Inner Perspectives: A Guidebook for the Spiritual Journey

List of Interview Questions

1. Awakening to Life's Purpose

Who is Elizabeth Clare Prophet and what does she have to say to America and the world?
How is it that you have come to this point of understanding?
Is there anything in your experience that is unique, that gives you this special insight that many of us don't have?
What do Jesus and Saint Germain have in common?

2. Your Divine Blueprint

What is the Inner Self?
Is everybody actually naming God when they say "I am"?
Is the element of ego involved in this?
Where is the teaching of the I AM found in Eastern religions?
Is there more that one can do with it other than simply affirming that I AM?
What is the relationship between God and his Word?
Everybody can become the Christ, but how many have succeeded? Isn't Jesus the only one?

3. The Ascended Masters

Who are the ascended masters?
Do they actually communicate directly with people on our plane?
If someone has mastered time and space and transcended this plane, why should he come back and help us?
Are the ascended masters are communicating with you today in the same way that they once did with the prophets in the Bible?
How does somebody know that what you're saying is true?
Is it possible for anyone to decide whether or not your experience is real just by listening to you?
Do the masters speak through you?
How is this different from what is normally referred to as a psychic involvement?
So there's no point at which your own faculties are suspended?
Is the message of a dictation infallible?

4. Your Real Self

How is your concept of the Self quite different from that of many people?
What is the Chart of Your Divine Self?
Is the Trinity something that is present in all of us all the time?
How does an ascended master related to the Chart of Your Divine Presence?
When Jesus prayed to the Father, he was actually talking to himself, his Real Self?
Who was Jesus' teacher?
What were the "lost years" of Jesus and how did he learn about the Buddha? Where would Buddha be on that same Chart?
What is the crown chakra?
Is it true that Buddha represented a higher evolution than Jesus?

5. The Violet Flame

How does the soul become the Christ?
What is the violet flame?
How is the violet flame related to the Holy Spirit? If the violet flame is such a crucial part of the mystic's tradition and experience, why haven't we heard about it before?
What's changed in the last hundred years?
The violet flame is the key to the unfolding of the New Age?
To what extent would the violet flame have to be invoked before it could actually influence what's happening in one's life or what's happening in one's world?

6. God as Mother

What is meant by the Motherhood of God?
What role does the Mother play in man?
What is the role of the divine Feminine?
Is everybody both masculine and feminine at the same time?
What is the key to harmony and wholeness in the family?
Is it possible to have a holy family right within oneself?
How would you explain that today there seems to be a great deal of attack on the family? Can one find wholeness outside of the family?
How would you relate these matters to the dilemma of young people today in deciding how to live their lives in regard to love and family, and so forth?

7. Sexuality and Spirituality

What is the truth about twin flames and soul mates?
How likely is it that a person will find his soul mate or twin flame?
There is a lot of discussion about sexual matters these days, and we hear a lot of talk about it being absolutely essential to be free in what one does. How do you feel about that?
Is enlightenment related to inner wholeness?
Ultimate bliss-how do you get there?
The thrust of the media seems to be persuading people to be free with their sexual energies. Why do you think this is happening?
What's your advice to young people?
How can we learn about meditation and mantras?

8. Energy Is God

How do we raise our sacred energies?
Why are your mantras in English, not Sanskrit?
How can we use the ritual of the heart, head and hand to resolve patterns of consciousness?

9. Commanding God

Is it possible to command God?
Do people have the right to order God?
What about the element of ritual in using the Science of the Spoken Word?
Why are the mantras of the ascended masters called "decrees"?

10. The Law of Abundance

How was Jesus able to perform miracles such as the coin in the mouth of the fish, the feeding of the five thousand and numerous healings?
Can we do the same?
Did Jesus use mantras?
If we learn to use the "Heart, Head and Hand Decrees" properly, can we perform the same "miracles" as Jesus?
Do you have some specific advice on how one can integrate mantras and decrees with one's daily activities?
What about more instruction on decreeing?

11. Life as a Path of Initiation

How does the life of Jesus relate to our life today?
What is the Path and what did Jesus show us about it?
What is the meaning of the term "right living"?
Is the Science of the Spoken Word a substitute for moral rectitude?
How can we overcome bad habits?
What exactly is meant by the term "initiation?"
Does one make progress "on the Path" by demonstrating one's faithfulness and one's courage, and so forth?
Is everybody being initiated?
Does that mean that everybody is "on the Path?"

