| understand the marvel of the creation of these laws that let you, with the power current of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| God's will does not manifest so easily. God's laws work within the soul. If people who are | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is similar in this respect. All these laws, the laws of reincarnation as well as any | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| similar in this respect. All these laws, the laws of reincarnation as well as any other laws | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| laws of reincarnation as well as any other laws, follow a natural procedure and do not happen | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| individual entity in question is considered in these laws, but his own fulfillment of the law is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| believe that whatever happens in accordance with God's laws cannot be in any way bad or harmful | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you. It exists impersonally, as do all spiritual laws. The person who can tune into it can | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| am saying, you would realize that these impersonal laws are kind and completely good. It is no | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| beings in the universe. Cosmic principles, forces, and laws exist impersonally for all alike. If you would | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to understand to a fuller degree all the laws of the soul, the laws of human relationship | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| degree all the laws of the soul, the laws of human relationship, and the laws of the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| soul, the laws of human relationship, and the laws of the universe. Then you will no longer | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| my life would take another form. All measures, laws and regulations apparently affect you, and over these | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and outer conduct according to the universal spiritual laws of love, truth, and justice are known to | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| birth in soul, so to speak. The same laws governing physical birth hold true for spiritual birth | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| doors for understanding your self, others, and the laws of the universe. The outer will is tense | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and more. Doubt in God, doubt in the laws of the universe, doubt in the continuation of | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life on the earth plane and the spiritual laws of absolute reality where these same deductions and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| because of impatience and frustration, sometimes disregard God's laws and try by compulsion and man-made law to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the Scriptures, because the basic spiritual attitudes and laws are completely lacking in what is called communism | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| are the seemingly mysterious, but actually very real laws and mechanisms of the psychic forces. This knowledge | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| relating to crime and the upholding of social laws for the good of the community, one's personal | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| cannot be the determining factor. If the cosmic laws were made as you want to imagine them | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| work of self-finding, or shortly thereafter. By what laws the time element of cause and effect works | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| by static general rules, but by individual soul laws. So, my friends, when you say to yourself | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| acquire an understanding of the inner world, its laws, its reality, and the interplay of cause and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| understanding the larger universe with all its spiritual laws. Only by perceiving the inner universe, with all | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| all its infinite possibilities, with its logical, just laws operating within man and between man and his | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| will not fear the truth of the flexible laws of the universe. Nor will you fear life | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| In this connection you must understand that God's laws work in this way: Only one who is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the basis of all religions. For the divine laws work eternally within the psyche and this will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| cooperation and communication. You know that the same laws hold true for all levels of existence. It | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| which another person responds. This center governs the laws of communication, and, on a lower level, of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a more superficial form of communication. All universal laws tend to work freely when the human entity | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the human being is in disharmony with these laws, because of ignorance or lack of development, then | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of ignorance or lack of development, then the laws become broken, twisted, and distorted, and communication cannot | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to ultimate union is blocked until the harmonious laws are restored within the entity. If you review | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| be easy to see how you break these laws. If you are overeager or overanxious, if your | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you combine this awareness with knowledge of the laws of communication and balance, you will gain even | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| These are the two major distortions of the laws that govern communication, with many subdivisions and personal | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| -- will show you the truth of these laws. The truth is that outer events seemingly unrelated | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you set in motion. The knowledge of such laws will liberate you and give you the strength | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| begin to experience the reality of the spiritual laws and truth. It is no coincidence that people | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| come to believe in the reality of spiritual laws and truth. This rarely indicates acceptance of a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| all levels. This means not only that cosmic laws and spiritual truth are disregarded, but that reality | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of a true wisdom that knows that the laws of the divine world take care of everything | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is logical and in keeping with the universal laws of the cosmos. The argument can be advanced | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enough to be free of destructive impulses, the laws to prevent such destruction need not be combined | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| hostile domineering tendencies, toughness, and denial of all laws and rules, you may be certain that fear | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| run counter to your beliefs and the spiritual laws you know so well, you can be sure | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| perceive the perfection of the universe and its laws, of which you are an integral, contributing part | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| intellectual process? Is love a lukewarm matter of laws, words, letters, regulations, and rules you talk about | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| who appear outwardly quite rebellious against all moralizing laws and rules. Whatever words you use to describe | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| still far too undeveloped to live without outer laws. When it comes to conduct, such laws serve | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| outer laws. When it comes to conduct, such laws serve as protection and are necessary. But it | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| deep within yourself, instead of in the rigid laws and rules you borrow because you are too | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| emotions guide their lives without recognizing the ethical laws? ANSWER: I must say that I expected this | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| about God and the spirit world and its laws you will be able to change yourself without | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| whole