| you begin to see these areas of your lower self, it is very important for your conscious | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| must likewise change. Energy that emanates from the lower self is very slow moving. It is often | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| extremely beautiful and harmonious. The sounds of a lower self are disharmonious, ugly and displeasing to the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| splendor. As you overcome each hurdle of the lower self, as you commit yourself forever more strongly | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| time the part of you we call the lower self obstructs this movement. It fears, distrusts, and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| extent you resist growth, you create crisis. The lower self is not merely devious, dishonest, and selfish | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as destructive and negative. Earth also possesses a lower self. Like the individual's, Earth's lower self is | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| possesses a lower self. Like the individual's, Earth's lower self is not only negative, selfish, greedy, and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you become unselfish without sacrificing personal fulfillment. The lower self with its lower aims must often be | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| sacrificing personal fulfillment. The lower self with its lower aims must often be sacrificed. But is this | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and to expose the short-sighted selfishness of the lower, little self. Then you learn healthy selfishness, and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| figure the higher self is surrounded by the lower self, which is surrounded by the mask self | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| hides the distortion and the untruth of the lower self. You thereby come to hear the true | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yourself against the countermovement from within your own lower self, and therefore from without, against the lower | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lower self, and therefore from without, against the lower self of the planet. Then there are those | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in the phase of owning up to the lower self, laboriously getting to know it by penetrating | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you have learned to take responsibility for your lower self and overcame the shame to admit it | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| craft and the technical dexterity. If the childish lower self wants to use the channel to the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| need to truly know yourself, your weaknesses, your lower self, where you are corruptible, where you are | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| conciliates opposites that are mutually exclusive on the lower level of consciousness. What is conflict-producing on the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| level of consciousness. What is conflict-producing on the lower level is mutually helpful and interactive on the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to deal with such fears by questioning your lower self. But the time comes when you are | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the connections. You know, for example, what your lower self wants and why you have negative intentions | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| my friends, even the negative manifestation of the lower development -- hostility toward the other, warfare -- | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reality. The principles that were previously learned on lower levels can now be applied to a higher | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this resistance on your path when encountering your lower self. Since the planet also has a lower | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lower self. Since the planet also has a lower self, there are factions of people who express | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| community living, have areas within them that represent lower phases, You all know this and have been | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the hidden guilt and shame of your lower self. So you turn against the group and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF Greetings, my most beloved friends. Blessings for | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| with condoning and whitewashing the negativities of the lower self; and you equally confuse self-devastating guilt and | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| yourself, and in which you can face the lower self precisely because you have this basic love | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| being, including your own. You can face your lower self unstintingly -- without whitewashing, without explaining it | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| antidote, self-coddling and self-indulgence and denial of the lower self on the other, always exist simultaneously. They | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| face whatever exists in you. Realize that the lower self is nothing but a creation that has | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| in order to face the truth about the lower self, or in which you have to deny | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| you have to deny the truth about the lower self in order not to feel and experience | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| or denial of what is true in your lower self. You can have respect, love and compassion | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| all the other ugly little attitudes of the lower self, without ever forgetting who you really are | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| really are. The very fact of facing this lower self deserves the mercy, forgiveness, and love that | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| the call of the immediate desire of the lower self. The laws and mores of civilization in | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to the darkest, most undeveloped aspects of the lower self of the entity, individual as well as | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| as benign love and justice. The child, the lower self in you, may blindly rebel against the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and the self- interest that comes from the lower self, the need to please, as well as | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in this direction. Where you act out your lower self, you need those laws to protect others | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| protect others. But where you have outgrown the lower self, you do not need to be told | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| answer. For example, on one level -- the lower self -- the imbalance is deliberately sought in | 228 BALANCE |
| as well capitulate. That is the case the lower self makes. It is very important that you | 228 BALANCE |
| Perhaps we can combine these two levels: The lower self can create imbalance out of ignorance that | 228 BALANCE |
| As your understanding of this concept ripens, your lower self will no longer get away with its | 228 BALANCE |
| the laws and also the pitfalls of the lower self so that its voice can be distinguished | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| out the higher self, on purification of the lower self. The child will learn how to distinguish | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| understand. As you become more aware of your lower self, of previously hidden levels of consciousness and | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| to yourself, you automatically become aware of the lower self -- the hidden material -- of others | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| -- of others. As you can accept your lower self without being devastated and totally rejected, by | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| divine nature, so will your awareness of the lower self of others not devastate you, annihilate you | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| discomfort. It threatened you the way your own lower self threatened you. Your perceptions may have been | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| see yourself in truth -- both as the lower self and the higher self while the mask | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| to dissolve -- you perceive the other person's lower self in a very different and new way | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| when you do not express your perceptions. The lower self is infuriated. The conscious personality may be | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of the mask, dissolving it and transforming the lower self, for your relationship to the world becomes | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| longer needed to keep you from facing your lower self. If children grow up with a clear | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| not superimposed in a wishful denial of the lower self. It is the result of a genuine | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| that higher realms come down and penetrate the lower realms, thus causing in them a transformation. According | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| them a transformation. According to the concept that lower realms raise themselves up into higher ones, the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| of love, infiltrates into the realms of the lower self with its little faithless concerns. The mass | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| that reveal principles of divine nature when the lower self is hidden and denied implies attitudes of | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| gone deeply enough to know not only your lower self and its negative intentionality, but also your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| rather than from the cheating, grabbing, acquisitive little lower self. If you have something to give another | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| a deep dishonesty on the part of the lower self. It is truly cheating, wanting to skip | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and that wants to acquaint myself with my lower