This book is a collection of talks given by Omar Ali Shah to study groups throughout the world during the eighties. After describing how the Sufi Tradition functions over the time span of many generations, Omar Ali Shah draws a clear and lucid picture of what is required both from a student and from a teacher in this tradition, and then goes into the various traits of character and circumstance which one develops in order to be able to implement the transformation of the self that is the basis of Sufism. With glossary.