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FOREWORD
These questions have been prepared by a fellow-student
with the desire of affording some assistance to those
studying Mrs. Annie Besant's most valuable and interest
ing Contribution to the Science of Psychology, entitled
" A Study in Consciousness."
Condensed but comprehensive answers should be sought
and any supplementary information, derived from Theo-
sophical, scientific or general literature, explaining and
supporting the text, should be added by the student. "Sirra."
Honolulu, T. H.
August, 1905.

. Part I.

Consciousness

QUESTIONS ON
"A Study in Consciousness"

INTRODUCTION.
Pages 1-16.
What comprises the field of our evolution ?
Can much at present be learned about the unfolding of
consciousness ?
What consideration of the field of evolution must precede
this study? § 1. Origins.
How many great modifications of matter exist in a solai
system ?
What planes are the field of the normal evolution?
For what purpose do the next two serve? Name them.
Having transcended these five planes, what does man be
come?
What proceeds from the Divine activity on the remaining
two planes ?
Mention what is here said about these highest planes and
what names are given to them.
Into how many groups are these seven planes divided and
of what are they respectively the fields of activity?
Illustrate, in tabular form, these planes of a universe.
Wkat distinction is here made between the two planes of
the highest group, and what points of resemblance have
they ?
Make a symbolical diagram of this preparative work.
Name the two aspects.
Explain what the central Point in the Circle symbolizes.
As clearly as possible, state Why three Logoi in every
universe.

8 QUESTIONS ON
Also explain the symbol of the triple manifestation of
the Logic Consciousness.
Mention the two ways of naming this divine Triad.
How does the Pratyag-atma — the Universal Self— orig
inate these three expressions of Consciousness ?
State how every Logos of a universe repeats this uni
versal SELF-Consciousness.
Why is every manifested God spoken of as a Trinity?
How is the Tetractys formed and what is implied by the
Three becoming the Four?
Give the name applied by Emerson to this totality.
To what are due the effects of these aspects when they
affect Matter?
State the relation between the three Gunas and the three
Aspects.
Whar is accomplished by the aid of Matter thus prepared ?
When viewed by spiritual sight, what is the appearance
of the still-undivided Logos, ere His Second Manifesta
tion begins ?
Explain the symbol of the triple Logic Activity in Matter.
From the side of Form, what results from the vibration of
the Point ?
Is this " drawing apart " a reality or an idea?
How is this expressed in mystic phraseology?
What is the time-limit of this relation as Father and Son ?
Mention the comparisons used to illustrate how the pas
sive becomes the active, the unmanifest the manifest.
On the physical plane, what images this separation within
the First Logos?
State how the symbol of the Third Logos is formed.
What is this symbol called when the Circle is dropped ?
Draw a diagram representing the three stages of the Di
vine unfolding. § 2. Origination of Monads.
Relate what is said of the generation of the Monads.
What two aspects of Will are mentioned ?
Define a Monad and state whence its origin.

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 9
What accounts for the triple aspect of life in the Monads ?
How do the Monads rank, compared with the Second
Logos ?
Why is He more advanced ?
What is the condition of the " divine fragments " while
awaiting the Day of Manifestation?
Explain the work then being accomplished by the First
Outpouring.
Repeat the graphic description of the stupendous nature
of the Logos. CHAPTER I.
PREPARATION OF THE FIELD.
§ 1. The Formation of the Atom.
Pages 17-31.
Upon what does the Third Logos begin His creative ac
tivity ?
What correspondences may be drawn from " H. P. B.'s "
statements regarding our atomic sub-planes and the
" atoms of space "?
Describe the condition of this virgin Matter as it exists in
Infinite Space.
Give the results when the closed circle is broken.
What is the condition of matter during a period of Kosmic
manifestation ?
Describe the stages of atom-formation.
What is a " Tanmatra " ?
Reproduce drawings of the axes of crystals. (See Theo-
sophical Review, vol. XXXI, pp. 142-156.)
What are the possessions of every atom?
How many different kinds of atoms does the Third Logos
prepare ?
What characterises the ultimate atom of a plane ?
§ 2. Spirit-Matter.
From what is the special matter of each system devel
oped?

10 QUESTIONS ON
When veiled in Mulaprakriti, what is the Oversoul
called ?
Describe the result of the activity of Fohat on the highest
plane.
What may be said about the formation of the atoms of the
second plane.
Briefly follow this involution of Spirit through the suc
cessive planes, to the physical.
What is ever regarded as Spirit and what as Form or
Matter ?
Upon what is evolution dependent?
§ 3. The Sub-Planes.
To which states of matter may the chemical atom belong ?
Besides, the three familiar states of matter, what four oth
ers exist?
Mention the composition of molecules : the force that
preserves their unity; and the correspondences of axial
arrangement.
What completes the field of evolution ?
How do the original sub-planes correspond with those
now existing?
What energies, besides those of the Third Logos, were re
quired to assist in these integrations?
State what is said of the interpenetration of planes and
sub-planes.
Why is this an important feature?
Is this atomic road used?
Mention a characteristic of a physical atom.
What results from attraction between these vortices
within the atoms?
Where are the spirilla? ?
What is their distinguishing motion and whence derived ?
What is their normal development?
Through how many spirilla? does the life-stream now cir
culate ?
How may the evolution of the atom be hastened ?
What results from the harmonious vibration of the two
powers ?

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§ 4. The Five Planes.
State what depends upon the measure of limitation im
posed by the Third Logos on the atom.
Give the relation of the Tanmatra to the three Aspects of
the Logos.
What transmutation will be effected by the evolution of
the atom?
Whence comes the vibratory capacity of response in mat
ter?
What name is given to this work of the Third Logos ?
CHAPTER ii.
CONSCIOUSNESS.
§ 1. ThE' Meaning of the Word.
Pages 32-57.
What is the despair of modern thought?
Define consciousness.
When separation in thought is made, what does analysis
show?
Give the name for consciousness when considered as
unity.
To what is the idea of multiplicity due ?
What confusion arises from confounding the abstract and
the concrete aspects of Life?
Upon what does the awareness of a living being depend ?
What would follow the anihilation in thought of every
veil of matter?
What does the existence of consciousness imply ?
How is this also expressed by the modern name for con

sciousness

7

Primarily, what is Awareness?
What additional factor appears in Self-consciousness ?
Give the terms used in expressing this inseparable rela
tionship.
Illustrate, by electricity, the .alternating unity and duality.
What understanding of Consciousness and Matter obvi
ates the necessity for a " bridge " over the " gulf " ?

12 QUESTIONS ON
Of what must a conscious unit consist?
In reality, what are these two separate somethings ?
Why do they affect each other?
Upon what non-existent things does the " gulf " depend ?
What is true, even of the highest separated Self?
Explain further the relations of this pair of bpposites.
Looking out of consciousness from within, what knowl
edge is gained?
Consciousness being the One Reality, what inference
necessarily follows?
Define fully " Absolute Consciousness," " Universal Con
sciousness " and " Individual Consciousness.''
How is the Lord of a Universe controlled ?
What are the limitations imposed upon the inhabitants of
a solar system by its Ishvara ?
Upon what does the apparent reality of our matter de
pend and when will it vanish as a dream ?
When a realisation of the Unity of Spirit is gained, how
is matter then regarded ?
What change in matter is followed by a change in con
sciousness ?
Explain the constituents of a " pair.''
Give an instance showing that this constant relation does
exist.
What aid does observation of* subtler matter give in ob
taining a realisation of the illusory nature of matter ?
Explain how the Will to Multiply causes Consciousness
to appear as conscious entities.
What erroneous ideas may be corrected by a mental grasp
of the distinctions between Absolute, Universal and In
dividual Consciousness ?
Explain clearly why the Perfect never becomes the imper
fect ; the All-Power the powerless, etc.
What are the names given to this duality, which is insep
arable while there is manifestation?
§ 2. The Monads.
Which Logos provides the Field and which the Knower
of the Field?

