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Hûd/Thoth and Community of Ad(lantis)
By: yazar Date: December 23, 2021, 12:24 am
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[center][font=vivaldi][glow=black,2,300]- prophet hûd and
community of ad -[/font][/center]
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[center][font=vivaldi][glow=black,2,300]there is One, even the
first,
who hath no beginning, who hath no end;
who hath made all things, who govern all,
who is good, who is just,
who illumines, who sustains.[/font][/center]
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Atlantis: Island of Atlas, Community of Ad (Timeline: Comes
right after Noah's Flood)
Thoth: Prophet Hûd (from the Qur'an)
Information: Some parts of this translation match with verses of
Qur'an. There are interesting parts about the wisdom. Remember
that you are reading it from a translation. Logical action will
be looking at the original emerald tablets to find more about
the truth.
Contradictions: There are some parts seem as polytheistic such
as: "The God of Gods, the Lord of Lords" in the text. Right
translation should be: "There are no Gods out of the God, no
Lords out of the Lord". The tablet translation points out to
oneness in many places.
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pdf:
HTML http://www.horuscentre.org/library/Hermetism/The_Emerald_Tablets_Of_Thoth.pdf
Multiple Meanings:
Amenti: Amino, Emin - Stability, Trust
Light: Nhûra, Noor, Nuro, Nar - Light, Energy, Fire
Seven Lords: Seven Holy Angels
Man: Mankind, Basar (Bashar), Human being, Someone with
shuur/consciousness
Lord: Rabba, Rabo, Rab, Rabboni - Big, Great, Lord, Teacher
Wisdom: Mhakmonuto, Chokmah, Hikmah - Understanding with
awareness, True information which comes from scientific methods,
Consciousness that relates with spirituality and cosmos
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLET I: The History of Thoth, The Atlantean
TABLET II: The Halls of Amenti
TABLET III: The Key of Wisdom
TABLET IV: The Space Born
TABLET V: The Dweller of Unal
TABLET VI: The Key of Magic
TABLET VII: The Seven Lords
TABLET VIII: The Key of Mysteries TABLET IX: The Key of Freedom
of Space TABLET X: The Key of Time
TABLET XI: The Key to Above and Below
TABLET XII: The Law of Cause and Effect & The Key of Prophecy
TABLET XIII: The Keys of Life and Death
SUPPLEMENTARY TABLET XIV:
SUPPLEMENTARY TABLET XV: Secret of Secrets
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E M E R A L D T A B L E T I :
The History of Thoth, The Atlantean
I, Thoth, the Atlantean, master of mysteries, keeper of records,
mighty king, magician, living from generation to generation,
being about to pass into the Halls of Amenti, set down for the
guidance of those that are to come after, these records of the
mighty wisdom of Great Atlantis.
In the great city of Keor on the island of Undal in a time far
past, I began this incarnation. Not as the little men of the
present age did the mighty ones of Atlantis live and die, but
rather from aeon to aeon did they renew their life in the Halls
of Amenti where the river of life flows eternally onward.
A hundred times ten have I descended the dark way that led into
light, and as many times have I ascended from the darkness into
the light, my strength and power renewed.
Now for a time I descend, and the men of Khem shall know me no
more. But in a time yet unborn will I rise again, mighty and
potent, requiring an accounting of those left behind me. Then
beware, O men of Khem, if ye have falsely betrayed my teaching,
for I shall cast ye down from your high estate into the darkness
of the caves from whence ye came. Betray not my secrets to the
men of the North or the men of the South lest my curse fall upon
ye. Remember and heed my words, for surely will I return again
and re- quire of thee that which ye guard. Aye, even from beyond
time and from beyond death will I return, rewarding or punishing
as ye have requited your trust. Great were my people in the
ancient days, great beyond the conception of the little people
now around me; knowing the wisdom of old, seeking far within the
heart of infinity knowledge that be- longed to Earth's youth.
Wise were we with the wisdom of the Children of Light who dwelt
among us. Strong were we with the power drawn from the eternal
fire. And of all these, greatest among the children of men was
my father, Thotme, keeper of the great temple, link between the
Children of Light who dwelt within the temple and the races of
men who inhabited the ten islands. Mouthpiece, after the three,
of the Dweller of Unal, speaking to the Kings with the voice
that must be obeyed.
Grew I there from a child into manhood, being taught by my
father the elder mysteries, until in time there grew within the
fire of wisdom, until it burst into a consuming flame. Naught
desired I but the attainment of wisdom. Until on a great day the
command came from the Dweller of the Temple that I be brought
before him. Few there were among the children of men who had
looked upon that mighty face and lived, for not as the sons of
men are the Children of Light when they are not incarnate in a
physical body.
Chosen was I from the sons of men, taught by the Dweller so that
his purposes might be fulfilled, purposes yet unborn in the womb
of time. Long ages I dwelt in the Temple, learning ever and yet
ever more wisdom, until I, too, approached the light emitted
from the great fire. Taught me he, the path to Amenti, the
underworld where the great king sits upon his throne of might.
Deep I bowed in homage before the Lords of Life and the Lords of
Death, receiving as my gift the key of Life. Free was I of the
Halls of Amenti, bound not by death to the circle of life. Far
to the stars I journeyed until space and time became as naught.
Then having drunk deep of the cup of wisdom, I looked into the
hearts of men and there found I greater mysteries and was glad.
For only in the Search for Truth could my Soul be stilled and
the flame within be quenched.
Down through the ages I lived, seeing those around me taste of
the cup of death and return again in the light of life.
Gradually from the Kingdoms of Atlantis passed waves of
consciousness that had been one with me, only to be replaced by
spawn of a lower star.
In obedience to the law, the word of the Master grew into
flower. Downward into darkness turned the thoughts of the
Atlanteans, until at last in his wrath arose from his Agwanti,
the Dweller, (this word has no English equivalent; it means a
state of detachment) speaking The Word, calling the power. Deep
in Earth's heart, the sons of Amenti heard, and hearing,
directed the changing of the flower of fire that burns
eternally, changing and shifting, using the Logos, until that
great fire changed its direction.
Over the world then broke the great waters, drowning and
sinking, changing Earth's balance until only the Temple of Light
was left standing on the great mountain on Undal still rising
out of the water; some there were who were living, saved from
the rush of the fountains.
Called to me then the Master, saying: "Gather ye together my
people. Take them by the arts ye have learned of far across the
waters, until ye reach the land of the hairy barbarians,
dwelling in caves of the desert. Follow there the plan that ye
know of."
Gathered I then my people and entered the great ship of the
Master. Upward we rose into the morning. Dark beneath us lay the
Temple. Suddenly over it rose the waters. Vanished from Earth,
until the time appointed, was the great Temple.
Fast we fled toward the sun of the morning, until beneath us lay
the land of the children of Khem. Raging, they came with cudgels
and spears lifted in anger seeking to slay and utterly destroy
the Sons of Atlantis. Then raised I my staff and directed a ray
of vibration, striking them still in their tracks as fragments
of stone of the mountain. Then spoke I to them in words calm and
peaceful, telling them of the might of Atlantis, saying we were
children of the Sun and its messengers. Cowed I them by my
display of magic- science, until at my feet they groveled, when
I released them.
Long dwelt we in the land of Khem, long and yet long again.
Until obeying the commands of the Master, who while sleeping yet
lives eternally, I sent from me the Sons of Atlantis, sent them
in many directions, that from the womb of time wisdom might rise
again in her children.
Long time dwelt I in the land of Khem, doing great works by the
wisdom within me. Upward grew into the light of knowledge the
children of Khem, watered by the rains of my wisdom. Blasted I
then a path to Amenti so that I might retain my powers, living
from age to age a Sun of Atlantis, keeping the wisdom,
preserving the records.
Great grew the sons of Khem, conquering the people around them,
growing slowly upwards in Soul force. Now for a time I go from
among them into the dark halls of Amenti, deep in the halls of
the Earth, before the Lords of the Powers, face to face once
again with the Dweller.
Raised I high over the entrance, a doorway, a gateway leading
down to Amenti. Few there would be with courage to dare it, few
pass the portal to dark Amenti. Raised over the passage, I, a
mighty pyramid, using the power that overcomes Earth force
(gravity). Deep and yet deeper placed I a force-house or
chamber; from it carved I a circular passage reaching almost to
the great summit. There in the apex, set I the crystal, sending
the ray into the "Time-Space", drawing the force from out of the
ether, concentrating upon the gateway to Amenti.
Other chambers I built and left vacant to all seeming, yet
hidden within them are the keys to Amenti. He who in courage
would dare the dark realms, let him be purified first by long
fasting. Lie in the sarcophagus of stone in my chamber. Then to
reveal I to him the great mysteries. Soon shall he follow to
where I shall meet him, even in the darkness of Earth shall I
meet him, I, Thoth, Lord of Wisdom, meet him and hold him and
dwell with him always.
Built I the Great Pyramid, patterned after the pyramid of earth
force, burning eternally so that it, too, might remain through
the ages. In it, I built my knowledge of "Magic-Science" so that
it might be here when again I return from Amenti. Aye, while I
sleep in the Halls of Amenti, my Soul roaming free will
incarnate, dwell among men in this form or another.
Emissary on Earth am I of the Dweller, fulfilling his commands
so man might be lifted. Now return I to the Halls of Amenti,
leaving behind me some of my wisdom. Preserve ye and keep ye the
command of the Dweller: Lift ever upwards your eyes toward the
light. Surely in time, ye are one with the Master, surely by
right ye are one with the Master, surely by right ye are one
with the All. Now I depart from ye. Know my commandments, keep
them and be them, and I will be with you, helping and guiding
you into the Light. Now before me opens the portal. Go I down in
the darkness of night.
EMERALD TABLET II:
The Halls of Amenti
Deep in the Earth’s heart lie the Halls of Amenti, far ‘neath
the islands of sunken Atlantis, Halls of the Dead and halls of
the living, bathed in the fire of the infinite ALL.
Far in a past time, lost in the space time, the Children of
Light looked down on the world. See the children of men in their
bondage, bound by the force that came from beyond. Knew they
that only by freedom from bondage could man ever rise from the
Earth to the Sun. Down they descended and created bodies, taking
the semblance of men as their own. The masters of everything
said after their forming: "We are they who were formed from the
space-dust, partaking of life from the infinite ALL; living in
the world as children of men, like and yet unlike the children
of men."
Then for a dwelling place, far ‘neath the earth crust, blasted
great spaces they by their power, spaces apart from the children
of men. Surrounded them by forces and power, shielded from harm
they the Halls of the Dead. Side by side then, placed they other
spaces, filled them with Life and with Light from above. Builded
they then the Halls of Amenti, that they might dwell eternally
there living with life to eternity’s end.
Thirty and two were there of the children, sons of Light who had
come among men, seeking to free from the bondage of darkness
those who were bound by the force from beyond.
Deep in the Halls of Life grew a flower, flaming, expanding,
driving backward the night. Placed in the center, a ray of great
potence, Life giving, Light giving, filling with power all who
came near it. Placed they around it thrones, two and thirty,
places for each of the Children of Light, placed so that they
were bathed in the radiance, filled with the Life from the
eternal Light. There time after time placed they their first
created bodies so that they might be filled with the Spirit of
Life. One hundred years out of each thousand must the
Life-giving Light flame forth on their bodies. Quickening,
awakening the Spirit of Life.
There in the circle from aeon to aeon, sit the Great Masters,
living a life not known among men. There in the Halls of Life
they lie sleeping; free flows their Soul through the bodies of
men. Time after time, while their bodies lie sleeping, incarnate
they in the bodies of men. Teaching and guiding onward and
upward, out of the darkness into the Light. There in the Hall of
Life, filled with their wisdom, known not to the races of man,
living forever ‘neath the cold fire of life, sit the Children of
Light. Times there are when they awaken, come from the depths to
be lights among men, infinite they among finite.
He who by progress has grown from the darkness, lifted himself
from the night into light, free is he made of the Halls of
Amenti, free of the Flower of Light and of Life. Guided he then,
by wisdom and knowledge, passes from man, to the Master of Life.
There he may dwell as one with the Masters, free from the bonds
of the darkness of night.
Seated within the flower of radiance sit seven Lords from the
Space-Time above us, helping and guiding through infinite
Wisdom, the pathway through time of the children of men. Mighty
and strange, they, veiled with their power, silent, all-knowing,
drawing the Life force, different yet one with the children of
men. Aye, different, and yet one with the Children of Light.
Custodians and watchers of the force of man’s bondage, ready to
loose when the light has been reached. First and most mighty,
sits the Veiled Presence, Lord of Lords, the infinite Nine, over
the others from each Cosmic cycle, weighing and watching the
progress of men.
Under HE, sit the Lords of the Cycles; Three, Four, Five, and
Six, Seven, Eight, each with his mission, each with his power,
guiding, directing the destiny of man. There sit they, mighty
and potent, free of all time and space. Not of this world they,
yet akin to it, Elder Brothers they, of the children of men.
Judging and weighing, they with their wisdom, watching the
progress Light among men.
There before them was I led by the Dweller, watched him blend
with ONE from above. Then from HE came forth a voice saying:
“Great art thou, Thoth, among children of men. Free henceforth
of the Halls of Amenti, Master of Life among children of men.
