The Wisdom of the Emerald Tablet
All things in all universes move according to Law, and the Law which regulates the movement of the planets is no more immutable than the Law which regulates the material expression of man.
I, death, come, and I remain not, for life eternal exists in the All; only an obstacle, I am 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.
Darkness and Light are both of one nature, different only in seeming, for each arose from the source of all. Darkness is disorder. Light is order.
Darkness transmuted is light of the light. This my children, your purpose in being; transmutation of Darkness to Light.
Time changes not, but all things change time. For time is the force that holds events separate, each in its own proper place. Time is not in motion, but ye move through time.
Remember, o man, that all which exists is only another form of that which exists not. Everything that has been is passing into yet another being and thou thyself are not an exception.
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.
Deep in the silence, first ye must linger until at last ye are free from desire, free from the longing to speak the silence. Conquer by silence, the bondage of words. Abstaining from eating until we have conquered desire for food, that is bondage of soul.
Mighty beyond words is the flame of the cosmic, hanging in planes, unknown to man; mighty and balanced, moving in order, music of harmonies, Far beyond man. In the silence of material Senses lies the key to the unveiling of Wisdom.
His highest knowledge is unutterable,for it exists as an entity in lanes which transcends all material worlds or symbols.
In all spaces, there is only one Wisdom, through seeming decided. It is one in the one. All that exists comes forth from the light, and the light comes forth from the all.
When man again shall conquer the Ocean and fly in the Air on wings like the birds; when he has learned to harness the lightning, then shall the time of warfare begin.
Great shall he battle be twixt the forces, great the warfare of Darkness and Light.
Once, in a past time, I spoke to the dweller. Asked of the mystery of time and space. Asked him the question that surged in my being, saying: O master, what is time?
Then to me spoke he, the master: Know ye, O Thot, in the beginning there was void and nothingness, a timeless, spaceless, nothingness. And into the nothingness came a thought, purposeful, all-pervading, and it filled the void.
There existed no matter, only force, a movement, a vortex, or vibration of the purposeful thought that filled the void. Know ye the flesh is fleeting. The things men say are great are nothing to us.
The things we speak are not of the body but are only the perfected state of the soul. When ye as men can learn that nothing but progress of the soul can count in the end.
Then truly ye are free from all bondage, free to work in harmony of Law. Know ye the future is never in fixation, but follows man’s free will as it moves through the movements of time-space towards the goal where a new time begins.
Be ye one with the greatest of all Lights. Find at the source, the end of thy goal. The soul of man moves ever onward, bound not by any one star. But ever moving to the great goal before him where he is dissolved in the light of the All.
Know ye that ye shall ever go onward, moved by the Law of cause and effect until in the end both become One. Mighty spirit of light that shines through the cosmos, draws 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; one with all things and all things in one, Fire of the life-strain and one with the brain.