Journey Into the Light
By Isha Schwaller de Lubicz

    This book provides a lot of instruction and insight for those seeking spiritual development, but it does it in an unusual way.  Rather than writing as a teacher giving instruction, this book is written in the form of a novel in which several students meet a spiritual teacher or master and are giving instruction.  Sometimes, the students are asking questions and the master answers them.  At other times, the teacher has a specific lesson to teach and invites the students over where they are taught through symbolic artworks, little stages lessons and then verbal explanation and discussion.  
    The author is French and the book is set in France, but the teachings are based primarily on the ancient Egyptian teachings which Isha and her husband R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz studied for many years and both wrote several books on their understanding of these universal truths.  By setting the book in modern times, the author helps us to relate to the students, their questions and misunderstandings and the challenge of developing spiritually in a world that is so oriented to the material.
    I think this is one of the best spiritual books I have read and it deserves to be a classic of the genre.