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. 305

-remain before this Gate until you carve out new channels through ,which the currents of thought from the Silent Thiker can flow into your consciousness. Hence, Patience is the supreme quality to be cultivated at this Gate.

There are many barriers which hold you back at this point-until you can recognize that there is nothing in all the universe that is important enough to stop your onward march; that the Silent Thinker is your True Self, one with Divinity. When these barriers are reached, so many, many cry out: "What shall I do? How shall I conquer? Give me some definite step to take that I may know I have really entered the Path." Why this questioning? When through all the ages "Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets; she crieth in the chief place of the concourse, in the openings of the gates."

The first step is plainly set forth in The Voice of The Silence;2 "Before the Soul can comprehend and may remember, she must unto the Silent Speaker be united, just as the form to which the clay is modeled is first united with the potter's mind."

Here you find the first step, the great step, pointed out. Indeed, this step is the beginning and the end, for only as you strive for and accomplish this feat can you truly enter the Fourth Gate and win final victory. How can you get from this injunction the help your heart longs for? the definite step that shall make you something different, something greater, better, higher; that shall give you power? While we do not countenance attempts to cultivate abnormal powers, we are told again and again that if you are a child of the Father and are doing the works of
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