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 # Torah Codes
 
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 ## Abstract
 
 Traditional prophets are often influenced by personal interests, and their predictions are often based on fallacies or evidence that often cannot be proven. Torah Codes aims to make sense of ancestral cultures from a perspective of analyzing language, cultures and their beliefs. With tools that allow the implementation of objective criteria on coding through an impartial analysis of the information in accepted modern scientific terms. In this way we can understand where myth and reality intersect and be able to shape the understanding we have about our ancestors and the origin of language. Through the art of characteromancy we will discover together the fabrics and philosophical questions that have accompanied us since the beginning of time.

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+The ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 
+The Teachings of the Elect 
+
+
+Book Four 
+
+
+The Original Hebrew and Aramaic Texts 
+Translated and edited by 
+EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY 
+MCMLXXXI 
+INTERNATIONAL BIOGENIC SOCIETY 
+Book Design by Golondrina Graohics 
+Copyright @ 1981, by the International Biogenic Society 
+Printed In the United States of America-All Rights Reserved 
+
+
+Preface 
+The Essene Communions 
+The Gift of Life in the Humble Grass 
+
+
+The Sevenfold Peace 
+
+
+The Holy Streams 
+
+
+The Illustrations are by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, 
+Fra Angelico, Botticelli, and El Greco 
+
+
+PREFACE 
+
+
+It was in 1928 that Edmond Bordeaux Szekely first published his translation of Book One of The 
+Essene Gospel of Peace, an ancient manuscript he had found in the Secret Archives of the 
+Vatican as the result of limitless patience, faultless scholarship, and unerring intuition, a story 
+told in his book, The Discovery of the Essene Gospel of Peace. The English version of this 
+ancient manuscript appeared in 1937, and ever since, the little volume has traveled all over the 
+world, appearing in different languages, and gaining every year more and more readers, until 
+now, still with no commercial advertisement, over a million copies have been sold in the United 
+States alone. It was not until almost fifty years after the first French translation that Book Two 
+and Book Three appeared, and these also have now become classics of the Essene literature. 
+
+
+Book Four, The Teachings of the Elect, will come as a surprise to those readers who are aware of 
+Dr. Szekely's death in 1979. if I were also a philologist, or scholar, or archeologist, I might be 
+able to provide some explanation. But I am only his faithful famulus amanuensis, and the 
+instructions he left me were clear and explicit: "Two years after my death, you shall publish 
+Book Four of The Essene Gospel of Peace. " That was all, and I am now carrying out his wish. 
+
+
+This Book Four, The Teachings of the Elect, represents yet another fragment of the complete 
+manuscript which exists in Aramaic in the Secret Archives of the Vatican and in old Slavonic in 
+the Royal Library of the Habsburgs (now the property of the Austrian government). As to the 
+reason for the delay in its publication, I can only surmise that Dr. Szekely wanted the vivid 
+reality of these ageless truths to stand alone, unobscured even by the presence of the translator. 
+He did say in his Preface to the first London edition of Book One in 1937 that "we have issued 
+this part before the rest, because it is the part of which suffering humanity has most need today." 
+Perhaps, in the same way, the troubled world of forty-four years later needs this fourth volume of 
+The Essene Gospel of Peace. 
+
+
+Again the words of Dr. Szekely: "We have nothing to add to this text. It speaks for itself. The 
+reader who studies the pages that follow with concentration, will feel the eternal vitality and 
+powerful evidence of these profound truths which mankind needs today more urgently than ever 
+before." 
+
+
+"And the truth shall bear witness of itself." 
+
+
+THE ESSENE COMMUNIONS 
+
+
+And it came to pass that Jesus gathered the Sons of Light by the shore of the river, to reveal to 
+them that which had been hidden; for the space of seven years had passed, and each one was ripe 
+for truth, as the flower opens from the bud when the angels of sun and water bring it to its time 
+of blossoming. 
+
+
+And all of them were unlike one to the other, for some were of age, and some had still the dew of 
+youth on their cheeks, and some had been raised according to the traditions of their fathers, and 
+others knew not who their father and mother had been. But all shared in a clearness of eye and a 
+suppleness of body, for these were signs that for seven years they had walked with the angels of 
+the Earthly Mother and obeyed her laws. And for seven years the unknown angels of the 
+Heavenly Father had taught them through their sleeping hours. And now was the day come when 
+they would enter the Brotherhood of the Elect and learn the hidden teachings of the Elders, even 
+those of Enoch and before. 
+
+
+And Jesus led the Sons of Light to an ancient tree by the side of the river, and there he knelt at 
+the place where the roots, gnarled and hoary with age, spread over the river edge. And the Sons 
+of Light knelt also, and they did touch with reverence the trunk of the ancient tree, for it was 
+taught to them that the trees are the Brothers of the Sons of Men. For their mother is the same, 
+the Earthly Mother, whose blood runs in the sap of the tree and in the body of the Son of Man. 
+
+
+And their father is the same, the Heavenly Father, whose laws are written in the branches of the 
+tree, and whose laws are engraved in the forehead of the Son of Man. 
+
+
+And Jesus reached out his hands to the tree, and said: "Behold, the Tree of Life, which stands in 
+the middle of the Eternal Sea. Look not only with the eyes of the body, but see with the eyes of 
+the spirit the Tree of Life at a source of running streams; at a living spring in a land of drought. 
+See the eternal garden of wonders, and at its center the Tree of Life, mystery of mysteries, 
+growing everlasting branches for eternal planting, to sink their roots into the stream of life from 
+an eternal source. See with the eyes of the spirit the angels of day and the angels of night which 
+protect the fruits with flames of Eternal Light burning every way. 
+
+
+"See, oh Sons of Light, the branches of the Tree of Life reaching toward the kingdom of the 
+Heavenly Father. And see the roots of the Tree of Life descending into the bosom of the Earthly 
+Mother. And the Son of Man is raised to an eternal height and walks in the wonders of the plain; 
+for only the Son of Man carries in his body the roots of the Tree of Life; the same roots that 
+suckle from the bosom of the Earthly Mother; and only the Son of Man carries in his spirit the 
+branches of the Tree of Life; the same branches that reach to the sky, even so to the kingdom of 
+the Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+"And for seven years have you labored throughout the day with the angels of the Earthly Mother; 
+and for seven years you have slept in the arms of the Heavenly Father. And now your reward 
+shall be great, for it shall be given unto you the gift of tongues, that you may draw to you the full 
+power of your Earthly Mother, and have command over her angels and dominion over all her 
+kingdom; and that you may draw to you the blinding glory of your Heavenly Father, that you 
+may command his angels and enter into life everlasting in the heavenly kingdoms. 
+
+
+"And for seven years these words were not given unto you, for he who uses the gift of tongues to 
+seek after riches, or to hold sway over his enemies, he shall no longer be a Son of Light, but a 
+whelp of the devil and a creature of darkness. 
+
+
+For only the pure water can mirror forth the light of the sun; and that water which has become 
+dank with filth and murk can reflect nothing. And when the body and the spirit of the Son of 
+Man have walked with the angels of the Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father for seven years, 
+then is he like the running river under the noonday sun, mirroring forth dazzling lights of 
+brilliant jewels. 
+
+
+" Hear me, Sons of Light, for I will impart to you the gift of tongues, that by speaking to your 
+Earthly Mother in the morning, and to your Heavenly Father in the evening, you may go closer 
+and closer to oneness with the kingdoms of earth and heaven, that oneness for which the Son of 
+Man is destined from the beginning of the times. 
+
+
+"T will make known unto you deep and mysterious things. For I tell you truly, all things exist by 
+God and there is none beside him. Direct your hearts, therefore, that you may walk on the right 
+paths, where his presence is. 
+
+
+"When you open your eyes in the morning, even then before your body has been called by the 
+Angel of Sun, say to yourselves these words, letting them echo in your spirit; for words are like 
+dead leaves when there is no life in them of the spirit. Say, then, these words: 'T enter the eternal 
+and infinite garden of mystery, my spirit in oneness with the Heavenly Father, my body in 
+oneness with the Earthly Mother, my heart in harmony with my Brothers, the Sons of Men, 
+dedicating my spirit, my body, and my heart to the holy, pure and saving Teaching, even that 
+Teaching which of old was known to Enoch.’ 
+
+
+"And after these words have entered into your spirit, on the first morning after Sabbath, say these 
+words: "The Earthly Mother and I are one. Her breath is my breath; her blood is my blood; her 
+bone, her flesh, her bowels, her eyes and ears, are my bone, my flesh, my bowels, my eyes and 
+ears. Never will I desert her, and always will she nourish and sustain my body.’ And you will feel 
+the power of the Earthly Mother flowing through your body like the river when it is swollen with 
+rains and courses mightily with a great noise. 
+
+
+"And on the second morning after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Earth, make fruitful my 
+seed, and with your power give life to my body.' Even as your seed creates new life, so courses 
+through the earth the seed of the angel of Earth: in the grass, in the soil, in all living things that 
+grow from the soil. Know, oh Sons of Light, that the same angel of Earth that makes your seed 
+into sons also makes the tiny acorn into this mighty oak, and makes the seed-bearing wheat to 
+grow for bread for the Son of Man. And the seed of your body need not enter the body of woman 
+to create life; for the power of the angel of Earth can create the life of the spirit within, as well as 
+the life of the body without. 
+
+
+"And on the third morning after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Life, enter with strength the 
+limbs of my body.' And with these words embrace the Tree of Life, even as I embrace this 
+brother oak, and you will feel the power of the angel of Life flow to your arms, and to your legs, 
+and to all the parts of your body, as the sap flows in the tree in the spring, even as it runs out of 
+the trunk, so will the angel of Life flood your body with the power of the Earthly Mother. 
+
+
+"And on the fourth morning after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of joy, descend upon earth, 
+pouring forth beauty and delight to all the children of the Earthly Mother and the, Heavenly 
+Father.’ And you will go forth into the fields of flowers after rain and give thanks to your Earthly 
+Mother for the sweet odor of blossoms; for I tell you truly, a flower has no other purpose than to 
+bring joy to the heart of the Son of Man. And you will listen with new ears to the song of the 
+birds, and see with new eyes the colors of the sun in its rising and its setting; and all these gifts of 
+the Earthly Mother will cause joy to well forth within you, as a spring wells forth of a sudden in 
+a barren place. And you shall know that no one comes before the Heavenly Father that the angel 
+of joy lets not pass; for in joy was the earth created, and in joy did the Earthly Mother and the 
+Heavenly Father give birth to the Son of Man. 
+
+
+"And on the fifth morning after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Sun, enter my body and let 
+me bathe in the fire of life.' And you will feel the rays of the rising sun enter into the center point 
+of your body, there in the center where the angels of day and of night mingle, and the power of 
+the sun shall be yours to direct to any part of your body, for the angels dwell therein. 
+
+
+"And on the sixth morning after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Water, enter my blood and 
+give the Water of Life to my body.’ And you will feel, like the rushing current of the river, the 
+power of the angel of Water enter your blood, and like the rivulets of a stream, send the power of 
+the Earthly Mother through your blood to all the parts of your body. And it shall be for healing, 
+for the power of the angel of Water is very great, and when you speak to her, she will send her 
+power wherever you command, for when the angels of God dwell within the Son of Man, are all 
+things possible. 
+
+
+"And on the seventh morning after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Air, enter with my breath 
+and give the Air of Life to my body.' Know, oh Sons of Light, that the Angel of Air is the 
+messenger of the Heavenly Father, and no one comes before the face of God that the angel of Air 
+lets not pass. For we do not think of the angel of Air when we breathe, for we breathe without 
+thought, as the sons of darkness live their lives without thought. But when the power of life 
+enters into your words and into your breathing, then for every time you invoke the Angel of Air, 
+so do you also invoke the unknown angels of the Heavenly Father; and you will go closer and 
+closer to the heavenly kingdoms. 
+
+
+"And on the Sabbath evening, say these words: "The Heavenly Father and I are One.’ And close 
+your eyes, Sons of Light, and in sleep enter into the unknown realms of the Heavenly Father. 
+And you will bathe in the light of the stars, and the Heavenly Father will hold you in his hand 
+and cause a spring of knowledge to well up within you; a fountain of power, pouring forth living 
+waters, a flood of love and of all-embracing wisdom, like the splendor of Eternal Light. And one 
+day the eyes of your spirit shall open, and you shall know all things. 
+
+
+"And on the first evening after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Eternal Life, descend upon 
+me and give eternal life to my spirit.' And close your eyes, Sons of Light, and in sleep 
+contemplate the oneness of all life everywhere. For I tell you truly, in the daylight hours are our 
+feet on the ground and we have no wings with which to fly. But our spirits are not tied to the 
+earth., and with the coming of night we overcome our attachment to the earth and join with that 
+which is eternal. For the Son of Man is not all that he seems, and only with the eyes of the spirit 
+can we see those golden threads which link us with all life everywhere. 
+
+
+"And on the second evening after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Creative Work, descend 
+upon earth and give abundance to all the Sons of Men.' For this most powerful of the angels of 
+the Heavenly Father is the cause of movement, and only in movement is life. Work, Sons of 
+Light, in the garden of the Brotherhood to create the kingdom of the heavens upon earth. And as 
+you work, so will the angel of Creative Work nurture and ripen the seed of your spirit, that you 
+may see God. 
+
+
+"And on the third evening after Sabbath, say these words: 'Peace, peace, peace, Angel of Peace, 
+be always everywhere.’ Seek the angel of Peace in all that lives, in all you do, in every word you 
+speak. For peace is the key to all knowledge, to all mystery, to all life. Where there is no peace, 
+there does Satan reign. And the sons of darkness covet most of all to steal from the Sons of Light 
+their peace. Go, therefore, on this night to the golden stream of light that is the garment of the 
+angel of Peace. And bring back to the morning the peace of God that surpasses understanding, 
+that with this perfect peace you may comfort the hearts of the Sons of Men. 
+
+
+"And on the fourth evening after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Power, descend on me and 
+fill with power all my deeds." I tell you truly, just as there is no life on earth without the sun, so 
+there is no life of the spirit without the Angel of Power. What you think and what you feel, these 
+are like the dead scriptures, which are only words on a page, or the dead speech of dead men. But 
+the Sons of Light will not only think, will not only feel, but will also do, and their acts will fulfill 
+their thoughts and feelings, as the golden fruit of summer gives meaning to the green leaves of 
+spring. 
+
+
+‘And on the fifth evening after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Love, descend on me and fill 
+with love all my feelings.’ For it is by love that the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother and 
+the Son of Man become one. Love is eternal. Love is stronger than death. And every night should 
+the Sons of Light bathe in the holy water of the angel of Love, that with the morning he may 
+baptize the Sons of Men with kind deeds and gentle words. For when the heart of the Son of 
+Light is bathed in love, only kind and gentle words speak forth. 
+
+
+"And on the sixth evening after Sabbath, say these words: 'Angel of Wisdom, descend on me and 
+fill with wisdom all my thoughts.’ Know, Sons of Light, that your thoughts are as powerful as the 
+bolt of lightning that stabs through th6 storm and splits asunder the mighty tree. It was for this 
+that you have waited seven years to learn how to speak with the angels, for you know not the 
+power of your thoughts. Use, then, wisdom in all you think and say and do. For I tell you truly, 
+that which is done without wisdom is as a rider less horse, mouth foaming and eyes wild, 
+running crazed into a yawning chasm. But when the angel of Wisdom governs your deeds, then 
+is the path to the unknown realms established, and order and harmony govern your lives. 
+
+
+"And these are the communions with the angels which are given to the Sons of Light, that with 
+bodies purified by the Earthly Mother and spirits purified by the Heavenly Father, they may 
+command and serve the angels, continually, from period to period, in the circuits of the day, and 
+in its fixed order; with the coming of light from its source and at the turn of evening and the 
+outgoing of light, at the outgoing of darkness and the coming in of day, continually, in all the 
+generations of time. 
+
+
+"The truth is born out of the spring of Light, falsehood from the well of darkness. The dominion 
+of all the children of truth is in the hands of the Angels of Light so that they may walk in the 
+ways of Light. 
+
+
+"Blessings on all the Sons of Light who have cast their lot with the Law, that walk truthfully in 
+all their ways. May the Law bless you with all good and keep you from all evil, and illumine 
+your hearts with insight into the things of life and grace you with knowledge of things Eternal." 
+
+
+And the crescent moon of peace rose over the mountain and slivers of light shone in the waters 
+of the river. And the Sons of Light as one man knelt in reverence and thanksgiving for the words 
+of Jesus, as he taught them in the ancient ways of their fathers, even as Enoch was taught of old. 
+
+
+And Jesus said: "The Law was planted to reward the Children of Light with healing and 
+abundant peace, with long life, with fruitful seed of everlasting blessings, with eternal joy in 
+immortality of Eternal Light. 
+
+
+"With the coming of day I embrace my Mother, with the coming of night I join my Father, and 
+with the outgoing of evening and morning I will breathe their Law, and I will not interrupt these 
+Communions until the end of time." 
+
+
+THE GIFT OF LIFE IN THE HUMBLE GRASS 
+
+
+It was in the month of Thebt, when the earth was covered with shoots of young grass after the 
+rains, and the covering of emerald green was tender as the fine down of a baby chick. And it was 
+on a bright sun-filled morning that Jesus gathered the new Brothers of the Elect round about him, 
+that they might hear with their ears and understand with their hearts the teachings of their fathers, 
+even as it was taught to Enoch of old. 
+
+
+And Jesus sat beneath a gnarled and ancient tree, holding in his hands a small earthen pot; and in 
+the pot was growing tender grass of wheat, the most perfect among all seed bearing herbs. And 
+the tender grass within the pot was radiant with life, even as the grass and plants which covered 
+the hills far into the distant fields and beyond. And Jesus stroked the grass in the pot with the 
+hands, even as gently as he would touch the head of a little child. 
+
+
+And Jesus said: "Happy are you, Sons of Light, for you have entered into the deathless way and 
+you walk in the path of truth, even as did your fathers of old, who were taught by the Great Ones. 
+With the eyes and ears of the spirit do you see and hear the sights and sounds of the kingdom of 
+the Earthly Mother: the blue sky where dwells the angel of Air, the foaming river where flows 
+the angel of Water, the golden light which streams from the angel of Sun. And I tell you truly, all 
+these are within you as well as without; for your breath, your blood, the fire of life within you, all 
+are one with the Earthly Mother. 
+
+
+But of all these, and more, that most precious gift of your Earthly Mother is the grass beneath 
+your feet, even that grass which you tread upon without thought. Humble and meek is the angel 
+of Earth, for she has no wings to fly, nor golden rays of light to pierce the mist. But great is her 
+strength and vast is her domain, for she covers the earth with her power, and without her the 
+Sons of Men would be no more, for no man can live without the grass, the trees and the plants of 
+the Earthly Mother. And these are the gifts of the angel of Earth to the Sons of Men. 
+
+
+"But now I will speak to you of mysterious things, for I tell you truly, the humble grass is more 
+than food for man and beast. it hides its glory beneath a lowly aspect, as it was told of a ruler of 
+old that he visited the villages of his subjects disguised as a beggar, knowing they would tell 
+many things to such a one, but would fall down in fear before their King. So does the humble 
+grass hide its glory under its coat of humble green, and the Sons of Men walk on it, plough it, 
+feed it to their beasts, but know not what secrets are hidden within it, even those secrets of 
+everlasting life in the heavenly kingdoms. 
+
+
+"But the Sons of Light will know what lies hidden in the grass, for it is given to them to bring 
+comfort to the Sons of Men. Even so are we taught by the Earthly Mother with this -little handful 
+of wheat in a simple pot, even the same earthen pot you use to drink milk and gather the honey 
+
+
+of bees. Now the pot is filled with black soil rich with old leaves and moist with the dew of 
+morning, even that most precious gift of the angel of Earth. 
+
+
+"And I did moisten a handful of wheat, that the angel of Water entered into it. The angel of Air 
+did also embrace it, and the angel of Sun, and the power of the three angels awakened also the 
+angel of Life within the wheat, and sprout and root were born in each grain. 
+
+
+"Then I put the awakened wheat into the soil of the angel of Earth, and the power of the Earthly 
+Mother and all her angels entered into the wheat, and when the sun had risen four times the 
+grains had become grass. I tell you truly, there is no greater miracle than this." 
+
+
+And the Brothers looked with reverence at the tender blades of grass in the hands of Jesus, and 
+one asked him: "Master, what is the secret of the grass you hold in your hands? Why is it 
+different from that grass that covers the hills and the mountains?" 
+
+
+And Jesus answered "It is not different, Son of Light. All grass, all trees, all plants, in every part 
+of the world, all are part of the kingdom of the Earthly Mother. But I have separated in this pot a 
+small portion of your Mother's kingdom, that you may touch her with the hands of the spirit, and 
+that her power may enter into your body. 
+
+
+"For I tell you truly, there is a Holy Stream of Life which gave birth to the Earthly Mother and 
+all her angels. Invisible is this Stream of Life to the eyes of the Sons of Men, for they walk in 
+darkness and see not the angels of the day and of the night that surround them and hover over 
+them. But the Sons of Light have walked for seven years with the angels of the day and of the 
+night, and now they are given the secrets of communion with the angels. And the eyes of your 
+spirit shall be opened, and you will see and hear and touch the Stream of Life that gave birth to 
+the Earthly Mother. And you will enter the Holy Stream of Life, and it will carry you with 
+infinite tenderness to everlasting life in the kingdom of your Heavenly Father." 
+
+
+"How shall we do this, Master?" some asked in amazement. "What secrets must we know to see 
+and hear and touch this Holy Stream of Life?". 
+
+
+And Jesus did not answer. But he placed his two hands around the growing blades of grass in the 
+pot, gently, as if it were the forehead of a little child. And he closed his eyes, and around him 
+were waves of light, shimmering in the sun, as the summer heat makes the light to tremble under 
+a cloudless sky. And the Brothers knelt and bowed their heads in reverence before the power of 
+the angels which poured forth from the sitting figure of Jesus; and still he sat in silence, with his 
+hands closed as if in prayer around the blades of grass. 
+
+
+And no one knew if an hour had passed, or a year, for time stood still and it was as if all creation 
+held its breath. And Jesus opened his eyes, and the scent of blossoms filled the air as Jesus 
+spoke: "Here is the secret, Sons of Light; here in the humble grass. Here is the meeting place of 
+the Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father; here is the Stream of Life which gave birth to all 
+creation; I tell you truly, only to the Son of Man is it given to see and hear and touch the Stream 
+of Life which flows between the Earthly and Heavenly Kingdoms. Place your hands around the 
+
+
+tender grass of the angel of Earth, and you will see and hear and touch the power of all the 
+angels." 
+
+
+And one by one, each of the Brothers sat in reverence before the power of the angels, holding in 
+his hands the tender grass. And each one felt the Stream of Life enter his body with the force of a 
+rushing stream after a spring storm. And the power of the angels flowed into their hands, up into 
+their arms, and shook them mightily, even as the wind of the north shakes the branches of trees. 
+And all of them wondered at the power in the humble grass, that it could contain all the angels, 
+and the kingdoms of the Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father. And they sat before Jesus, and 
+were taught by him. 
+
+
+Andjesus said: "Behold, Sons of Light, the lowly grass. See wherein are contained all the angels 
+of the Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father. For now have you stepped into the Stream of 
+Life, and its currents will carry you in time to everlasting life in the kingdom of your Heavenly 
+Father. 
+
+
+"For in the grass are all the angels. Here is the angel of Sun, here in the brightness of the green 
+color of the blades of wheat. For no one can look upon the sun when it is high in the heavens, for 
+the eyes of the Son of Man are blinded by its radiant light. And it is for this that the angel of Sun 
+turns to green all that to which she gives life, that the Son of Man may look upon the many and 
+various shades of green and find strength and comfort therein. I tell you truly, all that is green 
+and with life has the power of the angel of Sun within it, even these tender blades of young 
+wheat. 
+
+
+"And so does the angel of Water bless the grass, for I tell you truly, there is more of the angel of 
+Water within the grass than any of the other angels of the Earthly Mother. For if you crush 
+within your hands the grass, you will feel the water of life, which is the blood of the Earthly 
+Mother. And all through the days when you touch the grass and enter into the Stream of Life, do 
+you give to the soil a few drops of water, that the grass may be renewed by the power of the 
+Angel of Water. 
+
+
+"Know, also, that the angel of Air is within the grass, for all that is living and green is the home 
+of the angel of Air. Put your face close to the grass, breathe deeply, and let the angel of Air enter 
+deep within your body. For she abides in the grass, as the oak abides in the acorn, and as the fish 
+abides in the sea. 
+
+
+"The angel of Earth is she who gives birth to the grass, even as the babe in the womb lives from 
+the nourishment of his mother, so does the earth give of itself to the grain of wheat, causing it to 
+shoot forth to embrace the angel of Air. I tell you truly, each grain of wheat that bursts forth 
+upward to the sky is a victory over death, where Satan reigns. For Life always begins again. 
+
+
+"It is the angel of Life that flows through the blades of grass into the body of the Son of Light, 
+shaking him with her power. For the grass is Life and the Son of Light is Life, and Life flows 
+between the Son of Light and the blades of grass, making a bridge to the Holy Stream of Light 
+which gave birth to all creation. 
+
+
+"And when the Son of Light holds between his hands the blades of grass, it is the angel of joy 
+which fills his body with music. To enter into the Stream of Life is to be one with the song of the 
+bird, the colors of the wild flowers, the scent of the sheaves of grain, newly turned over in the 
+fields. I tell you truly, when the Son of Man feels not joy in his heart, he labors for Satan and 
+brings hope to the sons of darkness. There is no sadness in the kingdom of Light, only the angel 
+of Joy. Learn, then, from the tender blades of grass the song of the angel of joy, that the Sons of 
+Light may walk with her always and so comfort the hearts of the Sons of Men. 
+
+
+"The Earthly Mother is she who provides for our bodies, for we are born of her, and have our life 
+in her. So does she provide for us food in the very blades of grass we touch with our hands. For I 
+tell you truly, it is not only as bread that wheat may nourish us. We may eat also of the tender 
+blades of grass, that the strength of the Earthly Mother may enter into us. But chew well the 
+blades, for the Son of Man has teeth unlike those of the beasts, and only when we chew well the 
+blades of grass can the angel of Water enter our blood and give us strength. Eat, then, Sons of 
+Light, of this most perfect herb from the table of our Earthly Mother, that your days may be long 
+upon the earth, for such finds favor in the eyes of God. 
+
+
+"T tell you truly, the angel of Power enters into you when you touch the Stream of Life through 
+the blades of grass. For the angel of Power is as a shining light that surrounds every living thing, 
+just as the full moon is encircled by rings of radiance, and as the mist rises up from the fields 
+when the sun climbs in the sky. And the angel of Power enters into the Son of Light when his 
+heart is pure and his desire is only to comfort and teach the Sons of Men. Touch, then, the blades 
+of grass, and feel the angel of Power enter the tips of your fingers, flow upwards through your 
+body, and shake you till you tremble with wonder and awe. 
