This comprehensive collection of all of Mr. Haven's important essays about practically every aspect of the Fourth Way System is a treasure house of inspiration and an invaluable reference for everyone interested in the work of inner development and personal evolution.

Contents (123 essays in 3 parts and 19 chapters)
Part I: The System
Attitudes
Separation and Self-Remembering
Acceptance
Feminine Dominance
Right Thinking
Lower Centers
Essence and Personality
Exploring the Ideas of the System
The First Line of Work
The Second and Third Lines of Work
Emotions, Negative Emotions and Transformation
Part II: Influence A
Children
Love, Sex and Relationships
Part III: The School
Art and Evolution
Students
Former Students
Influences
The Ark
The Form of the School

From the Introduction
''Creating a Soul' by Girard Haven is about the practical work in the Fourth Way. "Practical" in this context means something more than physical or mental exercises that the reader can attempt in the privacy of his or her own study. In these pages, Mr. Haven speaks about the difficult, day-to-day work to awaken from the sleep in which we all are immersed. Practical, then, means both beginning to see things as they are and attempting to act from what one sees. Practical also means distinguishing between the efforts that one is capable of making by oneself and the line beyond which one cannot pass without outside assistance ...

From the Author's Preface
Probably everyone who has sincerely worked on himself has had the experience of coming to a new and deeper understanding of an idea with which he had been familiar for years. This happened to me late in 1981 with respect to the idea of attitudes. Suddenly, I truly understood that not only were my attitudes the strings which connected me to the world, but that they were subjective and in that sense arbitrary. Consequently, there was no external reason not to replace existing attitudes with others which would be more useful to my evolution. For the next ten years, the struggle to do this was the focus of my personal work … No matter what else is being discussed, on some level each of these essays records a search for right, or useful, attitudes with respect to a particular subject and an effort to discover how to adopt and use them …