Spiritual Wisdom:

"There exist a number of words which many of you have become allergic to -- words used in the Bible and in organized religion, words that have indeed often been misused and abused. But these words have nevertheless a true origin that should not be forgotten. The name of divine manifestation in form -- Jesus Christ -- is, as you well know, one such word. If you heard a description of God as form, as personal helper, friend, guide to you, as all-forgiver, as a being of translucent light and perfection, you could accept it. So do not let the word Jesus Christ stand in your way. He is the Christ, and He was Jesus when He incarnated.

"Similarly you have associations with the words sin, hell, evil, devil. All these words have been grossly abused. That is true. But they nevertheless only indicate the same facts and factors that we now call by different names such as lower self aspects, negativities, destructiveness, a painful state of mind, etc." (PL #258)

"Every situation you experience is the product of a word you have spoken and are perhaps still speaking constantly within in one way or another, on one level of awareness or another. It is our aim on the path to make all these words you speak day in and day out, every hour and every minute of the day, conscious so that you can understand your creation."

"The word is indeed the creative agent. The word is a psychic nuclear point or a psychic nuclear explosion that creates movement and a systematic chain reaction, one link logically and inexorably following another until the word has become deed, fact, and finished creation. The word creates an energy pattern of further psychic nuclear points, each link, each point being a "word" too, a "sub-creative agent," as it were. Each word is a blueprint without which the structure cannot be built. The word is expression and creation. It is plan, knowledge, opinion, consciousness. The word is feeling, attitude, and intentionality. The word carries immense energy powers of its own kind, differing from other energies. The word is what is behind all creation. Creation cannot exist without a word spoken, known, held, believed in, and committed to in the area of that specific creation. The word is a conglomerate of all of these and more. The word that is spoken reveals the will that motivates this particular word. It can be the divine will or the will of the cut-off, ignorant, and destructive particle of consciousness. The word is the sum total of your beliefs in any given area where you speak the word -- be it conscious or not. The word is the sun that creates the planets. It is the energizing force and it is design.

"There is so much contained in the word that it is not for nothing that Scripture starts with the postulate that in the beginning was, or actually is, the Word. There always will be the word. The word, as you know it, is the word God spoke. From that word all creation, including your personality, came into being. The word is the blueprint behind all you can see, experience, feel. There are many words creating many aspects of creation -- in the planetary system, in the mass consciousness, and in the individual consciousness."

"Most of the time you are extremely "busy" (I mean all of mankind) so as to block out the words you speak, and you produce noise in your inner system so that you do not hear your own words. A new phase on your path can now be contemplated and entered into (by some already now, by some only later) to make yourselves very conscious of the words you speak and what and how they create.

"The word can be divided within itself. When you speak opposite words that cancel one another out on different levels of awareness, you become confused and you create accordingly. If you create fog so as not to know the words you speak, to overshadow them with other words, it is necessary to painstakingly crystallize the word that is most responsible for the creation of your life situation. You should do this with both the positive and negative creations."

"Words of truth and creative beauty spoken when the underlying material is not made compatible with those levels of consciousness that speak those words can at best create a short circuit, at worst a split and a division in consciousness. This is why it is preferable if for a while "the word" is an honest admission and exposure of your negative intentionality and your lower self motives. Doing so implies attitudes of truthfulness, humility, courage, faith, and many other higher self qualities. But speaking words revealing principles of divine nature when the lower self is hidden and denied implies attitudes of wishful thinking, pride, lack of faith (fear of exposing what is not perfect), laziness (shirking the process of becoming, growing, developing, transforming in realistic, painstaking ways), and many others."

