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01. The Book on The Royal Art
The "Royal Art" referred here is
the Indian Raja Yoga, merely used the term symbolically, however, for
something infinitely more sublime than what this name connotes at
present.
I. The Light from Himavat and the Words of the Masters:
The Call of the Luminary to the Soul. The Harvest. The All Infinite One.
Know Thyself. The Masters in the Realm of Spirit. The Dangers of
Conceit.
II. From the Land of the Luminaries:
The Threshold. The King's Question. The Journey. The Night of Easter.
Communion.
III. The Will to Joy:
To All That Seek the Light. The Doctrine. Postlude.
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02. The Book on The Living God (2nd Edition)
The Tabernacle of God is with Men. The White Lodge. Meta-Physical Experiences. The Inner Journey. The En-Sof. On
Seeking God. On Leading an Active Life. Of "Holy Men" and "Sinners." The
Hidden Side of Nature. The Secret Temple. Karma. War and Peace. The
Unity among Religions. The Will to Find Eternal Light. The Human Being's
Higher Faculties of Knowing. On Death. The Spirit's Radiant Substance. The Path
Toward Perfection. On Life Everlasting. The Spirit's Light Dwells in the
East. Faith, Talismans, and Images of God. The Inner Force in Words. A
Call from Himavat. Giving Thanks. Epilogue.
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03. The Book on Life Beyond
The Art of Dying. The "Temple of Eternity" and the World
of the Spirit. The Only Absolute Reality. What Should One Do?
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04. The Book on Human Nature
Introduction. The Mystery of "Male and Female." The Path of
Woman. The Path of Man. Marriage. Children. The Mankind to Come.
Conclusion. A Final Word.
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05. The Book on Happiness
Prelude. Creating Happiness as Moral Duty. "I" and "You."
Love. Wealth and Poverty. Money. Optimism. Conclusion.
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06. The Path to God
Faith and Fantasy. Real Knowledge. Dreaming Souls. Truth and
Reality. Yes and No. The Ultimate Struggle. Perfection.
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07. The Book on Love
The Lord of Love. The Fire of Eternal Love. Light of
Deliverance. The Creative Powers of Eternal Love.
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08. The Book on Solace
On Grief and Seeking Comfort. What Grief Can Teach. On Sundry
Foolish Things. The Healing Powers of Work. To Comfort the Bereaved.
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09. The Book of Dialogues
Testimony. Knowing and Being. Light and Darkness. The Might
of the Spirit. The Jewel of the Heart. Transmutation. The Dialogue About
the East Within. The Dialogue About a Master's Dying. The Garden. The
Foolish Pupils. The Night of Trial. Timeless and Temporal Self. The
Kingdom of the Soul. On Finding One's Self. On Mankind's Elder Brothers.
On Magic.
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10. The Secret
Beginning. The Discourse by the Shore. The Monastery of San
Spirito. Southern Night. The Rocky Island. The Voyage. Epilogue.
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11. The Wisdom of St. John
Introduction. The Master's Image. The Luminary's Mortal Life.
The Aftermath. The Missive. The Authentic Doctrine. The Paraclete.
Conclusion.
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12. Signs Along The Way
Promise. Experience and Phenomenon. On Knowing and Conveying
Knowledge. The Art of Reading. On Letters. Personality Cult. Compulsive
Criticizing. Who Was Jakob Bцhme? The Gift of Healing. Dangers of
Mysticism. Twenty-two didactic texts in verse.
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13. The Mirage of Freedom
Fata Morgana. Necessity. Community. Authority. Divisiveness.
Economic Mismanagement. Competition. Catchword Fever. Self-Expression.
Religion. Science. Awareness of Reality.
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14. The Way of My Readers
Whom I Consider My Reader. Essential Distinctions. Needless
Self-Torment. Unavoidable Difficulties. Dynamic Faith. The Greatest
Obstacle. The Reader and His Companions. Inner Life and Outer World. How
My Books Ought to Be Used.
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15. The Mystery of Golgotha
The Mystery of Golgotha. Our Most Terrible Enemy. Love and
Hate. The Growth of the Soul. Spiritual Guidance. Occult "Exercises."
Mediumship and Artistic Creativity. At the Final Source of Life. One
Does Not "Gain" Admission to the "White Lodge." Senseless Speculations.
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16. Cult and Ceremonial Magic
Preface. The Work of Man. Myth and Reality. Myth and Cult.
