From a promise to a publishing house

Everything that exists today as a book was first a voice in a room full of people. Frank Alper taught in seminars, and trained others to teach.

Before an evening could become a book, it had to be recorded. Katharina Alper ran the sound and the audio recording at the seminars.

How those recordings became cassettes, then CDs, then transcripts has never been written down anywhere.

Between the recording and the book lies the longest and quietest work: listening, transcribing, ordering, translating.

Frank Alper wanted his 1986 trilogy Exploring Atlantis reissued complete, as a single English volume. Only after his passing in 2007 did Katharina Alper find the time to take it on.

The work needed a publisher’s name — one that would be understood in several languages and would not date. That is how Edition Adamis began.

With the German translation of Blue Marsden’s Soul Plan the idea grew into a publishing programme. In 2008 Katharina Alper met Gudrun and David K. Miller, and two of his works appeared in German for the first time.

The aim is not to hand anyone finished answers, but to help people ask better questions and walk their own way with their eyes open.

Frank Alper’s legacy continues to be looked after: the English series Moses and the Bible and An Evening with Christos have both been reissued. Alongside the books, Edition Adamis still produces audio recordings.