Excerpts from Rudolf Steiner's lectures and writings: From the Mysteries to Christianity; Death and Resurrection in Ancient Egypt - the Miracle of Initiation; The Mystery of Golgotha; The Mystery of the Higher Ego - the Holy Grail; The Grail and the Spiritual Evolution of Humanity; The Gnostic Crisis and the Loss of the Mysteries; Stages of Evolution - Archaic Clairvoyance; The Role of the Mysteries; The Secret of Evolution.

Rudolf Steiner speaks of the secret brotherhoods who manipulate world events, and of the mysterious human double, the existence of which has only been known to occultists until Steiner's descriptions in these and other lectures.