Bô Yin Râ, born 1876 in Aschaffenburg, died 1943 in Massagno
On the pages of Kober Verlag you can read another insightful statement by Bô Yin Râ.
About my textbooks
Quote from the book: Die Weisheit des Johannes
» But even in the workings of the spirit there are times of ebb and times of flow:
— times of concealment and times of revelation.
So today it is possible to speak where before one had to remain silent.
But even today there is no danger that the uninitiated might approach the silent temple of divine mystery.
Only the chosen ones will ever find the way that leads to this temple, who seek with the purest fervour of heart, until the longed-for guidance is received in their own "I".
Mysterious secrets will be revealed to them; but whatever else may be revealed to humanity in the course of the millennia will always point to a far deeper mystery in the distance, and the divinity will never leave itself to earthly man as an object of conceptual comprehension. —
Only images and parables may convey the ultimate truth! But for those who no longer seek such truth externally, who have recognised that it can only be grasped in the innermost depths of the inner human being, "face to face", images and parables show the way to reach the innermost depths of the inner being.
There, if he is one of the chosen, much may still be revealed to him that I must conceal here, before the ears of all: — whether it be that human words cannot encompass the breadth of what needs to be said here, or that such knowledge would be of no use to anyone who does not attain it from the innermost depths, where alone it can be grasped. —
What I have to say is clearly outlined in my mind.
I can only try to present what I am tasked with presenting, so that the light may once again penetrate the darkness.
These days, there are many everywhere who long for light — far more than ever before — and today, the written word, which alone can reach them with certainty, is no longer in danger of being altered and thus falsified by transcription.
Blessed are they all if my word finds its way into their hearts and snatches them from the darkness, so that they may find the path created by the highest love and thus attain resurrection within themselves! - «
Bô Yin Râ writes about his spiritual textbooks
Source: Hortus Conclusus, Kober Verlag AG, Zürich
Chapter:
Zum Abschluss und Abschied
This book marks the end of my temporal textbook! Soon after the beginning of the twentieth century in the era of Christianity, I endeavoured to put into words the first insights from my Eternal that had come to my mind at that time. What I had set down in this way remained lying around for a long time, as I did not even remotely think of publishing it myself in my earthly days. It was only in the years 1912 and 1913, in various places in Greece, due to external and internal experiences of a special kind, of which I report on various occasions in my textbooks, that the first of the present transcripts were written, after I had already convinced myself in 1910 of the necessity of self-publication during my earthly lifetime, and from then on had prepared the composition of individual sections. In 1913, one such fragment, which I edited several times there, went into print from Athens.
Today, in the eventful days of 1936, I am concluding my written proclamation, which includes everything, but no more, than what will be finally enumerated after the last words of this book, which forms the conclusion of the series of books having "Das Buch der königlichen Kunst" at its beginning.
Only the treatises on fine art, which I have summarised in the book: "Das Reich der Kunst", as well as the biographical little book: "In eigener Sache", and the little volume: "Aus meiner Malerwerkstatt", which is also primarily biographical, are of course not part of my spiritual oeuvre, even if they show its traces. The same applies to the collection: "Okkulte Rätsel". Treatises that have appeared individually, insofar as I have not included them in one of my own books to date, are also not to be counted as part of my now completed spiritual teaching work, although this exclusion is in no way intended to devalue them retrospectively.
Under no circumstances, however, may any passage from private letters that has not been inserted by myself into a book of the series of textbooks that I have now finally completed ever be regarded as belonging to my teaching work or be used to interpret a passage from this teaching work! I cannot take eternal responsibility for anything other than the content of my publicly published writings mentioned below! I bear no responsibility for letters not published by myself, even where they touch on spiritual matters, other than the purely temporal, generally human responsibility that demands no more of any utterance than that it be an expression of what a person thinks he has to say within his everyday life, at the moment and only for the moment. I have never written letters "for posterity", but have always been guided by my willingness to help the addressee, even if I did not know whether he was worthy of this devotion. I have certainly not lacked disappointments that were hard to bear!
By the way, I make no commitment to not publish any more books from now on, whatever their content may be. But I have to warn in advance against including any further writing, that I should feel compelled to, in my completed spiritual work! This conclusion is not arbitrary, but the requirement of what is being concluded here.
The series in which this textbook is now finally available will, however, remain a "Hortus conclusus" for every one of my fellow human beings who wants to find something other than his eternal: — a strictly enclosed garden closed to him, even if the narrow gate that forms the entrance to the garden is opened wide before him. Nothing is further from my mind than to gain admittance for the uninvited and to introduce what must remain outside! But I would all the more like to send my blessings to all those who leave their earthly things where they belong and seek only their eternal things in my teaching!
I do not give systematised instructions, but living teaching! In the thirty-two individual writings, which form as many sections of my spiritual textbooks, everything is contained which earthly man must know about the eternal and about the relationships which connect him with the eternal if he values finding access to the eternal within himself and one day becoming capable of experiencing the eternal. There is a great danger of getting so caught up in the experience of the transient earthly that the ability to experience the eternal can never be achieved. It is not the eternal that is damaged by this, but the earthly human being, who finally and irretrievably loses what is eternal in him in all unsuspectingness. Countless such separations of earthly human consciousness from the eternal, to which it is latently entitled, occur day after day, hour after hour. So that more may be saved than the religions are still able to save today, my written textbook has been created! My "successor", — a man in the same spiritual situation as I am, and like me destined to be the earthly audible voice of the eternal primordial word, — will see very many lines of generations waiting for him, and will not appear on earth to give further instructions on the path I have shown, until that which has been expressed by me in my now completed teaching work has become the spiritual and brain-conscious common property of all men of this earth who are striving towards the eternal!
But one does not receive the spiritual life offered in my words by brooding over or discussing with oneself and others the intellectually perceptible content of the individual thirty-two textbooks! Rather, one must allow them to have an effect on oneself — free from all brooding — in a receptive way, just as I have moulded them, so that one learns to become aware of and feel the life offered in them, which is based in the eternal. Whoever has once perceived this, my own spiritual life in my words, then felt and absorbed it, is released from all doubt, which the fear of wrong conclusions imposes on everyone who misuses his earthly faculty of thinking to construct paths for himself out of thought-gravel, under the delusion that he can reach eternal reality on them.