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. 306

-the Father, then you will have the powers of Father abiding in you.

How is this to be accomplished? Just as clay is united to the potter's mind. When a potter starts to make a wonderful vase-a marvel of beauty, a poem of symbology, a lesson for all who look-he does not copy something another mind has brought forth. Such a production would be spurious. The true potter, the artist, is original. Long before one stroke is made, even before the clay is moistened, his mind has created every detail of the vase. This is an illustration of how you must go to work. Unite yourself with the mind of the Great Potter, the Great Over-Soul, the Thinker, Him of whom you desire to become an expression, for to you He must first become the Silent Thinker ere He becomes the Speaker.

Before you can remodel your life you must catch a
glimpse of the Divine Plan in the mind of the Silent Thinker.

Tolerate no de fect, see a vision of the perfection you desire to reach and work consciously in harmony with it. This cannot be accomplished until you have realized the possibility of closing the door of your mind to all undesirable thoughts. To do this, practice making your mind a blank and shutting out all thought and when this has been accomplished in a measure you will be ready to open the door to such thoughts
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as you desIre. As long as thoughts of discouragement, impatience, self-depreciation, or other similar thoughts can fill your mind against your will to the exclusion of the thoughts you have chosen, you have not united yourself to the Siknt Thinker and cannot hear the voice of the Silent Speaker. Therefore, while the task is arduous it is not hopeless. As we said in the beginning, there are many joys along
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