self and my higher self without exaggerating or | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| you can trustingly allow the overlayers of the lower self to emerge, in order for you to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| your outer world, in symbolic reflections, how the lower self of nations becomes exposed, so it happens | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| consciousness? You must take the existence of your lower self seriously -- not in the wrong way | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| remove your mask self and look at your lower self without losing sight that you also have | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| complicated, for if you only focus on the lower self you despair. At the same time, if | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| to disintegrate into an evil person. Now, the lower self is there; it is never beautiful; it | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Christ in you as you go through your lower self and do not evade it by wishful | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| rather blame others than honestly look into your lower self? Does self-love mean giving free rein to | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| giving free rein to the aspirations of your lower self and your mask self? Or does the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the path of facing the truth of your lower self, with its subterfuges and deceptions, mean that | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| to attain a truthful balance in facing your lower self honestly and -- not in spite of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you to experience how you can acknowledge your lower self without becoming ensnared in self-hate. You will | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| yourself in the true way, without indulging your lower self and its childish demands, you will find | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| honesty with the self, and firmness with the lower self's desire to act out will create self-honor | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| that you distrust the tyrant of your own lower self that wants to rule selfishly and cruelly | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| a condition to truly face aspects of your lower self and find more of your self-love. You | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| loving yourself without indulging yourself, without whitewashing your lower self, seeing it straight, and loving your beautiful | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| have already dissolved quite a bit of your lower self, when much of these energies have been | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| in former times the general level was the lower self that was crassly acted out -- by | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the first facet of the realization that the lower self is unacceptable and does not pay. Although | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| necessary, until more maturity is reached. Then the lower self can be identified and evaluated, which makes | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| to get to know yourself, to face the lower self and thereby begin to transform it, so | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| being that lies beyond the mask and the lower self, beyond the psychological and emotional problems, beyond | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| to see and accept your mask and your lower self. I have opened up to you the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| The same thing happened when responsibility for the lower self became an essential aspect of the pathwork | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| when, as is inevitable in human nature, the lower self entered into the picture. It induced pride | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| higher self. Those who resist it are humanity's lower self. As in your individual struggle, all depends | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| appropriate, and wise choices. The strength of their lower selves and their inability and unwillingness to face | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and unwillingness to face and therefore transcend the lower self, frequently made them the prey to evil | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| influences that corresponded to the intentionality of the lower self. As history proceeded, a disconnection from the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| begun to understand that to the degree your lower self is conscious, thereby enabling you to choose | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| your world, around you and within your own lower self. You will see that in its negative | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| see that in its negative intentionality your own lower self contains all three principles of evil. Only | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to become aware of the connection between your lower self, which, due to its ignorance, fear, and | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the same time leaving certain aspects of the lower self unattended to, the more you become prey | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| quite clear how the interaction between an individual's lower self and evil spirits follows certain very definite | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| you yet that the hidden part of your lower self that resists exposure and transformation is unable | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and darkness, between the higher self and the lower self, is also waged on a universal level | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| have been allowed to find entrance through your lower self which you have not dealt with sufficiently | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| of a person who is on an altogether lower plane of development. It would be good if | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| from it. Underneath the resistance to face the lower self is the pain of an unjust, chaotic | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| to put it a bit more accurately, the lower self is a direct result of the fear | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| pain of injustice creates negativity, that is, the lower self. And, conversely, the guilt about the lower | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| lower self. And, conversely, the guilt about the lower self fosters an attitude of not deserving salvation | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Whenever you seem to get away with your lower self, the momentary triumph is very shallow and | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| that is good. Since life is change, your lower self is also a constantly changing aspect of | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| worst into the best. Taking responsibility for the lower self is no longer so difficult for most | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| injustice. In not facing the consequences of the lower self, you try to cultivate the illusion that | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| injustice. This suits the wishful thinking of the lower self and makes you afraid of the consequences | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you do not want to know that your lower self has effects and consequences. Conversely, to the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| to be brought into the material level. The lower self exists precisely because of the limitation with | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| putting so much energy in your mask and lower self that you never dare expose your deficits | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| social contract to satisfy other personality functions and lower motives. Financial and social advantages were of primary | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| to desire a destructive act or attitude. Your lower self must be revealed so that it can | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| giving up secrets: (1) The fear that your lower self makes you all bad and, together with | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| potential, or who are still on a much lower scale of consciousness. Even trees, plants, birds, participate | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| guidance, and not merely an experience of the lower self. Recognition of the lower self is always | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| experience of the lower self. Recognition of the lower self is always a manifestation of higher-self guidance | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| more willing you are to do so, the lower the price will be. The price will turn | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| empty your mind of all preconceived ideas your lower self has a stake in retaining. You need | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| there must be some temporary manifestations of your lower selves. I wish to discuss now another manifestation | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| you follow on this path: you expose your lower self, you share it, you communicate it to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| condemnation that so often accompanies insight into your lower self obstructs the cleansing and liberating process that | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| to search for and face all of your lower self and to understand all of your being | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| my development? If there is anything in my lower self that I am not yet aware of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| secretly hold a low opinion of yourself. The lower this opinion is, the greater must be your | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| no matter how flawed, imperfect and destructive your lower self may be, will you be able to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| what you have done, no matter what your lower self still wishes to do. The door is | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| to shed a habit that stems from your lower self and gives you some lower-self gratifications for | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |