Editorial—The Great Ones

LESSON 29 | NOVEMBER 1933

Give some evidence of how life in general is like a school with many grades.
Prove by logic that intellectual and physical life is an illusion.
Wherein do the tests given to the present graduating class differ from those of other classes?
What is meant by understanding and love of God?
How is Humanity, from the lowest to the highest, guided and instructed?
What do the members of the graduating class do when they have passed all their tests?
What attitude on the part of man is responsible for his failure to perceive the good that is manifesting?
Why are men’s power, possessions and health taken from them?
How must the affairs of humanity perfectly synchronize with the affairs of the Universe?
Why must men be humbled? How are men taught the truth and to do what God wants them to do?
Can you analyze the difference in consciousness between the answering the above question from memory of what is written in the text, and from what your Higher Self tells you?
How does the answer to the preceding question reveal about the way in which inner teachers work with all those who will listen?
Can you analyze in consciousness the difference between the way one feels when following the voice of selfishness and greed, and when following the voice of the Loving One within? Which feeling is most to be desired, and why? (Answer must be in terms of feeling.)
How does man learn to follow the teachings of his Higher Self?
Why are inner longings, desires and ambitions given to man?
What is the journey started by a Prodigal Son? Why do all men eventually become Prodigal Sons?
What part of man learns and what teaches him and how?
What is the only thing in man’s life that really matters?
What makes one an old soul? What a great soul?
How does a disciple become ONE with other disciples, and thus with other members of the Brotherhood?
How does one who graduates rise above every form of inharmony and tribulation that could come to pass?

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