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Wortherkunft Gnade – Gnade und Karma

die Gnade, Hauptwort, ahd. gi-nâda mhd. genâde, gnâde: "Gunst, guter Wille, Freude", auch ursprünglich "Ruhe, Frieden", "Be-
quemlichkeit", "Hilfe, Demut, Dankbarkeit" oder "Nutzen, Schutz, Sorgfalt"; gerade im Sinne des Mhd. "das Sichniederlassen, um
auszuruhen, ruhige Lage, Glück(seligkeit)" (vgl. spätmhd. diu sunne gēt ze genāden: "die Sonne geht zu Gnaden", "geht unter,
begibt sich zur Ruhe") als abstammend von nahe(n), neigen (Neigung), so auch als Neigung, jemanden "Wohltaten zu erwei-
sen", "Geneigtheit, Gewogenheit, Freundschaft ohne Unterschied des Standes", "Gottes Hilfe, Huld (göttliches) Erbarmen", be-
zeichnet auch das "Wohlwollen" im Umgang miteinander oder die jedem möglicherweise widerfahrende "Gunst"; "verzeihende
Güte, Nachsicht, Schonung", auf die jemand angewiesen ist; siehe auch das Gnadenreich Gottes, Hauptwort: "das gesegnete
Gottesreich" oder das Gnadenbrot, Hauptwort: "aus Barmherzigkeit, Dankbarkeit für geleistete Dienste im Alter gewährter Un-
terhalt", auch im Sinne von "huldvolles Zugeneigtsein"; ferner vgl. Redewendungen wie mhd. gnāde gēt vür daʒ reht: "Gnade
geht vor Recht", sich auf Gnade und Ungnade ergeben: "sich bedingungslos ausliefern" (15. Jh.); die Gnade haben ("geruhen")
etw. zu tun (18. Jh.); zu Gnaden halten: "gnädig sein" (18. Jh.); Gnade ergehen lassen: "Nachsicht üben" (19. Jh.).

Gottes Gnade gewährleistet den karmischen Zusammenhalt des Universums in seinen mannigfaltigen Aspekten und Möglich-
keiten. Durch spirituelle Intention in Ausrichtung auf Gott und Gnade ist die Transformation möglich. Was dem niederen Ego
mit seiner Dominationsmacht verwehrt bleibt, gelingt der göttlichen Gnade mit einem Federstreich.

Gewährleistungen GOTTES

GOTTES Gnade kann man aus freier Wahl annehmen oder leugnen beziehungsweise verweigern.

Gnade gewährleistet

die karmische Verbundenheit des gesamten Universums.
die Vorsehung des Bewusstseins, die alle Mittel zur Erlösung und Freiheit – zur Verfügung der Menschen – bereithält.

Gnade gewährt,

die Freiheit, das persönliche Schicksal, in das keine Macht willkürlich eingreifen kann, durch eigene Entschei-
dungen zu bestimmen.

Gnade umgibt

das gesamte Universum mit Mitgefühl und Barmherzigkeit, die allen zugänglich sind.

Inspiriert durch: ► Licht des Alls. Die Wirklichkeit des Göttlichen, S. 363-364, 2003

Luthers Lebensthema – Göttliche Gnade

Der protestantische Reformator Martin Luther wurde am 3. Januar 1521 mit der päpstlichen Bannbulle Decet Romanum Pontificem von der Katholischen Kirche exkommuniziert. Seine reformatorischen Schriften wurden anschließend in großem Maß im ganzen Land bekannt und stellten ein Politikum dar an der Scheide zwischen kirchlicher und weltlicher Macht.

Lutherzelle, Augustinerkloster in Erfurt

Angeblich schloss Luther seine Verteidigungsrede vor dem Reichstag in Worms am 17. April 1521 mit den Worten:

Hier stehe ich und kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir! Amen.

Sich auf Gottes Hilfe, Gnade und Gerechtigkeit zu berufen, entsprach Luthers Gesinnung, statt sein physisches Überleben in den Vordergrund zu stellen. Nach einem Tag Bedenkzeit hatte er sich – so wie auch der gerichtlich angeklagte Sokrates – entschieden, auf sein Gewissen zu hören und nicht zu widerrufen. Seine Begründung lautete folgendermaßen:

[Da] [...] mein Gewissen in den Worten Gottes gefangen ist, ich kann und will nichts widerrufen, weil es gefährlich und unmöglich ist, etwas gegen das Gewissen zu tun.

Das Wormser Edikt belegte ihn daraufhin mit der Reichsacht, wodurch sein Leben als Vogelfreier auf dem Spiel stand.

Luthers bewegendes Lebensthema war, Gerechtigkeit durch Gottes Gnade zu finden. Seine zentrale Frage lautete:

Wie kriege ich einen gnädigen Gott?

Nach zähem inneren Ringen gelangte er zu dieser Aussage von sola gratia in seiner Theologie:

Allein durch Gnade ohne jedes eigene Zutun wird der Mensch von Gott gerecht-
fertigt.

Die katholische Kirche lehrte hingegen, dass man Heil und Erlösung durch gutes Verhalten und gute Werke (die sogenannte Werksgerechtigkeit) finde.
Dem setzte Luther die Aussage von sola fide entgegen:

Allein der Glaube, die Annahme des Wortes Gottes in Christus, was ein Gnadengeschenk ist, erlangt das Heil, nicht die menschen-
mögliche Leistung.

Source: ► Martin Luther

Bitte um Gnade

Hawkins hat auf die Wichtigkeit hingewiesen, im Gebet um Gnade zu bitten, statt Gott den gewünschten konkreten Ausgang einer Situation zu nennen.¹

Gnadengaben und Tugenden ⇔ Leidenschaften und Laster – Caroline Myss

Gnadengaben ⇔ Laster
Tugenden ⇔ Todsünden

༺༻	Gnade	Laster	Lateinischer Begriff
1.	Ehrerbietung – Dankbarkeit, Würdigung	Stolz / Scham	Superbia
2.	Frömmigkeit – Dem Gott im Menschen dienen	Gier / Geiz	Avaritia
3.	Einsicht – Verständnis	Ausschweifigkeit, Unmäßigkeit Selbstverliebtes Anspruchsdenken	Luxuria
4.	Standhaftigkeit – Höchstmögliche Seelenstärke und geistige Führung	Zorn	Ira
5.	Ratschluss – Wissen um die Umsetzung mystischer Wahrheiten	[Spirituelle] Maßloßigkeit	Gula
6.	Mystisches Erkennen	Neid	Invidia
7.	Weisheit	Trägheit	Acedia

Quellen (engl.) mit und von Dr. Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US-amerikanische mystische Bewusstseinslehrerin, Energiemedizinerin, intuitive Diagnostikerin, Erfolgsautorin
► Audiointerview Healing Beyond Reason [Heilung jenseits von Vernunft], präsentiert von dem US-amerikanischen Multimediaverlag
Sounds True, "Insights at the Edge", Verlegerin und Gastgeberin Tami Simon (*1953), Minute 48:15, 55:44 Minuten Dauer,
12. August 2009, archiviert 21. Oktober 2015
► Buch Defy Gravity. Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason, Hay House, 13. Oktober 2009, 2. Auflage 15. January 2011

Siehe auch: ► Stolz und ► Caroline Myss und ► Tugend

Der erweiterte "Sündenkatalog" – Stand 2005
Im Jahr 2005 lud der britische BBC Kultursender Radio 4 seine Hörer ein, eine Liste der schlimmsten Vergehen der heutigen Zeit und Gesellschaft zu erstellen. Von den sieben historischen Todsünden schaffte es nur die Trägheit (heute Indolenz [bewusste Gleichgültigkeit]) in das deutlich erweiterte Sündenregister, nämlich:
✣ Selbstsucht ✣ Heuchelei ✣ Gleichgültigkeit ✣ Intoleranz ✣ Ignoranz [bewusste Unwissenheit]
✣ Täuschung ✣ Vergeudung ✣ Grausamkeit ✣ Zynismus.

Gnadenerlebnis des Knaben Carl Gustav Jung

Am Mittag eines Sommertages im Jahr 1887 überquert der zwölfjährige Carl Gustav Jung auf seinem Heimweg von der Schule den Basler Münsterplatz. Bei herrlich blauem Himmel spiegelt das Dach des Münsters den strahlenden Sonnen-
schein. Die Szene vermittelt Heiterkeit. Überwältigt von der Schönheit des Augenblicks denkt der Schüler Jung daran, wie schön doch die Welt und wie erhaben dieses Gotteshaus ist.

"Biberschwanz"-Dachziegel auf dem Basler Münster, 23. September 2012

Als er weiterdenken will an Gott auf seinem Thron und …, stockt sein Gedankenfluss unvermittelt. Etwas schnürt ihm die Kehle zu.

"Bloß nicht weiter denken, bloß nicht!"

Der verbotene Gedanke wirft den Knaben in eine quä-
lende Gewissensnot, die drei Tage und drei Nächte anhält. Er schläft nicht mehr, ist blass, unkonzentriert und verstört. Welch' starker Wille treibt ihn, das Uner-
laubte zu denken zu wagen? Woher kommt er? Wie kommt es, dass dies ihn so sehr plagt?

In der dritten Nacht löste sich die Spannung. Aus der Distanz von mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert schreibt Jung darüber:

Ich fasste allen Mut zusammen, wie wenn ich in das Höllenfeuer zu springen hätte und ließ den Gedanken kommen. Vor meinen Augen stand das schöne Münster, darüber der blaue Himmel. Gott sitzt auf goldenem Thron, hoch über der Welt, und unter dem Thron fällt ein unge-
heures Exkrement auf das neue bunte Kirchendach, zerschmettert es und bricht die Kirchenwände auseinander. Das war es also. Ich spürte eine ungeheure Erleichterung und eine unbeschreibliche Erlösung. An Stelle der er-
warteten Verdammnis war Gnade über mich gekommen und damit eine unaussprechliche Seligkeit, wie ich sie nie gekannt hatte. […] Aber der Gehorsam ist es gewesen, der mir die Gnade gebracht hat, und seit jenem Erlebnis wusste ich, was göttliche Gnade ist.

Referenz:
► Carl Gustav Jung [BW 520/540] (1875-1961) Schweizer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker, Gründer einer Schule der Tiefenpsychologie,
Autor, Aniela Jaffe, Autobiografie Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken von C. G. Jung, Zürich und Düsseldorf, 1971, S. 45-46,
Walter Verlag, 5. November 1993, Juni 2006

Siehe auch: ► Carl Gustav Jung und ► Tabu: Carl Gustav Jungs verbotene Gedanken – eine Gnadenerfahrung

Zitate zum Thema Gnade / Grace

Zitate von D. Hawkins

⚠ Achtung Siehe Power vs. Truth (engl.) Januar 2013

Göttliche Gnade bestimmt die gesamte Schöpfung in all ihren Ausdrucksformen und Aspekten.
Das All-sehende Auge, S. 251, 2005

Gnade ist die Vorsehung im Bereich des Bewusstseins, die alle Mittel für Erlösung und absolute Freiheit zur Ver-
fügung der Menschen bereithält. […] Gnade kann nur akzeptiert oder geleugnet werden. Eine individuelle Seele
mag die Annahme verweigern, weil sie nicht das Gefühl hat, Gnade zu verdienen.
Licht des Alls. Die Wirklichkeit des Göttlichen, S. 364, 2006

Was das Ego mit all seiner Gewalt nicht stemmen kann, ist für die Gnade GOTTES wie eine Feder.
Erleuchtung ist möglich. Wie man die Ebenen des Bewusstseins durchschreitet, 2008

Quotes by D. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

The ego is unable to change – spiritual intention and grace of God will achieve this. Source unknown

It is not possible for anything to cause anything else. Everything is manifesting infinite potentiality by the grace of creation which is continuous. Source unknown

Enlightenment itself is by the grace of God, but it also occurs only by one's own inner agreement and choice.
The Eye of The I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 123, 2001

Spiritual evolution is almost like a space ship taking off from Earth’s gravity; it is difficult at first but it finally leaves
the gravitational field. Energy consuming intentionality eventually dissolves into effortless surrender and one becomes the recipient of unfolding awareness. Revelation replaces discovery. Understanding presents itself and becomes
self-revealing by grace without effort.
The inner pressure to achieve spiritual awareness is replaced by being the witness of Truth rather than its seeker. Effort is replaced by the effortlessness of spontaneous discovery. Essence progressively shines forth through form which loses its delineation. Then, even essence fades into the domain of the awareness of existence itself with
its self-revealing Divinity. The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, chapter 8 "Beyond Causality. The Will: Understanding And Comprehension", S. 126-127, Veritas Books, revised edition 2002

The development of a spiritual ego can be avoided by the realization that spiritual progress is the result of God's grace and not the result of one's personal endeavors. The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 145, 2001

The way is lighted by God's grace as the Holy Spirit, which is the Guide and Sustainer.
The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 221, 2001

Spiritual intention attracts higher energy fields which are experienced as grace.
The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 246, 2001

Trumpeter swan

Question: How does another earthly life serve one most expeditiously?
Answer: There are actually split seconds in which the options present themselves. These are very critical mo-
ments to watch for, and with one-pointedness of mind, they will become apparent [...] the miracle arises in this gap. In this instant, the Holy Spirit is present and avai-
lable by God's grace. In the ego's minute gap, the Holy Spirit empowers this opportunity, and this is the 'space'
in which free will operates. It is in this moment that the warrior can choose mercy or cruelty, life or death.
I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 101, 2003

God's grace could best be understood as the absolute certainty of the karmic coherence of the entire universe in all its expressions as realms and possibilities. Grace is the provision within the realm of consciousness for the availability to use all the means to salvation and absolute freedom. By choice, one determines one's own fate. There are no arbitrary forces to be reckoned with. Love goes to love and chooses love.
I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 368, 2003

Note that the linear, limited personal will itself is relatively weak, but it is the decisive turnkey that opens the gates to the nonlinear, infinite power of Grace. Hope and surrender initiate the transformative process, and faith comes later, based on actual experience. Such acts and their consequences are also aligned within the allowances of prior karma. Not every prayer is answered favorably in human time.
Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, chapter 16 "Religion and Truth", "The Will (Cal. 850)", S. 359, 2005

By invitation, the Holy Spirit transforms comprehension by virtue of the presence of the healing power of Grace. What the ego cannot lift with all its might is like a feather to the Grace of God.
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 56, 2006

To be spiritually gifted is by Grace, which results in the humility that acknowledges the state yet does not take credit for the condition that would result in ego inflation, grandiosity, and a misstatement of truth that could lead to wanting or exploiting control over others as well as glamorization and theatrical display or exploitation of the phenomena that are
a consequence of the siddhi.
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 315, 2006

If all life experiences are surrendered as they occur, they become transformed by gratitude into the miraculous and seen as gifts. The transformation is not within the province of the human will but it is a gift of the Grace of God.
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 331-332, 2006

To act from spiritual Grace of means being magnanimous because the source of Grace is Love which is unlimited
and nascent within. […] The Source of Infinite Grace is already present as the Self.
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 361, 2006

An analysis of the nature of consciousness reveals that redemption occurs as the result of the return of consciousness to its original pristine state of nonduality. It can do so only by the "obedience" of surrendering the dualities of will and willingness of the ego to the nonduality of the spirit is so difficult and unlikely that only by Divine Grace is it even pos-
sible. Thus, man needs a savior to be his advocate, his inspiration, and the fulcrum of his salvation from the pain and suffering of the ego. Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, S. 66,
Reflection of May 2nd, January 2011

The ego often seems to collapse in a piecemeal fashion. Once faith in the reality of the ego as being the true self is undermined, its dissolution has already begun. When one's loyalty and allegiance is shifted from the ego to the ulti-
mate reality of God, a space is created. Into the opening flows God's Grace, as represented by the Holy Spirit.
Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeff-
rey, S. 108, 1st quote, Hay House, August 2011

Question: What about grace, the power of grace?
Answer: Grace is, it's almost like the letting go of the sovereignty allows that which is sovereign to intercede.
We call that intervention via the Holy Spirit, generally. That through contrition, through undoing-ness, through surren-
der and willingness that we create the space for the miraculous which occurs as termed as Grace.
Enlightenment itself is by God's Grace. Because all you can do is remove the impediments. You can only remove the
impediments to higher consciousness. You can not cause higher consciousness to happen. You can remove the im-
pediments to Love and then Love takes over. Love having a higher energy tends to transform the event itself. So we
can remove the impediments, but the final step is by God alone, God only; that we call grace. Grace means, that to
our degree of knowingness, we could not possibly justify within any kind of reason the reprieve at the last instant,
even though you knew you committed the crime. And yet – suddenly – the reprieve comes through. Some people
say it's the good karma from other lifetimes.
Sedona Seminar Causality: The Ego's Foundation, CD 3 of 4, chapter 2, minutes 8:03-9:34, January 2002

Checkered flower garden, Tours, France

Question: What is Grace?
Answer: Grace is the presence of a very high energy and vibration which is picked up in one's aura as intention. Grace is the opportunity to surrender to that which is intrinsic to salvation and enlightenment. It's the trans-
formational opportunity that energizes options that other-
wise would not have been available earlier.
Sedona Seminar God Transcendent and Immanent, 3 DVD set, November 2002

Question: I would like to understand Grace as it relates to karma.
Answer: Grace is interaction between you and the teacher. Your intention lights up grace by the teacher. Grace is also on your part in that you accept the teacher.
Sedona Satsang Q&A, Sedona Creative Life Center, 2 CD set, 13. September 2006

Question: Success and goals, and where do they fit in with spirituality?
Answer: You want to fulfill the potential of your creation. You were created with certain gifts. You want to fulfill the love
of God by utilization of those gifts for the good of others. Those goals are not necessarily contradictory to spiritual
growth. It shows respect for Divinity and thankfulness for your creation to become that which you can become to the
greatest degree. No matter what you are doing, do it to the greatest potential you are capable of. You are re-
specting the grace and gift of life […] to be the perfect expression of your own potentiality.
Sedona Satsang Q&A, Sedona Creative Life Center, 2 CD set, 13. September 2006

There is considerable benefit in non-healing. If you accept it with grace that for reasons you know not, events in the past […] If a thing doesn’t heal, it doesn’t mean you have lost. It has taken on a new significance and meaning.
Sedona Seminar Is the Miraculous Real?, 3 DVD set, 9. December 2006

You are not at the effect of anything out there. You are doing a solo dance within yourself for what you can juice out
of it. If you do nothing but lay back, then the grace of God reveals all to you effortlessly. There is nothing to seek,
to gain, to get, to experience. Sedona Seminar God vs. Science. Limits of the Mind, 3 DVD set, 17. February 2007

God is infinitely merciful. Trust in the mercifulness of God. [...] Every hair on your head is counted – not because God
is an old crank, but everything you do lays down a karmic track and that is what you are answerable for. God forgives
you for that, but he lets you live it through because he knows what will come out of it – strength.
Sedona Satsang Q&A, 2 CD set, 10. January 2007

[Paraphrased] Be benevolent and merciful towards yourself. Unless people are unconditionally kind to themselves
then they are not really safe to be around because then they could project that outward.
Sedona Seminar Practical Spirituality, 3 DVD set, 25. October 2008

Zitate von anderen Quellen

Ein Dieb kommt nur, um zu stehlen, zu schlachten und umzubringen. Ich bin gekommen,
damit sie das Leben haben und volle Genüge. Johannes 10, 10 (NT)

Lass dir an meiner Gnade genügen, denn meine Kraft ist in den Schwachen mächtig.
2. Korinther 12, 9 (NT)

Sie sind allesamt Sünder und ermangeln des Ruhmes, den sie vor Gott haben sollen,
und werden ohne Verdienst gerecht aus seiner Gnade durch die Erlösung, die durch
Christus Jesus geschehen ist. Römer 3, 23-24 (NT)

Persönliche Bekenntnisse

Empfehlung

Beständig wehen die Winde der Gnade, doch dein Segel musst du selbst hissen.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [BW 620] (1836-1886) indischer hinduistischer Heiliger, Mystiker, zitiert in: Gute Zitate

Der Mensch muss nicht in den Himmel schauen, sondern in sich selber.
Er braucht nicht von irgendwoher um Gnade zu bitten, sondern er muss sich selbst ein Licht werden.
Zugeschrieben Gautama Buddha [BW 1000] (563-483 v. Chr.) indischer Avatar, Lehrer der Erleuchtung, Zentralfigur des Buddhismus

Grundlage:

Apostel Paulus an die Römer (Römer 3, 21-28, NT)

Prinzip sola gratia: Allein durch Gnade ohne jedes eigene Zutun wird der Mensch von Gott gerechtfertigt. Martin Luther [BW 580] (1483-1546) deutscher Professor der Theologie, protestantischer Reformator, Bibelübersetzer, zitiert in: Wikipedia-Eintrag Sola gratia

Das Du begegnet mir von Gnaden – durch Suchen wird es nicht gefunden. Aber dass ich zu ihm das Grundwort
Ich-Du spreche, ist Tat meines Wesens, meine Wesenstat. Martin Buber [BW 530] (1878-1965) österreichisch-jüdischer Religionsforscher und -philosoph, Das dialogische Prinzip. Ich und Du. Zwiesprache. Die Frage an den Einzelnen. Elemente des Zwischenmenschlichen. Zur Geschichte des dialogischen Prinzips, Auszüge, Verlag Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg, 1923, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Heidelberg, 4. September 2001, 10. Auflage 2006

Animierte Darstellung des chinesischen Schöpfungsmythos, 4. Jht. v. Chr.

Nicht die Energie heilt den Körper, [hochfrequente] Gnade heilt. […] Gnade ist kein katholischer Begriff. Es ist ein Begriff, der sich auf heilige Energie bezieht. […] Das von dir benötigte Gewahrsein im Hinblick auf die Heilung verlangt das Gespür, sich dem Heiligen zu nähern.
Radiosendung mit Gastgeberin Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US-amerikanische mystische Bewusstseinslehrerin, Energieme-
dizinerin, intuitive Diagnostikerin, Erfolgsautorin, Sacred Contracts. The Symbolic Aspects of Rheumatoid Arthritis, präsentiert von dem US-amerikanischen Webradiosender Hay House Radio, ab Minute 4, 6. November 2007

Leiden schlägt das Behagen unserer normalen Empfindungen über die Realität in Stücke und zwingt uns, in einem beson-
deren Sinn, lebendig zu werden, sorgfältig zu schauen, tief zu empfinden mit uns selber und mit der Welt auf eine Weise in Berührung zu kommen, die wir bisher vermieden haben. Man sagt, und ich glaube, zu Recht, Leiden sei die erste Gnade. In bestimmtem Sinn ist Leiden fast eine Zeit der Freude, denn es ist ein Zeichen für den Beginn schöpferischer Einsicht.
⚡ Ken Wilber [BW 490] (*1949) US-amerikanischer mystischer Philosoph, Vordenker des 3. Jahrtausends, transpersonaler Be-
wusstseinsforscher, Entwickler der Integralen Theorie, Autor, Edith Zundel (*1928) deutsche klinische Psychologin, Psychothera-
peutin, Soziologin, (Herausgeberin), Vom Tier zu den Göttern. Die große Kette des Seins, S. 28, Herder, Spektrum, Freiburg, 1997

Soviel der Gnade – wie angenommene Aufgabe. Freiwillig, frei angenommen. Gnade ist nicht milde Gabe, nicht Erbarmen. Gnade ist Tatsache – nicht Willkür. Sie ist Antwort – Krone der reinen Tat.
Gitta Mallasz (1907-1992) ungarische Grafikerin, Malerin, Lela Fischli, Die Antwort der Engel. Ein Dokument aus Ungarn, Himmlische Pädagogik, Lektion XII, Daimon Verlag, Erstaufzeichnung 25. Juni 1943, 12. Auflage Juni 2005

Referenz: de.Wikiquote-Eintrag ► Gnade

Literaturzitate

Fangfrage des französischen Richters und Bischofs Pierre Cauchon während des 3-wöchigen Hexenprozesses: Johanna, seid Ihr gewiss, im Stande der Gnade zu sein?
Johanna von Orléans (1411-1431) französische katholische Nationalheilige, Märtyrerin: Wenn ich es nicht bin,
möge mich Gott dahinbringen, wenn ich es bin, möge mich Gott darin erhalten! Zitiert in: Dieter Wunderlich, deut-
scher Psychologe, Autor, EigenSinnige Frauen. 10 Porträts, Piper Verlag, München, September 2004, 11. Auflage 2009

"Ich brauche keine Gnade, ich will Gerechtigkeit." Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) deutscher Philosoph, Kunstkritker, Publizist, Dramatiker, bedeutender Dichter der deutschen Aufklärung, Figur Minna von Barnhelm in: Lustspiel
Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück (1763-1767), uraufgeführt 30. September 1767

Gedicht

Der mensch dort nie zu gnaden kam,
der arm leuten hie war gram.
Friedrich Petri (1549-1617) deutscher evangelischer Theologe, Sprichwörter-Sammler, Der Teutschen Weissheit, 1604 /05;
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1983

Gebet

Irrtümlich auch Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Prälat und Theosoph, zugesprochen

Gott, gewähre mir die Demut und die Gnade, das gelassen anzunehmen, was
ich nicht ändern kann, und den Mut, das zu ändern, was ich ändern kann. Und
schenke mir die Weisheit, das eine vom Anderen zu unterscheiden.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) US-amerikanischer Theologe, Philosoph, Politologe, 1941, zitiert in: Gelassenheitsgebet

Quotes by various other sources

When a man surrenders all desires that come to the heart, and by the grace of God
finds the joy of God in himself, then his soul has indeed found peace. Bhagavad Gita [LoC 910]

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Romans 6, 14 (NT)

Personal avowals

I regard the centre of our soul as a cellar, into which God admits us as and when it pleases Him, so as to intoxicate us
with the delicious wine of His grace. Teresa of Ávila [LoC 715] (1515-1582) Spanish Carmelite nun, Roman Catholic saint, mys-
tic, theologian, Interior Castle, 1577, Dover Publication, 29. February 2008; cited in: Marty Roth, Drunk the Night Before. An Anatomy
of Intoxication, S. 78, University of Minnesota Press, 2005

Grace radical

I am obviously an activist. Now I think of myself as a psychic radical, as a an intuitive radical, as a mystical radical. [...] I am a radical of the higher altitudes,
I am a grace radical.
Excerpted audio presentation by Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, The World Needs Us To Channel Grace, deleted YouTube film, minute 0:41, 5:19 minutes duration, posted 28. September 2010

I do not understand the mystery of grace. […] Only that it meets us where we are, and does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott (*1954) US American recovering conversed alcoholic, bestselling author, Grace [Eventually]. Thoughts on Faith, Riverhead, 1st edition 20. March 2007

Words spoken by an imprisoned reformer facing extinction:

Bradford while imprisoned in the Tower of London

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
John Bradford (1510-1555) English reformer, martyr, prebendary of St. Paul's cathedral, London, Aubrey Townsend, editor, The Writings of John Bradford, "Preface", HardPress Publishing, paperback issue 10. January 2012

Devotional praise

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of
its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world. There
is not an act of kindness or generosity, not an act of sacrifice done, or a word of peace and gentleness spoken, not a
child's prayer uttered, that does not sing hymns to God before his throne, and in the eyes of men, and before their fa-
ces. Thomas Merton [LoC 515/520] (1915-1968) Anglo-American Catholic Trappist monk, mystic student of comparative religion,
social activist, poet, writer, autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, Harcourt Brace, 11. October 1948

Insights

Real mystical growth arises from a never-ending dialectic between humilitiy and grace.
Interview with Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, Teachers and Seekers: An Interview with Andrew Harvey, presented by the
US American media company Yoga Journal, Catherine Ingram, issue 123, S. 62, July/August 1995

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [LoC 620] (1836-1886) Indian Hindu saint, mystic, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, India, 1942; cited in: AZ Quotes

"What is grace?" I asked God.
And he said, "All that happens."
Then He added, when I looked perplexed, "Could not lovers say that every moment in their Beloved’s arms was grace? Existence is my arms, though I well understand how one can turn away from me until the heart has wisdom."
John of the Cross [San Juan de la Cruz] [LoC 605] (1542-1591) Spanish Catholic saint, mystic, Carmelite friar, priest, leading figure
of the Counter-Reformation, cited in: Ladinsky Daniel (*1948) US American poet, Love Poems from God. Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, S. 321, Penguin Group, 2002

He sees only God as being that which he sees, perceiving the seer to be the same as the seen. This is enough, and God is the giver of grace, the Guide. Ibn 'Arabī (1165-1240) Andalusian Moorish Sufi mystic, philosopher, promoter of reli-
gious tolerance, cited in: The Mystical Core of the Great Traditions, presented by the website Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia

Question on grace:

Trick question by a Catholic bishop posed to a young illiterate visionary peasant girl at age 19 who stood weeks of trial for heresy (witchcraft) unaided by a lawyer.

Pierre Cauchon: "Joan, do you believe yourself to be in a state of grace?"

Joan of Arc: "If I am not, may God be pleased to receive me into it;
if I am, may God be pleased to keep me in it." Joan of Arc (1411-1431) French Catholic saint, martyr, national heroine of France, 14. March 1431

Only those people who can really touch bottom can be human. Therefore Meister Eckhart says that one should not repent too much of one's sins because it might keep one away from grace. One is only confronted with the spiritual experience when one is absolutely human.
Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 520/540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, au-
thor, The Visions Seminars, Lecture IV, 3. June 1931]], Vol. 1, S. 394, Spring Publications, United States, January 1976

Grace is the breath of God – an invisible essence beyond intellect that moves swiftly amongst us. [...] Not only is it possible [to act as a conduit of grace], but grace is immediately accessible to you and the courage to follow divine guidance. Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Audio-
book Channeling Grace, presented by the US American multimedia publishing company Sounds True, 2008

Golden Gate-Brücke, San Francisco, 26. September 2009

Energy doesn't heal the body, [high voltage] grace does. […] Grace is not a catholic term. It is a term that refers to sacred energy. […] Your awareness of what is required in your approach to healing requires a sense of approaching the sacred. Audio presentation by Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Sacred Contracts – The Symbolic Aspects of Rheumatoid Arthritis, presented by the US American web radio station Hay House Radio, starting minute 4, aired 6. November 2007

Seven empowering graces versus shadow passions
1 – Grace of Reverence – Shadow: Pride / Shame
2 – Grace of Piety – Shadow: Greed
3 – Grace of Understanding – Shadow: Luxury / entitlement
4 – Grace of Fortitude / carry highest potential guidance – Shadow: Wrath
5 – Grace of Council / apply mystical truths – Shadow: Gluttony
6 – Grace of Mystical Knowledge – Shadow: Envy
7 – Grace of Wisdom – Shadow: Sloth
Audio interview with Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US Ame-
rican spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, podcast Caroline Myss: Healing Beyond Reason, presented
by the US American multimedia publishing company Sounds True, "Insights at the Edge", host and founder Tami Simon (*1953)
US American founder and director of Sounds True, minute 48:12, 55:44 minutes duration, aired 12. August 2009, archived
21. October 2015

Grace

Grace is like a blanket of hope that covers you at night when you think you don't have what it takes to get up in the morning.
Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Facebook note, 5. February 2016

The dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace"

"Cheap grace" is the grace we bestow on ourselves […] grace without discipleship […]. "Costly grace" is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know […]. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, martyr of the Nazi regime during WWII, The Cost of Discipleship, Touchstone, 1st edition 1. September 1995

"Cheap grace" is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. […]
"Cheap grace" is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incar-
nate. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, martyr of the Nazi regime during WWII, The Cost
of Discipleship, Touchstone, 1st edition 1. September 1995

Wisdom is synchronization in time. God is the one who commands all prophecy. The synchronic order is God's grace.
Lloydine Arguelles [Bolon Ik] US American dancer, former wife of José Argüelles, Ph.D., cofounder of Planet Art Network (PAN), 1983; cited in: Last Call for Earth Wizards, Next Call for the Transformative Life dedicated to Tony Shearer, Mexico, Anahuac 2002

Fierce grace

Ram Dass is wheelchair-stricken due to his stroke ('indeniable fierce grace') since 2002.

In some sense we might say that the world that we live in now needs a little fierce grace. [...] A realized being in each of us consists of ego, soul and number 3, which is God inside of us. [...] A realized being is somebody that identifies with number 3. [...] A realized person marches to a different drummer. [...] Most of our society works from the outside in, however compassion is the inside out.
Video interview with ⚡ Ram Dass [Richard Alpert] [LoC 420] (1931-2019) US American professor of psychology, student of the
Indian Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, spiritual teacher, MKUltra agent, author, Be Here Now, Lama Foundation, San Cristobal,
New Mexico, 1971

There, but for the grace of God, go I. Proverb

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry ► Grace

Literary quotes

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. Anne Lamott (*1954) US American recovering conversed alcoholic, bestselling author, Grace [Eventually]. Thoughts on Faith, Riverhead, 1st edition 20. March 2007

Englische Texte – English section on Grace

Definition of grace – Karl Rahner

The German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner (1904-1984), follower of the traditions of St. Augustine of Hippo and Saint
Thomas Aquinas, concluded on grace:

♦ Grace is God's free gift of Self to all of His creation.

