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This study guide is intended for use with The Web of Destiny by Max Heindel. The guide contains two groups of questions for each section in The Web of Destiny. 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 Web of Destiny 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.
1-1] Why must every action have a corresponding reaction?
1-2] Explain how the law of Cause and Effect compels people to be reborn.
That which is now the ____________ was the first vehicle acquired by man. Currently, the ___________ is the most organized of man's vehicles, and the __________ is the least organized. Even the most abnormally degenerate ______________ can be thoroughly cleansed inside a few months. The activity of the __________ must be brought under subjection to the will of the spirit before it is safe to enter the spiritual worlds. The higher part of the __________ can be developed into a Soul Body for use in soul- flights.
1-4] What makes the two higher ethers of the vital body grow in volume?
1-5] We have not seen any reactions to some of our actions. Why?
2-4] From what part of what world does this initiate prefer to read the record of the past?
2-5] Of what value is it to be able to read the Memory of Nature?
3-1] Choose from each parentheses the word or phrase which correctly completes the sentence.
3-2] Choose from each parentheses the word or phrase which correctly completes the sentence.
3-3] Next to each item on the left put the letter of the item on the right which is most closely related:
After death, a cleavage occurs in the vital body. The higher part is retained and serves as a vehicle of consciousness in the Desire World. ____ |
A. A person has lived a degenerate, brutal life, and has actively sought to gain power over others and to inflict pain. |
After death, most of the vital body decays synchronously with the dense body. ______ |
B. A person has aimed mostly to satisfy his personal desires, and has had little time for soul culture. |
After death, the lower part of the vital body remains interlocked with the desire body for some years. ___ |
C. A person has lived a life of devotion to high ideals. |
3-6] Why is it undesirable to listen to the promptings of unseen spirits?
3-7] Why is capital punishment undesirable?
4-1] What name is given to the interlocking vital and desire bodies of an evil person?
5-4] What may lead a human, after death, to obsess an animal body?
6-1] Next to each item on the left put the letter of the item on the right which is most closely related:
A person ignores the love of others and brings sorrow to those who love him. ____ |
A. In the next life the person finds himself in an unsympathetic environment. |
A person fails to love others and as a consequence the others turn to a life of crime. ___ |
B. In the next life the person is born with a weak mind or a speech impairment or lack of muscular control. |
A person degenerates and wastes his creative life forces. ____ |
C. In the next life the person loves people who are suffering for past mistakes. |
b) If a person is lascivious and also of a cruel nature, what effects may he experience in his next life?
7-4] If a person is materialistic in one life, what effect may he experience in his next life?
The spirit loves music. ___ | A. The spirit will build a body with a weak voice or an impediment in speech. |
The spirit wishes to shut itself away from other's expressions of joy or sorrow. ____ |
B. The spirit will build strong vocal organs. |
The spirit wishes to share its knowledge with others. ___ |
C. The spirit will give attention to building an accurate ear and dexterous fingers. |
The spirit wishes to keep its knowledge for its own use. ___ |
D. The spirit will neglect the building of the ear. |
8-2] What effect is the Christ spirit's continued ministrations on earth having on
8-3] Insert the appropriate word or phrase in each blank.
9-2] What effect do these planetary vibrations have on the desire bodies of humans?
9-3] What was the molten sea, being made by Hiram, going to be able to reflect?
9-4] Insert the appropriate word into each blank.
In the present day there is a war going on in every person between the aqueous _________ body which tries to build and sustain the dense body, and the _________ body which stirs the person into activity which tends to destroy the tissues in the dense body. The instruments which will help us blend these elements are the cross of ___________, and the new word which is ____________.
10-4] How can someone who is full of fear and worry best be helped?
11-1] When one person is angry at another person, what is the appearance of the desire forms created?
11-3] How does death of a loved one in a war help a person to develop a sixth sense?
11-4] When a person is killed by a large explosion, what happens to his vital body?
11-5] What effect does being killed by a large explosion have on the after-death retrospection?
12-2] The vital body contains prismatic ether atoms.
12-3] Which part of the vital body grows by service?
12-4] What determines the effects on us of what people say to us or about us?
12-5] In order to keep the desire body from running riot or congealing, what attitude must we cultivate?
13-1] What effect does bathing in water have on the vital body?
13-2] How is the vital body restored after it becomes depleted?
13-3] Why should someone who is not in perfect health avoid excessive bathing?
13-4] What effect does remorse have on the life panorama stored in the seed atom in the heart?
13-5] How much remorse is needed to cleanse the seed atom from a given evil deed?
13-6] What effect does remorse have on the desire body?
14-1] What is the source of all power in the universe?
14-2] Where can a person go to escape from the presence of God?
14-3] With what attitude must we do our daily work if our prayers are to be effective?
14-4] Which of the following does not aid in the optimizing of the efficacy of collective prayer?
14-5] In what ways must worshipers be attuned if they are to effectively pray together?
15-2] What are the effects of prayers of praise and thanksgiving?
15-3] Should one, in prayer, ask God for gifts — either temporal or spiritual?
16-2] During childhood, for what is the creative force generated within the body used?
16-3] After puberty, to what three possible uses may the creative force generated within the body be put?
16-7] Which of the following is not an effect of sending the creative force upward for regeneration?
16-8] Why is health desirable?
16-9] What constitutes "success" in life?
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