Taste not of death except as thou will it, drink thou of Life to
Eternity’s end. Henceforth forever is Life, thine for the
taking. Henceforth is Death at the call of thy hand. Dwell here
or leave here when thou desireth, free is Amenti to the Sun of
man. Take thou up Life in what form thou desireth, Child of the
Light that has grown among men. Choose thou thy work, for all
souls must labor, never be free from the pathway of Light. One
step thou has gained on the long pathway upward, infinite now is
the mountain of Light. Each step thou taketh but heightens the
mountain; all of thy progress but lengthens the goal. Approach
ye ever the infinite Wisdom, ever before thee recedes the goal.
Free are ye made now of the Halls of Amenti to walk hand in hand
with the Lords of the world, one in one purpose, working
together, bringers of Light to the children of men.”
Then from his throne came one of the Masters, taking my hand and
leading me onward, through all the Halls of the deep hidden
land. Led he me through the Halls of Amenti, showing the
mysteries that are known not to man. Through the dark passage,
downward he led me into the Hall where sits the dark Death. Vast
as space lay the great Hall before me, walled by darkness but
yet filled with Light.
Before me arose a great throne of darkness, veiled on it seated
a figure of night. Darker than darkness sat the great figure,
dark with a darkness not of the night. Before it then paused the
Master, speaking The Word that brings about Life, saying: “Oh,
master of darkness, guide of the way from Life unto Life, before
thee I bring a Sun of the morning. Touch him not ever with the
power of night. Call not his flame to the darkness of night.
Know him, and see him, one of our brothers, lifted from darkness
into the Light. Release thou his flame from its bondage, free
let it flame through the darkness of night.”
Raised then the hand of the figure, forth came a flame that grew
clear and bright. Rolled back swiftly the curtain of darkness,
unveiled the Hall from the darkness of night. Then grew in the
great space before me, flame after flame, from the veil of the
night. Uncounted millions leaped they before me, some flaming
forth as flowers of fire. Others there were that shed a dim
radiance, glowing but faintly from out of the night. Some there
were that faded swiftly; others that grew from a small spark of
light. Each surrounded by its dim veil of darkness, yet flaming
with the light that could never be quenched. Coming and going
like fireflies in springtime, filled they the space with Light
and with Life.
Then spoke a voice, mighty and solemn, saying: “These are lights
that are souls among men, growing and fading, existing forever,
changing yet living, through death into life. When they have
bloomed into flower, reached the zenith of growth in their life,
swiftly then send I my veil of darkness, shrouding and changing
to new forms of life. Steadily upward throughout the ages,
growing, expanding into yet greater flame, lighting the darkness
with yet greater power, quenched yet unquenched by the veil of
the night. So grows the soul of man ever upward, quenched yet
unquenched by the darkness of night. I, Death, come, and yet I
remain not, for life eternal exists in the All; only an
obstacle, I in the pathway, quick to be conquered by the
infinite light. Awaken, O flame that burns ever inward, flame
forth and conquer the veil of the night.”
Then in the midst of the flames in the darkness grew there one
that drove forth the night, flaming, expanding, ever brighter,
until at last was nothing but Light. Then spoke my guide, the
voice of the master: “See your own soul as it grows in the
light, free now forever from the Lord of the night.”
Forward he led me through many great spaces filled with the
mysteries of the Children of Light; mysteries that man may never
yet know of until he, too, is a Sun of the Light. Backward then
HE led me into the Light of the Hall of the Light. Knelt I then
before the great Masters, Lords of ALL from the cycles above.
Spoke HE then with words of great power saying: “Thou has been
made free of the Halls of Amenti. Choose thou thy work among the
children of men.”
Then spoke I: “O, great master, let me be a teacher of men,
leading them onward and upward until they too, are lights among
men; freed from the veil of the night that surrounds them,
flaming with light that shall shine among men.”
Spoke to me then the voice: “Go, as ye will. So be it decreed.
Master are ye of your destiny, free to take or reject at will.
Take ye the power, take ye the wisdom. Shine as a light among
the children of men.”
Upward then, led me the Dweller. Dwelt I again among children of
men, teaching and showing some of my wisdom; Sun of the Light, a
fire among men. Now again I tread the path downward, seeking the
light in the darkness of night. Hold ye and keep ye, preserve my
record, guide shall it be to the children of men.
EMERALD TABLET III:
The Key of Wisdom
I, Thoth, the Atlantean, give of my wisdom, give of my
knowledge, give of my power. Freely I give to the children of
men. Give that they, too, might have wisdom to shine through the
world from the veil of the night. Wisdom is power and power is
wisdom, one with each other, perfecting the whole.
Be thou not proud, O man, in thy wisdom. Discourse with the
ignorant as well as the wise. If one comes to thee full of
knowledge, listen and heed, for wisdom is all.
Keep thou not silent when evil is spoken for Truth like the
sunlight shines above all. He who over-steppeth the Law shall be
punished, for only through Law comes the freedom of men.
Follow thine heart during thy lifetime. Do thou more than is
commanded of thee. When thou has gained riches, follow thou
thine heart, for all these are of no avail if thine heart be
weary. Diminish thou not the time of following thine heart. It
is abhorred of the soul.
They that are guided go not astray, but they that are lost
cannot find a straight path. If thou go among men, make for
thyself, Love, the beginning and end of the heart. If one cometh
unto thee for council, let him speak freely, that the thing for
which he hath come to thee may be done. If he hesitates to open
his heart to thee, it is because
thou, the judge, doeth the wrong.
Repeat thou not extravagant speech, neither listen thou to it,
for it is the utterance of one not in equilibrium. Speak thou
not of it, so that he before thee may know wisdom. Silence is of
great profit. An abundance of speech profiteth nothing. Exalt
not thine heart above the children of men, lest it be brought
lower than the dust. If thou be great among men, be honored for
knowledge and gentleness. If thou seeketh to know the nature of
a friend, ask not his companion, but pass a time alone with him.
Debate with him, testing his heart by his words and his bearing.
That which goeth into the storehouse must come forth, and the
things that are thine must be shared with a friend.
Knowledge is regarded by the fool as ignorance, and the things
that are profitable are to him hurtful. He liveth in death. It
is therefore his food. The wise man lets his heart overflow but
keeps silent his mouth.
O man, list to the voice of wisdom; list to the voice of light.
Mysteries there are in the Cosmos that unveiled fill the world
with their light. Let he who would be free from the bonds of
darkness first divine the material from the immaterial, the fire
from the earth; for know ye that as earth descends to earth, so
also fire ascends unto fire and becomes one with fire. He who
knows the fire that is within himself shall ascend unto the
eternal fire and dwell in it eternally.
Fire, the inner fire, is the most potent of all force, for it
overcometh all things and penetrates to all things of the Earth.
Man supports himself only on that which resists. So Earth must
resist man else he existeth not.
All eyes do not see with the same vision, for to one an object
appears of one form and color and to a different eye of another.
So also the infinite fire, changing from color to color, is
never the same from day to day.
Thus, speak I, Thoth, of my wisdom, for man is a fire burning
bright through the night; never is quenched in the veil of the
darkness, never is quenched by the veil of the night.
Hark ye, O man, and list to this wisdom: where do name and form
cease? Only in consciousness, invisible, an infinite force of
radiance bright. The forms that ye create by brightening thy
vision are truly effects that follow thy cause.
Man is a star bound to a body, until in the end, he is freed
through his strife. Only struggle and toiling thy utmost shall
the star within thee bloom out in new life. He who knows the
commencement of all things, free is his star from the realms of
night.
Remember, O man, that all which exists is only another form of
that which exists not. Everything that has being is passing into
yet other being and thou thyself are not an exception.
Consider the Law, for all is Law. Seek not that which is not of
the Law, for such exists only in the illusions of the senses.
Wisdom cometh to all her children even as they cometh unto
wisdom.
All through the ages, the light has been hidden. Awake, O man,
and be wise.
Deep in the mysteries of life have I traveled, seeking and
searching for that which is hidden. List ye, O man, and be wise.
Far ‘neath the earth crust, in the Halls of Amenti, mysteries I
saw that are hidden from men.
Oft have I journeyed the deep hidden passage, looked on the
Light that is Life among men. There ‘neath the Flowers of Life
ever living, searched I the hearts and the secrets of men. Found
I that man is but living in darkness, light of the great fire is
hidden within.
Before the Lords of hidden Amenti learned I the wisdom I give
unto men. Masters are they of the great Secret Wisdom, brought
from the future of infinity’s end. Seven are they, the Lords of
Amenti, overlords they of the Children of Morning, Suns of the
Cycles, Masters of Wisdom. Formed are not they as the children
of men? Three, Four, Five and Six, Seven, Eight, Nine are the
titles of the Masters of men.
Far from the future, formless yet forming, came they as teachers
for the children of men. Live they forever, yet not of the
living, bound not to life and yet free from death. Rule they
forever with infinite wisdom, bound yet not bound to the dark
Halls of Death. Life they have in them, yet life that is not
life, free from all are the Lords of the ALL.
Forth from them came forth the Logos, instruments they of the
power o’er all. Vast is their countenance, yet hidden in
smallness, formed by a forming, known yet unknown.
Three holds the key of all hidden magic, creator he of the Halls
of the Dead; sending forth power, shrouding with darkness,
binding the souls of the children of men; sending the darkness,
binding the soul force; director of negative to the children of
men. Four is he who looses the power. Lord, he, of Life to the
children of men.
Light is his body, flame is his countenance; freer of souls to
the children of men.
Five is the master, the Lord of all magic—Key to The Word that
resounds among men.
Six is the Lord of Light, the hidden pathway, part of the souls
of the children of men. Seven is he who is Lord of the vastness,
master of Space and the key of the Times. Eight is he who orders
the progress; weighs and balances the journey of men. Nine is
the father, vast he of countenance, forming and changing from
out of the formless.
Meditate on the symbols I give thee. Keys are they, though
hidden from men.
Reach ever upward, O Soul of the morning. Turn thy thoughts
upward to Light and to Life. Find in the keys of the numbers I
bring thee, light on the pathway from life unto life.
Seek ye with wisdom. Turn thy thoughts inward. Close not thy
mind to the Flower of Light.
Place in thy body a thought-formed picture. Think of the numbers
that lead thee to Life. Clear is the pathway to he who has
wisdom. Open the door to the Kingdom of Light. Pour forth thy
flame as a Sun of the morning. Shut out the darkness and live in
the day.
Take thee, O man! As part of thy being, the Seven who are but
are not as they seem. Opened, O man! Have I my wisdom. Follow
the path in the way I have led.
Masters of Wisdom, Sun of the Morning
Light and Life to the children of men.
EMERALD TABLET IV:
The Space Born
List ye, O man, to the voice of wisdom, list to the voice of
Thoth, the Atlantean. Freely I give to thee of my wisdom
gathered from the time and space of this cycle; master of
mysteries, Sun of the morning, Thoth the teacher of men, is of
ALL.
Long time ago, I in my childhood, lay ‘neath the stars on
long-buried Atlantis, dreaming of mysteries far above men. Then
in my heart grew there a great longing to conquer the pathway
that led to the stars. Year after year, I sought after wisdom,
seeking new knowledge, following the way, until at last my Soul,
in great travail, broke from its bondage and bounded away. Free
was I from the bondage of earth-men. Free from the body, I
flashed through the night. Unlocked at last for me was the
star-space. Free was I from the bondage of night. Now to the end
of space sought I wisdom, far beyond knowledge of finite man.
Far into space, my Soul traveled freely into infinity’s circle
of light. Strange, beyond knowledge, were some of the planets,
great and gigantic, beyond dreams of men. Yet found I Law, in
all of its beauty, working through and among them as here among
men. Flashed forth my soul through infinity’s beauty, far
through space I flew with my thoughts.
Rested I there on a planet of beauty. Strains of harmony filled
all the air. Shapes there were, moving in Order, great and
majestic as stars in the night; mounting in harmony, ordered
equilibrium, symbols of the Cosmic, like unto Law.
Many the stars I passed in my journey, many the races of men on
their worlds; some reaching high as stars of the morning, some
falling low in the blackness of night. Each and all of them
struggling upward, gaining the heights and plumbing the depths,
moving at times in realms of brightness, living through
darkness, gaining the Light.
Know, O man, that Light is thine heritage. Know that darkness is
only a veil. Sealed in thine heart is brightness eternal,
waiting the moment of freedom to conquer, waiting to rend the
veil of the night.
Some I found who had conquered the ether. Free of space were
they while yet they were men. Using the force that is the
foundation of ALL things, far in space constructed they a
planet, drawn by the force that flows through the ALL;
condensing, coalescing the ether into forms that grew as they
willed. Outstripping in science, they, all of the races, mighty
in wisdom, sons of the stars.
Long time I paused, watching their wisdom. Saw them create from
out of the ether cities gigantic of rose and gold. Formed forth
from the primal element, base of all matter, the ether far
flung.
Far in the past, they had conquered the ether, freed themselves
from the bondage of toil; formed in their mind only a picture
and swiftly created, it grew.
