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

1. Why did the author base his book on the Catholic Tradition?

2. In the sense of the word taken by this book, the whole tradition is _____________.

3. What is the author's definition of myth?

4. Whose theory is it that says myth originates in dreams and spontaneous fantasy, rather than a deliberate attempt to explain anything?

5. Who pointed out that our culture is historically abnormal?

6. In almost every other culture there has existed a unanimous, common, and perennial philosophy of man’s nature and destiny. In such cultures this _________________  ______________ occupied a central and honored position, even when any deep interest in it was confined to a minority.

7. For reality is neither ____________,  _________,  _________,  ________.  It is the one rather than the many.

8. The Church’s official doctrine confuses its own position by trying to include within the myth,___ ______, __________ _____ ______ ___ ____ --as that the events described therein are , _________ or _____________ _____ or that this myth is the only true myth.

9.  A god conceptually defined, a Christ believed in as a factual rock, is at once changed from a ________ _____to a ____ ____.

10. The primary interest of the medieval mind was not so much the history as the ____________ of the Christian story.

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