The Voice of the Silence is a book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. It was written in Fontainebleau and first published in 1889.^[1] 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".

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The book is formed of three parts:

1. The Voice of the Silence
2. The Two Paths
3. The Seven Portals

A reviewer for D. T. Suzuki's Eastern Buddhist Society commented: "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..."^[2] In the journal of the Buddhist Society, Suzuki commented: "here is the real Mahayana Buddhism".^[3]

The 14th Dalai Lama wrote the preface for the centennial edition by Concord Grove Press.^[4]

• Blavatsky's poetry
• Book of Dzyan