Forth then, my soul sped, throughout the Cosmos, seeing ever,
new things and old; learning that man is truly space-born, a Sun
of the Sun, a child of the stars.
Know ye, O man, whatever form ye inhabit, surely it is one with
the stars. Thy bodies are nothing but planets revolving around
their central suns. When ye have gained the light of all wisdom,
free shall ye be to shine in the ether—one of the Suns that
light outer darkness—one of the space-born grown into Light.
Just as the stars in time lose their brilliance, light passing
from them into the great source, so, O man, thy soul passes
onward, leaving behind the darkness of night.
Formed forth ye, from the primal ether, filled with the
brilliance that flows from the source, bound by the ether
coalesced around, yet ever it flames until at last it is free.
Lift up your flame from out of the darkness, fly from they night
and ye shall be free.
Traveled I through the space-time, knowing my soul at last was
set free, knowing that now might I pursue wisdom. Until at last,
I passed to a plane, hidden from knowledge, known not to wisdom,
extension beyond all that we know. Now, O man, when I had this
knowing, happy my soul grew, for now I was free. Listen, ye
space-born, list to my wisdom: know ye not that ye, too, will be
free.
List ye again, O man, to my wisdom, that hearing, ye too, might
live and be free. Not of the earth are ye—earthy, but child of
the Infinite Cosmic Light.
Now, to ye, I give knowledge, freedom to walk in the path I have
trod, showing ye truly how by my striving, I trod the path that
leads to the stars.
Hark ye, O man, and know of thy bondage, know how to free
thyself from the toils. Out of the darkness shall ye rise
upward, one with the Light and one with the stars. Follow ye
ever the path of wisdom. Only by this can ye rise from below.
Ever man’s destiny leads him onward into the Curves of
Infinity’s ALL.
Know ye, O man, that all space is ordered. Only by Order are ye
One with the ALL. Order and balance are the Law of the Cosmos.
Follow and ye shall be One with the ALL.
He who would follow the pathway of wisdom, open must be to the
Flower of Life, extending his consciousness out of the darkness,
flowing through time and space in the ALL.
Deep in the silence, first ye must linger until at last ye are
free from desire, free from the longing to speak in the silence.
Conquer by silence, the bondage of words. Abstaining from eating
until ye have conquered desire for food, that is bondage of
soul. Then lie ye down in the darkness. Close ye your eyes from
the rays of the Light. Center thy soul-force in the place of
thine consciousness, shaking it free from the bonds of the
night. Place in thy mind-place the image thou desireth. Picture
the place thou desireth to see. Vibrate back and forth with thy
power. Loosen the soul from out of its night. Fiercely must thou
shake with all of thy power until at last thy soul shall be
free.
Mighty beyond words is the flame of the Cosmic, hanging in
planes, unknown to man; mighty and balanced, moving in Order,
music of harmonies, far beyond man. Speaking with music, singing
with color, flame from the beginning of Eternity’s ALL.
Spark of the flame art thou, O my children, burning with color
and living with music. List to the voice and thou shalt be free.
Consciousness free is fused with the Cosmic, One with the Order
and Law of the ALL.
Knew ye not man, that out of the darkness, Light shall flame
forth, a symbol of ALL.
Pray ye this prayer for attaining of wisdom. Pray for the coming
of Light to the ALL. “Mighty Spirit of Light that shines through
the Cosmos, draw my flame closer in harmony to thee. Lift up my
fire from out of the darkness, magnet of fire that is One with
the ALL. Lift up my soul, thou mighty and potent. Child of the
Light, turn not away. Draw me in power to melt in thy furnace;
One with all things and all things in One, fire of the life
strain and One with the Brain.”
When ye have freed thy soul from its bondage, know that for ye
the darkness is gone. Ever through space ye may seek wisdom,
bound not by fetters forged in flesh.
Onward and upward into the morning, free flash, O Soul, to the
realms of Light. Move thou in Order, move thou in Harmony,
freely shalt move with the Children of Light. Seek ye and know
ye, my Key of Wisdom. Thus, O man, ye shall surely be free.
EMERALD TABLET V:
The Dweller of Unal
Oft dream I of buried Atlantis, lost in the ages that have
passed into night. Aeon on aeon thou existed in beauty, a
shining through the darkness of night.
Mighty in power, ruling the earth-born, Lord of the Earth in
Atlantis’ day. King of the nations, master of wisdom, Light
through Suntal, Keeper of the Way, dwelt in his Temple, the
Master of Unal, Light of the Earth in Atlantis’ day.
Master, He, from a cycle beyond us, living in bodies as one
among men. Not as the earth-born, He from beyond us, Sun of a
cycle, advanced beyond men.
Know ye, O man, that Horlet the Master, was never one with the
children of men. Far in the past time when Atlantis first grew
as a power, appeared there one with the Key of Wisdom, showing
the way of Light to all.
Showed he to all men the path of attainment, way of the Light
that flows among men. Mastering darkness, leading the Man-Soul,
upward to heights that were One with the Light.
Divided the Kingdoms, He into sections. Ten were they, ruled by
children of men. Upon another, built He a Temple, built but not
by the children of men.
Out of the Ether called He its substance, molded and formed by
the power of Ytolan into the forms He built with His mind. Mile
upon mile it covered the island, space upon space it grew in its
might. Black, yet not black, but dark like the space-time, deep
in its heart the Essence of Light. Swiftly the Temple grew into
being, molded an shaped by the Word of the Dweller, called from
the formless into a form.
Builded He then, within it, great chambers, filled them from
forms called forth from the Ether, filled them with wisdom
called forth by His mind.
Formless was He within his Temple, yet was He formed in the
image of man. Dwelling among them yet not of them, strange and
far different was He from the children of men.
Chose He then from among the people, Three who became his
gateway. Chose He the Three from the Highest to become his links
with Atlantis. Messengers they, who carried his counsel, to the
kings of the children of men.
Brought He forth others and taught them wisdom; teachers, they,
to the children of men. Placed He them on the island of Undal to
stand as teachers of Light to men.
Each of those who were thus chosen, taught must he be for years
five and ten. Only thus could he have understanding to being
Light to the children of men. Thus there came into being the
Temple, a dwelling place for the Master of man.
I, Thoth, have ever sought wisdom, searching in darkness and
searching in Light. Long in my youth I traveled the pathway,
seeking ever new knowledge to gain. Until after much striving,
one of the Three, to me brought the Light. Brought He to me the
commands of the Dweller, called me from darkness into the Light.
Brought He me, before the Dweller, deep in the Temple before the
great Fire.
There on the great throne, beheld I, the Dweller, clothed with
the Light and flashing
with fire. Down I knelt before that great wisdom, feeling the
Light flowing through me in waves. Heard I then the voice of the
Dweller: “O darkness, come into the Light. Long have ye sought
the pathway to the Light. Each soul on earth that loosens its
fetters shall soon be made free from the bondage of night. Forth
from the darkness have ye arisen, closer approached the Light of
your goal. Here ye shall dwell as one of my children, keeper of
records gathered by wisdom, instrument thou of the Light from
beyond. Ready be thou made to do what is needed, per-server of
wisdom though the ages of darkness that shall come fast on the
children of men. Live thee here and drink of all wisdom. Secrets
and mysteries unto thee shall unveil.”
Then answered I, the Master of Cycles, saying: “O Light, that
descended to men, give thou to me of thy wisdom that I might be
a teacher of men. Give thou of thy Light that I may be free.”
Spoke then to me again, the Master: “Age after age shall ye live
through your wisdom. Aye, when o’er Atlantis the ocean waves
roll, holding the Light, though hidden in darkness, ready to
come when e’er thou shalt call. Go thee now and learn greater
wisdom. Grow thou through Light to Infinity’s ALL.” Long then
dwelt I in the Temple of the Dweller until at last I was One
with the Light. Followed I then the path to the star planes,
followed I then the pathway to Light. Deep into Earth’s heart I
followed the pathway, learning the secrets, below as above;
learning the pathway to the Halls of Amenti; learning the Law
that balances the world. To earth’s hidden chambers pierced I by
my wisdom, deep through the Earth’s crust, into the pathway,
hidden for ages from the children of men. Unveiled before me,
ever more wisdom until I reached a new knowledge: found that all
is part of an ALL, great and yet greater than all that we know.
Searched I Infinity’s heart through the ages. Deep and yet
deeper, more mysteries I found.
Now, as I look back through the ages, know I that wisdom is
boundless, ever grown greater throughout the ages, One with
Infinity’s greater than all.
Light there was in ancient Atlantis. Yes, darkness, too, was
hidden in all. Fell from the Light into the darkness, some who
had risen to heights among men. Proud they became because of
their knowledge, proud were they of their place among men. Deep
delved they into the forbidden, opened the gateway that led to
below. Sought they to gain ever more knowledge but seeking to
bring it up from below.
He who descends below must have balance, else he is bound by
lack of our Light. Opened, they then, by their knowledge,
pathways forbidden to man. But, in His Temple, all-seeing, the
Dweller, lay in his Agwanti, which through Atlantis His soul
roamed free. Saw He the Atlanteans, by their magic, opening the
gateway that would bring to Earth a great woe. Fast fled His
soul then, back to His body. Up He arose from His Agwanti.
Called He the Three mighty messengers. Gave the commands that
shattered the world.
Deep ‘neath Earth’s crust to the Halls of Amenti, swiftly
descended the Dweller. Called He then on the powers of the Seven
Lords wielded; changed the Earth’s balance. Down sank Atlantis
beneath the dark waves.
Shattered the gateway that had been opened; shattered the
doorway that led down below. All of the islands were shattered
except Unal, and part of the island of the sons of the Dweller.
Preserved He them to be the teachers, Lights on the path for
those to come after, Lights for the lesser children of man.
Called He then, I Thoth, before him, gave me commands for all I
should do, saying: “Take thou, O Thoth, all of your wisdom. Take
all your records. Take all your magic. Go thou forth preserving
the records until in time Light grows among men. Light shalt
thou be all through the ages, hidden yet found by enlightened
men. Over all Earth, give WE ye power, free thou to give or take
it away. Gather thou now the sons of Atlantis. Take them and
flee to the people of the rock caves. Fly to the land of the
Children of Khem.”
Then gathered I the sons of Atlantis. Into the spaceship I
brought all my records, brought the records of sunken Atlantis.
Gathered I all of my powers, instruments many of mighty magic.
Up then we rose on wings of the morning. High we arose above the
Temple, leaving behind the three and Dweller, deep in the Halls
‘neath the Temple. Down ‘neath the waves sank the great Temple,
closing the pathway to the Lords of the Cycles. Yet ever to him
who has knowing, open shall be the path to Amenti.
Fast fled we then on the wings of the morning, fled to the land
of the children of Khem. There by my power, I conquered and
ruled them. Raised I to Light, the children of Khem.
Deep ‘neath the rocks, I buried my spaceship, waiting the time
when man might be free. Over the spaceship, erected a marker in
the form of a lion yet like unto man. There‘neath the image
rests yet my spaceship, forth to be brought when need shall
arise.Know ye, O man, that far in the future invaders shall come
from out of the deep. Then awake, ye who have wisdom. Bring
forth my ship and conquer with ease. Deep ‘neath the image lies
my secret. Search and find in the pyramid I built. Each to the
other is the Keystone; each the gateway that leads into Life.
Follow the Key I leave behind me. Seek and the doorway to Life
shall be thine. Seek thou in my pyramid, deep in the passage
that ends in a wall. Use thou the Key of the Seven, and open to
thee the pathway will fall.
Now unto thee I have given my wisdom. Now unto thee I have given
my way. Follow the pathway. Solve thou my secrets. Unto thee I
have shown the way.
EMERALD TABLET VI:
The Key of Magic
Hark ye, O man, to the wisdom of magic. Hark to the knowledge of
powers forgotten. Long, long ago in the days of the first man,
warfare began between darkness and light. Men, then as now, were
filled with both darkness and light; and while in some darkness
held sway, in others light filled the soul.
Aye, age old is this warfare, the eternal struggle between
darkness and light. Fiercely is it fought all through the ages,
using strange powers hidden to man.
Adepts have there been filled with the blackness, struggling
always against the light; but others there are who, filled with
brightness, have ever conquered the darkness of night. Where
e’er ye may be in all ages and planes, surely ye shall know of
the battle with night. Long ages ago, the Suns of the Morning,
descending, found the world filled with night. There in that
past time began the struggle, the age old battle of darkness and
Light.
Many in that time were so filled with darkness that only feebly
flamed the light from the night.
Some there were, masters of darkness, who sought to fill all
with their darkness; sought to draw others into their night.
Fiercely withstood they, the masters of brightness; fiercely
fought they from the darkness of night. Sought they ever to
tighten the fetters, the chains that bind man to the darkness of
night. Used they always the dark magic, brought into man by the
power of darkness; magic that enshrouded man’s soul with
darkness.
Banded together in as order, Brothers of Darkness, they through
the ages, antagonists they to the children of men. Walked they
always secret and hidden, found yet not found by the children of
men. Forever they walked and worked in darkness, hiding from the
light in the darkness of night. Silently, secretly, use they
their power, enslaving and binding the souls of men.
Unseen they come and unseen they go. Man in his ignorance calls
Them from below.
