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SPIRITUAL DISCOURSES
by Rev Mario Schoenmaker

DISCOURSE 1
The Teacher-Student Relationship

Wisdom; The Practical Application; The Pupil's Relationship with the Teacher; The Place of the Mind; Stages of Consciousness; Responsibility for Self.

DISCOURSE 2
Consciousness

Consciousness; Mineral Consciousness; Etheric Consciousness; Astral Consciousness; I AM Consciousness.

DISCOURSE 3
The Spiritual Worlds 1

Sacred Numerology; The Sleep State; The Death State; The Four Regions of the Spiritual Kingdom; Building Your Future Incarnation.

DISCOURSE 4
The Spiritual Worlds 2

The Continental Region; The Fluidic Region; The Atmospheric Region; The Creative Sphere; The Akashic Record; Knowing the Outward Circumstance; The Dross of the Astral; The Kingdom of the Gods; Making a New World; The Closeness of Devachan; The Dead and the Kingdom of Nature; The Return Journey.

DISCOURSE 5
The Spiritual Worlds 3

Continuity of Love; Continuity of Consciousness; Assisting the Dead; Re-birth; The Astral Sheath and its connection with the Mother; The Etheric Sheath and its connection with Nations and Groups; The Incarnating Soul and its connection with the Father; Creating the Physical Body - Sooner; Changing the Physical Body - Later; Renewing the Physical Body; Diseases - World Karma.

DISCOURSE 6
Karma 1

Karma; Consequences of Thoughts; Consequences of Feelings; Consequences of Deeds; Karmic Consequences on the Astral Level - Desires/Thoughts; Karmic Consequences on the Etheric Level - Feelings; Karmic Consequences on the Physical Level - Deeds; Pain and the Getting of Wisdom; The Fallacy of Freedom; Demons, Spectres and Phantoms; Global Causes and Consequences.

DISCOURSE 7
Karma 2

The Workings of Karma in the Hereafter; Astral Ties and Past Associations; Physical Heredity and Soul Talent; Karmic Debits and Credits; The Big Investor; The Perfection of the Physical Body; Earth's Inheritance; Mars and Mercury and the Bestowing of Self-Consciousness; Earth's Future; The Cosmic Week; Questions - Rectifying Thoughts/Confession; Question - Unconscious Release/Healing.

DISCOURSE 8
I AM Consciousness

The Marks of the I AM Consciousness; The Old Moon Dream Consciousness; Authority (from Mark 1:21-27); Demon Possession; Channelling; Compassion - Seeing the Outer and the Inner; Healing Thy Self; Acknowledging the I AM within Self; The Illumination and Elimination of Karma.

DISCOURSE 9
The Metaphysician, the Occultist and the Mystic (by Rev. John Rawson)

The Purpose of Clairvoyance; The Metaphysician, the Occultist and the Mystic; The Seven Spiritual Centres; The Task of the Metaphysician - Cleansing the Astral; The Thyroid and Wilfulness; The Sword and the Chalice; The Task of the Occultist - Expressing the Etheric Levels; The Pituitary and Spiritual Thinking; The Leydig and Lower Psychism; The Christed Mind; The Meeting with Christ; The Task of the Mystic - The Blooming of the Pineal.

DISCOURSE 10
Old Saturn

The Stages of Human Consciousness through Evolution; Old Saturn and the Building of our Senses; The Giant Mirror; The Tools of the Hierarchy; The Seven Levels of Being - Physical, Etheric, Astral, I AM, Spirit Self, Life Spirit and Spirit Man; The Law of Stultification; Backward Beings; The Importance of Working with Evolution.

DISCOURSE 11
Initiation

The Gospel of St John; The Death and Resurrection of Lazarus; John the Baptist and John the Beloved; Mary and Martha; The History of the Twelve Disciples; The Old Initiation; The New Initiation; The Function of the Astral in Initiation; The Role of the Etheric in Initiation.

DISCOURSE 12
Easter 1

Christ Unites; Truth; A Deed - Not a Teaching; The External Cloak of Religion; Breaking the Bonds of Death; Freedom; The Appearance of Jesus at Easter.

DISCOURSE 13
Easter 2

The Ancients' Ignorance of Birth and Death; The Mistranslation of the Bible; The Teaching of the Resurrection - Personally Imparted; The Immortal Physical Body; Before Christ - Life is Death; The "Other Side"; Easter - The Gods Gain Knowledge of Birth and Death; The Freeing of the Dead; The Body of the Risen Christ; The Second Death; The Cosmic Mass - The Transfigured Physical Body.

DISCOURSE 14
Easter 3

The Law of Repitition; The Reptition of the Egyptian Era on a Higher Level; Why Religion?; The Etheric Body of the Atlanteans; The Coming of Christ; The Expansion of the Etheric Body; Visions and Psychiatrists; What is Death?; The Need for Redemption and the Need for Knowledge.

DISCOURSE 15
Spiritual Beings

Cleansing the Aura; Our Gifts to the Angels - At Night and at Death; Light after Death; Receiving in the measure you Gave; The Luciferic Light; Rejection; Hypochondriacs; The Half-Logic of Ahriman; Redemption of Souls under the influence of Ahriman and Lucifer; The Gifts of the Angels and the Archangels - Language and Nationality; Preparation and Redemption - Kindling the Light.

DISCOURSE 16
Ascension 1

The Truth about Ascension and Pentecost; Interpreting Visions and Images; The Mid-Point of Earth's Life and its Subsequent Decline; Etheric equals Life; All Share in the Benefits of Golgotha; A Constant Consciousness of Christ; The Vision of the Ascending Christ; The Presence of Christ in the Earth; Only Some Share in the Benefits of Pentecost; Encourage the Consciousness of Christ.

