Online Scans of Rare & Antique Metaphysical Books
Artifacts from the revival of Wisdom-Religions, Gnosticism
and Esoteric Christianity in the late 19th and early 20th Century.  

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pages 1-13 'The Path' and pages 14-19 'Meaning of the Symbol' Voice of Isis - by the Order of Christian Mystics - 1926 Voice of ISIS: CHAPTER XXII. THE PATH. -Thou wilt show me the path of life."-Psalm.t. XVI, 11. "Now for the fourth prepare, the portal of temptations which do ensnare the inner man." . . "Man is a crystal ray; a beam of light immac- ulate within, a form of clay material upon the lower surface. That beam is thy life-guide and thy true Self, the Watcher and the silent Thinker, the victim of thy lower Self."-The Voice of the Silence, Blavatsky, Fragment III. Every student who has earnestly sought association with this Order has done so because of an inner urge, which, whether verbally expressed or not, manifests as a determination to set out in earnest upon the Path of Discipleship which leads to the goal of final liberation. Yet few there be who are aware of the many snares and delusions and the many requirements necessary to attain that great end. Many think this Path but a figure of speech, and that all that is necessary is to live an average life, to have good intentions, to be honest whenever circumstances permit, to be true whenever it seems to pay, saying with a shrug of the shoulders "No one is perfect and I am doing the best I can under the circumstances." Such persons have not only not entered the Path but have no conception of what the Path is. How many, many there are who earnestly and sincerely believe they have entered the Path, yet who alter years of earth-life, years of striving and .... (next page)

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