This lecture is very close | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| and more responsible. You will become more conscious instruments, each in your own beautiful, perfect way, each | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| cannot measure or discern them with your human instruments at this time: They can only be deduced | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| for important changes in evolution and you are instruments, all of you, each in your own way | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| mourn. You, my friends, who are carriers and instruments in this important historical time at this point | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| unfolding of the Great Plan. They, too, become instruments, even though their instrumentality may appear entirely negative | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Insufficiently..............4 | |
| ever have been made to convey it, however insufficiently. From all this it is easy to understand | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| will does not function at all or functions insufficiently, how can you grow? Then you do need | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| inner mechanisms are still geared to faulty, or insufficiently assimilated material. This, in turn, forces you into | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| comes through garbled because the outer self is insufficiently attuned to the inner self. The outer self | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Insult......................9 | |
| unfaithful, it is often taken as a personal insult or rejection. Of course, that is not quite | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| misleading because you ignore what led to this insult. Only the knowledge of all relevant factors can | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| merely feel rejected and are busy with this insult. Just as you may be insensitive to the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| tight holding defeat your fulfillment and imply an insult to the universe. The demand says, I do | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Creation, of the universe, of God, you thus insult yourself as you do when you do not | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and lack of integrity of appearance values, you insult your inherent divine manifestation. This is yet another | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| are one with everything that is. If you insult yourself because you underestimate yourself and your power | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| yourself and your power, you must harm and insult others. It is very false to imagine that | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| realistic and no longer a feeling of outraged insult. At times, my friends, you still go around | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Insurmountable..............12 | |
| and again -- and here vanity is an insurmountable obstacle -- can gain true perspective of another | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| needs. Using this key is nowhere near an insurmountable feat. It is very possible to utilize it | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in great anxiety, in a resistance that seems insurmountable -- you can be quite sure that this | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| then, can all the difficulties, all the apparently insurmountable obstructions dissolve so that things fall naturally and | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| yourself. Only a short time ago they seemed insurmountable. Your personal strength and goodwill have led you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| fear and makes guilt an obstruction that seems insurmountable, just because the picture underneath is so different | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of tight, anxious defense. You are in an insurmountable struggle. This is perhaps the hardest lesson for | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| exist. Accepting reality and mature self-responsibility seems an insurmountable hardship if not accompanied by pleasure as a | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| life, and the exaggeration that the difficulty is insurmountable and hopeless -- in short, selfwill, pride, and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is supposed to transcend. This seems indeed an insurmountable hurdle. Thus, the struggle is really: How can | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| have right away a contradiction that seems apparently insurmountable. As long as a deliberate negativity or negative | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| it, no incentive to overcome the often apparently insurmountable resistance, not even a visualized possibility of such | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Intangible..................5 | |
| has enough love. God is far away and intangible: I risk nothing by loving Him. From human | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| not true that you are the victim of intangible forces inside or outside of yourself that you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Union as a cerebral process, or with an intangible God, is not really union. Only the actual | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| is a whole world which for you is intangible but which is extremely tangible in reality. In | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| depend on this authority in some tangible or intangible way. You may then respond to your dependency | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Integral....................64 | |
| the spirit of Jesus Christ, who is an integral part of all these subjects. First, I will | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| obeyed and certain conditions prepared? This was an integral part of His teachings that was, unfortunately, for | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| purification is the process of becoming perfect. An integral part of the process is to say, In | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| make the necessary effort. Effort is always an integral part and constitutes the first step. The same | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| by little but significant recognitions that are an integral part of the main image. When you have | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| The will-type, like the reason-type, also misses an integral part of the life experience, of giving one's | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the journey and adventure of revealing yourself. An integral part of life remains to be fulfilled by | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the journey and adventure of revealing yourself. An integral part of life remains to be fulfilled by | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| true love, of which purification must be an integral part. Although your purification work through a deeply | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| But now this should be incorporated as an integral part of the work. It is this: Take | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| no beginning and no end. One is an integral part of the other. QUESTION: I wonder if | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| he realize that the momentary destruction is an integral part of construction. This is what constantly takes | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This includes the recognition of yourself as an integral