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HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS SOCIETY

Spiritual Principles

The spiritual principles of the Higher Consciousness Society and the Great Work are set forth in Part IV of Confessions of A God Seeker the outline of which is presented below. The reader is referred to these chapters for a full treatment of the spiritual principles underlying HCS. Selected portions (in blue) are excerpted for your reading.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART FOUR: JOURNEY TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS	311
Chapter 13 — The Spiritual and Scientific Foundations of Higher Consciousness	313
The Nature of the Journey	313
The Journey to God-Realization and the Heart of Truth	314
The Law of Unity	316
The Illusion of Life	317
Illusion: A Scientific Perspective	319
Expanding or Changing Paradigms	322
How We Create Our Reality/Illusion	327
The Dream of Creation	328
The Levels of Reality/Illusion Creation	330
The Law of Soul and God-soul	335
The Nature of ALL THAT IS	338
The Law of Love	339
The Spiritual Hierarchy	344
The Law of Duality: The Nature of Good and Evil	346
The Law of Polarity	348
The Law of Spirit	349
Works for the Good of the Whole	351
Responsiveness of Spirit	352
The Nature of Prayer	354
The Power of the Individual’s Belief	354
Associated Visualization or Feeling	355
Duration of Focus	355
The Action Component	355
The Reciprocal Nature of Spirit	356
Spirit and You: Getting the Roles Straight	356
Impartiality of Spirit	358
Spirit and Beauty	359
Intelligence (Creativity)	360
Spirit is Order	362
The Illusion of the Straight Line (The Law of Cycles)	364
The Source of Our Doubt and How to Trust Spirit	365
Chapter 14 — The Spiritual Practice of Higher Consciousness	368
Towards a New Spiritual Paradigm	368
Soul Unbounded	373
The Spiritual Practice of Higher Consciousness	375
Soul-Actualization	375
God-Realization	377
The Higher Consciousness Contemplations of Life	378
Using the Affirmations and Contemplations	383
Establishing Inner Communication — How I met Me	385
The Physical and the Inner Bodies	387
The Physical Body	388
The Etheric Body	388
Emotional Body	389
The Mental Body	389
The Soul and the Causal Body	390
Meditation and Contemplation	391
The Mantra	393
The Nature of the Mantra as Sound	394
Technique One: Basic Meditation/Contemplation Technique	397
Technique Two:Self Selection of a Mantra	401
Let the Chanting Begin	403
Chapter 15 — Dreams: A Bridge to Higher Consciousness	406
Dreams in Culture and History	406
Dream Interpretation in Greece and Rome	407
Sigmund Freud and the Interpretation of Dreams	408
Carl Jung and the Archetype	410
Current Dream Research	412
Toward a Workable Integrated Dream Paradigm	414
Interpreting Symbolic Dreams	418
Recording and Using Dreams: Day and Night Journals	419
Dreams of Harm	420
A Dictionary of Dreams?	420
Dreams beyond Time and Space	421
Chapter 16 — The Practical Side of Higher Consciousness	424
Measures of Success	424
Producing an Effect in Life — The Art of Manifestation	426
Too Much Stuff	426
The Ways of Spirit in Manifesting our Goals	427
The River: A Metaphor of the Workings of Spirit	428
“Row, Row, Row Your Boat”	431
Decide What You Want	431
Elevate the Goal to the Highest Level — Levels of Manifestation	432
Develop a Clear Image with Emotion and Detail	436
Getting Out of the Way: The Proper Attitude for Success	436
Follow Through on All Leads and Ideas Presented by Spirit	437
The Master Principle	441
The Master Technique	444
Words as States of Consciousness	447
The Breath of Life	449
A Personal Treasure Trove: Words to Live By	450
The Portable Chaplet	453
Integration of the Contemplations	455
Goal Setting	456
Chapter 17 — The Call of Soul	460
Law of Duality/Polarity Still At Work	461
Working Together with Purity of Purpose	461
It Happens in Due Course	463
The Next Step	464

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