The Power of Oneself. Charles Fillmore
What is blind faith? Are the results of blind faith satisfactory?
9. How, in consciousness, is faith increased?
10. What is the inner power of faith? The outer expression?
11. How must faith be used to master the spiritual forces?
12. What fixes our relation to outer things?
13. Where should faith be centered to insure success?
14. Explain, from the experience of Peter on the water, how faith grows.
15. What should be added to faith in order to make it more effective?
16. What two faculties are developed along with faith?
17. Explain how these faculties work with faith.
18. What does it mean to make friends with the "adversary"?
19. Explain how we may have faith in the goodness of all men.
20. Why is faith essential in healing?
Lesson IX--Imagination
1. How does mind manifest?
2. Explain wherein man is the "image" and "likeness" of God.
3. What power has man as the "image" and "likeness"?
4. Define imagination.
5. Explain how the imaging faculty works on substance.
6. What effect does the imaging power have upon thought?
7. Locate the center of imagination.
8. What faculties of mind does the imagination use, and how?
9. Is it possible to impress these faculties from without, and if so, what is the result?
10. What happens when man allows his imagination to run riot, regardless of law?
11. How do the faculties of the mind work?
12. How can one avoid receiving impressions from without?
13. What is meant by the "mount," as spoken of in the Scriptures?
14. What is the power through which the I AM creates or recreates form?
15. How are we to control the things that we create?
16. What does Jacob represent in consciousness?
17. What does the ladder in Jacob's dream represent?
18. What does Joseph represent, and how did he reach the highest place in the king's domain?
19. What are dreams, and how may they be made useful?
20. What power has the imagination in forming the body? Explain.
21. What is the highest work of the imagination?
Lesson X--Will And Understanding
1. To what does Jesus refer in the text at the beginning of this lesson?
2. Explain how will and understanding work in the individual mind.
3. What does man represent as the will of God?
4. Explain man as a free agent.
5. How do we build individual consciousness?
6. What is the I AM? Explain what the I AM means to you.
7. How may we unify will and understanding?
8. How do we produce the perfect man?
9. What results when the will acts independently of the understanding? Explain.
10. Explain the effect, on the body, of a strong personal will.
11. Explain God and man in relation to will.
12. Define understanding, and show how it works in the mind.
13. What treatment do you suggest for willfullness?
14. Explain why the will should not be broken.
15. Should one try to dominate the will of another, in order to develop him spiritually? Explain.
16. How should you proceed in order to let Divine Mind express itself through you?
17. What is true self-control? How may man exercise it?
18. How may we gain spiritual mastery?
19. What apostle represents will? Explain the use of will in consciousness.
20. Upon what must our understanding be based, that we may be willing to do God's will?
Lesson XI--Judgment And Justice
1. Explain the law as given by Moses.
2. Why is judgment necessary in the use of the love faculty?
3. Give the metaphysical meaning of the Urim and Thummim.
4. How may love and justice be balanced in one's life?
5. What is the cause of injustice?
6. Where must judgment be placed, in order to express perfect justice?
7. What is the meaning of "Judge not, that ye be not judged"?
8. Why is man incapable of judging?
9. What is the correct way to judge, as explained by Jesus?
10. What is meant by "the day of judgment"?
11. Explain how and why we are punished.
12. How should we receive punishment?
13. What is the result of the active use of judgment without understanding?
14. What organ of the body is most affected by the active use of judgment, and why?
15. Why should we have definite ideas of justice?
16. What is the result of condemnation?
17. How may we receive perfect justice?
18. Explain the effect of jealousy on the faculty of judgment; give remedy.
19. What is the relation of judgment to success?
20. State the order of procedure in obtaining justice.
Lesson XII--Love
1. Explain love in Divine Mind.
2. What is the work of love in man?
3. What is the result of centering our love on things?
4. How may we realize our true relation to life?
5. Explain the process of love in the regeneration.
6. What apostle represents the faculty of love?
7. Where is the love center?
8. How may thoughts of hatred be overcome in consciousness?
9. What qualities are brought out in man through the activity of the love principle?
10. How shall we make love of real value to ourselves?
11. Explain how love is the fulfilling of the law.
12. What is our relationship to our fellow man when divine love is established in consciousness?
13. When is money really the root of evil?
14. Explain the difference between divine love and human love.
15. How can we know the love of God in its fullness?
16. How shall we proceed to maintain a right relation among all creatures?
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