Please read Chapter 6, "From Easter to Pentecost", 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 6 from _____________ (your spiritual name)

1. What does Easter represent to the Christian myth.

2. For the _____________ of man from death, from ____-______________ with the past, involves an utterly different view of what was hitherto known as the “________” world and the “________” body.

3. What do the five wax nails with their grains of incense represent?

4. What are the names of the two holy oils, what are they for, and what are they symbols of?

5. What does Baptism represent?

6. After immersion in the font, the catechumens become what?

7. What is necessary for Baptism is not at all the _________ of _________but rather the getting ___ __ __--”knowledge” in this sense meaning the taking seriously of the conventional vision of life.

8. What marks the beginning and the end of the appearance of Christ on earth?

9. What is the point of Ascension?

10. What event cannot occur until Christ himself has “gone” away?

11. When is the mission of Christ fulfilled?

12. The Three Persons of the Trinity have different functions, what are they?

13. For the Third Person of the Trinity is precisely that “______ __ ___”, the ruach Adonai, which was ________ ____ ___ _____ __ ____, so that to be enlightened by the ____ ______is to realize the ________ and ________of the ____ ____ , of that which one is, as distinct from that which one was.

14. For the proper sense of the word, what is church?

15. What are the two types of Orders in the Church?

16. The Second Person of the Trinity is threefold in what way?

17. What are the seven distinct offices of the Holy Order of the Church?

18. When St. Peter asks who it is that applies for entrance, the answer must always be what?

19. Who does the Priest’s order represent?

20. What are the Seven Sacraments?

21 Christian mentality has been hostile to the Flesh despite what fact?

22. What does Unction confer?

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