The Library

Volume 1, Perspectives, includes notes from all 28 categories

• 1. Overview of the Quest

  22 Okt 2018

  • De fasen van de Zoektocht zijn vrij duidelijk gedefinieerd. Eerst manifesteert het verlangen naar spirituele groei zich in ons hart. Ten tweede voelen we berouw in ons hart over de gemaakte fouten in het verleden en de zonden die we hebben begaan. Ten derde onderwerpen we ons als reactie daarop aan ascetische of zelfverloochenende discipline. Ten vierde gaan we door met het regelmatig beoefenen van meditatie.

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• 13. Human Experience

  30 Okt 2018

  • Wanneer we geconfronteerd worden met de gevolgen van onze fouten, willen we het ermee gepaard gaande lijden vermijden of op zijn minst verminderen. Het is onmogelijk om met enige zekerheid te zeggen of en in hoeverre dit kan, omdat het deels afhangt van Genade, maar deels ook van onszelf. We kunnen helpen om de negatieve gevolgen te verzachten en wellicht zelfs te elimineren als we bepaalde compenserende invloeden in gang zetten...

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Volume 2

• 1. Overview of the Quest
  • Chapter
  • 1. What the Quest Is
  • 2. Its Choice
  • 3. Independent Path
  • 4. Organized Groups
  • 5. Self-Development
  • 6. Student-Teacher
  
  

Volume 3

• 2. Overview of Practices Involved
  • Chapter
  • 1. Ant's Long Path
  • 2. The Measure of Progress
  • 3. Uncertainties of Progress
  • 4. Practise Mental Discipline
  • 5. Balance the Psyche
  • 6. Self-Reflection and Action
  • 7. Discipline Desires
  • 8. The Quest and Social Responsibility
  • 9. Conclusion
  
  
• 3. Relax and Retreat
  • Chapter
  • 1. Take Intermittent Pauses
  • 2. Withdraw from Tension and Pressure
  • 3. Relax Body, Breath, Mind
  • 4. Retreat Centres
  • 5. Solitude
  • 6. Nature Appreciation
  • 7. Sunset Contemplation
  
  

Volume 4

• 4. Elementary Meditation
  • Chapter
  • 1. Preparatory
  • 2. Place and Condition
  • 3. Fundamentals
  • 4. Meditative Thinking
  • 5. Visualizations, Symbols
  • 6. Mantrams, Affirmations
  • 7. Mindfulness, Mental Quiet
  
  
• 5. The Body
  • Chapter
  • 1. Prefatory
  • 2. The Body
  • 3. Diet
  • 4. Fasting
  • 5. Exercise
  • 6. Breathing Exercises
  • 7. Sex
  • 8. Kundalini
  • 9. Prayer
  
  

Volume 5

• 6. Emotions and Ethics
  • Chapter
  • 1. Uplift Character
  • 2. Re-Educate Feelings
  • 3. Discipline Emotions
  • 4. Purify Passions
  • 5. Spiritual Refinement
  • 6. Avoid Fanaticism
  • 7. Miscellaneous Ethical Issues
  
  
• 7. The Intellect
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Place of Intellect
  • 2. The Service of Intellect
  • 3. The Development of Intellect
  • 4. Abstract Thought
  • 5. Semantics
  • 6. Science
  • 7. Metaphysics of Truth
  • 8. Intellect, Reality, and The Overself
  
  

Volume 6

• 8. The Ego
  • Chapter
  • 1. What Am I
  • 2. I-thought
  • 3. Psyche
  • 4. Detaching from The Ego
  
  
• 9. From Birth to Rebirth
  • Chapter
  • 1. Death, Dying, and Immortality
  • 2. Rebirth and Reincarnation
  • 3. Laws and Patterns of Experience
  • 4. Free Will, Responsibility, and The World-Idea
  
  

Volume 7

• 10. Healing of the Self
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Laws of Nature
  • 2. The Universal Life Force
  • 3. The Origins of Illness
  • 4. Healers of The Body and Mind
  • 5. The Healing Power of The Overself
  
  
• 11. The Negatives
  • Chapter
  • 1. Their Nature
  • 2. Their Roots in Ego
  • 3. Their Presence in The World
  • 4. In Thoughts, Feelings, Violent Passions
  • 5. Their Visible and Invisible Harm
  
  