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 13
Give the technical names for the units of consciousness.
What is the object of our garnering all experiences ?
A knowledge of what physical facts will aid in grasping
the great truth ?
Describe the condition of the Ego while its physical body
is building.
State what must be accomplished by the embryo and dur
ing what, period of time, ere the Ego can fully ensoul
it.
During this slow evolution, what is the Ego doing ?
On the higher planes, what resembles the Monad and his
relation to his new physical body?
Relate something about the condition of the Monad on his
own plane and during the subsequent stages through
which he passes.
Explain how the latent aspects of Will, Wisdom and Ac
tivity in the undetached Monads at the first stage, de
velop into the " individual Will to Live."
Are we voluntarily taking part in the present scheme of
evolution ?
What is the relation of the Monads to their lower ve
hicles ?
Illustrate how the " Will to Live " expresses itself in all
nature.
What is the goal for those Monads who will to struggle
through the five-fold universe ?
How does life know itself?
What is the condition of those who choose not to become
creators ?
Explain how the Monad is able to be conscious on the sec
ond plane but totally unconscious on the lower five.
State fully how the unit of consciousness will evolve his
consciousness on the lower planes.
In matter, what are the vibratory powers called ?
Of what power of consciousness is " three-dimensional
matter " the expression ?
Compare the Hidden Self — the Monad — with the Unman-
ifested.

14 QUESTIONS ON
Whence the sense of unity that ever persists in us amidst
all changes ?
What is said about the three out-streaming rays from the
Monad?
On the mental plane how does the triplicity of Conscious
ness appear?
What are the three aspects called on the astral plane. ?
On the physical plane, what organs are assigned as instru
ments for Will, Wisdom and activity?
Give the order of the full manifestation of these three as
pects of Consciousness in man and to what do they cor
respond in the Logos. CHAPTER III.
THE PEOPLING OF THE FIELD.
§ 1. The Coming Forth of the Monads.
Pages 58-84.
When does the activity of the Second Logos begin ?
How are His directing and attractive forces employed ?
What accompany this Second Outpouring?
Mention why it is more accurate to say that the Monads
" shine forth " not " go forth."
How did " H. P. B." describe their forthcoming?
What does the three-faced Monad do ?
Usually, what is meant by the term " reflection " ?
In the present case, what is the meaning attached to it ?
Explain fully how the Monad makes to himself a triple
ray, and state what aid the Devas give.
What is said of the Watcher and his Shadows ?
Of what is the Heavenly Man the expression ?
How may we regard the three aspects of the Monad on
the human plane ?
What is the difference between the Spirit in Man and the
Monad ?
What is said about the manifestations and the identity of
the human consciousness ?

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 15
How is the work of the Monad begun ?
What enables him to live and work below the second
plane ?
Draw a figure expressing this action.
Describe this spiritual Triad.
Define the Monad as it exists in Eternity and in Time and
Space.
How does its evolution progress, and what is its ultimate
goal?
How only is the power of creating a universe gained ?
Whence must the materials for a system be drawn ?
What is, at first, the condition of the spiritual Triad ?
Mention how the early stages of its evolution correspond
with the ante-natal life of a human being.
What must precede the beginning of conscious separate
existence in both ?
When does the " birth " of the infant Ego take place ?
Point out the analogy between the evolution of the Monad
and the successive re-births.
What is this process of preparation called?
Where must evolution of the consciousness begin and
why ?
Whence come the slight thrillings, prior to awakening?
§ 2. The Weaving.
What is done by the life-power of the Second Logos ?
How far does the life-wave carry the spiritual Triads?
What may all the atomic sub-plane atoms be called ?
For distinction, how are the two kinds termed?
Define the term " Monadic Essence."
What is its relation to the Logos ?
In what is the life of the Second Logos itself clothed ?
In what does the response of the third plane matter ex
press itself?
Of what are the First and Second Elemental Kingdoms
constituted ?
What distinction must be kept in mind between the Mo
nadic and the Elemental Essence ?

16 QUESTIONS ON
Explain clearly, the work of the Second Logos on the
desire plane.
What essential points of Elemental Essence are here men
tioned ?
What takes place on the earth-plane through the action of
the Second Life-wave ?
What is the most appropriate word for expressing this
tissue-building work ?,
Give fully the similes of the Eternal Weaver and the Eter
nal Chemist.
What is given to matter by this weaving?
Mention the bodies produced by the different kinds of
cloth.
How is the Monad affected by these combinations ?
How many great types are fixed by the nature of the
atom?
What does all this effect for Consciousness?
Of what is the downward sweep of the Life-wave through
the three worlds to the turning point in densest matter,
productive ?
What use is made of this on the upward arc ?
Who are classed among the " Minor Gods " ?
For what is man indebted to them ?
§ 3. The Seven Streams.
State what the number seven is called and why ?
In how many ways may a triad be arranged ?
When the life of the Logos arouses the Gunas, what re
sults ?
By. what Sanskrit words are the three types known ?
Tabulate the seven groups, distinguishing the predomi
nant qualities.
Mention what is said of the seven streams of Logic Life.
Are these streams the same as the seven planes ?
Give the reference in the Book of Dzyan to the seven
types.
For what does this account ?

" a study in consciousness." 17
§ 4. The Shining Ones.
What have we already found to be a result of the Second
Life wave ?
Mention an additional result.
Whence come these Beings and what is their work ?
Give some of the names applied to them.
Why is the Theosophical term particularly appropriate ?
Describe their bodies.
Mention some of their activities.
What is their work in connection with the Logos?
Of which classes are memories still found in Folk-lore ?
What prevents man from being conscious of them at
present ?
At this early stage, what was the work of the Shining
Ones?
Describe the condition, at that period, of the seed of hu
man consciousness. CHAPTER IV.
THE PERMANENT ATOM.
§ 1. The Attaching of the Atoms.
Pages 85-113.
In the Jivatma., what precedes external activities ?
Describe how the Sutratma becomes attached to the
lower mental molecule.
Of what does this attached unit become the centre ?
How do the vibrations of these forms affect the seed of
consciousness ?
Do we find that each centre has always around it a form
of its own ?
State what ultimately results from these faint thrillings.
How is progress aided by Higher Entities?
What separation exists between the seven groups ?
Describe the repetition of this process on the desire plane.
On this plane, with what are the vibrations connected ?
At this stage, what classes of Devas assist?
What addition is made to the dividing wall between the
typical groups?

