Excerpt from "Voice of The Silence", by HP Blavatsky

"Saith the Great Law:

'In order to become the KNOWER of ALL SELF,

thou hast first of SELF to be the knower.' 

"To reach the knowledge of that SELF,

thou hast to give up Self to Non-Self, 

Being to Non-Being, 

and then thou canst repose 

between the wings of the GREAT BIRD. 

Aye, sweet is rest between the 

wings of that which is not born, nor dies, 

but is the AUM throughout eternal ages."

-- Excerpt from "The Voice of the Silence", 

by HP Blavatsky