The One Hundred Questions of the Royal Art

Dialogues of the Apprentice and the Wizard

These questions form a doorway into the Royal Art.

The Apprentice asks what the soul has forgotten.

The Wizard answers through Story, philosophy, symbol, memory, and lived experience.

The questions begin with identity and end with return. Taken together, they unfold the Great Story of the Exiled Prince and the Way of the Kingdom.

Book I — The Forgotten Question

1. Who am I, really?
2. Where did I come from?
3. Why am I here?
4. Why do we forget?
5. What is exile?
6. Who is the Exiled Prince?
7. Why must the Prince leave home?
8. What has been forgotten?
9. What is remembrance?
10. What is the first question of the Royal Art?

Book II — The Father and the Kingdom

1. What is God?
2. What is the Kingdom?
3. Is Heaven a place or a way of seeing?
4. Who is the author of the Story?
5. What is Divine Sonship?
6. What is Christ?
7. What is the Holy Spirit?
8. What is Love?
9. What makes something holy?
10. Have we ever truly left the Father’s house?

Book III — The Fall and the Wasteland

1. What is the Fall?
2. What is the ego?
3. Why do we suffer?
4. Is suffering necessary?
5. Why are we afraid?
6. What is illusion?
7. What is evil?
8. Who or what is the Dark Lord?
9. Why does the Kingdom become a Wasteland?
10. What if nothing was ever truly lost?

Book IV — The Call and the Way Home

1. What is awakening?
2. What is the Call?
3. How does the Holy Spirit guide us?
4. Why must the seeker leave the familiar world?
5. What is vocation?
6. What is the Way Home?
7. Why do we need a path?
8. Why do we need a teacher?
9. Can the Path be walked alone?
10. What is the first step?

Book V — Initiation and the Great Work

1. What is initiation?
2. What dies during initiation?
3. What is transformation?
4. What is the Great Work?
5. What is the Philosopher’s Stone?
6. Is the Stone created or discovered?
7. What do lead and gold represent?
8. What are Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, Rubedo, and Auredo?
9. What is mastery?
10. Can the Great Work ever be completed?

Book VI — Christ and the Healing of the Mind

1. What did Yeshua come to teach?
2. What is the Way of Christ?
3. What is forgiveness?
4. What is Atonement?
5. What does it mean to heal the mind?
6. What is prayer?
7. What is discipleship?
8. Why must the disciple enter the wilderness?
9. What is the meaning of the Cross?
10. What is Resurrection?

Book VII — The Sacred Symbols

1. What is the Temple?
2. What is the Grail?
3. What is the Stone?
4. What is the Rose?
5. What is the Cross?
6. What is the Crown?
7. What is the Garden?
8. What is the Tower?
9. What is the Road?
10. Are dragons real?

Book VIII — The Seven Royal Paths

1. How is the soul formed by the Builder?
2. What makes strength holy?
3. How is desire purified through Beauty?
4. Why does the soul need Song and Story?
5. What does the Prophet remember?
6. What does the Disciple heal?
7. What does the Wizard seek in the Mysteries?
8. Why are the seven paths both sequential and simultaneous?
9. Does every soul need to walk every Order?
10. How do the seven Orders become one royal life?

Book IX — The Passion, Marriage, and Crown

1. Why must the hero descend?
2. Why must the King be wounded?
3. What is the Dark Night?
4. What is the Sacred Marriage?
5. What is the Philosophical Child?
6. Why must the false king die?
7. What is Royal Identity?
8. What is the Royal Subject?
9. Why is the Crown received rather than taken?
10. What does it mean to become King?

Book X — The Return and the Kingdom Restored

1. Why is coronation not the end?
2. What is the second half of the Great Work?
3. What does the King return to do?
4. What does it mean to restore the Kingdom?
5. How does the Royal Art enter ordinary life?
6. What would a restored human being become?
7. What would a restored civilization look like?
8. What is the New Jerusalem?
9. Are we home at last?
10. What remains when the Great Work is complete?