

"The
Mind is the great Slayer of the Real.
Let the Disciple
slay the Slayer.
For:
When to himself his
form appears unreal, as do on
waking all the forms he sees in dreams;
When he has ceased
to hear the many, he may
discern the ONE -- the inner sound which
kills the outer.
Then only, not till
then, shall he forsake the
region of Asat, the false, to come unto
the realm of Sat, the true.
Before the soul can
see, the Harmony within
must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered
blind to all illusion.
Before the Soul can
hear, the image (man) has
to become as deaf to roarings as to whispers,
to cries of bellowing elephants as to the
silvery buzzing of the golden fire-fly.
Before the soul can
comprehend and may
remember, she must unto the Silent Speaker
be united just as the form to which the clay
is modelled, is first united with
the potter's mind.
For then the soul
will hear, and will remember.
And then to the
inner ear will speak --
THE VOICE OF THE
SILENCE."

Helena
Petrova Blavatsky
The
Voice of Silence,
c1889
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