12. Spiritual Resurrection

What is the resurrection?
If we're supposed to do everything that Jesus did, what about the resurrection?
Would it be possible to end physical death?
What about physical healing?
What is the first thing you seek to change?
What happens after the resurrection?
Is immortality possible?

13. Contacting the Masters

How did your growing worldwide movement get started?
What's it like to contact an ascended master?
Were you able to tell anyone else what you were going through?
What was Mark Prophet like?
Who is the Ascended Master Lanello?

14. Spiritual Keys to Healing and Wholeness

What is the ascended master teaching on healing?
What are the four lower bodies?
What are the correct uses of those bodies?
What is your advice to someone who is looking for immediate healing?

15. The Flame in the Heart

How do our four lower bodies relate to healing?
Can someone can use the violet flame to help heal the common cold?
How does the violet flame work?

16. The Immaculate Concept

Can you give us a simple explanation of the violet flame?
What are the first steps to healing?
Can you heal yourself by denying that you're ill?
Is instantaneous healing possible?
Does instantaneous healing happen often?
Is it up to the individual to heal himself in the ultimate sense?

17. Cause and Effect

Where does disease come from?
How does one take responsibility in matters of healing?
How can one identify causes that may have occurred many lifetimes ago?
Is illness always a manifestation of past misuse of energy?
Are we influenced by people we don't have direct contact with—like the world at large?
How can Jesus' affirmations help us?
What can one do about great pain?
Who are the healing masters?

18. Spiritual Retreats

What is it like to visit an etheric retreat?
How does one get to such a place?
Who are the healing masters and where are their etheric retreats?
What does one do to get oneself or a loved one to the healing temples?
Is it possible for someone who is in a great deal of pain to benefit from these opportunities?

19. Seven Paths to Wholeness

What does the flame in the heart have to do with the path of discipleship in the Aquarian age?
What are the seven rays?
What do the seven rays have to do with this concept of discipleship?
Who are the chohans of the rays?
What are the colors, qualities and etheric retreats of the chohans?

20. Discipleship

How did Jesus establish the path of discipleship for the New Age?
If we're all one, where is the place for individuality?
Is each of us confined to a particular ray?
Does our experience overlap the other rays?
What do the seven rays have to do with the seven chakras?
Do the seven rays have anything to do with the seven days of the week?
How does the eighth ray relate to the seven rays?

21. El Morya, Master of God's Will

Who is the ascended master El Morya?
What were some of El Morya's embodiments?
What is the meaning of hierarchy and what role does the Darjeeling Council play in it?
Is there a spiritual world government?
Are there practical steps that can get us from the reality that we know to the ideal?

22. God-Government

What is the ascended master ideal for government?
How do we know what the will of God is for us?
What do the masters have to say about the right wing and the left wing?
Do the masters influence our leaders?
Have the masters had an involvement with the development of the United States?
Is the resemblance between the republican form of government and hierarchy coincidence?

23. Mystery Schools

How did El Morya's ideas of government evolve?
What is the real meaning of Camelot?
What is a mystery school?
What place does the Science of the Spoken Word have in government?
How do we distinguish truth from error in public policy?
Does El Morya envision a single world order?
Why does El Morya recommend our present form of government for us?

24. The Master of the Wisdom Ray

Who is the ascended master Lanto and what does he teach?
How can someone in the West profit by the wisdom of the East?
How can we study at the Royal Teton Retreat?
What are some of the applications of the teachings of the Royal Teton Retreat?

25. The Master of the Flame of Love

Who is the ascended master Paul the Venetian?
What is the relationship between love and art?
What effect does modern art have on consciousness?
What does Paul the Venetian teach on love?

26. The Master of the Ascension Temple

Who is the ascended master Serapis Bey?
What is the ascension in the light?
What's the connection between Serapis Bey and the ascension?
What are the requirements for the ascension?

27. The Healing Master

Who is the ascended master Hilarion and where is his retreat?
What does the apostle Paul have to do with the ascended master Hilarion?
What does Hilarion teach?
What is the real meaning of "conversion"?
Where is the place of will in conversion?
Why do agnostics deny God?
May we assume that atheists and agnostics are devout souls?
Do the disciples of truth have a special mantra?

