About the only good thing in this book on meditation is the accurate delineation of the stages on the path to transcendence. Otherwise it is badly dated, verbose and written in the absurd over-earnest manner that makes a great deal of esoteric literature hard to tolerate.The prescribed method is a prayer-mantra, the effectiveness of which depends on the intensity of one's religious convictions. In short, meditation works best for the true believer. Mrs Bailey seems blissfully unaware that people without any religious faith whatsoever can attain - via an entirely secular mantra - exactly the same inner freedom.The most serious flaw is Bailey's proselytising in the final chapters. She dishonestly uses quotes from the great mystics (that she has used appropriately in the book to this point) to suggest they agree with her own eccentric cosmological and theological views.Buyer beware!