| pushes you. And again some voices of your lower self try to keep you away from it | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| trying to separate the higher self from the lower self in order to really know ourselves, it | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the higher self becomes mixed up with the lower self and vice versa. Is there any clue | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| lecture I spoke about the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self; and perhaps in | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| of the higher self come forth, penetrate the lower self and in some spots come through clean | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| altered and put into wrong channels by the lower self through certain faults that you have. QUESTION | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the respective development. QUESTION: In other words, a lower developed spirit can't do it? ANSWER: Any spirit | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the higher self are often distorted by the lower self. Now here is a good example, because | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| a wrong direction it is distorted by the lower self and becomes an impure force. Let us | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| human being ever have spiritual guardians and do lower spirits have higher spirits helping them? ANSWER: The | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| spirits have higher spirits helping them? ANSWER: The lower spirits also have their guardians, certainly. But, like | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you overcome a fault, you fight against your lower self, you desire above all else to fulfill | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| same token, if you give in to your lower self, if you violate divine law, you emanate | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| consists of two natures: the higher and the lower self, which are in conflict with one another | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it and do not give in to your lower self. If your lower self were not also | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| give in to your lower self. If your lower self were not also alive within you, it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| comparatively easy to follow the call. But your lower self does not want to make any effort | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the pretexts and self-illusions, the voice of your lower self, because you want to believe these rationalizations | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| can be expected of a child in a lower grade than of a child in a higher | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it and what is expected of you. Your lower self has some idea of it. If it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you have to go to battle with your lower self; you have to enlist your conscious willpower | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to enlist your conscious willpower to conquer your lower self. Combined with your higher self, your will-directing | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| may mean, and until you have made your lower self submissive -- and this can be done | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| want it? How much still remains of your lower self that is powerful enough to pull you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| succeeded in receiving the other way, which your lower self has chosen until now in its blindness | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will directs him to give in to the lower part of his nature. You see, the soul | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of much higher development or someone of much lower development would. The objects in this room remain | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in one sphere. Other spirits, let us say lower ones, could not even see these landscapes or | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your higher self, the other out of your lower self. If you will something that is against | 18 FREE WILL |
| faults and weaknesses manifest which I term the lower self. One also encounters the higher self. Sometimes | 18 FREE WILL |
| person's true nature, and then hidden under the lower self. At long last, the part of the | 18 FREE WILL |
| self becomes free of the layers of your lower self, it shines through to such a strong | 18 FREE WILL |
| will satisfy your spirit. The purification of your lower self and the crucifixion of the ego are | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| emphatically enough that only those who crucify their lower selves are ready for pure truth concerning anything | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| any other question can only come from the lower self, even if clothed with apparently high-sounding motives | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| however, depends upon how you direct this force. Lower developed beings, like animals and plants and minerals | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| to listen to: the side that reached their lower nature or the side that seemed to push | 21 THE FALL |
| developed to overcome the evil impulses of their lower nature. The change that began to take place | 21 THE FALL |
| you are absolutely perfect. Someone of a much lower development than anyone of you here can be | 21 THE FALL |
| about it objectively, disregarding the resistances of your lower nature. All you have to do is not | 21 THE FALL |
| will require considerable effort to guard against your lower self that tries to stifle the aspirations of | 21 THE FALL |
| your outer self allows all the excuses your lower nature furnishes. Of course, I speak very generally | 21 THE FALL |
| line of least resistance, which is always man's lower nature, or to follow his higher self, which | 22 SALVATION |
| succumb to him by succumbing to their own lower nature. Should they resist, they would no longer | 22 SALVATION |
| find God in reality. Too much of the lower self is still present for them not to | 22 SALVATION |
| prepared so that a certain side of the lower self has the opportunity to transform itself best | 22 SALVATION |
| to God. I will not listen to my lower self, that self which is constantly and magnetically | 22 SALVATION |
| can also see and touch the substance of lower levels, the lower spirits cannot do so. They | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and touch the substance of lower levels, the lower spirits cannot do so. They are only receptive | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human being or to the physical substance. The lower the development, the blinder the being must be | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own. The same principle applies to all spheres lower than the earth sphere, but does not apply | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the higher, as well as of the lower spheres, and you stand, so to speak, in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| light of higher spirits. You said that the lower spirits don't see the higher. ANSWER: It is | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not take certain measures to manifest, the lower spirits will not see them ordinarily. But if | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But if such measures have been taken, the lower beings will see, feel, or perceive in some | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thought God created the world -- not the lower spirits. ANSWER: In the first place, I purposely | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the personalities involved, the higher as the lower ones. The spiritual worlds are nothing else but | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| As long as people do not fight their lower selves and thus become enslaved to them and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| development and purification I advocate, overcoming their own lower trends, recognizing in self-honesty their own lower nature | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own lower trends, recognizing in self-honesty their own lower nature, and thus finishing the war that is | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was dealing with the earth sphere and the lower spheres in connection with His task. For then | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on this earth sphere, people of higher and lower development live together with all the grades in-between | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whenever a higher being manifests to beings of lower development, they show themselves in outer form as | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| varies with the individuals -- of existence in lower worlds than the earth sphere. The higher the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a further clue about the truth of your lower nature -- and