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

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1992

A facsimile reprint of the 1889 edition exactly the way Blavatsky wrote it, laying out the path of spiritual development. Includes an index and introduction by Boris de Zirkoff.

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I believe that this book has strongly influenced many sincere seekers and aspirants to the wisdom and compassion of the Bodhisattva Path. --14th Dalai Lama

Undoubtedly Madame Blavatsky had in some way been initiated into the deeper side of Mahayana teaching and then gave out what she deemed wise to the Western world. . . Here is the real Mahayana Buddhism. --D. T. Suzuki

The late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup was of the opinion that, despite the adverse criticisms directed against H. P. Blavatsky's works, there is adequate internal evidence in them of their author's intimate acquaintance with the higher lamaistic teachings, into which she claimed to have been initiated. --W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Tibetan Book of the Dead --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 173 pages
• Publisher: Quest Books (March 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0835606805
• ISBN-13: 978-0835606806
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 3.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For true seekers, July 30, 2001

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Aranval "aranval" (France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Voice of the Silence: Being Extracts from The Book of the Golden Precepts (Paperback)

This book contains some high level lessons given to seekers who are really engaged in the path of truth and duty. H.P. Blavatsky had written this book from what she had learned by heart when she was studying in Himalayan places.The first lesson makes us understand Maya's illusory structure and dangers that it creates on our path. You should learn how to recognize them and deafeat them, then you'll begin to listen to the voice of silence which is the voice of your inner master. Second lesson teaches us about two different paths: heart one and eye one. Third and last lesson is about seven gates to Nirvana and describes us the weapons we should gather or create before fighting dangers we will encounter at each gate. But main lesson is that we should never give up. So if you think that your path is the one of duty for yourself but even more for mankind, this book is for you!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book should come back into mainstream print., April 28, 2000

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This review is from: The Voice of the Silence (Verbatim Edition) (Hardcover)

Isabel Cooper-Oakley said of this book:

"Now, inspeaking of the teaching that we have in the Theosophical Society there is one book, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ................. " Why? Because she knew that it was only the few in the hurry and the press of the everyday life, it was only the few who would really stand aside from the stream of life and try to give some thought and some time to the soul within. She translated this book from one of those priceless treasures then in the possession of the Eastern teachers of Theosophy. It is called The Book of Golden Precepts, and from it she has gathered some few of the precepts which those who really desire to develop their spiritual life will take up and study. Dedicated as it is to the few, it is only the few who really find benefit in it. It is called The Voice of the Silence. The name is in itself paradoxical, but the name in itself is a volume of teaching. It is the Voice of the Silence because it is only when the Silence and the hush come over the material part of man's life that the real Voice of the Silence can speak. It is only when man will take a little time to still his worldly life, to still his worldly thoughts, that the true small Voice which really lives in the heart of every man may make itself heard. And therefore Helena Petrovna Blavatsky gave us this book, leaving it to the few who would listen in the Silence to the Voice that would speak, and she gave it to us as the guide, the prayer book, and the very basis of our daily life." [From Report of Proceedings and Documents of the 1893 Parliament of Religions, pages 174 to 176]..........................

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent., August 16, 1999

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This review is from: The Voice of the Silence: Being Extracts from The Book of the Golden Precepts (Paperback)

Even D.T. Suzuki, famous Zen master, after reading this book said, "This is the true mahayana buddhism!" Great book.