The Voice of the SilenceBookRix, 09/01/2019 - 66 من الصفحات THE following pages are derived from "The Book of the Golden Precepts," one of the works put into the hands of mystic students in the East. The knowledge of them is obligatory in that school, the teachings of which are accepted by many Theosophists. Therefore, as I know many of these Precepts by heart, the work of translating has been relatively an easy task for me. The Book of the Golden Precepts — some of which are pre-Buddhistic while others belong to a later date — contains about ninety distinct little treatises. Of these I learnt thirty-nine by heart, years ago. To translate the rest, I should have to resort to notes scattered among a too large number of papers and memoranda collected for the last twenty years and never put in order, to make of it by any means an easy task. Nor could they be all translated and given to a world too selfish and too much attached to objects of sense to be in any way prepared to receive such exalted ethics in the right spirit. For, unless a man perseveres seriously in the pursuit of self-knowledge, he will never lend a willing ear to advice of this nature. |
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action Adept Arhat become Behold Beware birth bliss Bodhisattva body Buddha Buddhist called candidate cause Compassion cross dark desire destroyed Dharmakaya Dhyana Disciple Doctrine earth entered esoteric eternal feet final flame follow fourth gate give goal golden Hall hand hath hear heart Higher human illusion initiation Karmic Kill Know knowledge Lanoo leads liberation light live lost lower mankind Mara Master means mind mystic nature Nirvana Northern objects pain passed Path perfection personality pilgrim Portals pure reach remains rest sacred says schools Secret senses seven seventh shadow shalt shines Silence sorrow sound Spirit spiritual star step stream sweet symbol Teacher teaches thee thine thou art thou canst thou hast thou would'st thoughts thy mind thy Soul thyself tree true truth Universal unto Vide virtues voice waters waves wind Wisdom Yogi