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This phrase,"In the Silence," so much in use does not mean any peculiar condition. Often it is expressed thus, Going into the Silence! There is no going. The Soul lives in Silence. We are there constantly. Silence is that mental attitude which shuts out the external world through lack of attention. We come en-rapport with the external world through the five senses. Closing these, we listen to that which we hear in the silence of the soul. I like best to use the phrase, "Listening to the Silence."

The noise and turmoil of the objective, which is the physical life, never reaches the Soul. The Real Man --- the Soul --- is never disturbed. It is the conscious part of our Being that is disturbed; made unquiet; taken out of ease and placed in that condition we term disease. The Soul is like God, always at rest; always at peace; always silent. The Self-Consciousness of Man alone knows worry, fret, pain, trouble, disease, and death. The Soul never dies; no more can it suffer any in harmony. These conditions of un-rest are merely disturbances in the manifestation, and not in that Reality which manifests. The man who runs a machine may be quiet and peaceful, yet the machine may run with racket and in disorder. So with the Soul; all the disorder is in the mental part of our Being and is but the necessary education for our unfoldment. We shall ultimately reach that serene condition, Where we neither wish nor will; where we shall, in the words of Emerson, "Trust the current that knows its way." These disturbed conditions are but the preparation the ignorant man makes for that later condition of spiritual maturity, where in Faith and Trust he Lets the light