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can, in some cases, extend into public outer life, if it is so ordained. This is then 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
But they are certainly not equal in their life expressions. So we can say that there is 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
own, self-serving purposes -- individually or in political life -- and who do not care if their 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
also knows the underlying equality of all divine life. And that is the inner expression, in its 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
as those who invest their whole being into life. Nor does it exploit those people in order 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
observe this in various ways in your political life, if you look at the public expression. Both 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
are given the freedom to responsibly run your life, how easy it is to abuse this freedom 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
This temptation always exists, both in your personal life and in public life. When you consistently yield 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
both in your personal life and in public life. When you consistently yield to the temptation, you 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
freedom to create, to choose, to direct your life, your thoughts, your feelings, your will. Now let 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
these laws apply to the smallest immediate individual life situation as well as to the largest scale 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
executed duty, resenting anything that is demanded by life. Being full of resentment, he will do what 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
have more power to indirectly affect the person's life and environment. If nothing else, they create a 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
fluctuate from one form of expression of political life to another and work its way through, until 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
of universal truths and the cosmic reality of life in which you dwell is the dualistic error 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
of this principle and who devote their total life to being a divine channel. So those of 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
present time the number of those who see life in these terms is comparatively low. The majority 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
general majority of human beings, especially in political life, still operates on the mask-self level. In one 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
generally accepted rule and pretended necessity for political life and politicians. You do not need to be 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
world view, but in your whole approach to life, to yourself, and to your relationships -- the 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
reason; that there is no God, no eternal life, no eternal soul, no meaning to the experiences 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
to establish the truth of God, of eternal life, of the benign meaning of everything in every 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
phase in your evolution. Your longing for eternal life must be totally conscious. This is by no 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
temporarily create the impression of non-existence in the life outside the physical body. That is, the personality 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
are in light and true knowledge will experience life after death accordingly, while the personality aspects that 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
doubting part remains unconscious, the longing for eternal life is also unconscious. As the fears, doubts and 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
manifest indirectly, so does the longing for eternal life. It may manifest in various ways, such as 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
make conscious the underlying, real longing for eternal life. All this will make it clear that there 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
your whole being: A sense of security about life, yourself, all things, that might perhaps also be 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
perhaps also be described as being cozy with life. Life fits you like a glove. It is 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
also be described as being cozy with life. Life fits you like a glove. It is impossible 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
a most realistic attitude toward all things in life. Through this sense of belonging in the world 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
surpasses all understanding, an excitement and fascination with life and its manifold possibilities of meaningful experiences. Part 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
deep knowledge and perception of the meaning of life and experience. You sense a deep meaning in 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
experience of the presence of God in your life? Surely God has always been present, only you 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
the Christ means being deeply anchored in the life of matter. It is far more correct to 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
being penetrated by the great light of eternal life, peace and joy. The state of union is 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
is being fulfilled, connections are discovered that give life a most exciting and safe new face. All 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
living. Knowing your infinite ability to bend with life, you can snuggle in with it sweetly, as 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
from being true to God's will! Knowing that life is unending, ongoing, eternal and infinite does not 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
active mind and will. Your total goal in life must be to find the reality of the 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
as living reality in your inner and outer life. You may have started the pathwork merely because 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
have been consciously seeking the spiritual meaning of life. But none of you started out being aware 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
have been short spans of time in your life in which you experienced temporarily a state of 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
the most central of all issues of human life that every single religion has taken up in 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
God, not knowing the continuum of your own life, no matter what you believe consciously. Ask Jesus 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
world of matter, filling the void with divine life. In this process, particles of your consciousness have 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
the deep mind knows that there is eternal life, why does it hold on to life and 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
eternal life, why does it hold on to life and instinctively fights leaving the body? This seems 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
about this very important facet of your inner life and attempt to give you a deeper understanding 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
