| trends in a younger spirit, or whether the lower self simply contains the faults, weaknesses, and sick | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| only find God within by going through your lower self. If you have a treasure hidden deep | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of all without being willing to face your lower self? Does that make sense? Certainly not. However | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| this road and by really going through your lower self, facing it and dissolving it step by | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| direct it properly. The sluggish tendency in the lower self makes you hold back when it comes | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| on the imperfections that form part of your lower self. At another stage, you have to actively | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| ego and is thus the will of the lower self. Now, in order to find God's will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| may be called the higher self and the lower self. Accept that both are in you and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you do examine a particular desire of your lower self and bring it into your consciousness -- | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are, the sluggishness and the immaturity of your lower self has the better of you. You will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to interpret to fit the resistance of your lower self. The only way you can positively know | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| if desires come from the higher or the lower self? ANSWER: By examining the desires and their | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| At the same time, the desire-current of the lower self mingles with the good motives, perhaps as | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| their lives freely. They are enslaved to their lower selves, to their unrecognized desires, which push and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| sometimes too high. At times it is the lower self that prevents success in a certain direction | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| talent basically intact, though covered up by the lower self and by all the layers of imperfection | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| need to concentrate on finding out what your lower self really is. This means you should find | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| developed enough to desist the desires of the lower self that may still have such wishes -- | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| price of self- development and victories over the lower self. No matter how much you have read | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| By fighting, of course, I mean fighting your lower self. Also, if someone is already developed to | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| holds true here. If higher spirits go into lower spheres, which they do at certain intervals regularly | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| truth from untruth. Therefore the spirits in the lower spheres do not see the angels as they | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| of teaching the truth to creatures in the lower spheres. Be blessed. 31. SHAME Greetings in the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| undergo the noble fight, my friends, against one's lower self; no one would take the path of | 31 SHAME |
| first. Let me explain it this way: Your lower self with all its shortcomings is a factor | 31 SHAME |
| are. The moment you hopelessly despair about the lower side of your nature, you have not accepted | 31 SHAME |
| for who you really are which includes your lower self, with giving in to the impulses of | 31 SHAME |
| with giving in to the impulses of your lower self in your deeds. There is a vast | 31 SHAME |
| negative side does not exist anymore. In the lower spheres of darkness, however, no alternative carries with | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| have to go through the laws governing this lower sphere that is rightfully yours for the moment | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| serve in the higher realms for others. In lower realms the goal becomes the self. Use the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| thoughts and feelings, continuing to battle with your lower self that always wants to obscure the way | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| beyond, but all this is done on a lower level, in other spheres, and in a different | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| spirit, to breach the wall that separates the lower self from God's grace, God's strength, God's mercy | 36 PRAYER |
| for self-unfoldment through self-recognition; the overcoming of the lower self; the rechanneling of wrong currents, and the | 36 PRAYER |
| the human personality, namely the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self. The same coexistence | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Divine Law to be pessimistic and negative. Your lower nature, abetted by the forces of darkness, likes | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| could never emerge from the misery of the lower, darker planes of consciousness. Only when you begin | 38 IMAGES |
| not give in to the desires of the lower self. If you cannot help giving in to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| If you cannot help giving in to the lower self at times, you will learn an additional | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you become happy. The person who has a lower degree of consciousness, however, believes that happiness results | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in to all the desires coming from the lower nature. If you are not free from selfishness | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the last upward curve was, on the whole, lower than the present downward curve, every upward curve | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| think of others whose ethical standards are infinitely lower than your own and yet they seem to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| but it actually becomes worse. To the ignorant lower self the childish and immature side of the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| are incarnated in different forms of existence. The lower the development, the further goes the split. As | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| ideas, and spiritual concepts and principles. On the lower planes, the pure and unspiritualized sex force creates | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is by nature more spiritually, or on a lower level, more intellectually inclined. By that I do | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and therefore to acknowledge a part of your lower self whose full significance you may have previously | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| have repeatedly had the humility to recognize their lower nature. Therefore, I repeat: recognize again and again | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the goals of your higher self, but simultaneously lower and selfish aims are also present in your | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| aims are also present in your motivation. These lower aims find justification in the higher aims, which | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| lose their splendor if you cannot see the lower motives coexisting with the higher ones in the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| yourself in this way, again and again, the lower currents will indeed weaken until eventually they disappear | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| than you are. You believe yourself free of lower motives, while they ferment in your unconscious. Humanity | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the desire for perfection comes also from the lower self. This is so with all people who | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to serve only the aims of your essential lower self you would certainly not be loved and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and partly to