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 P. 304

- the spiritual truths or lessons given by its Higher Self during the sleep of the body. Hence a careful analysis of dreams will show what general stage of development the candidate has reached and what general problems he must face and conquer. You do not have to experience the two lower classes of dreams if you train your brain mind to refuse to accept such experiences. When this training is accomplished you will dream only when your Higher Self desires to give you a lesson or a warning.
It is with these inner thought-currents that the candidate who knocks at the Fourth Gate must de- terminately grapple; first recognize, and then control. No thought-currents coming from your Higher Self or from the Masters of Wisdom can flow into your consciousness until, by determined conscious effort, you have swept away all trifling thoughts and have prepared channels for higher thoughts.

At this step you become responsible for the effect of every outside influence that impinges upon your consciousness. You become responsible not only for all the emanations which you send out to inter- penetrate all space and impinge upon every other human being but also responsible for every thought you permit to enter your consciousness from any source.

While you cannot expect to conquer all at once and absolutely shut out every undesirable thought, still you 'can refuse to dwell upon a thouglit and can determinately think some constructive thought which will ultimately create a channel through which like thoughts will naturally flow.

In other words, you must be the Chooser, the Willer. the Master of our thoughts. And you will
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