28. The Ascended Lady Master Nada

Who is Nada and what does she teach?
How can we fulfill our dharma? What does Nada have to say about the Law?
How relevant is her teaching on the Law to today's society?
How great is the power of prayer?

29. The Master Saint Germain

What else can you tell us about Saint Germain?
What does Saint Germain see as the biggest foe to freedom?
What can the individual do in defense of freedom right now?

30. Brother Afra

Where do our black brothers and sisters fit in the Great White Brotherhood?
Has the black ascended master Afra ever given a dictation?
What is race?

31. Children of Afra

What did the black ascended master Afra have to say to all of the African people in the dictation he gave in Ghana?
What significance does this message have for the sons and daughters of Afra in the United States? What causes racial strife?

32. Buddha and Christ

Would you tell us about your love for the Buddha?
What does it mean to become the Buddha?
What is it like to commune with the Buddha?
Could you explain how the Buddha can be meditating on Mother Mary?

33. Reincarnation

How did you come to believe in reincarnation?
Isn't reincarnation primarily an Eastern idea?
Did Jesus teach reincarnation?
What was the difference between what Jesus taught his disciples and what he taught to the world at large?
What is the significance of reincarnation in regard to how we live our lives?
If reincarnation is so important to believing in a just God, why is it not taught in the West?
Does the idea of reincarnation take away from the sense of personal responsibility?
Is there any place for vicarious atonement?

34. The Law of Karmic Return

What happens to people who will not take responsibility for balancing their own karma?
What about those who withhold the teaching of karma and reincarnation from the people?
Don't people go to heaven or hell when they die?
What happened to the real meat of Christ's teaching?
Have any of the Church scholars taught reincarnation since Jesus?
How important is it that a person come to believe in reincarnation?
In the book Quietly Comes the Buddha, Gautama Buddha says, "Consider that you yourself have sown the wind and that if you would enter into the fiery core of being, you must first reap the whirlwind." What does that mean?
Is there any hope for people who are actually getting behind in the game rather than getting ahead?
Would you attribute the general spiral of decay to people's failure to take responsibility for their previous lives?
Don't you preach a rather hard doctrine?

35. "As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap"

What about the statement in Hebrews, "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment"?
Is the law of karma absolutely inexorable?
Was Jesus a special creation of God unlike all other men?
Don't the many miraculous occurrences associated with the life of Jesus make him unique?
What part does karma play in the final judgment?
Can the soul die?
Does the Spirit die?

36. The Power of the Word

What is the relationship between the Word and the Christ?
Could you share with us your experiences with the Word?
How did you discover the Science of the Spoken Word?
What significance does the name of God have in the Science of the Spoken Word?
When you refer to God as Elohim, what does this mean?

37. The Incarnation of the Word

How do we know that Jesus intended us to be like him and to prove the same laws he proved?
How do we actually perform the works that Jesus did?
What did Paul mean when he spoke of the washing of water by the Word?
Did the Science of the Spoken Word originate in India?

38. The Aura

What is the aura?
Is the aura what is photographed in Kirlian photography?
Does the aura ever lie?
Does the knowledge of the aura have any practical uses?

39. Reading the Aura

Is it the aura that accounts for such things as ESP?
What do the varying colors of the aura mean?
Is there a distinction between that intuitive feeling we get about each other and reading the aura?

40. The Aura of a Saint

What is the difference between the aura of the saints and the aura of most of us?
Is the purity of the saints too much to ask in today's world?
Is finding God and magnifying the light in the aura the same thing?
Why is the light of the saints so often rejected by their fellowmen?
If all people are created equal, why are there people of such light and darkness on earth?
What would happen if everybody were conscientiously trying to magnify the light in his aura?

41. Angels and Your Aura

How does our daily experience affect our auras?
What role do angels play in determining the nature of our auras?
If there are so many angels, how does the aura become contaminated?
Why don't people have more contact with angels?

42. Strengthening the Aura

Since the aura is so susceptible, how can we strengthen it?

43. Intensifying the Aura

What is the link between our consciousness and our aura?
Does the Bible have anything to say about the aura?

44. The Aura of Oneness

How do we call forth light in our aura?
What does this oneness mean?

