Please read Chapter 1, "In the Beginning," in the book Myth and Ritual in Christianity, answer the following questions and send to Dr. Katia at the Mystery School with the subject line MythRitual Chapter 1 from _____________ (your spiritual name)
1. What three persons constitute God?
2. It is most important to remember that the “only-begotten Son of God” was not originally Jesus the Son of Mary, and that before his Incarnation the Son was simply the ____ _______ and the ______ ______ of God--that is, the _____________ _____ by which the world was to be made.
3. How did God fill space?
4. How did he live in time?
5. True or False - God determines everything that happens.
6. What three other attributes does the Triune God possess?
7. Name the nine orders, or choirs, of Angels.
8. The angels of every order are winged to_________ _____ ________ ______, as well as the _____________ ______in which they discharge all their activities.
9. Every created spirit was endowed with what divine property?
10. Name the one thing which is impossible to do.
11. Who is the Bearer of Light?
12. Lucifer was inflamed with what?
13. A Christianity with the _____ is, then, lacking in something which is of the essence of the Christian consciousness.
14. It is a general principle in mythology that material is the ________ _________and spirit the _________, their respective symbols being water or earth and air or fire.
15. In the beginning the ______conceived, the ______ gave birth, and the world which was born from their conjunction was the first material image of the ____, __ ___ ___ ___, the Logos who was the ideal pattern after which the creation was modeled.
16. What does the number seven signify?
17. Eden is the mirror of ________ _____: it is also a __________ of ______,wherein all the events of man’s Redemption are seen in reverse.
18. With the ____ ____, and the _________ ____ ____, the Christian story has stated its problem.
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