world and in accordance with all spiritual laws, and yet be dishonest. You may feel divided | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| automatically change. Such change is based on the laws of evolution and organic growth. But there is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you grows organically and healthily according to the laws of nature, while another part remains static. You | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in comparative harmony. You understand and perceive the laws of the universe. You are capable of loving | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| same. Also, it is said that the universal laws are harmonious, yet many manifestations of nature are | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| all. ANSWER: You see only fragments of these laws. If you see a fragment of a whole | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| particular cosmic sphere. The harmony in the universal laws must therefore sometimes be expressed in their apparent | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| an arbitrary God. It is inherent in the laws that work according to their environmental conditions. For | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| dry one. The potent forces of the universal laws are determined by the existing climate at any | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| In other words, what you do with the laws determines their manifestation. Whether this is done consciously | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| consciously or unconsciously makes no difference. Thus the laws may at times have a benign effect and | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| Christians. My two questions are: Are the dietary laws based on that which is unclean, or on | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| days? ANSWER: To your first question: The dietary laws were given at a time when human beings' | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| certain periods of history, under different circumstances, the laws were changed. Nowadays, it is unnecessary for religion | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| up such rules. At no time did these laws have anything to do with spiritual life. They | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| conditions that make it necessary to observe certain laws as long as the specific conditions prevail. When | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| specific conditions prevail. When the conditions change, the laws will be eliminated. To persist in keeping them | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| cannot be learned by rules and regulations and laws and doctrines you absorb with your brain. This | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| do not trust yourself to be without rules, laws, concepts, and ideals from outside. Without the knowledge | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| really could already be at this time, moral laws become a whip and a prison, so that | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| this universe? Man begins to perceive nature, her laws. He observes the magnificence of nature's laws. And | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| her laws. He observes the magnificence of nature's laws. And he begins to wonder. This first wonderment | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| towards relating to the Creator. Who created these laws? Who made all this? Is any superior mind | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| wise and resourceful Creator of all the natural laws that he can see. Since he cannot yet | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| awareness and perception of life and nature, her laws and the significance of creation. 2) a reaction | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| will; who rewards you if you obey His laws; who guides you without your active participation in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| exist. But they do not exist as ready-made laws. They exist because of man's inherent rhythm of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| has thus opened a channel within through which laws of being can penetrate to him. This is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| that any means exist that can interrupt the laws of cause and effect, that God can protect | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| occasionally. All this goes according to certain rhythmic laws in the universe. But in the final analysis | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of the spirit. The power of the cosmic laws is at all times available, but it depends | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| miracle, merely because he does not understand the laws in operation. If you imagine the complicated mechanism | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| because humans have not studied and found the laws governing these manifestations. Your electrical and technical equipment | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the power of the spirit and the cosmic laws, never seeing or sensing their manifestation and existence | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| may not understand the exact operation of the laws necessary to produce such phenomena, the knowledge already | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| have their own life, which functions according to laws similar to the physical laws. The child is | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| functions according to laws similar to the physical laws. The child is dependent not only for its | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| humanity has sensed to a tiny degree certain laws of the rhythmic movement of time, for example | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| self-respect. So reach inside. Realize that the universal laws work in such a way that nothing whatever | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| -- the principle is the same. The natural laws apply to all created forces, whether they be | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| committing destructive acts, the mere existence of social laws would serve as well, or better, than the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| but not least, whenever a person rebels against laws and all standards of ethics and morals, he | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| framework of the evolutionary process that determines the laws of reincarnation. I want to help you understand | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the organism is in disharmony with the universal laws, the three factors oppose one another. So it | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of pleasure. Behind the superstructure of moral standards, laws, and rules lies the craving for pleasure supreme | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| life to remove the outer provocation. Certain unalterable laws of growth and development apply to all living | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you can make a comparison between the individual laws and processes of growth and those of humanity | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| whole is an entity, governed by the same laws as the individual who is a part of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| humankind and the individual. They conform to identical laws of living and growing. This concept is perhaps | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the question in order to understand certain spiritual laws in connection with humanity's fate on this planet | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the knower with the great spiritual principles and laws. Knowing them opens up the world. Knowing divine | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| inner, personal universe reveals the principles and spiritual laws of creation, of the universe as a whole | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| repulsion, according to law, that is like the laws of chemical bonding. You must not imagine that | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| an integral part of nature, bound to the laws of nature. Therefore to distrust this innermost self | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is only because you do not understand its laws. The inner self, or the real self, is | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| truths. This is one of the great, important laws for you to know and deeply comprehend. In | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| for you become the master of all existing laws. Even people who have never heard of such | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| its wish is negative. It will clutch to laws and conditions of the little ego, thereby distorting | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |