Greetings, divine blessings for all of you, my dearest friends.\u00a0 Tonight’s lecture is on a topic I have never discussed before.<\/p>\n
The universe is a miracle of order.\u00a0 Every particle in it is always in its proper place.\u00a0 Infinitesimal little cogs and wheels mesh, interact, complement one another and create an immense mechanism that humankind can never even remotely conceive of.\u00a0 The harmony and grandeur of creation could not exist without the underlying principle of order; this universal order has an exactitude and mathematical precision that escapes human vision.\u00a0 Only at times do you vaguely sense the existence of a greater order.\u00a0 In the fragmented human perspective where everything is seen out of context, you perceive disorder and chaos.\u00a0 The disorder and chaos on the human level of life are, of course, real, because they are consequences of a distortion.\u00a0 You may perceive what appears as chaos also in nature, for some natural phenomena are apparently destructive.\u00a0 Yet, in that very occurrence a larger order manifests itself.<\/p>\n
Orderliness is a by-product of divine harmony.\u00a0 In this lecture I will discuss what constitutes inner order or disorder, as well as outer order or disorder, and their meaning, connection, and relationship.<\/p>\n
Inner order exists when human beings are fully conscious, when there is no longer any unconscious material in the soul.\u00a0 Since there is no human being of whom this could be said, order, like other divine manifestations, exists only to relative degrees in human life.\u00a0 One can experience love, truth, wisdom, peace, bliss, reality, only relatively to varied degrees.\u00a0 So it is with order.\u00a0 An entity that is totally conscious of itself and the universe is no longer born into human substance and material manifestation.\u00a0 Such an entity’s life and whole being are in total order, with no loose ends.<\/p>\n
Conversely, wherever awareness is lacking it indicates disorder.\u00a0 If you are not aware, you cannot be in truth; things slip away from you.\u00a0 You become confused.\u00a0 Confusion and disorder interact as you grope in the dark, struggling to make a patchwork of the half-truths at your disposal, using anything to fill the holes and gaps of your chaos.<\/p>\n
Most people can recognize this struggle in themselves, if they focus on it.\u00a0 The disorderliness of the mind becomes frantic in the attempt to impose a false order, which heightens the discomfort and the disorderliness.\u00a0 It is as if you were to shove dirt under your furniture, where it cannot be seen.\u00a0 The atmosphere reeks of the hidden waste.\u00a0 False opinions and obsolete behavior patterns are literally waste material, to be disposed of.\u00a0 If they remain in the psyche, all your opinions, perceptions, actions and decisions will be based on half-truths or complete distortions and errors.\u00a0 The result must be chaotic and disappointing.\u00a0 Unless a person is willing to make order by examining carefully every single attitude, belief, reaction and feeling, he or she will continue to do patchwork until the whole fabric falls apart.\u00a0 False structures always collapse.\u00a0 The most radical collapse is physical death, which always affords the possibility to start anew with a clean slate.<\/p>\n
On the day to day outer plane the same process holds.\u00a0 It is not merely symbolic of the inner life, it is an expression of it.\u00a0 The person who accumulates useless material in his closets and drawers, never cleans out, and thinks he can superimpose a functional order, lives in the illusion of a false order at a great expense.<\/p>\n
There is a direct connection between order and awareness. When there is disorder in the life of a person, he or she is escaping from something, pursuing a policy of avoidance and creating the darkness of disorderliness.\u00a0 You can perhaps see also another connection:\u00a0 Avoidance fails to establish order on whatever level; avoidance and lack of awareness are intimately connected.\u00a0 On the inner level this happens when you are not dealing with the old mental and emotional accumulations that need to be discarded so that the currently valid thoughts and feelings can fit into the appropriate channels.\u00a0 One then becomes self-aware and can institute a harmonious and fluid operation within the psychic system.<\/p>\n
