from back cover: "The facts of the physical world actually demonstrate and clarify spiritual knowledge. Yet the anthroposophy of Steiner shuns vague mysticism, finding facts of the spiritual world fully accessible to scientific investigation and proof."

CONTENTS:
I. The Character of Occult Science
II. The Essential Nature of Mankind
III. Sleep and Death
IV. The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man
V. Cognition of the Higher Worlds -- Initiation
VI. The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
VII. Details from the Realm of Spiritual Science: The Ether Body of Man, The Astral World, The Life of Man After Death, The Course of Human Life, The Higher Regions of the Spiritual World, The Members of Man's Being, The Dream State, The Acquirement of Supersensible Knowledge, Observation of Special Events and Beings of the World of Spirit
VIII. Special Comments