These letters had a great impact on those who were privileged to receive them. Their author, writing as if to a friend, expresses himself in easy, familiar language. He shares thoughts and travel notes, along with often surprising encounters with eminent, well-known people. In Letters From Nowhere, you will find yourself on a journey with Raymond Bernard, as he describes the present situation of humanity; you will become acquainted with the Grand Master of the Druzes, you will learn a little bit about the Rosicrucians, travel to India and to the Secret Ashrams. You will visit with the Grand Lamas of Tibet and finally, you will have an opportunity to learn more about the Bodhisattva and of Tibetan Buddhism. In Letters from Nowhere, Raymond Bernard takes us on a journey of discovery in which the inner world is the true destination!
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Many of my writings, at the outset, were not intended for the public. Indeed, much of their contents had been, for a long time, presented exclusively to active members of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC, in the form of photocopied manuals. When it was decided that some of them could be made the object of public distribution, the question presented itself as to whether I should revise their texts and adapt them to a new readership foreign to the Rosicrucian Order. Finally, with the exception of few passages, which had to remain confidential, the texts have undergone no modification.
The fundamental purpose of my writings is the transmission of a certain knowledge dealing with particular topics with which The Esoteric Tradition has always been preoccupied and which, nowadays, particularly in France, continue to exercise a powerful attraction on whomsoever is interested in those great questions which transcend the limits of an absurd everyday life. Such are the reasons which incited me to write.
The method chosen to communicate this knowledge is important. To understand certain subjects, it is not enough simply to read; it is necessary to participate, and this is why I have adopted the form of a narrative. As a result my works tend to be partially allegorical and partially factual. They are based upon symbols, because the symbol is, in essence, a language which each discerns at his or her own level. Therefore, through allegory, through symbol, and through facts, it is to the examination of subjects of the highest interest that my works will conduct you.
Therefore, before reading the messages which I transmit to you through my writings, an important point is necessary to be made. None of my works constitutes a teaching and, more importantly, they do not constitute a dogma! To propose, without imposing, is ever a rule to which I remain, and will forever remain attached. But if it happens that by way of these words and these explanations, as limiting as they are in expressing a sublime state of understanding and communion, the light is recognized by a larger number of my readers, and is accepted and assimilated by them as an integral part of themselves, then I would be more than pleased. For such an occurrence there could be no reason other than their high degree of a receptivity, due of course, to the fact that they know, at the time of their reading, how to use their intellect, not to analyze, but to participate and to recover, in this way, that state which is at its origin. It is there, actually in that state, that exists the possibility of communing with that original truth which never changes.
Humanity is saturated with intellectualism. But man needs something else. Despite all that is offered to him from the outside, he is dissatisfied and, not finding peace, he abandons himself to a febrile life and confuses agitation with activity. If he reads, it is often to seek some sort of diversion and to escape as much from himself as from the world which surrounds him. Excesses beget an irresistible need for simplicity, and this in all domains. This simplicity marks the stage of "the return to oneself" and the beginning of a quest. While learning to see beyond, to look higher and farther, one begins to understand that there is no other way to integrate oneself into the present, or to participate effectively in it. Then, all sterile agitation ceases. The intellect stops being the master. From tyrant it becomes a tool, a servant, and infinite perspectives begin to open in silence before the hungry soul.
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