In this book on Progressive Spiritual Development, we will discover eight keys that will unlock the spiritual life of every seeker of truth. In these pages you will realize how to Discover your true self, experience genuine sorrow and renunciation of sin, how to master self-control, how to hunger and thirst after righteousness, how to be merciful, how to be pure in heart, how to cultivate true peace, and finally how to rejoice when experiencing persecution.

These principles form an upward stair that produce a higher, healthier, spiritual relationship with the Creator. As a step is progressive in its accent toward the top, so it is in the spiritual life. Only as one step is reached, understood, and influence the life by producing fruit, can the recipient be benefited by moving to the next level. Each principle must have its effect by molding the life as only that principle can accomplish. Each individual principle does its peculiar work in bring about the needed transformation in the life.

These principles are not stand-alone principles. Amid there individual importance, they must be viewed as part of the whole. Each individual relation to the whole creates a synergistic effect that supply the power of transformation to mold the willing life into the perfect will of the Master. When these principles are perseveringly followed the individual will lead a life that will grow into the perfection of character that the Creator longs to develop in His people.