The Book on Life Beyond

Like a traveler’s guide book, which can tell you much about a country of this earth that you have never seen, the present volume, too, was written to provide you with the most important facts concerning that-to you still unknown-world in which you one day shall awaken, capable of feeling and experience, no matter whether you at this time can believe that such a future life exists, or not.” This book is not intended to recruit adherents for some new hypothesis of metaphysics or philosophy; nor is it meant to found a new kind of “religion.” Its only purpose is to offer you authentic knowledge concerning the objective spiritual-not intellectual-experience that was the source and origin of all the ancient great religions which, in their time and place, were born out of the Spirit that is God’s” The insight that the world of physical perception-from the vastest galaxy to the minutest particle of matter-is only molded after patterns found in realms of spiritual perception-this is something, it appears, that many find beyond their faculties of comprehension… Were it not an ancient superstition that man can apprehend the realm of Spirit by means of logically impeccable deductions, the reality of which I speak here would long ago have been unlocked, so that today it would be known beyond all doubts and questions.” The literary legacy of Bo Yin Ra includes forty titles, published between 1919 and 1939, in Germany and Switzerland. Thirty-two of these works comprise a closely related cycle which the author gathered under the title of Hortus Conclusis (The Enclosed Garden). In his books he addresses questions and concerns that, in the language of religion and philosophy, pertain to “final things”-the mysteries of mortal and eternal life, of God, the origin and goal of human existence-the mysteries of mortal and eternal life, of God, the origin and goal of human existence-and gives advice on how one ought to live this present life to “lay up treasures” in the life to come. What sets these books apart form other writings on these topics is their author’s background and horizon. Thus, he does not give the reader the results of learned thinking, speculations, and beliefs, but lucid insights into the objective structure of reality, based upon direct, reliable experience. His books, upon direct, reliable experience. His books, therefore, as he explains, are not intended to create “beliefs,” nor any new “religion,” but should instead be used as maps that guide the reader safely through the labyrinth of this existence to the goal that every spiritually concerns human beings finally desires to attain.