Dark is the way the Dark Brothers travel, dark with a darkness
not of the night, traveling o’er Earth they walk through man’s
dreams. Power have they gained from the darkness around them to
call other dwellers from out of their plane in ways that are
dark and unseen by man. Into man’s mind-space reach the Dark
Brothers. Around it, they close the veil of their night. There
through its lifetime that soul dwells in bondage, bound by the
fetters of the Veil of the night. Mighty are they in the
forbidden knowledge, forbidden because it is one with the night.
Hark ye, O man, and list to my warning: be ye free from the
bondage of night. Surrender not your soul to the Brothers of
Darkness. Keep thy face ever turned toward the Light. Know ye
not, O man, that your sorrow only has come through the Veil of
the night? Aye, man, heed ye my warning: strive ever upward,
turn your soul toward the Light. For well know they that those
who have traveled far towards the Sun on their pathway of Light
have great and yet greater power to bind with darkness the
children of Light.
List ye, O man, to he who comes to you. But weigh in the balance
if his words be of Light. For many there are who walk in Dark
Brightness and yet are not the children of Light. Easy it is to
follow their pathway, easy to follow the path that they lead.
But yes, O man, heed ye my warning: Light comes only to him who
strives. Hard is the pathway that leads to the Wisdom, hard is
the pathway that leads to the Light. Many shall ye find, the
stones in your pathway; many the mountains to climb toward the
Light. Yet know ye, O man, to him that o’ercometh, free will he
be of the pathway of Light. Follow ye not the Dark Brothers
ever. Always be ye a child of the Light. For know ye, O man, in
the end Light must conquer and darkness and night be banished
from Light.
Listen, O man, and heed ye this wisdom; even as darkness, so is
the Light.
When darkness is banished and all Veils are rendered, out there
shall flash from the darkness, the Light.
Even as exist among men the Dark Brothers, so there exists the
Brothers of Light. Antagonists they of the Brothers of Darkness,
seeking to free men from the night. Powers have they, mighty and
potent. Knowing the Law, the planets obey. Work they ever in
harmony and order, freeing the man-soul from its bondage of
night. Secret and hidden, walk they also. Known not are they to
the children of men. Yet know that ever they walk with thee,
showing the Way to the children of men. Ever have They fought
the Dark Brothers, conquered and conquering time without end.
Yet always Light shall in the end be master, driving away the
darkness of night.
Aye, man, know ye this knowing: always beside thee walk the
Children of Light.
Masters they of the Sun power, ever unseen yet the guardians of
men. Open to all is their pathway, open to he who will walk in
the Light. Free are They of Dark Amenti, free of the Halls where
Life regins supreme. Suns are they and Lords of the morning,
Children of Light to shine among men. Like man are they and yet
are unlike. Never divided were they in the past. One have they
been in Oneness eternal, throughout all space since the
beginning of time. Up did they come in Oneness with the All One,
up from the first-space, formed and unformed.
Given to man have they secrets that shall guard and protect him
from all harm. He who would travel the path of a master, free
must he be from the bondage of night. Conquer must he the
formless and shapeless; conquer must he the phantom of fear.
Knowing, must he gain of all the secrets, travel the pathway
that leads through the darkness, yet ever before him keep the
light of his goal. Obstacles great shall he meet in the pathway,
yet press on to the Light of the Sun.
Hear ye, O man, the Sun is the symbol of the Light that shines
at the end of thy road. Now to thee give I the secrets: how to
meet the dark power, meet and conquer the fear from the night.
Only by knowing can ye conquer; only by knowing can ye have
Light.
Now I give unto thee the knowledge, known to the Masters; the
knowing that conquers all the dark fears. Use this, the wisdom I
give thee. Master thou shalt be of the Brothers of Night.
When unto thee there comes a feeling, drawing thee nearer to the
dark gate, examine thine heart and find if the feeling thou hast
has come from within. If thou shalt find the darkness thine own
thoughts, banish them forth from place in thy mind. Send through
thy body a wave of vibration, irregular first and regular
second, repeating time after time until free. Start the Wave
Force in thy Brain Center. Direct it in waves from thine head to
thy foot.
But if thou findest thine heart is not darkened, be sure that a
force is directed to thee. Only by knowing can thou overcome it.
Only by wisdom can thou hope to be free. Knowledge brings wisdom
and wisdom is power. Attain and ye shall have power o’er all.
Seek ye first a place bound with darkness. Place ye a circle
around about thee. Stand erect in the midst of the circle. Use
thou this formula, and thou shalt be free. Raise thou thine
hands to the dark space above thee. Close thou thine eyes and
draw in the Light. Call to the Spirit of Light through the
Space-Time, using these words and thou shalt be free: “Fill thou
my body with Spirit of Light. Come from the Flower that shines
through the darkness. Come from the Halls where the Seven Lords
rule. Name them by name, I, the Seven: Three, Four, Five and
Six, Seven, Eight—Nine. By their names I call them to aid me,
free me and save me from the darkness of night: Untanas,
Quertas, Chietal, and Goyana, Huertal, Semveta—Ardal. By their
names I implore thee, free me from darkness and fill me with
Light.”
Know ye, O man, that when ye have done this, ye shall be free
from the fetters that bind ye, cast off the bondage of the
Brothers of Night. See ye not that the names have the power to
free by vibration the fetters that bind? Use them at need to
free thou thine brother so the he, too, may come forth from the
night.
Thou, O man, art thy brother’s helper. Let him not lie in the
bondage of night. Now unto thee, give I my magic. Take it and
dwell on the pathway of Light. Light unto thee, Life unto thee,
Sun may thou be on the cycle above.
EMERALD TABLET VII:
The Seven Lords
Hark ye, O man, and list to my Voice. Open thy mind-space and
drink of my wisdom. Dark is the pathway of Life that ye travel.
Many the pitfalls that lie in thy way. Seek ye ever to gain
greater wisdom. Attain and it shall be light on thy way.
Open thy Soul, O man, to the Cosmic and let it flow in as one
with thy Soul. Light is eternal and darkness is fleeting. Seek
ye ever, O man, for the Light. Know ye that ever as Light fills
thy being, darkness for thee shall soon disappear.
Open thy soul to the Brothers of Brightness. Let them enter and
fill thee with Light. Lift up thine eyes to the Light of the
Cosmos. Keep thou ever thy face to the goal. Only by gaining the
light of all wisdom, art thou one with the Infinite goal. Seek
ye ever the Oneness eternal. Seek ye ever the Light of the goal.
Light is infinite and Light is finite, separate only by darkness
in man. Seek ye to rend the Veil of the Darkness. Bring thou
together the Light into One.
Hear ye, O man, list to my Voice singing the song of Light and
of Life. Throughout all space, Light is prevalent, encompassing
ALL with its banners of flame. Seek ye forever in the Veil of
the Darkness, somewhere ye shall surely find Light. Hidden and
buried, lost to man’s knowledge, deep in the finite the Infinite
exists. Lost, but existing, flowing through all things, living
in ALL is the Infinite Brain. In all space, there is only One
wisdom. Though seeming divided, it is One in the One. All that
exists comes forth from the Light, and the Light comes forth
from the ALL.
Everything created is based upon Order: Law rules the space
where the Infinite dwells. Forth from equilibrium came the great
cycles, moving in harmony toward Infinity’s end.
Know ye, O man, that far in the space-time, Infinity itself
shall pass into change. Here ye and list to the Voice of Wisdom:
Know that ALL is of ALL evermore. Know that through time thou
may pursue wisdom and find ever more light on the way. Aye, thou
shalt find that ever receding, thy goal shall elude thee from
day unto day.
Long time ago, in the Halls of Amenti, I, Thoth, stood before
the Lords of the cycles. Mighty, They in their aspects of power;
mighty, They in the wisdom unveiled.
Led by the Dweller, first did I see them. But afterwards free
was I of their presence, free to enter their conclave at will.
Oft did I journey down the dark pathway unto the Hall where the
Light ever glows.
Learned I of the Masters of cycles, wisdom brought from the
cycles above us, knowledge brought from Infinity’s All. Many the
questions I asked of the Lords of the cycles. Great was the
wisdom they gave unto me. Now unto thee I give of this wisdom,
drawn from the flame of Infinity’s fire.
Deep in the Dark Halls sit the Seven, units of consciousness
from cycles above. Manifest They in this cycle as guide of man
to the knowledge of All. Seven are they, mighty in power,
speaking these words through me to men. Time after time, stood I
before them listening to words that came not with sound.
Once said They unto me: “O man, wouldst thou gain wisdom? Seek
for it in the heart of the flame. Wouldst thou gain knowledge of
power? Seek ye it in the heart of the flame. Wouldst be one with
the heart of the flame? Seek then within thine own hidden
flame.”
Many the times spoke They to me, teaching me wisdom not of the
world; showing me ever new paths to brightness; teaching me
wisdom brought from above. Giving knowledge of operation,
learning of Law, the order of ALL.
Spoke to me again, the Seven, saying: “From far beyond time are
We come, O man. Traveled We from beyond the Space-Time, aye,
from the place of Infinity’s end. When ye and all of thy
brethren were formless, formed forth were We from the order of
ALL. Not as men are We though once We, too, were as men. Out of
the Great Void were We formed forth in order and by Law. For
know ye that that which is formed truly is formless, having form
only to thine eyes.”
And again, unto me spoke the Seven, saying: “Child of the Light,
O Thoth, art thou, free to travel the bright path upward until
at the last All Ones become One.
Forth were We formed after our order: Three, Four, Five and Six,
Seven, Eight—Nine. Know ye that these are the number of cycles
that We descend from unto man. Each having here a duty to
fulfill; each having here a force to control. Yet are We, One,
with the Soul of our cycle. Yet are We, too, seeking a goal. Far
beyond man’s conception, Infinity extends into a greater than
All. There, in a time that is yet not a time, we shall ALL
become ONE with a greater than ALL. Time and space are moving in
circles. Know ye their law, and ye, too, shall be free. Aye,
free shall ye be to move through the cycles—pass the guardians
that dwell at the door.”
Then to me spoke He of Nine, saying: “Aeons and aeons have I
existed, knowing not Life, and tasting not death. For know ye, O
man, that far in the future, life and death shall be one with
the All. Each so perfected by balancing the other that neither
exists in the Oneness of All. In men of this cycle, the life
force is rampant, but life in its growth becomes one with the
All. Here, I manifest in this your cycle, but yet am I there in
your future of time. Yet to me, time exists not, for in my world
time exists not, for formless are We. Life have We not but yet
have existence, fuller and greater and freer than thee.
Man is a flame bound to a mountain, but We in our cycle shall
ever be free. Know ye, O man, that when ye have progressed into
the cycles that lengthen above, life itself will pass to the
darkness and only the essence of Soul shall remain.”
Then to me spoke the Lord of the Eight saying: “All that ye know
is but part of little. Not as yet have ye touched on the Great.
Far out in space where Light reigns supreme, came I into the
Light. Formed was I also but not as ye are.
Body of Light was my formless form formed. Know I not Life and
know I not Death, yet master am I of all that exists. Seek ye to
find the path through the barriers. Travel the road that leads
to the Light.”
Spoke again to me the Nine saying: “Seek ye to find the path to
beyond. Not impossible is it to grow to a consciousness above.
For when Two have become One and One has become the All, know ye
the barrier has lifted, and ye are made free of the road. Grow
thou from form to the formless. Free may thou be of the road.”
Thus, through ages I listened, learning the way to the All. Now
lift I my thought to the All-Thing. List ye and hear when it
calls. “O Light, all pervading, One with All and All with One,
flow thou to me through the channel. Enter thou so that I may be
free. Make me One with the All-Soul, shining from the blackness
of night. Free let me be of all space-time, free from the Veil
of the night. I, a child of the Light, command: Free from the
darkness to be.”
Formless am I to the Light-Soul, formless yet shining with
Light. Know I the bonds of the darkness must shatter and fall
before light.
Now give I this wisdom. Free may ye be, O man, living in light
and in brightness. Turn not thy face from the Light. Thy soul
dwells in realms of brightness. Ye are a child of the Light.
Turn thy thoughts inward not outward. Find thou the Light-Soul
within. Know that thou are the Master. All else is brought from
within. Grow thou to realms of brightness. Hold thou thy thought
on the Light. Know thou are one with the Cosmos, a flame and a
Child of the Light.
Now to thee give I warning: Let not thy thought turn away. Know
that the brightness flows through thy body for aye. Turn not to
the Dark-Brightness that comes from the Brothers of Black. But
keep thine eyes ever lifted, thy soul in tune with the Light.
Take ye this wisdom and heed it. List to my Voice and obey.
Follow the pathway to brightness, and thou shalt be One with the
way.
EMERALD TABLET VIII:
The Key of Mysteries
Unto thee, O man, have I given my knowledge. Unto thee have I
given of Light. Hear ye now and receive my wisdom brought from
space planes above and beyond.
Not as man am I for free have I become of dimensions and planes.
In each, take I on a new body. In each, I change in my form.
Know I now that the formless is all there is of form.
Great is the wisdom of the Seven. Mighty are they from beyond.
Manifest They through their power, filled by force from beyond.
