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                  WORKBOOK FOR "FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM":

PART 1
1-1]     In each blank insert the appropriate word or phrase.
         The element Heat was the only element present in 
         the ______________ Period.  In the ______________ Period the 
         elements of Heat and Air were present, and these elements worked 
         together to produce ______________.  Thus, unity prevailed.  In 
         the ______________ Period, the element ______________ was added, 
         which fought against the fire, trying to quench it.  The Spirits 
         who were attuned to the ______________ were actively striving for 
         enlargement of consciousness.  The Spirits who were attuned to 
         the ______________ were seeking to check any expenditure of latent 
         power as dynamic energy.

1-2]     Why did some of the Angels rebel against Jehovah's command that 
         they help create forms on earth?

1-3]     What is the name of the leader of the rebellious Angels?  On what 
         planet do the rebellious Angels dwell?  Where is the dwelling place 
         of the Angels who remained servants of Jehovah?

1-4]     Next to each item on the left, put the letter of the item on the 
         right which is most closely related.
         Free Masonry ______                     A.  Fire

         Catholicism ______                      B.  Water

         Living by faith ______

         Seeking knowledge ______

         The Lucifer Spirits ______

         Jehovah and the Angels ______

         Death ______

         Creation of bodies ______

         Tying of the silver cord ______

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PART 2
2-1]     Why did Jehovah make humans uni-sexual?

2-2]     Genesis states that a serpent induced Eve to eat of the Tree of 
         Knowledge.  In reality, what did the Lucifer Spirits teach women to 
         do?

2-3]     Next to each item on the left put the letter of the item on the 
         right which is most closely related.
         A master workman ______                      A.  Abel or Seth or
                                                          their descendants
         One who conquers the physical                    
         world and learns to achieve                  B.  Cain or his
         material comfort ______                          descendants

         A creative, courageous person ______             

         One who looks to God for comfort ______

         A master magician ______

         A docile, trusting person ______


2-4]     In each parentheses choose the correct word or phrase.
         Solomon, a descendant of (Cain, Seth), was directed by (his own 
         inner self, Jehovah) to build a Temple.  Solomon (had, did not 
         have) the creative skill to build the Temple himself.  Hiram Abiff, 
         a descendant of (Cain, Seth) was skilled in the (arts and crafts, 
         priestcraft) and was (chosen, not chosen) to direct the 
         construction of the Temple.

Thought question:
2-2]     If the sons of Seth and the sons of Cain had learned to work 
         peacefully together in the building of Solomon's Temple, how might 
         things be different today?

PART 3
3-1]     Next to each item on the left put the letter of the item on the 
         right which is most closely related.


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The Queen of Sheba was impressed          A. A person cannot be
by the Wisdom of Solomon. ______             has developed the power within.

The Queen of Sheba was impressed          B. Humanity has not been willing
by the person who directed the               to become completely obedient
builders. ______                             to the Church, nor to 
                                             relinquish Religion in favor of
The Queen of Sheba could not see             dominance by temporal powers.
the workmen until Hiram Abiff                
showed them to her. ______                C. Humanity is impressed by those
                                             who have skills in arts and
The Queen of Sheba did not marry             crafts.
either Solomon or Hiram Abiff. ______        

                                          D. Humanity receives Spiritual
Some of the workmen were unhappy             direction from the Church.
because Hiram Abiff had not                  
promoted them. ______                     E. The forces of nature are not
                                             perceived by the majority of
                                             people, but the effects of 
                                             these forces are seen.

Thought questions:
3-A]     How is faith valuable to the aspirant?

3-B]     In what ways are good works valuable to the aspirant?

PART 4
4-1]     Why was Hiram not initially satisfied with the construction of the 
         Temple, according the plan of Jehovah?

4-2]     What, then, did Hiram plant to add to the Temple?

4-3]     How was the Molten Sea to be used in the Temple services?

4-4]     What materials were gathered for the construction of the Molten 
         Sea?

4-5]     What was extracted from these materials?

4-6]     What benefits would people gain from laving in the Molten Sea?

4-7]     What element, poured into the vessel cast to receive the Molten 
         Sea, frustrated the completion of the Sea?

4-8]     When Hiram jumped into the seathing mixture which had been intended 
         to be the Molten Sea, he received the baptism of fire.  What 
         baptism did Cain predict that Hiram would receive in the future 
         from the Lion of Judah?

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4-9]     What dual role did (does) the Lion of Judah combine within himself?

PART 5
5-1]     Which of the following was not true concerning Melchisedec?
         a)   He was a priest of the Most High God.
         b)   He was a king of Salem (peace).
         c)   He was born of a virgin.
         d)   He did not die.

5-2]     In what respects was Christ like Melchisedec?

5-3]     In what order did the following occur in the past?
         a)   Christ came to proclaim the kingdom of heaven which was to be 
              established.
         b)   Humanity was double-sexed, and ruled by divine rulers 
              (Melchisedec) who were both King and Priest.
         c)   The Lucifer Spirits opened men's eyes.
         d)   The offices of King and Priest were separated.
         e)   The sexes were divided.

5-4]     Why will marrying and giving birth to bodies be unnecessary in the 
         kingdom of heaven?

5-5]     After his baptism of fire, whom did Hiram Abiff leave?  Whom did he 
         them begin to serve?

5-6]     After his baptism in the water of the Jordan, whom did Jesus 
         leave?  Who did Jesus then begin to serve?

5-7]     What makes the blood a particularly important part of the body from 
         the spiritual point of view?

5-8]     In ancient times, people married within the family.  What did the 
         blood then contain, which it no longer contains when people marry 
         outside the family?

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5-9]     Why did the practice of marrying in the family need to be 
         discontinued?

5-10]    On Golgotha when the blood flowed from Jesus' body, this blood 
         etherealized and was spread over the earth by the Christ Spirit.  
         What effect did this heave on the earth and on man?

Thought questions:
5-A]     Why do conflicts arise as a result of having Statecraft and 
         Priestcraft exercised separately?

5-B]     How does faith in the blood of Jesus aid the Sons of Seth?

PART 6
6-1]     In each blank fill in an appropriate word or phrase.
         _____________ in the air combining with _____________ in the blood 
         results in a type of combustion which liberates _____________ which 
         form an aura around an individual.  Red color in the aura indicates 
         a _____________ nature, and indicates subservience to the 
         God _____________ and to the _____________ Spirits.  Yellow in the 
         aura indicates the use of _____________, and indicates response to 
         the vibrations of the _____________ Spirit.  The changing of the 
         auric color from red to gold requires the raising of 
         the _____________ of the vibrations so that they are the same as 
         those of the _____________ Spirit.

6-2]     When the Initiate creates a new adult body for himself 

         a)   from where does he get the mold or matrix into which to build 
              the new body?
         b)   from where does he get the materials which he builds into this 
              mold?

6-3]     For what purpose may the Initiate create a new adult body?

Thought question:
6-A]     Apart from the changing of the colors of the aura, what other 
         evidence would there be that alchemical transmutation was occurring 
         in a person?

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PART 7
7-1]     In each blank, fill in either the word 'imagination' or the world 
         'will'.
         By _____________ the Great Architect of the Universe visualized 
         everything as it was to be created, and then by His _____________ 
         the physical atoms were marshaled into this matrix of thought.  
         When the divine Hierarchies are fashioning the crystal, plant, or 
         animal they use their _____________ to create pictures in the 
         archetypal region of the earth and then use their 
         concentrated _____________ to mold the coarser matter into this 
         matrix.  Man also is learning to use his _____________ 
         and _____________ to become an independent creator.

7-2]     At one time man-in-the-making was a hermaphrodite.  For what 
         purposes were his creative energies then used?

7-3]     When humanity became uni-sexual, what were their creative energies 
         initially used for (prior to the arrival of the Lucifer Spirits)?

7-4]     Next to each item on the left put the letter of the item on the 

         right which is most closely related.
         The beings who herded the sexes together     A.  Angels
         for propagation at propitious times, when
         one half of the sex force was diverted to    B.  Lords of Mercury
         build the brain. ______                      
                                                      C.  Lucifer Spirits
         The beings who taught humanity how the           
         sexes could cooperate to produce a body at   D.  The spiritual
         any time. ______                                 Hierarchy from
                                                          Neptune
         The beings who are teaching humanity how to      
         use the mind. ______                             

         Salt ______

         Sulphur ______

         Azoth ______

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         The beings who help humanity to use the creative force for 
         generation ______
         The beings who stimulate humanity to use the creative force for 
         degeneration ______
         The beings who help humanity to use the creative force for 
         regeneration ______
         The sympathetic nervous systems ______
         The sensory nervous system ______
         the spinal canal ______

7-5]     What made the moral and physical nature of man gross and coarse?

7-6]     In what manner does humanity misuse the creative force?

7-7]     If humanity is to become as the gods, able to create from itself by 
         the power of the mind, how must it direct the creative energy?

7-8]     What must one do in order to draw upward the second half of the 
         creative energy (which is the spinal spirit-fire)?

7-9]     When the spinal spirit-fire reaches the head and sets the pituitary 
         body and pineal gland to vibrating, what new power does one attain?

7-10]    Under what circumstances is performance of the generative act 
         legitimate for the Rosicrucian Student?

PART 8

8-1]     The path if initiation starts at the surface of the earth and goes
         a)   eastward
         b)   inward
         c)   outward
         d)   westward

8-2]     What prevents the uninitiated from traveling the path of Initiation 
         while they live on earth in their physical bodies?

8-3]     What prevents the uninitiated from traveling the path of Initiation 
         after death?

8-4]     What law is the Initiate taught to suspend, so that he can travel 
         the path of Initiation?

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8-5]     How many strata are in the earth?  How many degrees are there in 
         Mystic Masonry?

8-6]     What animal is the spinal spirit fire related to, in Alchemical 
         terminology?

8-7]     Why is this animal associated with wisdom, in alchemical 
         terminology?

8-8]     Cultivation of what quality within people would bring peace on 
         earth and would bring people most quickly to the New Heaven and New 
         Earth, where the sons of Cain and sons of Seth will be united?

PART 9

9-1]     Next to each item on the left put the letter of the item on the 
         right which is most closely related (in Alchemical symbolism).
         King ______                                  A.  Fire
         Priest ______                                B.  Water
         Female ______
         Male ______
         Sons of Cain ______
         Sons of Seth ______
         Church ______
         State ______
         Industry ______
         Spiritual welfare ______

9-2]     In what sequence in time did or will the following occur?
         a)   Floods drove people out of the basins of the earth.
         b)   Humanity in general learn to function in the air in soul 
              bodies.
         c)   Humanity lived close to the fiery core of the earth.
         d)   Humanity lived in the basins of the earth and breathed by 
              means of gill clefts.
         e)   Pioneers learn to function in the air in soul bodies.
         f)   Some pioneers developed lungs and began to live in the 
              highlands.

9-3]     What must one do in order to develop the soul body?

9-4]     What human has become overall leader of the sons of Seth?
         What human has become overall leader of the sons of Cain?

9-5]     What ideal are both the sons of Seth and the sons of Cain striving 
         toward?

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