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    The Voice of the Silence
    The Voice of the Silence
    The Voice of the Silence
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    The Voice of the Silence

    By Helena Blavatsky

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    In The Voice of the Silence, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky guides readers into the heart of spiritual awakening, weaving together fragments of ancient Eastern wisdom to illuminate the Path for those who seek enlightenment. Originally written as a sacred manual for aspirants on the path to self-knowledge and mastery, this profound text distills the e

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdultbrain Publishing
    Release dateNov 15, 2024
    ISBN9781998614516

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      The Voice of the Silence - Helena Blavatsky

      The Voice of the Silence

      The Voice of the Silence

      Helena Blavatsky

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      Contents

      Dedication

      Preface

      1 - The Voice of the Silence

      2 - The Two Paths

      3 - The Seven Portals

      Glossary to Part 1

      Glossary to Part 2

      Glossary to Part 3

      Copyright Page

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      Dedicated to the Few.

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      Preface

      The following pages are derived from The Book of the Golden Precepts, one of the works put into the hands of mystic students in the East. The knowledge of them is obligatory in that school, the teachings of which are accepted by many Theosophists. There- fore, as I know many of these Precepts by heart, the work of translating has been relatively an easy task for me.

      It is well known that, in India, the methods of psychic development differ with the Gurus (teachers or masters), not only because of their belonging to different schools of philosophy, of which there are six, but because every Guru has his own system, which he generally keeps very secret. But beyond the Hima- layas the method in the Esoteric Schools does not

      differ, unless the Guru is simply a Lama, but little more learned than those he teaches.

      The work from which I here translate forms part of the same series as that from which the Stanzas of the Book of Dzyan were taken, on which the Secret Doctrine is based. Together with the great mystic work called Paramârtha, which, the legend of Nâgârjuna tells us, was delivered to the great Arhat by the Nâgas or Serpents (in truth a name given to the ancient Initiates), the Book of the Golden Precepts claims the same origin. Yet its maxims and ideas, however noble and original, are often found under different forms in Sanskrit works, such as the Jñâneśvari, that superb mystic treatise in which Krishna describes to Arjuna in glowing colours the condition of a fully illumined Yogi; and again in certain Upanishads. This is but natural, since most, if not all, of the greatest Arhats, the first followers of Gautama Buddha

      were Hindus and Âryans, not Mongolians, especially those who emigrated into Tibet. The works left by Âryâsanga alone are very numerous.

      The original Precepts are engraved on thin oblong squares; copies very often on discs. These discs, or plates, are generally preserved on the altars of the temples attached to centres where the so-called con- templative or Mahâyâna (Yogâchâra) schools are established. They are written variously, sometimes in Tibetan but mostly in ideographs. The sacerdotal language (Senzar), besides an alphabet of its own, may be rendered in several modes of writing in cypher characters, which partake more of the nature of ideographs than of syllables. Another method (lug, in Tibetan) is to use the numerals and colours, each of which corresponds to a letter of the Tibetan alpha- bet (thirty simple and seventy-four compound letters) thus forming a complete cryptographic alphabet.

      When the ideographs are used there is a definite mode of reading the text; as in this case the symbols and signs used in astrology, namely the twelve zodiacal animals and the seven primary colours, each a triplet in shade, i.e. the light, the primary, and the dark — stand for the thirty-three letters of the simple alphabet, for words and sentences. For in this method, the twelve animals five times repeated and coupled with the five elements and the seven colours, furnish a whole alphabet composed of sixty sacred letters and twelve signs. A sign placed at the beginning of the text determines whether the reader has to spell it according to the Indian mode, when every word is simply a Sanskrit adaptation, or according to the Chinese principle of reading the ideographs. The easiest way however, is that which allows the reader to use no special, or any language he likes, as the signs and symbols were, like the Arabian numerals or figures,

      common and international property among initiated mystics and their followers. The same peculiarity is characteristic of one of the Chinese modes of writing, which can be read with equal facility by any one ac- quainted with the character: for

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