Here ye these words of wisdom. Hear ye and make them thine own.
Find in them the formless. Find ye the key to beyond. Mystery is
but hidden knowledge. Know and ye shall unveil. Find the deep
buried wisdom and be master of darkness and Light.
Deep are the mysteries around thee, hidden the secrets of Old.
Search through the Keys of my Wisdom. Surely shall ye find the
way. The gateway to power is secret, but he who attains shall
receive. Look to the Light! O my brother. Open and ye shall
receive. Press on through the valley of darkness. Overcome the
dweller of the night. Keep ever thine eyes to the Light-Plane,
and thou shalt be One with the Light.
Man is in process of changing to forms that are not of this
world. Grows he in time to the formless, a plane on the cycle
above. Know ye, ye must become formless before ye are one with
the Light.
List ye, O man, to my voice, telling of the pathways to Light,
showing the way of attainment when ye shall be One with the
Light. Search ye the mysteries of Earth’s heart. Learn of the
Law that exists, holding the stars in their balance by the force
of the primordial mist. Seek ye the flame of the Earth’s Life.
Bathe in the glare of its flame. Follow the three-cornered
pathway until thou, too, art a flame.
Speak thou in words without voice to those who dwell down below.
Enter the blue-litten Temple and bathe in the fire of all life.
Know, O man, thou art complex, a being of earth and of fire. Let
thy flame shine out brightly. Be thou only the fire.
Wisdom is hidden in darkness. When lit by the flame of the Soul,
find thou the wisdom and be Light-Born, a Sun of the Light
without form. Seek thee ever more wisdom. Find it in the heart
of the flame. Know that only by striving can Light pour into thy
brain. Now have I spoken with wisdom. List to my Voice and obey.
Tear open the Veils of the darkness. Shine a Light on the Way.
Speak I of Ancient Atlantis, speak of the days of the Kingdom of
Shadows, speak of the coming of the children of shadows. Out of
the great deep were they called by the wisdom of earth-men,
called for the purpose of gaining great power.
Far in the past before Atlantis existed, men there were who
delved into darkness, using dark magic, calling up beings from
the great deep below us. Forth came they into this cycle.
Formless were they of another vibration, existing unseen by the
children of earth-men. Only through blood could they have formed
being. Only through man could they live in the world. In ages
past were they conquered by the Masters, driven below to the
place whence they came. But some there were who remained, hidden
in spaces and planes unknown to man. Lived they in Atlantis as
shadows, but at times they appeared among men. Aye, when the
blood was offered, forth came they to dwell among men.
In the form of man moved they amongst us, but only to sight
where they as are men. Serpent-headed when the glamour was
lifted but appearing to man as men among men. Crept they into
the Councils, taking forms that were like unto men. Slaying by
their arts the chiefs of the kingdoms, taking their form and
ruling o’er man. Only by magic could they be discovered. Only by
sound could their faces be seen. Sought they from the kingdom of
shadows to destroy man and rule in his place.
But, know ye, the Masters were mighty in magic, able to lift the
Veil from the face of the serpent, able to send him back to his
place. Came they to man and taught him the secret, the Word that
only a man can pronounce. Swift then they lifted the Veil from
the serpent and cast him forth from place among men.
Yet, beware, the serpent still liveth in a place that is open at
times to the world. Unseen they walk among thee in places where
the rites have been said. Again as time passes onward shall they
take the semblance of men.
Called may they be by the master who knows the white or the
black, but only the white master may control and bind them while
in the flesh.
Seek not the kingdom of shadows, for evil will surely appear.
For only the master of brightness shall conquer the shadow of
fear.
Know ye, O my brother, that fear is an obstacle great. Be master
of all in the brightness, the shadow will soon disappear. Hear
ye and heed my wisdom, the voice of Light is clear. Seek not the
valley of shadow, and Light only will appear.
List ye, O man, to the depth of my wisdom. Speak I of knowledge
hidden from man. Far have I been on my journey though
Space-Time, even to the end of the space of this cycle. Found I
there the great barrier, holding man from leaving this cycle.
Aye, glimpsed the Hounds of the Barrier, laying in wait for he
who would pass them. In that space where time exists not,
faintly I sensed the guardians of cycles. Move they only through
angles. Free are they not of the curved dimensions.
Strange and terrible are the Hounds of the Barrier. Follow they
consciousness to the limits of space. Think not to escape by
entering your body, for follow they fast the Soul through
angles. Only the circle will give ye protection, safe from the
claws of the Dweller in Angles.
Once, in a time past, I approached the great Barrier, and saw on
the shores where time exists not, the formless forms of the
Hounds of the Barrier. Aye, hiding in the mist beyond time I
found them; and They, scenting me afar off, raised themselves
and gave the great bell cry that can be heard from cycle to
cycle and moved through space toward my Soul.
Fled I then fast before them, back from time's unthinkable end.
But ever after me pursued they, moving in strange angles not
known to man. Aye, on the gray shore of Time-Space’s end found I
the Hounds of the Barrier, ravening for the Soul who attempts
the beyond.
Fled I through circles back to my body. Fled, and fast after me
they followed. Aye, after me the devourers followed, seeking
through angles to devour my Soul.
Aye, know ye man, that the Soul who dares the Barrier may be
held in bondage by the Hounds from beyond time, held till this
cycle is all completed and left behind when the consciousness
leaves.
Entered I my body. Created the circles that know not angles,
created the form that from my form was formed. Made my body into
a circle and lost the pursuers in the circles of time. But, even
yet, when free from my body, cautious ever must I be not to move
through angles, else my Soul might never be free.
Know ye, the Hounds of the Barrier move only through angles and
never through curves of space. Only by moving through curves can
ye escape them, for in angles they will pursue thee. O man, heed
ye my warning; Seek not to break open the gate to beyond. Few
there are who have succeeded in passing the Barrier to the
greater Light that shines beyond. For know ye, ever the
dwellers, seek such Souls to hold in their thrall.
Listen, O man, and heed ye my warning; seek ye to move not in
angles but curves. And if while free from thy body, thou hearest
the sound like the bay of a hound ringing clear and bell-like
through thy being, flee back to thy body through circles,
penetrate not the mist before.
When thou hast entered the form thou hast dwelt in, use thou the
cross and the circle combined. Open thy mouth and use thou thy
Voice. Utter the Word and thou shalt be free. Only the one who
of Light has the fullest can hope to pass by the guards of the
way. And then must he move through strange curves and angles
that are formed in direction not known to man.
List ye, O man, and heed ye my warning: attempt not to pass the
guards in the way. Rather should ye seek to gain of thine own
Light and make thyself ready to pass on the way. Light is thine
ultimate end, O my brother. Seek and find ever the Light on thy
way.
EMERALD TABLET IX:
The Key of Freedom of Space
List ye, O man, hear ye my voice, teaching of Wisdom and Light
in this cycle; teaching ye how to banish the darkness, teaching
ye how to bring Light in thy life.
Seek ye, O man, to find the great pathway that leads to eternal
Life as a Sun. Draw ye away from the veil of the darkness. Seek
to become a Light in the world. Make of thyself a vessel for
Light, a focus for the Sun of this space.
Lift thou thine eyes to the Cosmos. Lift thou thine eyes to the
Light. Speak in the words of the Dweller, the chant that calls
down the Light. Sing thou the song of freedom. Sing thou the
song of the Soul. Create the high vibration that will make thee
One with the Whole. Blend all thyself with the Cosmos. Grow into
One with the Light. Be thou a channel of order, a pathway of Law
to the world.
Thy Light, O man, is the great Light, shining through the shadow
of flesh. Free must thou rise from the darkness before thou art
One with the Light.
Shadows of darkness surround thee. Life fills thee with its
flow. But know, O man, thou must arise and forth from thy body
go far to the planes that surround thee and yet are One with
thee, too.
Look all around thee, O man. See thine own light reflected. Aye,
even in the darkness around thee, thine own Light pours forth
through the veil.
Seek thou for wisdom always. Let not thine body betray. Keep in
the path of the Light wave. Shun thou the darkened way. Know
thee that wisdom is lasting, existing since the All-Soul began,
creating harmony from chaos by the Law that exists in the Way.
List ye, O man, to the teaching of wisdom. List to the voice
that speaks of the past time. Aye, I shall tell thee knowledge
forgotten, tell ye of wisdom hidden in past time, lost in the
mist of darkness around me.
Know ye, man, ye are the ultimate of all things. Only the
knowledge of this is forgotten, lost when man was cast into
bondage, bound and fettered by the chains of the darkness.
Long, long ago, I cast off my body. Wandered I free through the
vastness of ether, circled the angles that hold man in bondage.
Know ye, O man, ye are only a spirit. The body is nothing. The
Soul is All. Let not your body be a fetter. Cast off the
darkness and travel in Light. Cast off your body, O man, and be
free, truly a Light that is One with the Light.
When ye are free from the fetters of darkness and travel in
space as a Sun of the Light, then ye shall know that space is
not boundless but truly bounded by angles and curves. Know ye, O
man, that all that exists is only an aspect of greater things
yet to come. Matter is fluid and flows like a stream, constantly
changing from one thing to another.
All through the ages has knowledge existed; never been changed,
though buried in darkness; never been lost, though forgotten by
man.
Know ye that throughout the space that ye dwell in are others as
great as your own, interlaced through the heart of your matter
yet separate in space of their own.
Once in a time long forgotten, I, Thoth, opened the doorway,
penetrated into other spaces and learned of the secrets
concealed. Deep in the essence of matter are many mysteries
concealed.
Nine are the interlocked dimensions, and Nine are the cycles of
space. Nine are the diffusions of consciousness, and Nine are
the worlds within worlds. Aye, Nine are the Lords and the cycles
that come from above and below.
Space is filled with concealed ones, for space is divided by
time. Seek ye the key to the time-space, and ye shall unlock the
gate. Know ye that throughout the time-space consciousness
surely exists. Though from our knowledge it is hidden, yet still
it forever exists.
The key to worlds within thee are found only within. For man is
the gateway of mystery and the key that is One within One.
Seek ye within the circle. Use the Word I shall give. Open the
gateway within thee, and sure thou, too, shalt live. Man, ye
think that ye liveth, but know it is life within death. For as
sure as ye are bound to your body, for you no life exists. Only
the Soul is space-free, has life that is really a life. All else
is only a bondage, a fetter from which to be free.
Think not that man is earth-born, though come from the earth he
may be. Man is a light-born spirit. But, without knowing, he can
never be free. Darkness fetters the Soul. Only the one who is
seeking may ever hope to be free.
Shadows around thee are falling. Darkness fills all the spaces.
Shine forth, O Light of the man-soul. Fill thou the darkness of
space. Ye are a Sun of the Great Light. Remember and ye shall be
free. Stay not thou in the shadows. Spring forth from the
darkness of night. Light, let thy Soul be, O Sun-Born, filled
with glory of Light, freed from the bonds of darkness, a Soul
that is One with the Light.
Thou art the key to all wisdom. Within thee is all time and
space. Live not in bondage to darkness. Free thou thy Light-form
from night.
“Great Light that fills all the Cosmos, flow thou fully to man.
Make of his body a light torch that shall never be quenched
among men.”
Long in the past, sought I wisdom, knowledge not known to man.
Far to the past I traveled into the space where time began.
Sought I ever new knowledge to add to the wisdom I know. Yet
only, I found, did the future hold the key to the wisdom I
sought.
Down to the Halls of Amenti I journeyed, the greater knowledge
to seek. Asked of the Lords of the Cycles, the way to the wisdom
I sought. Asked the Lords this question: “Where is the source of
ALL?” Answered, in tones that were mighty, the voice of the Lord
of the Nine: “Free thou thy Soul from thy body and come forth
with me to the Light.”
Forth I came from my body, a glittering flame in the night.
Stood I before the Lords, bathed in the fire of Life. Seized was
I then by a force, great beyond knowledge of man. Cast was I to
the Abyss through spaces unknown to man.
Saw I moulding of Order from the chaos and angles of night. Saw
I the Light spring from Order and heard the voice of the Light.
Saw I the flame of the Abyss, casting forth Order and Light. Saw
Order spring out of chaos. Saw Light giving forth Life.
Then heard I the voice: “Hear thou and understand. The flame is
the source of all things, containing all things in potentiality.
The Order that sent forth light is the Word and from the Word
comes Life and the existence of all.” And again spoke the voice
saying: “The Life in thee is the Word. Find thou the Life within
thee, and have powers to use of the Word.”
Long I watched the Light-flame, pouring forth from the Essence
of Fire, realizing that Life is but Order and that man is one
with the fire.
Back I came to my body. Stood again with the Nine, listened to
the voice of the Cycles, vibrate with powers they spoke: “Know
ye, O Thoth, that Life is but the Word of the Fire. The Life
force ye seek before thee is but the Word in the World as a
fire. Seek ye the path to the Word and powers shall surely be
thine.”
Then asked I of the Nine: “O Lord, show me the path. Give me the
path to the wisdom. Show me the way to the Word.” Answered, me
then, the Lord of the Nine: “Through Order, ye shall find the
way. Saw ye not that the Word came from Chaos? Saw ye not that
Light came from Fire? Look in thy life for disorder. Balance and
order thy life. Quell all the Chaos of emotions and thou shalt
have order in Life. Order brought forth from Chaos will bring
thee the Word of the Source, will give thee the power of Cycles,
and make of thy Soul a force that free will extend through the
ages, a perfected Sun from the Source.”