18 QUESTIONS ON
Is the process the same when the physical plane is
reached ?
Owing to the denser matter, what is noticeable ?
Mention what is done by the Shining Ones.
Describe the composition of each permanent atom.
Why has the name " Sutratma " been given to the thread
of Buddhic consciousness?-
Illustrate by a diagram this relation and the connection
with the Spiritual Triad.
Mention other cases where the term " Thread-Self " is
employed. § 2. The Web of Life.
Through what is the connection of the permanent atom
with the Spiritual Triad made?
When Buddhic vision is employed, how do we appear ?
What forms this golden network?
Whence does it proceed and how long is its period of
growth ?
Describe the departure of this Web of Life and the life-
breath from the physical body.
Within the casual body, how does the lower triad ap
pear ?
§ 3. The Choosing of the Permanent Atom.
What determines the seven main types of matter of each
plane ?
Whence may the permanent atoms be chosen?
Are they selected from the same or from various types ?
Mention the respective functions of the Hierarchies and
of the Monad concerning the permanent atoms.
What is here mentioned as acquired by the Monads from
a Planetary Logos?
Give the other names for our key-note.
How do the Hierarchies aid the Monad in strengthening
his original key-note?
What is the process when the Monad decides to develop
another and modifying aspect of his nature?

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 19
State what effect the latter choice has upon the character.
Why do the permanent atoms of the lower triad corre
spond with those of the Higher ?
Mention the difference between the bodies on the lower
and on the higher planes.
§ 4. The Use of the Permanent Atoms.
What is the use of the permanent atoms ?
Taking the physical atom as an illustration, explain what
is mentioned about its functionings during life and the
results.
After the disintegration of the physical body, what be
comes of the physical permanent atom ?
When the time for reincarnation comes, what influence
does the permanent atom exert?
Mention another force that also strongly affects the new
life-period.
What is effected by the Lords of Karma ?
State what is determined by the " temperament."
Which is the important factor,, the temperament or the
astrological " Star " ?
Mention what is said of the minute particle — biophor —
that transmits ancestral peculiarities.
Give some examples of physical heredity which strengthen
the idea of the possibilities of the permanent atom.
What is the correct idea of the composition of this atom ?
How does modern science now describe an atom?
During this Round, how many spirilla? are normally ac
tive in both permanent and unattached atoms ?
In the case of a very highly evolved man, how many spi-
rillse are working ?
Whence would the elemental obtain the materials for this
high order of body ?
What advantages would such a man gain from association
with highly-evolved persons ?
Are the relations and ultimate condition of the permanent
astral atom similar to what has been related concerning
the physical permanent atom ?

20 QUESTIONS on
State what is said about the permanent mental unit.
At the close of the mental life in Devachan, where are the
representatives of the three lower bodies retained ?
Describe the awakening of the lower triad of permanent
atoms.
Explain how the permanent atoms remain unchanged
within the causal body.
§ 5. Monadic Action on the Permanent Atoms.
How does monadic action affect the permanent atom at
this early stage?
Toward what is the special activity of the spiritual Triad
directed ?
During the downward arc, upon what are its energies
mainly expended?
Mention what part is taken by the Third Logos, the Sec
ond Logos and the Monad in preparing the permanent
atoms and their walls.
Describe the results of the temporary vivification of the
other atoms by the Monad.
Why do the permanent atoms evolve more rapidly ?
State clearly what is said about the vivifying of the spi
rilla? during the four Rounds.
What difficulties beset the man who takes up the abnor
mal human evolution?
What awakening of consciousness has been attained by
those called "Fifth Rounders" and "Sixth Rounders"?
Mention the danger that may occur if this training be im
properly pursued? CHAPTER v.
GROUP-SOULS.
§ 1. The Meaning of the Term.
Pages 114-133.
Describe a Group-Soul.
How many types of Group-Souls are seen before there are
any definite forms ?

" A -STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 21
What is their appearance ?
Upon closer examination, what is observed ?
When does the golden life-web become visible ?
Mention the composition of the three layers.
Are these layers identical in the seven Group- Souls ?
What is a function of the triple envelope?
To what does the division and multiplication of the seven
Group-Souls lead?
State what may be a cause of Group-Soul division. Illus
trate.
How is this division of the Group-Soul and its contents
effected ?
Through which kingdom must all the triads pass ?
What now awakens?
During these early stages upon what does evolution de
pend ?
Give the analogy between the germinating lives in the
mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms and the human
ante-natal period.
What in plant life illustrates this ?
Describe the successive evolutionary changes through
which the Group-Soul passes.
What is accomplished when the Third Outpouring, from
God the Father, unites with the preceding Life- Waves ?
§ 2. The Division of the Group-Soul.
Where and how will the first distinction between the " I "
and the " Not-I " be obtained ?
How long will this self-consciousness persist?
Explain the difference between the " I " and the " Not-I."
What is said of the condition of this consciousness in the
lower kingdoms?
In the mineral kingdom, what is the first action of the
permanent atom?
To what are the lines of cleavage in the Group-Soul at
tributable ?
How is the slumbering consciousness aroused ?

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What are " vibratory powers " ?
Describe the beneficial and stimulating action of these vi
brations.
Explain how division is produced within the Group-Soul ?
To what plane does mineral consciousness attain?
Mention some effects of chemical affinity.
What is the condition of the astral atom in the mineral ?
Is the mental atom at all affected ?
Has every plant a permanent atom within it, evolv
ing to humanity during the life of this system ?
Give the results of the atom's evolution in the vegetable
kingdom.
According to present knowledge, to what would the evo
lution of the lower kingdoms seem to belong ?
What is said about grass and short-lived plants ; and what
Entities are connected with their development?
Are permanent atoms found in all minerals and lower
vegetable forms?
Trees appear to be related to what evolution and what
position does the permanent atom hold to them?
Describe the growth of astral form and consciousness in
a long-lived forest tree.
How many planes are touched by vegetable conscious
ness?
What differences in vegetable development would be in
dicated by the first manifestations being in stationary
or in wandering animal forms ?
State what is mentioned about the lowest types of mi
crobes, amoeba?, etc.
Give the results of accelerated activities upon the Group-
Soul in the animal kingdom.
With highly domesticated animals, what serves the pur
pose of a causal body and why is it wiser that the en
velope of the Group-Soul be not too hastily shattered ?
Unless human co-operation work in harmony with the
Laws of Nature, what will be the results for the ani
mal?

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 23
CHAPTER VI.
UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
S 1. Consciousness a Unit.
Pages 134-151.
Mention two important factors to be remembered in
studying the manifestations of consciousness.
Give the illustration of the sea, as an example of the
" one-ness " of all consciousness.
How does individual consciousness appear and what is
the cause of that complexity ?
Through what must the ordinary waking-consciousness
of a man work and what limitations does this instru
ment impose ?
When only the etheric portions of the brain are used,
what change is noticed?
What results when consciousness withdraws completely
from the physical plane?
When the astral plane also is transcended, what difference
is apparent?
Upon which plane is the unity of consciousness now
capable of being demonstrated ?
§ 2. Unity of Physical Consciousness.
Why has the unity of physical consciousness been lost
sight of?
Give what is quoted from the Secret Doctrine regarding
the One Life ?
What differences of sentiency would naturally be ex
pected in the various grades of evolution ?
From Professor Bose's experiments, what has been de
finitely proved?
Give the comparative results of stimulation applied to
metals and muscles.
What organic disarrangement of functions produced by
shock, drugs, etc., are noted in minerals and plants?
Mention the signs of vegetable consciousness observed
by Mr. Reed.