+
+
+"Know, also, that the angel of Love is present in the blades of grass, for love is in the giving, and 
+great is the love given to the Sons of Light by the tender blades of grass. For I tell you truly, the 
+Stream of Life runs through every living thing, and all that lives, bathes in the Holy Stream of 
+Life. And when the Son of Light touches with love the blades of grass, so do the blades of grass 
+return his love, and lead him to the Stream of Life where he may find life everlasting. And this 
+love never exhausts itself, for its source is in the Stream of Life which flows into the Eternal Sea, 
+and no matter how far does the Son of Man stray from his Earthly Mother and his Heavenly 
+Father, the touch of the blades of grass will always bring a message from the angel of Love; and 
+his feet shall bathe again in the Holy Stream of Life. 
+
+
+"Lo, it is the angel of Wisdom that governs the movement of the planets, the circle of the 
+seasons, and the orderly growth of all living things. So does the angel of Wisdom ordain the 
+communion of the Sons of Light with the Stream of Life, through the tender blades of grass. For 
+I tell you truly, your body is holy, because it bathes in the Stream of Life, which is Eternal Order. 
+
+
+"Touch the blades of grass, Sons of Light, and touch the angel of Eternal Life. For if you look 
+with the eyes of the spirit, you will truly see that the grass is eternal. Now it is young and tender, 
+with the brightness of the newborn babe. Soon it will be tall and gracious, as the sapling tree with 
+its first fruits. Then it will yellow with age, and bow its head in patience, as lies the field after the 
+harvest. Finally, it will wither, for the small earthen pot cannot contain the full lifespan of the 
+wheat. But it does not die, for the brown leaves return to the angel of Earth, and she holds the 
+
+
+plant in her arms and bids it sleep, and all the angels work within the faded leaves and lo, they 
+are changed and do not die but rise again in another guise. And so do the Sons of Light never see 
+death, but find themselves changed and risen to everlasting Life. 
+
+
+"And so does the angel of Work never sleep, but sends the roots of the wheat deep into the angel 
+of Earth, that the shoots of tender green may overcome death and the reign of Satan. For life is 
+movement, and the angel of Work is never still, even does he labor without ceasing in the 
+vineyard of the Lord. Close your eyes when you touch the grass, Sons of Light, but fall not 
+asleep, for to touch the Stream of Life is to touch the eternal rhythm of the everlasting kingdoms, 
+and to bathe in the Stream of Life is to feel more and more the power of the angel of Work 
+within you, creating on earth the kingdom of Heaven. 
+
+
+"Peace is -the gift of the Stream of Life to the Sons of Light. Wherefore do we always greet each 
+other, ‘Peace be with you. Even so does the grass greet your body with the kiss of Peace. I tell 
+you truly, Peace is not just the absence of war, for very quickly can the peaceful river turn into a 
+raging torrent, and the same waves that lull the boat can quickly break it to pieces against the 
+rocks. So does violence lie in wait for the Sons of Man, when they keep not the vigil of Peace. 
+Touch the blades of grass, and thereby touch the Stream of Life. Therein you will find Peace, the 
+Peace built with the power of all the angels. Even so with that Peace will the rays of Holy Light 
+cast out all darkness. 
+
+
+"When the Sons of Light are one with the Stream of Life, then will the power of the blades of 
+grass guide them to the everlasting kingdom of the Heavenly Father. And you shall know more 
+of those mysteries which is not yet time for you to hear. For there are other Holy Streams in the 
+everlasting kingdoms; I tell you truly, the heavenly kingdoms are crossed and crossed again by 
+streams of golden light, arching far beyond the dome of the sky and having no end. And the Sons 
+of Light shall travel by these streams for ever, knowing not death, guided by the eternal love of 
+the Heavenly Father. And I tell you truly, all these mysteries are contained in the humble grass, 
+when you touch it with tenderness and open your heart to the angel of Life within. 
+
+
+"Gather, then, the grains of wheat and plant them in small earthen pots; and every day with glad 
+heart commune with the angels, that they may guide you to the Holy Stream of Life, and you 
+may bring back from its eternal source comfort and strength for the Sons of Men. For I tell you 
+truly, all that you learn, all that your eyes of the spirit see, all that your cars of the spirit hear, all 
+this is as a hollow reed in the wind if you do not send forth a message of truth and light to the 
+Sons of Men. For by the fruit do we know the worth of the tree. And to love is to teach without 
+end, without ceasing. For so were your fathers taught of old, even our Father Enoch. Go now, 
+and peace be with you." 
+
+
+And Jesus held forth the little pot with the blades of young grass, as if in blessing, and walked 
+toward the sun-filled hills, along the shore of the river, as was the custom of all the Brothers. 
+And the others followed, each holding to him the words of Jesus, as it were a precious jewel 
+within his breast. 
+
+
+THE SEVENFOLD PEACE 
+
+
+"Peace be with you," spoke the Elder in greeting to the Brothers who had gathered for the 
+teachings 
+
+
+"Peace be with you," they answered; and they walked together along the bank of the river, for so 
+was their custom when an Elder taught the Brothers, that they might share the teachings with the 
+angels of the Earthly Mother: of air, of sun, of water, of earth, of life, and of joy. 
+
+
+And the Elder said to the Brothers: "I would speak to you of peace, for of all the angels of the 
+Heavenly Father, peace is that for which the world most yearns, as a tired babe longs to put his 
+head on his mother's breast. It is the lack of peace that troubles the kingdoms, even when they 
+are not at war. For violence and warfare may reign in a kingdom even when the sounds of 
+clashing swords are not heard. Though no armies march one against the other, still there is no 
+peace when the Sons of Men walk not with the angels of God. I tell you truly, many are those 
+who do not know peace; for they are at war with their own body; they are at war with their 
+thoughts; they have no peace with their fathers, their mothers, their children; they have no peace 
+with their friends and neighbors; they know not the beauty of the Holy Scrolls; they labor not 
+through the day in the kingdom of their Earthly Mother; nor do they sleep at night in the arms of 
+their Heavenly Father. Peace reigns not within them, for ever do they thirst for that which in the 
+end brings only misery and pain, even those trappings of riches and fame which Satan uses to 
+tempt the Sons of Men; and they live in ignorance of the Law, even that Holy Law by which we 
+live: the path of the angels of the Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father." 
+
+
+"How, then, may we bring peace to our brothers, Master?" asked some of the Elder, "for we 
+would that all the Sons of Men share in the blessings of the angel of Peace." 
+
+
+And he answered: "Truly, only he who is at peace with all the angels can shed the light of peace 
+on others. Therefore, first be at peace with all the angels of the Earthly Mother and the Heavenly 
+Father. For the winds of a storm stir and trouble the waters of the river, and only the stillness that 
+follows can calm them once again. Take care when your brother asks you for bread, that you 
+give him not stones. Live first in peace with all the angels, for then your peace will be as a 
+fountain that does replenish itself with the giving, and the more you give, so the more you will be 
+given, for such is the Law. 
+
+
+"Three arc the dwellings of the Son of Man, and no one may come before the face of God who 
+knows not the angel of Peace in each of the three. These are his body, his thoughts, and his 
+feelings. When the angel of Wisdom guides his thoughts, when the angel of Love purifies his 
+feelings, and when the deeds of his body reflect both love and wisdom, then does the angel of 
+Peace guide him unfailingly to the throne of his Heavenly Father. And he should pray without 
+ceasing that the power of Satan with all his diseases and uncleannesses may be cast out of all of 
+his three dwellings; that Power and Wisdom and Love may reign in his body, his thoughts, and 
+his feelings. 
+
+
+"First shall the Son of Man seek peace with his own body; for his body is as a mountain pond 
+that reflects the sun when it is still and clear; but when it is full of mud and stones, it reflects 
+nothing. First must Satan be cast out of the body, that the angels of God may enter again and 
+dwell therein. Truly, no peace can reign in the body unless it is as a temple of the Holy Law. 
+Therefore, when he who suffers with pains and grievous plagues asks for your help, tell him to 
+renew himself with fasting and with prayer. Tell him to invoke the angel of sun, the angel of 
+water, and the angel of air, that they may enter his body and cast out of it the power of Satan. 
+Show him the baptism within, and the baptism without. Tell him always to eat of the table of our 
+Earthly Mother, spread with her gifts: the fruits of the trees, the grasses of the fields, the milk of 
+beasts good for eating, and the honey of bees. He shall not invoke the power of Satan by eating 
+the flesh of beasts, for he who kills, kills his brother, and whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts, 
+eats the body of death. Tell him to prepare his food with the fire of life, not the fire of death, for 
+the living angels of the living God serve only living men. 
+
+
+"And though he sees them not, and hears them not, and touches them not, still is he every 
+moment surrounded by the power of God's angels. While his eyes and ears are closed by 
+ignorance of the Law and thirst for the pleasures of Satan, he will not see them, nor hear them, 
+nor touch them. But when he fasts and prays to the living God to cast out all the diseases and 
+uncleannesses of Satan, then will his eyes and ears be opened, and he will find peace. 
+
+
+"For not only he suffers who harbors the diseases of Satan within him, but his mother, his father, 
+his wife, his children, his companions, these suffer also, for no man is an island unto himself, and 
+the powers that flow through him, whether they be of the angels or of Satan, truly these powers 
+do unto others for good or for evil. 
+
+
+"After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 
+‘Our Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and send to our 
+body the angel of Life to dwell therein for ever.’ 
+
+
+"Then shall the Son of Man seek peace with his own thoughts; that the angel of Wisdom may 
+guide him. For I tell you truly, there is no greater power in heaven and earth than the thoughts of 
+the Son of Man. Though unseen by the eyes of the body, yet each thought has mighty strength, 
+even such strength as can shake the heavens. 
+
+
+"For to no other creature in the kingdom of the Earthly Mother is it given the power of thought, 
+for all beasts that crawl and birds that fly, live not of their own thinking but of the one Law that 
+governs all. Only to the Sons of Men is it given the power of thought, even that thought that can 
+break the bonds of death. Do not think because it cannot be seen, that thought has no power. I tell 
+you truly, the lightning that cleaves the mighty oak, or the quaking that opens up cracks in the 
+earth, these are as the play of children compared with the power of thought. Truly each thought 
+of darkness, whether it be of malice, or anger, or vengeance, these wreak destruction like that of 
+fire sweeping through dry kindling under a windless sky. But man does not see the carnage, nor 
+does he hear the piteous cries of his victims, for he is blind to the world of the spirit. 
+
+
+"But when this power is guided by holy Wisdom, then the thoughts of the Son of Man lead him 
+to the heavenly kingdoms and thus is paradise built on earth; then it is that your thoughts uplift 
+the souls of men, as the cold waters of a rushing stream revive your body in the summer heat. 
+
+
+"When first a fledgling bird tries to fly, his wings cannot support him, and he falls again and 
+again to earth. But he tries again and one day he soars aloft, leaving earth and his nest far behind. 
+So is it with the thoughts of the Sons of Men. The longer he walks with the angels and keeps 
+their Law, so do the stronger his thoughts become in holy Wisdom. And I tell you truly, that day 
+will come when his thoughts will overcome even the kingdom of death and soar to everlasting 
+life in the heavenly kingdoms; for with their thoughts guided by holy Wisdom do the Sons of 
+Men build a bridge of light thereby to reach God. 
+
+
+"After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 
+‘Our Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and send to our 
+thoughts the angel of Power, that we may break the bonds of death. 
+
+
+"Then shall the Son of Man seek peace with his own feelings; that his family may delight in his 
+loving kindness, even his father, his mother, his wife, his children, and his children's children. 
+For the Heavenly Father is a hundred times greater than all fathers by seed and by blood, and the 
+Earthly Mother is a hundred times greater than all mothers by the body, and your true brothers 
+are all those who do the will of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother, and not your 
+brothers by blood. Even so, shall you see the Heavenly Father in your father by seed, and your 
+Earthly Mother in your mother by the body, for are not these also children of the Heavenly 
+Father and the Earthly Mother? Even so shall you love your brothers by blood as you love all 
+your true brothers who walk with the angels, for are not these also children of the Heavenly 
+Father and the Earthly Mother? I tell you truly, it is easier to love those newly met, than those of 
+our own house, who have k nown our weaknesses, and heard our words of anger, and seen us in 
+our nakedness, for they know us as we know ourselves, and we are ashamed. Then shall we call 
+on the angel of Love to enter into our feelings, that they be purifiers And all that was before 
+impatience and discord, will turn to harmony and peace, as the parched ground drinks in the 
+gentle rain and becomes green and soft, tender with new life. 
+
+
+"For many and grievous are the sufferings of the Sons of Men when they cleave not to the angel 
+of Love. Truly, a man without love casts a dark shadow on everyone he meets, most of all those 
+with whom he lives; his harsh and angry words fall on his brothers like fetid air rising from a 
+stagnant pool. And he suffers most who speaks them, for the darkness that encloses him invites 
+Satan and his devas. 
+
+
+"But when he calls on the angel of Love, then is the darkness dispersed, and the light of sunshine 
+streams from him, and the colors of the rainbow swirl about his head, and gentle rain falls from 
+his fingers, and he brings peace and strength to all those who draw near to him. 
+
+
+"After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 
+‘Our Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and send to those 
+of our seed and of our blood the angel of Love, that peace and harmony may dwell in our house 
+for ever.’ 
+
+
+"Then shall the Son of Man seek peace with other Sons of Men, even with the Pharisees and 
+priests, even with beggars and the homeless, even with kings and governors. For all are Sons of 
+Men, whatever be their station, whatever be their calling, whether their eyes have been opened to 
+see the heavenly kingdoms, or whether they yet walk in darkness and ignorance. 
+
+
+"For the justice of men may reward the undeserving and punish the innocent, but Holy Law is 
+the same for all, whether beggar or king, whether shepherd or priest. 
+
+
+"Seek peace with all the Sons of Men, and let it be known of the Brothers of Light, that we have 
+lived according to the Holy Law since the time of Enoch of old, and before. For we are not rich, 
+neither are we poor. And we do share all things, even our garments and the tools we use to till 
+the soil. And together we work in the fields with all the angels, bringing forth the gifts of the 
+Earthly Mother for all to eat. 
+
+
+"For the strongest of the angels of the Heavenly Father, the angel of Work, blesses each man 
+who works in the way best for him, for then shall he know neither want nor excess. Truly is there 
+abundance for all men in the kingdoms of the Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father when 
+each man works at his task; for when a man shirks his task, then another must take it up, for we 
+are given all things in the kingdoms of heaven and earth at the price of labor. 
+
+
+"Always have the Brothers of Light lived where rejoice the angels of the Earthly Mother: near 
+rivers, near trees, near flowers, near the music of birds; where sun and rain may embrace the 
+body, which is the temple of the spirit. Nor do we have ought to do with the edicts of rulers; 
+neither do we uphold them, as our law is the Law of the Heavenly Father and the Earthly 
+Mother; neither do we oppose them, for no one rules save by the will of God. Rather do we strive 
+to live according to the Holy Law and strengthen always that which is good in all things; then 
+will the kingdom of darkness be changed to the kingdom of light; for where there is light, how 
+then can darkness remain? 
+
+
+"After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 
+‘Our Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and send to all 
+humankind the angel of Work, that having a holy task we should not ask for any other blessing. 
+
+
+"Then shall the Son of Man seek peace with the knowledge of the ages past; for I tell you truly, 
+in the Holy Scrolls is a treasure a hundred times greater than any of jewels and gold in the richest 
+of kingdoms, and more precious, for surely they contain all the wisdom revealed by God to the 
+Sons of Light, even those traditions which came to us through Enoch of old, and before him on 
+an endless path into the past, the teachings of the Great Ones. And these are our inheritance, even 
+as the son inherits all the possessions of his father when he shows himself to be worthy of his 
+father's blessing. Truly, by studying the teachings of ageless wisdom do we come to know God, 
+for I tell you truly, the Great Ones saw God face to face; even so, when we read the Holy Scrolls 
+do we touch the feet of God. 
+
+
+"And when once we see with the eyes of wisdom and hear with the cars of understanding the 
+ageless truths of the Holy Scrolls, then must we go among the Sons of Men and teach them, for if 
+we jealously hide the holy knowledge, pretending that it belongs only to us, then we are as one 
+
+
+who finds a spring high in the mountains, and rather than let it flow into the valley to quench the 
+thirst of man and beast, buries it under rocks and dirt, thereby robbing himself of water, as well. 
+Go among the Sons of Men and tell them of the Holy Law, that they may thereby save 
+themselves and enter the heavenly kingdoms. But tell them in words they may understand, in 
+parables from nature that speak to the heart, for the deed must first live as desire in the awakened 
+heart. 
+
+
+"After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 
+‘Our Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and send to our 
+knowledge the angel of Wisdom, that we may walk in the paths of the Great Ones who have seen 
+the face of God. 
+
+
+"Then shall the Son of Man seek peace with the kingdom of his Earthly Mother, for none can 
+live long, neither be happy, but he who honors his Earthly Mother and does her laws. For your 
+breath is her breath; your blood her blood; your bone her bone; your flesh her flesh; your bowels 
+her bowels; your eyes and your ears are her eyes and her ears. 
+
+
+"T tell you truly, you are one with the Earthly Mother; she is in you, and you in her. Of her were 
+you born, in her do you live, and to her shall you return again. it is the blood of our Earthly 
+Mother which falls from the clouds and flows in the rivers; it is the breath of our Earthly Mother 
+which, whispers in the leaves of the forest and blows with a mighty wind from the mountains; 
+sweet and firm is the flesh of our Earthly Mother in the fruits of the trees; strong and unflinching 
+are the bones of our Earthly Mother in the giant rocks and stones which stand as sentinels of the 
+lost times; truly, we are one with our Earthly Mother, and he who clings to the laws of his 
+Mother, to him shall his Mother cling also. 
+
+
+"But there will come a day when the Son of Man will turn his face from his Earthly Mother and 
+betray her, even denying his Mother and his birthright. Then shall he sell her into slavery, and 
+her flesh shall be ravaged, her blood polluted, and her breath smothered; he will bring the fire of 
+death into all the parts of her kingdom, and his hunger will devour all her gifts and leave in their 
+place only a desert. 
+
+
+"All these things will he do out of ignorance of the Law, and as a man dying slowly cannot smell 
+his own stench, so will the Son of Man be blind to the truth: that as he plunders and ravages and 
+destroys his Earthly Mother, so does he plunder and ravage and destroy himself. For he was born 
+of his Earthly Mother, and he is one with her, and all that he does to his Mother9 even so does he 
+do to himself. 
+
+
+"Long ago, before the Great Flood, the Great Ones walked the earth, and the giant trees, even 
+those which now are no more than legend, were their home and their kingdom. They lived many 
+score of generations, for they ate from the table of the Earthly Mother, and slept in the arms of 
+the Heavenly Father, and they knew not disease, old age, nor death. To the Sons of Men did they 
+bequeath all the glory of their kingdoms, even the hidden knowledge of the Tree of Life which 
+stands in the middle of the Eternal Sea. But the eyes of the Sons of Men were blinded by the 
+visions of Satan, and by promises of power, even that power which conquers by might and by 
+blood. And then did the Son of Man sever the golden threads that bound him to his Earthly 
+
+
+Mother and his Heavenly Father; he stepped from the Holy Stream of Life where his body, his 
+thoughts, and his feelings were one with the Law, and began to use only his own thoughts, his 
+own feelings, and his own deeds, making hundreds of laws, where before there was only One. 
+
+
+"And so did the Sons of Men exile themselves from their home, and ever since have they 
+huddled behind their stone walls, hearing not the sighing of the wind in the tall trees of the 
+forests beyond their towns. 
+
+
+"T tell you truly, the Book of Nature is a Holy Scroll, and if you would have the Sons of Men 
+save themselves and find everlasting life, teach them how once again to read from the living 
+pages of the Earthly Mother. For in everything that is life is the law written. It is written in the 
+grass, in the trees, in rivers, mountains, birds of the sky and fishes of the sea; and most of all 
+within the Son of Man. Only when he returns to the bosom of his Earthly Mother will he find 
+everlasting life and the Stream of Life which leads to his Heavenly Father; only then may the 
+dark vision of the future come not to pass. 
+
+
+"After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 
+‘Our Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and send to the 
+kingdom of our Earthly Mother the angel of joy, that our hearts may be full of singing and 
+gladness as we nestle in the arms of our Mother. 
+
+
+4 'At last, shall the Son of Man seek peace with the kingdom of his Heavenly Father; for truly, 
+the Son of Man is only born of his father by seed and of his mother by the body, that he may find 
+his true inheritance and know at last that he is the Son of the King. 
+
+
+"The Heavenly Father is the One Law, who fashioned the stars, the sun, the light and the 
+darkness, and the Holy Law within our souls. Everywhere is he, and there is nowhere he is not. 
+All in our understanding, and all we know not, all is governed by the Law. The falling of leaves, 
+the flow of rivers, the music of insects at night, all these are ruled by the Law. 
+
+
+"In our Heavenly Father's realm there are many mansions, and many are the hidden things you 
+cannot know of yet. I tell you truly, the kingdom of our Heavenly Father is vast, so vast that no 
+man can know its limits, for there are none. Yet the whole of his kingdom may be found in the 
+smallest drop of dew on a wild flower, or in the scent of newly-cut grass in the fields under the 
+summer sun. Truly, there are no words to describe the kingdom of the Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+"Glorious, indeed, is the inheritance of the Son of Man, for to hirn only is it given to enter the 
+Stream of Life which leads him to the kingdom of his Heavenly Father. But first he must seek 
+and find peace with his body, with his thoughts, with his feelings, with the Sons of Men, with 
+holy knowledge, and with the kingdom of the Earthly Mother. For I tell you truly, this is the 
+vessel which will carry the Son of Man on the Stream of Life to his Heavenly Father. He must 
+have peace that is sevenfold before he can know the one peace which surpasses understanding, 
+even that of his Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+"After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 
+‘Our Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and send to your 
+
+
+kingdom, our Heavenly Father, your angel of Eternal Life, that we may soar beyond the stars and 
+live for ever." 
+
+
+And then the Elder was quiet, and a great stillness stole over the Brothers, and no one wished to 
+speak. The shadows of late afternoon played on the river, still and silvery as glass, and in the 
+darkening sky could faintly be seen the filigree crescent moon of peace. And the great peace of 
+the Heavenly Father wrapt them all in deathless love. 
+
+
+THE HOLY STREAMS 
+
+
+Into the innermost circle have you come, into the mystery of mysteries, that which was old when 
+our father Enoch was young and walked the earth. Around and around have you come on your 
+journey of many years, always following the path of righteousness, living according to the Holy 
+Law and the sacred vows of our Brotherhood, and you have made of your body a holy temple 
+wherein dwell the angels of God. Many years have you shared the daylight hours with the angels 
+of the Earthly Mother; many years have you slept in the arms of the Heavenly Father, taught by 
+his unknown angels. You have learned that the laws of the Son of Man are seven, of the angels 
+three, and of God, one. Now you shall know of the three laws of the angels, the mystery of the 
+three Holy Streams and the ancient way to traverse them; so shall you bathe in the light of 
+heaven and at last behold the revelation of the mystery of mysteries: the law of God, which is 
+One. 
+
+
+Now in the hour before the rising of the sun, just before the angels of the Earthly Mother breathe 
+life into the still sleeping earth, then do you enter into the Holy Stream of Life. It is your Brother 
+Tree who holds the mystery of this Holy Stream, and it is your Brother Tree that you will 
+embrace in your thought, even as by clay you embrace him in greeting when you walk along the 
+lake shore. And you shall be one with the tree, for in the beginning of the times so did we all 
+share in the Holy Stream of Life that gave birth to all creation. And as you embrace your Brother 
+Tree, the power of the Holy Stream of Life will fill your whole body, and you will tremble 
+before its might. Then breathe deeply of the angel of air, and say the word "Life" with the 
+outgiving of breath. Then you will become in truth the Tree of Life which sinks its roots deep 
+into the Holy Stream of Life from an eternal source. And as the angel of sun warms the earth, 
+and all the creatures of land and water and air rejoice in the new day, so will your body and spirit 
+rejoice in the Holy Stream of life that flows to you through your Brother Tree. 
+
+
+And when the sun is high in the heavens, then shall you seek the Holy Stream of Sound. in the 
+heat of noontide, all creatures are still and seek the shade; the angels of the Earthly Mother are 
+silent for a space. Then it is that you shall let into your ears the Holy Stream of Sound; for it can 
+only be heard in the silence. Think on the streams that are born in the desert after a sudden storm, 
+and the roaring sound of the waters as they rush past. Truly, this is the voice of God, if you did 
+but know it. For as it is written, in the beginning was the Sound, and the Sound was with God, 
+and the Sound was God. I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of 
+God in our ears, even the singing of the vast chorus of the sky, and the holy chant of the stars in 
+
+
+their fixed rounds; it is the Holy Stream of Sound that traverses the vault of stars and crosses the 
+endless kingdom of the Heavenly Father. It is ever in our ears, so do we hear it not. Listen for it, 
+then, in the silence of noontide; bathe in it, and let the rhythm of the music of God beat in your 
+ears until you are one with the Holy Stream of Sound. It was this Sound which formed the earth 
+and the world, and brought forth the mountains, and set the stars in their thrones of glory in the 
+highest heavens. 
+
+
+And you shall bathe in the Stream of Sound, and the music of its waters shall flow over you; for 
+in the beginning of the times so did we all share in the Holy Stream of Sound that gave birth to 
+all creation. And the mighty roaring of the Stream of Sound will fill your whole body, and you 
+will tremble before its might. Then breathe deeply of the angel of air, and become the sound 
+itself, that the Holy Stream of Sound may carry you to the endless kingdom of the Heavenly 
+Father, there where the rhythm of the world rises and falls. 
+
+
+And when darkness gently closes the eyes of the angels of the Earthly Mother, then shall you 
+also sleep, that your spirit may join the unknown angels of the Heavenly Father. And in the 
+moments before you sleep, then shall you think of the bright and glorious stars, the white, 
+shining, far-seen and far-piercing stars. For your thoughts before sleep are as the bow of the 
+skilful archer, that sends the arrow where he wills. Let your thoughts before sleep be with the 
+stars; for the stars are Light, and the Heavenly Father is Light, even that Light which is a 
+thousand times brighter than the brightness of a thousand suns. Enter the Holy Stream of Light, 
+that the shackles of death may loose their hold for ever, and breaking free from the bonds of 
+earth, ascend the Holy Stream of Light through the blazing radiance of the stars, into the endless 
+kingdom of the Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+Unfold your wings of light, and in the eye of your thought, soar with the stars into the farthest 
+reaches of heaven, where untold suns blaze with light. For at the beginning of the times, the Holy 
+Law said, let there be Light, and there was Light. And you shall be one with it, and the power of 
+the Holy Light Stream will fill your whole body, and you will tremble before its might. Say the 
+word "Light," as you breathe deeply of the angel of air, and you will become the Light itself; and 
+the Holy Stream will carry you to the endless kingdom of the Heavenly Father, there losing itself 
+in the eternal Sea of Light which gives birth to all creation. And you shall be one with the Holy 
+Stream of Light, always before you sleep in the arms of the Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+I tell you truly, your body was made not only to breathe, and eat, and think, but it was also made 
+to enter the Holy Stream of Life. And your ears were made not only to hear the words of men, 
+the song of birds, and the music of falling rain, but they were also made to hear the Holy Stream 
+of Sound. And your eyes were made not only to see the rising and setting of the sun, the ripple of 
+sheaves of grain, and the words of the Holy Scrolls, but they were also made to see the Holy 
+Stream of Light. One day your body will return to the Earthly Mother; even also your ears and 
+your eyes. But the Holy Stream of Life, the Holy Stream of Sound, and the Holy Stream of 
+Light, these were never born, and can never die. Enter the Holy Streams, even that Life, that 
+Sound, and that Light which gave you birth; that you may reach the kingdom of the Heavenly 
+Father and become one with him, even as the river empties into the far distant sea. 
+
+
+More than this cannot be told, for the Holy Streams will take you to that place where words are 
+no more, and even the Holy Scrolls cannot record the mysteries therein. 
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+The ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 
+Book One 
+
+
+The Original Hebrew and Aramaic Texts 
+Translated and edited by 
+EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY 
+MCMLXXXI 
+INTERNATIONAL BIOGENIC SOCIETY 
+Book Design by Golondrina Graohics 
+Copyright @ 1981, by the International Biogenic Society 
+Printed In the United States of America-All Rights Reserved 
+
+
+And then many sick and maimed came to Jesus, asking him. "if you know all things, tell us, why 
+do we suffer with these grievous plagues? Why are we not whole like other men? Master, heal 
+us, that we too may be made strong, and need abide no longer in our misery. We know that you 
+have it in your power to heal all manner of disease. Free us from Satan and from all his great 
+afflictions. Master, have compassion on us." 
+
+
+And Jesus answered- "Happy are you that you hunger for the truth, for I will satisfy you with the 
+bread of wisdom. Happy are you, that you knock, for I will open to you the door of life. Happy 
+are you, that you would cast off the power of Satan, for I will lead you into the kingdom of our 
+Mother's angels, where the power of Satan cannot enter." 
+
+
+And they asked him in amazement: "Who is our Mother and which her angels? And where is her 
+kingdom?" 
+
+
+"Your Mother is in you, and you in her. She bore you she gives you life. it was she who gave to 
+you your body, and to her shall you one day give it back again. Happy are you when you come to 
+know her and her kingdom; if you receive your Mother's angels and if you do her laws. I tell you 
+truly, he who does these things shall never see disease. For the power of our Mother is above all. 
+And it destroys Satan and his kingdom, and has rule over all your bodies and all living things. 
+
+
+"The blood which runs in us is born of the blood of our Earthly Mother. Her blood falls from the 
+clouds; leaps from the womb of the earth; babbles in the brooks of the mountains; flows wide in 
+the rivers of the plains; sleeps in the lakes; rages mightily in tempestuous seas. 
+
+
+"The air which we breathe is born of the breath of our Earthly Mother. Her breath is azure in the 
+heights of t heavens; soughs in the tops of the mountains; whispers the leaves of the forest; 
+billows over the cornfields; slumbers in the deep valleys, burns hot in the desert. 
+
+
+"The hardness of our bones is born of the bones of our Earthly Mother, of the rocks and of the 
+stones. They stand naked to the heavens on the tops of mountains; are as giants that lie sleeping 
+
+
+on the sides of the mountains, as idols set in the desert, and are hidden in the deepness of the 
+earth. 
+
+
+"The tenderness of our flesh is born of the flesh of our Earthly Mother; whose flesh waxes 
+yellow and red in the fruits of the trees, and nurtures us in the furrows of the fields. 
+
+
+"Our bowels are born of the bowels of our Earthly Mother, and are hid from our eyes, like the 
+invisible depths of the earth. 
+
+
+"The light of our eyes, the hearing of our ears, both are born of the colors and the sounds of our 
+Earthly Mother; which enclose us about, as the waves of the sea a fish, as the eddying air a bird. 
+
+
+"T tell you in very truth, Man is the Son of the Earthly Mother, and from her did the Son of Man 
+receive his whole body, even as the body of the newborn babe is born of the womb of his 
+mother. I tell you truly, you are one with the Earthly Mother; she is in you, and you in her. Of 
+her were you born, in her do you live, and to her shall you return again. Keep, therefore, her 
+laws, for none can live long, neither be happy, but he who honors his Earthly Mother and 
+does her laws. For your breath is her breath; your blood her blood; your bone her bone; your 
+flesh her flesh; your bowels her bowels; your eyes and your ears are her eyes and her ears. 
+
+
+"T tell you truly, should you fail to keep but one only of all these laws, should you harm but one 
+only of all your body's members, you shall be utterly lost in your grievous sickness, and there 
+shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. I tell you, unless you follow the laws of your Mother, 
+you can in no wise escape death. And he who clings to the laws of his Mother, to him shall his 
+Mother cling also. She shall heal all his plagues, and he shall never become sick. She gives him 
+long life, and protects him from all afflictions; from fire, from water, from the bite of venomous 
+serpents. For your Mother bore you, keeps life within you. She has given you her body, and none 
+but she heals you. Happy is he who loves his Mother and lies quietly in her bosom. For your 
+Mother loves you, even when you turn away from her. And how much more shall she love you, 
+if you turn to her again? I tell you truly, very great is her love, greater than the greatest of 
+mountains, deeper than the deepest seas. And those who love their Mother, she never deserts 
+them. As the hen protects her chickens, as the lioness her cubs, as the mother her newborn babe, 
+so does the Earthly Mother protect the Son of Man from all danger and from all evils. 
+
+
+"For I tell you truly, evils and dangers innumerable lie in wait for the Sons of Men. Beelzebub, 
+the prince of all devils, the source of every evil, lies in wait in the body of all the Sons of Men. 
+He is death, the lord of every plague, and taking upon him a pleasing raiment, he tempts and 
+entices the Sons of Men. Riches does he promise, and power, and splendid palaces, and garments 
+of gold and silver, and a multitude of servants, all these; he promises renown and glory, 
+fornication and lustfulness, gluttony and wine-bibbing, riotous living, and slothfulness and idle 
+days. And he entices every one by that to which their heart is most inclined. And in the day that 
+the Sons of Men have already become the slaves of all these vanities and abominations, then in 
+payment thereof he snatches from the Sons of Men all those things which the Earthly Mother 
+gave them so abundantly. He takes from them their breath, their blood, their bone, their flesh, 
+their bowels, their eyes and their ears. And the breath of the Son of Man becomes short and 
+stifled, full of pain and evil-smelling, like the breath of unclean beasts. And his blood becomes 
+
+
+thick and evil-smelling, like the water of the swamps; it clots and blackens, like the night of 
+death. And his bone becomes hard and knotted; it melts away within and breaks asunder, as a 
+stone falling down upon a rock. And his flesh waxes fat and watery; it rots and putrefies, with 
+scabs and boils that are an abomination. 
+
+
+And his bowels become full with abominable filthiness, with oozing streams of decay; and 
+multitudes of abominable worms have their habitation there. And his eyes grow dim, till dark 
+night enshrouds them, and his ears become stopped, like the silence of the grave. And last of all 
+shall the erring Son of Man lose life. For he kept not the laws of his Mother, and added sin to sin. 
+Therefore, are taken from him all the gifts of the Earthly Mother: breath, blood, bone, flesh, 
+bowels, eyes and ears, and after all else, life, with which the Earthly Mother crowned his body. 
+
+
+"But if the erring Son of Man be sorry for his sins and undo them, and return again to his Earthly 
+Mother; and if he do his Earthly Mother's laws and free himself from Satan's clutches, resisting 
+his temptations, then does the Earthly Mother receive again her erring Son with love and sends 
+him her angels that they may serve him. I tell you truly, when the Son of Man resists the Satan 
+that dwells in him and does not his will, in the same hour are found the Mother's angels there, 
+that they may serve him with all their power and free utterly the Son of Man from the power of 
+Satan. 
+
+
+"For no man can serve two masters. For either he serves Beelzebub and his devils or else he 
+serves our Earthly Mother and her angels. Either he serves death or he serves life. I ten you truly, 
+happy are those that do the laws of life and wander not upon the paths of death. For in them the 
+forces of life wax strong and they escape the plagues of death." 
+
+
+And all those round about him listened to his words with amazement, for his word was with 
+power, and he taught quite otherwise than the priests and scribes. 
+
+
+And though the sun was now set, they departed not to their homes. They sat round about Jesus 
+and asked him: "Master, which are these laws of life? Rest with us awhile longer and teach us. 
+We would listen to your teaching that we may be healed and become righteous." 
+
+
+And Jesus himself sat down in their midst and said: "I tell you truly, none can be happy, except 
+he do the Law." 
+
+
+And the others answered: "We all do the laws of Moses, our lawgiver, even as they are written in 
+the holy scriptures." 
+
+
+And Jesus answered: "Seek not the law in your scriptures, for the law is life, whereas the 
+scripture is dead. I tell you truly, Moses received not his laws from God in writing, but through 
+the living word. The law is living word of living God to living prophets for living men. In 
+everything that is life is the law written. You find it in the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the 
+mountain, in the birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea; but seek it chiefly in yourselves. For I 
+tell you truly, all living things are nearer to God than the scripture which is without life. God so 
+made life and all living things that they might by the everlasting word teach the laws of the true 
+God to man. God wrote not the laws in the pages of books, but in your heart and in your spirit. 
+
+
+They are in your breath, your blood, your bone; in your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, your ears, 
+and in every little part of your body. They are present in the air, in the water, in the earth, in the 
+plants, in th e sunbeams, in the depths and in the heights. They all speak to you that you may 
+understand the tongue and the will of the living God. But you shut your eyes that you may not 
+see, and you shut your ears that you may not hear. I tell you truly, that the scripture is the work 
+of man, but life and all its hosts are the work of our God. Wherefore do you not listen to the 
+words of God which are written in His works? And wherefore do you study the dead scriptures 
+which are the work of the hands of men?" 
+
+
+"How may we read the laws of God elsewhere than in the scriptures? Where are they written? 
+Read them to us from there where you see them, for we know nothing else but the scriptures 
+which we have inherited from our forefathers. Tell us the laws of which you speak, that hearing 
+them we may be healed and justified." 
+
+
+Jesus said: "You do not understand the words of life, because you are in death. Darkness darkens 
+your eyes and your ears are stopped with deafness. For I tell you, it profits you not at all that you 
+pore over dead scriptures if by your deeds you deny him who has given you the scriptures. 
+
+
+I tell you truly, God and his laws are not in that which you do. They are not in gluttony and in 
+wine-bibbing, neither in riotous living, nor in lustfulness, nor in seeking after riches, nor yet in 
+hatred of your enemies. For all these things are far from the true God and from his angels. But all 
+these things come from the kingdom of darkness and the lord of all evils. And all these things do 
+you carry in yourselves; and so the word and the power of God enter not into you, because all 
+manner of evil and all manner of abominations have their dwelling in your body and your spirit. 
+If you will that the living God's word and his power may enter you, defile not your body and 
+your spirit; for the body is the temple of the spirit, and the spirit is the temple of God. Purify, 
+therefore, the temple, that the Lord of the temple may dwell therein and occupy a place that is 
+worthy of him. 
+
+
+"And from all temptations of your body and your spirit, coming from Satan, withdraw beneath 
+the shadow of God's heaven. 
+
+
+"Renew yourselves and fast. For I tell you truly, that Satan and his plagues may only be cast out 
+by -fasting and by prayer. Go by yourself and fast alone, and show your fasting to no man. The 
+living God shall see it and great shall be your reward. And fast till Beelzebub and all his evils 
+depart from you, and all the angels of our Earthly Mother come and serve you. For I tell you 
+truly, except you fast, you shall never be freed from the power of Satan and from all diseases that 
+come from Satan. Fast and pray fervently, seeking the power of the living God for your healing. 
+While you fast, eschew the Sons of Men and seek our Earthly Mother's angels, for he that seeks 
+shall find. 
+
+
+"Seek the fresh air of the forest and of the fields, and there in the midst of them shall you find the 
+angel of air. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of air to embrace all your 
+body. Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of air may be brought within you. I tell you 
+truly, the angel of air shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and 
+within. And thus shall all evil-smelling and unclean things rise out of you, as the smoke of fire 
+
+
+curls upwards and is lost in the sea of the air. For I tell you truly, holy is the angel of air, who 
+cleanses all that is unclean and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odor. No man may 
+come before the face of God, whom the angel of air lets not pass. Truly, all must be born again 
+by air and by truth, for your body breathes the air of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit breathes 
+the truth of the Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+"After the angel of air, seek the angel of water. Put off your shoes and your clothing and 
+suffer the angel of water to embrace all your body. Cast yourselves wholly into his enfolding 
+arms, and as often as you move the air with your breath, move with your body the water also. I 
+tell you truly, the angel of water shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it 
+without and within. And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall flow out of you, even as the 
+uncleannesses of garments washed in water flow away and are lost in the stream of the river. I 
+tell you truly, holy is the angel of water who cleanses all that is unclean and makes all evil- 
+smelling things of a sweet odor. No man may come before the face of God whom the angel of 
+water lets not pass. in very truth, all must be born again of water and of truth, for your 
+body bathes in the river of earthly life, and your spirit bathes in the river of life everlasting. 
+For you receive your blood from our Earthly Mother and the truth from our Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+"Think not that it is sufficient that the angel of water embrace you outwards only. I tell you truly, 
+the uncleanness within is greater by much than the uncleanness without. And he who cleanses 
+himself without, but within remains unclean, is like to tombs that outwards are painted fair, but 
+are within full of all manner of horrible uncleannesses and abominations. So I tell you truly, 
+suffer the angel of water to baptize you also within, that you may become free from all your 
+past sins, and that within likewise you may become as pure as the river's foam sporting in 
+the sunlight. 
+
+
+"Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards 
+and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon the branch of a tree, 
+and kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing 
+gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water may flow through all your bowels. Afterwards 
+rest kneeling on the ground before the angel of water and pray to the living God that he will 
+forgive you all your past sins, and pray the angel of water that he will free your body from every 
+uncleanness and disease. Then let the water run out from your body, that it may carry away from 
+within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things of Satan. And you shall see with your eyes and 
+smell with your nose all the abominations, and uncleannesses which defiled the temple of your 
+body; even all the sins which abode in your body, tormenting you with all manner of pains. I tell 
+you truly, baptism with water frees you from all of these. Renew your baptizing with water 
+on every day of your fast, till the day when you see that the water which flows out of you is 
+as pure as the river's foam. Then betake your body to the coursing river, and there in the arms 
+of the angel of water render thanks to the living God that he has freed you from your sins. And 
+this holy baptizing by the angel of water is: Rebirth unto the new life. For your eyes shall 
+henceforth see, and your ears shall hear. Sin no more, therefore, after your baptism, that the 
+angels of air and of water may eternally abide in you and serve you evermore. 
+
+
+"And if afterward there remain within you aught of your past sins and uncleannesses, seek the 
+angel of sunlight. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of sunlight to 
+
+
+embrace all your body. Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of sunlight may be brought 
+within you. And the angel of sunlight shall cast out of your body all evil-smelling and unclean 
+things which defiled it without and within. And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall rise 
+from you, even as the darkness of night fades before the brightness of the rising sun. For I tell 
+you truly, holy is the angel of sunlight who cleans out all uncleannesses and makes all evil- 
+smelling things of a sweet odor. None may come before the face of God, whom the angel of 
+sunlight lets not pass. Truly, all must be born again of sun and of truth, for your body basks in 
+the sunlight of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit basks in the sunlight of the truth of the 
+Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+"The angels of air and of water and of sunlight are brethren. They were given to the Son of Man 
+that they might serve him, and that he might go always from one to the other. 
+
+
+"Holy, likewise, is their embrace. They are indivisible children of the Earthly Mother, so do not 
+you put asunder those whom earth and heaven have made one. Let these three brother angels 
+enfold you every day and let them abide with you through all your fasting. 
+
+
+"For I tell you truly, the power of devils, all sins and uncleannesses shall depart in haste from 
+that body which is embraced by these three angels. As thieves flee from a deserted house at the 
+coming of the lord of the house, one by the door, one by the window, and the third by the roof, 
+each where he is found, and whither he is able, even so shall flee from your bodies all devils of 
+evil, all past sins, and all uncleannesses and diseases which defiled the temple of your bodies. 
+When the Earthly Mother's angels enter into your bodies, in such wise that the lords of the 
+temple repossess it again, then shall all evil smells depart in haste by your breath and by your 
+skin, corrupt waters by your mouth and by your skin, by your hinder and your privy parts. And 
+all these things you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose and touch with your hands. 
+And when all sins and uncleannesses are gone from your body, your blood shall become as pure 
+as our Earthly Mother's blood and as the river's foam sporting in the sunlight. And your breath 
+shall become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers; your flesh as pure as the flesh of fruits 
+reddening upon the leaves of trees; the light of your eye as clear and bright as the brightness of 
+the sun shining upon the blue sky. And now shall all the angels of the Earthly Mother serve you. 
+And your breath, your blood, your flesh shall be one with the breath, the blood and the flesh of 
+the Earthly Mother, that your spirit also may become one with the spirit of your Heavenly Father. 
+For truly, no one can reach the Heavenly Father unless through the Earthly Mother. Even as no 
+newborn babe can understand the teaching of his father till his mother has suckled him, bathed 
+him, nursed him, put him to sleep and nurtured him. While the child is yet small, his place is 
+with his mother and he must obey his mother. When the child is grown up, his father takes him 
+to work at his side in the field, and the child comes back to his mother o nly when the hour of 
+dinner and supper is come. And now his father teaches him, that he may become skilled in the 
+works of his father. And when the father sees that his son understands his teaching and does his 
+work well, he gives him all his possessions, that they may belong to his beloved son, and that his 
+son may continue his father's work. I tell you truly, happy is that son who accepts the counsel of 
+his mother and walks therein. And a hundred times more happy is that son who accepts and 
+walks also in the counsel of his father, for it was said to you: 'Honor thy father and thy mother 
+that thy days may be long upon this earth.’ But I say to you, Sons of Man: Honor your Earthly 
+Mother and keep all her laws, that your days may be long on this earth, and honor your Heavenly 
+
+
+Father that Eternal Life may be yours in the heavens. For the Heavenly Father is a hundred times 
+greater than all fathers by seed and by blood, and greater is the Earthly Mother than all mothers 
+by the body. And d earer is the Son of Man in the eyes of his Heavenly Father and of his Earthly 
+Mother than are children in the eyes of their fathers by seed and by blood and of their mothers by 
+the body. And more wise are the words and laws of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly 
+Mother than the words and the will of all fathers by seed and by blood, and of all mothers by the 
+body. And of more worth also is the inheritance of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly 
+Mother, the everlasting kingdom of earthly and heavenly life, than all the inheritances of your 
+fathers by seed and by blood, and of your mothers by the body. 
+
+
+"And your true brothers are all those who do the will of your Heavenly Father and of your 
+Earthly Mother, and not your brothers by blood. I tell you truly, that your true brothers in the 
+will of the Heavenly Father and of the Earthly Mother will love you a thousand times more than 
+your brothers by blood. For since the days of Cain and Abel, when brothers by blood 
+transgressed the will of God, there is no true brotherhood by blood. And brothers do unto 
+brothers as do strangers. Therefore, I say to you, love your true brothers in the will of God a 
+thousand times more than your brothers by blood. 
+
+
+FOR YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS LOVE. 
+FOR YOUR EARTHLY MOTHER IS LOVE. 
+FOR THE SON OF MAN IS LOVE. 
+
+
+"It is by love, that the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother and the Son of Man become one. 
+For the spirit of the Son of Man was created from the spirit of the Heaven Father, and his body 
+from the body of the Earthly Mother. Become, therefore, perfect as the spirit of your Heavenly 
+Father and the body of your Earthly Mother are perfect. And so love your Heavenly Father, as he 
+loves your spirit. And so love your Earthly Mother, as she loves your body. And so love your 
+true brothers, as your Heavenly Father and your Earthly Mother love them. And then your 
+Heavenly Father shall give you his holy spirit, and your Earthly Mother shall give you her holy 
+body. And then shall the Sons of Men like true brothers give love one to another, the love which 
+they received from their Heavenly Father and from their Earthly Mother; and they shall all 
+become comforters one of another. And then shall disappear from the earth all evil and all 
+sorrow, and there shall be love and joy upon earth. And then shall the earth be like the heavens, 
+and the kingdom of God shall come. And then shall come the Son of Man in all his glory, to 
+inherit the kingdom of God. And then shall the Sons of Men divide their divine inheritance, the 
+kingdom of God. For the Sons of Men live in the Heavenly Father and in the Earthly Mother, and 
+the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother live in them. And then with the kingdom of God 
+shall come the end of the times. For the Heavenly Father's love gives to all life everlasting in the 
+kingdom of God. For love is eternal. Love is stronger than death. 
+
+
+"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as 
+sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Though I tell what is to come, and know all secrets, and all 
+wisdom; and though I have faith strong as the storm which lifts mountains from their seat, but 
+
+
+have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and give all my 
+fire that I have received from my Father, but have not love, I am in no wise profited. Love is 
+patient, love is kind. Love is not envious, works not evil, knows not pride; is not rude, neither 
+selfish; is slow to anger, imagines no mischief; rejoices not in injustice, but delights in justice. 
+Love defends all, love believes all, love hopes all, love bears all; never exhausts itself; but as for 
+tongues they shall cease, and, as for knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we have truth in part, 
+and error in part, but when the fullness of perfection is come, that which is in part shall be 
+blotted out. When a man was a child he spoke as a child, understood as a child, thought as a 
+child; but when he became a man he put away childish things. For now we see through a glass 
+and through dark sayings. Now we know in part, but when we are come before the face of God, 
+we shall not know in part, but even as we are taught by him. And now remain these three: faith 
+and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love. 
+
+
+"And now I speak to you in the living tongue of the living God, through the holy spirit of our 
+Heavenly Father. There is none yet among you that can understand all this of which I speak. He 
+who expounds to you the scriptures speaks to you in a dead tongue of dead men, through his 
+diseased and mortal body. Him, therefore, can all men understand, for all men are diseased and 
+all are in death. No one sees the light of life. Blind man leads blind on the dark paths of sins, 
+diseases and sufferings; and at the last all fall into the pit of death. 
+
+
+"I am sent to you by the Father, that I may make the light of life to shine before you. The light 
+lightens itself and the darkness, but the darkness knows only itself, and knows not the light. I 
+have still many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them yet. For your eyes are used to the 
+darkness, and the full light of the Heavenly Father would make you blind. Therefore, you cannot 
+yet understand that which I speak to you concerning the Heavenly Father who sent me to you. 
+Follow, therefore, first, only the laws of your Earthly Mother, of which I have told you. And 
+when her angels shall have cleansed and renewed your bodies and strengthened your eyes, you 
+will be able to bear the light of our Heavenly Father. When you can gaze on the brightness of the 
+noonday sun with unflinching eyes, you can then look upon the blinding light of your Heavenly 
+Father, which is a thousand times brighter than the brightness of a thousand suns. But how 
+should you look upon the blinding light of you r Heavenly Father, when you cannot even bear 
+the shining of the blazing sun? Believe me, the sun is as the flame of a candle beside the sun of 
+truth of the Heavenly Father. Have but faith, therefore, and hope, and love. I tell you truly, you 
+shall not want your reward. If you believe in my words, you believe in him who sent me, who is 
+the lord of all, and with whom all things are possible. For what is impossible with men, all these 
+things are possible with God. If you believe in the angels of the Earthly Mother and do her laws, 
+your faith shall sustain you and you shall never see disease. Have hope also in the love of your 
+Heavenly Father, for he who trusts in him shall never be deceived, nor shall he ever see death. 
+
+
+"Love one another, for God is love, and so shall his angels know that you walk in his paths. 
+And then shall all the angels come before your face and serve you. And Satan with all sins, 
+diseases and uncleannesses shall depart from your body. Go, eschew your sins; repent 
+yourselves; baptize yourselves; that you may be born again and sin no more." 
+
+
+Then Jesus rose. But all else remained sitting, for every man felt the power of his words. And 
+then the full moon appeared between the breaking clouds and folded Jesus in its brightness. And 
+
+
+sparks flew upward from his hair, and he stood among them in the moonlight, as though he 
+hovered in the air. And no man moved, neither was the voice of any heard. And no one knew 
+how long a time had passed, for time stood still. 
+
+
+Then Jesus stretched out his hands to them and said: "Peace be with you." And so he departed, as 
+a breath of wind sways the green of trees. 
+
+
+And for a long while yet the company sat still and then they woke in the silence, one man after 
+another, like as from a long dream. But none would go, as if the words of him who had left them 
+ever sounded in their ears. And they sat as though they listened to some wondrous music. 
+
+
+But at last one, as it were a little fearfully, said: "How good it is to be here." Another: "Would 
+that this night were everlasting." And others: "Would that he might be with us always." "Of a 
+truth he is God's messenger, for he planted hope within our hearts." And no man wished to go 
+home, saying: "I go not home where all is dark and joyless. Why should we go home where no 
+one loves us?" 
+
+
+And they spoke on this wise, for they were almost all poor, lame, blind, maimed, beggars, 
+homeless, despised in their wretchedness, who were only borne for pity's sake in the houses 
+where they found a few day's refuge. Even certain, who had both home and family, said: "We 
+also will stay with you." For every man felt that the words of him who was gone bound the little 
+company with threads invisible. And all felt that they were born again. They saw before them a 
+shining world, even when the moon was hidden in the clouds. And in the hearts of all blossomed 
+wondrous flowers of wondrous beauty, the flowers of joy. 
+
+
+And when the bright sunbeams appeared over the earth's rim, they all felt that it was the sun of 
+the coming kingdom of God. And with joyful countenances they went forth to meet God's 
+angels. 
+
+
+And many unclean and sick followed Jesus' words and sought the banks of the murmuring 
+streams. They put off their shoes and their clothing, they fasted, and they gave up their bodies to 
+the angels of air, of water, and of sunshine. And the Earthly Mother's angels embraced them, 
+possessing their bodies both inwards and outwards. And all of them saw all evils, sins and 
+uncleannesses depart in haste from them. 
+
+
+And the breath of some became as stinking as that which is loosed from the bowels, and some 
+had an issue of spittle, and evil-smelling and unclean vomit rose from their inward parts. All 
+these uncleannesses flowed by their mouths. In some, by the nose, in others by the eyes and ears. 
+And many did have a noisome and abominable sweat come from all their body, over all their 
+skin. And on many limbs great hot boils broke forth, from which carne out uncleannesses with an 
+evil smell, and urine flowed abundantly from their body; and in many their urine was all but 
+dried up and became thick as the honey of bees; that of others was almost red or black, and as 
+hard almost as the sand of rivers. And many belched stinking gases from their bowels, like the 
+breath of devils. And their stench became so great that none could bear it. 
+
+
+And when they baptized themselves, the angel of water entered their bodies, and from them 
+flowed out all the abominations and uncleannesses of their past sins, and like a falling mountain 
+stream gushed from their bodies a multitude of hard and soft abominations. And the ground 
+where their waters flowed was polluted, and so great became the stench that none could remain 
+there. And the devils left their bowels in the shape of multitudinous worms which writhed in 
+impotent rage after the angel of water had cast them out of the bowels of the Sons of Men. And 
+then descended upon them the power of the angel of sunshine, and they perished there in their 
+desperate writhings, trod underfoot by the angel of sunshine. And all were trembling with terror 
+when they looked upon all these abominations of Satan, from which the angels had saved them. 
+And they rendered thanks to God who had sent his angels for their deliverance. 
+
+
+And there were some whom great pains tormented, which would not depart from them; and 
+knowing not what they should do, they resolved to send one of them to Jesus, for they greatly 
+wished he should be with them. 
+
+
+And when two were gone to seek him, they saw Jesus himself approaching by the bank of the 
+river. And their hearts were filled with hope and joy when they heard his greeting, "Peace 
+be with you." And many were the questions that they desired to ask him, but in their 
+astonishment they could not begin, for nothing came into their minds. Then said Jesus to them: "I 
+come because you need me." And one cried out: "Master, we do indeed, come and free us from 
+our pains." 
+
+
+And Jesus spoke to them in parables: "You are like the prodigal son, who for many years did eat 
+and drink, and passed his days in riotousness and lechery with his friends. And every week 
+without his father's knowledge he incurred new debts, and squandered all in a few days. And the 
+moneylenders always lent to him, because his father possessed great riches and always paid 
+patiently the debts of his son. And in vain did he with fair words admonish his son, for he never 
+listened to the admonitions of his father, who besought him in vain that he would give up his 
+debaucheries which had no end, and that he would go to his fields to watch over the labor of his 
+servants. And the son always promised him everything if he would pay his old debts, but the next 
+day he began again. And for more than seven years the son continued in his riotous living. But, 
+at last, his father lost patience and no more paid to the moneylenders the debts of his son. "if I 
+continue always to pay," he said, "there will be no end to the sins of my son." Then the 
+moneylenders, who were deceived, in their wrath took the son into slavery that he might by his 
+daily toil pay back to them the money which he had borrowed. And then ceased the eating and 
+drinking and the daily excesses. From morning until night by the sweat of his face he watered the 
+fields, and all of his limbs ached with the unaccustomed labor. And he lived upon dry bread, and 
+had naught but his tears with which he could water it. And three days after he suffered so much 
+from the heat and from weariness that he said to his master: 'I can work no more, for all my 
+limbs do ache. How long would you torment me?’ "Till the day when by the labor of your hands 
+you pay me all your debts, and when seven years are passed, you will be free.' And the desperate 
+son answered weeping: ‘But I cannot bear so much as seven days. Have pity on me, for all my 
+limbs do burn and ache." And the wicked creditor cried out: 'Press on with the work; if you could 
+for seven years spend your days and your nights in riotousness, now must you work for seven 
+years. I will not forgive you till you pay back all your debts to the uttermost drachma.' And the 
+son, with his limbs racked with pain, went back despairing to the fields to continue his work. 
+
+
+Already he could hardly stand upon his feet because of his weariness and of his pains, when the 
+seventh day was come-the Sabbath day, in which no man works in the field. Then the son 
+gathered the remnant of his strength and staggered to the house of his father. And he cast himself 
+down at his father's feet and said: 'Father, believe me for the last time and forgive me all my 
+offenses against your swear to you that I will never again live riotously and that I will be your 
+obedient son in all things. Free me from the hands of my oppressor. Father, look upon me and 
+upon my sick limbs, and harden not your heart.' Then tears came into his father's eyes, and he 
+took his son in his arms, and said: 'Let us rejoic e, for today a great joy is given me, because I 
+have found again my beloved son, who was lost.' And he clothed him with his choicest raiment 
+and all the day long they made merry. And on the morning of the morrow he gave his son a bag 
+of silver that he might pay to his creditors all that he owed them. And when his son came back, 
+he said to him: 'My son, do you see that it is easy, through riotous living, to incur debts for seven 
+years, but their payment is difficult by the heavy labor of seven years." 'Father, it is indeed hard 
+to pay them, even for seven days.’ And his father admonished him, saying: 'For this once alone 
+has it been permitted you to pay your debts in seven days instead of seven years, the rest is 
+forgiven you. But take heed that in the time to come you do not incur more debts. For I tell you 
+truly, that none else but your father forgives you your debts, because you are his son. For with all 
+else you would have had to labor hard for seven years, as it is commanded in our laws.’ 
+
+
+My father, I will henceforth be your loving and obedient son, and I will not any more incur 
+debts, for I know that their payment is hard.’ 
+
+
+"And he went to his father's field and watched every day over the work of his father's laborers. 
+And he never made his laborers work hard, for he remembered his own heavy labor. And the 
+years passed, and his father's possession increased ever more and more beneath his hand, for the 
+blessing of his father was upon his labor. And slowly he gave back tenfold to his father all that 
+he had squandered in the seven years. And when his father saw that his son used well his 
+servants and all his possessions, he said to him: 'My son, I see that my possessions are in good 
+hands. I give you all my cattle, my house, my lands and my treasures. Let all this be your 
+heritage, continue increasing it that I may have delight in you.’ And when the son had received 
+his inheritance from his father, he forgave their debts to all his debtors who could not pay him, 
+for he did not forget that his debt also had been forgiven when he could not pay it. And God 
+blessed him with long life, with many children and with much riches, because he was kind to all 
+his servants and to all his cattle." 
+
+
+Then Jesus turned to the sick folk and said: "I speak to you in parables that you may better 
+understand God's word. The seven years of eating and drinking and of riotous living are the sins 
+of the past. The wicked creditor is Satan. The debts are diseases. The heavy labor is pains. The 
+prodigal son, he is yourselves. The payment of the debts is the casting from you of devils and 
+diseases, and the healing of your body. The bag of silver received from the father is the liberating 
+power of the angels. The father is God. The father's possessions are earth and heaven. The 
+servants of the father are the angels. The father's field is the world, which is changed into the 
+kingdom of the heavens, if the Sons of Man work thereon together with the angels of the 
+Heavenly Father. For I tell you, it is better that the son should obey his father and keep watch 
+over his father's servants in the field, than that he should become the debtor of the wicked 
+creditor and toil and sweat in serfdom to repa y all his debts. it is better, likewise, if the Sons of 
+
+
+Man also obey the laws of their Heavenly Father, and work together with his angels upon his 
+kingdom, than that they should become the debtors of Satan, the lord of death, of all sins and all 
+diseases, and that they should suffer with pains and sweat till they have repaid all their sins. I tell 
+you truly, great and many are your sins. Many years have you yielded to the enticings of Satan. 
+You have been gluttonous, wine-bibbers and gone a-whoring, and your past debts have 
+multiplied. And now you must repay them, and payment is difficult and hard. Be not, therefore, 
+already impatient after the third day, like the prodigal son, but wait patiently for the seventh day 
+which is sanctified by God, and then go with humble and obedient heart before the face of your 
+Heavenly Father, that he may forgive you your sins and all your past debts. I tell you truly, your 
+Heavenly Father loves you without end, for he also allows you to pay in seven days the debts of 
+seven years. Those that owe the sins and diseases of seven years, but pay honestly and persevere 
+till the seventh day, to them shall our Heavenly Father forgive the debts of all these seven years. 
+
+
+"If we sin for seven times seven years?" asked a sick man who suffered horribly. "Even in that 
+case the Heavenly Father forgives you all your debts in seven times seven days. 
+
+
+"Happy are those that persevere to the end, for the devils of Satan write all your evil deeds in a 
+book, in the book of your body and your spirit. I tell you truly, there is not one sinful deed, but it 
+is written, even from the beginning of the world, before our Heavenly Father. For you may 
+escape the laws made by kings, but the laws of your God, these may none of the Sons of Man 
+escape. And when you come before the face of God, the devils of Satan bear witness against 
+you with your deed, and God sees your sins written in the book of your body and of your 
+spirit and is sad in his heart. But if you repent of your sins, and by fasting and prayer you 
+seek the angels of God, then each day that you continue to fast and to pray, God's angels 
+blot out one year of your evil deeds from the book of your body and your spirit. And when 
+the last page is also blotted out and cleansed from all your sins, you stand before the face of God, 
+and God rejoices in his heart and forgets all your sins. He frees you from the clutches of Satan 
+and from suffering; he takes you within his house and commands that all his servants, all his 
+angels serve you. Long life does he give you, and you shall never see disease. And if, 
+thenceforward, instead of sinning, you pass your days in doing good deeds, then the angels 
+of God shall write all your good deeds in the book of your body and of your spirit. I tell you 
+truly, no good deed remains unwritten before God, not from the beginning of the world. 
+For from your kings and your governors you may wait in vain for your reward, but never do your 
+good deeds want their reward from God. 
+
+
+"And when you come before the face of God, his angels bear witness for you with your good 
+deeds. And God sees your good deeds written in your bodies and in your spirits, and rejoices in 
+his heart. He blesses your body and your spirit and all your deeds, and gives you for a heritage 
+his earthly and heavenly kingdom, that in it you may have life everlasting. Happy is he who can 
+enter into the kingdom of God, for he shall never see death." 
+
+
+And a great silence fell at his words. And those that were discouraged took new strength from his 
+words and continued to fast and to pray. And he who had spoken the first, said to him: "I will 
+persevere to the seventh day." And the second, likewise, said to him: "I also will persevere to the 
+seven times seventh day." 
+
+
+Jesus answered them: "Happy are those that persevere to the end, for they shall inherit the earth." 
+
+
+And there were many sick among them tormented with grievous pains, and they hardly crawled 
+to Jesus' feet. For they could no longer walk upon their feet. They said: "Master, we are 
+grievously tormented with pain; tell us what we shall do." And they showed Jesus their feet in 
+which the bones were twisted and knotted and said: "Neither the angel of air, nor of water, nor of 
+sunshine has assuaged our pains, notwithstanding that we baptized ourselves, and do fast and 
+pray, and follow your words in all things." 
+
+
+"T tell you truly, your bones will be healed. Be not discouraged, but seek for cure nigh the 
+healer of bones, the angel of earth. For thence were your bones taken, and thither will they 
+return." 
+
+
+And he pointed with his hand to where the running of the water and the sun's heat had softened 
+to clayey mud the earth by the edge of the water. "Sink your feet in the mire, that the embrace of 
+the angel of earth may draw out from your bones all uncleanness and all disease. And you will 
+see Satan and your pains fly from the embrace of the angel of earth. And the knots of your bones 
+will vanish away, and they will be straightened, and all your pains will disappear." 
+
+
+And the sick followed his words, for they knew that they would be healed. 
+
+
+And there were also other sick who suffered much from their pains, howbeit, they persisted in 
+their fasting. And their force was spent, and great heat tormented them. And when they would 
+have risen from their bed to go to Jesus, their heads began to turn, as if it were a gusty wind 
+
+which shook them, and as oft as they tried to stand upon their feet they fell back to the ground. 
+
+
+Then Jesus went to them and said: "You suffer, for Satan and his diseases torment your bodies. 
+But fear not, for their power over you will quickly end. For Satan is like a choleric neighbor who 
+entered his neighbor's house while he was absent, intending to take his goods away to his own 
+house. But some told the other that his enemy was ravaging within his house, and he came back 
+to his house, running. And when the wicked neighbor, having gathered together all that pleased 
+him, saw from afar the master of the house returning in haste, then he was very wroth that he 
+could not take all away, and set to breaking and spoiling all that was there, to destroy all. So that 
+even if the things might not be his, the other might have nothing. But immediately the lord of the 
+house came in, and before the wicked neighbor fulfilled his purpose, he took him and cast him 
+out of the house. I tell you truly, even so did Satan enter your bodies which are the habitation of 
+God. And he took in his power all that he wished to steal: your breath, your blood, your bone, 
+your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, and your ears. But by your fasting and your prayer, you have 
+called back the lord of your body and his angels. And now Satan sees that the true lord of 
+your body returns, and that it is the end of his power. Wherefore, in his wrath he gathers 
+his strength once again, that he may destroy your bodies before the coming of the lord. It is 
+for this that Satan torments you so grievously, for he feels that the end is come. But let not your 
+hearts tremble, for soon will the angels of God appear, to occupy again their abodes and 
+rededicate them as temples of God. And they will seize Satan and cast himn from your bodies 
+with all his diseases and all his uncleannesses. And happy will you be, for you will receive the 
+reward of your steadfastness, and you will never see disease." 
+
+
+And there was among the sick, one that was more tormented by Satan than all the others. And his 
+body was as parched as a skeleton, and his skin yellow as a falling leaf. He was so weak already 
+that he could not, even upon his hands, crawl to Jesus, and cried only to him from afar: "Master, 
+have pity on me, for never has man suffered, not from the beginning of the world, as I do suffer. 
+I know that you are indeed sent by God, and I know that if you will, you can straightway cast out 
+Satan from my body. Do not the angels of God obey God's messenger? Come, Master, and cast 
+out Satan from me now, for he rages angrily within me and grievous is his torment." 
+
+
+And Jesus answered him: "Satan torments you thus greatly because you have already fasted 
+many days, and you do not pay to him his tribute. You do not feed him with all the abominations 
+with which you hitherto defiled the temple of your spirit. You torment Satan with hunger, and so 
+in his anger he torments you also. Fear not, for I tell you, Satan will be destroyed before your 
+body is destroyed; for while you fast and pray, the angels of God protect your body, that Satan's 
+power may not destroy you. And the anger of Satan is impotent against the angels of God." 
+
+
+Then they all came to Jesus and with loud cries besought him saying: "Master, have compassion 
+on him, for he suffers more than we all, and if you do not at once cast Satan out of him, we fear 
+he will not live until tomorrow." 
+
+
+And Jesus answered them: "Great is your faith. Be it according to your faith, and you shall see 
+soon, face to face, the frightful countenance of Satan, and the power of the Son of Man. For I 
+will cast out from you the powerful Satan by the strength of the innocent lamb of God, the 
+weakest creature of the Lord. For the holy spirit of God makes more powerful the weakest than 
+the strongest." 
+
+
+And Jesus milked an ewe which was feeding among the grass. And he put the milk upon the sand 
+made hot by the sun, saying: "Lo, the power of the angel of water has entered this milk. And now 
+the power of the angel of sunshine will enter it also." 
+
+
+And the milk became hot by the strength of the sun. 
+"And now the angels of water and of sun will join with the angel of air." 
+And lo, the vapor of the hot milk began to rise slowly into the air. 
+
+
+."Come and breathe in by your mouth the strength of the angels of water, of sunshine, and of air, 
+that it may come into your body and cast out the Satan from you." 
+
+
+And the sick man whom Satan tormented did breathe within himself, deeply, the rising whitish 
+vapor. 
+
+
+"Straightway will Satan leave your body, since for three days he starves and finds no food within 
+you. He will come out of you to satisfy his hunger by the hot steaming milk, for this food finds 
+favor in his sight. He will smell its smell, and will not be able to resist the hunger which has 
+tormented him three days already. But the Son of Man will destroy his body, that he may torment 
+none else again." 
+
+
+Then the sick man's body was seized with an ague, and he retched as though he would vomit, but 
+he could not. And he gasped for air, for his breath was spent. And he fainted on the lap of Jesus. 
+
+
+"Now does Satan leave his body. See him." And Jesus pointed to the sick man's opened mouth. 
+
+
+And then they all saw with astonishment and terror that Satan was coming out from his mouth in 
+the shape of an abominable worm, straight towards the steaming milk. Then Jesus took two sharp 
+stones in his hands and crushed the head of Satan, and drew out from the sick man all the body 
+of the monster which was almost as long as the man. When the abominable worm came out of 
+the sick man's throat, he recovered at once his breath, and then all his pains ceased. And the 
+others looked with terror at the abominable body of Satan. 
+
+
+"See, what an abominable beast you carried and nourished in your body for long years. I have 
+cast it out of you and killed it that it may never again torment you. Give thanks to God that his 
+angels have made you free, and sin no more, lest Satan return to you again. Let your body be 
+henceforth a temple dedicated to your God." 
+
+
+And they were all amazed at his words and at his power. And they said: "Master, you are indeed 
+God's messenger, and do know all secrets." 
+
+
+"And you," answered Jesus, "be true Sons of God, that you also may partake in his power and in 
+the knowledge of all secrets. For wisdom and power can come only from the love of God. Love, 
+therefore, your Heavenly Father and your Earthly Mother with all your heart, and with all your 
+spirit. And serve them, that their angels may serve you also. Let all your deeds be sacrificed to 
+God. And feed not Satan, for the wages of sin is death. But with God lies the reward of the good, 
+his love, which is knowledge and power of eternal life." 
+
+
+And they all knelt down to give thanks to God for his love. 
+
+
+And Jesus departed, saying: "I will come again to all who persist in prayer and fasting tAl the 
+seventh day. Peace be with you." 
+
+
+And the sick man from whom Jesus had cast out the Satan, stood up, for the strength of life had 
+come back to him. He breathed out deeply, and his eyes became clear, for every pain had left 
+him. And he cast himself down upon the ground where Jesus had stood, and he kissed the print 
+of his feet and he wept. 
+
+
+And it was by the bed of a stream, many sick fasted and prayed with God's angels for seven days 
+and seven nights. And great was their reward, because they followed Jesus' words. And with the 
+passing of the seventh day, all their pains left them. And when the sun rose over the earth's rim 
+they saw Jesus coming towards them from the mountain, with the brightness of the rising sun 
+about his head. 
+
+
+"Peace be with you." 
+
+
+And they said no word at all, but only cast themselves down before him, and touched the hem of 
+his garment in token of their healing. 
+
+
+"Give thanks not to me, but to your Earthly Mother, who sent you her healing angels. Go, and sin 
+no more, that you may never again see disease. And let the healing angels become your 
+guardians." 
+
+
+But they answered him: "Whither should we go, Master, for with you are the words of eternal 
+life? Tell us, what are the sins which we must shun, that we may nevermore see disease?" 
+
+
+Jesus answered: "Be it so according to your faith," and he sat down among them, saying: 
+
+
+"It was said to them of old time, 'Honor thy Heavenly Father and thy Earthly Mother, and do 
+their commandments, that thy days may be long upon the earth.’ And next afterward was given 
+this commandment, "Thou shalt not kill,’ for life is given to all by God, and that which God has 
+given, let not man take away. For-I tell you truly, from one Mother proceeds all that lives upon 
+the earth. Therefore, he who kills, kills his brother. And from him will the Earthly Mother turn 
+away, and will pluck from him her quickening breasts. And he will be shunned by her angels, 
+and Satan will have his dwelling in his body. And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will 
+become his own tomb. For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and whoso eats the 
+flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death. For in his blood every drop of their blood turns 
+to poison; in his breath their breath to stink; in his flesh their flesh to boils; in his bones their 
+bones to chalk; in his bowels their bowels t 0 decay; in his eyes their eyes to scales; in his ears 
+their ears to waxy issue. And their death will become his death. For only in the service of your 
+Heavenly Father are your debts of seven years forgiven in seven clays. But Satan forgives you 
+nothing and you must pay him for all. 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot; 
+burning for burning, wound for wound; life for life, death for death.’ For the wages of sin is 
+death. Kill not, neither eat the flesh of your innocent prey, lest you become the slaves of Satan. 
+For that is the path of sufferings, and it leads unto death. But do the will of God, that his angels 
+may serve you on the way of life. Obey, therefore, the words of God: 'Behold, I have given you 
+every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is 
+the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to 
+every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon th e earth, wherein there is breath of 
+life, I give every green herb for meat. Also the milk of every thing that moveth and liveth upon 
+earth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given unto them, so I give their milk 
+unto you. But flesh, and the blood which quickens it, shall ye not eat. And, surely, your spurting 
+blood will I require, your blood wherein is your soul; I will require all slain beasts, and the souls 
+of all slain men. For I the Lord thy God am a God strong and jealous, visiting the iniquity of the 
+fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing 
+mercy unto thousands -of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Love the Lord thy 
+God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength: this is the first and greatest 
+commandment.’ And the second is like unto it: 'Love thy neighbor as thyself There is none other 
+commandment greater than these." 
+
+
+And after these words they all remained silent, save one, who called out: "What am I to do, 
+Master, if I see a wild beast rend my brother in the forest? Shall I let my brother perish, or kill 
+the wild beast? Shall not I thus transgress the law?" 
+
+
+And Jesus answered: "It was said to them of old time: "All beasts that move upon the earth, all 
+the fish of the sea, and all the fowl of the air are given into thy power." I tell you truly, of all 
+creatures living upon the earth, God created only man after his image. Wherefore beasts are for 
+man, and not man for beasts. You do not, therefore, transgress the law if you kill the wild 
+beast to save your brother's life. For I tell you truly, man is more than the beast. But he 
+who kills the beast without a cause, though the beast attack him not, through lust for 
+slaughter, or for its flesh, or for its hide, or yet for its tusks, evil is the deed which he does, 
+for he is turned into a wild beast himself. Wherefore is his end also as the end of the wild 
+beasts." 
+
+
+Then another said: "Moses, the greatest in Israel, suffered our forefathers to eat the flesh of clean 
+beasts, and forbade only the flesh of unclean beasts. Why, therefore, do you forbid us the flesh of 
+all beasts? Which law comes from God? That of Moses, or your law?" 
+
+
+And Jesus answered: "God gave, by Moses, ten commandments to your forefathers. "These 
+commandments are hard,' said your forefathers, and they could not keep them. When Moses saw 
+this, he had compassion on his people, and would not that they perish. And then he gave them 
+ten times ten commandments. For he whose feet are strong as the mountain of Zion, needs no 
+crutches; but he whose limbs do shake, gets further having crutches, than without them. And 
+Moses said to the Lord: 'My heart is filled with sorrow, for my people will be lost. For they are 
+without knowledge, and are not able to understand thy commandments. They are as little 
+children who cannot yet understand their father's words. Suffer, Lord, that I give them other 
+laws, that they may not perish. if they may not be with thee, Lord, let them not be against thee; 
+that they may sustain themselves, and when the time has come, and they are ripe for thy words, 
+reveal to hem thy laws.' For that did Moses break the two tablets of s tone whereon were written 
+the ten commandments, and he gave them ten times ten in their stead. And of these ten times ten 
+the Scribes and Pharisees have made a hundred times ten commandments. And they have laid 
+unbearable burdens on your shoulders, that they themselves do not carry. For the more nigh are 
+the commandments to God, the less do we need; and the farther they are from God, then the 
+more do we need. Wherefore are the laws of the Pharisees and Scribes innumerable; the 
+laws of the Son of Man seven; of the angels three; and of God one. 
+
+
+"Therefore, I teach you only those laws which you can understand, that you may become 
+men, and follow the seven laws of the Son of Man. Then will the unknown angels of the 
+Heavenly Father also reveal their laws to you, that God's holy spirit may descend upon you, and 
+lead you to his law." 
+
+
+And all were astonished at his wisdom, and asked him: "Continue, Master, and teach us all the 
+laws which we can receive." 
+
+
+And Jesus continued: "God commanded your forefathers: "Thou shalt not kill.’ But their heart 
+was hardened and they killed. Then Moses desired that at least they should not kill men, and he 
+
+
+suffered them to kill beasts. And then the heart of your forefathers was hardened yet more, and 
+they killed men and beasts likewise. But I do say to you: Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the 
+food which goes into your mouth. For if you eat living food, the same will quicken you, but if 
+you kill your food, the dead food will kill you also. For life comes only from life, and from death 
+comes always death. For everything which kills your foods, kills your bodies also. And 
+everything which kills your bodies kills your souls also. And your bodies become what your 
+foods are, even as your spirits, likewise, become what your thoughts are. Therefore, eat not 
+anything which fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. For burned, frozen and rotted foods will 
+burn, freeze and rot your body also. Be not like the foolish husbandman who sowed in his 
+ground cooked, and frozen, and rotten seeds. And the autumn came, and his fields bore nothing. 
+And great was his distress. But be like that husbandman who sowed in his field living seed, and 
+whose field bore living ears of wheat, paying a hundredfold for the seeds which he planted. For I 
+tell you truly, live only by the fire of life, and prepare not your foods with the fire of death, 
+which kills your foods, your bodies and your souls also." 
+
+
+"Master, where is the fire of life?" asked some of them. 
+"In you, in your blood, and in your bodies." 
+"And the fire of death?" asked others. 
+
+
+"It is the fire which blazes outside your body, which is hotter than your blood. With that fire of 
+death you cook your foods in your homes and in your fields. I tell you truly, it is the same fire 
+which destroys your foods and your bodies, even as the fire of malice, which ravages your 
+thoughts, ravages your spirits. For your body is that which you eat, and your spirit is that which 
+you think. Eat nothing, therefore, which a stronger fire than the fire of life has killed. Wherefore, 
+prepare and eat all fruits of trees, and all grasses of the fields, and afl milk of beasts good for 
+eating. For all these are fed and ripened by the fire of life; all are the gift of the angels of our 
+Earthly Mother. But eat nothing to which only the fire of death gives savor, for such is of Satan." 
+
+
+"How should we cook our daily bread without fire, Master?" asked some with great 
+astonishment. 
+
+
+"Let the angels of God prepare your bread. Moisten your wheat, that the angel of water may 
+enter it. Then set it in the air, that the angel of air also may embrace it. And leave it from 
+morning to evening beneath the sun, that the angel of sunshine may descend upon it. And the 
+blessing of the three angels will soon make the germ of life to sprout in your wheat. Then crush 
+your grain, and make thin wafers, as did your forefathers when they departed out of Egypt, the 
+house of bondage. Put them back again beneath the sun from its appearing, and when it is risen 
+to its highest in the heavens, turn them over on the other side that they be embraced there also by 
+the angel of sunshine, and leave them there until the sun be set. For the angels of water, of air, 
+and of sunshine fed and ripened the wheat in the field, and they, likewise, must prepare also your 
+bread. And the same sun which, with the fire of life, made the wheat to grow and ripen, must 
+cook your bread with the same fire. For the fire of the sun gives life to the wheat, to the bread, 
+and to the body. But the fire of death kills the wheat, the bread, and the body. And the living 
+
+
+angels of the living God serve only living men. For God is the God of the living, and not the God 
+of the dead. 
+
+
+"So eat always from the table of God: the fruits of the trees, the grain and grasses of the field, the 
+milk of beasts, and the honey of bees. For everything beyond these is of Satan, and leads by the 
+way of sins and of diseases unto death. But the foods which you eat from the abundant table of 
+God give strength and youth to your body, and you will never see diseases For the table of God 
+fed Methuselah of old, and I tell you truly, if you live even as he lived, then will the God of the 
+living give you also long life upon the earth as was his. 
+
+
+"For I tell you truly, the God of the living is richer than all the rich of the earth, and his abundant 
+table is richer than the richest table of feasting of all the rich upon the earth. Eat, therefore, all 
+your life at the table of our Earthly Mother, and you will never see want. And when you eat at 
+her table, eat all things even as they are found on the table of the Earthly Mother. Cook not, 
+neither mix all things one with another, lest your bowels become as steaming bogs. For I tell you 
+truly, this is abominable in the eyes of the Lord. 
+
+
+"And be not like the greedy servant, who always ate up, at the table of his lord, the portions 
+of others. And he devoured everything himself, and mixed all together in his gluttony. And 
+seeing that, his lord was wroth with him, and drove him from the table. And when all had ended 
+their meal, he mixed together all that remained upon the table, and called the greedy servant to 
+him, and said: "Take and eat all this with the swine, for your place is with them, and not at my 
+table.' 
+
+
+"Take heed, therefore, and defile not with all kinds of abominations the temple of your 
+bodies. Be content with two or three sorts of food, which you will find always upon the 
+table of our Earthly Mother. And desire not to devour all things which you see around you. For 
+I tell you truly, if you mix together all sorts of food in your body, then the peace of your body 
+will cease, and endless war will rage in you. And it will be blotted out even as homes and 
+kingdoms divided against themselves work their own destruction. For your God is the God of 
+peace, and does never help division. Arouse not, therefore, against you the wrath of God, lest he 
+drive you from his table, and lest you be compelled to go to the table of Satan, where the fire of 
+sins, diseases, and death will corrupt your body. 
+
+
+"And when you eat, never eat unto fulness. Flee the temptations of Satan, and listen to the 
+voice of God's angels. For Satan and his power tempt you always to eat more and more. But live 
+by the spirit, and resist the desires of the body. And your fasting is always pleasing in the eyes of 
+the angels of God. So give heed to how much you have eaten when your body is sated, and 
+always eat less by a third. 
+
+
+"Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a mina, but mark that it go not beyond 
+two. Then will the angels of God serve you always, and you will never fall into the bondage of 
+Satan and of his diseases. Trouble not the work of the angels in your body by eating often. For I 
+tell you truly, he who eats more than twice in the clay does in him the work of Satan. And the 
+angels of God leave his body, and soon Satan will take possession of it. Eat only when the sun 
+is highest in the heavens, and again when it is set. And you will never see disease, for such 
+
+
+finds favor in the eyes of the Lord. And if you will that the angels of God rejoice in your 
+body, and that Satan shun you afar, then sit but once in the day at the table of God. And 
+then your days will be long upon the earth, for this is pleasing in the eyes of the Lord. Eat 
+always when the table of God is served before you, and eat always of that which you find 
+upon the table of God. For I tell you truly, God knows well what your body needs, and when it 
+needs. 
+
+
+"From the coming of the month of Ijar, eat barley; from the month of Sivan, eat wheat, the most 
+perfect among all seed-bearing herbs. And let your daily bread be made of wheat, that the Lord 
+may take care of your bodies. From Tammuz, eat the sour grape, that your body may diminish 
+and Satan may depart from it. in the month of Elul, gather the grape that the juice may serve you 
+as drink. In the month of Marchesvan, gather the sweet grape, dried and sweetened by the angel 
+of sun, that your bodies may increase, for the angels of the Lord dwell in them. You should eat 
+figs rich in juice in the months of Ab and Shebat, and what remain, let the angel of sun keep 
+them for you; eat them with the meat of almonds in all the months when the trees bear no fruits. 
+And the herbs which come after rain, these eat in the month of Thebet, that your blood may be 
+cleansed of all your sins. And in the same month begin to eat also the milk of your beasts, 
+because for this did the Lord give the herbs of the fields to all the beasts which render milk, that 
+they might with their milk feed man. For I tell you truly, happy are they that eat only at the table 
+of God, and eschew all the abominations of Satan. Eat not unclean foods brought from far 
+countries, but eat always that which your trees bear. For your God knows well what is 
+needful for you, and where and when. And he gives to all peoples of all kingdoms for food 
+that which is best for each. Eat not as the heathen do, who stuff themselves in haste, defiling 
+their bodies with all manner of abominations. 
+
+
+"For the power of God's angels enters into you with the living food which the Lord gives you 
+from his royal table. And when you eat, have above you the angel of air, and below you the angel 
+of water. Breathe long and deeply at all your meals, that the angel of air may bless your repasts. 
+And chew well your food with your teeth, that it become water, and that the angel of water turn it 
+into blood in your body. And eat slowly, as it were a prayer you make to the Lord. For I tell you 
+truly, the power of God enters into you, if you eat after this manner at his table. But Satan turns 
+into a steaming bog the body of him upon whom the angels of air and water do not descend at his 
+repasts. And .the Lord suffers him no longer at his table. For the table of the Lord is an altar, and 
+he who eats at the table of God is in a temple. For I tell you truly, the body of the Son of Man is 
+turned into a temple, and his inwards into an altar, if he does the commandments of God. 
+Wherefore, put naught u pon the altar of the Lord when your spirit is vexed, neither think upon 
+any one with anger in the temple of God. And enter only into the Lord's sanctuary when you feel 
+in yourselves the call of his angels, for all that you eat in sorrow, or in anger, or without desire, 
+becomes a poison in your body. For the breath of Satan defiles aR these. Place with joy your 
+offerings upon the altar of your body, and let all evil thoughts depart from you when you receive 
+into your body the power of God from his table. And never sit at the table of God before he call 
+you by the angel of appetite. 
+
+
+"Rejoice, therefore, always with God's angels at their royal table, for this is pleasing to the heart 
+of the Lord. And your life will be long upon the earth, for the most precious of God's servants 
+will serve you all your days: the angel of joy. 
+
+
+"And forget not that every seventh day is holy and consecrated to God. On six days feed your 
+body with the gifts of the Earthly Mother, but on the seventh day sanctify your body for your 
+Heavenly Father. On the seventh day eat not any earthly food, but live only on the words of 
+God, and be all the day with the angels of the Lord in the kingdom of the Heavenly Father. 
+And on the seventh day let the angels of God build the kingdom of the heavens in your body, as 
+you labor for six days in the kingdom of the Earthly Mother. And let not food trouble the work of 
+the angels in your body throughout the seventh day. And God will give you long life upon earth, 
+that you may have life everlasting in the kingdom of the heavens. For I tell you truly, if you see 
+not diseases any more upon earth, you will live for ever in the kingdom of the heavens. 
+
+
+"And God will send you each morning the angel of sunshine to wake you from your sleep. 
+Therefore, obey your Heavenly Father's summons, and lie not idle in your beds, for the angels of 
+air and water await you already without. And labor all day long with the angels of the Earthly 
+Mother that you may come to know them and their works ever more and more well. But when 
+the sun is set, and your Heavenly Father sends you his most precious angel, sleep, then take your 
+rest, and be all the night with the angel of sleep. And then will your Heavenly Father send you 
+his unknown angels, that they may be with you the livelong night. And the Heavenly Father's 
+unknown angels will teach you many things concerning the kingdom of God, even as the angels 
+that you know of the Earthly Mother, instruct you in the things of her kingdom. For I tell you 
+truly, you will be every night the guests of the kingdom of your Heavenly Father, if you do his 
+commandments. And when you wake up upon the morrow, you will feel in you the power of the 
+unknown angels. And your Heavenly Father will send them to you every night, that they may 
+build your spirit, even as every day the Earthly Mother sends you her angels, that they may build 
+your body. For I tell you truly, if in the daytime your Earthly Mother folds you in her arms, and 
+in the night the Heavenly Father breathes his kiss upon you, then will the Sons of Men become 
+the Sons of God. 
+
+
+"Resist day and night the temptations of Satan. Wake not by night, neither sleep by day, 
+lest the angels of God depart from you. 
+
+
+"And take no delight in any drink, nor in any smoke from Satan, waking you by night and 
+making you to sleep by day. For I tell you truly, all the drinks and smokes of Satan are 
+abominations in the eyes of your God. 
+
+
+"Commit not whoredom, by night or by day, for the whoremonger is like a tree whose sap 
+runs out from its trunk. And that tree will be dried up before its time, nor will it ever bear fruit. 
+Therefore, go not a-whoring, lest Satan dry up your body, and the Lord make your seed 
+unfruitful. 
+
+
+"Shun all that is too hot and too cold. For it is the will of your Earthly Mother that neither heat 
+nor cold should harm your body. And let not your bodies become either hotter or colder than as 
+God's angels warm or cool them. And if you do the commandments of the Earthly Mother, then 
+as oft as your body becomes too hot, will she send the angel of coolness to cool you, and as oft 
+as your body becomes too cold, will she send you the angel of heat to warm you again. 
+
+
+"Follow the example of all the angels of the Heavenly Father and of the Earthly Mother, who 
+work day and night, without ceasing, upon the kingdoms of the heavens and of the earth. 
+Therefore, receive also into yourselves the strongest of God's angels, the angel of deeds, and 
+work all together upon the kingdom of God. Follow the example of the running water, the 
+wind as it blows, the rising and setting of the sun, the growing plants and trees, the beasts 
+as they run and gambol, the wane and waxing of the moon, the stars as they come and go 
+again; all these do move, and do perform their labors. For all which has life does move, and 
+only that which is dead is still. And God is the God of the living, and Satan that of the dead. 
+Serve, therefore, the living God, that the eternal movement of life may sustain you, and 
+that you may escape the eternal stillness of death. Work, therefore, without ceasing, to 
+build the kingdom of God, lest you be cast into the kingdom of Satan. For eternal joy 
+abounds in the living kingdom of God, but still sorrow darkens the kingdom of death of Satan. 
+Be, therefore, true Sons of your Earthly Mother and of your Heavenly Father, that you fall not as 
+slaves of Satan. And your Earthly Mother and Heavenly Father will send you their angels to 
+teach, to love, and to serve you. And their angels will write the commandments of God in 
+your head, in your heart, and in your hands, that you may know, feel, and do God's 
+commandments. 
+
+
+"And pray every day to your Heavenly Father and Earthly mother, that your soul become 
+as perfect as your Heavenly Father's holy spirit is perfect, and that your body become as 
+perfect as the body of your Earthly Mother is perfect. For if you understand, feel, and do the 
+commandments, then all for which you pray to your Heavenly Father and your Earthly Mother 
+will be given you. For the wisdom, the love, and the power of God are above all. 
+
+
+"After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father: Our Father which art in heaven, 
+hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 
+Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And 
+lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, 
+and the glory, for ever. Amen. 
+
+
+"And after this manner pray to your Earthly Mother: Our Mother which art upon earth, 
+hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, and thy will be done in us, as it is in thee. As 
+thou sendest every day thy angels, send them to us also. Forgive us our sins, as we atone all 
+our sins against thee. And lead us not into sickness, but deliver us from all evil, for thine is 
+the earth, the body, and the health. Amen. 
+
+
+And they all prayed together with Jesus to the Heavenly Father and to the Earthly Mother. 
+
+
+And afterwards Jesus spoke thus to them: "Even as your bodies have been reborn through the 
+Earthly Mother's angels, may your spirit, likewise, be reborn through the angels of the Heavenly 
+Father. Become, therefore, true Sons of your Father and of your Mother, and true Brothers of the 
+Sons of Men. Till now you were at war with your Father, with your Mother, and with your 
+Brothers. And you have served Satan. From today live at peace with your Heavenly Father, and 
+with your Earthly Mother, and with your Brothers, the Sons of Men. And fight only against 
+Satan, lest he rob you of your peace. I give the peace of your Earthly Mother to your body, and 
+
+
+the peace of your Heavenly Father to your spirit. And let the peace of both reign among the Sons 
+of Men. 
+
+
+"Come to me, all that are weary and that suffer in strife and affliction! For my peace will 
+strengthen you and comfort you. For my peace is exceeding full of joy. Wherefore do I always 
+greet you after this manner: 'Peace be with you!' Do you always, therefore, so greet one 
+another, that upon your body may descend the peace of your Earthly Mother, and upon 
+your spirit the peace of your Heavenly Father. And then you will find peace also among 
+yourselves, for the kingdom of God is within you. And now return to your Brothers with whom 
+hitherto you were at war, and give your peace to them also. For happy are they that strive for 
+peace, for they will find the peace of God. Go, and sin no more. And give to every one your 
+peace, even as I have given my peace unto you. For my peace is of God. Peace be with you." 
+
+
+And he left them. 
+
+
+And his peace descended upon them; and in their heart the angel of love, in their head the 
+wisdom of law, and in their hands the power of rebirth, they went forth among the Sons of Men, 
+to bring the light of peace to those that warred in darkness. 
+
+
+And they parted, wishing one to another: 
+
+
+"PEACE BE WITH YOU." 
+
+
+THE STORY OF THE ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 
+
+
+Translated by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely 
+In Four Volumes 
+
+
+It was in 1928 that Edmond Bordeaux Szekely first published his translation of Book One of The 
+Essene Gospel of Peace, an ancient manuscript he had found in the Secret Archives of the 
+Vatican as the result of limitless patience, faultless scholarship, and unerring intuition. This story 
+is told in his book, The Discovery of the Essene Gospel of Peace, published in 1975. The English 
+version of Book One appcared in 1937, and ever since, the little volume has traveled over the 
+world, appearing in many different languages, gaining every year more and more readers, until 
+now, still with no commercial advertisement, over a million copies have been sold in the United 
+States alone. It was not until almost fifty years after the first French translation that Book Two 
+and Book Three appeared (The Unknown Books of the Essenes and Lost Scrolls of the Essene 
+Brotherhood), achieving rapidly the popularity of Book One. 
+
+
+In 1981, Book Four, The Teachings of the Elect, was published posthumously according to Dr. 
+Szekely's wishes, representing yet another fragment of the complete manuscript which exists in 
+
+
+Aramaic in the Secret Archives of the Vatican and in old Slavonic in the Royal Library of the 
+Habsburgs (now the property of the Austrian government). The poetic style of the translator 
+brings to vivid reality the exquisitely beautiful words of Jesus and the Elders of the Essene 
+Brotherhood. Some of the chapters: The Essene Communions. The Sevenfold Peace. The Holy 
+Streams of Life, Light, and Sound. The Gift of the Humble Grass. 
+
+
+EXCERPTS FROM The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Two: 
+The Unknown Books of the Essenes 
+
+
+And one man spoke: "But, Master, we are but men, we are not angels. How then can we hope to 
+walk in their ways? Tell us what we must do." 
+
+
+And Jesus spoke: 
+
+As the son inherits the land of his father, So have we inherited a Holy Land From our Fathers. 
+This land is not a field to be ploughed, But a place within us Where we may build our Holy 
+Temple. -And even as a temple must be raised, Stone by stone, 
+
+So will I give to you those stones 
+
+For the building of the Holy Temple; 
+
+That which we have inherited 
+
+From our Fathers, 
+
+And their Fathers' Fathers. 
+
+And all the men gathered around Jesus, and their faces shone with desire to hear the words which 
+would come from his lips. And he lifted his face to the rising sun, and the radiance of its rays 
+filled his eyes as he spoke: 
+
+"The Holy Temple can be built Only with the ancient Communions, Those which are spoken, 
+Those which are thought, And those which are lived. 
+
+For if they are spoken only with the mouth, 
+
+They are as a dead hive 
+
+
+Which the bees have forsaken, 
+
+
+That gives no more honey. 
+
+
+The Communions are a bridge 
+Between man and the angels, 
+
+And like a bridge, 
+
+Can be built only with patience, 
+
+Yea, even as the bridge over the river 
+Is fashioned stone by stone, 
+
+As they are found by the water's edge. 
+And the Communions are fourteen in number, 
+As the Angels of the Heavenly Father 
+Number seven, 
+
+And the Angels of the Earthly Mother 
+Number seven. 
+
+And just as the roots of the tree 
+
+Sink into the earth and are nourished, 
+And the branches of the tree 
+
+Raise their arms to heaven, 
+
+So is man like the trunk of the tree, 
+With his roots deep 
+
+In the breast of his Earthly Mother, 
+And his soul ascending 
+
+To the bright stars of his Heavenly Father. 
+And the roots of the tree 
+
+
+Are the Angels of the Earthly Mother, 
+
+
+And the branches of the tree 
+Are the Angels of the Heavenly Father. 
+And this is the sacred Tree of Life 
+
+
+Which stands in the Sea of Eternity. 
+
+
+EXCERPTS FROM The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Three: 
+Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood 
+
+
+For the earth shall be filled 
+with the Peace of the Heavenly Father, 
+as the waters cover the sea. 
+I will invoke the Angel of Peace, 
+Whose breath is friendly, 
+Whose hand is clothed in power. 
+
+In the reign of Peace, there is neither hunger nor thirst, 
+Neither cold wind nor hot wind, 
+Neither old age nor death. 
+
+In the reign of Peace, 
+
+Both animals and men shall be undying, 
+Waters and plants shall be undrying, 
+And the food of life shall be never-failing. 
+It is said that the mountains 
+Shall bring peace to the people, 
+
+And the little hills, righteousness. 
+
+
+There shall be peace 
+
+
+As long as the sun and moon endure, Throughout all generations. 
+Peace shall come down like rain upon mown grass, As showers that water the earth. 
+In the reign of Peace shall the Law grow strong, 
+
+And the Children of Light shall have dominion 
+From sea to sea, unto the ends of the earth. 
+
+T'he reign of Peace hath its source 
+In the Heavenly Father; 
+
+By his strength he setteth fast the mountains, 
+
+He maketh the outgoings of morning and evening To rejoice in the Light, 
+He bringeth to earth the river of the Law, To water and enrich it, 
+
+He maketh soft the earth with showers; 
+
+They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, 
+
+And the little hills rejoice on every side. 
+
+The pastures are clothed with flocks; 
+
+The valleys also are covered over with corn; 
+
+They shout for joy, they also sing. 
+
+O Heavenly Father! 
+
+Bring unto thy earth the reign of Peace! 7'hen shall we remember the words 
+Of him who taught of old the Children of Light: 
+
+I give the peace of thy Earthly Mother 
+To thy body, 
+
+And the peace of thy Heavenly Father To thy spirit. 
+
+
+And let the peace of both 
+
+
+Reign among the sons of men. 
+Come to me all that are weary, 
+And that suffer in strife and affliction! 
+For my peace will strengthen thee and comfort thee. For my peace is exceeding full of joy. 
+Wherefore do I always greet thee after this manner: Peace be with thee! 
+
+
+Do thou always, therefore, so greet one another, That upon thy body may descend The The Peace 
+of thy Earthly Mother, 
+
+
+And upon thy spirit 
+The Peace of thy Heavenly Father. 
+
+And then wilt thou find peace also among thyselves, 
+For the Kingdom of the Law is within thee. 
+And return to thy Brothers 
+And give thy peace to them also, 
+
+For happy are they that strive for peace, 
+
+For they will find the peace of the Heavenly Father. 
+And give to every one thy peace, 
+
+Even as I have given my peace unto thee. 
+
+For my peace is of God. 
+
+
+Peace be with thee! 
+
+
+EXCERPTS FROM The Essene Gospel of peace, Book Four: 
+The Teachings of the Elect 
+
+
+THE HOLY STREAMS 
+
+
+Into the innermost circle have you come, into the mystery of mysteries, that which was old when 
+our father Enoch was young and walked the earth. Around and around have you come on your 
+journey of many years, always following the path of righteousness, living according to the Holy 
+Law and the sacred vows of our Brotherhood, and you have made of your body a holy temple 
+wherein dwell the angels of God. Many years have you shared the daylight hours with the angels 
+of the Earthly Mother; many years have you slept in the arms of the Heavenly Father, taught by 
+his unknown angels. You have learned that the laws of the Son of Man are seven, of the angels 
+three, and of God, one. Now you shall know of the three laws of the angels, the mystery of the 
+three Holy Streams and the ancient way to traverse them; so shall you bathe in the light of 
+heaven and at last behold the revelation of the mystery of mysteries: the law of God, which is 
+One. 
+
+
+Now in the hour before the rising of the sun, just before the angels of the Earthly Mother breathe 
+life into the still sleeping earth, then do you enter into the Holy Stream of Life. It is your Brother 
+Tree who holds the mystery of this Holy Stream, and it is your Brother Tree that you will 
+embrace in your thought, even as by day you embrace him in greeting when you walk along the 
+lake shore. And you shall be one with the tree, for in the beginning of the times so did we all 
+share in the Holy Stream of Life that gave birth to all creation. And as you embrace your Brother 
+Tree, the power of the Holy Stream of Life will fill your whole body, and you will tremble 
+before its might. Then breathe deeply of the angel of air, and say the word "Life" with the 
+outgiving of breath. Then you will become in truth the Tree of Life which sinks its roots deep 
+into the Holy Stream of Life from an eternal source. And as the angel of sun warms the earth, 
+and all the creatures of land and water and ai r rejoice in the new day, so will your body and 
+spirit rejoice in the Holy Stream of life that flows to you through your Brother Tree. 
+
+
+And when the sun is high in the heavens, then shall you seek the Holy Stream of Sound. in the 
+heat of noontide, all creatures are still and seek the shade; the angels of the Earthly Mother are 
+silent for a space. Then it is that you shall let into your ears the Holy Stream of Sound; for it can 
+only be heard in the silence. Think on the streams that are born in the desert after a sudden storm, 
+and the roaring sound of the waters as they rush past. Truly, this is the voice of God, if you did 
+but know it. For as it is written, in the beginning was the Sound, and the Sound was with God, 
+and the Sound was God. I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of 
+God in our ears, even the singing of the vast chorus of the sky, and the holy chant of the stars in 
+their fixed rounds; it is the Holy Stream of Sound that traverses the vault of stars and crosses the 
+endless kingdom of the Heavenly Father. It is ever in our ears, so do we hear it not. Listen for it, 
+then, in the silence of noontide; bathe in it, and let the rhythm of the music of God beat in your 
+ears untfl you are one with the Holy Stream of Sound. It was this Sound which formed the earth 
+and the world, and brought forth the mountains, and set the stars in their thrones of glory in the 
+highest heavens. 
+
+
+And you shall bathe in the Stream of Sound, and the music of its waters shall flow over you; for 
+in the beginning of the times so did we all share in the Holy Stream of Sound that gave birth to 
+all creation. And the mighty roaring of the Stream of Sound will fill your whole body, and you 
+will tremble before its might. Then breathe deeply of the angel of air, and become the sound 
+itself, that the Holy Stream of Sound may carry you to the endless kingdom of the Heavenly 
+Father, there where the rhythm of the world rises and falls. 
+
+
+And when darkness gently closes the eyes of the angels of the Earthly Mother, then shall you 
+also sleep, that your spirit may join the unknown angels of the Heavenly Father. And in the 
+moments before you sleep, then shall you think of the bright and glorious stars, the white, 
+shining, far-seen and far-piercing stars. For your thoughts before sleep are as the bow of the 
+skillful archer, that sends the arrow where he wills. Let your thoughts before sleep be with the 
+stars; for the stars are Light, and the Heavenly Father is Light, even that Light which is a 
+thousand times brighter than the brightness of a thousand suns. Enter the Holy Stream of Light, 
+that the shackles of death may loose their hold for ever, and breaking free from the bonds of 
+earth, ascend the Holy Stream of Light through the blazing radiance of the stars, into the endless 
+kingdom of the Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+Unfold your wings of light, and in the eye of your thought, soar with the stars into the farthest 
+reaches of heaven, where untold suns blaze with light. For at the beginning of the times, the Holy 
+Law said, let there be Light, and there was Light. And you shall be one with it, and the power of 
+the Holy Light Stream will fill your whole body, and you will tremble before its might. Say the 
+word "Light," as you breathe deeply of the angel of air, and you will become the Light itself; and 
+the Holy Stream will carry you to the endless kingdom of the Heavenly Father, there losing itself 
+in the eternal Sea of Light which gives birth to all creation. And you shall be one with the Holy 
+Stream of Light, always before you sleep in the arms of the Heavenly Father. 
+
+
+I tell you truly, your body was made not only to breathe, and eat, and think, but it was also made 
+to enter the Holy Stream of Life. And your ears were made not only to hear the words of men, 
+the song of birds, and the music of falling rain, but they were also made to hear the Holy Stream 
+of Sound. And your eyes were made not only to see the rising and setting of the sun, the ripple of 
+sheaves of grain, and the words of the Holy Scrolls, but they were also made to see the Holy 
+Stream of Light. One day your body will return to the Earthly Mother; even also your ears and 
+your eyes. But the Holy Stream of Life, the Holy Stream of Sound, and the Holy Stream of 
+Light, these were never born, and can never die. Enter the Holy Streams, even that Life, that 
+Sound, and that Light which gave you birth; that you may reach the kingdom of the Heavenly 
+Father and become one with him even as the river empties into the far-distant sea. 
+
+
+More than this cannot be told, for the Holy Streams will take you to that place where words are 
+no more, and even the Holy Scrolls cannot record the mysteries therein. 
+
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+PREFACE 
+
+
+Book Two of the Essene Gospel of Peace 
+
+
+I have to begin this preface with a great confession: this is not my first translation of Book Two 
+of the Essene Gospel of Peace; it is my second. The first effort took many years to complete, and 
+it was composed painstakingly and literally, with hundreds of cross references and abundant 
+philological and exegetical footnotes. When it was finished, I was very proud of it, and in a glow 
+of selfsatisfied accomplishment, I gave it to my friend, Aldous Huxley, to read. Two weeks later, 
+I asked him what he thought of my monumental translation. "It is very, very bad, he answered. 
+"It is even worse than the most boring treatises of the patristics and scholastics, which nobody 
+reads today. it is so dry and uninteresting, in fact, that I have no desire to read Book Three." I 
+was speechless, so he continued. "You should rewrite it, and give it some of the vitality of your 
+other books-make it literary, readable and attractive for twentieth century readers. I'm sure the 
+Essenes did not speak to each other in footnotes! In the form it is in now, the only readers you 
+will have for it may be a few dogmatists in theological seminaries, who seem to take masochistic 
+pleasure in reading this sort of thing. However," he added with a smile, "you might find some 
+value in it as a cure for insomnia; each time I tried to read it I fell asleep in a few minutes. You 
+might try to sell a few copies that way by advertising a new sleep remedy in the health 
+magazines-no harmful chemicals, and all that." 
+
+
+It took me a long time to recuperate from his criticism-. I put aside the manuscript for years. 
+Meanwhile, I continued to receive thousands of letters from many readers from all parts of the 
+world of my translation of Book One of the Essene Gospel of Peace, asking for the second and 
+third books promised in the preface. Finally, I got the courage to start again. The passing of the 
+years had mellowed my attitude and I saw my friend's criticism in a new light. I rewrote the 
+entire manuscript, treating it as literature and poetry, coming to grips with the great problems of 
+life, both ancient and contemporary. it was not easy to be faithful to the original, and at the same 
+time to present the eternal truths in a way that would appeal to twentieth century man. And yet, it 
+was vitally important that I try; for the Essenes, above all others, strove to win the hearts of men 
+through reason, and the powerful and vivid example of their li ves. 
+
+
+Sadly, Aldous is no longer here to read my second translation. I have a feeling he would have 
+liked it (not a single footnote!), but I will have to leave the final judgment to my readers. If 
+
+
+Books Two and Three will become as popular as Book One, my efforts of many, many years will 
+be amply rewarded. 
+
+
+EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY 
+
+
+San Diego, California 
+the first of November, 1974. 
+
+
+INTRODUCTION 
+
+
+There are three paths leading to Truth. The first is the path of the consciousness, the second that 
+of nature, and the third is the accumulated experience of past generations, which we receive in 
+the shape of the great masterpieces of all ages. From time immemorial, man and humanity have 
+followed all three paths. 
+
+
+The first path to Truth, the path of the consciousness, is that followed by the great mystics. They 
+consider that the consciousness is the most immediate reality for us and is the key to the 
+universe. it is something which is in us, which is us. And throughout the ages the mystics have 
+made the discovery that the laws of human consciousness contain an aspect not found in the laws 
+governing the material universe. 
+
+
+A certain dynamic unity exists in our consciousness, where one is at the same time many. it is 
+possible for us to have simultaneously different thoughts, ideas, associations, images, memories 
+and intuitions occupying our consciousness within fragments of a minute or a second, yet all this 
+multiplicity will still constitute only a single dynamic unity. Therefore the laws of mathematics, 
+which are valid for the material universe and are a key to its understanding, will not be valid in 
+the field of consciousness, a realm where two and two do not necessarily make four. The mystics 
+also found that measurements of space, time and weight, universally valid in nature and 
+throughout the material universe, are not applicable to the consciousness, where sometimes a few 
+seconds seem like hours, or hours like a minute. 
+
+
+Our consciousness does not exist in space and therefore cannot be measured in spatial terms. It 
+has its own time, which is very often timelessness, so temporal measurements cannot be applied 
+to Truth reached by this path. The great mystics discovered that the human consciousness, 
+besides being the most immediate and the inmost reality for us, is at the same time our closest 
+source of energy, harmony and knowledge. The path to Truth leading to and through the 
+consciousness produced the great teachings of humanity, the great intuitions and the great 
+masterpieces throughout the ages. Such then is the first path to or source of Truth, as the Essene 
+traditions understand and interpret it. 
+
+
+Unfortunately, the magnificent original intuitions of the great masters often lose their vitality as 
+they pass down the generations. They are very often modified, distorted and turned into dogmas, 
+and all too frequently their values become petrified in institutions and organized hierarchies. The 
+pure intuitions are choked by the sands of time, and eventually have to be dug out by seekers of 
+Truth able to penetrate into their essence. 
+
+
+Another danger is that persons following this path to Truth, the path of the consciousness-may 
+fall into exaggerations. They come to think that this is the only path to Truth and disregard all 
+others. Very often, too, they apply the specific laws of the human consciousness to the material 
+universe where they lack validity, and ignore the laws proper to the latter sphere. The mystic 
+often creates for himself an artificial universe, farther and farther removed from reality, till he 
+ends by living in an ivory tower, having lost all contact with reality and life. 
+
+
+The second of the three paths is the path of nature. While the first path of the consciousness 
+starts from within and penetrates thence into the totality of things, the second path takes the 
+opposite way. Its starting point is the external world. it is the path of the scientist, and has been 
+
+
+followed in all ages through experience and through experiment, through the use of inductive 
+and deductive methods. 
+
+
+The scientist, working with exact quantitative measurements, measures everything in space and 
+time, and makes all possible correlations. 
+
+
+With his telescope he penetrates into far-distant cosmic space, into the various solar and galactic 
+systems; through spectrum analysis he measures the constituents of the different planets in 
+cosmic space; and by mathematical calculation he establishes in advance the movements of 
+celestial bodies. Applying the law of cause and effect, the scientist establishes a long chain of 
+causes and effects which help him to explain and measure the universe, as well as life. 
+
+
+But the scientist, like the mystic, sometimes falls into exaggerations. While science has 
+transformed the life of mankind and has created great values, for man in all ages, it has failed to 
+give entire satisfaction in the solution of the final problems of existence, life and the universe. 
+The scientist has the long chain of causes and effects secure in all its particles, but he has no idea 
+what to do with the end of the chain. He has no solid point to which he may attach the end of the 
+chain, and so by the path to Truth through nature and the material universe he is unable to 
+answer the great and eternal questions concerning the beginning and end of all things. 
+
+
+The greatest scientists recognize that in the metaphysical field beyond the scientific chain there is 
+something else - continuing from the end of that chain. However, there are also the dogmatic 
+scientists who deny any other approach to Truth than their own, who refuse to attribute reality to 
+the facts and phenomena which they cannot fit neatly into their own categories and 
+classifications. 
+
+
+The path to Truth through nature is not that of the dogmatic scientist, just as the first path is not 
+that of the one-sided mystic. Nature is a great open book in which everything can be found, if we 
+learn to draw from it the inspiration which it has given to the great thinkers of all ages. if we 
+learn her language, nature will reveal to us all the laws of life and the universe. 
+
+
+It is for this reason that all the great masters of humanity from time to time withdrew into nature: 
+Zarathustra and Moses into the mountains, Buddha to the forest, Jesus and the Essenes to the 
+desert-and thus followed this second path as well as that of the consciousness. The two paths do 
+not contradict one another, but harmoniously complete one another in full knowledge of the laws 
+of both. It was thus that the great teachers reached wonderful and deeply profound truths which 
+have given inspiration to millions through thousands of years. 
+
+
+The third path to Truth, is the wisdom, knowledge and experience acquired by the great thinkers 
+of all ages and transmitted to us in the form of great teachings, the great sacred books or 
+scriptures, and the great masterpieces of universal literature which together form what today we 
+would call universal culture. 
+
+
+In brief, therefore, our approach to Truth is a threefold one: through consciousness, nature and 
+culture. 
+
+
+In the following chapters we shall follow this threefold path leading to Truth and shall examine 
+and translate some of the great sacred writings of the Essenes. 
+
+
+There are different ways of studying these great writings. One way-the way of all theologians 
+and of the organized Churches-is to consider each text literally. This is the dogmatic way 
+resulting from a long process of petrification, by which truths are inevitably transformed into 
+dogmas. 
+
+
+When the theologian follows this most easy but one-sided path, he runs into endless 
+contradictions and complications, and he reaches a conclusion as far removed from the truth as 
+that of the scientific interpreter of these texts who rejects them as entirely valueless and without 
+validity. The approaches of the dogmatic theologian and the exclusivist scientist represent two 
+extremes. 
+
+
+A third error is to believe, as do certain symbolists, that these books have no more than a 
+symbolic content and are nothing more than parables. With their own particular way of 
+exaggeration these symbolists make thousands of different and quite contradictory interpretations 
+of these great texts. 
+
+
+The spirit of the Essene traditions is opposed to all three of these ways of interpreting these 
+ageless writings and follows an entirely different approach. 
+
+
+The Essene method of interpretation of these books is, on the one hand, to place them in 
+harmonious correlation with the laws of the human consciousness and of nature, and, on the 
+other, to consider the facts and circumstances of the age and environment in which they were 
+written. This approach also takes into account the degree of evolution and understanding of the 
+people to whom the particular master was addressing his message. 
+
+
+Since all the great masters had to adapt their teaching to the level of their audience, they found it 
+necessary to formulate both an exoteric and esoteric teaching. The exoteric message was one 
+comprehensible to the people at large and was expressed in terms of various rules, forms and 
+rituals corresponding to the basic needs of the people and the age concerned. Parallel with this, 
+the esoteric teachings have survived through the ages partly as written and partly as unwritten 
+living traditions, free from forms, rituals, rules and dogmas, and in all periods have been kept 
+alive and practiced by a small minority. 
+
+
+It is in this spirit of the interpretation of the Truth that the Essene Gospel of Peace will be 
+translated in the following pages. Rejecting the dogmatic methods of literal and purely scientific 
+interpretation as well as the exaggeration of the symbolists, we shall try to translate the Essene 
+Gospel of Peace in the light of our consciousness and of nature, and in harmony with the great 
+traditions of the Essenes, to whose brotherhood the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves 
+belonged. 
+
+
+THE VISION OF ENOCH 
+
+
+THE MOST ANCIENT REVELATION 
+God Speaks to Man 
+
+
+I speak to you. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I spoke to you 
+When you were born. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I spoke to you 
+At your first sight. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I spoke to you 
+At your first word. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I spoke to you 
+At your first thought. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I spoke to you 
+At your first love. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I spoke to you 
+At your first song. 
+Be still 
+Know I am 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the grass of the meadows. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the trees of the forests. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the valleys and the hills. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the Holy Mountains. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the rain and the snow. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Tam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the waves of the sea. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+
+
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the dew of the morning. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the peace of the evening. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Tam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the splendor of the sun. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the brilliant stars. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the storm and the clouds. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the thunder and lightning. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God 
+
+
+I speak to you 
+Through the mysterious rainbow. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I will speak to you 
+When you are alone. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God 
+
+
+I will speak to you 
+Through the Wisdom of the Ancients. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Tam 
+God 
+
+
+I will speak to you 
+At the end of time. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I will speak to you 
+When you have seen my Angels. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+I will speak to you 
+Throughout Eternity. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+Iam 
+God 
+
+
+I speak to you. 
+Be still 
+Know 
+
+
+Iam 
+God. 
+
+
+FROM THE ESSENE BOOK OF MOSES 
+THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 
+
+
+And Mount Sinai was altogether in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the 
+smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 
+
+
+And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses 
+up to the top of the mount: and Moses went up. 
+
+
+And the Lord called unto Moses out of the mountain, saying, Come unto me, for I would give 
+thee the Law for thy people, which shall be a covenant for the Children of Light. 
+
+
+And Moses went up unto God. And God spake all these words, saying, 
+I am the Law, thy God, which hath brought thee out from the depths of the bondage of darkness. 
+Thou shalt have no other Laws before me. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not make unto thee any image of the Law in heaven above or in the earth beneath. I 
+am the invisible Law, without beginning and without end. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not make unto thee false laws, for I am the Law, and the whole Law of all laws. If 
+thou forsake me, thou shalt be visited by disasters for generation upon generation. 
+
+
+If thou keepest my commandments, thou shalt enter the Inftnite Garden where stands the Tree of 
+Life in the midst of the Eternal Sea. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not violate the Law. The Law is thy God, who shall not hold thee guiltless. 
+
+Honor thy Earthly Mother, that thy days may be long upon the land, and honor thy Heavenly 
+Father, that eternal life be thine in the heavens, for the earth and the heavens are given unto thee 
+by the Law, which is thy God. 
+
+Thou shalt greet thy Earthly Mother on the morning of the Sabbath. 
+
+
+Thou shalt greet the Angel of Earth on the second morning. 
+
+
+Thou shalt greet the Angel of Life on the third morning. 
+
+
+Thou shalt greet the Angel of Joy on the fourth morning. 
+Thou shalt greet the Angel of Sun on the fifth morning. 
+Thou shalt greet the Angel of Water on the sixth morning, 
+Thou shalt greet the Angel of Air on the seventh morning- 
+
+
+All these Angels of the Earthly Mother shalt thou greet, and consecrate thyself to them, that thou 
+mayest enter the Infinite Garden where stands the Tree of Life. 
+
+
+Thou shalt worship thy Heavenly Father on the evening of the Sabbath. 
+Thou shalt commune with the Angel of Eternal Life on the second evening. 
+Thou shalt commune with the Angel of Work on the third evening. 
+
+Thou shalt commune with the Angel of Peace on the fourth evening. 
+
+Thou shalt commune with the Angel of Power on the fifth evening, 
+
+Thou shalt commune with the Angel of Love on the sixth evening. 
+
+Thou shalt commune with the Angel of Wisdom on the seventh evening. 
+
+
+All these Angels of the Heavenly Father shalt thou commune with, that thy soul may bathe in the 
+Fountain of Light, and enter into the Sea of Eternity. 
+
+
+The seventh day is the Sabbath: thou shalt remember it, keep it holy. The Sabbath is the day of 
+the Light of the Law, thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, but search the Light, the 
+Kingdom of thy God, and all things shall be given unto thee. 
+
+
+For know ye that during six days thou shalt work with the Angels, but the seventh day shalt thou 
+dwell in the Light of thy Lord, who is the holy Law. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not take the life from any living thing. Life comes only from God, who giveth it and 
+taketh it away. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not debase Love. It is the sacred gift of thy Heavenly Father. 
+Thou Shalt not trade thy Soul, the priceless gift of the loving God, for the riches of the world, 
+which are as seeds sown on stony ground, having no root in themselves, and so enduring but for 
+
+
+a little while. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not be a false witness of the Law, to use it against thy brother: Only God knoweth the 
+beginning and the ending of all things, for his eye is single, and he is the holy Law. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's possessions. The Law giveth unto thee much greater gifts, 
+even the earth and the heavens, if thou keep the Commandments of the Lord thy God. 
+
+
+And Moses heard the voice of the Lord, and sealed within him the covenant that was between the 
+Lord and the Children of Light. 
+
+
+And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tablets of the Law were in his 
+hand. 
+
+
+And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the 
+tablets. 
+
+
+And the people knew not what became of Moses, and they gathered themselves together and 
+brake off their golden earrings and made a molten calf. And they worshipped unto the idol, and 
+offered to it burnt offerings. 
+
+
+And they ate and drank and danced before the golden calf, which they had made, and they 
+abandoned themselves to corruption and evil before the Lord. 
+
+
+And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the 
+dancing, and the wickedness of the people: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tablets 
+out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. 
+
+
+And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin, 
+ye have denied thy Creator. I will go up unto the Lord and plead atonement for thy sin. 
+
+
+And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, thou hast seen the desecration of thy Holy 
+Law. For thy children lost faith, and worshipped the darkness, and made for themselves a golden 
+calf. Lord, forgive them, for they are blind to the light. 
+
+
+And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, at the beginning of time was a covenant made between 
+God and man, and the holy flame of the Creator did enter unto him. And he was made the son of 
+God, and it was given him to guard his inheritance of the firstborn, and to make fruitful the land 
+of his Father and keep it holy. And he who casteth out the Creator from him doth spit upon his 
+birthright, and no more grievous sin doth exist in the eyes of God. 
+
+
+And the Lord spoke, saying, Only the Children of Light can keep the Commandments of the 
+Law. Hear me, for I say thus: the tablets which thou didst break, these shall nevermore be written 
+in the words of men. As thou didst return them to the earth and fire, so shall they live, invisible, 
+in the hearts of those who are able to follow their Law. To thy people of little faith, who did sin 
+against the Creator, even whilst thou stood on holy ground before thy God, -I will give another 
+Law. It shall be a stem law, yea, it shall bind them, for they know not yet the Kingdom of Light. 
+
+
+And Moses hid the invisible Law within his breast, and kept it for a sign to the Children of 
+Light. And God gave unto Moses the written law for the people, and he went down unto 
+them, and spake unto them with a heavy heart. 
+
+
+And Moses said unto the people, these are the laws which thy God hath given thee. 
+
+
+Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 
+
+Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. 
+
+Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 
+Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
+
+Honor thy father and thy mother. 
+
+Thou shalt not kill. 
+
+Thou shalt not commit adultery. 
+
+Thou shalt not steal. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 
+
+
+Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor thy neighbor's wife, nor anything that is thy 
+neighbor's. 
+
+
+And there was a day of mourning and atonement for the great sin against the Creator, which did 
+not end. And the broken tablets of the Invisible Law lived hidden in the breast of Moses, until it 
+came to pass that the Children of Light appeared in the desert, and the angels walked the earth. 
+
+
+THE COMMUNIONS 
+
+
+And it was by the bed of a stream, that the weary and afflicted came again to seek out Jesus. And 
+like children, they had forgotten the Law; and like children, they sought out their father to show 
+them where they had erred, and to set their feet again upon the path. And when the sun rose over 
+the earth's rim they saw Jesus coming toward them from the mountain, with the brightness of the 
+rising sun about his head. 
+
+
+And he raised his hand and smiled upon them, saying, "Peace be with you." 
+
+
+But they were ashamed to return his greeting, for each in his own way had turned his back on the 
+holy teachings, and the Angels of the Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father were not with 
+them. And one man looked up in anguish and spoke: "Master, we are in sore need of your 
+wisdom. For we know that which is good, and yet we follow evil. We know that to enter the 
+kingdom of heaven we must walk with the angels of the day and of the night, yet our feet walk in 
+the ways of the wicked. The light of day shines only on our pursuit of pleasure, and the night 
+falls on our heedless stupor. Tell us, Master, how may we talk with the angels, and stay within 
+their holy circle, that the Law may burn in our hearts with a constant flame?" 
+
+
+And Jesus spoke to them: 
+
+
+"To lift your eyes to heaven 
+
+
+When all mens' eyes are on the ground, 
+Is not easy. 
+
+To worship at the feet of the angels 
+When all men worship only fame and riches, 
+Is not easy. 
+
+But the most difficult of all 
+Is to think the thoughts of the angels, 
+
+To speak the words of the angels, 
+
+And to do as angels do. " 
+
+
+And one man spoke: "But, Master, we are but men, we are not angels. How then can we hope to 
+walk in their ways? Tell us what we must do." 
+
+
+And Jesus spoke: 
+"As the son inherits the land of his father, 
+So have we inherited a Holy Land 
+From our Fathers. 
+T'his land is not a field to be ploughed, 
+But a place within us 
+Where we may build our Holy Temple. 
+And even as a temple must be raised, 
+Stone by stone, 
+So will I give to you those stones 
+For the building of the Holy Temple; 
+That which we have inherited 
+
+
+From our Fathers, 
+
+
+And their Fathers’ Fathers." 
+And all the men gathered around Jesus, and their faces shone with desire to hear the words which 
+would come from his lips. And he lifted his face to the rising sun, and the radiance of its rays 
+filled his eyes as he spoke: 
+"The Holy Temple can be built 
+Only with the ancient Communions, 
+Those which are spoken, 
+Those which are thought, 
+And those which are lived. 
+For if they are spoken only with the mouth, 
+They are as a dead hive 
+Which the bees have forsaken, 
+That gives no more honey. 
+Communions are a bridge 
+Between man and the angels, 
+And like a bridge, 
+Can be built only with patience, 
+Yea, even as the bridge over the river 
+Is fashioned stone by stone, 
+As they are found by the water's edge. 
+And the Communions are fourteen in number 
+As the Angels of the Heavenly Father 
+Number seven, 
+
+
+And the Angels of the Earthly Mother 
+
+
+Number seven. 
+
+And just as the roots of the tree 
+Sink into the earth and are nourished, 
+And the branches of the tree 
+Raise their arms to heaven, 
+
+So is man like the trunk of the tree, 
+With his roots deep 
+In the breast of his Earthly Mother, 
+And his soul ascending 
+To the bright stars of his Heavenly Father. 
+And the roots of the tree 
+Are the Angels of the Earthly Mother, 
+And the branches of the tree 
+Are the Angels of the Heavenly Father. 
+And this is the sacred Tree of Life 
+
+
+Which stands in the Sea of Eternity. 
+
+
+The first Communion is with the Angel of Sun 
+The Angel of Sun, 
+She who cometh each morning 
+As a bride from her chamber, 
+To shed her golden light on the world. 
+
+
+O thou immortal, shining, swift-steeded 
+
+
+Angel of the Sun! 
+There is no warmth without thee, 
+No fire without thee, 
+No life without thee. 
+As green leaves of the trees 
+Do worship thee, 
+
+And through thee is the tiny wheat kernel 
+Become a river of golden grass, 
+Moving with the wind. 
+Through thee is opened the flower 
+In the center of my body. 
+Tnerefore will I never hide myself 
+From thee. 
+
+Angel of Sun, 
+
+Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother, 
+Enter the holy temple within me 
+
+
+And give me the Fire of Life! 
+
+
+The Second Communion is with the Angel of Water 
+The Angel of Water, 
+She who makes the rain 
+To fall on the and plain, 
+
+
+Who fills the dry well to overflowing. 
+
+
+Yea, we do worship thee, 
+Water of Life- 
+From the heavenly sea 
+The waters run and flow forward 
+From the never-failing springs. 
+In my blood flow 
+A thousand pure springs, 
+And vapors, and clouds, 
+And all the waters 
+T'hat spread over all the seven Kingdoms. 
+All the waters 
+The Creator hath made Are holy. 
+The voice of the Lord 
+Is upon the waters: 
+
+The God of Glory thundereth; 
+The Lord is upon many waters. 
+Angel of Water, 
+
+Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother, 
+Enter the blood that flows through me, 
+Wash my body in the rain 
+That falls from heaven, 
+
+
+And give me the Water of Life. 
+
+
+The third Communion is with the Angel of Air 
+The Angel of Air, 
+Who spreads the perfume 
+Of sweet-smelling fields, 
+of spring grass after rain, 
+of the opening buds of the 
+Rose of Sharon. 
+We worship the Holy Breath 
+Which is placed higher 
+Than all the other things created. 
+For, lo, the eternal and sovereign Luminous space, 
+Where rule the unnumbered stars, 
+Is the air we breathe in 
+And the air we breathe out. 
+And in the moment betwixt the breathing in 
+And the breathing out 
+Is hidden all the mysteries of the Infinite Garden. 
+Angel of Air, 
+Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother, 
+Enter deep within me, 
+As the swallow plummets from the sky, 
+That I may know the secrets of the wind 
+
+
+And the music of the stars. 
+
+
+The fourth Communion is with the Angel of Earth 
+The Angel of Earth, 
+
+She who brings forth corn and grapes 
+From the fulness of the earth, 
+She who brings children 
+From the loins of husband and wife. 
+He who would till the earth, 
+With the left arm and the right, 
+Unto him will she bring forth 
+An abundance of fruit and grain, 
+Golden-hued plants 
+Growing up from the earth 
+During the spring, 
+
+As far as the earth extends, 
+
+As far as the rivers stretch, 
+
+As far as the sun rises, 
+
+To impart their gifts of food unto men. 
+This wide earth do I praise, 
+Expanded far with paths, 
+
+The productive, the full-bearing, 
+Thy Mother, holy plant! 
+
+
+Yea, I praise the lands 
+
+
+Where thou dost grow 
+Sweet-scented swiftly spreading, 
+The good growth of the Lord. 
+
+He who sows corn, grass and fruit, 
+Soweth the Law. 
+
+And his harvest shall be bountiful, 
+And his crop shall be ripe upon the hills 
+As a reward for the followers of the Law, 
+The Lord sent the Angel of Earth, 
+Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother 
+To make the plants to grow, 
+
+And to make fertile the womb of woman, 
+That the earth may never be without 
+The laughter of children. 
+
+
+Let us worship the Lord in her! 
+
+
+The fifth Communion is with the Angel of Life 
+The Angel of Life, 
+She who gives strength and vigor to man. 
+For, lo, if the wax is not pure, 
+How then can the candle give a steady flame? 
+Go, then, toward the high-growing trees, 
+
+
+And before one of them which is beautiful, 
+
+
+High-growing and mighty, 
+Say these words: 
+‘Hail be unto thee! O good, living tree, 
+Made by the Creator!’ 
+
+Then shall the River of Life 
+Flow between you and your Brother, 
+The Tree, 
+
+And health of the body, 
+Swiftness of foot, 
+
+Quick hearing of the ears, 
+Strength of the arms 
+And eyesight of the eagle be yours. 
+Such is the Communion 
+With the Angel of Life, 
+
+
+Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother. 
+
+
+The sixth Communion is with the Angel of Joy 
+The Angel of Joy, 
+She who descends upon earth 
+To give beauty to all men. 
+For the Lord is not worshipped with sadness, 
+Nor with cries of despair. 
+
+
+Leave off your moans and lamentations, 
+
+
+And sing unto the Lord a new song: 
+Sing unto the Lord, all the earth. 
+Let the heavens rejoice 
+And let the earth be glad. 
+Let the field be joyful, 
+Let the floods clap their hands; 
+Let the hills be joyful together Before the Lord. 
+For you shall go out with joy 
+And be led forth with peace: 
+The mountains and the hills 
+Shall break forth before you into singing. 
+Angel of Joy, 
+Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother, 
+I will sing unto the Lord 
+As long as I live: 
+I will sing praise to my God 
+
+
+While I have my being. 
+
+
+The Seventh Communion is with Our Earthly Mother 
+Our Earthly Mother, 
+She who sends forth her Angels 
+To guide the roots of man 
+
+
+And send them deep into the blessed soil. 
+
+
+We invoke the Earthly Mother! 
+The Holy Preserver! 
+The Maintainer! 
+It is She who will restore the world! 
+The earth is hers, 
+
+And the fulness thereof the world, 
+And they that dwell therein. 
+We worship the good, the strong, 
+The beneficent Earthly Mother 
+And all her Angels, 
+Bounteous, valiant, 
+
+And full of strength; 
+Welfare-bestowing, kind, 
+And health-giving. 
+Through her brightness and glory 
+Do the plants grow up from the earth, 
+By the never-failing springs. 
+Through her brightness and glory 
+Do the winds blow, 
+Driving down the clouds 
+Towards the never-failing springs. 
+The Earthly Mother and I are One. 
+
+
+I have my roots in her, 
+
+
+And she takes her delight in me 
+
+
+According to the Holy Law. " 
+
+
+Then there was a great silence, as the listeners pondered the words of Jesus. And there was new 
+strength in them, and desire and hope shone in their faces. And then one man spoke: "Master, we 
+are filled with eagerness to begin our Communions with the Angels of the Earthly Mother, who 
+planted the Great Garden of the Earth. But what of the Angels of the Heavenly Father, who rule 
+the night? How are we to talk to them, who are so far above us, who are invisible to our eyes? 
+For we can see the rays of the sun, we can feel the cool water of the stream where we bathe, and 
+the grapes are warm to our touch as they grow purple on the vines. But the Angels of the 
+Heavenly Father cannot be seen, or heard, or touched. How then can we talk to them, and enter 
+their Infinite Garden? Master, tell us what we must do." 
+And the morning sun encircled his head with glory as Jesus looked upon them and spoke: 
+"My children, know you not that the Earth 
+And all that dwells therein 
+Is but a reflection of the 
+Kingdom of the Heavenly Father? 
+And as you are suckled and comforted 
+By your mother when a child, 
+But go to join your father in the fields 
+When you grow up, 
+So do the Angels of the Earthly Mother 
+Guide your steps 
+Toward him who is your Father, 
+And all his holy Angels, 
+
+
+That you may know your true home 
+
+
+And become true Sons of God. 