"There is a direct linkage between the power of the word and self-value. They go together. For how can you speak the word of faith in your own unfoldment and fulfillment if you secretly believe that you have no value and therefore no right to experience bliss? How can you even challenge the assumption of your worthlessness that you all carry inside your hearts to some degree if you are so terrified that this is the ultimate truth of your being? Then you can only continue to block this "knowledge" and defend against it. As you know, it is precisely by and through those defensive maneuvers that you reinforce the belief in your unacceptability because all defenses are negative, destructive, and create guilt. So even when you try, on the surface, to tell yourself -- belligerently -- that you do deserve fulfillment, peace of mind, pleasure, and abundance; underneath you will fear not ever attaining all this, not really deserving it. You fear that if you did acquire these desirable assets, it would only be by "stealing," and you would be punished. So, as you speak the word for what you long for, what every human being longs for and should indeed experience, so do you simultaneously speak the word against it on another level. The same applies to everything in life. While you are in this state of division and self-denial, you must feel pessimistic and fearful about the world as such and see it only in fragments, out of context, reaffirming your fearful visions.

"Thus the process of the path is essential to establish the one-pointed word. Only through the honesty and courage of self-exposure and purification will you gain sufficient initial self-esteem to expose your devastating belief in your valuelessness. Only when you pierce through the superficial substitute maneuvers of false self-value, making room for facing your painful belief in being valueless, can you begin to see this assumption and cast doubt on your self-doubt. In that way you can constantly utter and pronounce words of truth. Even questions can be words of truth: 'Is this assertion of my value a defense or a real expression?' 'Do I underneath my superiority and arrogance falter and doubt my intrinsic value?' And when answers to these questions show that this is indeed so, then the word of truth can be expressed, perhaps again by an initial question: 'Is it true that this or that lower self aspect makes me undeserving, unlovable, bad, valueless? Or is there something else in me that would justify me to appreciate and love myself, that deserves esteem and fulfillment?' So questions are also often words of truth.

"So begin to see the words you speak behind the smoke screen, to yourself about yourself. On those deepest levels you malign yourself. You speak negative words about yourself. Those words need to be crystallized. They may exist only in a vague, hazy, inarticulated way. The power of the word is no less when it is inarticulate. There always is an immense power in the word. For the word is full of energy. Humankind at this stage of development becomes increasingly aware of energy and its importance. But you are not sufficiently aware yet that the thought and the word itself are energy -- energy of a different kind."

"Find the word in which you consequently say "I will not love, love is dangerous, it will hurt me." It is another word of untruth that creates its pattern that makes it seem a truth in which you cannot experience the fulfillment your soul longs for. You are then caught in an involuntary process that indeed echoes that word, manifests that word. The manifestation of the process in your life, the involuntary life you create for yourself while you believe you have no say in it is the direct and indirect result of those words you speak -- sometimes loudly, without knowing what you say and why you are saying it, sometimes silently without being at all aware that you say such and such a word."

"In your busyness not to hear and understand your words, you do not take responsibility for the words you speak. I purposely say "words" rather than "thoughts," for we know that thoughts are only the outcome of the underlying factors that create the word. The word is the energy explosion. The word is that which immediately creates. The thought is the content. The word is its inception, its expression, its realization in its first stage. A thought without the word would be impossible. It would be meaningless, it could not exist. So the thought is the underlying consciousness factor of the energetic process. The spoken word is the finished product of the thought behind it. I repeat: this finished product of the thought -- the word -- is not necessarily conscious or articulate or vocal.

"So my friends, take care of your words. Make room for clarity in your words. Take responsibility for the words you speak within. Your words are your life creation. Question the words you speak, whether they come from a thought of truth or a thought of untruth. "

"In your busyness not to hear and understand your words, you do not take responsibility for the words you speak. I purposely say 'words' rather than 'thoughts,' for we know that thoughts are only the outcome of the underlying factors that create the word. The word is the energy explosion. The word is that which immediately creates. The thought is the content. The word is its inception, its expression, its realization in its first stage. A thought without the word would be impossible. It would be meaningless, it could not exist. So the thought is the underlying consciousness factor of the energetic process. The spoken word is the finished product of the thought behind it. I repeat: this finished product of the thought -- the word -- is not necessarily conscious or articulate or vocal." (PL #233)