Blessings, love, and greetings to all of you, my dearest ones.\u00a0 With immense joy do we resume our contact for the coming working period.\u00a0 The rejoicing in our world is great.\u00a0 This rejoicing can communicate itself to you if you open yourself to it.\u00a0 It has to do with what many of you have accomplished individually and together.\u00a0 But the rejoicing is also about what is to come.\u00a0 For more growth and liberation, peace, and joy will come to those of you who really devote yourselves to your own innermost path.<\/p>\n
Now, my dearest friends, you have often heard from me and from many other sources that an immense new cosmic force that will sweep the planet earth has been released into the universe.\u00a0 A new surge toward spiritual truth is spreading throughout your world.\u00a0 New values are seeking to push through old resistances.\u00a0 I will speak in this lecture about the meaning of the new cosmic force in terms of your community, your individuality, and your growth.<\/p>\n
The planet Earth is an entity of which each individual inhabiting it is a cell, not unlike the cells of your body.\u00a0 Each of these cells is a consciousness and energy center, just as you are a consciousness and energy center.\u00a0 Now the entity Earth is growing up.\u00a0 It is coming to an inner crossroads just as a growing person comes to an inner crossroads.<\/p>\n
You have all experienced at some point on your path that one part of you is ready to expand, to risk exposure of its hidden secrets, to move toward a new vision of life, self, and a new mode of being.\u00a0 The new modality does not shed the old, but transforms what is not compatible with the new, pure, and great influx.\u00a0 It incorporates the pure substance of the old self into a new, expanded version.<\/p>\n
You also know that at the same time the part of you we call the lower self obstructs this movement.\u00a0 It fears, distrusts, and resists such growth.\u00a0 Which part you ally yourself with depends on your ego consciousness.\u00a0 In such a conflict crisis is inevitable. \u00a0The resisting part creates the crisis by obstructing the inexorable evolutionary force.\u00a0 The less you recognize this struggle for what it is, and the more you deny and rationalize its true significance, the greater an upheaval it will cause and the more frightening the upheaval will appear.\u00a0 Conversely, the more you recognize the struggle for what it really is and the more you act in accordance with higher self principles, the shorter the crisis will be.\u00a0 In fact, the crisis will transform itself into undreamed-of bliss.<\/p>\n
So you see, the crisis is healthy and unavoidable.\u00a0 Growth cannot take place without crisis, and to the extent you resist growth, you create crisis.\u00a0 The lower self is not merely devious, dishonest, and selfish; it is also ignorant.\u00a0 This ignorance makes it stubborn, unperceptive, as well as destructive and negative.<\/p>\n
Earth also possesses a lower self.\u00a0 Like the individual’s, Earth’s lower self is not only negative, selfish, greedy, and dishonest; it is also ignorant with a vengeance.\u00a0 It totally resists the new consciousness the soul is ready for.\u00a0 Thus there is crisis on this earth.\u00a0 You see the crisis as much as you see, here and there, expanded new ways of being, new understanding, deeper vision of life, and deeper perception of spiritual reality.\u00a0 The new expansive movements are not always without their distortions and exaggerations or without their fanaticism and misunderstandings.\u00a0 They sometimes miss the point of the great new influx of consciousness and avoid confronting unpurified matter in the soul.\u00a0 Such abuse will turn out to be particularly costly and disappointing to the individual.\u00a0 The new cosmic force has made many attempts to come through, but its meaning is poorly understood in many quarters.\u00a0 So there are many spiritual movements which seek to follow the pressure from within, without devoting themselves to the work that needs to be done within the soul.\u00a0 The spirit world has been preparing for this new expansion for many centuries with a great deal of investment and energy.\u00a0 Many are called but not all follow.\u00a0 Not all are sufficiently willing to heed the inner call.\u00a0 It is best to clearly acknowledge this, to leave open the possibility for later following the call.\u00a0 If, however, it is explained away and illusions and delusions accepted as if they were valid reasons for the decision, then the soul will remain in confusion.<\/p>\n
Now the earth as an entity is going through such a struggle.\u00a0 Those who resist the light of the new consciousness have a stake in making themselves deaf and blind to it.\u00a0 Many of them have the mental and spiritual equipment to follow the movement, but choose, out of pride, fear, and selfwill, not to follow or even to notice it.\u00a0 There are others, of course, who are not yet ready in their spiritual development even to know that levels of reality exist that cannot be seen with the eye.\u00a0 And then, of course, some do follow the movement even though they do not quite understand what is at stake.<\/p>\n
Those who follow it will find the deepest joy and blessings and need not fear anything.\u00a0 They need only to rejoice.\u00a0 In following the influx, they keep in harmony with the universe; they flow with the process, rather than obstructing it.\u00a0 They are also needed as physical channels for the further penetration of the Christ consciousness into the new era.\u00a0 Their ever-renewed decision to devote all of themselves to the process that has encompassed them will make their life as fulfilled and glorious as it will be useful and meaningful to the entire cosmic evolution.<\/p>\n
