The Remedy
The problems we face seem to get worse from day to day. Sadly, people do not know that there is a solution to our problems, one that requires no money, membership, belief, or special status. It is an ancient, proven science that directly investigates the hidden roots of our pain.
In its essence, it is Self-knowledge acquired through observation and deep meditation.
The Author
Samael Aun Weor spent his life investigating that remedy, and doing all he could to inform the public about it. From 1950 to 1977 he wrote more than sixty books in Spanish about it, and gave thousands of lectures. He explained that all religions originally had that root knowledge, but most forgot it. He called it Gnosis, since anyone could confirm it through their own experience.
When he started, he walked door to door to sell his books, and relied on word-of-mouth to promote them. By the time he died in 1977, he had millions of readers all over the world, but very few of his books were available in English, and none could be found in bookstores.
The Translator
For many decades, in English-speaking countries his books remained practically impossible to find. There were only one or two books translated to English, and they could only be acquired from the handful of places where the teachings were offered, usually in private groups at someone's home (and even then, one had to "earn" access to the books). Bookstores had never heard of them.
Fortunately, Samael Aun Weor and his wife asked a student to translate all of his writings to English. He spent decades methodically translating each line. He did this by meditating constantly, to make sure the true meaning was being conveyed.
When a translation was done, he would make books one at a time by hand on copy machines and bind them manually. This was labor-intensive, expensive, and time-consuming. The resulting books were costly ($30-$50 each) and not very durable. This was years before the internet or online stores, so the only way to find his books was by personally knowing someone who knew about them and how to get them.
The Artist
Around 1999, the translator met a student of the teachings who was an artist, who offered to try to make the books professionally printed, attractive, easier to find, and less expensive. A charity auction raised the needed funds, and the first book was professionally printed: 300 copies of a book of lectures by Samael Aun Weor. Once those books had sold out, the small amount raised became the basis to print another book.
Eventually, this collaboration became the non-profit organization Glorian Publishing.
Over the decades, Glorian published all of the major books by Samael Aun Weor along with a few other authors, and got them into bookstores and online stores. Now they are available to anyone in the world. The days of the books being obscure and requiring special access are over.