your search for unification. The longing for physical life expresses the divine spirit surging forward into the 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
eventually animating these forms and irradiating them with life, consciousness, and divinity. These words exactly describe the 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
transform untruth and fear and hate. The more life fills the void, the more immortality becomes an 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
process creates conflict. Human beings long for eternal life. They know eternal life does not exist in 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
beings long for eternal life. They know eternal life does not exist in the physical body, yet 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
Religious people who deny the importance of physical life because they sense and inwardly experience the eternal 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
because they sense and inwardly experience the eternal life of the soul, misunderstand and ignore the importance 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
they do not feel the reality of eternal life are equally misled. Recently I spoke of the 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
fear of death and the longing for eternal life. As a next step, it is important to 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
to grasp fully how the striving for physical life is not merely an expression of such a 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
levels of infinity and eternality a greater, fuller life exists, which is free from the threats of 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
death, nonbeing, pain, injustice, insecurity, loneliness. The externalized life in the body, in spite of impending physical 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
The personality knows of the eternal, fuller, deeper life and thus feels very secure in the physical 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
and thus feels very secure in the physical life. Yet physical life is also experienced as a 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
very secure in the physical life. Yet physical life is also experienced as a deeply meaningful undertaking 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
bearable and meaningful in the understanding of eternal life on the one hand, and the task of 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
still far from experiencing the reality of eternal life, even if you have not yet totally experienced 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
fear of death and the longing for eternal life, even if you still stand on the threshold 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
accordingly in your soul. Conversely, the more your life is dedicated to the pursuit of selfish ends 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
a frightening sense of the meaninglessness of all life. Obviously, this leads to the inevitable vicious circle 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
this leads to the inevitable vicious circle: If life is meaningless, all you can do is to 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
greater this separation is, the more meaningless all life will appear. Thus the vicious circle continues. Still 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
is heaven because you feel deeply content; your life makes sense; everything is tinged with loveliness, meaning 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
you deny, you live in hell because your life appears meaningless, boring, frightening, at loose ends, separate 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
of creation. The misconception that dedication of your life to God's greater plan brings suffering and pain 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
to God's will and the dedication of your life, your talents, and attributes to the great plan 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
not only make you flourish in your daily life but are the key to the unification of 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
and wisdom, separateness and union, death and eternal life. One of the most important attributes in this 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
act. This is why Jesus Christ, in his life on earth, always stressed that the evildoer is 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
plan, to His will, and to dedicate your life to this. Giving to God means activity, and 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
harmonious laws of God. Your primary attitude in life must become dedication to God's will and plan 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
of evil engaged in the gradual penetration of life into the void. When you perceive this vast 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
a wonderful new balance and harmony into your life and lead you directly to the faith, the 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
creative possibilities that this entails. Give to your life a one- pointed direction to fulfill yourself. This 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
or your subtle inner attitudes, and your overall life circumstances. The more developed a person is, the 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
cause and effect in all areas of your life and believe the effects to be coincidental and 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
every conceivable aspect of your inner and outer life, and it is particularly enlightening to examine it 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
all the pieces of the great puzzle of life fall into place. On the emotional level, this 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
surrender to God is your primary position in life, your main emphasis and attitude, you will trust 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a new mate. The new authorities in your life will be, like you, autonomous people whose inner 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
this way, but when your self-will governs your life, and you have strong feelings of humiliation and 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
have needs, that in certain areas of your life an authority or leader is necessary, that you 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
all of yourself, in all areas of your life and in all respects, to the Creator. When 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
repeated daily and in all issues of your life -- you will experience a new strength and 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
submission based on fear and on distrust of life. In both instances you may make choices in 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
surrender to God your primary goal. Your entire life will change in the sense I discussed, and 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
that will bring new effects. Many of your life circumstances that you no longer like are the 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
have done so in some areas of your life, and there the effects are desirable and joyous 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
been discovered and has been expressed in human life, those who experience the inevitable beauty, goodness and 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
therefore a process of death, rather than of life. Carrying over a tradition in an unthinking attitude 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
