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