On the material level, one cleans house.\u00a0 The focus may be on one’s belongings, one’s things.\u00a0 It may be directed to one’s financial affairs, one’s use of time.\u00a0 It may mean facing and overcoming habits of procrastination, the pattern of postponing things, rather than dealing with them as they come up.\u00a0 The object in every case is to free one’s life of clutter.<\/p>\n
In inner or outer life the principle is the same.\u00a0 One makes a decision to devote time, effort and care to the smooth running of one’s life.\u00a0 The greater the accumulation, the greater effort one will have to expend to establish order.\u00a0 In the process, new habit patterns are formed; you deal instantly with what you used to avoid, you focus your attention on whatever the moment may need.\u00a0 Then a new inner peace automatically establishes itself.\u00a0 No matter how much you meditate and pray or devote your energies to spiritual or artistic issues, this peace will be lacking if inner and outer disorder clutter up your life.<\/p>\n
Avoidance is escaping from what is.\u00a0 It means you do not know what is going on\u2014inside or outside.\u00a0 You become confused and disorganized, no matter how much you try to hide this fact from your consciousness.\u00a0 You well know that the path will always bring you to what you want to escape from.\u00a0 As far as your inner pathwork is concerned, you create more order and more light as you face what you had evaded.\u00a0 You literally feel in your being an inner cleanliness and order you had lacked before.\u00a0 But when you do not know, when you continue to avoid, you dwell in a dark mire which feels very uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
A third aspect of order is reality.\u00a0 When you are in disorder, you live in the illusion that your evasions, your not dealing with what must be dealt with if you are to live in peace and comfort, will not have any impact on your life.\u00a0 You delude yourself into believing that avoiding does not matter, that you will be unaffected by it, that what you don’t do has no creative impact on your life substance.\u00a0 But nothing that you do or don’t do, commit or omit, is without consequences.\u00a0 Not doing something creates conditions and psychic substance just as much as doing something.\u00a0 This applies as much to a person’s outer habits and orderliness, or its absence, as it does to the inner life.<\/p>\n
Lack of awareness, avoidance and illusion create disorder, which creates more lack of awareness, avoidance, and illusion, until the mind and the will decide to confront the issue profoundly, once and for all, and then commit to sustaining the order.<\/p>\n
Awareness is dealing with and focusing profoundly and completely on whatever issue is on hand; reality is facing the effects of one’s manner of living.\u00a0 They provide the terms for order and harmony.\u00a0 Order creates more awareness, more ability to focus as life unfolds; it allows for more reality.<\/p>\n
You breed disorder out of your illusion that “it will go away by itself.”\u00a0 And then you suffer from it.\u00a0 You may manage to escape from this particular suffering, due also to your disorder.\u00a0 Because your avoidance is still active, you may manage not to be aware of your suffering.\u00a0 You may try to ascribe your tensions, anxieties, discomforts, pressures, bad conscience, nagging discontent, to other matters.\u00a0 The fact remains that your self-created disorder is responsible for so much of it.<\/p>\n
It matters little whether one’s neglect of order applies to the big important issues or the unimportant ones.\u00a0 The smallest neglect causes disorder and creates discomfort in the soul.\u00a0 This rule applies as much to a person’s outer habits and life as to the life of the soul.<\/p>\n
The outer life is always related to the inner life in some way.\u00a0 It is important for you, my friends, that you begin to pay attention to your outer life and habits from this point of view.\u00a0 So far we have dealt with this relation only vaguely.\u00a0 We have not yet examined it as a gauge of where a person stands inwardly.\u00a0 Outer disorder diverts so much energy that the inner life must then be short-changed.<\/p>\n
