Emerald Tablet XI: The Key to Above and Below Long ago, Th…

Emerald Tablet XI: The Key to Above and Below

Long ago, Thoth wrote, when he first came to humans, he found us “in caves of rocks.”

“Fanned I ever the spark of thy consciousness until at last ye flamed as men.”

Inside the pyramid Thoth built generations ago, he wrote, are the “Keys that shall show ye the Way into life.”

And beneath that pyramid is the “underground entrance to the secrets hidden before ye were men.”

“Draw ye a line from the great image I builded, to the apex of the pyramid, built as a gateway. Draw ye another opposite in the same angle and direction. Dig ye and find that which I have hidden.”

“Tell ye I now of the mystery of cycles that move in movements that are strange to the finite, for infinite are they beyond knowledge of man.”

“There are nine of the cycles … nine above and fourteen below, moving in harmony to the place of joining that shall exist in the future of time.”

“The Lords of the Cycles are units of consciousness sent from the others to unify This with the All.”

“Know They that in time all will be perfected … all One in a perfected Infinity.”

The Lords of the Halls of Amenti said to Thoth:

‘The consciousness below thee is ever-expanding … No consciousness follows the path of those before it, else all would be repetition and vain.’

‘Each plays its part in the Plan of the Cosmos. Each plays its part in the ultimate end. The farther the cycle, the greater its knowledge and ability to blend the Law of the whole.’

‘The fountain of wisdom that sends forth the cycles is eternally seeking new powers to gain.’

‘The cycle below is not truly below but only different in space and in time. The consciousness there is working and testing lesser things than those ye are. And just as ye are working on greater, so above ye are those who are also working as ye are on yet other laws.’

‘The consciousness below thee is part thine own as we are a part of thine.’

‘So also, O Thoth, are the cycles of consciousness, children in different stages of growth, yet all from the one Source, the Wisdom, and all to the Wisdom returning again.’

‘Long have We sat in Amenti, guarding the flame of life in the Halls … know we that of all, nothing else matters excepting the growth we can gain with our Soul. Know we the flesh is fleeting.’

‘The things men count great are nothing to us. The things we seek are not of the body but are only the perfected state of the Soul.’

‘Though ye should know that nothing is perfect, yet it should be thy aim and thy goal.’

Thoth wrote that soon, he will go down to the Halls of Amenti “to live beneath the cold flower of life.”

“Yet live I forever in the wisdom I taught.”

“Never be mastered by the effects of thy life,” Thoth warned.

“Lift thine eyes to the Sun in the sky-space. For thee, let it be a symbol of life … and shalt thou be a Child of the Light.”