Out of the silence that is peace a resonant voice shall arise.  And this voice will say, It is not well; thou hast reaped, now thou must sow.  And knowing this voice to be the silence itself thou wilt obey.

Thou who art now a disciple, able to stand, able to hear, able to see, able to speak, who hast conquered desire and attained to self-knowledge, who hast seen thy soul in its bloom and recognised it, and heard the voice of the silence, go thou to the Hall of Learning and read what is written there for thee.

1.  Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest be not thou the warrior.

2.  Look for the warrior and let him fight in thee.

3.  Take his orders for battle and obey them.

4.  Obey him not as though he were a general, but as though he were thyself, and his spoken words were the utterance of thy secret desires; for he is thyself, yet infinitely wiser and stronger than thyself.  Look for him, else in the fever and hurry of the fight thou mayest pass him; and he will not know thee unless thou knowest him.  If thy cry meet his listening ear, then will he fight in thee and fill the dull void within.  And if this is so, then canst thou go through the fight cool and unwearied, standing aside and letting him battle for thee.  Then it will be impossible for thee to strike one blow amiss.  But if thou look not for him, if thou pass him by, then there is no safeguard for thee.  Thy brain will reel, thy heart grow uncertain, and in the dust of the battlefield thy sight and senses will fail, and thou wilt not know thy friends from thy enemies.

He is thyself, yet thou art but finite and liable to error.  He is eternal and is sure.  He is eternal truth.  When once he has entered thee and become thy warrior, he will never utterly desert thee, and at the day of the great peace he will become one with thee.

5.  Listen to the song of life.

6.  Store in your memory the melody you hear.

7.  Learn from it the lesson of harmony.

8.  You can stand upright now, firm as a rock amid the turmoil, obeying the warrior who is thyself and thy king.  Unconcerned in the battle save to do his bidding, having no longer any care as to the result of the battle, for one thing only is important, that the warrior shall win, and you know he is incapable of defeat—­standing thus, cool and awakened, use the hearing you have acquired by pain and by the destruction of pain.  Only fragments of the great song come to your ears while yet you are but man.  But if you listen to it, remember it faithfully, so that none which has reached you is lost, and endeavor to learn from it the meaning of the mystery which surrounds you.  In time you will need no teacher.  For as the individual has voice, so has that in which the individual exists.  Life itself has speech and is never silent.  And its utterance is not, as you that are deaf may suppose, a cry:  it is a song.  Learn from it that you are part of the harmony; learn from it to obey the laws of the harmony.