Orderliness is a spiritual principle.\u00a0 Its manifestation, or lack of it, reveals something about where the inward person stands.\u00a0 The spiritually unified person is therefore also an orderly person in his or her outer habits.\u00a0 He or she is not only clean in body, but equally clean in the handling of his or her daily life.\u00a0 A harmonious being does not accumulate tasks by procrastination; instead of following the line of least resistance, he or she takes care of chores as they come up even when it is momentarily difficult, valuing the peace that follows.\u00a0 Creating order always requires an investment of effort.\u00a0 The spiritually mature person does not live in the illusion that peace of mind and comfort can be attained without investing effort, realizing that the gains outweigh the investment.\u00a0 The spiritually mature person has order in all matters of life, inner and outer, and would not want it differently.\u00a0 Such people relish order and are willing to pay the price for it.\u00a0 They are in reality.<\/p>\n
When people are disorderly in their outer life manifestations\u2014in their person and personal affairs, their physical surroundings, money matters, in the tasks they have to fulfill\u2014a very insidious thing begins to happen.\u00a0 They become preoccupied with the disorder they create.\u00a0 This is often an ongoing process, whether they are aware of it or not.\u00a0 It never occurs to them that it could be different.\u00a0 Often they fall into the further illusion that creating order requires energy they do not have.\u00a0 Nothing could be further from the truth.\u00a0 Disorder consumes energies, wastes them, dissipates them.\u00a0 Since order is a divine manifestation, and therefore natural, the moment energy is summoned\u2014perhaps, at first, with some effort\u2014energy will be re leased.\u00a0 Then more energy becomes available, energy hitherto used to avoid reality and keep consciousness dim.<\/p>\n
The creation of inner and<\/i> outer disorder is therefore a tool of the unconscious negative intentionality.\u00a0 This may be a new angle for you to view outer disorder.\u00a0 In whatever way disorder exists, it fulfills the purpose of resistance to harmony, truth, health, and wholeness.\u00a0 Disorder creates tensions and preoccupations; it consumes valuable creative energy that could otherwise be used to find God within.\u00a0 I repeat:\u00a0 Though one may not be conscious of the anxiety that disorder creates on any level, the anxiety is there.\u00a0 One’s affairs are left unattended, as life constantly slips away, waiting to be lived, fulfilled in the morrow.<\/p>\n
It is easy to see that if you accomplish your tasks on time, you have control over your life.\u00a0 You do not accumulate old waste, you deal at once with the necessary issues, you do not avoid, procrastinate, or delude yourself that it does not matter.\u00a0 This is healthy, necessary control.\u00a0 It is a function that the ego should perform.\u00a0 Disharmony and distortion create imbalance and a false lack of control exists where control should be.\u00a0 This always also creates the split-off opposite distorted condition:\u00a0 False control tries to compensate for the false lack of control, and vice versa.\u00a0 The overcontrol on the feeling level will be easier to relinquish when control is exerted where it is functional.\u00a0 If you hold yourself together in the right way and right place, it is easier to abandon yourself and relinquish control where that is right and to give in to feelings and involuntary processes.<\/p>\n
A person with right ego control is capable of surrender in ways that the person who lives in chaos is not.\u00a0 In chaotic states it is virtually impossible to let go of controls because, unless one’s ego has been strengthened through self-discipline, one would drown in one’s own chaos.\u00a0 So, you see, self-discipline is an unavoidable prerequisite for spiritual and worldly fulfillment.\u00a0 It makes abandonment to involuntary processes safe.\u00a0 The self-disciplined person can surrender to spirituality, to sexuality, to the deeper feelings and processes.\u00a0 It is safe.\u00a0 He or she stands on the firm ground of reality, fulfilling the functions of the ego, rather than\u2014falsely\u2014dispensing with it.<\/p>\n
Order always means discipline.\u00a0 The immature person refuses discipline in any form, associating it with parental authority against which he continues to wage war.\u00a0 This behavior is among the obsolete waste material of soul stuff.\u00a0 The more you look for parental authority to take care of your life, the more you rebel and the less do you adopt attitudes that would make you capable of fulfilling your life with ease and peace.\u00a0 Thus do you misinterpret self-discipline for deprivation.\u00a0 What an error!\u00a0 Actually, the more you refuse voluntary self-discipline, the more you unavoidably deprive yourself of the peace and comfort that are its rewards.\u00a0 You deprive yourself of the deep pleasure and bliss of the involuntary life stream that you can only allow to come through you when your ego stands on the firm ground built by self-discipline.<\/p>\n
