These questions form a doorway into the Royal Art.
Book I — The Forgotten Question
- Who am I, really?
- Where did I come from?
- Why am I here?
- Why do we forget?
- What is exile?
- Who is the Exiled Prince?
- Why must the Prince leave home?
- What has been forgotten?
- What is remembrance?
- What is the first question of the Royal Art?
Book II — The Father and the Kingdom
- What is God?
- What is the Kingdom?
- Is Heaven a place or a way of seeing?
- Who is the author of the Story?
- What is Divine Sonship?
- What is Christ?
- What is the Holy Spirit?
- What is Love?
- What makes something holy?
- Have we ever truly left the Father’s house?
Book III — The Fall and the Wasteland
- What is the Fall?
- What is the ego?
- Why do we suffer?
- Is suffering necessary?
- Why are we afraid?
- What is illusion?
- What is evil?
- Who or what is the Dark Lord?
- Why does the Kingdom become a Wasteland?
- What if nothing was ever truly lost?
Book IV — The Call and the Way Home
- What is awakening?
- What is the Call?
- How does the Holy Spirit guide us?
- Why must the seeker leave the familiar world?
- What is vocation?
- What is the Way Home?
- Why do we need a path?
- Why do we need a teacher?
- Can the Path be walked alone?
- What is the first step?
Book V — Initiation and the Great Work
- What is initiation?
- What dies during initiation?
- What is transformation?
- What is the Great Work?
- What is the Philosopher’s Stone?
- Is the Stone created or discovered?
- What do lead and gold represent?
- What are Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, Rubedo, and Auredo?
- What is mastery?
- Can the Great Work ever be completed?
Book VI — Christ and the Healing of the Mind
- What did Yeshua come to teach?
- What is the Way of Christ?
- What is forgiveness?
- What is Atonement?
- What does it mean to heal the mind?
- What is prayer?
- What is discipleship?
- Why must the disciple enter the wilderness?
- What is the meaning of the Cross?
- What is Resurrection?
Book VII — The Sacred Symbols
- What is the Temple?
- What is the Grail?
- What is the Stone?
- What is the Rose?
- What is the Cross?
- What is the Crown?
- What is the Garden?
- What is the Tower?
- What is the Road?
- Are dragons real?
Book VIII — The Seven Royal Paths
- How is the soul formed by the Builder?
- What makes strength holy?
- How is desire purified through Beauty?
- Why does the soul need Song and Story?
- What does the Prophet remember?
- What does the Disciple heal?
- What does the Wizard seek in the Mysteries?
- Why are the seven paths both sequential and simultaneous?
- Does every soul need to walk every Order?
- How do the seven Orders become one royal life?
Book IX — The Passion, Marriage, and Crown
- Why must the hero descend?
- Why must the King be wounded?
- What is the Dark Night?
- What is the Sacred Marriage?
- What is the Philosophical Child?
- Why must the false king die?
- What is Royal Identity?
- What is the Royal Subject?
- Why is the Crown received rather than taken?
- What does it mean to become King?
Book X — The Return and the Kingdom Restored
- Why is coronation not the end?
- What is the second half of the Great Work?
- What does the King return to do?
- What does it mean to restore the Kingdom?
- How does the Royal Art enter ordinary life?
- What would a restored human being become?
- What would a restored civilization look like?
- What is the New Jerusalem?
- Are we home at last?
- What remains when the Great Work is complete?