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ON APRIL I, 1924, because of the sentence handed 
down by the People's Court of Munich, I had to 
begin that day, serving my term in the fortress at 
Landsberg on the Lech. 

Thus, after years of uninterrupted work, I was afforded 
for the first time an opportunity to embark on a task 
insisted upon by many and felt to be serviceable to the 
movement by myself. Therefore, I resolved not only to 
set forth, in two volumes, the object of our movement, but 
also to draw a picture of its development. From this more 
can be learned than from any purely doctrinary treatise. 

That also gave me the opportunity to describe my own 
development, as far as this is necessary for the understand- 
ing of the first as well as the second volume, and which may 
serve to destroy the evil legends created about my person 
by the Jewish press. 

With this work I do not address myself to strangers, but 
to those adherents of the movement who belong to it with 
their hearts and whose reason now seeks a more intimate 
enlightenment. I know that one is able to win people far 
more by the spoken than by the written word, and that 
every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the 
great speakers and not to the great writers. 

Nevertheless, the basic elements of a doctrine must be 
set down in permanent form in order that it may be repre- 
sented in the same way and in unity. In this connection 
these two volumes should serve as building stones which I 
add to our common work.