religion, to name but a few aspects of life, are very clearly influenced by and also reflect 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
tradition, as it becomes an issue in his life, and will examine it with intelligence and self-honesty 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
Does living this tradition make sense in your life now? What does it mean to you, and 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
already in what you may call spirit. All life pulsates, expands and contracts. Matter comes into existence 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
spiritual forms pulsating outwardly. When the contraction occurs, life withdraws and matter disintegrates. Although I have spoken 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
these ideas and do not think of your life in these terms. The more you can remind 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
and the more you feel it in your life and in your ideas, the closer you will 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
our work are realities in our sphere of life. Like objects, concepts often differ in application and 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
the constant movement toward renewing and giving new life to the eternal truths and laws. So the 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
movement, which is the movement of the great life currents. You see certain repetitions in the spirals 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
become accustomed to. Tradition is created wherever human life takes form. It exists on the largest social 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
not obstruct it, you incorporate it in your life and thus your entire consciousness is widened and 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
true for everything, for every conceivable aspect of life. I spoke about this quite generally and abstractly 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
out to be the most fulfilling act of life. Sacrifice appears less and less a sacrifice, until 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
peace and excitement, the deep sense that your life has profound meaning and purpose, can exist only 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
meaning and purpose, can exist only when your life is totally dedicated to God and His will 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
the more the clouds disappear and the fuller life becomes. This spirit of service encompasses more and 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
image. The images may have begun in this life or in previous lives. The less a specific 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
acceptable, having the power to create a safe life, deserving happiness. Being wrong means being bad, unacceptable 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
they are wrong in this all-important question about life, the world, God, how can they be trusted 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
parents about almost all the important issues of life. So, on one level, this mass image is 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
when you do this in a spirit of life rather than death, in a spirit of faith 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
is never a debilitating process. It is a life process, it is purification, and it leads to 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
toward whatever universal issue comes up in your life? What do you have to fear if truth 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
in many personal issues where images destroy your life. A brief recapitulation here is in order. An 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
Christ, I must give up my vitality, my life energy, my sexuality, my body, pleasure, for all 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
of God's world of truth, love, beauty and life. These individuals create a split and live in 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
you off from the best within yourself, from life with all its creative possibilities, from God, from 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
eliminating your own mass images. You and your life are at stake, but also so much more 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
God, the story of God's presence in your life. Wipe out the superficial differences and find the 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
will determined whose influence would predominate in one's life. While human beings were still in their immature 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
the will of the highest and dedicate your life to follow in Christ's footsteps, spirits cannot approach 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
will bring into clearer focus your view of life in general and of your own life in 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
of life in general and of your own life in particular. The first of the three basic 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
this principle. I'll give one illustration. Imagine a life in which nature is totally absent. Nothing is 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
mechanicalness, and alienation from all that is pulsating life, within and without. There is no birth and 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
the unchanging existence here is not the eternal life that is truly heavenly. This manifestation is the 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
subliminal levels of reality has also disappeared. The life line to pulsating reality and re- enlivening was 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
this endeavor. The negative manifestation was that a life was produced which is not totally different from 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
separated and isolated, that neither God nor any life exists beyond the life of your present body 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
neither God nor any life exists beyond the life of your present body. Finally, they want to 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
history or during certain phases of an individual's life. It is the individual characteristics and personal inclinations 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
source of all you need and of your life itself. You need not overlook that direct contact 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
two sources of negativity wreak havoc in your life and in the lives of those around you 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
clearly, fearlessly, and intelligently what the facts of life are in this respect. Because the stronger you 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
not particularly aware of subliminal forces and whose life is not dedicated to God. Now is the 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
does not regard God, the source of all life, the creative principle of all universes, as the 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
their effect disconnects you from the spark of life, until you suffer the pain of untruth and 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
Christ. His light of truth and of eternal life is unbearable to all satanic spirits. This same 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
same light will inspire you with truth and life, will connect you with the source of all 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL

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