Chapter IV

The Reaction to Sense Living

1. Explain the reaction called "chemicalization."

2. In what mental attitude should one receive the new ideas of Spirit?

3. What is the real cause of trials and reverses in the life of the individual?

4. Is there any good to be found in such conditions? If so, what is it?

5. How do the "sons of God" wed the "daughters of men," and what is the fruit of such a union?

6. What is the reaction to living in sense consciousness?

7. What is represented by Lamech and by Noah, and what is their metaphysical relationship?

8. What are the causes and results of crosscurrents in the body consciousness?

9. How is a balance maintained between the positive and negative conditions in the body?

10. Discuss experimentation versus spiritual revelation.

11. What and where in consciousness is the "ark" of Jehovah?

12. What is the significance of the dimensions of the ark?

13. What are the animals, why "two of every sort," and how are they fed?

14. Discuss the symbolism of Noah and the Flood in relation to the unfoldment of a certain faculty of being.

15. What do "day" and "night" and the number 40 in the 7th chapter represent?

16. What is the general theme of Genesis 8:1-3?

17. What does Mount Ararat symbolize?

18. Noah first sent out the raven, then the dove, in search of dry land. Explain.

19. What is the metaphysical significance of the altar as used by Noah in Genesis 8:20? What and how do we sacrifice?

20. Of what does "the flood" cleanse man?

21. Explain the statement "Flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."

22. Once the consciousness has been cleansed and man has awakened to his spiritual nature how is he saved?

23. Of what is the rainbow a symbol?

24. What do the three sons of Noah represent?

25. What does the drunkenness of Noah symbolize?

26. What state is denoted by the nakedness of Noah?

27. What is meant by the "curse of Canaan"?

28. How do we get the most from physical man?

29. To what is the 10th chapter of Genesis devoted?

30. What does the building of the tower of Babel and the scattering of its people symbolize?

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