The water used in baptism ______ | A. Ancient humanity who lived in innocence and brotherhood |
The baby who is baptized ______ | B. The creative hierarchies who guided ancient humanity. |
The parents who bring the baby to be baptized ______ |
C. The foggy atmosphere of ancient times |
Opening of the way for the planting of the physical seed atom ______ |
A. Baptism |
Initial planting of the spiritual seed ______ |
B. Communion |
A symbol of the future chaste method of generation ______ |
C. Marriage |
The freeing of the seed atom from material manifestation ______ |
D. Extreme unction |
A ship may sail around for some time in the lower river before it enters the lock. ______ |
A. A sudden inrush of spiritual power could shatter the system of the aspirant. |
When the ship is in the lock, it is from above that the water will come to lift the ship. ______ |
B. If the aspirant persists, in time he will be able to enter and work in the higher worlds. |
Water from above will not be sent down until the gate to the lower level is closed tightly. ______ |
C. We may spend many lives in the river of life, before the inner urge drives us to seek something higher. |
The ship in the lock cannot go back and cannot go forward. ______ |
D. No spiritual downpouring will come to us until we have shut ourselves off from the worldly sins of lust and pride. |
The water from above must enter slowly, so as not to flood the ship. _______ | E. The aspirant no longer feels that he is a citizen of the temporal world, but he is not yet a citizen of the spiritual world. |
When the water in the lock reaches that of the river above, the upper gates may be opened and the ship may sail out. ______ |
F. No one can lift another who is not himself upon a higher level. |
Creation ______ | A. Jehovah, the Holy Spirit |
Dissolution ______ | B. The Christ |
Preservation ______ | C. The Father |
Radiates the principles of love and regeneration ______ |
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Works through the moons of the planets ______ |
One has a clear idea of the scheme of human development and can see that this scheme is beneficent. ______ |
A. Man gradually gains more and more experience in the School of Life. |
Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap, but the reaping is not always in the same life as the sowing. ______ |
B. One desires to become a co-worker with God in promoting evolution. |
Man is born time after time into earthly bodies. ______ |
C. Some people are rich and some poor, some healthy and sick, and the poor and sick sometimes do not appear to have done anything in this life to deserve their fate. |
The law of cause and effect draws together people who love one another. ______ |
D. We will meet again with loved ones who have died. |