Create a new climate in your life that will facilitate your growth and development, the solving of painful problems, the fulfillment of your real needs.\u00a0 By learning self discipline, you will establish order in your life:\u00a0 In the way you arrange your time, your money, your possessions, your surroundings, your personal appearance.\u00a0 Arrange your day in such a way that you, at least most of the time, take care of tasks as they come.\u00a0 Organize the details in such a way that your day will run smoothly.\u00a0 Devote time and effort to create this new order and to clean up old disorder, and then sustain it.\u00a0 Deliberately meditate for the energy, consciousness, and guidance to follow through.\u00a0 If you experience a great deal of resistance to doing so, let your helper help you express the negative intentionality and deal with the meaning of it, as you do in all other matters.\u00a0 Begin to view your outer life as a reflection of an inner attitude and intent.<\/p>\n
If the resistance is not too great to establish this new mode of life, you will see what a difference it will make.\u00a0 Burdens will fall off your shoulders.\u00a0 You will relish a peace and comfort that will give you clarity to solve your inner problems and to surrender to the deeper self.\u00a0 When you have control where it is needed you can relinquish control where it is not needed.<\/p>\n
Outer disorder in a person’s life always reflects the inner attitude:\u00a0 It mirrors the inner sense of false abandonment, of wishful thinking and avoidance.\u00a0 It reflects your illusory state.\u00a0 Outer order in a person’s life, however, is not necessarily a sign of inner harmony and order reached.\u00a0 It may, and often is, an indication of the exact opposite.\u00a0 Then orderliness is not an expression of inner clarity, but a compensation, a false attempt to resolve inner disorderliness.\u00a0 When orderliness becomes compulsive and you are tense and obsessed, afraid and anxious when established routines cannot be met\u2014that is a reliable sign of inner disorderliness.\u00a0 If orderliness becomes a burden in a person’s life, or exists at the expense of feelings, of expansion, of relaxation, of freedom, then the innermost being is sending a message to the conscious self.\u00a0 The message says, “make order in yourself.”\u00a0 But the message comes through garbled because the outer self is insufficiently attuned to the inner self.\u00a0 The outer self is still too resistant to communicate with the inner self to trust in its guidance and decipher its messages.\u00a0 Resistance to creating inner order is, as you know, always strong.\u00a0 One person reflects this in his outer life; another type of personality misreads the message and applies it only to the outer plane.\u00a0 Order in such instances always becomes compulsive and obsessive.\u00a0 The compulsive orderliness creates as much trouble and hardship in the person’s inner life as disorderliness does.\u00a0 The degree varies, of course.\u00a0 The strongest manifestations are wash compulsions, and the like.<\/p>\n
This factor is important to understand so that you do not fall into the error of blind, flat evaluation.\u00a0 Look very carefully to sense the climate of a person’s life.\u00a0 If the personal atmosphere is relaxed and easy and the orderliness creates more ease than strain in a person’s life, then it is indeed an expression of the divine orderliness you find in the universe.<\/p>\n
You have now another tool with which to look at yourself in a newer light and gain new understanding.\u00a0 Those who are helpers can apply this tool for their own benefit and for those whom they help.\u00a0 Wherever you find disorder in your outer life, in whatever areas it may manifest, begin to focus on your discomfort about it.\u00a0 Allow yourself to feel how much it disturbs and harasses you.\u00a0 You may be surprised to learn how many of your anxieties and tensions you had ascribed to insolubly deep conflicts will vanish as you discipline yourself.\u00a0 Of course, the resistance to self-discipline, the need to make disorder in your life, is<\/i> an expression of such deep problems.\u00a0 The new awareness of its importance will help you greatly to tackle the problem also from the outside and actually rearrange your life in a new way. \u00a0You may now be far enough to do so because you so choose, with an inner understanding, not merely to perform an outer obedient act.\u00a0 The latter would not be very meaningful, because you would resent it and make the changes in the expectation of pleasing the parental authority who is supposed to give you what you demand.\u00a0 If you then failed to comply, you would feel falsely guilty, which would rather hinder you.\u00a0 This is why I waited for so long to discuss this topic.<\/p>\n
