The Secret

by Bô Yin Râ, Posthumus Projects (Editor)

Bo Yin Ra, Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken was a German poet, writer and painter. Posthumus Projects has translated and published his books in English. The Hortus Conclusus contains thirty-two books. For more information about the books of Bo Yin Ra you van www.bo-yin-ra.org The reader familiar with my other books will have realised throughout that for me it is really not the ‘narrative’ that counts here. – Let me state explicitly that every word of this book keeps to actual experience! The three men in the book became the author’s messengers of such experiencing and allowed him to create a picture to which he was able to add colours which would not have been used had he only wanted to portray this experience as such. So may this book bring liberation and clarity and show all those seeking it, the way to the light! – May all those with honest will find in this book the first stimulus to reach that spiritual height from where they will see that the goal and final purpose of their existence is no longer a ‘secret’! – – CONTENTS The Beginning Conversation on the beach Santo Spirito Southern night The rocky island The sea journey Epilogue The Standard-translation© into English In order to read parts of this book please or

105 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2015

About the author

Pseudomym of Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken. The father, Joseph S., was a native of Burgstadt, Franconia. The mother, Maria Anna, née Albert, came from Hosbach, near Aschaffenburg.

Schneiderfranken was graduated from the Städelsche Art Institute at the conclusion of the summer semester 1899, in the master class of Prof. W.A. Beer (1837-1907). From September 1900 to the end of June 1901 his studies were continued at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, under Prof. Ch. Griepenkerl (1839-1916). In the fall of 1901 he briefly lived in Munich, where he later made his residence for longer periods. Here a fellow painter, Gino Parin (1876-1944), was his studio neighbor and became a friend whose skill and expertise he counted very valuable.

In the early summer of 1902 he attended the Académie Julian in Paris, where his teachers were Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911) and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1912).

In 1906 a collection of his pen-and-ink and pencil drawings was exhibited at the Kunstverein at Leipzig. That year he traveled for six weeks in Italy. In 1908 he also visited the south of Sweden. During the next few years, 1909-1912, his studio was in Munich.

From 1913 to 1915 he worked again in Munich. In 1915 the E. Schulte Gallery in Berlin exhibited a collection of his Greek landscapes.

Until the spring of 1923 the author lived and worked in Görlitz.