The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life Course

The Soul V—The Garden of Eden

LESSON 7 | JUNE 1933

  1. Who are awakened, or living souls?
  2. What is the natural consciousness of the soul?
  3. What is “the breath of life” that is breathed into the soul?
  4. How can man awaken into a new world?
  5. Why do good and perfect fruits of the spirit grow only in “the garden eastward in Eden”? Will they ever grow elsewhere? How?
  6. What is the tree of life that grows in the garden of the soul’s consciousness?
  7. How does the soul gain knowledge of the truths of life?
  8. Why can man learn only by experience?
  9. What does man chiefly learn from experience that could not be gained without free will?
  10. What caused the death of spiritual knowing? How will it be regained?
  11. How can a living soul dwell in the higher consciousness of his Edenic home while still possessed of a physical body?
  12. What clue does the answer to the above question give to the way in which you are being taught by your Higher Self?
  13. What is a purified soul?
  14. Where does the Higher Self of unawakened souls dwell?
  15. What does a soul become by learning what sin and evil are not?
  16. How only are the soul and body related to each other?
  17. Why did Jehovah God cause man to forget his Divine nature?
  18. How did man function in his physical body while dwelling as a soul in Eden?
  19. What quality of the soul’s nature is symbolized by woman? By man?
  20. How only could Adam and Eve gain control over their animal natures?
  21. What was accomplished thereby?
  22. What is the Love side of man’s nature? How does it unfold?
  23. How does suffering teach man the fullest meaning of Love and Life?
  24. What is the serpent, and what is its part in man’s life?
  25. How does the fall into generation enable the body consciousness to be reclaimed?
  26. Tell why it was necessary to bring to man’s mind the meaning of love.
  27. What part of the soul is the body consciousness? How was it created and by whom?
  28. What is the difference between a sleeping soul and a sleeping mind?
  29. What is the difference between the Old and the New Testament Teachings as related to the soul?
  30. Why was man driven out of the Garden of Eden? What is sin?
  31. Show how the so-called mistake of Adam (eating of the fruit) was the only way by which man could redeem his body consciousness?
  32. How is the body consciousness flooded with the “light of the soul”?
  33. What is accomplished for humanity thereby, and how?











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