The Emerald Tablets of Thoth |
| by Thoth the Atlantean |
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EMERALD TABLET IX |
| The Key of Freedom of Space |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| All through the ages has knowledge existed;
never been changed, though buried in darkness;
never been lost, though forgotten by man. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| "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." |
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| 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. |
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| 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." |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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." |
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| 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. |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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