The present volume was originally published in 1975 (8 years after Adrienne von Speyr’s death) under the subtitle Dimensions of Christian Obedience. It corresponds to a part of the posthumous work Ignatiana and consists of meditations on the path of Christ-like obedience directed primarily to those committed to life in the evangelical counsels. As Hans Urs von Balthasar writes in his introduction to the work, such readers “should come away from it with the certain conviction that it’s pointless to enter on this path either expecting eventual compromises or making them from the outset. It’s in radicalism alone that one attains the perfect freedom of love.”