| Masculinity.................14 | |
| one fulfill one's task to develop one's proper masculinity or femininity when the split we have just | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| for instance a woman who has so much masculinity in her that she is unable to develop | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| woman and thereby fears he will jeopardize his masculinity. Since it is woman's nature to dwell on | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is not manly, he also fights against his masculinity. Moreover, he fights against it out of the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| these confusions of unconscious ideas, he thwarts his masculinity in its natural and healthy form by trying | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| sex. When a man fights against his own masculinity and is confused about it, a barrier is | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| level off the difference by diminishing one's own masculinity and femininity and assuming the traits of the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| main barrier a man puts up against his masculinity. He fears self-loss not only because the necessary | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| even go overboard and exaggerate this image of masculinity. This overcompensation would not exist if you were | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| my doubts and need for reassurance concern my masculinity. How does this apply to what you said | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| passivity, and inferiority, while the masculine principle or masculinity is often wrongly associated with brute force and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| they are at least indirectly connected with your masculinity or your femininity. The expression and handling of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| young man recently discovered his insecurity about his masculinity. He had to overcome considerable resistance to penetrate | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| love. The less he loves, the less real masculinity he has, and consequently the more insecure and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Mask........................132 | |
| total honesty and to know yourself without your mask. And you need help to meet your resistances | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to displace their real motives and wear a mask so that their pure currents are polluted by | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK Greetings in the name of the Lord. Blessed | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and that is what I might term the mask self. The mask self is created in the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| what I might term the mask self. The mask self is created in the following way: When | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| between feelings and actions. In this way, no mask self can form. However, too often people try | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| sign that in one way or another a mask self has been created. They do not realize | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| you must at all costs tear down the mask self. You can bring yourself to do so | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| my lower self? Where may there be a mask, a falsehood? Many, many people wear a mask | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| mask, a falsehood? Many, many people wear a mask, at least in some respects. This mask self | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| a mask, at least in some respects. This mask self presents to us a very ugly color | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| self in different variations; the colors of the mask self are sickeningly sweet. If you are an | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| with the tones and the odor of the mask self: they are sickly and nauseating. We spirits | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| you will feel a distinct difference between the mask and the higher self. You will feel the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| You will feel the nauseating manifestations of the mask self, first of all of your own, no | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of your own, no matter how pleasant the mask may appear to be. If your psychologists, psychoanalysts | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| so often or so strongly. But when the mask has been torn down and the patient is | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| personality is not allowed to evolve, that a mask is put over the personality and the inner | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| in this world, which is of course the mask self. It is encouraged by the world, because | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and act right, even if it is a mask, than to remain in one's lower self when | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| in to the lower self and creating a mask self. As I have explained it, even if | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your society, as opposed to believing that the mask self is your true nature and real self | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| about the higher self, lower self, and the mask self. Every human being has the first two | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| also has to some degree the third, the mask self. For those of you here for the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self; and perhaps in the next lecture I | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| I am that. This is as insincere a mask as the other extreme. Such people want to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to show yourself as you are without a mask and without the superiority with which you try | 21 THE FALL |
| the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self. What I have explained is part of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| What I have explained is part of the mask self, but it is not only a mask | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| mask self, but it is not only a mask. I may call it the exterior self which | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| currents of the lower self to constitute a mask or subterfuge, varies with each person. The possibilities | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| others becomes to you. So you create a mask self. In some subtle way, you become a | 31 SHAME |
| So the person feels compelled to create a mask self in which, of course, they never really | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| true self, but merely for a badly chosen mask. All masks are bad, even the apparently pleasant | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| does exist and is often hidden under the mask, I must get to know myself; I must | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| due to their having been hidden by the mask self. On the other hand, these trends may | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the higher self, the lower self, and the mask self. The same coexistence of truth and falsehood | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| and genuinely so -- not only as a mask. You always tend to think in either/or terms | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| chooses, because of fear and immature currents, a mask of intellectuality that is foreign to her or | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| emotional may fear emotion and thus assume a mask that does not correspond to his or her | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| they are an almost conscious hypocrisy, the outer mask must be dissolved in order to look into | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| opposed to your conscious beliefs about yourself. Your mask has not brought you the gratification you thought | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| made you angry. When you unconsciously assumed the mask of goodness you may have bent over backwards | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| out the part you discover behind the first mask of unselfishness, believing that now at last you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and anger -- as you are behind your mask. All your negative reactions are essentially one reaction | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you have already recognized the falseness of the mask layer you have built on wrong conclusions. Then | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| equally erroneous that refusal of decision-making, under the mask of waiting for God's will, lacks selfishness and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself. In some instances even the superficial outer mask is lacking. And yet, when the unhappy outcome | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| What comes out of any layer of your mask self will affect the similar or corresponding mask | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| mask self will affect the similar or corresponding mask self layer or defense mechanism of the other | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| other person's shyness may be covered under a mask of brashness. However, you will recognize that they | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| hidden. One person will hide it behind a mask of aloofness and pseudo-strength. Another will hide it | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| selves. The lower self, higher self, inner self, mask self, psyche and all. Could you straighten me | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| When I first discussed the higher, lower and mask selves, it was a considerable time ago. It | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to the terms higher self, lower self and mask self. The term inner self will now make | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| idealized self-image. I have occasionally used the term mask self in the past. The mask self and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the term mask self in the past. The mask self and the idealized self- image are really | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| there a continuing fusion without building a strong mask personality? ANSWER: Of course, the healthier a human | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| This work demands that you discard the outer mask of appearance and that you muster the courage | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| level, more harm occurs than good, because the mask self, the idealized