''The Voice of the Silence'' is a book by

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, uk, Олена Петрівна Блаватська, Olena Petrivna Blavatska (; – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 ...

. It was written in

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and first published in 1889. According to Blavatsky, it is a translation of fragments from a sacred book she encountered during her studies in the East, called "The Book of the Golden Precepts".

The book is formed of three parts: # The Voice of the Silence # The Two Paths # The Seven Portals

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A reviewer for

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's Eastern Buddhist Society commented: "Undoubtedly Madame Blavatsky had in some way been initiated into the deeper side of

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teaching and then gave out what she deemed wise to the Western world..." In the journal of the

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, Suzuki commented: "here is the real Mahayana

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". The

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wrote the preface for the centennial edition by Concord Grove Press.

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''The Voice of the Silence'' online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Voice of the Silence 1889 non-fiction books Books by Helena Blavatsky Theosophical texts

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