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The Voice of the Silence: Being Extracts from the Book of the Golden Precepts

Devotional classic of theosophy, concerning the seeker's inner awakening and development, leading to a choice between the compassionate path and the path for self alone.

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According to Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence comes from

"The Book of the Golden Precepts" which "forms part of the

same series as that from which the 'Stanzas' of the Book of Dzyan

were taken, on which the Secret Doctrine is based." She says that

The Book of the Golden Precepts "contains about ninety dis-

tinct little treatises," thirty-nine of which she had memorized. Three of these she translated into English for us in The Voice of

the Silence, which we know as the "Three Fragments." One can

surmise that she studied these treatises under the tutelage of

her Adept teachers during her stay in Little Tibet and Tibet

proper which she makes reference to in her writings.

Subject
philosophy
Audience
adult
Length
short · 173 pages

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