| Lucifer's...................7 | |
| over matter. However, this does not mean that Lucifer's world has no access to you. Ultimately, this | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| great his power, and thus is part of Lucifer's sphere. If this was not specifically explained to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| then, on earth, beings who are directly under Lucifer's rule, that is, they are from Hell, while | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| humans than the Luciferic spirits are right. For Lucifer's underlings are the spirits of evil, hate, murder | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| susceptible to the enticements of the servants of Lucifer's brother. They don't necessarily intend to harm others | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| unreceptive to the spirit. Thus this brother of Lucifer's has triumphed directly, Lucifer indirectly. For the aim | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| God and to keep his laws instead of Lucifer's could do so within the framework of the | 21 THE FALL |
| Luck........................17 | |
| you happiness, harmony, and what you may call luck. Soul forms of truth are made of a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| beyond your control, you grasp for chance and luck. You feel like a lost little boat on | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you blame others, circumstances, the fates, or bad luck, instead of seeing how you are responsible for | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| as your hardships, suffering, disappointments, unfulfillments, so-called bad luck, the repetition of unfavorable patterns -- all are | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| their outlook is the reason for their good luck or bad luck, for their fulfillment or frustration | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the reason for their good luck or bad luck, for their fulfillment or frustration. This is why | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| that they call the positive energy fields good luck and the negative bad luck. When you try | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| energy fields good luck and the negative bad luck. When you try to directly control the result | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| particularly true of those who believe in good luck and bad luck because they cannot see beneath | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| those who believe in good luck and bad luck because they cannot see beneath the surface. Since | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| only one can blame the circumstances or bad luck or other people's faults. Accepting the law of | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| occurrences outside one's control seem like coincidence or luck. This is essentially not so very different from | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| in reality is ascribed to their lack of luck in meeting the proper partner with whom they | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| lack of fulfillment is a result of ill luck, or is someone else's fault. It takes time | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| out of nowhere, or that you have bad luck. We mentioned many times that the human predicament | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| undesirable suffering to other people's wrongdoings, coincidence, bad luck, or even some unfathomable problem within yourself you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| to you as a result of pure chance, luck, or misfortune. But along the curve of growing | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Lukewarm....................6 | |
| more to us and makes us happier than lukewarm participation by the many. Now I should like | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| will bring the soul closer to God than lukewarm good deeds. QUESTION: I was going to ask | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Is love an intellectual process? Is love a lukewarm matter of laws, words, letters, regulations, and rules | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| The strongest human love experience is only a lukewarm, mild shadow of the cosmic feeling that encompasses | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| when it comes to your non- actions, your lukewarm withholding or not taking a stand, not actively | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| love are more feared, resisted, and maligned than lukewarm currents. This is the deepest reason why such | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Luminous....................4 | |
| tendency, even the smallest personality trait, is a luminous ray which is invisible to you, but belongs | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| of outer or inner reaction, also create such luminous threads. Wherever your personal rays agree with those | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| they lose this way! The wonderful forces and luminous rays of the spiritual world are ready to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a different direction. They cannot harmonize with the luminous threads of the greater reality, and so beneficial | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Lurks.......................7 | |
| difficult the first time? Because the doubt still lurks within you: What if God's will makes me | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the resistance of your lower self that always lurks nearby in such moments, then you will have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to life, without fear. Any fear that still lurks within me is error, and I decide to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the more since in the psyche there also lurks the precise opposite extreme -- the assumption of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| by not thinking about it, but nevertheless it lurks in the soul until the personality has completely | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| two apparently opposite ways. If fear of death lurks in your heart, consciously or unconsciously, self-forgiveness is | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| a fact. Life seems to die, evil always lurks somewhere in the shadows no matter how much | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Lust........................17 | |
| the outer level, but inwardly also. Those who lust for freedom out of pure egoism, elevating themselves | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and to separateness. The third cardinal sin is LUST. Lust is so often misunderstood. It is believed | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to separateness. The third cardinal sin is LUST. Lust is so often misunderstood. It is believed to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| this is not necessarily so. Now, what does lust mean? It means any kind of passionate desire | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is intrinsically selfish, then one can speak of lust. As I have often said, it is easy | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it may not be obvious that it is lust. Yet all human beings have some of it | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| forcing current and a driving need, there is lust. You all have that, and it is even | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| unfulfillment. In your ignorance, the need -- or lust -- swells to unbearable proportions and you become | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| remains unrecognized in its primary, original form, produces lust. To the degree that you become aware of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| whether this refers to sexual desire, or the lust for power, for money, for being liked, or | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| need found, you can begin to dissolve the lust. You can come to terms with the original | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that the sexual urge per se is sinful lust is utter distortion. As I have often said | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and union. If it remains separate, it is lust, but it is no more evil than the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| but it is no more evil than the lust for power, for money, for fame, for always | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| other destructive emotions, such as jealousy, envy, or lust, also contain anger. Anger may be a permanent | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| used in the service of ego aggrandizement and lust for power, it cannot help but produce inexplicable | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| being an object for man's mostly quite impersonal lust, the woman received material security. Her only responsibility | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Luxury......................9 | |
| An important step is to allow yourself the luxury of facing your desires, unfulfillments, longings, your complaints | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| In neither instance do you afford yourself the luxury of letting the emotions flow, observing them, learning | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| nor is it to be taken as a luxury -- indulged in merely because it is interesting | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| free. Then contact with others becomes a delightful luxury that elicits love. By continually using inner, covert | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to it, you do not permit yourself the luxury of finding out your inner wealth and resourcefulness | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| perceive this, you can afford the wonderful, relieving luxury of calmly admitting any undesirable, ugly trait, without | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| applaud your choices -- you can afford the luxury of relaxing inwardly and letting out your true | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| experience -- not as theoretical speculation and a luxury of belief, but as living reality in your | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Then you will be able to afford the luxury, if I may put it this way, of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Lying.......................11 | |
| should be honest and should not lie. But lying to oneself is often infinitely more dangerous and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is often infinitely more dangerous and harmful than lying to others. Why is it more dangerous? Because | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a substitute for you; and secondly, you are lying to yourself. It is not easy to find | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| QUESTION: May I bring up the subject of lying. What is the spiritual point of view about | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is the key to all conflicts, be it lying or anything else. QUESTIONER: Does that mean in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| look at the truth manifests in confusion, in lying to myself and to others, to alienation from | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| a fake, that the pagans and Christians are lying, are deluded, are inferior and at the same | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and light, the power of the spirits of lying instantly wanes. This may not be immediately discernible | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| rampant so that truth will be used for lying and lies will be called the truth. The | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| negative intentionality which then attracts expert spirits of lying and of confusion. Clarity will dissolve the pain | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| are, without the camouflages that bring so much lying, so much suffering, so much confusion. Exposure is | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |