Fragment I The Voice Of The Silence · 4

Thou art now in DHARANA,[39] the sixth stage.

When thou hast passed into the seventh, O happy one, thou shalt perceive no more the sacred three,[40] for thou shalt have become that three thyself. Thyself and mind, like twins upon a line, the star which is thy goal, burns overhead.[41] The three that dwell in glory and in bliss ineffable, now in the world of Maya have lost their names. They have become one star, the fire that burns but scorches not, that fire which is the Upadhi[42] of the Flame.

And this, O Yogi of success, is what men call Dhyana,[43] the right precursor of Samadhi.[44]

And now thy Self is lost in SELF, Thyself unto THYSELF, merged in THAT SELF from which thou first didst radiate.

Where is thy individuality, Lanoo, where the Lanoo himself? It is the spark lost in the fire, the drop within the ocean, the ever-present Ray become the All and the eternal radiance.

And now, Lanoo, thou art the doer and the witness, the radiator and the radiation, Light in the Sound, and the Sound in the Light.

Thou art acquainted with the five impediments, O blessed one. Thou art their conqueror, the Master of the sixth, deliverer of the four modes of Truth.[45] The light that falls upon them shines from thyself, O thou who wast disciple but art Teacher now.

And of these modes of Truth--

Hast thou not passed through knowledge of all misery—truth the first?

Hast thou not conquered the Maras' King at Tsi, the portal of assembling—truth the second?[46]

Hast thou not sin at the third gate destroyed and truth the third attained?

Hast not thou entered Tau, "the Path" that leads to knowledge—the fourth truth?[47]

And now, rest 'neath the Bodhi tree, which is perfection of all knowledge, for, know, thou art the Master of SAMADHI—the state of faultless vision.

Behold! thou hast become the Light, thou hast become the Sound, thou art thy Master and thy God. Thou art THYSELF the object of thy search: the VOICE unbroken, that resounds throughout eternities, exempt from change, from sin exempt, the seven sounds in one, the

VOICE OF THE SILENCE

Om Tat Sat

Foot notes

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↑ (2). The "Soundless Voice," or the "Voice of the Silence." Literally perhaps this would read "Voice in the Spiritual Sound," as Nada is the equivalent word in Sanskrit, for the Senzar term.

↑ (3). Dharana, is the intense and perfect concentration of the mind upon some one interior object, accompanied by complete abstraction from everything pertaining to the external Universe, or the world of the senses.

↑ (4). The "great Master" is the term used by Lanoos or Chelas to indicate one's "HIGHER SELF." It is the equivalent of Avalokitesvara, and the same as Adi-Budha with the Buddhist Occultists, ATMAN the "Self" (the Higher Self) with the Brahmins, and CHRISTOS with the ancient Gnostics.

↑ (5). Soul is used here for the Human Ego or Manas, that which is referred to in our Occult Septenary division as the "Human Soul" (Vide the Secret Doctrine) in contradistinction to the Spiritual and Animal Souls.

↑ (6). Maha Maya "Great Illusion," the objective Universe.

↑ (7). Sakkayaditthi "delusion" of personality.

↑ (8). Attavada, the heresy of the belief in Soul, or rather in the separateness of Soul or Self from the One Universal, Infinite SELF.

↑ (9). The Tattvajyani is the "knower" or discriminator of the principles in nature and in man; and Atmajnyani is the knower of ATMA or the Universal, ONE SELF.

↑ (10). Kala Hansa, the "Bird" or Swan. Says the Nadavindu Upanishad (Rig Veda) translated by the Kumbakonam Theosophical Society — "The syllable A is considered to be its (the bird Hansa's) right wing, U, its left, M, its tail, and the Ardha-matra (half metre) is said to be its head."

↑ (11). Eternity with the Orientals has quite another signification than it has with us. It stands generally for the 100 years or "age" of Brahma, the duration of a Maha-Kalpa or a period of 311,040,000,000,000 years.

↑ (12). Says the same Nadavindu, "A Yogi who bestrides the Hansa (thus contemplates on AUM) is not affected by Karmic influences or crores of sins."

↑ (13). Give up the life of physical personality if you would live in spirit.