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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth |
| by Thoth the Atlantean |
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EMERALD TABLET XIII |
| The Keys of Life and Death |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Desireth thou to know the deep, hidden secret?
Look in thy heart where the knowledge is bound.
Know that in thee the secret is hidden, the source
of all life and the source of all death. |
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| List ye, O man, while I tell the secret, reveal
unto thee the secret of old. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Hear ye, my words, and follow the pathway.
Keep thou thy balance and live on in life. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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
between 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. |
| |
| 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 knowledge 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
between 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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