self, and the tendency to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the point where the big lie of the mask and the pretense must be given up. A | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| I said that you must first penetrate the mask self that hides your destructive attitudes. You are | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| a third component which I first called the mask self and later the idealized self. It is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| had to overcome considerable resistance to penetrate the mask of false security he had been assuming. He | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| by your conscience, produces an unjustified guilt to mask the real one. The false guilt also may | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| then shifts your sense of identity to your mask. You struggle against exposing the pretense, let alone | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| used the terms higher self, lower self, and mask self. These are very abbreviated terms which comprise | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| has worked diligently and conscientiously to shed the mask, to give up defenses, and to overcome the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or to limit your identity to the fraudulent mask or the hateful demon or the petty, selfish | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self which is the demonic self; and the mask self which hides the demonic or lower self | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of the lower self as well as the mask. This fragmentation creates misunderstandings, illusions, and misconceptions. It | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| these three levels of consciousness so that the mask and lower selves dissolve and only the true | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and expresses itself. Only when the lower and mask selves are entirely conscious and their exact manifestations | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| can only be reversed when awareness of the mask self, the lower self, and finally the higher | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| meditation. The process of becoming aware of your mask self and your lower self and dealing with | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to focus on the specific devices of the mask self and observe how it masks itself and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| self is understood, accepted and dissolved, when the mask is dispensed with, then the unification of the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| off awareness of your lower self and your mask self, you will not be aware of the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| make yourself feel your lower self and the mask that hides it. If you do not, how | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| degree between these two possibilities, so can the mask self. The mask self is your pretense, your | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| two possibilities, so can the mask self. The mask self is your pretense, your hiding, your facade | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| it real. All these various expressions indicate the mask self. The mask self is a defense against | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| these various expressions indicate the mask self. The mask self is a defense against exposing who you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| are not exclusively the lower self which the mask is designed to hide. However, by masking any | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| masking any part of yourself, you inevitably also mask your higher self from yourself. The more you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in the higher self, but not in the mask self -- the more your higher self is | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| because you have identified so much with your mask, you are oblivious to wearing one. When you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| wearing one. When you are unaware of your mask, you feel ashamed and uncomfortable but you don't | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| more of the unreality, and more of the mask. As usual, these aspects must first be fully | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| without truly being aware of your lower self, mask self, your defenses, your dishonest devices, and your | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to identify with your lower self or your mask self, but to observe and identify it, is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| something and being identified with it. When the mask and lower self, or the negative intentionality and | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| these exercises because they must first shed the mask that hides their shame of their real feelings | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| overt selfishness. It may be part of your mask, your need to appear good in the eyes | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| new. But giving is so often a false mask, a ploy that only hides the cheating, bargaining | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| each honest admission, each shedding of a partial mask, each breaking through of a defense, each step | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| beings. You may fear your selfishness. But your mask has put a cloak over your selfishness and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| over your selfishness and your little meannesses. That mask makes you comply with higher standards and appear | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| misuse it and perpetuate the pretenses of the mask self. So you had to learn to be | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you have learned to let go of the mask of false service and to expose the short-sighted | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the lower self, which is surrounded by the mask self and the defenses. Individually you have dealt | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| between it and the wishful thinking of the mask self that hides the distortion and the untruth | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| know it by penetrating the concealments of the mask self. In this struggle the temptation to hide | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| those who are still strongly identified with their mask self. They have the most difficult time, and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have to recognize that they identify with their mask self and must begin to travel through the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| how to function without the pretenses of your mask and your defensive games. Again this does not | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the other and come to understand about the mask self. Education will prevent the formation of masks | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| lower self and the higher self while the mask begins to dissolve -- you perceive the other | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| you who are penetrating the encrustation of the mask, dissolving it and transforming the lower self, for | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| small everyday manifestations. Instead, you put on a mask of perfectionism to prove to the world and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and truly transcended it -- not on the mask level through the false way of denying your | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| phase you find it difficult to remove your mask self and look at your lower self without | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| higher self must not be confused with the mask self you have identified with for a long | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| with for a long time. You confuse this mask self with your higher self. To remove the | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| self with your higher self. To remove the mask self is complicated, for if you only focus | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the same time, if you revert to your mask self, you are right back where you started | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| despair is that you cannot differentiate between the mask self and the real higher self, and that | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| self, and that you believe that if the mask self is taken from you, you are going | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| is that you know deep down that your mask self is not genuine and you project that | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the aspirations of your lower self and your mask self? Or does the necessity on the path | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the curve of evolution. The creation of the mask is the first facet of the realization that | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| beyond that and are struggling to eliminate the mask self that is now the generally accepted rule | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| be in this frame of reference -- the mask self and the dualistic good versus bad -- | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| level of your being that lies beyond the mask and the lower self, beyond the psychological and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| have helped you to see and accept your mask and your lower self. I have opened up | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| They may cover up the weakness by a mask of strength, which deceives no one, least of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| be seen as questionable and possibly as a mask of something evil. By the same token, what | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| one way. For example, you either project your mask self to the world, while you inwardly despair | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| indefinitely in this way. Thus you build a mask illusion on a lower-self illusion. The mask illusion | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| a mask illusion on a lower-self illusion. The mask illusion is that this way of operating can | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| manifests in putting so much energy in your mask and lower self that you never dare expose | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| see the strength of the secondary guilt. The mask self claimed greed, calculating self-interest, prideful appearance values | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |