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+Deep in Earth's heart lie the Halls of Amenti,
+far 'neath the islands of sunken Atlantis,
+Halls of the Dead and halls of the living,
+bathed in the fire of the infinite ALL.
+
+Far in a past time, lost in the space time,
+the Children of Light looked down on the world.
+Seeing the children of men in their bondage,
+bound by the force that came from beyond.
+Knew they that only by freedom from bondage
+could man ever rise from the Earth to the Sun.
+
+Down they descended and created bodies,
+taking the semblance of men as their own.
+The Masters of everything said after their forming:
+
+"We are they who were formed from the space-dust,
+partaking of life from the infinite ALL;
+living in the world as children of men,
+like and yet unlike the children of men."
+
+Then for a dwelling place, far 'neath the earth crust,
+blasted great spaces they by their power,
+spaces apart from the children of men.
+Surrounded them by forces and power,
+shielded from harm they the Halls of the Dead.
+
+Side by side then, placed they other spaces,
+filled them with Life and with Light from above.
+Builded they then the Halls of Amenti,
+that they might dwell eternally there,
+living with life to eternity's end.
+
+Thirty and two were there of the children,
+sons of Lights who had come among men,
+seeking to free from the bondage of darkness
+those who were bound by the force from beyond.
+
+Deep in the Halls of Life grew a flower, flaming,
+expanding, driving backward the night.
+
+Placed in the center, a ray of great potence, Life
+giving, Light giving, filling with power all who came near it.
+Placed they around it thrones, two and thirty,
+places for each of the Children of Light,
+placed so that they were bathed in the radiance,
+filled with the Life from the eternal Light.
+
+There time after time placed they their first created bodies
+so that they might by filled with the Spirit of Life.
+One hundred years out of each thousand must the
+Life-giving Light flame forth on their bodies.
+Quickening, awakening the Spirit of Life.
+
+There in the circle from aeon to aeon,
+sit the Great Masters,
+living a life not known among men.
+There in the Halls of Life they lie sleeping;
+free flows their Soul through the bodies of men.
+
+Time after time, while their bodies lie sleeping,
+incarnate they in the bodies of men.
+Teaching and guiding onward and upward,
+out of the darkness into the light.
+
+There in the Hall of Life, filled with their wisdom,
+known not to the races of man, living forever 'neath the cold
+fire of life, sit the Children of Light.
+Times there are when they awaken,
+come from the depths to be lights among men,
+infinite they among finite men.
+
+He who by progress has grown from the darkness,
+lifted himself from the night into light,
+free is he made of the Halls of Amenti,
+free of the Flower of Light and of Life.
+Guided he then, by wisdom and knowledge,
+passes from men, to the Master of Life.
+
+There he may dwell as one with the Masters,
+free from the bonds of the darkness of night.
+Seated within the flower of radiance sit seven
+Lords from the Space-Times above us,
+helping and guiding through infinite Wisdom,
+the pathway through time of the children of men.
+
+Mighty and strange, they,
+veiled with their power,
+silent, all-knowing,
+drawing the Life force,
+different yet one with the
+children of men.
+Aye, different, and yet One
+with the Children of Light.
+
+Custodians and watchers of the force of man's bondage,
+ready to loose when the light has been reached.
+First and most mighty,
+sits the Veiled Presence, Lord of Lords,
+the infinite Nine,
+over the other from each
+the Lords of the Cycles;
+
+Three, Four, Five, and Six, Seven, Eight,
+each with his mission, each with his powers,
+guiding, directing the destiny of man.
+There sit they, mighty and potent,
+free of all time and space.
+
+Not of this world they,
+yet akin to it,
+Elder Brothers they,
+of the children of men.
+Judging and weighing,
+they with their wisdom,
+watching the progress
+of Light among men.
+
+There before them was I led by the Dweller,
+watched him blend with ONE from above.
+
+Then from HE came forth a voice saying:
+"Great art thou, Thoth, among children of men.
+Free henceforth of the Halls of Amenti,
+Master of Life among children of men.
+Taste not of death except as thou will it,
+drink thou of Life to Eternity's end,
+Henceforth forever is Life,
+thine for the taking.
+Henceforth is Death at the call of thy hand.
+
+Dwell here or leave here when thou desireth,
+free is Amenti to the son of man.
+Take thou up Life in what form thou desireth,
+Child of the Light that has grown among men.
+Choose thou thy work, for all should must labor,
+never be free from the pathway of Light.