the selfish ends of the lower self. Here begin the human conflicts that render | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| at least from your sphere upwards. There are lower spheres before the cycle of incarnations begins, where | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| also your resistance to change and growth. The lower self of the human personality is very shrewd | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| free will, contrary to beings still in a lower grade of development, such as animals or plants | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be harmful, it can come from the lower nature of the personality. Intuition comes from the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| this obstacle is cleared up, recognitions about your lower nature will become a joyful event. Now just | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| could indeed be very harmful. If a man's lower nature remains dominant, he might say, I can | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| in certain respects, and more people incarnated from lower spheres. But, from the overall view, progress is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has become possible for so many beings from lower spheres to go through earth development now. You | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have stated this before at various times. The lower the development of the entities that have been | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| This does not mean giving in to your lower nature. The real you will not desire harmful | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be devoted, at least to some degree, their lower nature would have taken more control over them | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of evolution is correct. Evolution goes through mineral, lower animal, plant, higher animal, human being, spirit being | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into many parts. The further the split, the lower the development. The more development progresses, the less | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| There is just less of spirit-matter in the lower forms. In this respect, science is closer to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is often the case that people of lower spiritual development, with a lesser conscience, are unhindered | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and shame all human beings feel about their lower selves, their faults and weaknesses, their misconceptions and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| unhealthy tendencies and reactions. When you face your lower nature, your deviations and the phantom world of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| final fulfillment of love by starting on the lower steps of its ladder. Perhaps one of the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| become happy, while the person who has a lower degree of consciousness believes that happiness results from | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to all the desires coming out of the lower nature. If you are not free from selfishness | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the last upward curve was, on the whole, lower than the present downward curve, you do not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Broadly speaking, you have your higher self, your lower self with all its different gradations, and you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| way. This often happens through dreams. But the lower self always interferes. It sends in disturbances. Radio | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| am very confused about all the selves. The lower self, higher self, inner self, mask self, psyche | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for that. When I first discussed the higher, lower and mask selves, it was a considerable time | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| oversimplification to stick to the terms higher self, lower self and mask self. The term inner self | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the trouble with all truth teachings. The lower self has, of course, nothing to do with | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of existence and consciousness. They are, at the lower level, cooperation, and, at a higher level, communication | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| governs the laws of communication, and, on a lower level, of cooperation. However, we shall not discuss | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| partly of the higher and partly of the lower self. These two sides will be integrated and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| as having both. And only then can the lower side gradually develop and grow out of its | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| cannot tolerate it, duality exists. By accepting your lower self you can gradually overcome it as well | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| as the duality between the higher and the lower self. By nonacceptance you increase the duality. This | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| struggling against death, as you struggle against your lower self, the duality increases. QUESTION: Could you tell | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| be interpreted to mean the higher and the lower self. And it can also be interpreted to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| lack of peace between the higher and the lower self brings the idealized self into existence. These | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| an utter misunderstanding of truth. There is a lower kind of animal life that is destructive, and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an in-between state. You have awakened from a lower state, a plant or animal form where you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| any other divine manifestations, are all one. The lower the state of one's development, the less these | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| real self, the higher self, or with the lower self, the part that you deny. Both sides | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of the emanation they perceive from you. The lower their level of consciousness, the less will they | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| for a human being is to face the lower self, and it is in connection with the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| self, and it is in connection with the lower self that real guilt exists. You go to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| go to any length to avoid facing the lower self. Perhaps you are capable and willing to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| real guilt belonging to the area of the lower self that you are unwilling to tolerate. This | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| In order to become capable of facing your lower self in its entirety, you must first learn | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| one hand I invite you to face your lower self, your real guilts, to make restitution for | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| exist, to that degree you cannot accept your lower self. For in that perfectionism, as I said | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| will you have the resiliency to accept the lower self as it actually is. Only then can | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of this paralysis with unrecognized facets of the lower self, about which you feel real guilt. Those | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| Resiliency in accepting all the aspects of your lower self can be cultivated even before your personal | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you, too, shy away from fully facing your lower self. Question yourself: Do I wish to pamper | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| consider the corroding effect that not facing the lower self and real guilt has upon your personality | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| is nothing more than the evasion of the lower self. Or, to put it in different words | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |