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That which goeth into the store-house must come forth, |
and the things that are thine must be shared with a friend. |
Knowledge is regarded by the fool as ignorance, |
and the things that are profitable are to him hurtful. |
He liveth in death. |
It is therefore his food. |
The wise man lets his heart overflow |
but keeps silent his mouth. |
O man, list to the voice of wisdom; |
list to the voice of light. |
Mysteries there are in the Cosmos |
that unveiled fill the world with their light. |
Let he who would be free from the bonds of darkness |
first divine the material from the immaterial, |
the fire from the earth; |
for know ye that as earth descends to earth, |
so also fire ascends unto |
fire and becomes one with fire. |
He who knows the fire that is within |
himself shall ascend unto the eternal fire |
and dwell in it eternally. |
Fire, the inner fire, |
is the most potent of all force, |
for it overcometh all things and |
penetrates to all things of the Earth. |
Man supports himself only on that which resists. |
So Earth must resist man else he existeth not. |
All eyes do not see with the same vision, |
for to one an object appears of |
one form and color |
and to a different eye of another. |
So also the infinite fire, |
changing from color to color, |
is never the same from day to day. |
Thus, speak I, THOTH, of my wisdom, |
for a man is a fire burning bright |
through the night; |
never is quenched in the veil of the darkness, |
never is quenched by the veil of the night. |
Into men's hearts, I looked by my wisdom, |
found them not free from the bondage of strife. |
Free from the toils, thy fire, O my brother, |
lest it be buried in the shadow of night! |
Hark ye, O man, and list to this wisdom: |
where do name and form cease? |
Only in consciousness, invisible, |
an infinite force of radiance bright. |
The forms that ye create by brightening |
they vision are truly effects that follow thy cause. |
Man is a star bound to a body, |
until in the end, |
he is freed through his strife. |
Only by struggle and toiling thy |
utmost shall the star within thee |
bloom out in new life. |
He who knows the commencement of all things, |
free is his star from the realm of night. |
Remember, O man, that all which exists |
is only another form of that which exists not. |
Everything that has being is passing into yet other |
being and thou thyself are not an exception. |
Consider the Law, for all is Law. |
Seek not that which is not of the Law, |
for such exists only in the illusions of the senses. |
Wisdom cometh to all her children |
even as they cometh unto wisdom. |
All through the ages, |
the light has been hidden. |
Awake, O man, and be wise. |
Deep in the mysteries of life have I traveled, |
seeking and searching for that which is hidden. |
List ye, O man, and be wise. |
Far 'neath the earth crust, |
in the Halls of Amenti, |
mysteries I saw that are hidden from men. |
Oft have I journeyed the deep hidden passage, |
looked on the Light that is Life among men. |
There 'neath the flowers of Life ever living, |
searched I the hearts and the secrets of men. |
Found I that man is but living in darkness, |
light of the great fire is hidden within. |
Before the Lords of hidden Amenti |
learned I the wisdom I give unto men. |