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. 300

- is divine and there is nothing to fear. Divine Love is the law of my being and I can trust in this great Law to conquer all conditions. With it I am strong. powerful. forceful. Manifesting this love I cannot be discouraged, frightened, or turned aside from the Path of spiritual attainment." As he permits his consciousness to dwell in this thought there will grow up in him the strength and power to conquer. Then ere he knows it he will find this Gate standing wide and the light of its portal flooding his whole life with the glory of its Love and Harmony.

The Third Gate is that of Patience, i.e.. having earnestly cultivated Divine Love in your heart, and Tolerance and Charity for all; having harmonized yourself to The Christ and to your surroundings, and having conquered fear, there must ensue a longer or shorter period in which you wait for you scarce know what. This is beautifully expressed by the Psalmist: "My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning."! And again, the heart cries out: "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in Thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions."

You are waiting for the Divine Law to bring to you the result of your attainments. This is a very trying period in your life, because, feeling that you have attained to Love. Harmony, Charity, Tolerance, etc., you cannot understand why you must tarry so long at this Third Gate. Yet there is a great necessity that it should be so, for without the virtues of Patience and Trust, and Confidence that whatever comes is best, you would be utterly unable to cope with the more active trials and temptations that will assail you ~ you reach the Fourth Gate. This waiting .... (next page)