DISCOURSE 17
Ascension 2

The Real Meaning of Ascending and Descending; The Complexities of the Ascension; Born of the Holy Spirit; Our Relationship with the Angels; The Glorification of Jesus; The Coming of Christ in the Clouds; Descend - as in grow smaller - and Ascend - as in grow greater; Forecast - Cloudy with Sunny Patches; The Sword - Not Peace; To those who have shall more be given; Armageddon and Progress.

DISCOURSE 18
Pentecost

The Spirit of Pentecost; Knowledge of the Christ; The Heavens descend to Earth; Perceiving the Christ; The Common Mind; Blowing away the Cobwebs; The Universal Language of Pentecost; Reincarnation - Enlarging the Spirit of Man; Lifting up the Human Spirit; The Painful Amalgamation; The Unifying Experience of Perceiving the Christ; Let the Lower Lights Be Burning; Communicating and Acknowledging the Spirit Within.

DISCOURSE 19
The Holy Trinity

Time is Marching On - Urgency; The Feast of Pentecost and the Feast of the Holy Spirit; The Difference between Jesus and Christ; Esoteric Psychology; Consciousness = Spirit; A Holy Spirit and The Holy Spirit; Our Common Conceptual Consciousness; The Personal Subconscious - the Level of the Will; The Image of the Will; The Impression of Christ; False Images and Undermining the Will; The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak; Working on the Subconscious Level; Who's Afraid of the Dark?; The Streams of Spirit and Matter; Creating the Image of the Son of God; The Unknown Superconscious; Questions about Hypnotism and Edgar Cayce; Questions about Communication and Concepts; Question about Steiner's Techniques for Higher Consciousness; Question about using the name "Jesus" in hymns.

DISCOURSE 20
John the Baptist

John the Baptist and the Prophet Elijah; The Hebrew Race Spirit; Individualising the Group Spirit; Concepts - The Expression of the Etheric Body; The Right and Wrong Ways of Lifting the Etheric; The Meaning of John's Baptism; Why Christ's Ministry began in Galilee; The Miracles of Elijah and the Christ; Keep the Touch of God in your Soul.

DISCOURSE 21
Intellectualism and Morality

The Physical Body Today; The Ancient Physical Body; Instinctive Morality; Intellectualism, Lack of Morality and the Independent Etheric Body; Modern Individuality; The Independent Ozone Layer; New Illnesses; An Intellectual Perception of Christ; The Need to "Do Something"; The Morally Responsible Person; The Bodhisattva, the Buddha and Christ; Responsible Government; The Difference between Moral Responsibility and Do-Goodery; The Purpose of The Centre - To Become Perceptive of the Christ.

DISCOURSE 22
Individuality - The Snake, The Spine and the Kundalini Fire

Religious Images; Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Dry Bones; Mother Earth's Senses; The First Spine - The Snake; The Appearance of the I AM; Seven Spiritual Centres - Seven States of Consciousness; Saturn and the Gonads; The Sun and the Leydig; The Moon and the Adrenals; The Earth and the Heart; Jupiter and the Thyroid; Venus and the Pituitary; Vulcan and the Pineal; The Kundalini Fire; Lifting up the Serpent; The Spiritual Image; The I AM and the Twelve Stages; The Lower and the Higher.

DISCOURSE 23
The Teaching of Reincarnation and the Power of Speech

Thinking, Feeling and Willing; The Workings of Jehovah on Old Moon and Present Earth; Spirit and Flesh, Conflict and Death; The Teaching of Reincarnation; Morality and the I AM; The Esoteric View of Reincarnation; Speech and Thinking; Speech and Sex; Higher Consciousness - The Mountain; The Way, the Truth, the Life; Predestination and Reincarnation; The Power of Speech.

DISCOURSE 24
Qualities of the Physical, the Etheric, the Astral and the I AM

Atonement; World Initiation; "ICH" - Jesus Christ; "I" - Jesus the Man, the Intellect - Not the Spirit; "OHM" - Not Everything Old is Good; The Physical Body and our Lack of Will; The Astral Body and Karma; Black Magic, the Astral Double and the Premature Cosmic Birth; The Epidemic of Neurosis; The Image-Making, Idea-Forming Etheric; Our Physical and Spiritual Organs; Death with Desire; Astral Rewards; The Spiritual Remedy; Wisdom - the Character of the Etheric, the Purified Experiences of the Astral; Changing the Auric Colours; The Facing of the Guardian of the Threshold; The Importance of Decisiveness; The Dangers of Hypnotism; The Tools of Ahriman and Lucifer; Receive the Teachings and Create the "I"ness.

DISCOURSE 25
Archai, Archangels and Angels

The Astral Seeks a Group; The Albigenses: The Difference in Male and Female Idealism Today; Divorced from the Spiritual Worlds; Disease - Its Spiritual Origin; Citizen of the Kingdom of the Gods; The Archai, Archangels and Angels; The Archai and Speech (Prologue of St John); Speech - the Out-Breathing of Spirit; Dionysius and the Mystery School of St Paul; The Interpenetration of Spiritual Beings.

DISCOURSE 26
Spirit and Science

Two Types of People; The Luciferic Influence - Past, Present, Future; Christ and Buddha; The Influence of Science on Consciousness; Truth, Spirit or Maya, Materialism; Spiritual Blocks; Unity in Diversity; The True Rosicrucian; Copernicus and Christian Rosenkreutz; Planetary Sojourns; Buddha - The Lord of Mars; Spiritual Manifestation; A Union of Consciousness.

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