Taking her starting point from Rudolf Steiner's seminal lecture on the nine layers of the Earth, Judith von Halle directs her spiritual research to Christ's Descent into the Depths following the Crucifixion, and the relationship of that event to the modern spiritual pupil's Path of schooling.
Above all she shows how we can only rise to spiritual heights to the degree that we also first plumb the Depths of the abyss.
 
This journey finds its parallel in the mystery of the representative of humanity's Descent into hell, through the nine layers of the earth.
As she points out in her foreword, the contents of this book may initially appear more abstract than others in the series '
Approaches to Understanding the Christ Event', but this is because they deal with processes that can only be accomplished in a purely spiritual way, in spheres where no earthly perceptions can penetrate.
 
Taking her starting point from Rudolf Steiner's seminal lecture on the nine layers of the Earth, Judith von Halle directs her spiritual research to Christ's Descent into the Depths following the Crucifixion, and the relationship of that event to the modern spiritual pupil's Path of schooling