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What confirmation is given by observations made by M
Jean Becquerel, with the N-ray?
§ 3. The Meaning of Physical Consciousness.
Define the two senses in which the term " physical con
sciousness " is used.
In the more accurate and restricted sense what would
it include?
When the spiralla? are active, what results? Give illus
tration.
How is man — the microcosm — represented as resembling
the macrocosm ?
What activities belong to the body's physical conscious
ness and what to the consciousness of the Jivatma?
When did the workings of physical consciousness directly
affect the " waking consciousness " in man and the
higher animals?
How does this automatic consciousness now manifest
itself ?
Which form of consciousness was tested by Prof. Bose
in his experiments?
What additional working of consciousness is needed to
make the animal feel the stimulus?
Is there any difference in the consciousness working in
physical matter ?
Why do men and the higher animals respond more in
telligently and extensively than the lower kingdoms ?
Why is there a lack of sensitiveness in minerals and most
plants ?
Describe the building of the nervous system in the animal
kingdom, and by whom is it effected?
Where is organization by the consciousness being carried
on at this stage ?
What precedes the out-pouring of the Third Life-wave?

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 25
CHAPTER VII.
THE MECHANISM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
§ 1. The Development of the Mechanism.
Pages 152-169.
In reality, what form the mechanism of consciousness ?
What may be included under the term " tiny lives " ?
State what is said of the ruling central consciousness ana
the nervous apparatus, in the physical body ?
Whence comes this nervous mechanism?
How are heat and other energies generated ?
Mention what is said of the Master-builder and the
directive intelligence.
The forces of what two planes build the nervous matter?
What is said of the P'rana sent down directly from the
astral plane and the purely physical Prana?
Mention what accounts for the difference in Prana in the
various kingdoms.
How does the causal body affect the Prana circulating in
the physical body?
Give the derivation and meaning, according to Hindu
thought, of Prana.
- On the physical plane what are some of its manifesta
tions ?
Individually, what does it connote ?
From this vital energy what are derived and what occa
sions this partial manifestation?
Mention what is said by H. P. B., in the Secret Doctrine,
concerning the relation of Prana and the nervous
system.
What is accomplished by Prana on the physical plane and
how is its presence indicated?
What combinations of Prana begin the building of ner
vous matter?
Relate what is given about the building- of the cell and its
development.
Of what does every nervous system consist?

26 QUESTIONS ON
How does the cell meet the requirements of the expand
ing consciousness ?
What is the result of thought activity?
Trace the building of the nervous system, from its be
ginning to the vertebrate order.
What is this first-formed system then called ?
Relate what is said of the cerebro-spinal system.
What is effected through the permanent atoms?
In the animal, how is sensitiveness evolved?
What increases the acuteness of sensation?
§2 . The Astral or Desire Body.
In what way is the astral body dependent upon the
physical ?
Give the Samskrit terms for the vehicles bf consciousness
when acting as sheaths, and when functioning as inde
pendent bodies.
Describe the astral sheath in the three lower kingdoms.
Distinguish between the aggregations of the astral matter
and the chakras.
What is the connection between these aggregations and
the sympathetic system?
Whence originate the ten organs of the cerebro-spinal
system ?
What are the Jnanendriyas ?
Name the sense-organs, their correspondences and func
tions.
What is said of the Karnxendrivas and their connections ?
Explain the interaction of astral sheath and physical body
with the Consciousness.
§ 3. Correspondence in Root-Races.
Mention how- the characteristics of the Rounds are re
peated in the Root-Races.
Why were the first two Races not affected by the " pairs
of opposites " ?
How is the Ego aroused to consciousness of sensation ?

"A STUDY IN v CONSCIOUSNESS." 21
CHAPTER VIII.
FIRST HUMAN STEPS.
§ 1. The Third Life- Wave.
Pages 170-193.
State what took place when the middle of the third Root-
Race was reached?
During these preparatory ages where did the Monads
dwell and how was communication with all planes be
low their own maintained?
Describe the action now taken by the Third Life- Wave,
which resulted in the formation of the causal body.
How is the triad benefited by the causal body?
Is the Monad able to control fully and immediately the
lower vehicles?
§ 2. Human Development.
How was this low development displayed in the Le-
murians ?
Mention the advancement made by the Atlanteans.
What insensitiveness to pain and injury is found in the
descendants of these early races?
How may these differences be accounted for ?
State the method by which the fifth Race man's delicate
nervous system was built up.
Where is the consciousness of the average fifth Race man
working ?
Name its vehicle on the physical plane.
What work devolved upon the sympathetic system ?
In the more highly evolved members of our race, where
is the consciousness more active?
Compare the responsiveness of the fourth and of the fifth
Races to purely physical impacts and to emotional sen
sations.
Describe the effect of shock on the fifth Race body.
What is a potent factor in ill-health?

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§3. Incongruous Souls and Bodies.
When are belated third and fourth Race souls forced to
reincarnate in a more advanced Race?
Explain fully how this anomolous condition expresses it
self when the third or fourth Race savage has taken a
fifth Race body.
How should such criminals be treated?
§ 4. Dawn of Consciousness on the Astral Plane.
Describe what precedes the definite organization of the
astral body.
On the physical plane, what takes place coincident with
the evolution of astral consciousness ?
Explain how connection is made between astral impacts
and the sympathetic system.
When and why does consciousness not discriminate be
tween astral and physical impacts?
How is this fact manifested by horses, dogs, etc. Il
lustrate.
In what way does the savage dispose of this difficulty?
Mention the predominant characteristics of theLemurians
and the Atlanteans.
What followed the subordination of the sympathetic
system ?
Relate what is said of the low form of clairvoyance and
its dangers.
In India what useless results follow the practice of these
easiest forms of Hatha Yoga ?
How may crystal reading, etc., be explained ?
Describe the evolution of the true astral senses — the
Chakras.
Upon what plane does consciousness then work?
What is the " higher clairvoyance " ?
Trace the awakening of the powers of consciousness.
Before the higher powers can use the prepared ap
paratus, what final action is required?

"A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 29
CHAPTER IX.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.
§ 1. Consciousness.
Pages 194-209.
Mention what was the condition of the astral sheath
during the ages prior to the present time.
On what plane will consciousness first become Self-con
sciousness ?
How is the Self affected by the awakening Consciousness ?
Explain how feeling is produced both by attraction and
repulsion.
How are the sheaths affected by vibrations of pleasure?
Give the result of impacts from repulsion upon the
sheaths.
Which sheath is specialised as the recipient of painful
and pleasurable sensations?
What is the state of the germ of consciousness ?
How only can consciousness exist?
Describe the changes within the germ that precede
definite consciousness.
With what is the first aspect of consciousness afterwards
connected ?
Mention what gives rise to desire.
Compare the differentiations of consciousness with Kos
mic production of the Three from the One.
§ 2. Self-consciousness.
Towards what does desire first direct its energies?
Explain how the sense of a " within " and a " without "
is gradually acquired.
Which vehicle becomes the seat of this sense of difference
between the " I " and the " Others " ?
Describe the relation of sensation to consciousness.
State how the vibrations are transferred to the mental
sheath.
What may the mind be called ?
Explain how the mind is the " eleventh sense."