+
+One step thou has gained on the long pathway upward,
+infinite now is the mountain of Light.
+Each step thou taketh but heightens the mountain;
+all of thy progress but lengthens the goal.
+
+Approach ye ever the infinite Wisdom,
+ever before thee recedes the goal.
+Free are ye made now of the Halls of Amenti
+to walk hand in hand with the Lords of the world,
+one in one purpose, working together,
+bring of Light to the children of men."
+
+Then from his throne came one of the Masters,
+taking my hand and leading me onward,
+through all the Halls of the deep hidden land.
+Led he me through the Halls of Amenti,
+showing the mysteries that are known not to man.
+
+Through the dark passage, downward he led me,
+into the Hall where site the dark Death.
+Vast as space lay the great Hall before me,
+walled by darkness but yet filled with Light.
+
+Before me arose a great throne of darkness,
+veiled on it sat a figure of night.
+Darker than darkness sat the great figure,
+dark with a darkness not of the night.
+Before it then paused the Master, speaking
+
+The Word that brings about Life, saying;
+"Oh, master of darkness,
+guide of the way from Life unto Life,
+before thee I bring a Sun of the morning.
+Touch him not ever with the power of night.
+Call not his flame to the darkness of night.
+Know him, and see him,
+one of our brothers,
+lifted from darkness into the Light.
+Release thou his flame from its bondage,
+free let it flame through the darkness of night."
+
+Raised then the hand of the figure,
+forth came a flame that grew clear and bright.
+Rolled back swiftly the curtain of darkness,
+unveiled the Hall from the darkness of night.
+
+Then grew in the great space before me,
+flame after flame, from the veil of the night.
+Uncounted millions leaped they before me,
+some flaming forth as flowers of fire.
+
+Others there were that shed a dim radiance,
+flowing but faintly from out of the night.
+
+Some there were that faded swiftly;
+others that grew from a small spark of light.
+Each surrounded by its dim veil of darkness,
+yet flaming with light that could never be quenched.
+Coming and going like fireflies in springtime,
+filled they with space with Light and with Life.
+
+Then spoke a voice, mighty and solemn, saying:
+"These are lights that are souls among men,
+growing and fading, existing forever,
+changing yet living, through death into life.
+When they have bloomed into flower,
+reached the zenith of growth in their life,
+swiftly then send I my veil of darkness,
+shrouding and changing to new forms of life.
+
+Steadily upward throughout the ages, growing,
+expanding into yet another flame,
+lighting the darkness with yet greater power,
+quenched yet unquenched by the veil of the night.
+
+So grows the soul of man ever upward,
+quenched yet unquenched by the darkness of night.
+
+I, Death, come, and yet I remain not,
+for life eternal exists in the ALL;
+only an obstacle, I in the pathway,
+quick to be conquered by the infinite light.
+
+Awaken, O flame that burns ever inward,
+flame forth and conquer the veil of the night."
+
+Then in the midst of the flames
+in the darkness grew there one that
+drove forth the night, flaming, expanding,
+ever brighter, until at last was nothing but Light.
+
+Then spoke my guide, the voice of the master:
+See your own soul as it grows in the light,
+free now forever from the Lord of the night.
+
+Forward he led me through many great spaces
+filled with the mysteries of the Children of Light;
+mysteries that man may never yet know of until
+he, too, is a Sun of the Light.
+
+Backward then HE led me into the Light
+of the hall of the Light.
+Knelt I then before the great Masters,
+Lords of ALL from the cycles above.
+
+Spoke HE then with words of great power saying:
+
+Thou hast been made free of the Halls of Amenti.
+Choose thou thy work among the children of men.
+
+Then spoke I:
+O, great master,
+let me be a teacher of men,
+leading then onward and upward until they,
+too, are lights among men;
+freed from the veil of the night that surrounds them,
+flaming with light that shall shine among men.
+
+Spoke to me then the voice:
+Go, as yet will. So be it decreed.
+Master are ye of your destiny,
+free to take or reject at will.
+Take ye the power, take ye the wisdom.
+Shine as a light among the children of men.
+
+Upward then, led me the Dweller.
+Dwelt I again among children of men,
+teaching and showing some of my wisdom;
+Sun of the Light, a fire among men.
+
+Now again I tread the path downward,
+seeking the light in the darkness of night.
+Hold ye and keep ye, preserve my record,
+guide shall it be to the children of men.