this is priceless knowledge on | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thus you would have remained in a much lower state of awareness, development, and therefore also personal | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is already a great accomplishment for people of lower spiritual development if they can be brought to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| some time ago about the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self. What I have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| things. If these feelings still exist in your lower self, you turn away from them, thinking you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| comes entirely from the higher self or the lower self, because everything mixes constantly. Purification means to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| God. But it is the ignorance of the lower self that makes you think perfection can be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| imperfections and disregarding them. It is also the lower self that always wants to have everything so | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| always wants to have everything so comfortable. The lower self wants to be in a high position | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| capable of loving your fellow creatures. But your lower self wants to be perfect in order to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| an example where both the higher and the lower self want the same thing, but their motives | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| You must also recognize the reasons why your lower self turns you away from facing yourself. One | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| imperfect is unpleasant. The other is that the lower self is lazy and never wants to work | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| on this path. They may be entities of lower development of whom less is expected in this | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| say aware of yourself, I mean knowing your lower self utterly and completely, which does not have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| accomplishment, I do mean the conquering of your lower self. Here is another thought, my friends, for | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| yourself. It will be the fight between the lower self and the higher self, and your conscious | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you from following this path at all. The lower self may send messages such as, I do | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you in good stead later on when the lower self will try to obstruct your path by | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| scared of what may come out of your lower self, though you may not be conscious of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not exist because you avoid facing it. The lower self is immature and ignorant -- its very | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| when they come face to face with their lower self in the course of the treatment. This | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to those of you who know that your lower self is not your ultimate being. However, in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the mistaken idea that they are really their lower self can lead people to such self-rejection and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| down. All of you here know that the lower self is merely a temporary layer and does | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| yet because it is deeply hidden behind the lower self, your higher self still exists in its | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| can you reach it unless you penetrate the lower self? So do not be afraid; do not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not be shocked when you first encounter your lower self where heretofore you had no idea of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to be aware of your fear of your lower self, and your shame of it, and if | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| free of the shadows and layers of the lower self. That is the presence you have constantly | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| trends and currents work, what plays into the lower self or what the lower self will use | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| plays into the lower self or what the lower self will use as an excuse to reinforce | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| higher self is diluted by currents of the lower self to constitute a mask or subterfuge, varies | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| in one particular direction perhaps too forcefully. Your lower self resists that. Maybe I can help you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| fight, I meant just that. It takes the lower self a very long time to become ready | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| its sluggish ways. You must realize that this lower self lives in you strongly, even though you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| but also emotionally. Then try to let your lower self come to the surface, so that you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to achieve that end, and then let the lower self come out. Listen to your feelings in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the proper attitude with which to meet your lower self, accept your inability to change something by | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is fundamental. The proper spirit of accepting the lower self with the necessary humility is of much | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| unjustified fear serves as an excuse for the lower self that always wants to avoid purification and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your thoughts and feelings. I can see your lower self that fights constantly against the right decisions | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| them because you are inspired by your own lower self. As long as you do not recognize | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| long as you do not recognize how the lower self works, how it manifests, and in what | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is the work, my friends. To master your lower self is the work that Jesus meant mainly | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| important to understand how to deal with the lower self that works in the subconscious mind and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of purification will have many fights with this lower self of yours along the way. Perhaps not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| individual currents and trends within you which the lower self does not want to part with. So | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| for you to overcome whatever is in your lower self that constantly draws you away from this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| for your own good, because by overcoming your lower self you free yourself of your own chains | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| soul of each individual. And imagine how the lower self stands in-between you and this light and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| have begun this lecture by saying that the lower self constantly resists your endeavors. Here you have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| have a wonderful opportunity to observe your undisguised lower self as it works and reacts. Try to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of self- observation and the reaction of your lower self, your ego, your hurt, your vanity that | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| whole heart, and disregard the resistance of your lower self that always lurks nearby in such moments | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| does not mean that you should let the lower self of your brother triumph. Oh no. Jesus | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| from it. But you must not allow the lower nature of others to take advantage of your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| goal. They know the limitations of spirits of lower development, and they try to slowly eliminate these | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| always be surrounded by spirits, both higher and lower, who are compatible with them and therefore belong | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and narrow-mindedness are at the core of their lower self, and these traits, among other things, were | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| What counts is the effort to overcome one's lower self. Whether the lower self still contains such | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| effort to overcome one's lower self. Whether the lower self still contains such dark trends in a | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |