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Chapter I
The Atomic Age
1. What great truth have our scientists revealed to man by
breaking into the atom? Tell in your own words how both
Elijah and Jesus used the same energy that was discovered
by them.
2. Did Jesus claim to have the exclusive supernatural power
that is usually credited to Him? Explain.
3. To what is the revival of the divine law of healing due?
How may the sick be restored to life and health?
4. What have thought concentration and discovery of the
dynamic character of the atom to do with prayer? Explain.
5. Of what is the six-day creation of the universe
(described in Genesis) a story? Explain how the privileges
of the superrealm are open to all.
6. What will be the next great achievement of science?
7. How is man to achieve immortal life?
8. What part does faith play in the transformation of man?
9. What does the latest discovery of science reveal?
Explain fully.
10. What must come about before mankind can truly receive
the beneficial and permanent uplift to be wrought by atomic
energy?
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CHAPTER II
THE RESTORATIVE POWER OF THE SPIRIT
1. Explain the spiritual import of Jesus' words "My Father
worketh even until now, and I work."
2. What is the meaning of "I will be what I will be"?
3. In what sense is every man a king?
4. How does man's belief in his own inefficiency hinder his
spiritual progress?
5. Why is a vegetarian diet inducive to a high state of
spiritual unfoldment?
6. How does man become conscious of the guidance of Spirit?
7. It is possible for us to develop a radiant body temple?
8. In what state of existence is Jesus manifesting Himself
today?
9. How does man save himself form unpleasant psychic or
"spooky" experiences in the process of transmuting his body
from the physical to the supersubstance state?
10. Give in your own words Charles Fillmore's account of
the development of the radiant body within himself.
CHAPTER III
SPIRITUAL OBEDIENCE
1. What is spiritual zeal?
2. While on his way to Damascus to persecute the Christians
the zealous Saul's concept of religion went through a
complete change. Explain fully.
3. Why should zeal be tempered with wisdom?
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4. Why should man be obedient to Spirit? Explain.
5. Above all other Bible writers what important point did
Paul emphasize?
6. What does prayer do for man?
7. Explain the outpouring of the dynamic power of Spirit as
recorded in Acts 1 and 2.
8. Jesus said that he was the bread and substance that came
down from heaven. When will our civilization begin to
realize and appropriate this boundless substance and life?
9. What is the dominion that God gave man in the beginning?
Explain.
10. In the economy of the future what will take place?
CHAPTER IV
I AM OR SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS
1. Define superconsciousness.
2. Explain how Jesus externalized the superconsciousness,
thus making it an abiding place for the race.
3. Explain the method by which Jesus evolved from sense to
God consciousness.
4. How does man overcome all error beliefs?
5. Explain how the mind of man is built on Truth.
6. What great truth did Jesus prove by His resurrection and
ascension?
7. What accomplishments are possible to man through the
Holy Spirit?
8. Modern science reveals that imprisoned within the cells
of man's body are electronic energies beyond possibility of
estimate. Of what practical use is this knowledge to man
today?
9. Can man free himself and others from the claim of
materiality? Explain.
10. How is man loosed from all limiting thoughts and set
free in the Christ consciousness?
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CHAPTER V
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
1. Define the term "Son of man."
2. When do we begin to pass judgment? Explain.
3. How do we separate our good thoughts from thoughts of
disease, death, lack, and the like?
4. How do we handle our "goat" thoughts?
5. At what stage of unfoldment do we begin to have fine,
discriminating judgment?
6. "Then shall the King say unto them on the right hand,
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world." Who is the King?
Explain.
7. How do we reap the benefit of all the good we have ever
done or thought?
8. When is everything in Principle ours?
9. Explain how the body becomes full of light.
10. In this connection what is the work of the I AM?
CHAPTER VI
THOU SHALT DECREE A THING
1. How does man fix an ideal in substance?
2. Define "the visible."
3. Since nothing is really lost, what becomes of the energy
that is being released in the disintegration that is going
on in the earth?
4. How may man develop a purer, sweeter body and a saner
mind?
5. Explain how the destiny of the race is in the hands of
man.
6. What will save the race from being destroyed?
7. Name at least three instances in the Bible where
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marvelous results followed the blowing of trumpets used in
the observance of religious rites.
8. Explain how these results were accomplished.
9. How does the trained metaphysician produce like results?
10. Explain how faith plays an important part in
broadcasting messages of light to receptive minds.
CHAPTER VII
THINKING IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION
1. Do the stupendous truths science is discovering today
parallel the truths of the invisible side of life that
Jesus taught? Explain.
2. It is necessary for man in the present day to develop a
capacity for understanding in terms of the atomic structure
of the universe? Give reasons for your answer.
3. Define Jesus' words "If any man hath ears to hear, let
him hear."
4. In developing the inner ear we sometimes hear deceptive
voices. How may this situation be handled scientifically?
5. Give your interpretation of these words of Jesus: "For
unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
abundance: but from him that hath not, even that which he
hath shall be taken away."
6. Should the discoveries of science be divorced from the
kingdom of the heavens taught by Jesus? Explain.
7. Are the mysteries of the supermind open to all alike?
What is the result?
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8. Does man have power to dominate nature? Explain.
9. What is the great need of the whole human family?
10. Explain the need for a larger realization of the
importance of man in manifesting God.
CHAPTER VIII
IS THIS GOD'S WORLD?
1. Is God responsible for all that occurs on this earth,
and if not, how much?
2. "Thou makest him [man] to have dominion over the works
of thy hands: Thou hast put all things under his feet."
Explain the significance of these words of the Psalmist in
relation to the atomic bomb.
3. Eventually how may our standard of living be vastly
improved by the utilization of atomic forces?
4. Is it necessary today to give more attention to the
refinement of the body temple?
5. Explain the difference between a prayer treatment given
by an experienced spiritual healer and the shocks given by
mechanical generators.
6. Is this God's world? Give reasons for your answer.
7. Is it possible to determine how many ages have passed
since man lost contact with God? Explain.
8. Where is man's home?
9. What is the great and important issue before the people
today?
10. What is the one and only way out of the chaos?
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Chapter IX
Demonstrating Christ Thought By Thought
1. What great truth do the "signs of the times" reveal?
2. How can fear and worry and other limitations be overcome?
3. How can we demonstrate a well body?
4. What is the one way to establish harmony in the home?
5. Explain why we should yield obediently to the
transforming process of Spirit.
6. What parts do imagination and faith play in
demonstration?
7. Is it necessary to live the Truth in order to
demonstrate it? Explain.
8. Is there anything mysterious in being led by Spirit?
Explain.
9. How are errors in the subconscious mind eliminated?
10. Define the phrase "body of Christ" in its threefold
significance.
Chapter X
Truth Radiates Light
1. Define body temple and explain what is necessary in
order to glorify the body.
2. In Exodus we read, "Let them make me a sanctuary, that I
may dwell among them." Give the metaphysical meaning of
this Scripture.
3. What does it mean to burn incense in the house of
Jehovah?
4. What is the result when our mind is lifted up in prayer?
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5. The Israelites did not go forward in the wilderness on
days when the cloud remained over the Tabernacle but only
when the cloud was lifted. Give the metaphysical meaning of
this.
6. What is the first step in getting out of a mental cloud?
7. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the Ten
Commandments his countenance shone so brilliantly they had
to put a veil over his face. Explain from a scientific
viewpoint.
8. What effect do fervent words expressed in eloquent
proclamations of spiritual Truth have upon man?
9. Do you consider the tendency on the part of
metaphysicians to analyze scientifically these experiences
sacrilegious? Give reason for your answer.
10. When the student searches for the science in religion
and the religion in science what does he discover? Please
amplify.
Chapter XI
The Only Mind
1. Explain in your own language where ideas come from and
in what realm they operate.
2. Can man analyze mind and understand its laws and modes
of operation? Give reason for your answer.
3. On what plane alone can we know Truth in an absolute
sense? Explain.
4. What relation do language and formulation bear to mind?
5. Explain the difference between intellectual knowledge
and pure spiritual knowing.
6. Regardless of lack of technical education, what results
when man gives his mind to the attention of the one Mind?
7. What is the great difference between what the
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physical scientist calls "universal energy" and the
metaphysician calls God-Mind?
8. Explain how man is a co-creator with God.
9. When man seeks the Father with an eye single to His
guidance what is the result?
10. What is man's first step after he has learned spiritual
obedience?
Chapter XII
Contact With The Christ Mind
1. Is man consciously in intimate contact with the Holy
Spirit? How may an understanding of Holy Spirit activity
strengthen man's faith?
2. What is the meaning of the name El Shaddai?
3. Explain how the Holy Spirit in Divine Mind corresponds
to man's thought in his mind.
4. How may we approach God with confidence; and what is the
result?
5. Explain in your own words the relation of the universal
or Jehovah-Mind to the personal or Christ Mind.
6. How may we get into conscious contact with the Christ
Mind and demonstrate over sin, sickness, and death? Explain
fully.
7. Jesus taught that the true way to demonstrate abundance
is to be "rich toward God." Explain in your own words how
this sure law of demonstration operates.
8. Why should human egotism be repressed? Explain fully.
9. How can man greatly accelerate the formation in him of
the Christ Mind?
10. Give fully the origin of anger, revenge, fear, poverty,
failure, and the like, and explain how these error
conditions can be changed into love, courage, peace,
prosperity, and success.
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Chapter XIII
Metaphysics Of Shakespeare
1. Give in your own words an estimate of the true character
of Shakespeare.
2. What do Shakespeare's writings reveal as regards his
spiritual understanding?
3. Where would you look for the antecedents of Shakespeare?
Give reasons for your answer.
4. Every soul has an untapped mine of knowledge in the
subconscious mind, inspiration and rediscovery being the
positive and negative poles of the mind. What was the
relation of Shakespeare's thought to these sources of
knowledge? Explain.
5. In Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" what is revealed
by the two different interpretations of Calpurnia's dream?
6. In "Hamlet" Hamlet's father's ghost appears and gives a
graphic description of how he had been murdered by the
king. What does this reveal as to Shakespeare's thought?
7. Shakespeare did not teach religion but the facts of life
as he saw them. Explain.
8. Although Shakespeare may not have applied the law of
spiritual healing to himself, is there evidence that he
perceived the possibility of such healing? Give reasons for
your answer.
9. While Shakespeare was familiar with the superstitions of
his age, did he usually point out the fallacies in them?
Explain.
10. Does the genius displayed in Shakespeare's writings
belong wholly to the men and women of his time or to all
generations? Give reasons for your answer.
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Chapter XIV
The Body
1. Define the Bible in terms of the subject presented in
this chapter.
2. What is the paramount theme of the New Testament and in
fact the veiled theme of the entire Bible?
3. According to the explanation given in this chapter, what
is man? Does man really despise his body? Explain.
4. What is the body?
5. Is the belief that the resurrection of the body has to
do with the getting of a new body after death founded on
the principles of Truth? Give reasons for your answer.
6. Give explanation of Paul's words "When this corruptible
shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality . . . Death is swallowed up in victory."
7. How may men become a Christ in mind and in body?
8. Explain in your own words how a pattern of the perfect
body is stamped in every soul and how this pattern may be
brought into manifestation.
9. Explain how Jesus, who overcame death even in the body,
is our normal standard.
10. How do we establish our ego, our I AM identity with
Divine Mind, and step by step eliminate the old and put on
the new?
Chapter XV
Faith Precipitations
1. Compare the way electricity operates on the physical
plane with the way faith operates in the realm of mind.
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2. Did Jesus require co-operation in faith on the part of
those He healed in order to complete the healing circuit?
Why is this necessary?
3. (a) When are speedy answers to prayer experienced?
(b) With whom does the fulfillment of the law rest?
4. (a) Did Jesus teach persistence in prayer? Explain.