My dearest friends, the fulfillment of this surge cannot come about unless the most profound purification process takes place.\u00a0 With this particular community, an emphasis on personal purification has existed, as you very well know, for all these years.\u00a0 Until now, the emphasis was directed exclusively toward your individual fulfillment.\u00a0 Now a new phase has arisen where your own inner expansion has readied you to realize that individual fulfillment is the basis for the cohesive fulfillment of the total movement that sweeps your world.\u00a0 In other words, more is at stake than your individual fulfillment.<\/p>\n
When I say “more,” it may sound as though your individual fulfillment were not important, and that may indeed appear to contradict what I have just said.\u00a0 I always emphasize the importance of your individual happiness, wholeness, and freedom from obstruction.\u00a0 This is not a contradiction.\u00a0 Your individual fulfillment, which cannot exist as long as you are unpurified and alienated from the truth of your inner processes, is the most important thing.\u00a0 At the same time something much larger is at stake.\u00a0 Perhaps I can put it this way:\u00a0 You can find total individual fulfillment only if you serve a greater cause.\u00a0 Many of you, in this work, almost inadvertently found this to be so. \u00a0The guidance of events has brought you to realize, some more intellectually, some more intuitively, that you are involved in a great task which you are simultaneously serving while you fulfill yourself.\u00a0 You have found that this very service enhances your fulfillment, just as this service requires you to be a fulfilled and happy person.\u00a0 You are beginning to experience that fulfillment of the self lies in service.\u00a0 And service can be executed only through self-fulfillment.\u00a0 In other words, the apparent contradiction proves, once again, to be a faulty perception.\u00a0 What appear to be opposites coexist in oneness.\u00a0 Therefore the individual is only apparently opposed to the whole.<\/p>\n
You will learn to perceive more consciously and deliberately the importance of service to the entire Christ consciousness that is infiltrating your universe.\u00a0 This will very drastically change the life, the consciousness, and the values of those who are willing to follow that movement.\u00a0 In my coming lectures I will increasingly concentrate on helping you comprehend the difference between the old values and the new; the old consciousness and the new.\u00a0 You will come to view your personal fulfillment as exactly what it is:\u00a0 a necessary tool with which you can serve.\u00a0 For unhappy and frustrated people cannot serve, cannot undertake the task of enriching life, enriching others, and setting a desirable example.\u00a0 For how can the poor enrich?\u00a0 Nor is it possible to pretend, for followers do know, in a deep inner place, whether those who lead are genuinely fulfilled or are just pretending.<\/p>\n
Only those who are fully centered in their own God-consciousness, thus able to create their lives according to their needs and wishes, can enliven their surroundings and teach their consciousness to others.\u00a0 Many different tasks exist, but all who serve in this cause must teach and lead, representing the new consciousness and the new values in their own lives, whether through instruction or through example, transmitting joy, love, or the capacity to be one’s best.<\/p>\n
Now, my friends, I would like to explain another dichotomy you have experienced in the course of this work.\u00a0 Most of you who are starting this work have a compulsion to be good, like many other human beings.\u00a0 You may fear your selfishness.\u00a0 But your mask has put a cloak over your selfishness and your little meannesses.\u00a0 That mask makes you comply with higher standards and appear to be a very good person.\u00a0 Often the real surge and message from the higher self is interwoven with the masking cloak, the false goodness.\u00a0 In your pathwork many of you have already dealt extensively with the part of you that sells out your genuine self-interest, your real rights, in order to please some imaginary authority.\u00a0 You have also found that you do this not out of the pure spirit of service but by design.\u00a0 You always wanted this authority to do something for you that was not fair to expect and what you really have to do for yourself in order to become fully yourself.\u00a0 You work through these issues again and again until you find the strength to relinquish the secret hope, to cease the false service, to become more self-responsible and consequently more self-assertive.\u00a0 You find a balance:\u00a0 The more you stop cheating in ways which you pretend do not exist and the more you stop the false goodness, the more you assert your right to have the best in life.\u00a0 The guilt ceases because you live honestly.\u00a0 When dependency and the consequent submission and lack of selfhood exist, service to a greater cause is premature, because you misuse it and perpetuate the pretenses of the mask self.\u00a0 So you had to learn to be selfish, my friends.<\/p>\n
As you know, there is a right kind of selfishness and there is a wrong kind.\u00a0 The right kind of selfishness preserves the right to unfold in the best way for you, regardless of the opinions of others and their possibly covert reasons to exploit you.\u00a0 This selfishness rooted in independence can easily recognize and refute other people’s exploitative demands rather than submitting to them because of your own hidden agenda.\u00a0 People with the right kind of selfishness feel deeply deserving of happiness because they never want it at the expense of others.\u00a0 The distorted form of selfishness splits the interest of self and others; the right kind unifies them.<\/p>\n