Volume 8

• 12. Reflections
  • Chapter
  • 1. Two Essays
  • 2. Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
  • 3. Encounter With Destiny
  • 4. Reflections On Truth
  • 5. The Literary Work
  • 6. The Profane and The Profound
  
  

Volume 9

• 13. Human Experience
  • Chapter
  • 1. Situation
  • 2. Living in The World
  • 3. Youth and Age
  • 4. World Crisis
  
  
• 14. The Arts in Culture
  • Chapter
  • 1. Appreciation
  • 2. Creativity, Genius
  • 3. Art Experience and Mysticism
  • 4. Reflections On Specific Arts
  
  

Volume 10

• 15. The Orient
  • Chapter
  • 1. Meetings of East and West
  • 2. India
  • 3. China, Japan, Tibet
  • 4. Ceylon, Angkor Wat, Burma, Java
  • 5. Islamic Cultures, Egypt
  • 6. Related Entries
  
  

Volume 11

• 16. The Sensitives
  • Chapter
  • 1. Mystical Life in The Modern World
  • 2. Phases of Mystical Development
  • 3. Philosophy, Mysticism, and The Occult
  • 4. Those Who Seek
  • 5. Pseudo and Imperfect Teachers
  • 6. Delusions and Painful Awakenings
  • 7. The Path of Individuality
  • 8. Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements
  • 9. Inspiration and Confusion
  • 10. The Is Is Not an Ism
  • 11. Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs"
  • 12. The Intermediate Zone
  • 13. The Occult
  • 14. The Sensitive Mind
  • 15. Illuminations
  
  

Volume 12

• 17. The Religious Urge
  • Chapter
  • 1. Origin, Purpose of Religions
  • 2. Organization, Content of Religion
  • 3. Religion As Preparatory
  • 4. Problems of Organized Religion
  • 5. Comments On Specific Religions
  • 6. Philosophy and Religion
  • 7. Beyond Religion As We Know It
  
  
• 18. The Reverential Life
  • Chapter
  • 1. Devotion
  • 2. Prayer
  • 3. Humility
  • 4. Surrender
  • 5. Grace
  
  

Volume 13

• 19. The Reign of Relativity
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Cosmos of Change
  • 2. The Double Standpoint
  • 3. The States of Consciousness
  • 4. Time, Space, Causality
  • 5. The Void As Metaphysical Fact
  
  
• 20. What Is Philosophy?
  • Chapter
  • 1. Toward Defining Philosophy
  • 2. Its Contemporary Influence
  • 3. Its Requirements
  • 4. Its Realization Beyond Ecstasy
  • 5. The Philosopher
  
  
• 21. Mentalism
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Sensed World
  • 2. The World As Mental
  • 3. The Individual and World Mind
  • 4. The Challenge of Mentalism
  • 5. The Key To the Spiritual World
  
  

Volume 14

• 22. Inspiration and the Overself
  • Chapter
  • 1. Intuition the Beginning
  • 2. Inspiration
  • 3. The Overself's Presence
  • 4. Introduction To Mystical Glimpses
  • 5. Preparing for Glimpses
  • 6. Experiencing a Glimpse
  • 7. After the Glimpse
  • 8. Glimpses and Permanent Illumination
  
  

Volume 15

• 23. Advanced Contemplation
  • Chapter
  • 1. Entering the Short Path
  • 2. Pitfalls and Limitations
  • 3. The Dark Night of The Soul
  • 4. The Changeover To the Short Path
  • 5. Balancing the Paths
  • 6. Advanced Meditation
  • 7. Contemplative Stillness
  • 8. The Void As Contemplative Experience
  
  
• 24. The Peace Within You
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Search for Happiness
  • 2. Be Calm
  • 3. Practise Detachment
  • 4. Seek the Deeper Stillness
  
  

Volume 16

• 25. World-Mind in Individual Mind
  • Chapter
  • 1. Their Meeting and Interchange
  • 2. Enlightenment Which Stays
  • 3. The Sage
  • 4. The Sage's Service
  • 5. Teaching Masters, Discipleship
  
  
• 26. World-Idea
  • Chapter
  • 1. Divine Order of The Universe
  • 2. Change As Universal Activity
  • 3. Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe
  • 4. True Idea of Man
  
  
• 27. World-Mind
  • Chapter
  • 1. What Is God?
  • 2. Nature of World-Mind
  • 3. World-Mind and ``Creation``'
  
  
• 28. The Alone
  • Chapter
  • 1. Absolute Mind
  • 2. Our Relation To the Absolute