(b) What is the teaching of Jesus about God's being the law
as well as the Spirit?
5. Explain how ephemeral Caesars become world leaders
today. Explain fully.
6. If the supermind ability is in every man, why is it not
more widely understood and used?
7. When and how was the hypnotic spell of ecclesiastical
authority broken, and how long was it in abeyance? Explain.
8. Explain in your own words the reformation of which we
have today seen only the beginning.
9. Did Jesus teach the immortality of the body as well as
of the soul? Explain.
10. Are there any incurable diseases? Explain fully.
Chapter XVI
The Seed Is The Word
1. In your own words explain Being in its twofold aspect.
2. What is the word of God?
3. Do "things" have causative power? Explain.
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4. Define man and explain how he draws his substance from
the infinite storehouse.
5. Give the metaphysical meaning of the statement "I am the
door."
6. When man ceases to remember the source of his being what
is the result?
7. Interpret Jesus' words "Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
of God."
8. Is there any evidence that man is a miraculous creation?
Explain.
9. Explain in your own words the statement that every idea
is a seed and brings forth according to its character.
10. Man's mind is a garden, where he is in control and
himself determines just what kind of seed words are to grow
there. Elaborate.
Chapter XVII
The Resurrecting Power Of The Word
1. Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the promise. "As in
Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."
Explain.
2. Why is it difficult for man to realize that he can
overcome the negative conditions called sickness and death?
3. What unalterable truth does the Easter lesson reveal to
us?
4. When Jesus received His illumination and stepped forth
as a teacher did He meet with any opposition? Explain.
5. If a demonstration of resurrection were to take place
today, what would be the attitude of men in general?
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6. Explain the difference between the astral or ghostly
body of the dead and the resurrected body of Jesus.
7. How may we come into eternal life and save the body from
the disintegrating effects of death?
8. What has right thinking to do with making the
demonstration of eternal life? Explain.
9. (a) What are the two activities of the word mentioned in
this chapter?
(b) What determines the measure of power possessed by our
words?
10. Explain in your own language the meaning of the
Scripture "If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of
death."
Chapter XVIII
Transfiguration
1. What does the word "transfiguration" mean to you?
2. Do those who read the Scriptures merely as history
understand the true meaning of "transfiguration"? Explain.
3. What is the real object of existence?
4. Explain how Jesus was lifted up on the mount of
Transfiguration and how man may also be lifted up.
5. What is the result when one tries to live continually in
the high state of realization and neglects to lift up soul
and body?
6. On the mount Jesus spoke of His death which was to
follow. Explain and give illustration.
7. Why is it that after the uplift that follows a strong
spiritual realization one has to meet seeming errors of
various kinds?
8. Is transfiguration as essential step in every forward
movement of men and nations? Give reasons for your answer.
9. Has time any power over one who dwells in the mind of
God? Explain fully.
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10. (a) What does it mean when one dreams of being naked or
partly clothed?
(b) What happens when the mind is adjusted to the divine
law?
Chapter XIX
The End Of The Age
1. Throughout the ages all nations and all peoples have
been looking for the coming of One clothed with the power
of heaven. Explain this idea from a metaphysical standpoint.
2. Did Jesus understand the higher astronomy of past ages?
What was his attitude toward it?
3. Is the accepted teaching of "the end of the world"
founded on the Bible? Explain.
4. As the mentality of the race changes as evidenced in
literature, science, and religion is there a corresponding
growth in spiritual freedom? Give full explanation.
5. Explain how to hold fast to the Christ principles in
order to retain mental balance during the present time, in
which the race is changing its vibrations to a higher rate.
6. Who are the "children of God"? Who are the "sons of God"?
7. How do we enter into a fuller understanding of the
spiritual laws lying back of the phenomena of existence?
8. Explain fully why we should not separate Jesus from the
rest of the race but should look upon Him as our way-shower.
9. Give a scientific explanation of the second coming of
the Son of man. Give reasons for your answer.
10. What does the great need in the world today of the
Christ consciousness imply? Give reasons for your answer.
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