Cult as Form of Magic. On Magic and on Timeless Knowledge. The Light
Within. Conclusions to Be Drawn.
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17. The Meaning of this Life
A Word to the Reader. The Sin of the Fathers. Man's Highest
Goal. The "Evil" in Man. Glimpses of the World of Light. The Virtues of
Silence. Truth and Verities. Conclusion
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18. More Light
A Guiding Word. To Those That Have Tired of Sleeping. The
Masters Who Build the Cathedral of Man. Theosophy and Pseudotheosophy.
Matter, Soul, and Spirit. Essentials to Be Understood. The Mysteries of
Artistic Creation. The Kabbalah. The Light of Truth in Christianity. The
Secret of the Ancient Lodges. Proper Worship.
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19. The Highest Goal
The Call of the Spirit. The Two Paths. On Seeking and
Finding. Eternal Light. The Colors of Eternal Light. About the Highest
Goal. The Ways of the Ancients. The Blessings Within Work. The Powers of
Love. The Master of Nazareth.
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20. Resurrection
Foreword. Resurrection. What the Wise Consider Knowledge. Law
and Chance. Wasted Labors. The Carnival of Occultism. Inner "Voices."
The Powers of Fear. The Limits of Omnipotence. New Life. Festive Joy.
The Virtues of Laughter. Self-Conquest. Perfection.
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21. Worlds of Spirit
Preface. The Guidance. The Return. The Visual Experiences.
Postlude. Twenty spiritual perspectives: Emanation. In Principio Erat
Verbum. Lux in Tenebris. Te Deum Laudamus. Time and Space. Aeonic
Creation. Germs of Future Worlds. Worlds Unfolding. Birth of the Cosmos.
Labyrinth. Seeking Form. Astral Light. Sodom. Inferno. De Profundis.
Revelation. Enlightenment. Fulfillment. Victory. Himavat.
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22. Psalms
Inferno. Redemption. Understanding. Promise. Liberation.
Fulfillment.
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23. On Marriage
The Timeless Sanctity of Marriage. On Love. On Life Together.
On Joy and Sorrow. On Temptation and Danger. The Demands of Daily Life.
The Will Toward Unity. The Heredity of Happiness. Eternal Bonds.
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24. On Prayer
The Sacred Mystery of Prayer. Seek, and You Shall Find. Ask,
and You Shall Be Given. Knock, and It Shall Be Opened Unto You.
Spiritual Renewal. Make This Your Prayer: Twenty-Two Prayers.
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25. Spirit and Form
The Question. Outer World and Inner Life. House and Home. On
Shaping Joy. On Shaping Sorrow. The Art of Living.
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26. Scintillas
Twenty-Two German Mantras. In connection with these texts ought to be
read the small brochure "The Use of Mantras"
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27. Words of Life
A Call to the Soul. I Who Am. Reflection. Love. Action.
Struggle. Peace. Energy. Life. Light. Trust. Enlightenment. Vow.
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28. Above the Everyday
Thirty-four didactic texts in verse. Part I.
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29. Reality Eternal
Twenty-seven didactic texts in verse. Part II.
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30. Living in Eternal Light
Thirty-two didactic texts in verse. Part III.
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31. Letters to One and to Many
Foreword. Thirty chapters in epistolary form, containing
eighteen texts in verse. The letters deal with the following subjects:
1. On What the Soul Possesses. 2. On Needless Fears. 3. On Necessary
Confidence. 4. About My Way of Writing. 5. On Discussing Myself. 6. What
Ought to Be Accomplished. 7. About the Temple of Eternity. 8. About My
Spiritual Nature. 9. How Spiritual Help Is Brought About. 10. How God Is
Far from World Affairs. 11. How God Can Yet Grant Help to Individuals.
12. On the Energies of the Soul. 13. On New Editions of My Works. 14. On
Polytheism and the Veneration of Saints. 15. How Life Is Lived in the
Spirit. 16. On the Gentle Ways of True Awakening.17. On Mystics and
Jacob Bцhme. 18. What God Is in Reality. 19. On Essence and Being. 20.
On Questions I Would Not Be Asked. 21. About the Number Twelve and the
Bell of the Tower. 22. On the Scales That Must Fall from One's Eyes. 23.
