| attitude and life direction is geared to self-development, knowledge will come to you at certain periods of | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| consciousness. In a way, the two kinds of knowledge interact and ultimately amount to the same thing | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| he came by it. He has that new knowledge simply because, in this one direction at least | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is open to tap the vast universal cosmic knowledge at everyone's disposal, provided the necessary inner conditions | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them as incidents. As I have said, the knowledge will simply be there. Or, help may be | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mentioned, expecting the Spirit World to hand out knowledge that should be gained from within, is a | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from within, is a great misunderstanding. Such given knowledge must lead finally always to your own contact | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have the desire to search for it. The knowledge that you are not in truth and the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nothing can ever happen to you. The personal knowledge and experience of this truth is bound to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with subterfuges. What you find must increase the knowledge in you that you cannot be truly affected | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you do not feel in accord with your knowledge. With these areas we do have to be | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| once it is your own and not superimposed knowledge, you will go through life with a completely | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| basic spiritual understanding before it can use this knowledge in the right way. For, misunderstood, such knowledge | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| knowledge in the right way. For, misunderstood, such knowledge could indeed be very harmful. If a man's | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is destruction, chaos and imbalance. Only with the knowledge of the complete picture will he realize that | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to give you freedom from fear in the knowledge of a just world in which you shape | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at the time perhaps even more confusing, because knowledge you now have was then still lacking. It | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the direction humankind takes with the new knowledge that is acquired? Everything is contained in the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you do not need supernatural vision or metaphysical knowledge to put two and two together. You need | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and saintly that is beyond you. With that knowledge, all your doubts and guilts must disappear, because | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these words help you to search in the knowledge and the awareness that whenever the world seems | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand why the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden -- because we have to get | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| course. It applies, just like the Tree of Knowledge, to the incarnated spirit. The meaning of both | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| have no certainty yet. The prohibition of this knowledge speeds development. On the other hand, if the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| The joy of life on earth in the knowledge that there exists a much better state is | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| answer seems to apply to the Tree of Knowledge only, since the knowledge of immortality has to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to the Tree of Knowledge only, since the knowledge of immortality has to be kept from us | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to do with the fact and not the knowledge of it. ANSWER: Knowledge is not the same | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| fact and not the knowledge of it. ANSWER: Knowledge is not the same as the certainty or | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| soul or the spirit is immortal. Yet, the knowledge you gather from the outside cannot give you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the inner certainty that immortality is a reality. Knowledge is different from certainty, or the sense of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| comes only after a certain stage of development. Knowledge can be given to anyone. It is then | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the Tree of Immortality is the sense and knowledge that this exists. QUESTION: In the last lecture | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| laws and mechanisms of the psychic forces. This knowledge will give you a sense of the apparent | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is used with the aim of increased self- knowledge, then it can be constructive. All this demands | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is impossible. To make it perfectly clear, the knowledge of where and why one is still unfree | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: At one time you said that spiritual knowledge once acquired, in any lifetime, is never lost | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| This might be hindrance for development. But inner knowledge stays. That is not blurred. That would never | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| will help to remove remaining ignorance and blindness. Knowledge you have gained will always be yours, regardless | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| culminating point was bound to occur soon. The knowledge in your psyche led you to be on | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| when the time comes you can use your knowledge most constructively, instead of being pulled deeper into | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| ones. Both need wisdom, maturity, and the spiritual knowledge that gives the true incentive for self-knowledge, so | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| growth. I cannot emphasize enough that the intellectual knowledge of all this means nothing. You have to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of the ages will give you only theoretical knowledge that has no real root in your inner | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| have lost their impact. For all your intellectual knowledge, in this respect your emotions still react childishly | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| separate; you are isolated and fearful. However, this knowledge cannot really help you until you discover where | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| know why you resist loving. Without this particular knowledge, the great eternal truth about love remains a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| basic spiritual understanding before it can use this knowledge in the right way for, misunderstood, it could | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| ask what would be the damage of such knowledge and of the resulting misconceptions for a spiritually | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| power of the subconscious mind will take such knowledge on a superficial level. This can be dangerous | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| well as all the other branches of human knowledge, which still function separately