In full recognition of the demands of modern life, Rittelmeyer felt challenged to create a Christian meditative path.These meditations demonstrate how pictures and sayings from St. John's Gospel can be so thought and imagined that they become alive in the heart, uniting with the being of Christ through his words and deeds.The inner training on the path of love was distinct both from Rittelmeyer's mission as the first of a new priesthood in the Christian Community and from the esoteric path of anthroposophy.