Listened I to the voice and deep sank the words in my heart. For
ever have I sought for order that I might draw on the word. Know
ye that he who attains it must ever in Order be. For use of the
Word through disorder has never and can never be. Take ye these
words, O man. As part of thy life, let them be. Seek thee to
conquer disorder, and One with the Word thou shalt be.
Put forth thy effort in gaining Light on the pathway of Life.
Seek to be One with the Sun-State. Seek to be solely the Light.
Hold thou thy thought on the Oneness of Light with the body of
man. Know that all is Order from Chaos born into Light.
EMERALD TABLET X:
The Key of Time
List ye, O man. Take of my wisdom. Learn of the deep hidden
mysteries of space. Learn of the Thought that grew in the abyss,
bringing Order and Harmony in space.
Know ye, O man, that all that exists has being only because of
the Law. Know ye the
Law and ye shall be free, never be bound by the fetters of
night.
Far, through strange spaces, have I journeyed into the depth of
the abyss of time, learning strange and yet stranger mysteries,
until in the end all was revealed. Know ye that mystery is only
mystery when it is knowledge unknown to man.
When you have plumbed the heart of all mystery, knowledge and
wisdom will surely be thine.
Seek ye and learn that Time is the secret whereby ye may be free
of this space.
Long have I, Thoth, sought wisdom; aye, and shall seek to
eternity’s end for know I that ever before receding shall move
the goal I seek to attain. Even the Lords of the Cycles know
that not yet have They reached the goal, for with all of their
wisdom, they know that Truth ever grows.
Once, in a past time, I spoke to the Dweller. Asked of the
mystery of time and space. Asked him the question that surged in
my being, saying: “O Master, what is time?”
Then to me spoke He, the Master: “Know ye, O Thoth, in the
beginning there was void and nothingness: a timeless, spaceless,
nothingness. And into the nothingness came a thought,
purposeful, all-pervading, and It filled the Void. There existed
no matter, only force, a movement, a vortex of vibration of the
purposeful thought that filled the Void.”
And I questioned the Master, saying: “Was this thought eternal?”
And answered me the Dweller, saying: “In the beginning, there
was eternal thought, and for thought to be eternal, time must
exist. So into the all-pervading thought grew the Law of Time.
Aye, time which exists through all space, floating in a smooth,
rhythmic movement that is eternally in a state of fixation. Time
changes not, but all things change in time. For time is the
force that holds events separate, each in its proper place. Time
is not in motion, but ye move through time as your consciousness
moves from one event to another. Aye, by time ye exist, all in
all, an eternal One existence. Know ye that even though in time
ye are separate, yet still are One in all times existent.”
Ceased then the voice of the Dweller, and departed I to ponder
on time. For knew I that in these words lay wisdom and a way to
explore the mysteries of time.
Oft did I ponder the words of the Dweller. Then sought I to
solve the mystery of time. Found I that time moves through
strange angles. Yet only by curves could I hope to attain the
key that would give me access to the time-space. Found I that
only by moving upward and yet again by moving to right-ward
could I be free from the time of this movement.
Forth I came from out of my body, moved in the movements that
changed me in time. Strange were the sights I saw in my
journeys, many the mysteries that opened to view. Aye, saw I
man’s beginning, learned from the past that nothing is new.
Seek ye, O man, to learn the pathway that leads through the
spaces that are formed forth in time. Forget not, O man, with
all of thy seeking that Light is the goal ye shall seek to
attain. Search ye ever for Light on thy pathway and ever for
thee the goal shall endure. Let not thine heart turn ever to
darkness. Light let thine Soul be, a sun on the way. Know ye
that in the eternal brightness, ye shall ever find thy Soul hid
in the Light, never fettered by bondage to darkness, ever it
shines forth a Sun of the Light.
Aye, know, though hidden in darkness, your Soul, a spark of the
true flame, exists. Be ye One with the greatest of all Lights.
Find at the Source, the End of thy goal. Light is life, for
without the great Light nothing can ever exist. Know ye, that in
all formed matter, the heart of Light always exists. Aye, even
though bound in the darkness,
inherent Light always exists.
Once I stood in the Halls of Amenti and heard the voice of the
Lords of Amenti, saying in tones that rang through the silence,
words of power, mighty and potent. Chanted they the song of the
cycles, the words that opened the path to beyond. Aye, I saw the
great path opened and looked for an instant into the beyond. Saw
I the movements of the cycles, vast as the thought of the Source
could convey.
Knew I then that even Infinity is moving on to some unthinkable
end. Saw I that the Cosmos is Order and part of a movement that
extends to all space, a part of an Order of Orders, constantly
moving in a harmony of space. Saw I the wheeling of cycles like
vast circles across the sky. Knew I then that all that has being
is growing to meet yet other being in a far off grouping of
space and of time. Knew I then that in Words are power to open
the planes that are hidden from man. Aye, that even in Words
lies hidden the key that will open above and below.
Hark ye now, man, this word I leave with thee. Use it and ye
shall find power in its sound. Say ye, the word: “ZinUru” and
power ye shall find. Yet must ye understand that man is of Light
and Light is of man.
List ye, O man, and hear a mystery stranger than all that lies
‘neath the Sun. Know ye, O man, that all space is filled by
worlds within worlds; aye, one within the other yet separate by
Law.
Once in my search for deep buried wisdom, I opened the door that
bars Them from man. Called I from other planes of being, one who
was fairer than the daughters of men. Aye, I called her from out
of the spaces to shine as a Light in the world of men.
Used I the drum of the Serpent. Wore I the robe of the purple
and gold. Placed on my head, I, the crown of Silver. Around me
the circle of cinnabar shone. Raised I my arms and cried the
invocation that opens the path to the planes beyond, cried to
the Lords of the Signs in their houses: “Lords of the two
horizons, watchers of the treble gates, stand ye One at the
right and One at the left as the Star rises to his throne and
rules over his sign. Aye, thou dark prince of Arulu, open the
gates of the dim, hidden land and release her whom ye keep
imprisoned.
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, dark Lords and Shining Ones, and by
their secret names, names which I know and can pronounce, hear
ye and obey my will.”
Lit I then with flame my circle and called Her in the
space-planes beyond. “Daughter of Light return from Arulu. Seven
times and seven times have I passed through the fire. Food have
I not eaten. Water have I not drunk. I call thee from Arulu,
from the realm of Ekershegal, I summon thee, Lady of Light.”
Then before me rose the dark figures; aye, the figures of the
Lords of Arulu. Parted they before me and forth came the Lady of
Light. Free was she now from the Lords of the night, free to
live in the Light of the earth Sun, free to live as a child of
Light. Here ye and listen, O my children. Magic is knowledge and
only is Law. Be not afraid of the power within thee for it
follows Law as the stars in the sky. Know ye that to he without
knowledge, wisdom is magic and not of the Law. But know ye that
ever ye by your knowledge can approach closer to a place in the
Sun.
List ye, my children, follow my teaching. Be ye ever seeker of
Light. Shine in the world of men all around thee, a Light on the
path that shall shine among men. Follow ye and learn of my
magic. Know that all force is thine if thou wilt. Fear not the
path that leads thee to knowledge, but rather shun ye the dark
road.
Light is thine, O man, for the taking. Cast off the fetters and
thou shalt be free. Know ye that thy Soul is living in bondage
fettered by fear that holds ye in thrall. Open thy eyes and see
the great Sun-Light. Be not afraid for all is thine own. Fear is
the Lord of dark Arulu to he who has never faced the dark fear.
Aye, know that fear has existence created by those who are bound
by their fears.
Shake off thy bondage, O children, and walk in the Light of the
glorious day. Never turn thy thoughts to the darkness and surely
ye shall be One with the Light.
Man is only what he believeth, a brother of darkness or a child
of the Light. Come thou into the Light my Children. Walk in the
pathway that leads to the Sun.
Hark ye now and list to the wisdom. Use thou the word I have
given unto thee. Use it and surely thou shalt find power and
wisdom and Light to walk in the way. Seek thee and find the key
I have given and ever shalt thou be a Child of the Light.
EMERALD TABLET XI:
The Key to Above and Below
Hear ye and list ye, O children of Khem, to the words that I
give that shall bring ye to the Light. Ye know, O men, that I
knew your fathers, aye, your fathers in a time long ago.
Deathless have I been through all the ages, living among ye
since your knowledge began. Leading ye upward to the Light of
the Great Soul have I ever striven, drawing ye from out of the
darkness of night.
Know ye, O people amongst whom I walk, that I, Thoth, have all
of the knowledge and all of the wisdom known to man since the
ancient days. Keeper have I been of the secrets of the great
race, holder of the key that leads into life. Bringer up have I
been to ye, O my children, even from the darkness of the Ancient
of Days. List ye now to the words of my wisdom. List ye now to
the message I bring. Hear ye now the words I give thee, and ye
shall be raised from the darkness to Light.
Far in the past, when first I came to thee, found I thee in
caves of rocks. Lifted I thee by my power and wisdom until thou
didst shine as men among men. Aye, found I thee without any
knowing. Only a little were ye raised beyond beasts. Fanned I
ever the spark of thy consciousness until at last ye flamed as
men.
Now shall I speak to thee knowledge ancient beyond the thought
of thy race. Know ye that we of the Great Race had and have
knowledge that is more than man’s. Wisdom we gained from the
star-born races, wisdom and knowledge far beyond man’s. Down to
us had descended the masters of wisdom as far beyond us as I am
from thee. List ye now while I give ye wisdom. Use it and free
thou shalt be.
Know ye that in the pyramid I builded are the Keys that shall
show ye the Way into life. Aye, draw ye a line from the great
image I builded, to the apex of the pyramid, built as a gateway.
Draw ye another opposite in the same angle and direction. Dig ye
and find that which I have hidden. There shall ye find the
underground entrance to the secrets hidden before ye were men.
Tell ye I now of the mystery of cycles that move in movements
that are strange to the finite, for infinite are they beyond
knowledge of man. Know ye that there are nine of the cycles;
aye, nine above and fourteen below, moving in harmony to the
place of joining that shall exist in the future of time. Know ye
that the Lords of the Cycles are units of consciousness sent
from the others to unify This with the All. Highest are They of
the consciousness of all the Cycles, working in harmony with the
Law. Know They that in time all will be perfected, having none
above and none below, but all One in a perfected Infinity, a
harmony of all in the Oneness of All.
Deep ‘neath Earth’s surface in the Halls of Amenti sit the
Seven, the Lords of the Cycles, aye, and another, the Lord from
below. Yet know thee that in Infinity there is neither above nor
below. But ever there is and ever shall be Oneness of All when
all is complete. Oft have I stood before the Lords of the All.
Oft at the fount of their wisdom have drunken and filled both my
body and Soul with their Light.
Spake they to me and told me of cycles and the Law that gives
them the means to exist. Aye, spake to me the Lord of the Nine
saying: “O, Thoth, great are ye among Earth’s children, but
mysteries exist of which ye know not. Ye know that ye came from
a space-time below this and know ye shall travel to a space-time
beyond. But little ye know of the mysteries within them, little
ye know of the wisdom beyond. Know ye that ye as a whole in this
consciousness are only a cell in the process of growth. The
consciousness below thee is ever-expanding in different ways
from those known to thee. Aye, it, though in space-time below
thee, is ever growing in ways that are different from those that
were part of the ways of thine own. For know that it grows as a
result of thy growth but not in the same way that thou didst
grow. The growth that thou had and have in the present have
brought into being a cause and effect. No consciousness follows
the path of those before it, else all would be repetition and
vain. Each consciousness in the cycle it exists in follows its
own path to the ultimate goal. Each plays its part in the Plan
of the Cosmos. Each plays its part in the ultimate end. The
farther the cycle, the greater its knowledge and ability to
blend the Law of the whole.
Know ye, that ye in the cycles below us are working the minor
parts of the Law, while we of the cycle that extends to Infinity
take of the striving and build greater Law.
Each has his own part to play in the cycles. Each has his work
to complete in his way. The cycle below thee is yet not below
thee but only formed for a need that exists. For know ye that
the fountain of wisdom that sends forth the cycles is eternally
seeking new powers to gain. Ye know that knowledge is gained
only by practice, and wisdom comes forth only from knowledge,
and thus are the cycles created by Law. Means are they for the
gaining of knowledge for the Plane of Law that is the Source of
the All. The cycle below is not truly below but only different
in space and in time. The consciousness there is working and
testing lesser things than those ye are. And know, just as ye
are working on greater, so above ye are those who are also
working as ye are on yet other laws. The difference that exists
between the cycles is only in ability to work with the Law. We,
who have being in cycles beyond thee, are those who first came
forth from the Source and have in the passage through time-space
gained ability to use Laws of the Greater that are far beyond
the conception of man. Nothing there is that is really below
thee but only a different operation of Law.
Look thee above or look thee below, the same shall ye find. For
all is but part of the Oneness that is at the Source of the Law.
