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. 303

- against your volition. Thoughts are things, and man in the aggregate during his evolution has thrown off thoughts of all kinds, and these accumulated thought-forms have become great vortices of force into which each Soul is naturally drawn, according to its affinity with the one or the other type.

In other words, you permit your mind to be so filled with the currents of the world-thought surrounding you that your brain becomes a fit vehicle for, and develops within it definite channels through which certain classes of thought-currents naturally flow, just as a stream automatically follows a channel dug for it; and the longer it flows in one channel the 'broader and deeper the channel becomes, and the more difficult it is to change the stream. It is well known that the brain of a thinker differs from that of a savage not so much in size and weight as in the number and depth of its convolutions, which convolutions are developed by the functioning of the centers they contain.

Another means of self~analysis is carefully and fearlessly to interpret your dreams and visions. For the Silent Thinker is continually guiding and warning you by means of such experiences. Dreams are of three general classes: first, confused incoherent ideas more or less imperfectly remembered, the result of inharmonious physical or mental conditions which keep the lower mind more or less active yet uncontrolled by the presence of the Ego; second, the experiences of the human-mind wandering uncontrolled in the lower astral world; third, the symbolic dreams and visions, coherent and usually clearly remembered, the result of the personality doing the best it can, by using the thought materials of the waking consciousness, to illustrate

. .... (next page)