Tablet XIII: The Keys of Life and Death
List ye, O man, hear ye the wisdom. Hear ye the Word
that shall fill thee with Life. Hear ye the Word
that shall banish the darkness. Hear ye the voice that shall banish the
night.
Mystery and wisdom have I brought to my
children; knowledge and power descended from 
old. Know ye not that all shall be opened when
ye shall find the oneness of all?
One shall ye be with the Masters
of Mystery, Conquerors of Death and Masters of Life. Aye, ye
shall learn of the flower of Amenti the blossom
of life that shines in the Halls. In Spirit
shall ye reach that Halls of Amenti and bring
back the wisdom that liveth in Light. Know ye the
gateway to power is secret. Know ye the gateway to life is through
death. Aye, through death but not as ye know death, but a death that is
life and is fire and is Light.
Desireth thou to know the deep, hidden
secret? Look in thy heart where the knowledge is 
bound. Know that in thee the secret is hidden,
the source of all life and the source of all death.
List ye, O man, while I tell the secret,
reveal unto thee the secret of old.
Deep in Earth's heart lies the flower, the source
of the Spirit that binds all in its form. or know
ye that the Earth is living in body as thou art
alive in thine own formed form. The Flower of Life is
as thine own place of Spirit and streams through
the Earth as thine flows through thy form; giving
of life to the Earth and its children, renewing
the Spirit from form unto form. This is the Spirit
that is form of thy body, shaping and moulding into its form.
Know ye, O man, that thy form is dual,
balanced in polarity while formed in its form. Know that when fast on
thee Death approaches, it is only because thy
balance is shaken. It is only because one pole has been lost.
Know that the secret of life in Amenti
is the secret of restoring the balance of poles. All
that exists has form and is living because of the Spirit
of life in its poles.
See ye not that in Earth's heart
is the balance of all things that exist and have being on its face? The
source of thy Spirit is drawn from Earth's
heart, for in thy form thou are one with the Earth.
When thou hast learned to hold thine own
balance, then shalt thou draw on the balance of Earth.
Exist then shalt thou while Earth is existing,
changing in form, only when Earth, too, shalt
change: Tasting not of death, but one with this planet, holding thy
form till all pass away.
List ye, O man, whilst I give the secret
so that ye, too, shalt taste not of change. One hour each day shalt
thou lie with thine head pointed to the place of the positive pole
(north). One hour each day shalt thy head be pointed to the place of
the negative pole (south). Whilst thy head is placed to the northward,
hold thou thy consciousness from the chest to the head.
And when thy head is placed southward, hold
thou thy thought from chest to the feet. Hold thou in balance once in
each seven, and thy balance will retain the whole of its strength. Aye,
if thou be old, thy body will freshen and thy strength will become as a
youth's. This is the secret known to the Masters by which they hold off
the fingers of Death. Neglect not to follow the path I have shown, for
when thou hast passed beyond years to a hundred to neglect it will mean
the coming of Death.
Hear ye, my words, and follow the pathway.
Keep thou thy balance and live on in life.
Hear ye, O man, and list to my voice. List
to the wisdom that gives thee of Death. When at
the end of thy work appointed, thou may desire to pass from this life,
pass to the plane where the Suns of the Morning
live and have being as Children of Light. Pass
without pain and pass without sorrow into the plane where is eternal Light.
First lie at rest with thine head to the
eastward. Fold thou thy hands at the Source of thy life (solar plexus).
Place thou thy consciousness in the life
seat. Whirl it and divide to north and to south.
Send thou the one out toward the
northward. Send thou the other out to the south. Relax thou their hold
upon thy being. Forth from they form will thy silver spark fly, upward
and onward to the Sun of the morning, blending with Light, at one with
its source.
There it shall flame till desire shall be
created. Then shall return to a place in a form.
Know ye, O men, that thus pass the great
Souls, changing at will from life unto life. Thus ever passes the
Avatar, willing his Death as he wills his own life.
List ye, O man, drink of my wisdom. Learn
ye the secret that is Master of Time. Learn ye how those ye call
Masters are able to remember the lives of the past.
Great is the secret yet easy to master,
giving to thee the mastery of time. When upon thee death fast
approaches, fear not but know ye are master of Death.
Relax thy body, resist not with tension.
Place in thy heart the flame of thy Soul. Swiftly then sweep it to the
seat of the triangle.
Hold for a moment, then move to the goal.
This, thy goal, is the place between thine eyebrows, the place where
the memory of life must hold sway. Hold thou thy flame here in thy
brain-seat until the fingers of Death grasp thy Soul. Then as thou pass
through the state of transition, surely the memories of life shall
pass, too.
Then shalt the past be as one with the
present. Then shall the memory of all be retained. Free shalt thou be
from all retrogression. The things of the past shall live in today.
Supplementary Tablet XIV
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