Tablet VII: The Seven Lords
Hark ye O man, and list to my Voice. Open
thy mind-space and drink of my wisdom. Dark is the
pathway of LIFE that ye travel. Many the
pitfalls that lie in thy way. Seek ye ever to gain greater wisdom.
Attain and it shall be light on thy way.
Open thy SOUL, O man, to the Cosmic and
let it flow in as one with thy SOUL. LIGHT is eternal and darkness is
fleeting. Seek ye ever, O man, for the LIGHT. Know ye that ever as
Light fills thy being, darkness for thee shall soon disappear.
Open thy souls to the BROTHERS OF
BRIGHTNESS. Let them enter and fill thee with LIGHT. Lift up thine eyes
to the LIGHT of the Cosmos. Keep thou ever thy face to the goal. Only
by gaining the light of all wisdom, art thou one with the Infinite
goal. Seek ye ever the Oness eternal. Seek ever the Light into One.
Hear ye, O man, list to my Voice singing
the song of Light and of Life. Throughout all space, Light is
prevalent, encompassing ALL with its banners if flames. Seek ye forever
in the veil of the darkness, somewhere ye shall surely find Light.
Hidden and buried, lost to man's knowledge, deep in the finite the
Infinite exists. Lost, but existing, flowing through all things, living
in ALL is the INFINITE BRAIN.
In all space, there is only ONE wisdom.
Through seeming decided, it is ONE in the ONE. All that exists comes
forth from the LIGHT, and the LIGHT comes forth from the ALL. 
Everything
created is based upon ORDER: LAW rules the space where the INFINITE
dwells. Forth from equilibrium came the great cycles, moving in harmony
toward Infinity's end.
Know ye, O man, that far in the
space-time, INFINITY itself shall pass into change. Hear ye and list to
the Voice of Wisdom: Know that ALL is of ALL evermore. Know that
through time thou may pursue wisdom and find ever more light on the
way. Know that through time thou may pursue wisdom and find ever more
light on the way. Aye, thou shall find that ever receding, thy goal
shall elude thee from day unto day. 
Long time ago, in the HALLS OF AMENTI, I,
Thoth, stood before the LORDS of the cycles. Mighty, THEY in their
aspects of power; mighty, THEY in the wisdom unveiled.
Led by the Dweller, first did I see them.
But afterwards free was I of their presence, free to enter their
conclave at will. Oft did I journey down the dark pathway unto the HALL
where the LIGHT ever glows.
Learned I of the Masters of cycles, wisdom
brought from the cycles above. Manifest THEY in this cycle as guides of
man to the knowledge of ALL. Seven are they, mighty in power, speaking
these words through me to men. Time after time, stood I before them
listening to words that came not with sound.
Once said THEY unto me: O man, wouldst
thou gain wisdom? Seek for it in the heart of the flame. Wouldst thou
gain knowledge of power? Seek ye it in the heart of the flame. Wouldst
be one with the heart of the flame? Seek then within thine own hidden
flame.
Many the times spoke THEY to me, teaching
me wisdom not of the world; showing me ever new paths to brightness;
teaching me wisdom brought from above. Giving knowledge of operation,
learning of LAW, the order of ALL.
Spoke to me again, the Seven, saying: From
far beyond time are WE, come, O man, Traveled WE from beyond
SPACE-TIME, aye, from the place of Infinity's end. When ye and all of
thy brethren were formless, formed forth were WE from the order of ALL.
Not as men are WE, though once WE, too, were as men. Out of the Great
Void were WE formed forth in order by LAW. For know ye that which is
formed truly is formless, having form only to thine eyes.
And again, unto me spoke the Seven,
saying: Child of the LIGHT, O THOTH, art thou, free to travel the
bright path upward until at last ALL ONES become ONE
Forth were WE formed after our order:
THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT--NINE. Know ye that these are the
numbers of cycles that WE descend from unto man. Each having here a
duty to fulfill; each having here a force to control.
Yet are we ONE with the SOUL of our cycle.
Yet are WE, too, seeking a goal. Far beyond man's conception, Infinity extends into a greater
than ALL. There, in a time that is yet not a time, we shall ALL become
ONE with a greater than ALL. Time and space are moving in circles. Know
ye their law, and ye too, shall be free. Aye, free shall ye be to move
through the cycles-- pass the guardians that dwell at the door.
Then to me spoke HE of NINE saying: Aeons
and aeons have I existed, knowing not LIFE and tasting not death. For
know ye. O man, that far in the future, life and death shall be one
with the ALL.
Each so perfected by balancing the other
that neither exists in the Oneness of ALL. In men of this cycle, the
life force is rampant, but life in its growth becomes one with them ALL.
Here, I manifest in this your cycle, but
yet am I there in your future of time. Yet to me, time exists not, for
in my world time exists not, for formless are WE. Life have WE not but
yet have existence, fuller and greater and freer than thee.
Man is a flame bound to a mountain, but WE
in our cycle shall ever be free. Know ye, O man, that when ye have
progressed into the cycle that lengthen above, life itself will pass to
the darkness and only the essence of Soul shall remain.
Then to me spoke the LORD of the EIGHT
saying: All that ye know is but part of little. Not as yet have ye
touched on the Great. Far out in space where LIGHT beings supreme, came
I into the LIGHT. Formed was I also but not as ye are.
Body of
Light was my formless form formed.
Know I not LIFE and know I not DEATH, yet master am I of all that
exists. Seek ye to find the path through the barriers. Travel the road
that leads to the LIGHT.
Spoke again to me the NINE saying: Seek ye
to find the path to beyond. Not impossible is it to grow to a
consciousness above. For when TWO have become ONE and ONE has become
the ALL, know ye the barrier has lifted, and ye are made free of the
road. Grow thou from form to the formless. Free may thou be of the road.
Thus, through ages I listened, learning
the way to the ALL. Now Lift I my thoughts to the ALL-THING. List ye
and hear when it calls.
O LIGHT, all prevading, One with ALL and
ALL with ONE, flow thou to me through the channel. Enter thou so that I
may be free. Make me One with the ALL-SOUL, shining from the blackness
of night. Free let me be of all space-time, free from the Veil of the
night. I, a child of LIGHT, command: Free from the darkness to be.
Formless am I to the Light-Soul, formless
yet shining with light. Know I the bonds of the darkness must shatter
and fall before light.
Now give I this wisdom. Free may ye be, O
man, living in light and in brightness. Turn not they face from the
Light. Thy soul dwells in realms of brightness. Ye are a child of the
Light.
Turn thy thoughts inward not outward. Find
thou the Light-Soul within. Know that thou art the MASTER. All else is
brought from within. Grow thou to realms of brightness. Hold thou thy
thought on the Light. Know thou art one with the Cosmos, a flame and a
Child of the Light.
Now to thee gave I warning: Let not the
thought turn away. Know that the brightness flows through thy body for
aye. Turn not to the DARK-BROTHERS that come from the BROTHERS OF
BLACK. But keep thine eyes ever lifted, thy soul in tune with the Light.
Take ye this wisdom and heed it. List to
my Voice and obey. Follow the pathway to brightness, and thou shall be
ONE with the way.
Tablet VIII: The Key of
Mysteries
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