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Question 1

Why do Hermetic teachers keep some teachings secret?

Accepted Answer

To protect wisdom from threats

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To reject all prepared students

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To replace wisdom with creeds

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To prevent all mental practice

Question 2

Whom do the writers present as the foremost Hermetic master?

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Hermes Trismegistus

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The prepared students

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The invisible elemental beings

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The ordinary scientists

Question 3

What does mastery of the seven principles require?

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Working within universal law

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Ending all natural motion

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Denying all experienced reality

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Avoiding all mental change

Question 4

How does the Principle of Correspondence help explain unknown planes?

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By using known relationships

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By dismissing every known relationship

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By denying differences among planes

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By replacing thought with chance

Question 5

What does Mental Transmutation mean?

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Transforming mental states

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Dividing divine substance

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Escaping universal causation

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Preserving unwanted moods

Question 6

Why does the teaching connect mental change with matter and force?

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The universe is mental

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Matter exists outside THE ALL

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Force has no universal laws

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Thought prevents all physical motion

Question 7

What name is given to the enduring reality beneath changing appearances?

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THE ALL

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The Great Physical Plane

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The Law of Compensation

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The Me

Question 8

What limit does the teaching place on knowledge of THE ALL?

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Its inner essence is unknowable

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Its existence depends on matter

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Its nature changes with moods

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Its desires explain every event

Question 9

What human activity provides an analogy for the creation of the Universe?

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Creating images in imagination

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Throwing a pair of dice

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Changing metals through heat

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Kicking a solid stone

Question 10

Which account of creation does Chapter 5 reject?

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Creation from outside materials

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Creation within infinite mind

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Creation understood through imagination

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Creation without lost substance

Question 11

How should finite beings treat the Universe?

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As real in their experience

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As exempt from natural laws

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As identical to one creature

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As independent of THE ALL

Question 12

What practical approach does Chapter 6 recommend?

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Using higher forces against lower ones

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Treating life as only a dream

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Ignoring every lower natural force

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Denying the reality of experience

Question 13

How does Chapter 7 describe the relation of THE ALL to creatures?

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Present within them without being identical

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Absent from every living creature

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Identical to each single creature

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Dependent on their physical bodies

Question 14

What happens during Involution?

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Vibration lowers into matter

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Distinct living units return upward

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Natural laws cease to operate

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Creation leaves infinite mind

Question 15

What are the three great planes?

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Degrees on a continuous scale

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Separate places outside THE ALL

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Stages beyond every universal law

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Opposing sources of independent creation

Question 16

What governs all the planes described in Chapter 8?

Accepted Answer

The same seven principles

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Independent forces of chance

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Only the laws of matter

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The will of ordinary students

Question 17

What does the spinning object illustrate?

Accepted Answer

Increasing rates of vibration

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The absence of physical motion

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Creation from external materials

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Freedom from every natural law

Question 18

What does Chapter 9 connect with changing personal moods?

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Trained use of will

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Passive acceptance of outside ideas

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Denial of all mental movement

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Dependence on unseen chance

Question 19

How does polarity explain opposites?

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As degrees of one thing

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As unrelated kinds of existence

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As exceptions to universal law

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As forces outside infinite mind

Question 20

What limit applies to the mental changes described through polarity?

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They must stay within one class

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They must avoid deliberate attention

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They must abolish both opposing poles

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They must depend on physical sex

Question 21

How do Hermetists neutralize unwanted mental swings?

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By raising consciousness above the lower plane

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By stopping all motion throughout nature

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By denying the existence of rhythm

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By accepting every outside influence

Question 22

What does the Law of Compensation describe?

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Counterbalancing experiences of gain and loss

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Complete freedom from every loss

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Creation from divided divine substance

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The end of all recurring movement

Question 23

How does Chapter 12 explain apparent chance?

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As causes people cannot understand

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As a force beyond causation

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As proof that laws disappear

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As creation without preceding events

Question 24

How do Masters gain control over lower influences?

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By following higher laws

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By escaping every chain of causes

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By rejecting all higher principles

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By treating chance as supreme

Question 25

How does Chapter 13 define Gender?

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As a universal creative principle

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As physical sex alone

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As an absence of cooperation

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As a form of weakness

Question 26

How does the teaching describe the Cathode?

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As a productive Feminine pole

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As an inactive Masculine pole

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As a source outside creation

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As an exception to Gender

Question 27

What role does the I have in consciousness?

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It supplies will and observes

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It generates all mental possessions

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It removes every natural limit

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It replaces thought with chance

Question 28

What supports independent thought in Chapter 14?

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Active use of personal will

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Passive dependence on suggested ideas

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Identification with every passing emotion

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Rejection of inward self-examination

Question 29

What does Chapter 15 recommend for an unwanted negative quality?

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Cultivate its opposite positive quality

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Fight it without changing attention

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Accept it as beyond mental control

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Deny that any qualities exist

Question 30

What makes knowledge beneficial according to the conclusion?

Accepted Answer

Putting it into practice

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Keeping it separate from action

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Using it to deny causation

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Receiving it without attention

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