Self-Quiz for "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire"  (Part 2)
TITLE:  Self-Quiz for "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire" - Part 2 of 2

LENGTH:  100 questions in random order

TEXTBOOK PAGES:  58-122

DESCRIPTION:  This quiz is based upon the Student's Overview of the book "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire" by Alice A. Bailey, and was created with a three-fold purpose in mind:  
       1) To help Quantify the teachings
       2) To help students Qualify their comprehension of the material
       3) To be utilized as part of a multi-modal approach to the study of the Ageless Wisdom

INSTRUCTIONS:  Please select the answer that most closely applies. The quiz may be taken 'open book' or by memory/intuition. Students will be shown their score and will be able to review all answers after submission.  Students are advised to complete the quiz in a single sitting in order to avoid having the session time out after a long period of inactivity.

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90. What kind of activity is indicated by the quote?  "The influence which impresses all forms, which emanates from their greater center and which merges with the two other modes of motion.  It is the consciousness which proclaims "I am That I am."  (Pg. 112)
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11. The Manasadevas are the cosmic prototypes of our ______, who embody as much of that will and purpose as they can work through in one incarnation.  (Pg. 78)
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30. ______ and ______ are both emanations of Force, currents of energy differing in quality and vibration. The former, being centrifugal, forms an initial vortex of activity and the latter, being Centripetal, is the main factor in the accretion of matter into a form around the vortex.  (Pg. 108)
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19. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "It governs petal unfoldment and demonstrates as a triple Law of Solar Heat, Solar Light and Solar Fire."  (Pg. 119)
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22. The Permanent Atoms are located upon the Sutratma.  (Pg. 80)
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87. Which of the 7 Laws of Group Work is indicated by the quote?  "This law concerns the identification of an atom with the group interest, and the steady negation of the atom's own material interests."  (Pg. 121)
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23. Which of the 7 Laws of Group Work is indicated by the quote?  "This law concerns the atom's ability to throw off, or refuse to contact, any energy deemed inimical to group activity."  (Pg. 121)
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95. The group of Devas known as Agnisuryans do not play a role in the development of Thought-Forms which originate from the Ego.  (Pg. 107)
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27. What is/are the main activity of the Planetary atom?  (Pg. 115)
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91. Which is NOT a required quality of the conscious Master of White Magic?  (Pg. 101)
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84. The Law of Magnetism is of a much higher order than the Law of Physical Sex.  It involves a group of Lunar Pitris who build the body of a man in the final stage(s) of the Path of Evolution.  It is/They are:  (Pg. 118)
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78. Which answer is indicated by the quote?  "The 'silver thread' which incarnates from the beginning of a period of manifestation until the end, stringing upon itself the pearls of human existence.  It is the line of energy which connects the lower Personality with the Father in Heaven via the Ego.  (Pg. 80)
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31. Which group of Devas is indicated by the quote?  "We now consider the ______ of the ______ plane, the most stupendous subject in connection with our planetary evolution and the one having the most occult significance for man."  (Pg. 75)
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94. The factor of the ______, concerns the fact that the specific purpose of a Thought-Form is very closely connected with the type of Deva essence of which it is constructed.  (Pg. 60)
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55. The Law of ______ is the paramount Law for this solar system and it conditions that aspect of electrical phenomena which we call 'neutral.'  (Pg. 117)
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18. Which group of Devas is indicated by the quote?  "On the first subplane, the first etheric subplane, they are the sumtotal of atomic matter of the physical plane. On the 2nd, 3rd and 4th etheric subplanes, they are the substance of those planes and the substance/transmitters of Prana. They are the essences of all that is tangible, visible and objective."  (Pg. 70)
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32. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "This is the law which produces the unifying of a Personality, and though it is an expression of Lunar force, it is of a much higher order than the Law of physical Sex."  (Pg. 118)
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40. A Thought-Form which originates from the Ego,  should be occultly ______ so that its vibrations will emanate and make themselves felt, and to make it also ______ so that something in the Thought-Form will call forth response from others.  (Pg. 99)
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76. Which is/are related to Pralaya?  (Pg. 80)
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97. In what order do the 7 Systemic Laws of Vibration, Cohesion, Disintegration, Magnetic Control, Fixation, Love and Sacrifice, relate to the planes?  (Pg. 61)
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83. The first three senses to develop are ______, ______ and ______.  (Pg. 105)
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51. The greater Cosmic Law of Akasha governs the Law of Attraction.  (Pg. 118)
