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way, for the simple reason that if the lower- developed beings would see an obviously higher spirit 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Some of these secondary guilts gave energy to lower- self energy. Material greed was fostered; money, power 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
always includes the basic willingness to change a lower- self action, a lower-self goal, or a lower-self 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
understanding and with it heretofore unrecognized levels of lower- self material appear. This stage is a ray 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
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found why you have such difficulties with the lower-self resistance, you have attained a great deal more 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
messages from the higher self are tainted with lower-self motives, a disorder is created in the soul 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
it does not agree with their still predominant lower-self feelings. Their giving and their generosity are just 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
is a thorough understanding of what disregarding your lower-self trends does to you. Not facing these afflicted 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
in three categories: (1) repression of the actual lower-self in its distinct and extreme manifestations and character 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
you. You suppose the confusion regarding the actual lower-self trends will disappear when you deny their existence 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
alone can prevent you from acting upon your lower-self instincts. Therefore you can never come to a 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
and do not accept your shortcomings or your lower-self aspects -- whether real or imaginary -- only 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
embedded within a wall of protective covering, the lower-self attitudes, intents, feelings, thoughts and actions. It is 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
your higher self, and that some of your lower-self aspects would be transformed. This marks a decisive 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
side, you have found out that in these lower-self aspects resides a senseless stubbornness that still controls 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
this exploration in meditation whenever you face a lower-self aspect. You have forgotten to pursue this approach 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
the conscious mind is usually not aware of. Lower-self energy is extremely unpleasant. As far as the 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
pleasing hues. The difference is quite obvious: The lower-self energy emanation is dull or crass; it gives 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
your confusion about accepting the self with its lower-self aspects, squarely facing its negativity, and yet seeing 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
I am saying in order to justify a lower-self trend to defy an outer law. Again, very 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
self-knowledge so that you cannot be corrupted by lower-self motives. You also need to take each individual 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
the stronger aspect, notwithstanding the continuing presence of lower-self aspects. The higher self is becoming constantly predominant 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
the courage and integrity to expose all your lower-self aspects and consider their effects. Let this process 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
the word of your negative intentionality and your lower-self motives. Such an admission implies attitudes of truthfulness 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
question: Is it true that this or that lower-self aspect makes me undeserving, unlovable, bad, valueless? Or 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
disposed toward you, and exclusively concerned with your lower-self desires, that you can indulge in every destructive 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
blaming others, by excusing and justifying your own lower-self traits and all the more severely heaping accusations 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
your rising consciousness as well as from your lower-self drives. There are, of course, boundaries, laws, and 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
also have a conflict between their higher-self and lower-self attitudes. They may set you inwardly free and 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the same erroneous assumption that being wrong, having lower-self attitudes, having made a mistake, is unforgivable and 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
truth. See both the truth of your hidden lower-self motives and the truth of your higher-self good 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
and come to believe them. It furthers a lower-self fixation to indulge in the negative pleasure of 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
quite strong resistance -- to face not only lower-self traits, but also their consequences and painful effects 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
for covering, justifying, projecting, and thereby increasing the lower-self energies and activities. This part of you fights 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
succeeds. Whenever your helper fails to discover your lower-self maneuvers and is blind, together with you, about 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
for you to accept is the fact that lower-self aspects have effects, and they influence more of 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
you wish to disconnect from the consequences of lower-self attitudes, to that exact same degree you will 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
believe you do not deserve. These types of lower-self giving are manifestations of building on deficit. False 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
Thus you build a mask illusion on a lower-self illusion. The mask illusion is that this way 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
way of operating can go on forever. The lower-self illusion is that the world is mean and 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
peers and bring all your guilts, all your lower-self machinations to the fore, you stand there poor 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
The false way of self-revealing is the childish, lower-self way that says, in effect, If I show 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
willingness to change a lower- self action, a lower-self goal, or a lower-self attitude. It requires the 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
lower- self action, a lower-self goal, or a lower-self attitude. It requires the trust that higher-self goals 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
was hidden -- the distortions, the errors, the lower-self material, and eventually the reality of your higher 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
you can see, my friends, that underneath the lower-self exchange, a higher-self exchange exists simultaneously between the 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
it does now. Masks are beginning to fall, lower-self aspects begin to show clearly, with less concealment 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
you put all aggression into the service of lower-self aims, while keeping an apathetic, passive attitude toward 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
we now call by different names, such as lower-self aspects, negativities, destructiveness, a painful state of mind 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
from your lower self and gives you some lower-self gratifications for a while, so that higher pleasures 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
 
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and to refrain from giving in to their lowest instincts. More is required of others; of everyone 1 THE SEA OF LIFE
have all kinds of spiritual spheres, from the lowest to the highest. Since distance in the world 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
instance. That a nice gentle horse becomes the lowest type of human being, such as a criminal 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
It is rather that a person on the lowest level of human development knows very little, is 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
the light of Christ penetrates down to the lowest spheres of gloom, and at least to some 19 JESUS CHRIST
is in various degrees dense or subtle. The lowest is of the thickest or heaviest or densest 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
does not matter. This distortion may serve people's lowest instincts. It is your sacred duty, just as 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Testament, can be interpreted on many levels. The lowest level would be the historical one. There are 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
gradation within them from the highest to the lowest, the different main religions are represented. It is 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
on every plane, from the highest to the lowest. Humanity has always confused these three principles. In 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
hand that if you go ahead, following your lowest instincts, that is harmful to others. Both are 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
ahead on that assumption and indulge in the lowest instincts. Now, my friends, if there are any 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
affect you. Visualize all emotional experiences, from the lowest to the highest, as streams or currents. According 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
no danger of confusion and suffering. Take the lowest stage of development, mineral life. It has the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
relationship is enormous. Let us begin with the lowest form on earth, which is mineral. Since a 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
moment. Let us begin with those on the lowest scale among human beings. That would be the 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
progression. One person's sensitivity may be on the lowest note of the keyboard, another's on the highest 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
Let us now consider other stages of love. Lowest on the scale is surely love for inanimate 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
rather, we seek to gain an overview. The lowest phase of human consciousness is automatism. In this 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
mentioned here, or is still entirely in the lowest stage. It is always a mixture, a combination 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
also quite true that a child in the lowest grade of school cannot understand what an adult 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
self as at once the highest and the lowest is responsible for that layer of reality where 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
important aspect of getting to know both the lowest and the highest in you is that you 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
to see the full truth of both the lowest and highest in you, wanting with all of 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
another. On the spiritual and emotional levels, the lowest stage indicates an acute state of fear. The 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
and still others where you are on the lowest first. The degree varies with people. Some are 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
of development, there is a similarity between the lowest and the highest point of the curve, which 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
consciousness and energy are equally imperceptible. In the lowest state of development, evil is so strongly concentrated 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
the scale. Nevertheless, neither the highest nor the lowest degrees exist in the human state. You do 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
oneness with the All is achieved. On the lowest scale you need the group because you are 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
is why many spiritual teachings say that the lowest quality on the whole scale is not hatred 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
Let me begin by saying that on the lowest level of the scale of development of consciousness 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
other aspects of cosmic reality, here too the lowest and the highest forms of consciousness have common 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
be influenced by the highest or by the lowest forces. The choice is up to you. It 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
so. Every sphere, realm or world, from the lowest to the highest, is always a total reflection 254 SURRENDER
negative pleasure and excitement. For beings in the lowest, darkest states of consciousness, or worlds, all light 254 SURRENDER
then not even those who come from the lowest spheres, with destructive intent and/or spiritual ignorance, will 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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