+
+
+While we are children, 
+We will see the rays of the sun, 
+But not the Power which created it; 
+While we are children, 
+
+We will hear the sounds of the flowing brook, 
+But not the Love which created it; 
+While we are children, 
+
+We will see the stars, 
+
+But not the hand which scatters them 
+Through the sky, 
+
+As the farmer scatters his seed. 
+only through the Communions 
+With the Angels of the Heavenly Father, 
+Will we learn to see the unseen, 
+
+To hear that which cannot be heard, 
+
+
+And to speak the unspoken word. 
+
+
+The first Communion is with the Angel of Power 
+The Angel of Power, 
+Who fills the sun with heat, 
+And guides the hand of man 
+In all his works. 
+
+
+Thine, O Heavenly Father! 
+
+
+Was the Power, 
+
+When thou didst order a path 
+For each of us and all. 
+Through thy power 
+Will my feet tread the 
+Path of the Law; 
+Through thy power 
+Will my hands perform thy works. 
+May the golden river of power 
+Always flow from thee to me, 
+And may my body always turn unto thee, 
+As the flower turns unto the sun. 
+For there is no power save that 
+From the Heavenly Father; 
+
+All else is but a dream of dust, 
+
+A cloud passing over the face of the sun. 
+There is no man that hath power 
+Over the spirit; 
+
+Neither hath he power in the day of death. 
+Only that power which cometh from God 
+Can carry us out from the City of Death. 
+Guide our works and deeds, 
+
+
+O Angel of Power, 
+
+
+Holy messenger of the Heavenly -Father! 
+
+
+The second Communion is with the Angel of Love 
+The Angel of Love, 
+Whose healing waters flow 
+In a never-ending stream 
+From the Sea of Eternity. 
+Beloved, let us love one another: 
+For love is of the Heavenly Father, 
+And every one that loveth 
+Is born of the Heavenly Order 
+And knoweth the Angels. 
+
+For without love, 
+
+A man's heart is parched and cracked 
+As the bottom of a dry well, 
+And his words are empty 
+As a hollow gourd. 
+
+But loving words are as a honeycomb 
+Sweet to the soul; 
+
+Loving words in a man's mouth 
+Are as deep waters, 
+
+And the wellspring of love 
+
+
+As a flowing brook. 
+
+
+Yea, it was said in the ancient of days, 
+Thou shalt love thy Heavenly Father 
+With all thy heart, 
+
+And with all thy mind, 
+
+And with all thy deeds, 
+
+And thou shalt love thy brothers 
+As thyself 
+The Heavenly Father is love; 
+And he that dwelleth in love 
+Dwelleth in the Heavenly Father, 
+And the Heavenly Father in him. 
+He that loveth not is as a wandering bird 
+Cast out of the nest; 
+
+For him the grass faileth 
+And the stream has a bitter taste. 
+And if a man say, 
+
+I love the Heavenly Father 
+But hate my brother, 
+He is a liar: 
+For he that loveth not his brother 
+Whom he hath seen, 
+How can he love the Heavenly Father 
+
+
+Whom he hath not seen? 
+
+
+By this we know the Children of Light: 
+T'hose who walk with the Angel of Love, 
+For they love the Heavenly Father, 
+And they love their brethren, 
+
+And they keep the Holy Law. 
+
+Love is stronger 
+Than the currents of deep waters: 
+
+
+Love is stronger than death. 
+
+
+The third Communion is with the Angel of Wisdom 
+The Angel of Wisdom, 
+Who maketh man free from fear, 
+Wide of heart, 
+And easy of conscience: 
+Holy Wisdom, 
+The Understanding that unfolds, 
+Continuously, 
+As a holy scroll, 
+Yet does not come through learning. 
+All wisdom cometh 
+From the Heavenly Father, 
+And is with him for ever. 
+
+
+Who can number the sand of the sea, 
+
+
+And the drops of rain, 
+And the days of eternity? 
+
+Who can find out the height of heaven, 
+And the breadth of the earth? 
+Who can tell the beginning 
+Of wisdom? 
+
+Wisdom hath been created 
+Before all things. 
+
+He who is with out wisdom 
+Is like unto him that saith to the wood, 
+‘Awake’, and to the dumb stone, 
+‘Arise, and teach!' 
+
+So are his words empty, 
+
+And his deeds harmful, 
+
+As a child who brandishes his father's sword 
+And knoweth not its cutting edge. 
+But the crown of wisdom 
+Makes peace and perfect health 
+To flourish, 
+
+Both of which are the gifts of God. 
+O thou Heavenly Order! 
+
+And thou, Angel of Wisdom! 
+
+
+I will worship thee and 
+
+
+The Heavenly Father, 
+Because of whom 
+The river of thought within us 
+Is flowing towards the 
+
+
+Holy Sea of Eternity. 
+
+
+The fourth Communion is with the Angel of Eternal Life 
+The Angel of Eternal Life, 
+Who brings the message of eternity 
+To man. 
+For he who walks with the Angels 
+Shall learn to soar 
+Above the clouds, 
+And his home shall be 
+In the Eternal Sea 
+Where stands the sacred Tree of Life. 
+Do not wait for death 
+To reveal the great mystery; 
+
+If you know not your Heavenly Father 
+While your feet tread the dusty soil, 
+There shall be naught but shadows for thee 
+In the life that is to come. 
+
+
+Here and now 
+
+
+Is the mystery revealed. 
+Here and now 
+Is the curtain lifted. 
+
+Be not afraid, O man! 
+Lay hold of the wings of the 
+Angel of Eternal Life, 
+And soar into the paths of the stars, 
+The moon, the sun, 
+And the endless Light, 
+Moving around in their 
+Revolving circle forever, 
+
+
+And fly toward the Heavenly Sea Of Eternal Life. 
+
+
+The fifth Communion is with the Angel of Work 
+The Angel of Work, 
+Who sings in the humming of the bee, 
+Pausing not in its making of golden honey; 
+
+In the flute of the shepherd, 
+
+Who sleeps not lest his flock go astray; 
+
+In the song of the maiden 
+As she lays her hand to the spindle. 
+
+And if you think that these 
+
+
+Are not as fair in the eyes of the Lord 
+
+
+As the loftiest of prayers 
+Echoed from the highest mountain, 
+Then you do indeed err. 
+
+For the honest work of humble hands 
+Is a daily prayer of thanksgiving, 
+And the music of the plough 
+Is a joyful song unto the Lord. 
+
+He who eats the bread of idleness 
+must die of hunger, 
+
+For a field of stones 
+Can yield only stones. 
+
+For him is the day without meaning, 
+And the night a bitter journey of evil dreams. 
+The mind of the idle 
+Is full of the weeds of discontent; 
+But he who walks with the 
+Angel of Work 
+Has within him a field always fertile, 
+Where corn and grapes 
+And all manner of sweet-scented 
+Herbs and flowers grow in abundance. 
+As ye sow, so Shall ye reap. 
+
+
+The man of God who has found his task 
+
+
+Shall not ask any other blessing. 
+
+
+The sixth Communion is with the Angel of Peace 
+The Angel of Peace, 
+Whose kiss bestoweth calm, 
+And whose face is as the surface 
+Of untroubled waters, 
+Wherein the moon is reflected. 
+I will invoke Peace, 
+Whose -breath is friendly, 
+Whose hand smooths the troubled brow. 
+In the reign of Peace, 
+
+There is neither hunger nor thirst, 
+Neither cold wind nor hot wind, 
+Neither old age nor death. 
+
+But to him that hath not peace in his soul, 
+There is no place to build within 
+The Holy Temple; 
+
+For how can the carpenter build 
+In the midst Of a whirlwind? 
+
+The seed of violence can reap 
+Only a harvest of desolation, 
+
+
+And from the parched clay 
+
+
+Can grow no living thing. 
+Seek ye then the Angel of Peace, 
+Who is as the morning star 
+In the midst of a cloud, 
+
+As the moon at the full, 
+
+As a fair olive tree budding forth fruit, 
+And as the sun shining on the temple 
+Of the most High. 
+
+Peace dwells in the heart of silence: 
+
+
+Be still, and know that I am God. 
+
+
+The seventh Communion is with the Heavenly Father 
+The Heavenly Father, 
+Who is, 
+Who was, and 
+Who ever shall be. 
+O Great Creator! 
+
+Thou didst create the Heavenly Angels, 
+And thou didst reveal the 
+Heavenly Laws! 
+7‘hou art my refuge and my fortress, 
+Thou artfrom everlasting. 
+
+
+Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place 
+
+
+In al | generations. 
+
+Before the mountains were brought forth, 
+Or ever thou hadst formed the earth, 
+Even from everlasting to everlasting, 
+
+Thou art God. 
+Who hath made the waters, 
+And who maketh the plants? 
+Who to the wind 
+I Hath yoked the storm-clouds, 
+The swift and even the fleetest? 
+Who, O Great Creator! 
+Is the fountain of Eternal Life 
+Within our souls? 
+Who hath made the Light and the Darkness? 
+Who hath made sleep 
+And the zest of the waking hours? 
+Who spread the noontides 
+And the midnight? Thou, 
+O Great Creator! 
+Thou hast made the earth By thy power, 
+Hath established the world By thy wisdom, 
+And hath stretched out the heavens By thy love. 
+
+
+Do thou reveal unto me, O Heavenly Father, 
+
+
+Thy nature, 
+Which is the power of the 
+Angels of thy Holy Kingdom. 
+Immortality and the Heavenly order 
+Hast thou given, O Creator, 
+And the best of all things, Thy Holy Law! 
+I will praise thy works 
+With songs of thanksgiving, 
+Continually, 
+In all the generations of time. 
+With the coming of day 
+I embrace my Mother, 
+With the coming of night, 
+I join my Father, 
+And with the outgoing 
+Of evening and morning 
+I will breathe Their Law, 
+And I will not interrupt these Communions Until the end of time " 
+
+
+And over heaven and earth was a great silence, and the peace of the Heavenly Father and the 
+Earthly Mother shone over the heads of Jesus and the multitude. 
+
+
+FROM THE ESSENE BOOK OF JESUS 
+
+
+THE SEVENFOLD PEACE 
+
+
+And seeing the multitudes, Jesus went up into a mountain, and his disciples came unto him, and 
+all those who hungered for his words. And seeing them gathered, he opened his mouth and 
+taught them, saying: 
+
+"Peace I bring to thee, my children, 
+
+The Sevenfold Peace 
+Of the Earthly Mother 
+And the Heavenly Father. 
+
+Peace I bring to thy body, 
+
+Guided by the Angel of Power; Peace I bring to thy heart, 
+
+Guided by the Angel of Love; Peace I bring to thy mind, 
+
+Guided by the Angel of Wisdom. Through the Angels of 
+Power, Love and Wisdom, 
+
+Thou shalt travel the Seven Paths 
+Of the Infinite Garden, 
+
+And thy body, thy heart and thy mind 
+Shall join in Oneness 
+
+
+In the Sacred Flight to the Heavenly Sea of Peace. 
+
+
+Yea, I tell thee truly, 
+The paths are seven 
+Trough the Infinite Garden, 
+And each must be traversed 
+By the body, the heart and the mind As one, 
+
+
+Lest thou stumble and fall 
+
+
+Into the abyss of emptiness. 
+
+For as a bird cannot fly with one wing, 
+So doth thy Bird of Wisdom 
+Need two wings of Power and Love 
+To soar above the abyss 
+
+
+To the Holy Tree of Life. 
+
+
+For the body alone 
+Is an abandoned house seen from afar: 
+What was thought beautiful 
+Is but ruin and desolation 
+When drawing near. 
+Are body alone 
+Is as a chariot fashioned from gold, 
+Whose maker sets it on a pedestal, 
+Loath to soil it with use. 
+But as a golden idol, 
+It is ugly and without grace, 
+For only in movement 
+Doth it reveal its purpose. 
+Like the hollow blackness of a window 
+When the wind puts out its candle, 
+
+
+Is the body alone, 
+
+
+With no heart and no mind 
+
+
+To fill it with light. 
+
+
+And the heart alone 
+is a sun with no earth to shine upon, 
+A light in the void, 
+A ball of warmth drowned 
+In a sea of blackness. 
+For when a man doth love, 
+Aat love turneth only to 
+Its own destruction 
+When there is no hand to stretch forth 
+In good works, 
+And no mind to weave the flames of desire 
+Into a tapestry of psalms. 
+Like a whirlwind in the desert 
+Is the heart alone, 
+With no body and no mind 
+To lead it singing 
+
+
+through the cypress and the pine. 
+
+
+And the mind alone 
+
+
+Is a holy scroll 
+
+
+Which has worn thin with the years, 
+And must be buried. 
+The truth and beauty of its words 
+Have not changed, 
+
+But the eyes can no longer read the faded letters, 
+And it falleth to pieces in the hands. 
+So is the mind without the heart 
+To give it words, 
+
+And without the body 
+To do its deeds. 
+
+For what availeth wisdom 
+Without a heart to feel 
+And a tongue to give it voice? 
+Barren as the womb of an aged woman 
+Is the mind alone, 
+
+
+With no heart and no body To fill it with life. 
+
+
+For, lo, I tell thee truly, 
+
+The body and the heart and the mind 
+Are as a chariot, and a horse, and a driver. 
+The chariot is the body, 
+
+Forged in strength to do the will 
+
+
+of the Heavenly Father 
+
+
+And the Earthly Mother. 
+The heart is the fiery steed, 
+Glorious and courageous, 
+Who carries the chariot bravely, 
+Whether the road be smooth, 
+Or whether stones and fallen trees 
+Lie in its path. 
+
+And the driver is the mind, 
+Holding the reins of wisdom, 
+Seeing from above what lieth 
+On the far horizon, 
+
+
+Charting the course of hoofs and wheels. 
+
+
+Give ear, O ye heavens, 
+And I will speak; 
+And hear, O earth, 
+The words of my mouth. 
+
+My doctrine shall drop as the rain, 
+My speech shall distil as the dew, 
+As the small rain 
+Upon the tender herb, 
+
+
+And as the showers upon the grass. 
+
+
+Blessed is the Child of Light 
+Who is strong in body, 
+
+For he shall have oneness with the earth. 
+Thou shalt celebrate a daily feast 
+With all the gifts of the Angel of Earth: 
+The golden wheat and corn, 
+
+The purple grapes of autumn, 
+
+The ripe fruits of the trees, 
+
+The amber honey of the bees. 
+Thou shalt seek the fresh air 
+of the forest and of the fields, 
+
+And there in the midst of them 
+Shalt thou find the Angel of Air. 
+Put off thy shoes and clothing 
+And suffer the Angel of Air 
+To embrace all thy body. 
+
+Then shalt thou breathe long and deeply, 
+That the Angel of Air 
+May be brought within thee. 
+Enter into the cool and flowing river 
+And suffer the Angel of Water 
+To embrace all thy body. 
+
+
+Cast thyself wholly into his enfolding arms, 
+
+
+And as often as thou movest the air with thy breath, 
+Move with thy body the water also. 
+Thou shalt seek the Angel of Sun, 
+
+And enter into that embrace 
+Which doth purify with holy flames. 
+And all these things are of the 
+Holy Law of the Earthly Mother, 
+She who did give thee birth. 
+
+He who hath found peace with the body 
+Hath built a holy temple 
+Wherein may dwellforever 
+The spirit of God. 
+
+Know this peace with thy mind, 
+Desire this peace with thy heart, 
+
+
+Fulfill this peace with thy body. 
+
+
+Blessed is the Child of Light 
+Who is wise in mind, 
+For he shall create heaven. 
+The mind of the wise 
+Is a well-ploughed field, 
+Which giveth forth abundance and plenty. 
+
+
+For it thou showest a handful of seed 
+
+
+To a wise man, 
+He will see in his mind's eye 
+A field of golden wheat. 
+And if thou showest a handful of seed 
+To a fool, 
+
+He will see only that which is before him, 
+And call them worthless pebbles. 
+And as the field of the wise man 
+Giveth forth grain in abundance, 
+
+And the field of the fool 
+Is a harvest only of stones, 
+So it is with our thoughts. 
+
+As the sheaf of golden wheat 
+Lieth hidden within the tiny kernel, 
+So is the kingdom of heaven 
+Hidden within our thoughts. 
+
+If they be filled with the 
+Power, Love and Wisdom 
+of the Angels of the Heavenly Father, 
+So they shall carry us 
+To the Heavenly Sea. 
+
+But if they be stained 
+
+
+With corruption, hatred and ignorance, 
+
+
+They shall chain our feet 
+To pillars of pain and suffering. 
+
+No man can serve two masters; 
+Neither can evil thoughts abide in a mind 
+Filled with the Light of the Law. 
+
+He who hath found peace with the rnind 
+Hath leamed to soar beyond 
+The Realm of the Angels. 
+
+Know this peace with thy mind, 
+Desire this peace with thy heart, 
+
+
+Fulfill this peace with thy body. 
+
+
+Blessed is the Child of Light 
+Who is pure in heart, 
+For he shall see God. 
+For as the Heavenly Father hath given thee 
+His holy spirit, 
+And thy Earthly Mother hath given thee 
+
+Her holy body, 
+
+So shall ye give love 
+
+To all thy brothers. 
+And thy true brothers are all those 
+
+
+Who do the will of thy Heavenly Father 
+
+
+An d thy Earthly Mother. 
+
+Let thy love be as the sun 
+Which shines on all the creatures of the earth, 
+And does not favor one blade of grass 
+For another. 
+
+And this love shall flow as a fountain 
+From brother to brother, 
+
+And as it is spent, 
+
+So shall it be replenished. 
+
+For love is eternal. 
+
+Love is stronger 
+Than the currents of deep waters. 
+Love is stronger than death. 
+
+And if a man hath not love, 
+
+He doth build a wall between him 
+And all the creatures of the earth, 
+And therein doth he dwell 
+In loneliness and pain. 
+
+Or he may become as an angry whirlpool 
+Which sucks into its depths 
+All that floats too near. 
+
+For the heart is a sea with mighty waves, 
+
+
+And love and wisdom must temper it, 
+
+
+As the warm sun breaks through the clouds 
+And quiets the restless sea. 
+
+He who hath found peace with his brothers 
+Hath entered the kingdom of Love, 
+And shall see God face to face. 
+Know this peace with thy mind, 
+Desire this peace with thy heart, 
+
+
+Fulfill this peace with thy body. 
+
+
+Blessed is the Child of Light 
+Who doth build on earth 
+Thekingdom of heaven, 
+For he shall dwell in both worlds. 
+
+Thou shalt follow the Law of the Brotherhood, 
+Which saith that none shall have wealth, 
+And none shall be poor, 
+
+And all shall work together 
+In the garden of the Brotherhood. 
+
+Yet each shall follow his own path, 
+And each shall commune with his own heart. 
+For in the Infinite Garden 
+There are many and diverse flowers: 
+
+
+Who shall say that one is best 
+
+
+Because its color is purple, 
+Or that one is favored 
+Because its stalk is long and slender? 
+Though the brothers 
+Be of different complexion, 
+Yet do they all toil 
+In the vineyard of the Earthly Mother, 
+And they all do lift their voices together 
+In praise of the Heavenly Father. 
+And together they break the holy bread, 
+And in silence share the holy meal 
+Of thanksgiving. 
+
+There shall be no peace among peoples 
+Til there be one garden of the brotherhood 
+Over the earth. 
+
+For how can there be peace 
+When each man pursueth his own gain 
+And doth sell his soul into slavery? 
+Thou, Child of Light, 
+
+Do ye gather with thy brothers 
+And then go ye forth 
+To teach the ways of the Law 
+
+
+To those who would hear. 
+
+
+He who hath found peace 
+With the brotherhood of man 
+Hath made himself 
+The co-worker of God 
+Know this peace with thy mind, 
+Desire this peace with thy heart, 
+
+
+Fulfill this peace with thy body. 
+
+
+Blessed is the Child of Light 
+Who doth study the Book of the Law, 
+For he shall be as a candle 
+In the dark of night, 
+And an island of truth 
+In a sea of falsehood 
+For know ye, that the written word 
+Which cometh from God 
+Is a reflection of the Heavenly Sea, 
+Even as the bright stars 
+Reflect the face of heaven. 
+As the words of the Ancient Ones 
+Are etched with the hand of God 
+On the Holy Scrolls, 
+
+
+So is the Law engraved on the hearts of the faithful who do study them. 
+
+
+For it was said Of old, 
+That in the beginning there were giants 
+In the earth, 
+And mighty men which were of old, 
+Men Of renown. 
+And the Children of Light 
+Shall guard and preserve 
+Their written word, 
+
+Lest we become again as beasts, 
+And know not the Kingdom of the Angels. 
+Know ye, too, 
+
+That only through the written word 
+shalt thou find that Law 
+Which is unwritten, 
+
+As the spring which floweth from the ground 
+Hath a hidden source in the secret depths beneath the earth. 
+The written Law 
+Is the instrument by which 
+The unwritten Law is understood, 
+
+As the mute branch of a tree 
+Becomes a singing flute 
+In the hands of the shepherd. 
+
+
+Many there are 
+
+
+Who would stay in the tranquil 
+Valley of ignorance, 
+Where children play 
+
+And butterflies dance in the sun 
+
+For their short hour of life. 
+
+But none can tarry there long, 
+And ahead rise the somber 
+Mountains of learning. 
+
+Many there are 
+Who fear to cross, 
+
+And many there are 
+Who have fallen bruised and bleeding 
+From their steep and rugged slopes. 
+But faith is the guide 
+Over the gaping chasm, 
+
+And perseverance the foothold In the jagged rocks. 
+Beyond the icy peaks of struggle 
+Lies the peace and beauty 
+Of the Infinite Garden of Knowledge, 
+Where the meaning of the Law 
+Is made known to the Children of Light. 
+Here in the center of its forest 
+
+
+Stands the Tree of Life, 
+
+
+Mystery of mysteries. 
+He who hath found peace 
+With the teachings of the Ancients, 
+Through the light of the mind, 
+Through the light of nature, 
+And through the study of the Holy Word, 
+Hath entered the cloud-filled 
+Hall of the Ancients, 
+
+Where dwelleth the Holy Brotherhood, 
+of whom no man may speak. 
+Know this peace with thy mind, 
+Desire this peace with thy heart, 
+
+
+Fulfill this peace with thy body. 
+
+
+Blessed is the Child of Light 
+Who knoweth his Earthly Mother, 
+For she is the giver of life. 
+Know that thy Mother is in thee, 
+And thou art in her. 
+
+She bore thee 
+And she giveth thee life. 
+
+She it was who gaveth thee thy body, 
+
+
+And to her shalt thou one day 
+
+
+Give it back again. 
+Know that the blood which runs in thee 
+is born of the blood 
+Of thy Earthly Mother. 
+
+Her blood falls from the clouds, 
+Leaps up from the womb of the earth, 
+Babbles in the brooks of the mountains, 
+Flows wide in the rivers of the plains, 
+Sleeps in the lakes, 
+
+Rages mightily in the tempestuous seas. 
+Know that the air which thou dost breathe 
+Is born of the breath 
+Of thy Earthly Mother. 
+
+Her breath is azure 
+In the heights of the heavens, 
+Soughs in the tops of the mountains, 
+Whispers in the leaves of the forest, 
+Billows over the cornfields, 
+Slumbers in the deep valleys, 
+Bums hot in the desert. 
+
+Know that the hardness of thy bones 
+Is born of the bones 
+
+
+Of thy Earthly Mother, 
+
+
+Of the rocks and of the stones. 
+Know that the tenderness of thy flesh 
+Is born of the flesh 
+Of thy Earthly Mother, 
+
+She whose flesh waxeth yellow and red 
+In the fruits of the trees. 
+
+The light of thy eyes, 
+
+The hearing of thy ears, 
+
+These are born 
+Of the colors and the sounds 
+Of thy Earthly Mother, 
+
+Which doth enclose thee about, 
+
+As the waves of the sea enclose a fish, 
+As the eddying air a bird. 
+
+I tell thee in truth, 
+
+Man is the Son 
+Of the Earthly Mother, 
+
+And from her did the Son of Man 
+Receive his whole body, 
+
+Even as the body of the newborn babe 
+Is born of the womb of his mother. 
+
+I tell thee truly, 
+
+
+Thou art one with the Earthly Mother; 
+
+
+She is in thee, and thou art in her. 
+Of her wert thou born, 
+In her dost thou live, 
+And to her shalt thou return again. 
+Keep, therefore, her laws, 
+For none can live long, 
+Neither be happy, 
+But he who honors his Earthly Mother 
+And keepeth her laws. 
+For thy breath is her breath, 
+Thy blood her blood, 
+Thy bone her bone, 
+Thy flesh her flesh, 
+Thy eyes and thy ears 
+Are her eyes and her ears. 
+He who hath found peace 
+With his Earthly Mother 
+Shall never know death. 
+Know this peace with thy mind, 
+
+
+Desire this peace with thy heart, 
+
+
+Blessed is the Child of Light 
+
+
+Who doth seek his Heavenly Father, 
+
+
+For he shall have eternal life. 
+He that dwelleth in the secret place 
+Of the Most High 
+Shall abide under the shadow 
+of the Almighty. 
+
+For he shall give his Angels charge over thee, 
+To keep thee in all thy ways. 
+Know ye that the Lord hath been 
+our dwelling place 
+In all generations. 
+
+Before the mountains were brought forth, 
+Or ever he had formed 
+The earth and the world, 
+
+Even from everlasting to everlasting, 
+Hath there been love 
+Between the Heavenly Father 
+And his children. 
+
+And how shall this love be severed? 
+From the beginning 
+Until the ending of time 
+Doth the holy flame of love 
+Encircle the heads 
+
+
+Of the Heavenly Father 
+
+
+And the Children of Light: 
+
+How then shall this love be extinguished? 
+Ye that love thy Heavenly Father, 
+Do ye then his bidding: 
+
+Walk ye with his Holy Angels, 
+And find thy peace with his Holy Law. 
+For his Law is the entire Law: 
+Yea, it is the Law of laws. 
+Through his Law he hath made 
+The earth and the heavens to be one; 
+The mountains and the sea 
+Are his footstools. 
+
+With his hands he hath made us 
+And fashioned us, 
+
+And he gaveth us understanding 
+That we may learn his Law. 
+
+He is covered with Light 
+As with a garment: 
+
+He stretcheth out the heavens 
+Like a curtain. 
+
+He maketh the clouds his chariot; 
+He walketh upon the wings of the wind. 
+
+
+He sendeth the springs into the valleys, 
+
+
+And his breath is in the mighty trees. 
+In his hand are the deep places of the earth: 
+The strength of the hills is his also. 
+The sea is his, 
+
+And his hands formed the dry land. 
+All the heavens declare the Glory of God, 
+And the firmament showeth his Law. 
+And to his children 
+Doth he bequeath his Kingdom, 
+
+To those who walk with his Angels, 
+And find their peace with his Holy Law. 
+Wouldst thou know more, my children? 
