Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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Hermann Kuhn
Pali, or Prakrit language, or translated by scholars who made their contents even more confusing.
Sure, nowadays a quarter-million 'spiritual' or 'New Age' books are on sale, - but to my personal experience they never went beyond what these initial fifteen 'spiritual' works described. - Or - more sarcastic - in the words of 18th century German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: 'Stepping on quark (twaddle) makes it flat, not strong
At that time - my age was twenty-two - I came across one book whose title I don't recall after these many years, but which contained the reprint of an original scripture written more than a millennium ago - a text that mystified me though I was utterly unable to understand it then.
Now, - instead of discarding it, as I had done with the works of Gurdijeff, Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner and others, I did something I'd never done before: I copied the few pages of this scripture. Since copy-shops didn't exist yet, this took an elaborate journey to the company of a girlfriend's father to get it done.
I then sealed the 12 copied sheets into an envelope which I placed inside a book I knew I'd never lend out or give away, because the - well-known - author had autographed it with an elaborate dedication.
This book - including the envelope I soon forgot - accompanied me on many of my journeys of the next three decades. During these years the book got crammed into cardboard boxes, travelled to three continents, sat on improvised bookshelves of highly temporary accommoda