Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00097)

Compare (1) "The Mysticism of Sound" with Extracts
from (2) "The Voice of the Silence":

(1)
http://murshid.net/mysticism-of-sound/abstractsound.html

(2) Before thou set'st thy foot upon the ladder's
upper rung, the ladder of the mystic sounds, thou hast
to hear the voice of thy inner GOD in seven manners. 

The first is like the nightingale's sweet voice
chanting a song of parting to its mate. 

The second comes as the sound of a silver cymbal of
the Dhyanis, awakening the twinkling stars. 

The next is as the plaint melodious of the
ocean-sprite imprisoned in its shell. 

And this is followed by the chant of Vina. 

The fifth like sound of bamboo-flute shrills in thine
ear. 

It changes next into a trumpet-blast. 

The last vibrates like the dull rumbling of a
thunder-cloud. 

The seventh swallows all the other sounds. They die,
and then are heard no more. 

When the six are slain and at the Master's feet are
laid, then is the pupil merged into the ONE, becomes
that ONE and lives therein. 

He who would hear the voice of Nada, "the Soundless
Sound," and comprehend it, he has to learn the nature
of Dharana. 

Unless thou hearest, thou canst not see. 

Unless thou seest thou canst not hear. To hear and see
this is the second stage. 

. . . . . . 

When the disciple sees and hears, and when he smells
and tastes, eyes closed, ears shut, with mouth and
nostrils stopped; when the four senses blend and ready
are to pass into the fifth, that of the inner touch --
then into stage the fourth he hath passed on. 

And in the fifth, O slayer of thy thoughts, all these
again have to be killed beyond reanimation. 

Withhold thy mind from all external objects, all
external sights. Withhold internal images, lest on thy
Soul-light a dark shadow they should cast. 

Thou art now in DHARANA, the sixth stage. 

Fix thy Soul's gaze upon the star whose ray thou art,
the flaming star that shines within the lightless
depths of ever-being, the boundless fields of the
Unknown. 

Thy Soul-gaze centre on the One Pure Light.

When thou hast passed into the seventh, O happy one,
thou shalt perceive no more the sacred three, for thou
shalt have become that three thyself. Thyself and
mind, like twins upon a line, the star which is thy
goal, burns overhead. 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 of the Flame. 

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

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. 

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.

[quoted from:
http://blavatskyarchives.com/voiceselectedextracts.htm
] 


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Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm

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