Why No Two Individuals Are Equal Before God. 24. On Professing One's
Faith Before Men. 25. On Masters Who Have Fallen. 26. On Radiant Stones
and Substances. 27. On Disdaining Needless Grief. 28. On the Nature and
Powers of Blessing. 29. On How Eternal Things Do Not Know Time. 30. On
Giving Oneself and on Silence. Conclusion.
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32. Hortus Conclusus
The Dialogue at the Gate. On How Eternal Things Are Simple.
On Changing One's Perspective and on the Concept of Degrees. On Forms of
Consciousness and Help in Need. The Consciousness of the Departed. What
Helpers from the Spirit Have to Risk. On Parodies of the Eternal Self.
Again on Truth and on Reality. On Temporal and Timeless Space. On the
Religious Wisdom of the East. On the Mystery That Dwells in the East.
The Formal Aspect of Religions. On Faith and Acquiescence. Mistaken
Images of God. On the Purpose of All Guidance. On What I Merely Must
Transmit. To Whom I Have Nothing to Say. On the Life of the Eternal
Soul. On the Delays Caused by Curiosity. About Man's Temporal and His
Eternal Soul. On What Continues After Death. On the Eternal Soul and the
Temporal Psyche. Conclusions That One Ought to Draw. Grave Misjudgments
of the Psyche. On the Dilemma of Pastoral Care. On How Eternal Things
Are Wholly Natural. Conclusion and Farewell. List of Works Comprising
the Cycle Hortus Conclusus.
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Enigmas of the Occult (1923)
Preface. Secret Knowledge and Arcane Science. Useful
Planetary Energies. The Enigma of Dreams. Arts of Divination. Hypnosis. The
Enigma of the Future.
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My Work as a Painter (1932)
Why This Book Was Written. Why I Had to Study Painting. About
My Spiritual Perspectives. My Portrait of Jesus. Profession and Calling.
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About my books (1932)
The articles and shorter pieces collected in
this volume provide a brief but comprehensive introduction to the
author's writings, his background, and perspective. In particular, it
offers a synopsis of his forty published works, together with short
commentaries on their contents. This book has been compiled to let the
interested reader gain a clearer picture of the painter and writer Bo
Yin Ra whose unprecedented expositions in the fields of metaphysics,
religion, and philosophy are difficult to classify and have to be
examined by themselves, within their proper context.
Contents: Preface. About My Books. Concerning My
Name. In My Own Behalf. Essential Distinction. Resume. Comments on the
Cycle Hortus Conclusus and the Related Works. Brief Biography of Bô Yin Râ.
The Works of Bô Yin Râ. Frontispiece: photographic portrait of the
author.
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The Realm of Art (1933)
(First published in 1921; appeared in a revised and enlarged edition in 1933)
Preface to the New Edition. Art as a Factor of Life. Is Art a
Luxury? On Art "Analysis." Artistic Perception. On "Beauty" in Art. Art and
Nature. Sculptural Perception. Artist and Layman. Artist, Public, and Jury.
The Work and Its Technique. The Work and Its Style. The Metaphysical
Component in the Work of Art. Art and World View. On "Modern" Art.
Expressionism. Pointless Quarrels. On the "Limits" of Painting. Primitive
Art and Archaism. Art and Virtuosity. The Art of Dilettantes. The Art of
Raphael.
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Codicil to the Hortus Conclusus (1937)
Seven numbered chapters on many different topics, and thus
without specific titles.
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Marginalia (1938)
Preface. Thirty-six didactic texts in verse. Conclusion.
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On Godlessness (1939)
God as an Object of Assumption as Compared to His Reality.
Living Light and Regions Closed to Thought. The Atrophy of Spiritual
Perception. The Loss of God Through "Fear of the Lord." "What Is Truth?"
Comments on the Texts of the Hortus Conclusus and the Related Works.
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Spiritual Relationships(1939)
What the Title Signifies. Concerning the Topic. Chapter One.
Chapter Two. Chapter Three. Appendix: Numbered Catalog of the 268 Individual
Texts Comprising the Cycle Hortus Conclusus.
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Miscellanea (1939)
Thirty-nine didactic texts in verse.
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Gleanings I (1990)
First volume of a posthumous collection of essays, reviews,
and poems, published in various newspapers and journals between 1913 and
1937.
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Gleanings II (1990)
Second volume of a posthumous collection of essays, reviews,
and poems, published in various newspapers and journals between 1913 and 1937.
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An Introduction to His Works (2004, 2nd Ed.)
Small volume containing three articles and various excerpts from the books,
intended as an overview for new readers.
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