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I, Thoth, the Atlantean, |
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give of my wisdom, |
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give of my knowledge, |
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give of my power. |
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Freely I give to the children of men. |
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Give that they, too, might have wisdom |
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to shine through the world from the veil of the night. |
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Wisdom is power and power is wisdom, |
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one with each other, perfecting the whole. |
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Be thou not proud, O man, in thy wisdom. |
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Discourse with the ignorant as well as the wise. |
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If one comes to thee full of knowledge, |
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listen and heed, for wisdom is all. |
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Keep thou not silent when evil is spoken for Truth |
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like the sunlight shines above all. |
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He who over-steppeth the Law shall be punished, |
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for only through Law comes the freedom of men. |
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Cause thou not fear for fear is a bondage, |
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a fetter that binds the darkness to men. |
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Follow thine heart during thy lifetime. |
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Do thou more than is commanded of thee. |
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When thou hast gained riches, |
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follow thou thine heart, |
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for all these are of no avail if |
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thine heart be weary. |
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Diminish thou not the time of |
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following thine heart. |
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It is abhorred of the soul. |
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They that are guided go not astray, |
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but they that are lost cannot find a straight path. |
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If thou go among men, make for thyself, |
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Love, the beginning and end of the heart. |
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If one cometh unto thee for council, |
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let him speak freely, |
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that the thing for which he hath |
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come to thee may be done. |
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If he hesitates to open his heart to thee, |
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it is because thou, the judge, doeth the wrong. |
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Repeat thou not extravagant speech, |
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neither listen thou to it, |
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for it is the utterance of one |
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not in equilibrium. |
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Speak thou not of it, |
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so that he before thee may know wisdom. |
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Silence is of great profit. |
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An abundance of speech profiteth nothing. |
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Exalt not thine heart above the children of men, |
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lest it be brought lower than the dust. |
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If thou be great among men, |
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be honoured for knowledge and gentleness. |
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If thou seeketh to know the nature of a friend, |
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ask not his companion, |
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but pass a time alone with him. |
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Debate with him, |
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testing his heart by his words and his bearing. |
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That which goeth into the store-house must come forth, |
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and the things that are thine must be shared with a friend. |
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Knowledge is regarded by the fool as ignorance, |
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and the things that are profitable are to him hurtful. |
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He liveth in death. |
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It is therefore his food. |
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The wise man lets his heart overflow |
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but keeps silent his mouth. |
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O man, list to the voice of wisdom; |
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list to the voice of light. |
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Mysteries there are in the Cosmos |
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that unveiled fill the world with their light. |
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Let he who would be free from the bonds of darkness |
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first divine the material from the immaterial, |
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the fire from the earth; |
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for know ye that as earth descends to earth, |
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so also fire ascends unto |
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fire and becomes one with fire. |
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He who knows the fire that is within |
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himself shall ascend unto the eternal fire |
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and dwell in it eternally. |
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Fire, the inner fire, |
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is the most potent of all force, |
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for it overcometh all things and |
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penetrates to all things of the Earth. |
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Man supports himself only on that which resists. |
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So Earth must resist man else he existeth not. |
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All eyes do not see with the same vision, |
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for to one an object appears of |
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one form and color |
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and to a different eye of another. |
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So also the infinite fire, |
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changing from color to color, |
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is never the same from day to day. |
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Thus, speak I, THOTH, of my wisdom, |
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for a man is a fire burning bright |
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through the night; |
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never is quenched in the veil of the darkness, |
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never is quenched by the veil of the night. |
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Into men's hearts, I looked by my wisdom, |
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found them not free from the bondage of strife. |
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Free from the toils, thy fire, O my brother, |
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lest it be buried in the shadow of night! |
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Hark ye, O man, and list to this wisdom: |
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where do name and form cease? |
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Only in consciousness, invisible, |
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an infinite force of radiance bright. |
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The forms that ye create by brightening |
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they vision are truly effects that follow thy cause. |
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Man is a star bound to a body, |
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until in the end, |
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he is freed through his strife. |
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Only by struggle and toiling thy |
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utmost shall the star within thee |
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bloom out in new life. |
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He who knows the commencement of all things, |
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free is his star from the realm of night. |
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Remember, O man, that all which exists |
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is only another form of that which exists not. |
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Everything that has being is passing into yet other |
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being and thou thyself are not an exception. |
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Consider the Law, for all is Law. |
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Seek not that which is not of the Law, |
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for such exists only in the illusions of the senses. |
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Wisdom cometh to all her children |
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even as they cometh unto wisdom. |
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All through the ages, |
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the light has been hidden. |
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Awake, O man, and be wise. |
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Deep in the mysteries of life have I traveled, |
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seeking and searching for that which is hidden. |
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List ye, O man, and be wise. |
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Far 'neath the earth crust, |
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in the Halls of Amenti, |
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mysteries I saw that are hidden from men. |
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Oft have I journeyed the deep hidden passage, |
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looked on the Light that is Life among men. |
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There 'neath the flowers of Life ever living, |
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searched I the hearts and the secrets of men. |
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Found I that man is but living in darkness, |
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light of the great fire is hidden within. |
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Before the Lords of hidden Amenti |
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learned I the wisdom I give unto men. |
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Masters are they of the great Secret Wisdom, |
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brought from the future of infinity's end. |
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Seven are they, the Lords of Amenti, |
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overlords they of the Children of Morning, |
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Suns of the Cycles, Masters of Wisdom. |
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Formed are not they as the children of men? |
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THREE, FOUR, FIVE AND SIX, SEVEN, |
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EIGHT, NINE are the titles of the Masters of men. |
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Far from the future, formless yet forming, |
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came they as teachers for the children of men. |
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Live they forever, yet not of the living, |
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bound not to life and yet free from death. |
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Rule they forever with infinite wisdom, |
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bound yet not bound to the dark Halls of Death. |
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Life they have in them, yet life that is not life, |
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free from all are the Lords of the ALL. |
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Forth from them came forth the Logos, |
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instruments they of the power o'er all. |
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Vast is their countenance, |
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yet hidden in smallness, |
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formed by a forming, known yet unknown. |
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THREE holds the key of all hidden magic, |
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creator he of the halls of the Dead; |
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sending forth power, shrouding with darkness, |
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binding the souls of the children of men; |
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sending the darkness, binding the soul force; |
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director of negative to the children of men. |
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FOUR is he who looses the power. |
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Lord, he, of Life to the children of men. |
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Light is his body, flame is his countenance; |
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freer of souls to the children of men. |
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FIVE is the master, the Lord of all magic - |
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Key to The Word that resounds among men. |
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SIX is the Lord of Light, the hidden pathway, |
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path of the souls of the children of men. |
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SEVEN is he who is Lord of the vastness, |
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master of Space and the key of the Times. |
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EIGHT is he who orders the progress; |
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weighs and balances the journey of men. |
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NINE is the father, vast he of countenance, |
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forming and changing from out of the formless. |
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Meditate on the symbols I give thee. |
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Keys are they, though hidden from men. |
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Reach ever upward, O Soul of the morning. |
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Turn thy thoughts upward to Light and to Life. |
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Find in the keys of the numbers I bring thee, |
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light on the pathway from life unto life. |
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Seek ye with wisdom. |
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Turn thy thoughts inward. |
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Close not thy mind to the flower of Light. |
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Place in thy body a thought-formed picture. |
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Think of the numbers that lead thee to Life. |
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Clear is the pathway to he who has wisdom. |
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Open the door to the Kingdom of Light. |
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Pour forth thy flame as a Sun of the morning. |
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Shut out the darkness and live in the day. |
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Take thee, O man! As part of thy being, |
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the Seven who are but are not as they seem. |
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Opened, O man! Have I my wisdom. |
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Follow the path in the way I have led. |
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Masters of Wisdom, |
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SUN of the MORNING LIGHT and LIFE |
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to the children of men. |