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LIGHT ON THB PATH 57 lese are capable of becoming more than ere, imaginings, the abyss of nothing. ss has to be faced in another form. he utter silence which can only come
closing the ears to all transitory sounds mes as a more appalling horror than en the formless emptiness of space. or only mental conception of blank Jace is, I think, when reduced to its rest element of thought, that of. black rkness. This is a great physical terror most persons, and when regarded as eternal and unchangeable fact, must an to the mind the idea of annihilan rather than anything else. But it is
obliteration, of one sense only; and e sound of a voice may come and bring mfort, even in the profoundest dark ss. The disciple, having found his way o this blackness, which is the fearful yss, must then so situt the gates of his al that no comforter can enter there
any enemy. And it is in making
