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. 301

- develops the 'Patience which affords the Soul a chance to learn the great lesson Keep Silent, also how to enter into the Silence and become one with it. For you have not mastered Patience until you have learned to quiet the mentality, enter the Silence and realize the meaning of the text
"Be still and know that I (the great Law of Love) am God."

When you have consciously sought membership hI The Order of the I5 you are supposed to have: passed, in a measure at least, the first three of these Gates, and are now knocking at the Fourth; the Gate which opens to your consciousness the Path itself. You are now ready to obey the voice of your Higher Self which is urging upon you a conscious And persistent effort toward Mastery, instead of drifting aimlessly as heretofore on the sea of life.

The entrance to this Fourth Gate is a most momen- tous event, for it marks the end of the first great cycle of your spiritual growth. Since from an oc- cult standpoint the 4 contains the potency of the 10 (1+2+3+4=10), and since 4 or the square is the most perfect earthly figure, at this point you must square yourself as it were with earthly conditions as you find them; for at this step you face the fourth dimension in which all things interpenetrate.

At this point you must face yourself, for over this Gate is written the Pythagorian precept: "Man, know thyself." When you strive to obey this precept you will become aware that there is at least one great iron bar which closes this Gate to you. But within yourself you can find the power to lift this bar and permit the Gate to swing open. No one can recognize and lift this bar but yourself. .... (next page)