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.
