"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