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.

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.