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§ 3. Real and Unreal.
When comes a discrimination between the "objective" and
the " subjective "?
How does a jelly fish or a human infant register external
objects?
What personal change arises from the realisation of
separateness ?
This Ahankara is followed by what step?
Upon what does the evolution of the outer vehicle depend ?
Mention what is said of the distinguishing between the
" real " and the " unreal."
Where has Self-Consciousness its first centre?
What still limits the normal man to physical plane con
sciousness ?
Summarise how his infantile intelligence deals with
what, to him, would be " subjective " phenomena.
chapter x.
HUMAN STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
§ 1. The Sub-Consciousness.
Pages 210-241.
Besides the life-sustaining processes, what phenomena
also belong to sub-consciousness ?
How have traces of these events been preserved and what
stimuli may arouse them ?
Mention what is said about the numerous instincts and
their origins, which lurk below the " threshold of con
sciousness."
What other fragments of the past still remain in this
relic-chamber ?
State what divisions of consciousness belong to the three
Time-periods ?
Mention how the atoms, etc., use this sub-conscious re
gion and what results from their wars.
Describe the difference between the workings of human
sub-consciousness and human super-consciousness.

" A STUDY IN' CONSCIOUSNESS." 31
What two organising activities of consciousness do not,
as yet, form part of man's normal waking-conscious
ness ? § 2. The Waking Consciousness.
What is the human waking-consciousness?
Describe the condition of the brain during waking-con
sciousness.
Give a summary of the state of consciousness in the
average man : In the more advanced person.
What occurs when impacts on the astral or mental planes
impress the waking-consciousness ?
Give the exact definition of waking-consciousness.
How may consciousness be symbolised?
When will astral consciousness become part of the wak
ing-consciousness ?
Will still other kinds of consciousness awaken?
What brain development accompanies the enlarging of
waking-consciousness ?
For the inclusion of astral and mental Self-consciousness,
what organs and what sets of spirilla? must be thor
oughly active?
Until this is achieved, can the evolved Self-consciousness
become waking-consciousness ?
Upon what does a good expression of waking-conscious
ness depend while man has a physical body ?
When after-death conditions of waking-consciousness
. are considered, how may that phase of consciousness be
defined ?
With the expansion of the inner Consciousness, what
does the brain become?
Mention the danger that threatens the physical instru
ment.
Give the proverb applying to this condition.
Define " madness " and state causes that may produce it.
§ 3. The Super-Physical Consciousness.
By what names have Western psychologists designated
conditions of consciousness other than the waking?

22 QUESTIONS ON
Instead of a disordered brain, what explanations are now
offered about these little-understood phenomena?
In the East, how has this state of Other-consciousness
long been regarded?
What is said about dreams in this connection?
Mention the requirements to be met before dream-
memories become useful and reliable.
Compare the Eastern and Western methods used for in
ducing quiescence in the physical vehicle.
What is included in Super-consciousness?
Mention some of the workings embraced by this con
sciousness.
What characterise these irruptions of the super-con
sciousness into the physical plane ?
In the early stages, to what condition must the physical
body and the brain be reduced to permit manifestations
of super-consciousness ?
What is trance and how may it be induced ?
Of what means only would a highly-evolved person per
mit the use?
What other means is there of producing trance or
ecstasy ?
Describe the difference, as seen by the higher vision, in
the Aura of a hypnotised subject and of a Yogi.
Mention also changes in the " principles " during trance
in the two men.
When is artificially produced trance not Black Magic?
Describe the difference in the results of the trance in the
Yogi and the little-evolved man.
When the entranced subject is Self-conscious on the
astral plane what benefit may be derived through him ?
Mention the essence of the trance state.
When physical plane vibrations are silenced, what be
come audible?
In hypnotic trance, what change in memory is found?
Give illustrations.
When deeper trahce ensues, what are the consequences?

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 33
Illustrate — if possible — by relating such cases as those of
Leonie I., II., III. ; some of the numerous ones men
tioned by Binet in his " Alterations of Personality " ;
of Mollie Fancher, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; or others.
In mesmeric trance, what glimpses are sometimes
gained ?
What is the result of trance produced by Hatha Yoga
methods ?
Explain the superiority of the Raja Yoga method.
How do the saints produce ecstasy, etc. ?
To whom do they ascribe their visions ?
Give the correct explanation.
Mention William James's view regarding " sudden con
versions."
Give some of the evidence against only morbidly nervous
persons showing signs of this super-physical con
sciousness.
To what point is the normal brain evolved ?
When required to respond beyond its limit what are the
consequences ?
Mention the important point.
When is the change permanent and when may a " fall
from grace " follow ?
From what other cause may visions, etc., result?
Describe the strain to which the nervous system is then
subjected.
How do these facts affect the importance of these ex
periences ?
Of what must the crest of the evolutionary wave con
sist?
Give the result of the play of the astral plane forces on a
sensitive brain.
What will many purposive activities probably become in
the future?
In whom will the subtler vibratory effects first show
themselves ?
Mention what is written by two psychologists confirma
tory of this idea.

34 QUESTIONS ON
Explain why abnormal physical symptoms do not de
crease the value of the manifesting energies.
By what means may the higher consciousness be exer
cised without injury to the physical instrument ?
Account for the slowness of development in the ad
ditional spirilla? of the atom.
Between what two methods does the choice lie ?

CHAPTER XI.
THE MONAD AT WORK.
§ 1. Building His Vehicles.
Pages 242-262.
What is the work of the Monad, as Atma-Buddhi-Manas,
when he has the causal body as His treasure-house ?
Describe fully the building of the new mental body.
Is there any change of process when ' the astral recloth-
ing takes place ?
On the physical plane, what disturbing influence now ap
pears ?
Explain fully the necessity for the adjusting interference
of the Lords of Karma.
When will similar limitations present themselves on
higher planes?
Give the reason for so much of the consciousness being
dormant.
What is the next point to be considered, in connection
with this building?
During the descent and the ascent of the Second Logos
what takes place?
In what condition does the Monad find the nervous
system when he begins to direct?
How will he connect the predominant nervous system
with the astral centres?
Explain the difference between the vehicles as transmit
ters of energy and as independent bodies.
Mention the two tasks to be performed.

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 35
Describe the process by which the Spiritual Man is im
pelled to use the physical brain and nervous system as
his organ of consciousness.
State how the organisation of astral and mental matter
is affected.
Define the chakras and tell how they are vivified.
What determines the location where the greatest activity
in building the " wheels " takes place.
§ 2. An Evolving Man.
Given the case where the lower Manas temperament pre
dominates, trace the Ego through the Third Root-
Race.
Mention what is said of two small bodies in the brain.
How is the Third Eye regarded by biologists ?
When did it cease to function ?
When the Ego under consideration became an Atlantean,
how would his temperament assist him ?
How would he adapt himself to the characteristics of the
Fifth-Race ?
§ 3. The Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland.
Mention the original function of the Pituitary body.
What has the future in store for this organ ?
How is the pineal gland used for thought transmission?
Give the other and higher method for thought transmis
sion.
What is the object of the vivifying of the chakras?
Explain the importance of physical purity in diet, etc.
What is a frequently asked question ?
To one practising meditation, what becomes evident ?
Whence comes such knowledge?
Mention one reason why the circumstances attending the
receipt of the communication are not remembered.
What is the other reason ?
Why is the functioning of the pituitary body compared
to a burning glass ?
Mention the additional activity necessary to complete the
essentials for " remembering."

