The Emerald Tablets of Thoth |
| by Thoth the Atlantean |
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EMERALD TABLET III |
| The Key of Wisdom |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Keep thou not silent when evil is spoken for
Truth like the sunlight shines above all. |
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| He who over-steppeth the Law shall be punished,
for only through Law comes the freedom of men. |
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| Follow thine heart during thy lifetime. Do
thou more than is commanded of thee. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Silence is of great profit. An abundance of
speech profiteth nothing. |
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| Exalt not thine heart above the children of
men, lest it be brought lower than the dust. |
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| If thou be great among men, be honored for
knowledge and gentleness. |
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| 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. |
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| That which goeth into the store-house must
come forth, and the things that are thine must
be shared with a friend. |
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| 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. |
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| The wise man lets his heart overflow but keeps
silent his mouth. |
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| 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. |
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| Fire, the inner fire, is the most potent of
all force, for it overcometh all things and penetrates
to all things of the Earth. |
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| Man supports himself only on that which resists.
So Earth must resist man else he existeth not. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Wisdom cometh to all her children even as they
cometh unto wisdom. |
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| All through the ages, the light has been hidden.
Awake, O man, and be wise. |
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| Deep in the mysteries of life have I traveled,
seeking and searching for that which is hidden.
List ye, O man, and be wise. |
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| Far 'neath the earth crust, in the Halls of
Amenti, mysteries I saw that are hidden from
men. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Four is he who looses the power. Lord, he,
of Life to the children of men. |
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| Light is his body, flame is his countenance;
freer of souls to the children of men. |
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| Five is the master, the Lord of all magic-Key
to The Word that resounds among men. |
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| Six is the Lord of Light, the hidden pathway,
part of the souls of the children of men. |
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| Seven is he who is Lord of the vastness, master
of Space and the key of the Times. |
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| Eight is he who orders the progress; weighs
and balances the journey of men. |
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| Nine is the father, vast he of countenance,
forming and changing from out of the formless. |
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| Meditate on the symbols I give thee. Keys are
they, though hidden from men. |
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| 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. |
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| Seek ye with wisdom. Turn thy thoughts inward.
Close not thy mind to the Flower of Light. |
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| 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. |
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| Pour forth thy flame as a Sun of the morning.
Shut out the darkness and live in the day. |
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| 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. |
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| Masters of Wisdom, Sun of the Morning Light
and Life to the children of men. |
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