The consciousness below thee is part thine own as we are a part
of thine.
Ye, as a child had not the knowledge that came to ye when ye
became a man. Compare ye the cycles to man in his journey from
birth unto death, and see in the cycle below thee the child with
the knowledge he has; and see ye yourself as the child grown
older, advancing in knowledge as time passes on. See ye, We,
also, the child grown to manhood with the knowledge and wisdom
that came with the years. So also, O Thoth, are the cycles of
consciousness, children in different stages of growth, yet all
from the one Source, the Wisdom, and all to the Wisdom returning
again.”
Ceased then He from speaking and sat in the silence that comes
to the Lords. Then again spake He unto me, saying: “O Thoth,
long have We sat in Amenti, guarding the flame of life in the
Halls. Yet know, we are still part of our Cycles with our Vision
reaching unto them and beyond. Aye, know we that of all, nothing
else matters excepting the growth we can gain with our Soul.
Know we the flesh is fleeting. The things men count great are
nothing to us. The things we seek are not of the body but are
only the perfected state of the Soul. When ye as men can learn
that nothing but progress of Soul can count in the end, then
truly ye are free from all bondage, free to work in a harmony of
Law.
Know, O man, ye should aim at perfection, for only thus can ye
attain to the goal. Though ye should know that nothing is
perfect, yet it should be thy aim and thy goal.” Ceased again
the voice of the Nine, and into my consciousness the words had
sunk. Now, seek I ever more wisdom that I may be perfect in Law
with the All.
Soon go I down to the Halls of Amenti to live ‘neath the cold
flower of life. Ye whom I have taught shall nevermore see me.
Yet live I forever in the wisdom I taught. All that man is is
because of his wisdom. All that he shall be is the result of his
cause.
List ye, now to my voice and become greater than common man.
Lift thine eyes upward, let Light fill thy being, be thou ever
Children of Light. Only by effort shall ye grow upward to the
plane where Light is the All of the All. Be ye the master of all
that surrounds thee. Never be mastered by the effects of thy
life. Create then ever more perfect causes and in time shalt
thou be a Sun of the Light.
Free, let thine soul soar ever upward, free from the bondage and
fetters of night. Lift thine eyes to the Sun in the sky-space.
For thee, let it be a symbol of life. Know that thou art the
Greater Light, perfect in thine own sphere, when thou art free.
Look not ever into the blackness. Lift up thine eyes to the
space above. Free let thine Light flame upward and shalt thou be
a Child of the Light.
EMERALD TABLET XII:
The Law of Cause and Effect & The Key of Prophecy
List ye, O man, to the words of my wisdom, list to the voice of
Thoth, the Atlantean. Conquered have I the Law of time-space.
Knowledge have I gained of the future of time. Know I that man
in his movement through space-time shall ever be One with the
All.
Know ye, O man, that all of the future is an open book to him
who can read. All effect shall bring forth its causes as all
effects grew from the first cause. Know ye the future is not
fixed or stable but varies as cause brings forth an effect. Look
in the cause thou shalt bring into being, and surely thou shalt
see that all is effect.
So, O man, be sure the effects that ye bring forth are ever
causes of more perfect effects. Know ye the future is never in
fixation but follows man’s free will as it moves through the
movements of time-space toward the goal where a new time begins.
Man can only read the future through the causes that bring the
effects. Seek ye within the causation and surely ye shall find
the effects.
List ye, O man, while I speak of the future, speak of the effect
that follows the cause. Know ye that man in his journey
light-ward is ever seeking escape from the night that surrounds
him, like the shadows that surround the stars in the sky and
like the stars in the sky-space, he, too, shall shine from the
shadows of night.
Ever his destiny shall lead him onward until he is One with the
Light. Aye, though his way lies midst the shadows, ever before
him glows the Great Light. Dark though the way be yet shall he
conquer the shadows that flow around him like night.
Far in the future, I see man as Light-born, free from the
darkness that fetters the Soul, living in Light without the
bounds of the darkness to cover the Light that is Light of their
Soul. Know ye, O man, before ye attain this that many the dark
shadows shall fall on your Light striving to quench with the
shadows of darkness the Light of the Soul that strives to be
free.
Great is the struggle between Light and darkness, age old and
yet ever new. Yet, know in a time, far in the future, Light
shall be All and darkness shall fall.
List ye, O man, to my words of wisdom. Prepare and ye shall not
bind your Light. Man has risen and man has fallen as ever new
waves of consciousness flow from the great abyss below us toward
the Sun of their goal.
Ye, my children, have risen from a state that was little above
the beast, until now of all men ye are greatest. Yet before thee
were others greater than thee. Yet tell I thee as before thee
others have fallen, so also shall ye come to an end. And upon
the land where ye dwell now, barbarians shall dwell and in turn
rise to Light. Forgotten shall be the ancient-wisdom, yet ever
shall live though hidden from men.
Aye, in the land thou callest Khem, races shall rise and races
shall fall. Forgotten shalt thou be of the children of men. Yet
thou shalt have moved to a star-space beyond this leaving behind
this place where thou has dwelt.
The Soul of man moves ever onward, bound not by any one star.
But ever moving to the great goal before him where he is
dissolved in the Light of the All. Know ye that ye shall ever go
onward, moved by the Law of cause and effect until in the end
both become One.
Aye, man, after ye have gone, others shall move in the places ye
lived. Knowledge and wisdom shall all be forgotten, and only a
memory of Gods shall survive. As I to thee am a God by my
knowledge, so ye, too shall be Gods of the future because of
your knowledge far above theirs. Yet know ye that all through
the ages, man shall have access to Law when he will.
Ages to come shall see revival of wisdom to those who shall
inherit thy place on this star. They shall, in turn, come into
wisdom and learn to banish the darkness by Light. Yet greatly
must they strive through the ages to bring unto themselves the
freedom of Light. Then shall there come unto man the great
warfare that shall make the Earth tremble and shake in its
course. Aye, then shall the Dark Brothers open the warfare
between Light and the night.
When man again shall conquer the ocean and fly in the air on
wings like the birds; when he has learned to harness the
lightning, then shall the time of warfare begin. Great shall the
battle be twixt the forces, great the warfare of darkness and
Light. Nation shall rise against nation using the dark forces to
shatter the Earth. Weapons of force shall wipe out the Earth-man
until half of the races of men shall be gone. Then shall come
forth the Sons of the Morning and give their edict to the
children of men, saying: “O men, cease from thy striving against
thy brother. Only thus can ye come to the Light. Cease from thy
unbelief, O my brother, and follow the path and know ye are
right.”
Then shall men cease from their striving, brother against
brother and father against son. Then shall the ancient home of
my people rise from its place ‘neath the dark ocean waves. Then
shall the Age of Light be unfolded with all men seeking the
Light of the goal. Then shall the Brothers of Light rule the
people. Banished shall be the darkness of night.
Aye, the children of men shall progress onward and upward to the
great goal. Children of Light shall they become. Flame of the
flame shall their Souls ever be. Knowledge and wisdom shall be
man’s in the great age for he shall approach the eternal flame,
the Source of all wisdom, the place of beginning, that is yet
One with the end of all things. Aye, in a time that is yet
unborn, all shall be One and One shall be All. Man, a perfect
flame of this Cosmos, shall move forward to a place in the
stars. Aye, shall move even from out of this space-time into
another beyond the stars.
Long have ye listened to me, O my children, long have ye
listened to the wisdom of Thoth. Now I depart from ye into
darkness. Now go I to the Halls of Amenti, there to dwell in the
future when Light shall come again to man. Yet, know ye, my
Spirit shall ever be with thee, guiding thy feet in the pathway
of Light.
Guard ye the secrets I leave with thee, and surely my spirit
will guard thee through life. Keep thine eyes ever on the
pathway to wisdom. Keep the Light as thy goal ever- more. Fetter
not thy Soul in bondage of darkness; free let it wing in its
flight to the stars.
Now I depart thee to dwell in Amenti. Be thou my children in
this life and the next. The time will come when ye, too, shall
be deathless, living from age to age a Light among men.
Guard ye the entrance to the Halls of Amenti. Guard ye the
secrets I have hidden among ye. Let not the wisdom be cast to
barbarians. Secret shall thou keep it for those who seek Light.
Now depart I. Receive thou my blessing. Take thou my way and
follow the Light. Blend thou thy Soul in the Great Essence. One,
with the Great Light let thy consciousness be.
Call thou on me when thou dost need me. Use my name three times
in a row: Chequetet, Arelich, Volmalites.
EMERALD TABLET XIII:
The Keys of Life and Death
List ye, O man, hear ye the wisdom. Hear ye the Word that shall
fill thee with Life. Hear ye the Word that shall banish the
darkness. Hear ye the voice that shall banish the night.
Mystery and wisdom have I brought to my children; knowledge and
power descended from old. Know ye not that all shall be opened
when ye shall find the oneness of all? One shall ye be with the
Masters of Mystery, Conquerors of Death and Masters of Life.
Aye, ye shall learn of the flower of Amenti the blossom of life
that shines in the Halls. In Spirit shall ye reach that Halls of
Amenti and bring back the wisdom that liveth in Light. Know ye
the gateway to power is secret. Know ye the gateway to life is
through death. Aye, through death but not as ye know death, but
a death that is life and is fire and is Light.
Desireth thou to know the deep, hidden secret? Look in thy heart
where the knowl- edge is bound. Know that in thee the secret is
hidden, the source of all life and the source of all death.
List ye, O man, while I tell the secret, reveal unto thee the
secret of old.
Deep in Earth’s heart lies the flower, the source of the Spirit
that binds all in its form. For know ye that the Earth is living
in body as thou art alive in thine own formed form. The Flower
of Life is as thine own place of Spirit and streams through the
Earth as thine flows through thy form; giving of life to the
Earth and its children, renewing the Spirit from form unto form.
This is the Spirit that is form of thy body, shaping and
moulding into its form.
Know ye, O man, that thy form is dual, balanced in polarity
while formed in its form. Know that when fast on thee Death
approaches, it is only because thy balance is shaken. It is only
because one pole has been lost.
Know that thy body when in perfect balance may never be touched
by the finger of Death. Aye, even accident may only approach
when the balance is gone. When ye are in a balanced equilibrium,
ye shall live on in time and not taste of Death. Know that thou
art the balanced completion, existing because of thy balance of
poles. As, in thee, one pole is drawn downward, fast from thee
goes the balance of life. Then unto thee cold Death approaches,
and change must come to thine unbalanced life.
Know that the secret of life in Amenti is the secret of
restoring the balance of poles. All that exists has form and is
living because of the Spirit of life in its poles.
See ye not that in Earth’s heart is the balance of all things
that exist and have being on its face? The source of thy Spirit
is drawn from Earth’s heart, for in thy form thou are one with
the Earth.
When thou hast learned to hold thine own balance, then shalt
thou draw on the balance of Earth. Exist then shalt thou while
Earth is existing, changing in form, only when Earth, too, shalt
change: Tasting not of death, but one with this planet, holding
thy form till all pass away.
List ye, O man, whilst I give the secret so that ye, too, shalt
taste not of change. One hour each day shalt thou lie with thine
head pointed to the place of the positive pole (north). One hour
each day shalt thy head be pointed to the place of the negative
pole (south). Whilst thy head is placed to the northward, hold
thou thy consciousness from the chest to the head. And when thy
head is placed southward, hold thou thy thought from chest to
the feet. Hold thou in balance once in each seven, and thy
balance will retain the whole of its strength. Aye, if thou be
old, thy body will freshen and thy strength will become as a
youth’s. This is the secret known to the Masters by which they
hold off the fingers of Death. Neglect not to follow the path I
have shown, for when thou hast passed beyond years to a hundred
to neglect it will mean the coming of Death.
Hear ye, my words, and follow the pathway. Keep thou thy balance
and live on in life.
Hear ye, O man, and list to my voice. List to the wisdom that
gives thee of Death. When at the end of thy work appointed, thou
may desire to pass from this life, pass to the plane where the
Suns of the Morning live and have being as Children of Light.
Pass without pain and pass without sorrow into the plane where
is eternal Light.
First lie at rest with thine head to the eastward. Fold thou thy
hands at the Source of thy life (solar plexus). Place thou thy
consciousness in the life seat. Whirl it and divide to north and
to south. Send thou the one out toward the northward. Send thou
the other out to the south. Relax thou thy hold upon thy being.
Forth from they form will thy silver spark fly, upward and
onward to the Sun of the morning, blending with Light, at one
with its source. There it shall flame till desire shall be
created. Then shall return to a place in a form. Know ye, O men,
that thus pass the great Souls, changing at will from life unto
life. Thus ever passes the Avatar, willing his Death as he wills
his own life.
List ye, O man, drink of my wisdom. Learn ye the secret that is
Master of Time. Learn ye how those ye call Masters are able to
remember the lives of the past. Great is the secret yet easy to
master, giving to thee the mastery of time. When upon thee death
fast approaches, fear not but know ye are master of Death. Relax
thy body, resist not with tension. Place in thy heart the flame
of thy Soul. Swiftly then sweep it to the seat of the triangle.
