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+I, Thoth, the Atlantean,
+give of my wisdom,
+give of my knowledge,
+give of my power.
+Freely I give to the children of men.
+Give that they, too, might have wisdom
+to shine through the world from the veil of the night.
+
+Wisdom is power and power is wisdom,
+one with each other, perfecting the whole.
+
+Be thou not proud, O man, in thy wisdom.
+Discourse with the ignorant as well as the wise.
+If one comes to thee full of knowledge,
+listen and heed, for wisdom is all.
+
+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.
+Cause thou not fear for fear is a bondage,
+a fetter that binds the darkness to men.
+
+Follow thine heart during thy lifetime.
+Do thou more than is commanded of thee.
+When thou hast 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 honoured 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 a 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.
+
+Into men's hearts, I looked by my wisdom,
+found them not free from the bondage of strife.
+Free from the toils, thy fire, O my brother,
+lest it be buried in the shadow of 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
+they 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 by 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 realm 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,
+path 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.