During a successful career as a portrait painter, Vera Stanley Alder began to investigate the Ancient Wisdom, and this exploration revolutionized her life. She made it her task to simplify and summarize this knowledge in order to present it to others. She started to lecture and write in 1938, demonstrating, as one reviewer put it, "A rare gift for condensing and synthesizing the essentials of esoteric teaching."
Vera Stanley Alder here offers us a guide to attainment through the path outlined by Ancient Wisdom. She summaries our philosophical relationship to the past by comparing it with the discoveries of modern science, and surveys the techniques of working with breath, color, sounds, numbers, diet and exercise. Finally, she discusses the functions of the third eye, astrology, meditation, and their ultimate aims.
In the spring of 1984, Vera Stanley Alder died in her sleep while making plans to start a new lecture series in London. She is proof that with consciousness, we can all live fulfilling and productive lives.
