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Below are presented some excerpts from the Emerald Tablets
(edited by Dr V.Antonov), where Thoth gives directions to spiritual seekers:
Preserve and keep the command of the
Primordial (the Dweller):
Look in your life for disorder and get rid of it. Balance and
order your life!
Quell all the chaos of emotions and you shall have harmony in
life.
Conquer by silence the bondage of words.
Keep ever your eyes on the Light!
Surely when you deserve it, you shell be one with your
Master! And surely then you shall be one with the All!
Know My commandments! Keep them and fulfill them, and I will be
with you, helping and guiding you into the Light!
Out of the darkness shall you rise upward, one with the
Light!
Man has to strive to become the Divine Sun.
Follow this Path and you shall be One with the All!
Light comes only to him who strives. Hard is the Pathway
that leads to the Wisdom, hard is the Pathway that leads to the Light.
Many shall you find the stones in your pathway: many the mountains to climb
toward the Light.
Man, know that always beside you walk the Messengers of Light.
Open to all is Their Pathway, to all who are ready to walk into the Light!
Suns are They, Messengers of Light to shine among
men. Like man are They and yet are unlike.
Know that many dark shadows shall fall on your light
striving to quench with the shadows of darkness the light of the soul
that strives to be free. Many the pitfalls that lie on this Way. Seek ever to
gain Greater Wisdom! Cognize — you shall know the Light!
Light is eternal and darkness is fleeting. Seek ever, O
man, for the Light! Know ever that as Light fills your being,
darkness for you shall soon disappear!
Open the soul to the Messengers of Light! Let Them enter
and fill you with Light!
Keep ever your face to this Goal!
… Open the soul, O man, to the cosmos and let it “flow”
through you as one with the soul!
Man’s evolution consists in the process of changing to forms
that are not of this world. Grows he in time to the formless — to live on
a higher plane. Know that you must become formless before you can be one
with the Light.
Listen, O man, to My voice, telling of pathways to Light,
showing the way of attainment: how you shall become one with the Light:
Search first the mysteries of Earth’s Heart! Seek the
Flameof
the Living Earth! Bathe in the glare of this Flame!
Know, O man, you are complex, a being of matter and of Fire.
Let your Flame
shine out brightly! Be you only the Flame!
Seek ever more Wisdom! Find it in the Heart of the Flame!
Know that only by your striving can Light pour into you!
Only the one, who of Light has the fullest, can hope to
pass by the guards of the Way, who prevent unworthy people from entering it.
You shall cognize yourself as Light and make yourself
ready to pass on the Way.
Wisdom is hidden in darkness. When shining with Soul-Flame,
find you the Wisdom, then shall you be born again as Light, and then
shall you become the Divine Sun.
Grow into One with the Light! Be a channel of
Divine Principles to the world of men!
Seek, O man, to find the great Pathway that leads to eternal
Life as the Divine Sun!
… Know, O man, you are only a soul! The body is nothing! The
soul is everything! Let not your body be a fetter!
Cast off the darkness and travel in Light! Learn to cast
off your body, O man, and be free from it!
Become the true Light and unite then with the Great Light!
Know that throughout the space the eternal and infinite
Consciousness exists. Though from superficial knowledge It is hidden, yet
still forever exists.
The key to these Higher worlds is within you; it can be
found only within.
Open the gateway within you, and surely you, too, shall
live the true life!
… Man, you think that you live… but know that you former life
can lead you only to death. For as long as you are bound to your body, no true
life exists for you! Only the soul which is free from the material world has
life which is really true life! All else is only a bondage, a fetter from which
to be free!
Think not that man is born for the earthly! Though born on the
Earth, he is a light-like spirit! Yet, without true knowledge he can never
become free!
… Darkness surrounds the souls seeking to be born in Light.
Darkness fetters souls… Only the one who is seeking may ever hope for Freedom!
Let you be the Divine Sun of the Great Light! Fulfill
this and you shall be free!
The Great Light that fills all the Cosmos is willing to
help you, O man! Make you of your body a torch of Light that shall shine
among men!
… Hear and understand: the Flame is the source of all
things, all things are its manifestation!
Seek to be One with the Divine Sun!
Hold your thought on uniting the Light with your human
body.
Light is the Source of all the life; for without the
Great Light nothing can ever exist!
Know, Light is the basis of all formed matter.
Know, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds.
Deep beneath the image of Pyramid lies My secret. Seek
and find in the Pyramid I built.
Follow this key I left for you. Seek and the doorway to
the true Life shall be yours! Seek in My Pyramid deep beneath it,
and in the Wall.
Know that in the Pyramid I built are the keys that shall
show you the Way into the true Life.
… Seek and find That which I have hidden! There shall you find
the “underground entrance” to the secrets hidden before you were men.
Know We that of all, nothing else matters excepting the growth
one can gain with the soul. Know We the flesh is fleeting. The things men count
great are nothing to Us. The things We expect from you are not of your bodies
but are only the perfected state of the souls.
When you can learn that nothing but progress of the soul can
count in the end, then truly you are free from all bondage, free to work in
accordance with your predestination!
Know, O man, you are to aim at Perfection, for only thus can you
attain to the Goal!
Know that the future is never in fixation but follows man’s free
will! Man can only “read the future” through the causes that bring the effects
in destinies.
Know that your body when in perfect balance may never be touched
by the finger of death! Aye, even “accident” may only approach when you abandon
your predestination! When you are in harmony with your predestination, you shall
live on in time and not taste of death.
… Know you not that in Earth’s Heart is the source of
harmony of all things that exist and have being on its face? By the soul you are
connected with Earth’s Heart, and by your flesh — with the matter of
Earth.
When you have learned to maintain harmony in yourself, then
shall you draw on from the harmony of Earth’s Heart. Exist then shall you
while Earth is existing, changing in form, only when Earth, too, shall change:
tasting not of death, but one with this planet, holding your form till all pass
away.
… Three are the qualities of God in His Light-Home:
Infinite Power, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Love.
Three are the powers given to spiritual Masters: to transmute
evil, to assist good, to use discrimination.
Three are the things They manifest: Power, Wisdom, and Love.
Three are the Manifestations of Spirit creating all things:
Divine Love possessing the perfect knowledge, Divine Wisdom knowing
all possible means of helping living beings in their development, Divine Power
which is possessed by the Primordial Consciousness Whose essence is
Divine Love and Wisdom.
Darkness and Light are both of one nature, different only
in seeming, for each arose from one Source. Darkness is chaos. Light is
Divine Harmony. Darkness transmuted is Light.
This, My children, your purpose in being: transmutation of
darkness into Light! |