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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All through the ages has knowledge existed; never
been changed, though buried in darkness; never been lost, though
forgotten by man.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