36 questions on
§ 4. The Paths of Consciousness.
Mention the two paths which consciousness may follow.
In normal working, how does the wave descend ?
When sudden illumination comes what has been the route
traveled ?
State the difference between reasoning and illumination.
CHAPTER XII.
THE NATURE OF MEMORY.
§ 1. The Great Self and the Little Selves.
Pages 263-293.
When consideration of memory is attempted, what ques
tions present themselves ?
What must an acceptable theory include ?
Mention the first step towards obtaining such a theory.
What is one of the main facts bearing directly on the
problem of memory?
Mention the correspondence between vibrations in the
vehicles and changes in consciousness.
In this connection, why is the question of the bodies in
which the Self is working all-important?
What is included in the Universal Self or Consciousness
that is shared by all the fragments of that One Self ?
Explain why the individualised Self though one with the
Logos, still differs from him.
State what is said about the evolution of the atom.
Within the perfected consciousness of a separated self,
what are found ?
What is Memory ?
How should the Self be thought of as regards all other
Selves and as regards the One Self, the Logos?
Explain how the vehicles, while limiting the powers of
the Self, render clear and definite such perceptions as
pass through.

" a study in consciousness." 37
§ 2. Changes in the Vehicles and in Conscious
ness.
Describe the process by which vibrations from without
ultimately produce a change in consciousness and then
the reaction from within which initiates a repetition of
the vibrations, inducing memory of the subject.
Wherein lies the value of the " without."
What develops from repeated changes in consciousness?
Define a perception and a memory.
What is the special work of the mental body?
§ 3. Memories.
When this complex unity flows outwards, how does it
compare with its component parts that flashed inwards ?
While the consciousness is more in touch with the physi
cal sheath, what kind of memories will there be ?
What sort of memories are associated with consciousness
working more in the astral vehicle?
How is human consciousness now working?
In a lowly-evolved human type, what kind of pictures
predominate ?
In a higher type to what will the attention be drawn ?
When will astral objects grow " real " ?
What is said about anticipation ?
§ 4. What is Memory ?
After the breaking up of the bodies between death and
reincarnation, when all memory of the cells perishes
where is stored the seed for future responses ?
Where then- is memory preserved ?
What is embraced in the consciousness of a Logos?
For us, what constitutes Memory ?
Why are all " memories " recoverable ?
What useful part do the permanent atoms here play ?
Does it make any difference in the method of recovery,
whether the memory be in the present or in a long-past
life?

38 QUESTIONS ON
What is the only memory and what is it we call onr
memory ?
According to Pythagoras, what is all learning ?
What prevents our sharing the consciousness of the
Logos ?
As we cannot directly improve our memory, what two
methods will tend towards greater sensitiveness and
concentration ?
What enables one- to- draw upon the Universal Con
sciousness ?
§ 5. Remembering and Forgetting.
Where do all events, " remembered " or " forgotten "
exist ?
By whom can the circumstances be recovered ?
Of what do the activities through which we pass form
part and why do we consider them our own ?
Under different time and space conditions, how do our
experiences vary?
What limits our consciousness?
When do we feel ourselves to be amongst the events and
when do we remember the circumstances ?
What is the test of objectivity that we apply?
To whom do we look for confirmation ?
Is this test valid if vne persons are using different
sheaths ?
What is " common sense " ?
Is it limited to the physical plane?
To what is this expression " common sense " an eloquent,
though generally unconscious, testimony? .
Why are we, in a general way, similarly affected by the
same things ?
How has the Logos made it possible for us to recognise
all simultaneously and each everywhere?
Explain why many physical plane events, lost from physi
cal consciousness, are recovered in the trance condition.
Give Bhagavan Das's illustration of this.

" A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS." 39
Describe the difference between the patency and 'the
latency of the object.
What results for the consciousness when the area of light
increases ?
When the causal body responds to vibrations, what fol
lows? § 6. Attention.
To what, in the physical body, does " turning the atten
tion," closely correspond?
Describe the operation of focusing the eyes and what is
the consequence when the eyes are not focused ?
Explain how a man learns to turn his attention to things
long-past and what benefit is derived from the presence
of a more advanced student.
Even after one has learned to put himself in touch with
his own past and that of those connected with it, what
difficulties has he still to encounter?
Can he pass to another planetary system?
§ 7. The One Consciousness.
What must the student be able to use before he can con
tact the Universal Memory beyond the limits of his
own Chain?
Explain how this theory of Memory fulfills the conditions
found to be required in an acceptable theory, (ante
page 263).
How is it true that " we are all, at all times, on all
planes " ?
What vista of joy and peace opens before us, as we begin
to grasp the meaning of this mighty Consciousness?

Part II.

Will, Desire, and Emotion

Will, Desire, and Emotion

CHAPTER I.
THE WILL TO LIVE.
Pages 299-304.
What did the Monad show in his nature, when coming
forth from the First Logos?
How does Will manifest on the lower plane and what is
inseparably attached to that aspect ?
What determines our presence and continuance in the
lower worlds?
Define the hidden power of Will.
What is the relation between Thought and Will ?
Give the substance of what is written in one of the
Upanishads concerning Atma and His vehicles.
In evolution, what is attributable to the great Will and
what to the separate Wills ?
How does the Will to know, develop the latent qualities
of Atma?
What does a study of evolution reveal ?
By whom are the successful attempts accomplished?
When does the plan of the Logos become intelligible?
What does this groping, divine Self eventually become?
State how the Inner Ruler becomes, in manifestation,
what he ever is in essence. CHAPTER II.
DESIRE.
§ 1. The Nature of Desire.
Pages 305-326.
What is mirrored in the human Atma-Buddhi-Manas ?
Give the characteristics of Desire,

44 WILD, DESIRE AND EMOTION.
State the resemblance and the distinction between Will
and Desire.
How is Will modified into Desire ?
Explain the nature of the truth underlying the phrase,
" the greater the sinner the greater the saint."
What should be done with the lower desires ?
Of what are the revolts of Desire against the guiding
Intelligence a sign ?
Explain how the Will to Live is hampered in a nature
where the desires are weak.
Is the storm more beneficial for such than the calm ?
§ 2. The Awakening of Desire.
State the difference between the physiologist and the Oc
cultist in locating the centres of sensation.
Which theory is supported by the effects of ana?sthetics ?
Where does Desire awaken and what give birth to it ?
How does the development of Thought assist the feeble
efforts of Desire ?
Explain how the two great motor-energies of Life arise
in Desire. § 3. The Relation of Desire to Thought.
How does the Wisdom-aspect of the Monad appear on
the higher plane and on the lower ?
On the astral and mental planes how does the activity-
aspect of the Monad show itself?
With which aspect is Desire joined and what name is
given to the union?
Mention the characteristics of the lower mind and of its
corresponding quality on the astral plane.
Explain the dependence of Desire upon Memory.
How does Desire then rule the mind and what result is
forced ? § 4. Desire., Thought, Action.
Mention what two activities produce Action and how
that result is brought about.
When Thought becomes the Ruler, what change is. ef
fected ?

will, desire and emotion. 45
§ 5.' The Binding Nature of Desire.
Relate how, through Desire, the Self is tied to the wheel
of births and deaths.
Explain how Desire influences future binths.
What Kosmic effects are products of the energy of De
sire?
When the desire is for an unworthy object what does the
Sermon on the Mount direct should be done ?
Is this breaking away from the hooks of Desire an easy
task ?
§ 6. The Breaking of the Bonds.
What must be used to break the bonds of Desire?
Describe the conflict until Desire is conquered, after the
mind has learned to discriminate.
How does Thought overcome Desire by using Desire
against itself?
In this connection, what is the value of devotion ?
What must man learn in order to direct his enegies to
higher objects?
When may the Will be said to be free ?
CHAPTER III.
DESIRE (Continued).
§ 1. The Vehicle of Desire.
Pages 327-347.
By what study may we learn how to subdue the lower
desires ?
Does the Desire-body correspond, on its plane, with the
composition of the physical vehicle ?
Describe how the Astral Body varies on the different
sub-planes.
How will the mind check the lower vibrations ?
By changing the elements of the form what is effected ?
What results when consciousness evolves more rapidly
than the form can change?

46 WILL, DESIRE AND EMOTION.
Describe how this discarded material is used by evil
desire-elementals and what disturbances it may cause
the man.
What should the man do ?
Relate what is saM of a man, formerly a drunkard, whose
astral matter was affected during sleep.
What two facts may that man learn from his dreams ?
§ 2. The Conflict of Desire and Thought.
To what stage of evolution does the struggle between
Desire and Thought belong ?
Which is the more strongly established habit, possessing
or renouncing?
Explain how each defeat of the young Mind only makes
his final victory more certain.
Understanding this, how are failures regarded ?
Whence arises the sense of right and wrong?
Relate -how the evolving separated Self learned to attach
the word wrong to some desires.
What made the impression the more powerful ?
Define Consciousness.
Explain how admonition and good counsel aid a person in
learning his lessons.
What is a necessary element in the growth of the Soul?
How has the struggle of the weak Will against the strong
Desire been worded?
Illustrate how a stronger attraction may be used to over
power a weaker one.
§ 3. The Value of an Ideal.
Define an Ideal.
Upon what does the value of an ideal depend ?
What two forms of ideals may be used ?
According as the intellectual or the emotional temper
ament predominates, which form of ideal will prove
more satisfactory?
Mention the disadvantage connected with each.
When is the proper time for the mind to create its ideal ?

WILD, DESIRE AND EMOTION. 47
What does the Thinker try to embrace in this ideal ?
How will the man of intellect keep his ideal ?
What is the course for the emotional person to pursue,
daily and diligently?
What safe-guard does this devotion to a great ideal be
come ?
Why may the results of the Higher Criticism be disre
garded when an ideal Krishna, Buddha or Christ is
considered ? •
State again how Desire may uplift instead of depressing.
§ 4. The Purification of Desire.
What is a most potent means for the purification of the
vehicle of Desire?
Explain how abstention from gratification of wrong de
sires aids in purifying the nature.
State fully how the repulsive force of Desire may be em
ployed in extreme cases.
With what danger is this repulsion method attended?
Mention the three ways by one of which Desire must be
purified.
By whom is this necessity imposed and what is the in
evitable end ?
When Will has taken the place of Desire, how are good
and evil regarded ?
To the wise man, how do pain and pleasure, the saint
and the sinner appear? CHAPTER iv.
EMOTION.
§ 1. The Birth of Emotion.
Pages 348-380.
Define Emotion and state of what it is born.
How is the fundamental identity of Emotion and Desire
ascertained ?
What are the two original and strongest desires of all
living beings?

48 WILL, DESIRE AND EMOTION.
Why does the desire for food never become an emotion?
State how, between two savages, the attraction of sex
transforms a desire into an emotion.
With them, what constitutes an emotion?
Describe how from this desire, sympathy, self-sacrifice,
etc., evolve.
Of what are these -moods of the love-emotion the germ?
To what is the growth of the emotions likened ?
Mention the two main expressions of Desire.
What names are applied to these two stems from the root
of Desire?
Describe the essential nature of Love and Hate.
§ 2. The Play of Emotion in the Family.
How is man's development best stimulated?
What important place does the family occupy in the
scheme of ethical evolution?
From a study of the play of Emotion in the family, what
may be learned ?
What qualities will be evolved when either husband or
wife suffers from temporary physical disability ?
Between parents and children, what love emotions will
respectively be manifested?
Into what two classes may these be reduced ?
How may the common characteristics of Love between
superiors and inferiors be generalised ?
Give a description of the manifestation of love between
equals and what may its common characteristics be
called ?
Under what three main divisions, may all love emotions
be classed?
How will the Hate-Emotion show itself between superiors
and inferiors?
What are the characteristics then found?
Between equals how will Hate declare itself and what is
its common characteristic called?
Summarise the three main characteristics of the Hate-
Emotion.

WILL, DESIRE AND EMOTION. 49
What are the qualities of Love that show its relation to
the Spirit?
Similarly mention the factors of Hate and to which side
of the universe is it allied ?
What difference is found in the play of Emotion in the
family and in society and, consequently, which side of
Emotion is likely to predominate in the latter?
§ 3. The Birth of Virtues.
When family limits are passed, which emotion-aspect
seems to be manifested towards other people ?
How is a society to be composed of the separate family
units ?
When the intellect bestows on the emotion a permanent
character what are the results called ?
Relate more fully what is said about Virtue and Vice.
State how the objection to the theory that the permanent
mood of a love-emotion is a virtue may be met. '
§ 4. Right and Wrong.
What view is held by some regarding the idea that virtue
is the path to bliss ?
When the ' intellect realises the power of harmony and
the law of evolution, towards what will it .direct its
energies ?
What conclusions regarding Right and Wrong may be
thence deduced? § 5. Virtue and Bliss.
What does harmony with the divine Will bring to the
divine fragments ?
Explain why even though the practice of a virtue may
lead to temporary suffering, the effects are beneficial to
the righteous.
How does virtue lead to Self-realisation?
§ 6. The Transmutation of Emotions into Virtues
' and Vices.
Define virtue and vice.
For the well-being of a family or a nation, what is
requisite ?

50 WILL, DESIRE AND EMOTION.
Mention the results when these duties are and are not
properly discharged.
How may harmonious relations be established between
those not drawn together by ties of love?
What distinguishes a virtuous man ?
Describe the relation between the Hate-Emotion and the
vices, taking anger and cruelty as an illustration.
§ 7. Application op the Theory to Conduct.
Mention the quickest way of strengthening the virtues
and eliminating the vices.
What advantage is derived from a clear understanding of
the change of emotions into virtues and vices ?
Explain why many good and earnest people make but
slight progress. § 8. The Uses of Emotion.
What are the uses of the love-emotion?
Mention the work of the smaller units.
How may the law of love be formulated?
Describe the expansion of the love relations until man has
become the " friend of ever}' creature."
Where should the would-be servant of humanity begin
his labors ?
At first sight how does hate appear?
Mention the first use of hate.
Secondly, what benefit is derived by the average man
from hatred of evil ?
What terms are used for what may be called beneficial
forms of hate ?
How does the little-evolved man guard himself against
yielding to temptations ?
At the next stage of his evolution, how will he regard sin
and the sinner?
What must he become before it is safe not to hate the
evil?
Of what should a feeling of repulsion from the faults of
others warn us?
When only may the destructive force be safely used ?

WILD, DESIRE AND EMOTION. 51
After the Christ-aspect in man is reached how are saint
and sinner regarded ?
How may we strive in our daily lives to grow towards
this perfection ? chapter v.
EMOTION (Continued).
§ 1. The Training of Emotion.
Pages 381-408.
Of what value to man is Emotion ?
Describe the turbulent, chaotic condition of those who are
the prey of their emotions.
Explain why the kindly but ill-directed actions of such
often do more harm than good.
Wherein lies his danger of not trying to control the emo
tions ?
Too often what are the only results of these attempts at
sympathy ?
When is the sympathetic man useful to his generation ?
Describe the relation between emotion, intelligence and
action.
Through what struggles are some of the advanced ones of
the fifth Race passing and what will be the outcome ?
What is the work that awaits the student who determines
to take his own evolution in hand?
§ 2. The Distorting Force of Emotion.
Why is the emotional person biased ?
What is the proper condition of our Aura and how is it
affected by emotion?
Explain how this distortion destroys correct judgment.
Until the emotions are absolutely under control, what
must result from this emotional disturbance?
Give a description of the one way by which we can aid
ourselves to a right judgment.
§ 3. Methods of Ruling the Emotions.
What is the first and most powerful method for obtaining
control of the emotions ?

52 WILL, DESIRE AND EMOTION.
When is meditation most effective and for what reason?
How may we prepare ourselves for conditions likely to be
met with during the day ?
Describe the method of curbing the emotions by control
of speech.
What undesired results may follow lack of discretion in
presenting thoughts to others?
State a golden rule of speech.
What other qualities of speech and non-speech ought to
be employed?
Mention the value of silence.
What renders such consideration before speech possible,
without its attracting undue notice ?
How does an orator use this selective action ?
Describe the third method of mastering emotion.
Point out the distinctions between impulse and intuition.
What are the requisites for distinguishing between the
two?
What mark the efforts to live the higher life ?
Repeat the three chief methods of making the emotions
useful instead of dangerous.
§ 4. The Using of Emotion.
What understanding must precede the safe use of the
emotions ?
What attribute gives rise to emotions and what are its
motions in the desire-vehicle?
On the mental plane, what similarly represent the Self as
Knowledge ?
Describe the man as the slave and as the ruler of his
emotions.
Mention as an illustration, what is said of oratory.
Why is one who is deeply stirred by emotion incapable
of helpful service ?
What distinguishes the effective helper ?
Describe a use of the emotions in arousing a beneficial
emotion in another.

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How do we train ourselves to resist the anger-vibrations
and return a gentle, loving vibration?
To establish this emotion habit, how will angry persons
be utilised ?
What is the highest use to which we can put our emo
tions in daily life ?
Give a list of the correspondences in emotions which we
are to practise.
§ 5. The Value of Emotion in Evolution.
In what direction must the motive power of emotion be
directed ?
When discouraged by the steepness of the upward way
how may emotion aid?
Mention what is said about hero-worship.
How should the weaknesses of the human hero be re
garded ?
When- does the inclination to hero-worship arise?
Of what is it a sign, when love and reverence for the
great are felt?
What restraining influence will our ideal exert ?
Is it better to honor and follow the imperfect hero or to
cast him aside? CHAPTER VI.
THE WILL.
§ 1. The Will Winning its Freedom.
Pages 409-443.
What has placed us in our active position in this Solar
system ?
What follows the willing of the Logos to become in
carnate in a universe?
State what has been previously studied about Will, De
sire, and Emotions.
What is now to be considered ?
Give a description of the mastering of the Self by matter.
Mention what is a part of the result of intelligence ruling-
Desire.

54 WILL, DESIRE AND EMOTION.
What is the condition of Will when expressing itself as
Desire ?
What vivid picture of the Self, when attached to objects
of sense, is given in the Hindu Scriptures ?
Explain how a man who is the slave of objects around
him can have no free Will.
Are freedom of choice and freedom of Will equivalents?
What important question underlies the preceding query ?
When we analyse the choice what do we find ?
What structure rests upon this fact ?
How is. a man regarded who is not moved by any motive
or ordinary reason?
Are " free of Will ", in the above sense, and " freedom of
will " interchangeable phrases ?
Explain how even the uttermost freedom of Will is neces
sarily limited.
Illustrate how this freedom of a part to other parts, while
in bondage to the whole, is displayed in physical nature.
On the path of evolution, how is the way in which the
little Wills work within the great Will seen ?
Surrounded by so many limitations, what then is meant
by the " freedom of the Will " ?
Explain how the knowledge of the Self as One, brings
with it the sense of freedom.
When may we say that a man is free ?
What fetters do we find in thoughts and habits that re
strict the path in which the Will works ?
When the life of the Self informs the matter of our
vehicles, what change will take place?
With the realisation of the unity of Will, what also
comes ?
What idea rests on the essence of Consciousness?
§ 2. Why so Much Struggle ?
What questions arise when the slow process of the de
velopment of the Will is considered ?
Mention what is here said about the relevancy of an
answer to the question asked and not to any and all
questions.

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What will be assumed in replying to the question respect
ing the necessity for mistakes and falls when treading
the path of evolution ?
When studying our universe, what is found to be one of
its ends,
Further study, carried on by occult methods, will add
what facts to our knowledge ?
In the light of these facts, how does the path of struggle
and experience appear?
What kind of being might spring from the chaos of some
arbitrary Extra-Kosmic God ?
For what is the strenuous path preparing us ?
If the Will to Live changed, where should we be ?
§3. The Power of the Will.
How has Occultism ever recognised the Power of the
Will?
Name some of the healing organisations of the present
clay, that are using this power.
Why have they been most successful with nervous disor
ders ?
When the sympathetic system is worked upon first, why
are results more rapid ?
What diseases usually require considerable knowledge on
the part of the healer in order to effect cures ?
Describe the method of cure, where knowledge is present.
State fully why the methods that stimulate the solar
plexus and other centres of the sympathetic system
should be avoided.
What dangerous diseases will concentration on the solar
plexus produce?
With the student intent on the knowledge of the Self,
what method will be selected ?
Mention what is said about the clanger of driving the dis
ease out of the physical body but into higher bodies.
May curative mesmerism be used without danger ?
Under what conditions may mental curing safely be em
ployed ?

56 WILL, DESIRE AND EMOTION.
What may be the causes producing bodily disease in one
pure in mind?
What objections are there to using the high power of the
Will to produce good physical health ?
How dpes this making the Will the slave of the body, sap
the quality of endurance ?
Mention the occult law binding on every Initiate and what
is the penalty for breaking it ?
Explain the significance of the story of the temptation of
Christ.
What choice must would-be world Saviours make ?
§ 4. White and Black Magic.
What is Magic ?
Wherein lies the difference between " White " and
"Black" Magic?
Describe the qualities that stamp the White Magician.
What characterise the Black Magician?
State the difference in the Will of the two kinds of Magi
cians.
What is designed to guard the student against the peril of
falling into Black Magic ?
How does the Brother of the Shadow increase the discord
of the world ?
§ 5. Entering Into Peace.
When is the object of the long struggle attained?
Having entered into the Peace, how is one capable of
helping those who have not yet traveled so far on the
path ?
What seems the most desirable of goals to attain?
How has the Chinese Blessed One expressed this state of
mind?
What gives the strength to suffer and to strive, until all
enter into Peace? Finis,

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