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The answers are quotes from the book 'Knowledge And The Sacred' 
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What was Reality in the beginning at once? KS1 o
What has happened with knowledge over time? KS1-11
What has become well-nigh unattainable to the vast majority of humans? KS1-7
What is is the very substance of knowledge? KS1-2
Intelligence is endowed with the possibility of what?KS2+3
What is is symbolized by the tree of Life, and
What happened to man after having tasted from the Tree of Good and Evil? KS2+10
What remains the supreme way to gain access to the Sacred? KS2+18
Modern man has lost the sense of what? KS2-8
To what mystery has man become oblivious to? KS2-3
What is man's long journey in time? KS3+15
With what continues the human conciousness to be blessed? KS3+18
What is the principle of adequation of the medieval scholastics? KS49fn6
What can happen to the rational faculty if divorced from intellect and revelation? KS3-2
How can man be defined - rather than being a 'rational animal' ? KS4+6
What is to be human? KS4+7
What is the supreme Substance ? KS4+9
To what is the supreme Substance related? KS4+11
This intellectual faculty has been replaced by what? KS4+13
What has to be discovered in order to rediscover the Sacred? KS4+17
How can this process be facilitated? KS4+18
What was the consequence of the reduction of intellect to reason ? KS4-9
What was the consequence of the limitation of intelligence to cunning and cleverness in the modern world? KS4-10
What was theologia for Plato? KS49fn7
What possibility has the traditional doctrine envisaged man to be possessing? KS6+9
What has the reduction of man's intellectual faculty to only the extroverted and analytical function of the mind led many religiously sensitive persons? KS6+16
What is the relationship of faith and knowledge ? KS6-17
How does Shankara explain the Upanishads (lit. 'near-sitting')?KS7+2
What was the supreme experience of Buddha and what does it imply? KS7-12
What is the gnostic or illuminated sage called (in Islam) KS12+10
Paul asserted sacred knowledge to be one of Christ's what? KS15-7
What happened during the last 2000 years to this sapiential dimension of the Christian tradition ?KS16+1
How can a mind totally depleted of the Sacred grasp the significance of the Sacred as sacred? KS16+18
What is the central depository of sacred knowledge for Origen? KS17-1
What is (according to him) the function of spiritual beings (concerning sacred Scripture)? KS18+9
What is the spiritual life of man? KS18+12
What makes it possible for man to grasp the inner meaning of scripture and to become illuminated by this knowledge ? KS18+14
What is the Logos? KS18c KS21+6
What does the 'kiss of his mouth' from the songs of songs (OT) allude to? KS19 c
What change of perspective took place in Christianity concerning the role of the Christ? KS19-19
What did St. Augustine (in spite of Christianity's emphasis of Christ's role as the saviour of fallen man from his sins) accept concerning the intellect? KS19-13
What elements of later Western Christian thought does one not find with St. Augustin? KS19-7
What did Erigena see at the heart of Christianity? KS20-3
Why is divine knowledge no longer immediately available to man, although the Logos is ever present in him? KS21+11
ST21: In wisdom psychology and religion become united and wisdom is a virtue common to man and angel.
What is the Logos? KS21+6
Through what does this light of God remain accessible (and available) to man even now-a-days? KS21+15
What saw Erigena in the book of nature? KS21-18
What is the beginning of human perfection and the quest for the attainment of sacred knowledge according to Erigena? KS21-14
What happens to scientia after this first stage? KS21-12
What does this illumination in turn enable man to realize concerning the essence of things? KS21-9
The intellect becomes transformed into what? KS21-7
Why is this knowledge of the Divinity [sacred knowledge] not immediately accessible to man in his present state, according to Erigena? KS21-5
What has the soul to do to regain that sacred knowledge? KS21-1
What were the drawbacks of the metaphysical system of St. Thomas? KS22-12
The philosophical agnosticism after St. Thomas could not have come about had the intellectual life of Christianity remained impregnated by what? KS23+9
In this context Eckhart, is what? KS23 cl
Why is - according to Eckhart - the root of the intellect grounded in Divinity? KS23-14
What is the seat of conciousness through which man can reach knowledge of the Divinity (or Grund) according to Eckhart? KS23-12
What is , according to Eckhart the eye with which man sees God and with which God sees man? KS23-3
The knowledge [of the Divinity] can be attained - according to Cusa except through what? KS25-9
What realization does Cusa's doctrine constitute concerning our "positive knowledge"? KS26+2
What did Luther state concerning faith? KS26cl
But Christian love is (or can be) related to knowledge through what? KS26+19
What is man's natural language according to Böme? KS27-3
to be continued - inshA
KS = Knowledge And The Sacred, Seyyed Hossein Nasr; NY. 1989
KS3+2 = page 3; row 2 from above
KS4-9 = page 4; row 9 from bottom

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