Self-Study Guide
The Rosicrucian Mysteries
by Max Heindel
Introduction
This study guide is intended for use with The Rosicrucian Mysteries by Max Heindel. The guide contains two groups of questions for each section in The Rosicrucian Mysteries. The first group of questions for a section are questions whose answer may be found somewhere in the section. The second group of questions are labeled as "thought questions." The answers to these questions are not given in the section, but rather can be answered by relating what was said in the section to one's own experience and by using one's creative imagination.
In using the study guide it is recommended that one first read an entire
section from The Rosicrucian Mysteries to get an overall picture of
the topic being discussed. Then answer the questions below,
referring back to the text as needed.
It is hoped that this study guide will help the reader clarify and make more precise the understanding of esoteric Truths, so that he or she may tread the path with a more certain step.
The members of the Rosicrucian Order are teachers of the ______
Mysteries. In the first of the Initiations in the _____ Mysteries,
one is taught how to visit the temple of the Order in ones
spiritual body. People who have completed the nine degrees of
the ______ Mysteries are called Adepts.
In the post-mortem existence, the breath-record of ______ acts
produce feelings of pleasure, and the intensity of attraction
causes these to be ______ by the Spirit. The breath-record
of ______ acts causes the Spirit pain in the post-mortem existence,
and thence the Spirit causes these to be ______ from its being.
In school we cannot learn all
there is to learn in one day. ___
A. Even the least advanced
peoples on earth will, in time,
become wise.
The school-child needs to rest
between two school days. ___
B. The Spirit needs to rest from
active life between death and a
a new birth.
In a school the children at the
lower grade levels will in time
attain higher grade levels. ___
C. When the Divine Leaders of
humanity choose certain people
(prior to birth) to be leaders,
the choice is based on the
attainments of these people in
previous lives.
A child who has been diligent and
performed well in previous days
may be chosen by the teacher to
lead the class. ___
D. We cannot learn all that
earthly existence has to offer
in one earth life.
a) The need to have an appropriate distribution on earth of
people who are sick and people who are healthy.
b) The lessons which the Ego needs to learn.
c) The Ego's duties and obligations, contracted in previous
lives.
d) The Ego's desire to live with people whose tastes are similar
to his own.
a) Which of these balls is the largest?
b) Which is the smallest?
c) Which of these worlds furnishes the material from which we
form our feelings and emotions.
d) Which of these worlds furnishes the material from which we
build our dense body or a machine or a house to live in?
e) Which of these worlds furnishes the material from which we
form thoughts and ideas?
a) Concentration upon the study of a subject becomes easier.
b) Sickness is no longer felt.
c) One becomes able to travel large distances in very short
times.
a) In the Desire World no objects are opaque, so the light of the sun is visible whichever side of the earth one is on.
b) In the Desire World, the body does not need sleep or food.
c) The stars in the sky are not visible in the Desire World.
When we are awake the impulses of the ______ tend to break down the
structure of the ______, and poisons of decay accumulate in
the ______. This causes the currents in the ______ to become
weaker. In order to bring about restoration, sleep is needed. In
sleep, the ______ and the ______ are left on the bed, while
the ______ and the ______ withdrew.
a) There are lessons we can learn here which we cannot learn in
the spiritual worlds.
b) The after-death state is full of pain and suffering.
c) Much effort and time is required to come into physical
existence and to reach the state of maturity in which true
spiritual progress can begin to be made.
d) If one dies young when one still has many interests and
responsibilities on Earth, the Spirit tends to be bound to the
earth after death and this hinders it from reaping the
experiences is should reap in the post-mortem state.
The evil passions which we cultivate during life cause the desire
stuff in our desire bodies to become more (fluidic,
crystallized). After death, the evil passions are (expelled from,
retained in) the desire body. These evil passions may in time
disintegrate, in which case they cause (no, further) trouble. They
may, however, retain their form if they were (extremely vile, only
mildly bad), and be encountered by the Spirit when it returns to
birth. Thence they may incite the Spirit to do (good, evil) deeds.
a) The mental and physical suffering which was inflicted on
others during life.
b) The gratitude felt by those who were helped during life.
c) The gratitude felt when help was received from others.
a) Climate
b) Mineral composition of the earth
c) Structure of the houses and other dwellings on earth
d) Structure of plants and animals bodies
e) Structure of the earth's surface
a) Imitating parents and teachers
b) Learning self-assertion
c) Memorizing what is taught by authorities
d) Receiving advice from parents and teachers
e) Saying, singing and dancing to nursery rhymes and songs
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