PL 235 The Anatomy of Contraction

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The path is a spiral movement. You know this. You have heard this and experienced it. Each round of the spiral is a new layer, and at the entrance of each round a new and deeper commitment needs to be made. The rounds or circles are not closed, they have openings. As you discover a new opening, you need to make a new commitment, on a yet deeper level: to let go and to let God; to give all of yourself to the truth—to the truth of being—to no longer hide from your truth.

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PL 238 The Pulse of Life on all Levels of Manifestation

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The outer mind is sluggish at times and does not immediately comprehend and follow through. But the greater meaning can indeed become a reality if you use all your feelers, your inner sensitivity, to attune to the meaning of this meeting, or linking. A mutual giving and exchanging and learning can become an ongoing process that will yield much more than you can now imagine.

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PL 240 Aspects of the Anatomy of Love: Self-Love, Structure, Freedom

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We shall talk about certain aspects of love in this lecture. To completely cover the topic would be absolutely impossible in one lifetime, even if it were discussed every hour of the day, so deep and so far-reaching is it.

We shall discuss those aspects of love that you most need on your path at this juncture.

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PL 242 The Spiritual Meaning of Political Systems

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For this lecture I have announced a somewhat unusual topic, but you will see that it fits into the sequence of lectures and has its integral meaning in your own process, both as individuals and as a community. The topic is the spiritual meaning of political systems.

I will speak about the best known political systems on your earth plane at this point in your evolution. I shall explain the divine origin of each of these systems and the distortions in each.

I will then show you how every one of these systems, in their divine as well as in their distorted manifestations, is a reality of your internal world.

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PL 243 The Great Existential Fear and Longing

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The path I have the privilege to bring to you and help you on prepares you for this process. Little by little you deal first with the personal, individual violations of integrity and truth, level by level.

The more open you are to this process, and, consequently, the more you recognize and loosen up your defenses so that a state of open flow is established, the easier it becomes to lift out the existential fear that grips all humankind.

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PL 245 Cause and Effect on Various Levels of Consciousness

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If you commit an overt act—you kill someone—the consequences will be obvious.

But if you malign another human being by questionable accusations, ill will, blindness or stubbornness; if you refuse to give him or her the benefit of the doubt and do not attempt to be open and create a different reality through honest communication with this person, your thoughts are killing him.

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PL 246 Tradition: It’s Divine and Distorted Aspects

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The topic of this lecture is the meaning of tradition.

Let us first examine what tradition means in its best sense, and then what it means when it is distorted.

Many human beings have distinct images about tradition. These images trigger off conditioned reflex reactions as soon as this term is mentioned or when human conditions reflect adherence to tradition either in its real or in its distorted sense.

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PL 247 The Mass Images of Judiasm and Christianity

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This lecture grew out of an answer to the following question.

Question: I am very puzzled by the tremendously strong reactions about the whole issue of Jesus Christ. I understand what you said about the fear of expansion that applies to all phases of expansion. But the reaction to your emphasis of the role of Jesus Christ in the pathwork is so strong that I have the feeling there is more to it than resistance to expansion.

Could you comment on this?

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PL 248 Three Principles of the Forces of Evil—Personification of Evil

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In this lecture I wish to instruct you again about certain realities and laws concerning evil. It is very important that you understand more about this so controversial subject at this present moment.

For many centuries the power of evil was fully recognized.

Humanity had a sense of the invisible and what is usually referred to as supernatural regarding both the forces of light and the forces of darkness, as well as their manifestations, their effects, their influence in your realm, and their personification as spirit entities—as angels and as devils.

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PL 249 The Pain of Injustice—Cosmic Records of All Personal and Collective Events, Deeds, Expressions

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The specific pain I wish to discuss, that is so important to be seen in a new light at this state of your development, is the pain of injustice. This type of pain contains more than can be expressed by this word. It is not just actual injustice happening to you here and now. Such injustice could be classified as pain of being wounded and hurt. There is more to it than that. It is a fear that the universe can allow destruction to exist without safety valves.

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PL 250 Inner Awareness of Grace—Exposing the Deficit

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In the present general state of humanity, self-responsibility is much more developed. You understand that you create your reality and your experiences—good or bad. How then does grace come in? Is it totally eliminated from your vision of life and reality? No, it is not. Grace is as much a reality as self-creation and self-responsibility—and they are by no means mutually exclusive. I wish to give you some perspective on this subject, which will then open up another equally important topic, that of faith.

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PL 251 The Evolution and Spiritual Meaning of Marriage—New Age Marriage

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During the many centuries of its existence, humanity has developed in many areas. Let us consider marriage. Under standing its evolution thus far will open your vision to the future.

You will view the current attitude toward this institution with the larger picture in mind. History can be properly understood only when the spiritual meaning that underlies earthly events is gleaned.

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PL 252 Privacy and Secrecy

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Today I wish to explore the concepts of privacy and secrecy.

Much confusion exists about these two concepts. This confusion fosters the forces of evil and prevents you from fulfilling all your needs and attaining true expansion. It also makes closeness and intimacy impossible, and closeness is surely one of your legitimate needs.

So is privacy. If privacy and secrecy are being confused, either the need for closeness or the need for privacy must be shortchanged.

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PL 253 Continue Your Struggle and Cease All Struggle

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I would like to discuss a particular aspect of this transformation of consciousness, giving special emphasis to what was previously discussed only in general. Humanity’s greatest imprisonment, from which stems all fear and pain and suffering, is the duality in which the human mind is entangled. The mass mind then builds an environment and creates conditions that express this bent of consciousness. It is perhaps the most difficult task of the evolutionary journey to penetrate this seeming reality, namely, that the world is dualistic.

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PL 254 Surrender

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You often use the word “surrender.” You sense that this word contains an important aspect of spiritual fulfillment. Yet there is also a great deal of confusion attached to this word which needs to be explored. Human beings who are incapable of surrendering cannot find their core, or their divine nature, cannot love, and cannot truly learn and grow.

They are very stiff, defended and closed.

Yet the ability to surrender is an essential inner movement from which all good can flow.

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PL 255 The Birthing Process—Cosmic Pulse

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In this lecture I would like to discuss particularly a law of timing that applies to the development of every entity. You surely must have sensed this law and may even know about it vaguely. But it is important that you thoroughly understand it. According to this law a certain necessary time sequence exists on an individual’s path.

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PL 256—Inner Space, Focused Emptiness

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We have occasionally discussed this inner landscape.

I have made mention of the inner space that is the real world. The term “inner space” is used quite frequently in your world these days, as opposed to outer space.

Most human beings think of inner space as merely a symbolic description of a person’s state of mind. This is not so.

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PL 257 Aspects of the New Divine Influx: Communication, Group Consciousness, Exposure

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In this lecture I would like to speak about some significant aspects of the New Age. This term has been used a lot recently by certain groups of people. Some use it with correct understanding, some manage to make it into a cliche.

This, however, is unavoidable; it happens with all concepts of truth, because of a human tendency to be glib and lazy and to label, so as to avoid feeling the reality of a specific truth. But those who do not fall into this trap should not give up altogether using a term that conveys a true concept.

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PL 258—Personal Contact With Jesus Christ—Positive Aggression—The Real Meaning of Salvation

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If you seriously long, pray, and search for a realization of Jesus Christ’s personal love for you, the answers will come forth. Perhaps you will not recognize the first answers as such. They may have something to do with specific barriers that prevent you from this experience, this reality. They may bring up new, or again old, material on your path that you need to work on for your purification. These are the answers! Once the barriers begin to crumble, you will experience what it means to feel Jesus Christ’s personal love for you.

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