At first, sorting out the misunderstandings is complicated, but once you have accomplished this along the spiral movement of your path, there is no longer a dichotomy between the self and others.\u00a0 When you free yourself of the real guilt of your hiding and your pretenses, of disguising your hidden agenda and the negativity it perpetuates, you will not feel unworthy of becoming the best, the happiest and most fulfilled person.\u00a0 Then service will no longer be compensating for guilt.<\/p>\n
On this path we want to prepare as many human beings as possible for the great event that sweeps your universe.\u00a0 This requires strong and guilt-free souls who act for real, not for false reasons.\u00a0 So your path had to first bring out false and real selfishness in order to help you become unselfish without sacrificing personal fulfillment.<\/p>\n
The lower self with its lower aims must often be sacrificed.\u00a0 But is this really a sacrifice?\u00a0 It only seems so.\u00a0 What ultimately emerges is a real fulfillment.\u00a0 Your outer ego-self will no longer contradict your Godself.\u00a0 This state, however, comes only after you have learned to let go of the mask of false service and to expose the short-sighted selfishness of the lower, little self.\u00a0 Then you learn healthy selfishness, and from there you come into true selflessness that is not at all contradictory to it.<\/p>\n
When people follow spiritual teachings which emphasize service too soon, there is a danger that they will use these teachings to escape from their hidden inward selfishness.\u00a0 Thus they will cultivate a service through martyrdom that is not wholesome for the soul.\u00a0 When people refuse to become truly independent and self-responsible, they do not under take to meet their hidden selfishness, and therefore their service will also be distorted.<\/p>\n
In this light, you will see more clearly the overall dynamic of your own pathwork.\u00a0 A figure you have used in many other instances because it is a recurrent thought form in symbolic spiritual expressions might be useful here also:\u00a0 the three circles, the mandala-shaped design.\u00a0 In this figure the higher self is surrounded by the lower self, which is surrounded by the mask self and the defenses.\u00a0 Individually you have dealt with this configuration again and again.\u00a0 The same applies to your community, as well as to humanity as a whole.<\/p>\n
Let us now look at your community.\u00a0 Those of you who are most involved in taking responsibility for the community, who have most deeply worked and exposed themselves and are thus beginning to reap tangible fruits of fulfillment, represent the higher self of the group.\u00a0 You have traveled through the outer layers.\u00a0 You have learned more and more not to fear any part of yourself and you have come to accept all of you, thereby uniting what was once divided.\u00a0 You can identify more and more with your higher self, since you are increasingly able to differentiate between it and the wishful thinking of the mask self that hides the distortion and the untruth of the lower self.\u00a0 You thereby come to hear the true voice of your higher self, which you can increasingly trust.\u00a0 Your community as a whole has come to this point, and I daresay you cannot help but notice it.\u00a0 The evidence is in the growing numbers of new Pathwork members; in the nature of these newer people who are more ready to understand and follow the new cosmic force; in the deeper feelings of genuine love and joy among all of you; in the increased removing of blocks and obstructions, resolving of problems and conflicts, so that fulfillment occurs on all levels for more and more of you.\u00a0 This fact can no longer be ascribed to coincidence but is obviously the natural expression of your development.<\/p>\n
So a good number of the inner nucleus function as the higher self of the community.\u00a0 This does not mean that they are perfect; of course not.\u00a0 But you are sufficiently capable of establishing the channel to the higher self.\u00a0 You are increasingly capable of totally committing yourself to the will of God and of perceiving the importance of the Christ consciousness that sweeps your planet and to serve it.\u00a0 As such you protect yourself in an incredibly efficient way against the onslaught of the countermovement.\u00a0 You immunize yourself against the countermovement from within your own lower self, and therefore from without, against the lower self of the planet.<\/p>\n
Then there are those others working diligently on the path, still struggling, who are in the phase of owning up to the lower self, laboriously getting to know it by penetrating the concealments of the mask self.\u00a0 In this struggle the temptation to hide, as well as the habit of doing so, are strong obstacles; so are guilt and the fear of exposing the truth.\u00a0 And the illusion of this fear can only be eliminated gradually by testing it until you learn sufficiently to trust the process.\u00a0 There are those of you who at first cannot find the channel to your higher self, and thus do not even want it.\u00a0 You fear it; you do not trust it.\u00a0 You trust your old, destructive habitual defenses more.<\/p>\n
Then of course there are always those who are still strongly identified with their mask self.\u00a0 They have the most difficult time, and they seek reasons to discredit the process and judge it.\u00a0 But this does not make them any happier; on the contrary.\u00a0 Their stake in not growing is strong; their fear of growing is equally strong, so they do not want to find out how unjustified the fear is.\u00a0 They are not necessarily new friends, for it is not always a matter of time.\u00a0 These friends have to recognize that they identify with their mask self and must begin to travel through the layers.<\/p>\n
