Renowned occultist H P Blavatsky is famous for introducing the 'Secret Doctrine' to an astonished West. 'The Voice of the Silence' is derived from the same deep spring of Wisdom. Tibet's Panchen Lama endorsed the work as the "only true exposition in English of the Heart Doctrine of Mahayana and its noble ideal of self-sacrifice." The current (14th) Dalai Lama concurred: "I believe that this book has strongly influenced many aspirants to the wisdom and compassion of the Bodhisattva Path." The book's three segments form a step-wise introduction to this spiritual path. Fragment 1 describes the preparation of the aspirant for discipleship; Fragment 2 the methods of purification of the lower vehicles; while Fragment 3, reveals the Seven Keys which open the way to Enlightenment.

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1931. The articles published in this volume will bring that knowledge which alone fortifies a student against wrong or fanciful occultism, as against the perils of occult arts and psychic practices. Contents: chelas and lay chelas; Theosophical Mahatmas; practical occultism; occultism versus the occult arts; lodges of magic; what of phenomena; psychic and noetic action; thoughts on the elements; Chinese spirits; dialogues between the two editors on astral bodies or doppelgangers; dialogue on the mystery of the after life; hypnotism and its relations to other modes of fascination.