Pay attention to how disturbed you really are by your disorder.\u00a0 The resisting part in you knows that if you free yourself of the burden of disorder, your inner work will be much easier.\u00a0 And the resisting part wants to avoid just that.\u00a0 The disorderly person is never able to concentrate.\u00a0 The same applies of course also to the compulsively orderly person who merely compensates for the inner disorder.\u00a0 Disorder makes concentration and focusing impossible.\u00a0 The mind must wander, preoccupied with things undone, with disorganized life and chaos.\u00a0 The mind may not directly wander toward the disorder, toward the immediate disturbance created by the disorderliness.\u00a0 It may wander elsewhere.\u00a0 But if you follow the wandering thought through and examine the content and climate behind it, you will see how disturbed you are by the many little things in your life that you do not wish to tackle and set in order.<\/p>\n
Often people negate personal order as an important aspect of life.\u00a0 They may even feel it is pedantic to speak of it, because it has nothing to do with the important questions of creativity, or spirituality, or life.\u00a0 But it is a fact that the great questions always rest on many little ones.\u00a0 When the little attitudes fall into place, as creation does in every tiniest detail, then your creative expression will be less hampered, much more free.\u00a0 I ask you not to underestimate this topic.<\/p>\n
You are now all profoundly enough involved with the deeper levels of your negation and destructive intent so that there is little danger for you to use outer orderliness as a false gauge and a false evaluation of your inner state.\u00a0 And those who newly joined the pathwork are enveloped by the rest of you who are sufficiently aware of yourselves to avoid the danger of glib judgment.\u00a0 This danger is another reason I waited so long to give this lecture.<\/p>\n
As a task for all of you, I suggest that you look at your life from the point of view expressed in this lecture.\u00a0 In what way have you created an order that affords you ease and relaxation?\u00a0 In what way do you resist doing so?\u00a0 In what way do you suffer from disorder?\u00a0 Are you aware of the fact that you do suffer from it?\u00a0 If you are not, search inside and see the indirect discomfort.\u00a0 Suddenly you will recognize many little actions and reactions in your daily life in a new light.\u00a0 You will become intensely aware of how much you do suffer from your disorder and how it was always so.\u00a0 See how your disorder makes you lose yourself in the wrong way and thus prevents you from losing yourself in the right way.<\/p>\n
In this connection I want to come back to avoidance<\/i>.\u00a0 Avoidance exists across the board.\u00a0 You want to avoid seeing your negativity, your destructiveness, your dishonesty, the little thoughts about how you wish to cheat, even if you do not actually do it.\u00a0 This can be so easily overlooked and glossed over.\u00a0 These invisible, secret thoughts and attitudes seem harmless to you and you delude yourself that they have no impact on you.\u00a0 You want to avoid the feelings that are inconvenient.\u00a0 The price you pay for avoiding is literally insanity.\u00a0 However, if you confront what you would rather avoid, the golden point in the middle, the wonderful point of truth and reality will suddenly appear.\u00a0 Deep within the dreaded area, through the dreaded area, you find the golden point of light, truth, and unification, the golden point of God.<\/p>\n
