Emerald Tablet III: The Key of Wisdom “Wisdom is power and…

Emerald Tablet III: The Key of Wisdom

“Wisdom is power and power is wisdom, one with each other, perfecting the whole.”

This Tablet begins Thoth’s guide to unlock the wisdom of the cosmos.

All the answers to the questions of life, he wrote, are within us, waiting to be discovered.

“Be thou not proud, O man, in thy wisdom. Discourse with the ignorant as well as the wise.”

“Keep thou not silent when evil is spoken, for Truth like the sunlight shines above all.”

“Cause thou not fear for fear is a bondage, a fetter that binds the darkness to men.”

Following your own heart, Thoth wrote, is key to attaining wisdom.

“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.”

“Silence is of great profit. An abundance of speech profiteth nothing.”

Fools regard knowledge as ignorance, Thoth wrote. “The wise man lets his heart overflow but keeps silent his mouth.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Deep beneath the Earth in the Halls of Amenti, Thoth saw countless mysteries “hidden from men.”

“There beneath 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.”

The Lords of Amenti, Thoth wrote, are masters of the “Secret Wisdom” which they brought “from the future of infinity’s end.”

“Seven are they, the Lords of Amenti, overlords they of the Children of Morning.”

Their titles are known as “Three, Four, Five and Six, Seven, Eight, Nine.” They are “teachers for the children of men” from the distant future.

“Live they forever, yet not of the living, bound not to life and yet free from death. Rule they forever with infinite wisdom.”

“Three holds the key of all hidden magic, creator he of the halls of the Dead, sending forth power … 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.”

“Reach ever upward ... Turn thy thoughts upward to Light and to Life.”

“Turn thy thoughts inward ... Place in thy body a thought-formed picture. Think of the numbers that lead thee to Life.”

“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.”