The purpose of my saying this here is that you should experience yourself where you are and be aware of it.\u00a0 As you have learned to take responsibility for your lower self and overcame the shame to admit it, so must you now learn to take responsibility for and not be ashamed of your higher self.\u00a0 Admit where you have indeed already arrived.\u00a0 Then you can give yourself even more fully to it.\u00a0 Then you can fully commit yourself to be a part of the great movement and feel the privilege, the honor, the beauty and the excitement of it.\u00a0 To give service to a greater cause will cleanse the residual little selfishnesses that make you fearful.\u00a0 You believe you cannot give all of yourself to a greater cause because you fear to do so.\u00a0 But I say to you once again:\u00a0 It is the other way around.\u00a0 You are afraid because you still cling to a little selfishness here or there.\u00a0 Consciously giving yourself to a greater cause that sweeps the entire planet is in itself a cleansing process.<\/p>\n
We will discuss the new values of the new consciousness in the lectures to come.\u00a0 We shall share these new and old truths.\u00a0 What I have just said is one of the most important differences between the old and the new value systems.\u00a0 I say “new,” though they have always existed in isolated, highly developed individuals who have incarnated for a specific task.\u00a0 The great difference at this time is that the entire planet is growing up, coming into its own divine consciousness.<\/p>\n
The first thing for all of you in this respect has to be a very conscious understanding that your life must consist of much more than the immediate little personality.\u00a0 And you must also understand that this expansion will lead to happiness, even though happiness is also its prerequisite.\u00a0 There is no division between expansion and happiness.\u00a0 To follow the will of God cannot deprive you, so in the years to come you will become proficient in trusting total surrender to the God within every day of your life, in every issue, in every venture, in every decision you undertake, even in the opinions you choose to adopt.<\/p>\n
With the new consciousness you will not make superficial decisions with your head, wanting the immediate fulfillment of your desire.\u00a0 The new consciousness makes decisions in an entirely new way.\u00a0 It is aware that the outer self does not know, that it is not trustworthy and is full of subjectively colored distortions and prejudices.\u00a0 The new consciousness always consults the higher self and learns to wait quietly and patiently for the answer.\u00a0 It is never opinionated.\u00a0 It accepts that it does not know yet.\u00a0 It keeps itself open.\u00a0 It has no stake in a certain answer.\u00a0 It makes room for an answer that may be anything, be it what is most desired or its exact opposite, but it trusts that what will come will be good.\u00a0 Such an approach has no fixed opinion; it empties itself.\u00a0 That is one of the hallmarks of the new value system that has already begun to sweep the planet.<\/p>\n
This clashes, of course, with the old value system, which functions merely from the surface, from immediate little emotions, from the narrow view that has a stake in not even wanting to widen one’s perception and consider other possibilities.\u00a0 The old attitude clashes with the new in you, and in your environment the clash is between those who represent the new and those who represent the old consciousness.\u00a0 In this process it will become increasingly clear where you belong.\u00a0 It does not suffice to say, “I belong in the new” while you continue acting in the old ways.\u00a0 You can say anything, but your actions and your approach to decisions prove in which camp you belong.<\/p>\n
More and more of you have already made the commitment and are already caught up in the tremendous surge of the new golden light that sweeps the earth, unbearable only to those who refuse it.\u00a0 They are the ones who perceive only the negative countermovement and are blind to the light itself.\u00a0 When the light comes near them, they feel strong discomfort and they misinterpret it.\u00a0 It brings the greatest joy to those who want it, who give themselves to it, who fight for it and serve it.\u00a0 This is my message for this time.<\/p>\n
We shall continue all future lectures from this wider vision:\u00a0 How you, as an individual, fit into the scheme of the whole; how you can become happy only when you are part of the force that fights for the growing and purification of the planet to reach its own divinity.<\/p>\n
Your purification work on the path begins to acclimatize you to the joy and the light of what is to come.\u00a0 But you must now also begin specifically to aim for this, to meditate for it, to want it.<\/p>\n
I have truly given you what you need in this first lecture of the year.\u00a0 It is the kind of map I always give at the beginning of a new working season.\u00a0 Be blessed, my very dearest ones.\u00a0 You must and will increasingly feel how guided and protected you are, how important your venture is, what a privilege it is to be involved with it and give your all to it.\u00a0 For this is not only important for the little outer life.\u00a0 It is important in terms of evolution.\u00a0 Be blessed, my dearest ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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