Christ, the powers of karma, the Archangel Michael, the Grail, Sophia -- whatever has been founded on earth out of spiritual sources can only remain alive and fruitful if it can repeatedly draw nourishment from these original sources, suggests the author in this well-crafted book. Gleich, who founds his research on the work of Rudolf Steiner, presents "the fivefold stream of inspiration out of the spiritual world, " which forms the basis of Anthroposophy.