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. 302

- Until this Fourth Gate is reached, your life ha.s been a more or less unconscious growth in Love, Charity, Tolerance, Harmony, Fearlessness, and Patience, but now you face a serious conscious struggle. You must now begin to take account of yourself within as well as without. You have been able largely to control your actions and your words. You now berome responsible for your own creations, the children of your thoughts, and must "To the Silent Thinker be united."

This Silent Thinker is not that which is known as the Voice of the Silence, but that silent undercurrent of thought which is continually penetrating your brain, although what might be called the active thoughts may, like ripples on the surface, make you unaware of what is trans- piring in the depths. The instant you begin self. analysis you will find there are many deep thoughts which come into your mind without your volition and seem to think themselves.

These are of two kinds; if they are uplifting, grand or beyond the power of the physical brain to express, they come from the Silent Thinker; if they are frivolous, contemptible, or vile, they are but the reflection of the world's current of thought to which you have united yourself and permitted to flow through you, "the children of your thoughts, unseen, impalpable, that swarm around human-kind." But of whatever character they may be, they are the index of the self you are to study and to conquer.

For to "know thyself" means to go down deep into the sources of selfhood and decide just what the great motives are which are determining your character and prompting your actions. These motives can be determined by careful study of the impalpable thoughts which intrude themselves upon you
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