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 XXXIV.
The Meaning of the Symbol

The Seal consists of a double triangle inscribed in a circle, with an open Eye in the center and three five pointed stars in the spaces between the sides of the triangle and the circle.

The circle represents Boundless Space and limitless Time in Eternity.
It marks off the space in which creation takes place, or the circle formed by the downpouring of the Great Creative Force, in this case the circumference within which this Order is working. It is much like the circle of light projected by a magic lantern, within which the pictures are to appear.

In one sense it is the circle of the Zodiac (the pathway of our solar system) from the twelve Gates or Houses of which issues the radiant light of The Christos represented as focused in the center of the Open Eye. In another sense the circle is the Ring Pass Not (the limit of the auric zone) which every true disciple should put around himself, and whose Gates (corre- sponding to the centers of the body) he must open and close at will to admit or exclude that which he chooses.

Thus the All-seeing Eye (the Absolute) sheds its seven-fold creative rays within its creations. In the case of the Ring Pass Not the Eye is the Divine Flame or The Christ-force within each heart. In this Order it is the sacred altar upon which burns the Eternal Flame of spiritual light from whose illuminating rays illuminate the inspired teachings.
The Triangle symbolizes the Trinity, and is the uni- versal symbol of Deity,l the three aspects of the Logos, whether taken as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost of the Christians, the Osiris, Isis and Horus of the Egyptians or the more ancient Father-Mother-Son. The apex of the triangle represents the dual creative force of the Logos, separating into its positive and negative
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