The Emerald Tablets of Thoth |
| by Thoth the Atlantean |
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EMERALD TABLET XII |
The Law of Cause and Effect
The Key of Prophecy |
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| List ye, O man, to the words of my wisdom,
list to the voice of Thoth, the Atlantean. Conquered
have I the Law of the 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. |
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| 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. |
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| In the great beginning, there grew the First
Cause that brought into being all that exists.
Thou, thyself, art the effect of causation and
in turn are the cause of yet other effects. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. Aye, from the
blackness of 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Dark thou the way be yet shall he conquer the
shadows that flow around him like night. |
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| Far in the future, I see men as Light-born,
free from the darkness that fetters the Soul,
living in Light without the bonds 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 hast dwelt. |
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| The Soul of man moves ever onward, bound not
be 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Ages to comes shall see revival of wisdom to
those who shall inherit thy place on this star.
They shall, in turn, comes 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. Many who are
bound in darkness shall strive to hold others
from 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. |
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| 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-men
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 they 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." |
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| 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 Lights 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Long have ye listened to me, O my children,
long have ye listened to the wisdom of Thoth.
Now I depart from ye into the 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. |
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| Guard ye the secrets I leave with thee, are
surely my spirit will guard thee through life.
Keep thine eyes ever on the pathway to wisdom.
Keep the Light as thy goal evermore. Fetter not
thy Soul in bondage of darkness; free let it
wing in its flight to the stars. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Blend thou thy Soul in the Great Essence. ONE
with the Great Light let thy consciousness be.
Call thou on my when thou dost need me. Use my
name three times in a row: CHEQUETET, ARELICH,
VOMALITES. |
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