at this time. QUESTION | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| up the recreation must go beyond mere intellectual knowledge. You have to allow yourself to feel the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| view, without any further subterfuge and self-deception, such knowledge will no longer disquiet you. It will have | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| partners. The partner who has the possibility and knowledge of self-search should make an honest effort to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| compartmentalized. The unifying principle, linking all branches of knowledge, is completely disregarded or ignored, so that the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| one unifying common denominator among all branches of knowledge. Such an emphasis would ultimately affect and influence | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| conjunction with the emphasis on the unity of knowledge, is the treatment and dissolution of the personal | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| ever think so consciously. In fact, your outer knowledge may contradict this inner state of experiencing life | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| one state or world into another are self- knowledge and the understanding of your unconscious problems, concepts | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of your unconscious problems, concepts, and attitudes. Self- knowledge and self-acceptance are the prerequisites. Everything else arises | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| make you more helpless. On the contrary, that knowledge, if rightly understood, will give you greater strength | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| possible success that may be gained. The deeper knowledge of your soul transmits to you that you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of what you now know, although temporarily this knowledge sits only in your brain. And you have | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to wait until you become filled with the knowledge again. QUESTION: What is the role of heredity | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| be ignorant in this connection. In addition, your knowledge might influence the spirits to the extent that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the struggling soul from gaining harmful and hindering knowledge, or helping the soul to regain some favorable | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| or helping the soul to regain some favorable knowledge. It will all be there. And what you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| hidden. And the more one advances, the less knowledge of previous deviations will be burdensome. Even if | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to emerge. But I emphasize again; mere intellectual knowledge will never bring freedom. What causes all your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| constant reaction. You will have the deep inner knowledge -- not in your brain but in your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| solar plexus -- that your reaction, or your knowledge, or your decision is right, feeling neither guilt | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| cannot get any real results by absorbing general knowledge. It does not suffice that you know, and | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| moment. In the latter, you struggle to use knowledge you have heard and try to apply it | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| past, but in the light of our new knowledge I would be glad to discuss this element | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Go in peace, my friends. Rejoice in the knowledge that reality must make you happy. Be blessed | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| human being? ANSWER: Above all, it is the knowledge of one's own potentials and limitations. Where the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a little in the light of the new knowledge you have gained. Of course, this is also | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way for which they originally are destined. Such knowledge can never come to you by theorizing about | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this is futile and damaging. This deeply hidden knowledge is not correctly interpreted by your consciousness. This | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unobtrusive ways, one slips back inadvertently. However, the knowledge of the finding remains. Due to this success | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more aware. If you combine this awareness with knowledge of the laws of communication and balance, you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| about. My friends, I say again that theoretical knowledge will avail you nothing. Only your personal work | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| very effects that you set in motion. The knowledge of such laws will liberate you and give | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and often tedious process. It not only takes knowledge and experience, but it also demands a great | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| faith that is also a conviction and a knowledge. It will come from an inner experience of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to accept death is based on the superimposed knowledge that life goes on and that death is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| action you have created it. Not having this knowledge makes you fearful that more suffering may come | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| known, you were not in command of this knowledge? Your soul was in a dark night of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| go through it. Remain conscious of your intellectual knowledge all the while, without forcing it on your | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| let me make it quite clear that real knowledge and experience of the continuation of life after | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| their own private realization, experience, inner proof and knowledge. These are all byproducts of healing the soul | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the unfoldment of creative abilities, and the inner knowledge of spiritual truth all result from inner health | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of fear and weakness, and not through inner knowledge. Another believes to be stronger than the former | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pleasurable experiences occur as well. But since the knowledge of unpleasurable experiences, or their possibility, is always | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| capacity to sacrifice unselfishly, of never claiming any knowledge, accomplishment, of strength. Thereby they hope to force | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| cannot occur without clearing up distorted emotions, your knowledge is still largely theoretical and not yet conducive | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than with your actions and thoughts. The general knowledge you can acquire about them will not really | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to this point with a different attitude. Spiritual knowledge, even spiritual action, is one thing. But spiritual | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ignore what led to this insult. Only the knowledge of all relevant factors can show the truth | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are merely in possession of facts. This knowledge will