Bô Yin Râ the Luminary: New English-language website with Bô Yin Râ's complete spiritual guidance now available: Major US publishing event brought to you first by Three Sages.
BôYin Râ. Reproduced with permission of the German Bô Yin Râ Foundation
MAJOR AMERICAN PUBLISHING EVENT
Just in time for the Holidays, Books to Light USA has launched its complete on-line catalogue of English-language texts by German Luminary Bô Yin Râ (Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, 1876-1943). These are books that have been available in German for over a century, but are now being translated in multiple languages worldwide.
English-language editions were first offered by Kober Press. Now, among other offerings, Books to Light USA is making available the complete 32-volume edition of Bô Yin Râ’s spiritual guidance, entitled Hortus Conclusus (The Enclosed Garden), in a new translation both in separate volumes and, for the first time, as a single bound edition.
Separate editions of individual volumes both in English and German are likewise available, all from Books to Light USA. The availability of the German text will help readers who wish to do so to implement Bô Yin Râ’s strong recommendation that his books be read in his native tongue.
As readers of Three Sages are aware, for almost a year we have been the only US website to publish selections of Bô Yin Râ’s spiritual writings, along with background and commentary. See recent articles on Bó Yin Râ on Three Sages HERE, HERE, and HERE. Also see our Archive for postings of specific books and chapters HERE, using the “Find” function on your browser to locate specific postings by Bô Yin Râ. This is critically important material containing spiritual guidance for our complex times. This material has also been generously cross-posted by Global Research on globalresearch.ca.
We also wish to point out that despite claims by some people that nothing is to be gained merely by reading spiritual books, the writings of Bo Yin Ra themselves convey spiritual substance, particularly if the guidance is taken to heart and put into practice. New worlds of the spirit may then open within, not as discursive thought, but as individual experience.
The main website for Books to Light USA contains voluminous information about Bô Yin Râ and his teachings and may be found HERE.
Titles of the 32 volumes of Hortus Conclusus are as follows:
For an overall description of the teachings, we suggest you start with this page entitled Why This Website.
ORDERING BOOKS
BôYin Râ. Reproduced with permission of the German Bô Yin Râ Foundation.
Each of these books is available as a PDF download in either a standalone English translation or as a German-English side-by-side edition on Payhip HERE. At a later date, this link will be incorporated into the Books to Light USA website.
A special feature of the Books to Light USA website is a series of texts by Dr. Taco van der Plaats, the founder of Luminium Books, who was the initiator of the complete translation of Hortus Conclusus. A description of these texts, along with ordering information may be found, along with other titles, on the new Books to Light USA webshop HERE.
SINGLE VOLUME EDITION AVAILABLE IN AMERICA FOR THE FIRST TIME
The highlight of the webshop is the book: "Hortus Conclusus <The Enclosed Garden>, Comprising All Thirty-Two Books Of The Complete Spiritual Teaching’by Bô Yin Râ.”
The book is printed on so-called “biblical paper” and indeed resembles a Bible. Thus some call it the “Bible edition’, while in fact – in the chronology of English editions - it is the 2021 edition of the English text.
Note: This 1196-page illustrated edition of “collector quality” is the ONLY single-volume edition of Hortus Conclusus in existence, and at $125, plus shipping, is a bargain compared to purchase of individual volumes. This is an ideal edition for use as a “bedside book” or as a priceless Holiday gift.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON EDITIONS OF BÔ YIN RÂ’s BOOKS AS PUBLISHED BY BOOKS TO LIGHT USA
First Edition: 2013-2014, translation by Posthumus Projects, Amsterdam, copyrighted by Posthumus Projects, Amsterdam, then copyrights obtained by Books to Light Netherlands and then by Books to Light USA. All 32 books of the Hortus Conclusus have been translated. All are available as ebooks and all are bilingual (German-English).
2021 Edition: based on further edited translation completed by Posthumus Projects (First Edition of 2013-14) (copyrighted by Dr. Taco van der Plaats, with the copyright obtained by Books to Light USA. Edits were in the area of accuracy of translation and had been significant enough to warrant a separate copyright. All 32 books of the Hortus Conclusus have been included in this edition. All have been compiled into one so-called ‘Bible edition’ single-language monumental book available as a hardcopy (ca 1200 pages), entitled Hortus Conclusus “The Enclosed Garden”, Comprising All Thirty-Two Books Of The “Complete Spiritual Teaching”.
Second Edition: (2022-current), based on First Edition (Second Edition publications completed until year 2024) as well as on 2021 Edition (Second Edition publications completed from year 2025). Edits to the text made by the multinational team associated with the Books to Light USA and mainly in the area of correctness of translation, technical accuracy of both the English and German text, added are the emphases in bold (till 2024) or in italics (from 2025) The English text is now gender neutral, added are also explanatory footnotes, complete including the indexes of all books that are a part of the Hortus Conclusus and outside Hortus Conclusus series, etc. This edition is bilingual (German-English) to allow for comparative reading. Currently 11 books of the Hortus Conclusus are available in this Edition as ebooks as well as copies and more are being added each year. Hardcopy books can be shipped globally.
Future Editions: books by Bô Yin Râ which are outside the main body of work of Hortus Conclusus are being translated and published by the Books to Light USA. First is “Kodizill zu meinem geistigen Lehrwerk” to be published as hardcopy and ebook in early 2026. All future editions will also be bilingual (German-English).
The eleven titles of the Second Edition which are now available are as follows:
Scintillae Mantra Practice_Funken Mantra-Praxis
Words of Life_Worte des Lebens
The Book of Comfort_Das Buch des Trostes
Spirit and form_Geist und Form
Cult-Magic and Myth _ Kultmagie und Mythos
Psalms _ Psalmen
The Path To God_Der Weg zu Gott
High Goal_Das Hohe Ziel
Life in the Light_Leben im Licht
Eternal Reality_Ewige Wirklichkeit
Above the Everyday_Ueber dem Alltag
These Second Edition books contain both the German and English texts, with the English texts edited to reflect Bô Yin Râ’s unique formats of punctuation and emphasis not available in earlier editions. The entire body of Second Edition Books to Light—US volumes, both ebook and hardcover are available as referenced above with other titles HERE.
CONTACT
The editors at Books to Light USA are available for any and all communications about the teachings of Bô Yin Râ, activities in the US and other countries, and the books which they produce and market. At the same time, Bô Yin Râ strongly urged against any attempt to utilize his teachings to form any new congregations, movements, or religious sects, so nothing Books to Light USA engages in should be taken as an attempt to promote such activities. Still, readers of Bô Yin Râ’s books may wish to work together in an informal way as circumstances allow or simply to follow the teachings on their own as they see fit. An email address and a form for questions and comments to Books to Light USA may be found HERE.
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