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14. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "This law shows itself in one aspect as the power and the stronger urge that a more vital life may have upon the lesser.  This is due to the heavier vibration, the greater accumulative force, and the aggregated Tamasic lives of the body of the planetary Entity."  (Pg. 119)
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68. The cultivation of ______ is one of the first steps towards the achievement of the needed equipment of the White Magician.  (Pg. 100)
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60. The ______ are ruled by the Raja-Lord of the Physical plane, Kshiti.  The ______ are ruled by the Raja-Lord of the Astral plane, Varuna.  The ______ are ruled by the Raja-Lord of the Mental plane, Agni.  (Pg. 70)
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13. Which effect of Motion is indicated by the quote?  "This is brought about through the initial activity of the Ego who produces the first of those forms which he intends to use during the cycle of incarnation, and bringing together these energies through self-engendered impulse."  (Pg. 116)
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59. The Third Eye is the director of energy or force, and thus an instrument of the Will or Spirit, but is only responsive to that Will as controlled by the ______.  (Pg. 106)
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92. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "It is called this in the vegetable kingdom because it is here that definite response to stimulation can be noted.  It is the basis of the phenomenon of sensation, which is the key to this solar system of love."  (Pg. 118)
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38. Which of the 3 Halls is indicated by the quote?  "The Knowers see themselves as One and Death is not known."  (Pg. 89)
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8. What kind of activity is indicated by the quote?  "The activity of all forms, viewing them from the aspect of consciousness, and of time.  It is Unified Group Consciousness - "I am That."
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16. Which effect of Motion is indicated by the quote?  "The force of the Life within the lowest sheath manifests in the attractive and repulsive action of the individual atoms, and this constant interplay results in the 'occult heat' of the body and increased radiation."  (Pg. 117)
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56. The awakening to activity of the central Life within the Egoic Lotus demonstrates as:  (Pg. 85)
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10. Which effect of Motion is indicated by the quote?  "This is the faculty which produces the forms of the mental ring-pass-not, and which (at the close of the cycle) is the active principle behind Devachanic manifestation."  (Pg. 117)
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39. ______ is that which can be controlled and subdued, but which is permitted to govern.  (Pg. 67)
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5. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "This law of a gradual evolutionary expansion of the consciousness that indwells every form, is the cause of the spheroidal form of every life in the entire solar system."  (Pg. 113)
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62. Which 3 of the 7 Systemic Laws are the most important to the evolving human being as he lives his life in the 3 Worlds?  (Pg. 63)
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1. Which is/are true regarding the Egoic Lotus and Man's 777 Incarnations?  (Pg. 86)
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88. Which is NOT a symbolic view of the Egoic Lotus?  (Pg. 86)
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82. The Knowledge-Love-Sacrifice petals of the Egoic Lotus related to the ______, ______ and ______ triads.  (Pg. 86)
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44. To consciously create, Man must first hold the Thought-Form, which originated from the Ego on the Mental plane, sufficiently long for it to be registered in the physical brain, then gestation occurs, followed by the vitalization of desire.  Thus the Thought-Form passes from the ______ plane, takes an ______  sheath and is ready for its ______ body.  (Pg. 99)
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86. Which is NOT a way that Man must parallel the Ego's work as a Thought-Form builder?  (Pg. 94)
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65. Which Systemic Law is indicated?  "This Law develops in the Personality through as Love of Self to love of family and friends, until it arrives at a love of humanity, or group-consciousness."  (Pg. 64)
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100. Which of the 3 Halls is indicated by the quote?  "Intellect rules and seeks to guide. Desire of a higher kind, the fruit of manas and its use, supplants the lower kamic urge."  (Pg. 89)
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89. The Solar Angels, the Agnishvattas, produce the union of the Spiritual Triad, or divine Self, and the quaternary, the Lower Self.  (Pg. 76)
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74. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "This law governs the Soul aspect in the mineral kingdom.  It concerns marriage of the atoms and the romance of the elements."  (Pg. 118)
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99. The ______ Pitris and Devas, the ______ Builders, are the source of man's self-consciousness and it is their action upon the negative aspect which produces the human Ego.  (Pg. 67)
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73. The ______ is one which has run through its appointed cycles, through its wheel of life, great or small, which has been turned with adequate frequency, so that the volatile life-essence is ready to escape from that form and merge itself in the greater form.  (Pg. 115)
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52. The number ______ governs the evolution of substance and of form-building, but ______ governs the development of the consciousness within that form.  (Pg. 66)
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33. All planetary Avatars emanate from the Buddhic plane.  (Pg. 69)
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93. Which is NOT a result of the study of the Functions of Devas?  (Pg . 67)
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25. The Devas and Elementals are divided into two groups; ______ and ______.  The greater Builders are the positive aspect of substance while the lesser Builders are the negative aspect.  (Pg. 65)
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45. Which Systemic Law is indicated?  "This is the governing Law of the Mental plane, finding its greater correspondence in the Law of Karma on the Cosmic Mental levels. 'As a Man thinketh, so he is.'"  (Pg. 64)
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15. Who is referenced by the quote?  "He is Vishnu and the Sun, the fire of matter and of thought blended, he is the Intelligence in every atom, the Mind that actuates the solar system, the flame and that which the flame destroys."  (Pg. 65)
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77. Which of 'Man's 777 Incarnations' are indicated by the quote?  "These are those lives passed upon the Probationary Path as the Mental body becomes active."  (Pg. 87)
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42. The Third-Eye exists in ______ matter, while the ______ gland is formed of matter of the three lower subplanes of the Physical plane.  (Pg. 105)
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63. Which of the 7 Laws of Group Work is indicated by the quote?  "The law governing the primary realizations by any atom of its environing contacts, and the going out, or feeling after, by that atom so that eventually a relation between that which is realized as part of the group and the unit is established."  (Pg. 121)
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21. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "Also known as the Law of Love and Light, which governs the expansions of consciousness which an Initiate undergoes, and his ability to attract to himself knowledge of that which he seeks to know, and others with whom he can work."  (Pg. 119)
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50. All in Nature affects that which it contacts, and these effects work either as ______ or ______.  (Pg. 113)
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46. A Thought-Form only persists for as long as the factor of ______ continues to hold it together.  (Pg. 59)
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70. What Systemic Law is indicated?  "This is the law of the 1st plane and it governs all the atomic subplanes of each plane.  It controls the breaking up of the One into the seven and the reabsorption back into the One."  (Pg. 62)
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17. The substance of the Mental plane exists in dual aspects; Rupa, meaning ______, and Arupa, meaning ______.  (Pg. 75)
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12. Which is NOT a subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction?  (Pg. 113)
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7. Which is NOT a major function of Thought-Forms?  (Pg. 59)
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75. Which effect of Motion is indicated by the quote?  "The activity of the Mental sheath and its gradually increasing rate of vibration is brought about by the inflow of energies of various factors, producing increased activity and speed."  (Pg. 116)
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57. The accurate realization by the physical brain of what the Ego is seeking to convey only becomes possible when Egoic energy is transmitted to ______.  (Pg. 96)
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67. Which group of Devas is indicated by the quote?  "These are the animating lives of that involutionary matter of the Astral plane, and are the vitality energizing the desire elementals of all that is sentient."  (Pg. 73)
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36. Which Systemic Law is indicated?  "This is the basic law controlling the Spiritual Triad, for through it, the force of evolution drives the Soul to progress through the cycle of reincarnation back to union with his kind."  (Pg. 63)
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79. The Devas who are the sumtotal of the energy of ______ itself, care not what form they build.  They are irresponsibly responsive to energy currents, and theirs is not the problem of dealing with sources of energy.  (Pg. 94)
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29. Which is NOT a Cosmic or Systemic Law affecting Man?  (Pg. 61)
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81. The ______ plane is Man's principal battleground and the area of his most intense field of sensation.  It is the seat of a man's most violent vibration and these are a potent cause of his ______ plane activities."  (Pg. 73)
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96. What kind of activity is indicated by the quote?  "The internal activity of every atom viewed as a unity, the activity of Brahma or the Holy Spirit, perfected in the first solar system.  It is unified individual consciousness - "I am."  (Pg. 112)
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72. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "This demonstrates as the attractive quality of the central life, and as a veil for that which lies behind, and is therefore attracted to the central spark."  (Pg. 119)
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80. Which one is NOT one of the 3 groups of Solar and Lunar Pitris? (Fathers)  (Pg. 83)
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4. Which Systemic Law is indicated?  "It shows itself as the Love-Wisdom aspect, irradiating the Soul and eventually gathering to itself the essence of all experience garnered through the Personality."  (Pg. 62
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3. Which is NOT a large factor in the Disciple's ability to serve humanity?  (Pg. 97)
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48. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "This law only comes into activity in connection with the highest specimens of the various kingdoms, and concerns itself with the attraction that a higher kingdom in nature will have for the highest lives of the next lower kingdom."  (Pg. 119)
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2. The Mental body is composed of only four types of essence, whereas the Astral body and the Physical are formed of seven types.  (Pg. 116)
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9. The goal of the Solar Angels is to become planetary Logoi, the goal of the Lunar Lords is to become Men.  (Pg. 88)
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37. Man begins to create his Thought-Form by organizing the material of the _______ plane, then upon the ______ plane the vitalization is pursued.  (Pg. 98)
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35. ______ is the outer effect produced by all forms in all kingdoms when their internal activity has reached such a stage of vibratory activity that the confining walls of the form no longer form a prison, but permit the escape of the subjective essence.  (Pg. 115)
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47. Manasic activity produces a triangle of fire on the Mental plane, which begins to circulate between the Manasic Permanent Atom and a point at the center of the Egoic Lotus, and thence to the Mental Unit.  This triangle is the nucleus of the ______.  (Pg. 77)
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58. The Law of ______ is the positive pole, the Law of ______ is the negative pole, and between them stands the Law of ______.  (Pg. 117)
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43. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "The planetary schemes will eventually synthesize, or absorb the life of the planets which are not termed sacred."  (Pg. 119)
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6. The work of the Agnishvattas (the self-conscious builders of the Egoic body on the higher mental levels) is to unite the higher 3 principles (______, ______ and ______) and the lower 3, and thus become the middle principle in Man.  (Pg. 75)
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66. Lower Humanity uses the Sutratma as it passes through the ______ body, Average Humanity utilizes that portion which passes through the ______ plane.  Aspirants use that portion which passes through the 2 lower subplanes of the abstact levels of the ______ plane.  (Pg. 95)
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53. Which Systemic Law is indicated?  "This law links to the 3rd Law of Disintegration and controls the five-fold destruction of forms in the 5 lower worlds."  (Pg. 64)
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28. Man in his lower nature, and in his three vehicles, is an aggregate of lesser lives who are dependent upon him for their group nature, for their type of activity and collective response, and who, through the energy of the ______, will themselves later be raised and developed to the ______ stage.  (Pg. 85)
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71. Which Systemic Law is indicated?  "This law governs the destruction of the form in order for the indwelling life to shine forth, is the reverse side of the Law of Cohesion."  (Pg. 63)
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54. Which subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction is indicated by the quote?  "This is the term applied to the force which brings about the physical merging of the two poles in connection with the animal kingdom, and of man, viewing him as responsive to the call of his animal nature."  (Pg. 118)
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49. A gigantic Thought-Form hovers over the entire Human family, built by men everywhere during the ages and energized by the insane desires and evil inclinations of all that is worst in man's nature, and kept alive by the prompting of his lower desires.  This Thought-Form must be ______ before the conclusion of the cycle.  (Pg. 93)
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85. Which of the 7 Laws of Group Work is indicated by the quote?  "Sometimes referred to as the Law of Elevation, it concerns the mysteries of realization and expansions of consciousness and the part each unit plays in the general progress of a group."  (Pg. 122)
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64. The Life of any scheme, globe, kingdom or atom becomes, in turn, the animating principle of another scheme, globe, kingdom or atom.  (Pg. 111)
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41. As Electric Fire, the Logos manifests as ______, Spiritual Impulse or purpose; as Solar Fire, He manifests as ______, the Consciousness radiating through Form; as Fire by Friction, He manifests as ______, constituting Brahma.  (Pg. 69)
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34. For the Magician, the moments of greatest danger in the work of creation are at certain junctures on the Astral plane where he is in danger of occult ______, and at the transition from the Etheric levels to the planes of tangible concretion when he is menaced by occult ______.  (Pg. 110)
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98. The work of the highly evolved man is to reduce the Manasic Triangle (Permanent Atom - Center of Egoic Lotus - Mental Unit) to a unity, by means of high aspiration, which is transmuted desire, and turn it into the Path and ______.  (Pg. 77)
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26. Which of the following statements is NOT true?  (Pg. 97)
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61. Which is NOT one of the Lipika Lords controlling the periodical manifestation of life?  (Pg. 92)
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24. In the 3 worlds, we have the parallel evolutions of the Human and Deva kingdoms.  Some great Devas Who cooperate intelligently with the plan of evolution express their ideas using the medium of ______ that can be heard, and ______ which can be seen; the reverse of the process used by Man.  (Pg. 73)
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20. Which is NOT one of the 3 causes which combine to produce incarnation?  (Pg. 82)
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69. Man is the medium whereby the ______, ______ and ______ of God become intelligent and apparent.  (Pg. 78)
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