Bô Yin Râ: An Introduction to His Works

All knowledge, faith, and forming of hypotheses remains completely worthless so long as it does not effectively determine the conduct of one's daily life in each and every instance.

- from chapter 5, "Résumé"

The articles collected in this volume give the interested reader an overview of the painter and writer Bô Yin Râ, whose writings in the fields of metaphysics, religion, and philosophy are difficult to classify but rich in meaning. The book includes a brief biography and a chronological list and chapter headings of the author's works, in the order in which they were published in the original German.

The Kober Press publishes the only English translations of the books of Bô Yin Râ authorized by the Kober Verlag, Switzerland. The Kober Verlag publishes the books of Bô Yin Râ in the original German and has protected their integrity since the author's lifetime.

I am not a prophet who needs devoted followers, nor a fighter for some cause who wants to see believers march behind him. I simply am a mediator providing spiritual insights into mortal man's eternal home. --From About My Books

If it offends you that I use the name in which alone I know myself in sound, and if you feel this name is too exotic for your taste, then simply give me any name you will. But: do read just the same what I have written, because I wrote these books for you as well. --From Concerning My Name

To be able properly to judge realities within the Spirit's timeless life requires that one know about the structure of that Spirit, whose very substance is eternal light. And all my books have as their foremost aim to open reader's eyes to this mysterious structure, and to show them its profoundest depth. The unprejudiced examination of these books will thus provide the most reliable criterion not only for the true importance of their content but also for the author's right to say what he is saying.