Chapter XIII

The Blessing of the Faculties

1. Explain some of the duties of our mind faculties toward our vital forces.

2. How are these duties fulfilled?

3. Why is Jacob's blessing on Pharoah significant?

4. How does the Joseph of our consciousness nourish the other faculties?

5. What is the next step after the developing soul has exhausted its resources?

6. What is the routine followed when man taps the inner reservoir of stored-up substance?

7. What is the central thought in Genesis 47:27-31?

8. Metaphysically interpreted, what does Jacob's desire at this time represent?

9. Explain the statement "And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head."

l0. Describe the yes and no powers of the mind.

11. What is implied by Jacob's action in claiming Joseph's two sons as his own?

12. Why are denial and affirmation so important in our choice of thoughts to entertain?

13. Explain the transition of love from a lower to a higher plane.

14. In what way are understanding and will useful when weakness appears?

15.Under divine law what is the order of development of understanding and will?

16. What is the order of development under natural law? Explain.

17. Unless man accepts divine guidance in unfolding his faculties what is the result?

18. How does understanding as represented by Manasseh come into its rightful heritage?

19. What is the final blessing of the I AM upon the imagination?

20. In what way does the Lord reward a person for exercising his faculties to the best of his ability?

2l. What does a blessing signify?

22. Does the blessing by Jacob of his twelve sons have any significance for our own unfoldment?

23. Why did Jacob give his highest blessing to Judah?

24. How can we retain our identity as children of God?

25. Through what means does one put one's latent spiritual powers into action?

26. Does loss occur to the individual when his thought forces are said to "die"?

27. What causes man to grieve at giving up his personal hold on old ideas and objects?

28. Explain how one sifts ideas and thoughts.

29. In what way is the descent of imagination into the subconscious helpful to the illumined ego? Is the physical man also blessed?

30. Explain the promise "Fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones."

31. What is meant by Joseph's seeing Ephraim's children of the third generation?

32. What does the removal of the patriarch's bones from Egypt to Canaan represent?

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