Emerald Tablet IV: The Space Born “Long time ago, I in my …

Emerald Tablet IV: The Space Born

“Long time ago, I in my childhood, lay beneath the stars on long-buried Atlantis, dreaming of mysteries far above men.”

Thoth’s pursuit of wisdom and knowledge broke his soul free from its “bondage.”

“Free from the body, I flashed through the night.”

“Unlocked at last for me was the star-space.”

Thoth wrote of planets so “great and gigantic” they were “beyond dreams of men.”

“Yet found I Law, in all of its beauty, working through and among them as here among men.”

At one point, he rested on a “planet of beauty,” where “strains of harmony filled all the air. Shapes there were, moving in Order, great and majestic as stars in the night.”

His soul flew past countless stars and “races of men on their worlds, some reaching high as stars of the morning, some falling low in the blackness of night.”

“Each and all of them struggling upward … at times in realms of brightness, living through darkness, gaining the Light.”

“Know, O man, that Light is thine heritage. Know that darkness is only a veil.”

Some of the races of men Thoth found had “conquered the ether. Free of space were they while yet they were men.”

Far away in space “constructed they a planet, drawn by the force that flows through the ALL, condensing, coalescing the ether into forms, that grew as they willed.”

“Long time I paused, watching their wisdom. Saw them create from out of the ether cities gigantic of rose and gold, formed forth from the primal element, base of all matter, the ether far flung.”

After conquering the ether, these races were free of the “bondage of toil,” free to “form in their mind only a picture and swiftly created, it grew.”

“Forth then, my soul sped, throughout the Cosmos, seeing ever new things and old, learning that man is truly space-born.”

“Thy bodies are nothing but planets revolving around their central suns. When ye have gained the light of all wisdom, free shall ye be to shine in the ether … one of the space-born grown into Light.”

“Lift up your flame from out of the darkness, fly from the night and ye shall be free.”

“Not of the earth are ye – earthy, but child of the Infinite Cosmic Light.”

“All space is ordered. Only by Order are ye One with the All. Order and balance are the Law of the Cosmos.”

“He who would follow the pathway of wisdom, open must be to the flower of life, extending his consciousness out of the darkness, flowing through time and space in the All.”

Thoth described the pathway one must follow to extend their consciousness.

“Deep in the silence, first ye must linger until at last ye are free from desire.”

“Conquer by silence, the bondage of words. Abstaining from eating until we have conquered desire for food, that is bondage of soul.”

“Lie ye down in the darkness. Close ye your eyes from the rays of the Light. Centre thy soul-force in the place of thine consciousness.”

“Place in thy mind-place the image thou desireth. Picture the place thou desireth to see … Loosen the soul from out of its night.”

“Pray ye this prayer for attaining or wisdom:

‘Mighty Spirit of Light that shines through the Cosmos, draw my flame closer in harmony to thee. Lift up my fire from out of the darkness, magnet of fire that is One with the All.’

‘Lift up my soul, thou might and potent. Child of the Light, turn not away. Draw me in power to melt in thy furnace.’

When one’s soul is free from its bondage, Thoth wrote, know that the “darkness is gone. Ever through space ye may seek wisdom, bound not be fetters forged in the flesh.”