THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE
Dedicated to all sincere and earnest seekers for the self.
There is no problem that cannot be solved, no question that cannot be answered if we truly enter this Temple of Silence and ask for guidance. For here, before the altar of this Inner Temple, the All-Father will send His Light direct into the heart of every true worshipper at this inner shrine.
Some may see the glorious company of the Saints. Some may hear the Psalms of Life like a mighty chorus of many voices of surpassing sweetness. This choir is made up of the songs of thanksgiving and praise that each heart sings as it finds itself a worshipper in the Temple of Silence.
Others may hear the Music of the Spheres, the stately rhythmic cadence of the stars and planets as they follow their appointed ways through space. Others may but feel the presence and receive the comfort of the perfect harmony and oneness of all. Still others may seem to be clasping hands with a band of fellow Disciples which reaches around the world. But all will feel the waves of spiritual life-force bathing and filling them. Here will spiritual realisation illuminate our consciousness, for we have become one with the Knower and can drink at the fountainhead of wisdom.
Contents
- The Temple of Silence
- The Great Silence
- Entering the Silence
- The Scientific Method
- The Noon Silence Service
Is this the Temple of Silence, and may we enter it?
We speak of “entering the Silence” because it is a reality, a state of consciousness, the anteroom of the Divine, into which we can enter at will once we have learned the way. And every Soul who finds paramount in him the desire to live the spiritual life will ultimately find entrance into that sphere of consciousness called the Great Silence or that sphere of creative power in which all manifestations work in the harmony of Divine Law.
“Merge into one sense thy senses, if thou would’st be secure against the foe. Tis by that sense alone which lies concealed within the hollow of thy brain, that the steep path which leadeth to thy Master may be disclosed before thy Soul’s dim eye. Do not grow discouraged. Have patience, candidate, as one who fears no failure, courts no success.”
“Your mind must be like a still mountain lake, without a ripple, capable of perfectly reflecting every passing cloud. If the surface of the lake is agitated, even by a ripple, the images on its surface will be distorted; so is it with the mind. Only when you have attained this quietude of mind can you hear the Voice of the Silence without the intermixture of personality and observe without distortion the heavenly images reflected in your mind from your Father-in-heaven.”
“He who would hear the voice of Nâda, “the Soundless Sound,” and comprehend it, he has to learn the nature of Dhâranâ.
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 comprehend and may remember, she must unto the Silent Speaker be united.
For then the soul will hear and will remember.
And then to the inner ear will speak —The Voice of the Silence.”
(From The Voice of the Silence by H.P. Blavatsky)
It is this Divine Power, experienced in meditation as that Soundless Sound, also known as the Universal Christ Principle or the individualized Ray of God within each heart. This Ray is often called the First Begotten Son of God, the Spiritual Self, the Real Self, the Higher Self, the I Am Presence, the God within, the Christ-within, the Name of God, The Word, etc.
