Lao-Tse:  Life and Work of the Forerunner in China
In every culture heralds of Truth have appeared at times of critical development  in order to help people on their spiritual path. The lives and work of many of these  Truth-bringers is described in the Forerunner Book Series.    The series came into being in the early 1930's in connection with In the Light of Truth: The Grail  Message and its author, Abd-ru-shin (Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, 1875-1941). Among those  associated with him, there were a few who, in his proximity, gained an insight into spiritual  connections in historical events. They wrote down what they beheld, but did not consider  themselves the authors of the volumes.    For this reason, the books appeared and still appear without indication of author, and with the  notation, "Received in the proximity of Abd-ru-shin through the special gift of one Called for the  purpose."    The Forerunner books do not present fanciful pictures of the past. Rather, they describe historical  happenings in their imperishable form. Everything that has taken place is recorded in the annals  of time, so that we of today may develop our perceptions from those events.    What becomes apparent is that in the course of millennia mankind was repeatedly shown ways to  find the Truth. But instead of accepting the Truth, people adapted It toward earthly objectives and  deflected that which did not fit in with their personal world view. Had it been otherwise, writes  Abd-ru-shin:"...there would now be only one uniform teaching here on earth, issuing from the Will of  God. There would not be so many kinds of denominations. All the teachings that have come to  the earth in the past would, united, form a single flight of steps to the pedestal on which the Truth  is to stand... There would be no differences in the interpretations, much less differences in the  teachings themselves!--For all teachings were at one time willed by God, precisely adapted to the  individual peoples and countries, and formed in complete accord with their actual spiritual  maturity and receptivity... The bringers of all the individual teachings were Forerunners of the  Word of Truth Itself..."    The struggle between value systems and religions would be impossible if only the simple  recognition that all religious wisdom, every proclamation of Truth came from one source. The  Forerunner Book Series can (and should) pave a way for this recognition in that it depicts the  Truth-bringers of past eras, their lives and their teachings, free of every-thing the human mind  has concealed in the past.    The complete Forerunner Series of nine books (see listing at the beginning of this volume)  includes five monographs about:Ephesus (Hjalfdar in prehistoric times)Zoroaster (Zarathustra) in IranLao-Tse in China (this volume)Buddha in India, andMohammed in Arabia