increase your own truthfulness, whereas believing that | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| find that your emotions completely deviate from such knowledge. Problems you carry through many incarnations and through | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| encountering them. Only then can true religion and knowledge replace the false religion of escape and the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| from without but from within, as a deep knowledge and certainty, but only if you will not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your wishes met. If you deny this inner knowledge, you deny the truth and try to base | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| life on false foundations. If you accept this knowledge, you not only accept truth, you base your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| sense it. This intuition cannot come out of knowledge because you can never have sufficient information about | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| relationship to others is bound to bring the knowledge of what is right and wrong. This is | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a state of bad conscience, relax in the knowledge, I know where I stand, I know that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| clear awareness and understanding about them. With this knowledge and intent, you have nothing to fear in | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| activity and passivity in a relaxed way. The knowledge and intent to live life actively does not | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or temples. Do not search for Him through knowledge, books, or teachings. Search for Him in yourself | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- all these exist in you. No outer knowledge provides you with a genuine God-experience, and, for | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| logical, because awareness of a need and clear knowledge of it will enable you to cope with | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| gratification if you keep in mind the farsighted knowledge that postponing the gratification serves the interests of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| have acquired on the way, and of the knowledge that your fulfillment is up to you and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to you and not up to others. That knowledge will more than compensate you for the difference | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| virtuous. You will relinquish it in the full knowledge of what you are doing and why. You | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| shown you. You need the impact of live knowledge which enables you to go through an inner | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| would bring about fulfillment. He has repressed the knowledge of this need. Instead, he pursues success, approval | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| get to the point of applying the outer knowledge that goodness means productive living to your specific | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| may often be much more tolerant about secure knowledge that you have had deep down all along | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| are all talking about, you have an intuitive knowledge from within. You act in truth without fear | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| It is one thing to profess a certain knowledge on the surface, and it is quite another | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| instructing your unconscious mind happens because you have knowledge of which you are not aware. In certain | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| a solution before going to sleep, the unconscious knowledge can reach surface awareness. Your entire striving on | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| spirit helpers to aid in bringing your own knowledge to the surface. In other words, it is | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| Blessed are your wonderful efforts. Rejoice in the knowledge that whatever you do in life, every step | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| you may not have the necessary information and knowledge about parents or parent figures to revise your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| because you reject yourself. I repeat that the knowledge alone will not be sufficient, it has to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your entire system when you become defensive. Such knowledge will be very useful for your further work | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| disadvantageous, and unrealistic. Compare these reactions with your knowledge -- as yet only theoretical -- of the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| your emotions will eventually begin to absorb the knowledge of your brain that heretofore could not penetrate | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| a time when human beings' scientific and hygienic knowledge was so insufficient that such information was connected | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| being and will be able to apply this knowledge to individual cases in their surroundings. The sins | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| new, it needs to be repeated, for this knowledge is not as yet an integral part of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| own imperfection? How can I live with such knowledge? Your unconscious knowledge of this pressing question makes | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| can I live with such knowledge? Your unconscious knowledge of this pressing question makes you shy away | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| laws, concepts, and ideals from outside. Without the knowledge of what is right and good, you unconsciously | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that you condemn not because of an innate knowledge, but mainly because your society and environment condemns | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| from the mind, from superimposed ideas, from outer knowledge -- and therefore it leads away from the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| your fellow-creatures. Therefore we will now use the knowledge you have gained about yourself through your work | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| of it, you can let it go. The knowledge and understanding that the two alternatives of either | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| like, respect, and be comfortable with yourself. Theoretical knowledge will not help, except to inspire you to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| core of your being. Often, the stronger the knowledge in your brain, the more ignorant you are | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you put into practice, to assimilate, a theoretical knowledge and to apply it to your private lives | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| of the boisterous ones who show off their knowledge to impress others. Both have burning questions. Some | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| It has to become more than mere general knowledge. Your momentary awakening is the first step in | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| for knowing and yet not acting on the knowledge. Sufficient awareness will eventually make you wish to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the laws necessary to produce such phenomena, the knowledge already exists that an infinite variety of complicated | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |