The Silence: Thoughts on the Silence and on Various Other Subjects

By Benjamin Franklin Woodcox

Experience the life-changing power of Benjamin Franklin Woodcox with this unforgettable book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andura Publishing
• Release date: Oct 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220214360

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The Silence, Thoughts on the Silence and on Various Other Subjects

Benjamin Franklin Woodcox

SILENCE. It is in the silence that the master genius works. The Creator, and the created who create, work in the silence. It is in the silence that God conceived His masterpiece, and it is through the silence that this masterpiece is being evolved or created.

It is out of the silence that evolution comes. And it is through the medium of the silence that evolution is made possible. Fashioned and matured in the silence of nature, all things tend to become beautiful and great.

Destiny is to be met with in silence. That destiny that changes our lives, that opens our eyes, and that reveals to us that which has been hidden from us.

It is through the silence that we are able to tap the reservoirs of spiritual knowledge, and learn that which can never be learned in any other way.

The silence is necessary to spiritual sounds, and it is only when in the silence that we can approach sufficiently near to hear these sounds distinctly.

The spiritual ear is attuned to the silence. There­fore it is through the silence only, that we are capable of receiving a spiritual communication.

The voices that speak to us out of the silence are silent voices, though they are by no means voices that can not be heard.

The silence delivers a different message to each of us, a message that corresponds to our needs and states of development.

To some the silence speaks of the higher heavens, while to others it concerns itself merely with the things of this earth plane.

The voice of God can be heard only in and through the silence. His is a still small voice that comes to us on ethereal waves from a land that is far away.

There is a silence in which all must weep who enter, a silence that is too profound for human speech, and too full of approaching destiny to be unflinchingly borne.

The silence that is within us has a depth to which we can not go. It also has a height to which we can not climb.

To fear the silence is an admission of guilt. It is a confession that one is not living in harmony with the purpose of life. It is a confession that one is wilfully retarding and delaying one’s inner self on its way to per­fection.

It is only when we are in the silence, and when all is still, that the spirit life is active and capable of accom­plishing its task.

In the silence with God, or with another, there is understanding. No words need be spoken. The silence can remain unbroken forever, and yet we will know all that is necessary that we should know.

Those only who approach God through the silence can hope to draw near to Him, or to hold communication with Him. And those who would approach God must make long and careful preparation by living much of their time in the silence.

To attain to the silence is to attain to a unity, to a harmony, with God.

All that is worth while and valuable comes to us out of the silence and the invisible.

Truth comes to us in the silence—in the silence with nature and with God.

Go out into the silence of nature. Select for yourself a site that is beautiful, serene, peaceful, and far from the abode of man. There build a temple to God, and there worship God, each man alone in the silence.

NATURE. Nature is a great artist that is trying to evolve or create that which it sees, feels and knows.

The creation of life is nature’s master work, and the creation of the beautiful her pastime.

All nature, and all things in nature, fade and blend into one another. They become parts of one another, differing only in their development, their nearness to per­fection, to the Divine.

All of nature’s most valuable productions are in rhyme, metre and song.

We are all one with and in nature. Not to feel this oneness is to be out of conscious harmony with all life.

We are all one with nature and in sympathy and in rapport with her, or else we are prisoners imprisoned within nature with every means of escape cut off.

The more clearly we realize this oneness with nature, the more in harmony we are with the law, and the more rapid will be our evolution.

Nature takes on the aspect of that which we are. It reflects back to us the image of ourselves. It is our friend or enemy, even as we are the friend or enemy of nature.

Nature likes us to be calm, peaceful and patient. She