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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 |
| Lower-self..................46 | |
| 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 |