Nine chapters take the reader from the idea of inner development, through the cultural and evolutionary need for higher knowing, and then to examples of the practices and inner gestures required by this work. Steiner describes the necessary steps and stages, always insisting on the free, individual, and cognitive character of anthroposophic spiritual research.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction by Stephen E. Usher
• Esoteric Development
• The Psychological Basis of Spiritual Science
• Suprasensory Knowledge
• The Attainment of Spiritual Knowledge
• General Requirements for Esoteric Development: Guidance in Esoteric Training
• The Great Initiates
• The Rosicrucian Spiritual Path
• Imagination Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
• Three Decisions on the Path of Imagination Knowledge: Loneliness, Fear, and Dread