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Emil Bock was a founder of the Christian Community in the 1920s and its leader from 1938 until his death in 1959. This study of old Testament kings and prophets is framed within an evolutionary idea of the humanisation of consciousness. The author points out, it is human consciousness that changes from one age to another, from one historical figure to the next. His argument is that the key figures reveal themselves as progressive metamorphoses prefiguring and leading up to the incarnation of Christ. The pivotal figure is that of David, whom the author sees as the midpoint in a succession of old Testament figures. He sees David as the first among the great individuals who was truly a man. His son Solomon also had an enormous influence. With Daniel comes a more explicit connection with the Archangel Michael, whom Bock regards as the guiding spirit in our chaotic age as we strive to embody a more universal consciousness.