Hold for a moment, then move to the goal. This, thy goal, is the
place be- tween thine eyebrows, the place where the memory of
life must hold sway. Hold thou thy flame here in thy brain-seat
until the fingers of Death grasp thy Soul. Then as thou pass
through the state of transition, surely the memories of life
shall pass, too. Then shalt the past be as one with the present.
Then shall the memory of all be retained. Free shalt thou be
from all retrogression. The things of the past shall live in
today.
Man, ye have heard the voice of my wisdom. Follow and ye shall
live through the ages as I.
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List ye, O Man, to the deep hidden wisdom, lost to the world
since the time of the
Dwellers, lost and forgotten by men of this age.
Know ye this Earth is but a portal, guarded by powers unknown to
man. Yet, the Dark Lords hide the entrance that leads to the
Heaven-born land. Know ye, the way to the sphere of Arulu is
guarded by barriers opened only to Light-born man.
Upon Earth, I am the holder of the keys to the gates of the
Sacred Land. Command I, by the powers beyond me, to leave the
keys to the world of man. Before I depart, I give ye the Secrets
of how ye may rise from the bondage of darkness, cast off the
fetters of flesh that have bound ye, rise from the darkness into
the Light. Know ye, the soul must be cleansed of its darkness,
ere ye may enter the portals of Light. Thus, I established among
ye the Mysteries so that the Secrets may always be found. Aye,
though man may fall into darkness, always the Light will shine
as a guide. Hidden in darkness, veiled in symbols, always the
way to the portal will be found. Man in the future will deny the
mysteries but always the way the seeker will find.
Now I command ye to maintain my secrets, giving only to those ye
have tested, so that the pure may not be corrupted, so that the
power of Truth may prevail. List ye now to the unveiling of
Mystery. List to the symbols of Mystery I give. Make of it a
religion for only thus will its essence remain.
Regions there are two between this life and the Great One,
traveled by the Souls who depart from this Earth; Duat, the home
of the powers of illusion; Sekhet Hetspet, the House of the
Gods. Osiris, the symbol of the guard of the portal, who turns
back the souls of unworthy men. Beyond lies the sphere of the
heaven-born powers, Arulu, the land where the Great Ones have
passed. There, when my work among men has been finished, will I
join the Great Ones of my Ancient home.
Seven are the mansions of the house of the Mighty; Three guards
the portal of each house from the darkness; Fifteen the ways
that lead to Duat. Twelve are the houses of the Lords of
Illusion, facing four ways, each of them different. Forty and
Two are the great powers, judging the Dead who seek for the
portal. Four are the Sons of Horus, Two are the Guards of East
and West—Isis, the mother who pleads for her children, Queen of
the moon, reflecting the Sun. Ba is the essence, living forever.
Ka is the Shadow that man knows as life. Ba cometh not until Ka
is incarnate. These are mysteries to preserve through the ages.
Keys are they of life and of Death. Hear ye now the mystery of
mysteries: learn of the circle beginningless and endless, the
form of He who is One and in all. Listen and hear it, go forth
and apply it, thus will ye travel the way that I go. Mystery in
Mystery, yet clear to the Light-born, the Secret of all I now
will reveal. I will declare a secret to the initiated, but let
the door be wholly shut against the profane.
Three is the mystery, come from the great one. Hear, and Light
on thee will dawn. In the primeval, dwell three unities. Other
than these, none can exist. These are the equilibrium, source of
creation: One God, One Truth, One point of freedom.
Three come forth from the three of the balance: all life, all
good, all power.
Three are the qualities of God in his Light-home: Infinite
power, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Love. Three are the powers
given to the Masters: To transmute evil, assist good, use
discrimination.
Three are the things inevitable for God to perform: Manifest
power, wisdom and love.
Three are the powers creating all things: Divine Love possessed
of perfect knowledge, Divine Wisdom knowing all possible means,
Divine Power possessed by the joint will of Divine Love and
Wisdom.
Three are the circles (states) of existence: The circle of Light
where dwells nothing but God, and only God can traverse it; the
circle of Chaos where all things by nature arise from death; the
Circle of awareness where all things spring from life.
All things animate are of three states of existence: chaos or
death, liberty in humanity and felicity of Heaven.
Three necessities control all things: beginning in the Great
Deep, the circle of chaos, plenitude in Heaven.
Three are the paths of the Soul: Man, Liberty, Light.
Three are the hindrances: lack of endeavor to obtain knowledge;
non-attachment to god; attachment to evil. In man, the three are
manifest. Three are the Kings of power within. Three are the
chambers of the mysteries, found yet not found in the body of
man.
Hear ye now of he who is liberated, freed from the bondage of
life into Light. Knowing the source of all worlds shall be open.
Aye, even the Gates of Arulu shall not be barred. Yet heed, O
man, who wouldst enter heaven. If ye be not worthy, better it be
to fall into the fire. Know ye the celestials pass through the
pure flame. At every revolution of the heavens, they bathe in
the fountains of Light.
List ye, O man, to this mystery: Long in the past before ye were
man-born, I dwelled in Ancient Atlantis. There in the Temple, I
drank of the Wisdom, poured as a fountain of Light from the
Dweller. Give the key to ascend to the Presence of Light in the
Great world. Stood I before the Holy One enthroned in the flower
of fire. Veiled was he by the lightnings of darkness, else my
Soul by the Glory have been shattered.
Forth from the feet of his Throne like the diamond, rolled forth
four rivers of flame from his footstool, rolled through the
channels of clouds to the Man-world. Filled was the hall with
Spirits of Heaven. Wonder of wonders was the Starry palace.
Above the sky, like a rainbow of Fire and Sunlight, were formed
the spirits. Sang they the glories of the Holy One. Then from
the midst of the Fire came a voice: “Behold the Glory of the
first Cause.” I beheld that Light, high above all darkness,
reflected in my own being. I attained, as it were, to the God of
all Gods, the Spirit-Sun, the Sovereign of the Sun spheres.
Again came the Voice: “There is one, even the First, who hath no
beginning, who hath no end; who hath made all things, who govern
all, who is good, who is just, who illumines, who sustains.”
Then from the throne, there poured a great radiance, surrounding
and lifting my soul by its power. Swiftly I moved through the
spaces of Heaven, shown was I the mystery of mysteries, shown
the Secret heart of the cosmos. Carried was I to the land of
Arulu, stood before the Lords in their Houses. Opened they the
Doorway so I might glimpse the primeval chaos. Shuddered my soul
to the vision of horror, shrank back my soul from the ocean of
darkness. Then saw I the need for the barriers, saw the need for
the Lords of Arulu. Only they with their Infinite balance could
stand in the way of the inpouring chaos. Only they could guard
God’s creation.
Then did I pass ‘round the circle of eight. Saw all the souls
who had conquered the darkness. Saw the splendor of Light where
they dwelled. Longed I to take my place in their circle, but
longed I also for the way I had chosen, when I stood in the
Halls of Amenti and made my choice to the work I would do.
Passed I from the Halls of Arulu down to the earth space where
my body lay. Arose I from the earth where I rested. Stood I
before the Dweller. Gave my pledge to renounce my Great right
until my work on Earth was completed, until the Age of darkness
be past.
List ye, O man, to the words I shall give ye. In them shall ye
find the Essence of Life. Before I return to the Halls of
Amenti, taught shall ye be the Secrets of Secrets, how ye, too,
may arise to the Light. Preserve them and guard them, hide them
in symbols, so the profane will laugh and renounce. In every
land, form ye the mysteries. Make the way hard for the seeker to
tread. Thus will the weak and the wavering be rejected. Thus
will the secrets be hidden and guarded, held till the time when
the wheel shall be turned.
Through the dark ages, waiting and watching, my Spirit shall
remain in the deep hidden land. When one has passed all the
trials of the outer, summon ye me by the Key that ye hold. Then
will I, the Initiator, answer, come from the Halls of the Gods
in Amenti. Then will I receive the initiate, give him the words
of power.
Hark ye, remember, these words of warning: bring not to me one
lacking in wisdom, impure in heart or weak in his purpose. Else
I will withdraw from ye your power to sum- mon me from the place
of my sleeping.
Go forth and conquer the element of darkness. Exalt in thy
nature thine essence of Light.
Now go ye forth and summon thy brothers so that I may impart the
wisdom to light thy path when my presence is gone. Come to the
chamber beneath my temple. Eat not food until three days are
past. There will I give thee the essence of wisdom so that with
power ye may shine amongst men. There will I give unto thee the
secrets so that ye, to , may rise to the Heavens—God-men in
Truth as in essence ye be. Depart now and leave me while I
summon those ye know of but as yet know not.
Supplementary EMERALD TABLET XV
Secret of Secrets
Now ye assemble, my children, waiting to hear the Secret of
Secrets which shall give ye power to unfold the God-man, give ye
the way to Eternal life. Plainly shall I speak of the Unveiled
Mysteries. No dark sayings shall I give unto thee. Open thine
ears now, my children. Hear and obey the words that I give.
First I shall speak of the fetters of darkness which bind ye in
chains to the sphere of the Earth.
Darkness and light are both of one nature, different only in
seeming, for each arose from the source of all. Darkness is
disorder. Light is Order. Darkness transmuted is light of the
Light. This, my children, your purpose in being; transmutation
of darkness to light
.
Hear ye now of the mystery of nature, the relations of life to
the Earth where it dwells. Know ye, ye are threefold in nature,
physical, astral and mental in one. Three are the qualities of
each of the natures; nine in all, as above, so below.
In the physical are these channels, the blood which moves in
vortical motion, reacting on the heart to continue its beating.
Magnetism which moves through the nerve paths, carrier of
energies to all cells and tissues. Akasa which flows through
channels, subtle yet physical, completing the channels. Each of
the three attuned with each other, each affecting the life of
the body. Form they the skeletal framework through which the
subtle ether flows. In their mastery lies the Secret of Life in
the body. Relinquished only by will of the adept, when his
purpose in living is done.
Three are the natures of the Astral, mediator is between above
and below; not of the physical, not of the Spiritual, but able
to move above and below.
Three are the natures of Mind, carrier it of the Will of the
Great One. Arbitrator of Cause and Effect in thy life. Thus is
formed the threefold being, directed from above by the power of
four. Above and beyond man’s threefold nature lies the realm of
the Spiritual Self. Four is it in qualities, shining in each of
the planes of existence, but thirteen in one, the mystical
number. Based on the qualities of man are the Brothers: each
shall direct the unfoldment of being, each shall channels be of
the Great One.
On Earth, man is in bondage, bound by space and time to the
earth plane. Encircling each planet, a wave of vibration, binds
him to his plane of unfoldment. Yet within man is the Key to
releasement, within man may freedom be found.
When ye have released the self from the body, rise to the
outermost bounds of your earth-plane. Speak ye the word
Dor-E-Lil-La. Then for a time your Light will be lifted, free
may ye pass the barriers of space. For a time of half of the sun
(six hours), free may ye pass the barriers of earth-plane, see
and know those who are beyond thee. Yea, to the highest worlds
may ye pass. See your own possible heights of unfoldment, know
all earthly futures of Soul.
Bound are ye in your body, but by the power ye may be free. This
is the Secret whereby bondage shall be replaced by freedom for
thee.
Calm let thy mind be. At rest be thy body: Conscious only of
freedom from flesh. Center thy being on the goal of thy longing.
Think over and over that thou wouldst be free. Think of this
word—La-Um-I-L-Gan—over and over in thy mind let it sound. Drift
with the sound to the place of thy longing. Free from the
bondage of flesh by thy will. Hear ye while I give the greatest
of secrets: how ye may enter the Halls of Amenti, enter the
place of the immortals as I did, stand before the Lords in their
places.
Lie ye down in rest of thy body. Calm thy mind so no thought
disturbs thee. Pure must ye be in mind and in purpose, else only
failure will come unto thee. Vision Amenti as I have told in my
Tablets. Long with fullness of heart to be there. Stand before
the Lords in thy mind’s eye. Pronounce the words of power I give
(mentally); Mekut-El-Shab- El Hale-Sur-Ben-El-Zabrut
Zin-Efrim-Quar-El. Relax thy mind and thy body. Then be sure
your soul will be called.
Now give I the Key to Shamballa, the place where my Brothers
live in the darkness: Darkness but filled with Light of the
Sun—Darkness of Earth, but Light of the Spirit, guides for ye
when my day is done.
Leave thou thy body as I have taught thee. Pass to the barriers
of the deep, hidden place. Stand before the gates and their
guardians. Command thy entrance by these words: “I am the Light.
In me is no darkness. Free am I of the bondage of night. Open
thou the way of the Twelve and the One, so I may pass to the
realm of wisdom.” When they refuse thee, as surely they will,
command them to open by these words of power: “I am the Light.
For me are no barriers. Open, I command, by the Secret of
Secrets— Edom-El-Ahim-Sabbert-Zur Adom.” Then if thy words have
been “Truth” of the highest, open for thee the barriers will
fall.
Now, I leave thee, my children. Down, yet up, to the Halls shall
I go. Win ye the way to me, my children. Truly my brothers shall
ye become. Thus finish I my writings. Keys let them be to those
who come after. But only to those who seek my wisdom, for only
for these am I the Key and the Way.
[center]translation by Doreal[/center]
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