Every area of avoidance bears within itself that golden point.\u00a0 Every dreaded point bears its golden center.\u00a0 Go toward it and all woe dissolves.\u00a0 Go away from it and you increase your suffering, your confusion and darkness.\u00a0 You may think that there are areas that cannot be faced, that have no golden point at their ground:\u00a0 The areas of your terror or your evil.\u00a0 This is not so.\u00a0 As long as you avoid your terror and evil, they live in you as phantoms.\u00a0 These phantoms create disaster and chaos.\u00a0 Turn around one hundred and eighty degrees.\u00a0 Instead of going away from it, go into it, no matter how bad it may feel, at first.\u00a0 If you summon your courage and honesty and persevere with a minimum of faith, you will penetrate the darkness and come to what I call the “golden point” in the center of your being.\u00a0 It is in the center of the area that you most dread.<\/p>\n
There is no horror that does not bear the golden point within itself.\u00a0 There is no death that does not bear the golden point of life.\u00a0 There is no darkness that does not contain the golden point of brilliant light.\u00a0 There is no evil in you that does not bear the golden point of your goodness.\u00a0 If you can hold to this truth\u2014and it is truth indeed!\u2014it will become so much easier for you not to avoid, but to go through the tunnel of darkness, into the golden area.\u00a0 This is my message for you tonight.<\/p>\n
A particular blessing is given for the meeting to follow.\u00a0 It is yet another step in creating the earthly place where such wonderful work, unfoldment, and love can exist.\u00a0 You have special blessings for this meeting, and a great deal of guidance.<\/p>\n
Now, as my instrument comes out of the state of trance, as you are quiet and listen to the music, I ask that you all meditate specifically for giving something of yourself to this venture:\u00a0 Your positive attitude; your positive intentionality, your goodwill, your good thoughts, your intention of giving your good feelings to it.\u00a0 If you do this, and the more you do this, the more wonderful the venture will grow.\u00a0 What will take place there increasingly will be something that cannot take place when you are all in different locations in the city, where you cannot focus in the same way and be by yourselves in the same way.\u00a0 What increasingly will take place is the transformation from negative to positive energy, from negative to positive consciousness.\u00a0 We have begun to do this, to some extent.\u00a0 It is not coincidental that the new movement I had announced for this working year comes at the same time as your Center in the country is being established.\u00a0 There it will best take place.\u00a0 Your ability to make this transformation, to sustain and feel comfortable with positive feelings, energy and consciousness, will grow as a result of having owned up, and continuing to own up, to the negative.<\/p>\n
The work will go on constantly in these two ways, alternating between exposure of negativity and transforming the negative into the positive.\u00a0 You will learn more techniques and approaches as you become ready for them in your progress.\u00a0 You will have the means, the peace, the privacy and the surroundings in which it will be possible to do this work.<\/p>\n
Use this gauge:\u00a0 Where the positive is unbearable and cannot be sustained, it is an indication that, with all the recognitions you have made, you still have not fully accepted and exposed yourself; you have not quite understood or faced negative attitudes in you.\u00a0 They may not even be different from those you already know in principle, but your knowledge is not sufficiently deep and wide.\u00a0 Full acceptance is still absent.\u00a0 You are still submerged in those attitudes, as if half blind.\u00a0 You are not really cognizant of the way and the strength with which you perpetuate these attitudes.\u00a0 So your ability to bear good feelings, intimacy, love, and pleasure is an exact indication of that.\u00a0 The work in the Center will particularly help you with the transforming aspect of the twofold task.\u00a0 This is a wonderful thing to look forward to.\u00a0 Just think of the meaning of it all:\u00a0 You will no longer need to take refuge in your negativity, which appears to be more comfortable than love, closeness, and pleasure.\u00a0 Love, closeness, and pleasure will be the most comfortable and easy state to live in.\u00a0 This is<\/i> the natural state, and that is what you will attain.<\/p>\n
Blessed be everyone of you, my dearest ones.\u00a0 Feel and accept the love that pours forth from the spiritual side.\u00a0 Be blessed, be in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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