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The Voice of the Silence
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- Theosophy and its descendants
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- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
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The Voice of the Silence is a book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. It was written in Fontainebleau 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".
From the Wikipedia article The Voice of the Silence, revision 1314569107, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q1760382: “1889 novel by Helena Blavatsky”.
In this study
In the chronology, in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's account.
A devotional and mystical text presenting an ideal of spiritual compassion in strongly Buddhist-influenced vocabulary.