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This is not a True or False or Multiple Choice test. This is a test of your understanding of the essay on The Higher Capability of Appreciation.

Click on A (Agree) or D (Disagree) to indicate whether the essay would Agree or Disagree with each item.

1. Appreciation is an intrinsic adeptness which all persons possess at birth.
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2. We study the essence of "appreciation" for the sole purpose of gaining a mental understanding of it.
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3. We say appreciation is a "higher" capability because it is more advanced than understanding.
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4. If a student gains understanding of Perennialist transformative material, he will automatically go on to gain appreciation of it as well.
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5. The higher capability of appreciation operates to complete the creation of elements.
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6. The Perennialist teaching story, Aristocles, illustrates how Socrates used his higher discernment of the magic of numbers to encourage Plato to continue studying with him.
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7. If a student does not naturally feel that he is truly blest by being allowed to study Higher Knowledge, then he is not blest.
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8. If a student does not naturally feel that teaching material has a higher significance and importance, then the material does not posess it.
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9. Through attaining the higher capability of appreciation, the student can come to realize that he is being given a supernal opportunity for which he quite naturally should feel profound gratitude and humility.
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10. If specific teachings seem commonplace and lackluster to a student then they must be nothing special.
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11. It would be egotistical for a Perennialist Teacher to say that a student is being given a supernal opportunity to study with her.
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12. It would be absurd to say that some students merely pretend to be "involved" with the teaching they are studying.
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13. The reason some students never achieve the higher capability of appreciation is that they do not work to overcome their obsession with their own feelings, questions, and doubts.
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14. A student's feelings of self-satisfaction and desire for comfort can hinder his working to achieve the higher capability of appreciation.
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15. No authentic spiritual tradition would help a student to gain a certain level of understanding of its teachings and then expect the student to attain higher discernment of the teachings on his own.
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