45. Creativity

What actually happens when we use Kuthumi's "I AM Light" mantra?
Can you tell us about Jesus' aura?
How can we unlock the creativity and mastery that are the energy and consciousness of God?

46. The Colors of the Aura

What is the meaning of specific colors in the aura?
Does Kuthumi teach that the aura is an extension of the self?

47. The Aura, A Giant Beacon

What did Jesus teach about the aura?
Is the sudden appearance of darkness in the aura always cause for alarm?
What should we do about guilt?

48. The Divine Mother

What does "Mother" really mean?
What does the rosary have to do with our origin in God?

49. A New Age Rosary

What is the Mother flame in the new scriptural rosary?
How does the ritual of the rosary help us realize our place in the scheme of things?
How have the people of earth have become alienated at subconscious levels?

50. Ritual Drama

Why has the drama of life itself been taken out of so many people's lives?
Was Shakespeare and other great playwrights actually telling us how to move from one plane of consciousness to the next?
How does giving the rosary relates to this drama?
What is the outcome of this ritual that you describe?
If we are denied the ritual, are we denied the outcome of the ritual?
So there's no "salvation made easy" course?
What is the true meaning of destiny?

51. The I AM Lord's Prayer

Why does Mother Mary's scriptural rosary contain a version of the Lord's Prayer very different from the one most of us are familiar with?
How is your concept of the Lord's Prayer revolutionary?
What is the I AM Lord's Prayer?
Don't you think that a lot of people will see this as the ultimate ego trip?
Why is this the true mystic's prayer?

52. Mary, the Mother

What is your reaction to the many stereotypes of Mother Mary?
Why was Mother Mary chosen for her role?

53. The Soul of Mary

How did Mother Mary prepare to play such an important role as ensouling the Mother flame for a planet?
Were Mother Mary's parents chosen because of the rigorous life they led?
Did Mary have any embodiments in between the time that she embodied on Atlantis and the time she embodied as the mother of Jesus?
How does the rosary help us get back to the One Source?
What is the connection between the practice of giving the rosary and the disciplines of yoga?
What is the anti-Mother force?

54. Anti-Mother

How is the Mother force active today?
When you talk about Mother, are you talking about an impersonal force or something more personal?
How can we distinguish between the real and the counterfeit Mother force that you describe?
What does this have to do with our daily lives?

55. The Mystery of Surrender

Why do you give the rosary with so much more feeling than we hear in the churches?
How do you answer those who say that this kind of adoration for Mother is somehow unmanly?
How can we quickly harness the energy of this intense cosmic force?
What is the Fourteenth Rosary and what can we learn from it about surrender?

56. Higher Consciousness

What do you mean when you talk about the Coming Revolution in higher consciousness?
How widespread do you think the Coming Revolution is going to be?
Who is Saint Germain and what does he have in mind?
What is your personal contact with the master Saint Germain?
Is Saint Germain's message for all Americans or just the few who are into mystical teachings?

57. The Master of Aquarius

What is the Aquarian Age?
What does the violet flame and the seventh ray have to do with the Aquarian Age?
What is Saint Germain's role?
With power vested in the hands of a few, what can the little people do?
How did Jesus walk on water?
Is it possible for someone with lesser attainment than Jesus or Saint Germain to use the laws of alchemy?

58. Spiritual Alchemy

What is the real meaning of alchemy?
Does this mean that the law of alchemy can only be used for good?
Should everybody will eventually be able to turn base metal into gold?
Does that mean we should all practice the precipitation of physical objects?
Since it seems that we are destined to be alchemists, where do we start?
What does Saint Germain have to say about the white stone and the elixir of early alchemists?
What is Saint Germain's comment on alchemy and the world today?
What is the meaning of the word evil?

59. The Science of Precipitation

How does the practice of alchemy affect the law of supply and demand?
Does this mean that we can immediately draw from the Universal anything that we need?

60. The Will of God

How do you know what God's will is?
How can we put this knowledge of the will of God to work for alchemy and for change in our lives?
Once we have identified the will of God and made up our minds that it is going to be our will, what's the next step?
What does Saint Germain have to say about use the subconscious mind to enhance creativity?

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From Inner Perspectives: A Guidebook for the Spiritual Journey, by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, softbound, 365 pages.