HERMANN HARLOS was born in the year 1940 in the city of Krakow, Poland. Near the end of the Second World War his family fled from Poland to West Germany, where he grew up. Over the course of a varied life, which led him from Germany to Australia and on to Canada, Hermann Harlos was first a blacksmith, then a farm machinery mechanic, later a fitter and welder, eventually a self employed farmer, and finally a mystic. His mystical experiences compelled him to become a self-taught writer in his mature years, after his retirement from farming. Those experiences also enabled him to gain some insights into the inner workings of the mystical order of the Temple, knowledge that can only be obtained by direct mystical experience. He writes fiction, poetry, and non fiction, in both German and English. His first publishing success was the German language publication of "Non nobis, Domine!" in 2004. He now resides with his wife in Coldstream, British Columbia, where he works on his second novel.