part of creation which strives endlessly and ceaselessly | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| negative. You will know that death is an integral part of life. To the extent that you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| misses not only happiness and beauty, but an integral part of the life experience. Needless to say | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| are not two unrelated subjects: one is an integral part of the other. Now, my friends, are | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and its laws, of which you are an integral, contributing part. You will feel that you are | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| from the self, in that you leave an integral part of your entire self out of commission | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the healthy, constructive, and productive attitude become an integral part of one's being. There is another subtle | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| come only when the new patterns become an integral and almost automatic reaction in you. Your old | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| inside out, until you know it is an integral part of you: your real self. QUESTION: If | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| may you succeed in absorbing and making an integral part for yourself of the material I have | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| for this knowledge is not as yet an integral part of you. Thus far the emphasis has | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| time. Thus you do not respect the other's integral right not to be receptive to what you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| with this path of self-search. They are as integral a part, or rather as inevitable an outcome | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| discussed the fear of death, which is an integral part of the conflict with time. Fear of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| a good child, being good then becomes an integral part of the idealized self. Goodness means also | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| element manifests in this experience; it is an integral and inseparable part of the life force. So | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| gained so far. It must make it an integral part of your being, rather than an outer | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| but to the vaster self, which forms an integral part of your psychic personality. This self is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| greater powers over your own life as an integral part of creation. Are there any questions now | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the real self. Your inner self is an integral part of nature, bound to the laws of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| when you trust your innermost self as an integral part of nature and creation. When you feel | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| deity separated from you, but an immediate and integral part of yourself -- when you realize this | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and in giving back to life as an integral part of it, you act according to the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| natural cosmic movement of which you are an integral part and which is an integral part of | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| are an integral part and which is an integral part of you. Only by a very personalized | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| can never be squelched because it is an integral part of the nature of creation. It is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| itself out of universal life. Individualization is an integral aspect of the universal life force. Life is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| and being at one with all others, an integral part of a whole. These are no longer | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| to cope with everything that happens as an integral part of yourself. Moreover, you develop an increased | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| fighting against the undesirable experience, you deaden an integral part of life -- something that feels. When | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| fact about yourself. The human personality is an integral part of the great power and creative substance | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| all possible obstructions. Effort and endeavor are an integral part of setting the creative forces in motion | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| sees more and more that both form an integral whole. This demonstrates how duality must lead into | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| realistic and constructive way that frustration is an integral part of the present reality. The childish desire | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| increasingly unfold for you. You will become an integral part of it. That must be the aim | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to be let go of. Change is an integral characteristic of life; where there is life there | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Creation is taking place. Every crisis is an integral part of creation. Therefore, wise ones embrace and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| world of the mind and ideas is an integral part of total sharing. And it is quite | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| be created or could ever be. They are integral manifestations in Creation. Once you ascertain the manner | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| deserve to be devastated. Since you are an integral part of Creation, of the universe, of God | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| is not separate from consciousness. It is an integral part and a result of consciousness. And when | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| urge and the longing to give are an integral part of the soul. They come from the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| in previous lifetimes it had become such an integral part of the entity that it is easier | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| furthers them. Each individual is, of course, an integral part of the whole. The more fully you | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Help and reactions from others are always an integral part of this phase. Contact with others is | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of which the passing of time is an integral part, it seems that life is a constant | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| discern that your own inner system is an integral part of a whole so finely woven together | 228 BALANCE |
| in which you dwell and operate as an integral part, so will you trust that what now | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| into the sequence of lectures and has its integral meaning in your own process, both as individuals | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| in heaven means knowing that you are an integral part of creation. The misconception that dedication of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| personal financial affairs -- budget sessions are an integral part of this aspect. Last but not least | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| inner truth. This in itself is already an integral part of your journey toward self-realization. You need | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |