Lenten Study, wk 2

It will be tempting to answer all the questions as if they were a quiz to be completed.  Another           option is to let them stir things up inside, for Lent is about expansion and transformation.

wk 2, 2/21... from Jehanne de Quillan's THE GOSPEL OF THE BELOVED COMPANION:

42.7 SO I SAW MY SOUL ASCEND AGAIN AND HE SHOWED ME THE SECOND GREAT BOUGH, WEIGHED DOWN WITH THE FRUIT OF WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING.  AND I SAW THAT BEFORE YOU CAN TASTE OF ITS BOUNTY, YOU MUST BE FREE OF ALL IGNORANCE AND INTOLERANCE.  ONLY THEN CAN YOU EAT OF THE FRUIT AND SO PASS UPWARD UNHINDERED THROUGH THE SECOND OF THE SEVEN GATES.  AND I HEARD THE VOICE OF IGNORANCE CALL TO ME, BUT I KNEW HIM NOT, AND SO MY SOUL DID THUS UNCHALLENGED.

     How did Mary see her soul ascend and also be in communication with Jesus? 

     The fruit of the inner tree could be considered hybridized. Of what benefit is that? 

     Define wisdom in its generic & spiritual contexts. 

     Define understanding in its generic & spiritual contexts.

     Who has true wisdom?   [Matt 18:3] 

     What is true ignorance?

     Define intolerance.

 

     How might intolerance and judgment and values be interwtwined?

     What are some of my/your acceptable intolerances?  (Make a list.)  

     What would it take to reconsider each of those intolerances?   

     What inner feelings are indicative of  intolerance?    

     Why is intolerance to intolerance serious business?

     What does it mean to NOT know ignorance?  What is that experience? 

     "... AND SO MY SOUL DID THUS UNCHALLENGED" means what?