Please read Chapter 3, "Advent"  in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, answer the following questions and send to Dr. Katia at the Mystery School with the subject line MythRitual Chapter 3 from _____________ (your spiritual name)

1.  What was God’s remedy for the disobedience of Lucifer and Adam?

2.  In traditional Christianity the religion is learned less from the Bible than from the _____ __ ___ _________ ____, which is a ritual re-living of the ____ __ ______.

3.  The events of the Old Testament are not a continuous story but a system of what?

4.  The Ark of Noah is a type of what?

5.  When does the Christian Year begin?

6.  According to tradition, when was Christ born?

7.  In its Protestant form Christianity is no longer a symbolical re-living of the Christ-life, but rather an imitation of ___ _____ based on a reading of the Gospels as history and biography to the exclusion of all __________ and ____________ elements.

8.  What is the season of Advent? Historically and as practiced by the Church?

9.  When is the Age of Wandering?

10.  The entire story of the generations of Adam and of the Chosen People, from the Fall through Abraham and Moses to the Return from Babylon, is seen as a _________ __ ______-____ for the manifestation of ______.

11.  A more general typology than this symbolism of particular events was connected with the two great Old Testament institutions of _________ ___ ____ ___ -- institutions embodying the promise but not the fact of salvation.

12.  What serves to “convict man of sin” by setting a standard to which he fails to attain?

13.  A proverb says that “man’s extremity is God’s opportunity”, suggesting that the necessary condition for a miracle is what?

14.  The coming of Christ is out of all continuity with anything that happened before. It is a complete reversal of the order of _____ ___ _____, of the determination of the present by the past, since he comes to birth out of all relation with the continuity of human generation--______ __ ______.

15.  To be “___ ___ ____” is to be identified with the past, and thus “the soul that sinneth shall die”.

16.  True or False- The whole mystery of the “opening of the earth”, which, from the metaphysical standpoint, is the “passive” admission that “I can do nothing”, is contained in the all -important figure of Christ.

17.  Her consent--”__ __ ___ __ _________ __ ___ ____”--was the necessary condition of the ___________, and thus she is the _____ ______ between _____ and ____, ___ and ________--the “mediatrix” of all graces”, by whose openness to the Spirit the miracle of redemption could be achieved.

18.  The Virgin is associated with ______, the ______ _____of the Trinity, and she is his ________, though________, ___________, _______ _____--being that Prima Materia, which was the original ____of ________.

19.  As the ,_____ _______ the __/_____ out of which all things were made, the ______has always represented our own____ ______--the _____ _____which she gave to the Christ in bearing him.

20.  Who does not understand the famous “law of reversed effort”?

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