♦ Grace is not foreign to the everyday world. It is always graced.

♦ All reality, found in everyone and everything, is graced.

♦ Grace is addressed to everyone including atheists and people of other religions.

♦ Every loving person an anonymous Christian.

♦ Grace is offered universally to all people at all times in all places and it is not limited to religious acts, but emerges
in ordinary everyday life through random acts of kindness.

♦ Grace is healing, elevating, and transforming.

See also: ► St. Augustine of Hippo and ► Saint Thomas Aquinas

Buckminster Fuller's expericence of grace

In 1927 at age 32 Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

⚑ was bancrupt,

⚑ was unemployed, and

⚑ had a bad reputation, and

⚑ living in low-income housing in Chicago.

⚑ His daughter Alexandra died from polio meningitis.

⚑ He had no viable means to support his wife and his other new born child.

His failures and misfortunes pushed him over the edge and he started drin-
king heavily. Grieving and miserable he went to the banks of Lake Michi-
gan – with the intention to commit suicide by drowning himself in the lake.
Yet he had issued an ultimatum to God asking for a sign to turn him around. Along the bank path he met a white poodle followed by the lady who owned him. To his amazement, he saw both their auras. Impressed by this sign of deeper sight he decided to live the remainder of his life as an experiment, to figure out what a single human being can contribute to change the world for the benefit of mankind.

[...] "an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, un-
known individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity."
Buckminster Fuller, cited in: R. Buckminster Fuller, presented by the website Social Synergetics, undated

"You must choose between making money and making sense. The two are mutually exclusive." Buckminster
Fuller, 1983, cited in: Yasmin Shariff, Jane Tankard, Towards a New Architect, S. 43, Step 7, Elsevier, Architectural Press, 2010

Source: ► Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) US American engineer, systems theorist, architect, constructor, designer, inventor, futurist, philosopher, author, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969, originally stated in an address on 16. October 1967,
Lars Müller, 5th paperback issue 15. Juli 2008

Reference: ► Article R. Buckminster Fuller, Architect and Philosopher, reissued by the publication
ThoughtCo., originally presented from USPS News Release, 2004

See also: ► Creativity

Siehe auch: ► Buckminster Fullers Gnadenerlebnis

BW-Werte: Gnade / Grace – Bücher von D. Hawkins

BW 575 – Hymne Amazing Grace

Index: Gnade / Grace – Bücher von D. Hawkins

Englische Werke

Buch 3E, S. 268

Index: Audio- und Videomedien (engl.) von und mit D. Hawkins

Video Sedona Seminar Belief, Trust and Credibility, 14. June 2008

Links zum Thema Gnade / Grace

Literatur

⚡ Ken Wilber [BW 490] (*1949) US-amerikanischer mystischer Philosoph, Vordenker des 3. Jahrtausends, transpersonaler Be-
wusstseinsforscher, Entwickler der Integralen Theorie, Autor, Mut und Gnade. In einer Krankheit zum Tode bewährt sich eine große Liebe, Goldmann, 14. Auflage 17. Januar 2008

Literature (engl.)

Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Defy Gravity. Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason, Hay House, 13. October 2009, 2nd edition 15. January 2011

Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge Rechtfertigung (Theologie), Gaben des Heiligen Geistes (Charismata), Gnade
Persönlichkeiten Martin Luther

External web links (engl.)

Wikipedia entries Justification (theology), Grace
Personalities Martin Luther

Audio and video links (engl.)

Video lecture by Marianne Williamson (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author, Every-
day Grace 4, YouTube film, 5:35 minutes duration, posted 18. March 2008
Video interview with Kenny Johnson, US American former organized criminal, Kenny Johnson from Prison to Peace, Science and Non Duality Conference, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, California, 21.-25. October 2009, presented by the US American Conscious Media Network via Gaia TV, host Regina Meredith, 46:24 minutes duration, posted December 2009 Subject to fee

Johnson was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment; in prison he experienced a spiritual awakening. In 1995 Johnson founded of This Sacred Space, a non-profit organization facilitating meditation and self-inquiry groups in prisons and schools, transmitting grace. He awakened by a trigger sentence spoken by his teacher Gangaji:

Johnson's awakening trigger sentence by his teacher Gangaji was: "God's grace is here now."

Audio interview with Bill Henderson, US American author of Simple Gifts. One Man's Search for Grace, Free Press, reprint edition 14. October 2008, Simple Gifts, presented by the Canadian web radio station CBC Radio Tapestry, guest-host Robert Harris,
53:59 minutes duration, 24. and 28. January 2010

Linkless media offerings

Audio interview with Anne Rice (1941-2021) US American bestselling author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature
and erotica, Netherworlds – Conversion to Christianity despite her best efforts to the contrary, presented by the Canadian web
radio station CBC Radio Tapestry, host Mary Hynes, Canadian journalist, 42:12 minutes duration, aired 6. July 2008