Keys

Here are fascinating answers to a deep and wide variety of life-related questions. Such great soul-searching inquiries are answered through the specific questions that were asked at lectures and Question & Answer sessions—Q&As, as they were called—held primarily in New York from 1957 through 1979 by Eva Pierrakos. While Eva was the person who spoke, she did not claim to be the

What actually is religion?

Why are there are so many different religious concepts on Earth? ________ How do the different main religions continue their activities in the spiritual world? Do they fight? And how far can they influence human beings?

Even if one has little interest in organized religion, one can still have a longing for the atmosphere that can exist in a church—a feeling of awe standing in front of something that is higher. Is the experience of going to church really a true thing? ________ The Catholic Church has managed to survive until the present day, while the gnostic religions, which are more in accord w

What is the Holy Ghost and what should be our relationship to it?

Why does Hindu philosophy not include the Fall of the Angels, as the Plan of Salvation does? Is that perhaps the reason why the female aspect of God is recognized more there, and the male aspect of God more in the West, and that is why East and West ought to get together?

In general, what purpose does ritual serve? ________ In the traditional Scriptures of Judaism and Islam, the texts are specific regarding the consumption of fish, flesh, and fowl; it is commanded that “of their flesh shall we not eat.” But in the fifteenth verse of Matthew, Jesus said, “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth the man, but that which cometh out of the mou

Will you explain the meaning of keeping the Sabbath holy in the face of our present-day obligations? ________ This night is the eve of the Sabbath. It also happens to be the eve of Yom Kippur which is the Day of Atonement. On such a night, in ancient Nazareth, it is likely that Jesus, as a Jew, would have been in the synagogue, chanting solemn prayers with his congregation. Yom Kip

Can you provide a spiritual explanation of sin and evil? ________ Why is it that all spiritual teachings in the past speak of sin instead of sickness or neurosis? ________ Is evil a condition which results from an actual fall from grace? And what is its relationship to Lucifer in the Old and New Testaments?

Could you explain what “true religion” is, as compared to the wrong attitude? Where does belief in God and his help come in? But how can we go about it? This God-image is so embedded in us after so many decades of learning the false attitude. Wouldn’t prayer change too if we discarded this concept? Wouldn’t everything change? What religion is farthest away from the truth? O