+How may we speak with our lips 
+That which cannot be spoken? 
+
+It is like a pomegranate eaten by a mute: 
+How then may he tell of its flavor? 
+
+If we say the Heavenly Father 
+Dwelleth within us, 
+
+Then are the heavens ashamed; 
+
+If we say he dwelleth without us, 
+
+It is falsehood. 
+
+The eye which scanneth the far horizon 
+
+
+And the eye which seeth the hearts of men 
+
+
+He maketh as one eye. 
+He is not manifest, 
+He is not hidden. 
+He is not revealed, 
+Nor is he unrevealed. 
+My children, there are no words 
+To tell that which he is! 
+Only this do we know: 
+We are his children, 
+And he is our Father. 
+He is our God, 
+And we are the children of his pasture, 
+And the sheep of his hand. 
+He who hath found peace 
+With his Heavenly Father 
+Hath entered the Sanctuary 
+of the Holy Law, 
+And hath made a covenant with God 
+Which shall endure forever. 
+Know this peace with thy mind, 
+Desire this peace with thy heart, 
+Fulfill this peace with thy body, 
+
+
+Though heaven and earth may pass away, 
+
+
+Not one letter of the Holy Law 
+Shall change or pass away. 
+For in the beginning was the Law, 
+And the Law was with God, 
+And the Law was God. 
+
+May the Sevenfold Peace 
+Of the Heavenly Father 
+
+
+Be with thee always. 
+
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+Tabla de Esmeralda 
+
+
+Hermes Trismegisto 
+
+
+mentarios a la Tabla de Esmeralda 
+: Hortulano 
+
+La Tabla de Esmeralda 
+Fulcanelli 
+
+
+ediciones 
+
+
+La Tabla de Esmeralda. 
+
+
+Jorge A. Mestas Ediciones. 
+Avda. de Guadalix, 103. 
+28120 ALGETE (Madrid). 
+España. 
+
+Tfno: (34) 91 886 43 80 
+Fax: (34) 91 886 47 19 
+Email: jamestas Oarrakis.es 
+
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+S999 
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+
+BY NC SA 
+
+
+O Miguel Angel Muñoz Moya. 
+O de la presente edición: Jorge A. Mestas Ediciones. 
+
+
+ISBN: 978-84-95311-52-9 
+DL: M-32558-201 1 
+
+
+LA 
+TABLA 
+DE 
+ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Los contenidos de este libro pueden ser 
+reproducidos en todo o en parte, siempre 
+y cuando se cite la fuente y se haga con 
+fines académicos y no comerciales 
+
+
+ÍNDICE 
+
+
+INTRODUCCION codoccococonononnoonacononnrnos 9 
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+La Tabla de Esmeralda de Hermes Trismegisto 
+SN 35 
+Otra versión de la Tabla de Esmeralda ........ 39 
+Una versión más de la Tabla de Esmeralda .... 41 
+Versión simbólica de La Tabla de Esmeralda ... 43 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESME- 
+
+
+RADLDA por Hortulano ..ooniocnnniicinioncccc.. 47 
+El Arte de Alquimia es verdadero y cierto... 3 
+La Piedra debe ser dividida en dos partes .... 54 
+La Piedra tiene en sí los cuatro elementos ... 55 
+La Piedra tiene padre y madre, que son el 
+
+Soly la LUNA eiii 56 
+La conjunción de las partes es la concepción 
+
+y la generación de la PiedTa ......oooooinccnnoc...... 57 
+La Piedra es perfecta si el Alma es fijada 
+
+Eme CUETPO siii li iócis 58 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+La mondificación de la Piedra o... 
+La parte no fija de la Piedra debe separar la 
+parte fija y elevarla .oooonnocnnnnicinncnnnncnom.. 
+La Piedra volátil debe ser fijada una segunda 
+
+
+De la utilidad de Arte y de la eficacia de la 
+Piedra dias 
+El Magisterio imita la creación del 
+UNIVERSO ato 
+Declaración enigmática de la materia 
+
+della Piedra acota ictiada 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA. 
+
+
+por Fulcanelli 
+INtrOdUCCI Maira ran 
+
+
+La Tabla de Esmeralda ..oooncnnonicnnnnnnninn.. 
+
+Es verdad, sin mentira... 78.- El Sol es su padre..., 80.- 
+
+... y la luna su madre, 81.- El viento lo ha llevado... 82.- 
+La tierra es su nodriza..., 82.- El Padre de todo..., 84.- 
+Separarás la tierra del fuego..., 85.- Sube de la tierra, 86.- 
+Así tendrás la glroa del mundo..., 86. 
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+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+La tabla de Esmeralda es un texto clásico atribui- 
+do a Hermes Trismegisto del que, sin excepción, se 
+reclaman discípulos todos los alquimistas. Estos en- 
+cuentran en sus enseñanzas el resumen más conciso, 
+pero también el más complejo, del arte hermético. 
+
+
+Existen numerosas versiones de dicho texto, con 
+variaciones a veces importantes. J. Ruska ha realizado 
+un profundo estudio de ella sobre la base de cinco 
+manuscritos árabes de los que hizo una edición crítica. 
+
+Hemos traducido aquí la edición príncipe editada 
+en Nuremberg, y otras versiones de revistas o libros 
+especializados en alquimia. 
+
+
+Además de las diversas versiones escritas de La tabla 
+de Esmeralda, incluimos también una versión gráfica en 
+lenguaje simbólico: la plancha 95 del Viridarium 
+Chymicum,que así setitula, Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis. 
+
+
+1.- Tabula Smaragdina, Julio Ruska, Heidelberg, 1926 
+
+
+-9- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+El lector atento podrá encontrar importantes varia- 
+ciones entre las diversas versiones escritas, así como 
+entre ellas y los comentarios de Hortulano. Igual 
+ocurre con muchos textos de los maestros. Sirva el 
+hecho para que el estudiante procure leer siempre los 
+textos originales, vigile las traducciones, y huya de los 
+charlatanes pasados y presentes. 
+
+
+Las alteraciones de los textos proceden de la falta 
+de trabajo en laboratorio. Como no se puede esperar 
+quetodos los traductores, editores y publicistas diversos 
+que se ocupan de alquimia sean alquimistas, el verda- 
+dero discípulo tiene que ir un día u otro al laboratorio 
+y elucidar por sí mismo. 
+
+
+Cuando las alteraciones de los textos no son produc- 
+to de la mala fe, suelen estar originadas por la actitud 
+mental con la que se aborda la alquimia. 
+
+
+Tres son los tipos más frecuentes de estas Ópticas 
+generadoras de alteraciones, las tres equivocadas a 
+nuestro juicio, con las que nos hemos encontrado a lo 
+largo de nuestro trabajo. 
+
+Una es la alquimia «espiritual». 
+
+Estudiando la historia de la alquimia se pueden hacer 
+varias constataciones. Una de ellas, evidentísima, es que 
+consiste en un saber respecto a, relacionado con la natura- 
+leza, con la $uvo1o?. Al menos esta primera constatación 
+
+
+2.- La palabra física no tenía entre los griegos el sentidorestringido 
+que ordinariamente se le da hoy. Derivada del verbo fuo nacer, 
+producir, significaba naturaleza. 
+
+
+-10- 
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+INTRODUCCIÓN 
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+
+nos permite sospechar que la alquimia no es solo un saber 
+«espiritual» sino que tiene que ver con la materia en su 
+sentido ordinario, con minerales, animales y vegetales 
+considerados desde el punto de vista de las ciencias 
+naturales. Todos los adeptos han insistido en ello. Que la 
+alquimia sea madre de la química moderna no es pues 
+ninguna casualidad. Parece que cualquier disciplina ale- 
+jada del laboratorio no puede ser llamada alquimia. 
+
+
+Claude d“Y ge resume muy bien esta manera de 
+pensar. 
+
+
+«Quienes piensen que la Alquimia es estrictamente espiri- 
+tual que se abstengan; quienes piensen que la Alquimia es 
+sólo un símbolo para desvelar analógicamente el proceso de 
+la “realización espiritual”, en suma, que el hombre es la 
+materia y el atanor de la Obra, que abandonen sus proyec- 
+tos.»* 
+
+
+La observación no es superflua. Permite al estudioso 
+deslindar la alquimia de las «solicitudes engañosas o insen- 
+satas» como las llama Canseliet. Dicho autor, junto con otros 
+muchos contemporáneos, coloca entre estas solicitaciones al 
+psicoanálisis -Bachelard y particularmente el desarrollado 
+por Jung- y también a algunas teorías espiritualistas en boga. 
+Fuera de la alquimia quedarían algunas corrientes especula- 
+tivas abstractas. Emmanuel d“Hooghvorst, un estudioso 
+contemporáneo del Arte que, con ecuanimidad separa unos 
+terrenos de otros, detalla estas corrientes entre las que coloca 
+
+
+3.- Nouvelle Assemblée des Philosophes Chymiques. Dervy 
+Livres. París, 1954. 
+
+
+AT 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+a la simbología abstracta, a la exuberantísima metafísica 
+hindú, a la alquimia entendida como método de realización 
+mística...etc.* 
+
+
+Otra concepción de la alquimia a nuestro parecer no 
+acorde con laenseñanza de los maestroses la «cientista». 
+
+
+Según esta manera de ver, los alquimistas aborda- 
+rían la realidad a su manera, con sus métodos, y así 
+habrían obtenido resultados, algunos de los cuales 
+confirma y "descubre" hoy otro camino de búsqueda, la 
+ciencia moderna, mientras que no pocos de estos resul- 
+tados los alquimistas los saben pero los científicos no, 
+o no todavía. Según esta concepción «cientista» la 
+alquimia sería una ciencia -sus resultados experimen- 
+tales han sido tan ampliamente divulgados que ya no se 
+pueden ignorar pura y simplemente- de la que solo 
+haría falta conocer el modus operandi. 
+
+
+Pero semejante concepción es difícil de ser manteni- 
+daa menos que resuelva los problemas con los que setopa. 
+
+
+No quedan explicados lor orígenes de tal saber. 
+Para ello se ha echado mano de extraterrestres, de 
+Atlántidas y de civilizaciones desaparecidas. Otros 
+hanexplorado y continúan explorando los libros sagra- 
+dos de diversas tradiciones o algunos saberes iniciáticos. 
+
+
+4.- El lector interesado puede consultar: Emmanuel dHooghvorst, 
+Essai sur [Art d'Alchymie, Inconnues et leur solution, vol 5. P. 
+Genillard. Lausanne, 1951. Edición española: Emmanuel 
+d'Hooghvorst, Ensayo sobre el Arte de la Alquimia, Ed. 7 1/2. 
+Barcelona 1980. 
+
+
+-12- 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+Pueden admitirse a título de hipótesis algunas de estas 
+explicaciones pero, en todo caso, ninguna de ellas 
+pertenece al reino de la ciencia positiva en el que se 
+mueve la concepción «cientista» de la alquimia. Ade- 
+más, no parece lógico admitir una parte de la explica- 
+ción sin aceptar el resto, máxime cuando la inmensa 
+mayoría de estas hipotéticas explicaciones -por no 
+decir todas- conducen inmediata y directamente a una 
+cosmovisión distinta de la de la ciencia actual. 
+
+
+Otra dificultad es la del lenguaje de los Adeptos 
+completamente incomprensible en las primeras aproxi- 
+maciones. Su hermetismo declarado y afirmado expre- 
+samente como barrera para los no dignos; su manifes- 
+tado juramento de secreto respecto a aspectos principa- 
+les de la Obra. ¿Qué clase de ciencia es ésta que se 
+esconde? ¿Por qué? 
+
+Algunos pretenden que la dificultad de este len- 
+guaje consistiría unicamente en su simbolismo: basta- 
+ría descifrarlo para entenderlo todo. No dudamos que 
+los numerosos estudios de simbología contribuirán 
+ciertamente a esclarecer determinados problemas de 
+lenguaje. Pero la alquimia, aunque en verdad habla por 
+alegoría, no podrá ser desentrañada por los simbolistas 
+porque no es una criptografía a descifrar sino, como 
+dicen sus Adeptos, un don de Dios. 
+
+
+La profunda religiosidad de los Adeptos no cuadra 
+tampoco con las pretensiones «cientistas» para explicar 
+la alquimia. Según ellos no sólo es un don de Dios el 
+
+
+-13- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+conocimiento, digamos práctico, que permite obtener la 
+piedra, sino también la vocación alquímica. El amor a 
+Dios y la caridad con el prójimo, son de rigor entre todos 
+los filósofos químicos, como igualmente lo son las 
+invocaciones al cielo. Diversas escuelas pretenden no 
+solo reducir esta religiosidad privándola de su carácter 
+trascendente, sino que también se la quiere “cientifizar” 
+incluso basándose en los propios textos alquímicos. Las 
+alusiones alquímicas al cielo se transforman así exclusi- 
+vamente en cuestión de fuerzas cósmicas desconocidas 
+de naturaleza únicamente física. 
+
+
+Sabido es que la Obra necesita determinadas condi- 
+ciones exteriores: sub dio in prato quodan die serena 
+quadam? y que estas condiciones están relacionadas con 
+los astros,con el cosmos. En las ilustraciones alquímicas 
+no sólo aparecen el sol, la luna y los planetas, sino que 
+hay precisiones verdaderamente concretas. El carnero, 
+el toro y los gemelos (Aries, Taurus y Géminis), es decir, 
+los tres meses de la estación primaveral en la que los 
+astros están dispuestos de una determinada manera, 
+presiden fases de la Obra. El Mutus Liber dibuja en sus 
+láminas un abanico de rayos con franjas alternadas de 
+rayas y puntos, que caen sobre la tierra desde el centro 
+del cielo, desde un punto equidistante del Sol y la Luna, 
+y por encima de ellos, mientras que dos campesinos 
+cosechan el rocío. Se trata «sin disfraz -dice Canseliet- 
+
+
+5.- En pleno aire, en un cierto prado, cierto día sereno (Cosmo- 
+polita: Diálogo del mercurio y el alquimista). 
+
+
+-14- 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+del método que utilizábamos nosotros mismos al princi- 
+pio». Algunos textos son particularmente explícitos. 
+
+
+Todo ello confirma sobradamente que la obra tiene 
+que ver con el cielo físico, con la energía cósmica, «... 
+con el agente principal del movimiento y de las trans- 
+formaciones sobre la superficie terrestre y el centro de 
+la Tierra, cuya intervención diferencia a la Alquimia de 
+la Química»? 
+
+Así pues tienen razón quienes subrayan el compo- 
+nente «cósmico» de la alquimia. Y la ciencia positiva 
+se dirige y se dirigirá aun en mayor medida por este 
+camino para profundizar el conocimiento de la natura- 
+leza y el hombre. 
+
+
+Pero de la misma manera que se ha revelado 
+unilateral asimilar la alquimia a la química, tambien es 
+unilateral asimilarla a este otro saber «cósmico». Dice 
+Juan Febro: 
+
+
+«Pero el influjo celeste no es nada más que la bebida caliente 
+natural del mundo y el estimulante, el sostén de la vida de 
+todo lo que es sublunar»” 
+
+
+Opinión que no es aislada sino general. Citemos de 
+nuevo a Claude d Y ge: 
+
+
+Quienes piensen que la Alquimia es de naturaleza terrestre, 
+mineral y metálica, que se abstengan .»* 
+
+
+6.- Canseliet, op. cit. 
+7.- Citado por Canseliet. op. cit. 
+8.- Op. cit. 
+
+
+-15- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Así pues nos encontramos frente a una disciplina 
+que, al decir de sus Adeptos, no es de naturaleza 
+espiritual exclusivamente, ni tampoco exclusivamente 
+de naturaleza terrestre. 
+
+
+Las dos concepciones someramente analizadas, la 
+“espiritual” y la “cientista”, no acordes a nuestro juicio 
+con lo que dicen los maestros, han sido las más frecuen- 
+tes fuentes de aproximaciones incorrectas a la alqui- 
+mia. Y en gran medida lo siguen siendo, al menos entre 
+quienes se acercan a ella. En un foro de alquimia en 
+español que conocemos en Internet”, hemos podido 
+leer formulaciones puras de la concepción «espiri- 
+tual», estando sin embargo la mayor parte de las 
+intervenciones animadas por la concepción «cientista». 
+
+
+Pero aun queda una tercera concepcion no acorde 
+a nuestro juicio con la enseñanza de los maestros, que 
+hemos encontrado entre quienes ya tienen un cierto 
+grado de conocimientos. 
+
+
+Sila alquimia no es ni exclusivamente espiritual ni 
+exclusivamente material, la tentación «panteista» como 
+intento de explicación es inmediata. 
+
+
+Lo que está abajo es como lo que está ariba, dice 
+la Tabla de Esmeralda. Esta aseveración permite que se 
+la interprete como la unicidad de todo lo existente, rav 
+Beo0,todoes Dios. Espíritu y materia se interpenetrarían 
+
+
+9.- Se trata del foro de alquimia forumalg. Existen otros foros : 
+públicos y privados 
+
+
+-16- 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+eigualarían en una sola realidad: lo que existe. Bastaría 
+tomar cualquier parcela de la realidad para reconstruir 
+el todo; más precisamente, el todo se encontraría ínte- 
+gro y cabal en cualquiera de sus partes, solo hace falta 
+saber verlo. En la mancha del jaguar estaría completo 
+el universo, dice el escritor Borges.'* 
+
+
+La idea de que en la parte está reflejado el todo 
+como de manera concentradaes una noción fecundísima 
+que, por desgracia, apenas ha sido aprovechada toda- 
+vía. Cuando se aplica a algún dominio concreto, por 
+ejemplo a la medicina, produce resultados sorprenden- 
+tes. Hay médicos que saben ver en iris del ojo humano 
+un reflejo, una proyección de los órganos y sistemas 
+que componen el cuerpo así como de su funcionamien- 
+to'!. Otros encuentran dicha proyección en las diversas 
+partes del rostro, en las uñas, en los pies, etc. Todos 
+ellos pueden curar (a condición que conozcan su cien- 
+cia, claro). 
+
+Los resultados serían igualmente fructíferos si 
+supiéramos aplicar esta idea fecunda a otras parcelas 
+de la realidad. 
+
+
+Pero pese a que el panteismo es una concepción 
+elaborada hace tiempo esta óptica «proyectista»! ape- 
+
+
+10.- En la serie de relatos que titula «El Aleph» 
+
+11.- El lector puede encontrar un estudio bastante detallado en 
+Bernard Jensen, Ciencia y práctica de la iridología, Editorial 
+Yug, México, 1980. 
+
+12.- ¿Ha pensado el lector que el «polvo» con el que los alquimistas 
+transmutan cualquier metal imperfecto en oro es llamado por ellos 
+
+
+E 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+nas empieza a esbozarse ahora como ciencia, de lo cual 
+no podemos sino lamentarnos. 
+
+
+Pero aun cuando se constituya este cuerpo de 
+conocimientos con el cual la ciencia avanzaría a pasos 
+de gigante, sería, al menos desde el punto de vista de la 
+alquimia, aproximativo, imperfecto, mientras perma- 
+nezca en el marco de la teoría que los sustenta. 
+
+
+El xa Beoo permite explicarteóricamenteel cosmos, 
+superando la dualidad materia-espíritu tal como venía'? 
+siendo generalmente entendida desde hace tiempo. Pero 
+dicha dualidad procede de un conocimiento insuficiente de 
+la materia, de su identificación y reducción a una de las 
+formas en que esta se manifiesta. La diferencia de los 
+hermetistas entre materia "burda" y las diversas clases de 
+materia sutil hubiera contribuido a evitar este embrollo!*. 
+
+
+«polvo de proyección»? Siendo en su opinión el metal oro el que 
+resume de manera más perfecta la naturaleza de los metales ¿sería 
+azaroso este adjetivo «de proyección» aplicado al «polvo»? 
+13.- Decimos venía, en pasado, porque la formulación de la teoría 
+general de la relatividad a principios del siglo XX, inició el 
+desmoronamiento de la separación tradicional entre materia y 
+formas no materiales que hasta entonces postulaba la ciencia. Que 
+la gravedad y otras formas de energía pueden, en determinadas 
+condiciones, crear «materia» ha sido comprobado posteriormente 
+de manera experimental. La astrofísica, la física de partículas y 
+especialmente la física cuántica han acabado con tal separación. 
+14.- Las insólitas realizaciones de las llamadas paraciencias no 
+consisten sino en la aplicación de estos conceptos herméticos 
+acerca de las diferentes clases de materia y sus propiedades, a 
+diversas parcelas de la realidad (por ahora casi exclusivamente 
+limitadas al psiquismo humano). 
+
+
+- 18 - 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+El panteismo reune y unifica esta "materia" y este 
+"espíritu", cuyos límites la ciencia positiva empieza a 
+no saber donde se encuentra ni si es que lo hay, y los 
+declara la totalidad de lo existente, butizándolos de 
+divinos. En última instancia es un monismo inmanente 
+y no es un azar ni una incoherencia que fuera declarado 
+herético por las religiones trascendentes. Refiriéndose 
+a la posible existencia de algo más que trascendiera a 
+este uorv Beoo, Spinoza declaraba: [gnorantia non est 
+argumentum. 
+
+
+Efectivamente. Desde el punto de vista racional, 
+que no es el único que permite dar cuenta de lo 
+existente, la ignorancia no es un argumento. Pero no lo 
+es ni en un sentido ni en otro. En todo caso, los 
+alquimistas postulan energicamente la existencia de un 
+Dios trascendente creador de los cielos y la tierra. 
+Hacen suyas las palabras de la Biblia: 
+
+
+«Vanos son todos los hombres en quienes no se halla el 
+conocimiento de Dios.... no pudieron entender al que es... 
+sino que creyeron que el fuego, o el viento, o el aire 
+presuroso, o el Sol y la Luna, son los dioses que gobiernan 
+al mundo.Concuya belleza, estando enamorados, tuviéronlos 
+por dioses: sepan cuanto más bello es el señor de ellos...»!* 
+
+
+Los alquimistas afirman que la Gran Obra debe ser 
+comparada a la creación del universo: 
+
+
+15.- Sabiduría XUL, | y ss. 
+
+
+-19- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+«Que el hijo de los filósofos escuche a los sabios que 
+unánimemente concluyeron que esta obra debe ser compa- 
+rada a la creación del universo»'* 
+
+
+«La generación de la piedra se hace al ejemplo de la creación 
+del mundo»'” 
+
+
+Panteismo y alquimia tienen un punto parecido: 
+que lo que está abajo es como lo que está arriba, que 
+todo es uno. 
+
+
+«Entonces el Hombre'*, que tenía poderes plenos sobre el 
+mundo de los seres mortales y de los animales sin razón, se 
+
+
+16.- Filaleteo, La entrada abierta al palacio cerrado del rey. 
+Editorial 7 1/2, Barcelona, 1979. Cap. V-1, pág 51. 
+
+17.- Jean d Espagnet, Arcanum Hermetice opus,canon LXXXIN 
+18.- Este Hombre, no es un hombre ordinario. Hermes Trismegisto 
+dice de él (Poimandres I, 12):«Entonces el Nous, padre de todos 
+los seres, produjo un Hombre parecido a él». Latradición cristiana 
+lo define diciendo (Gen. 1, 6) «Y dijo Dios: hagamos al Hombre a 
+nuestra imagen, conforme a nuestra semejanza». Es el Adan 
+Cadmon de los cabalistas. Este Hombre es explicado de la 
+siguiente manera (Jacob Lorber, Obispo Martín, 75, 16. Muñoz 
+Moya editor, Sevilla 1989): «Referente a los sistemas solares la 
+Nueva Revelación nos dice: El sol de nuestro sistema planetario es 
+un sol del quinto orden. Junto con una gran cantidad de otros soles 
+del quinto orden, de los que Alfa Centauri es nuestro sol vecino 
+más cercano, gira alrededor de un sol central del cuarto orden; 
+todo este conjunto forma un campo solar. 
+
+Incontables soles centrales del cuarto orden, es decir, 
+campos solares enteros, giran alrededor de un sol central del 
+tercer orden, formando con este una región solar. 
+
+Una cantidad inimaginable de soles centrales del tercer 
+orden, es decir, regiones solares enteras, giran alrededor de un 
+
+
+-20 - 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+descolgó a través de la armoniosa maquinaria compuesta de 
+las esferas cuyas envolturas había agujereado y manifestó la 
+hermosa forma de Dios a la Naturaleza de abajo. Cuando 
+ésta hubo visto que el Hombre poseía la forma de Dios junto 
+con la belleza inagotable y toda la energía de los gobernado- 
+res, sonrió de amor: pues había visto reflejarse en el Agua el 
+semblante de esta forma maravillosamente hermosa del 
+hombre, y a su sombra sobre la Tierra. En tanto que él, 
+habiendo visto reverberar en el Agua la presencia de esta 
+forma parecida suya, la amó y quiso morar en ella. Desde el 
+mismo momento que lo quiso lo cumplió. La Naturaleza 
+entonces, recibiendo en ella a su amado, lo abrazó entera, y 
+ambos se unieron ardiendo de amor.»'” 
+
+
+Pero mientras que el panteismo afirma esta unidad 
+como sustancial, como de derecho propio, como iden- 
+tidad, la alquimia la proclama como prestada, proyec- 
+tada, refleja, otra, sin entidad propia, como un don y 
+
+
+sol central del segundo orden, formando con este un universo 
+solar. Y finalmente, un número increíble de soles centrales del 
+segundo orden, es decir, universos solares enteros, giran alrede- 
+dor de un sol central principal, formando con este una enorme 
+vaina globular que ya no gira. 
+
+Incontables vainas globulares forman el microcosmo del gran 
+hombre cósmico: la creación física mayor de que nos habla la 
+Nueva Revelación recibida en los años 1850 por Jakob Lorber. 
+Mientras tanto la astronomía moderna ya ha podido localizar unos 
+cuantos soles centrales del cuarto orden a causa de su extraordina- 
+ria radiación (los cuásares); pero falta todavía que comprenda su 
+función como soles del cuarto orden. Luego quedan por descubrir 
+los soles centrales de los demás órdenes superiores, etc. 
+
+19.- Hermes Trismegisto, Poimandres 1, Muñoz Moya y Montra- 
+veta editor, Sevilla 2000. I, 147. (http://www.mmoya.com) 
+
+
+-21- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+una gracia. Si para el panteista la naturaleza es Dios, 
+para el adepto es sólo un reflejo de Dios. Ambos 
+coinciden en ver las manifestaciones del mundo 
+sublunar, pero mientra el panteista afirma que no existe 
+nada más, la alquimia afirma que Dios existe aparte y 
+que todo ello no es sino su reflejo. 
+
+
+Así pues no hay posibilidad de confusión: la alqui- 
+mia no es un panteismo. 
+
+
+Es más fácil decir lo que no es la alquimia que lo 
+que sí es. 
+
+
+Si examinamos su historia podemos hacer la consta- 
+tación de que siempre ha explicado lo mismo. Natural- 
+mente, sus enseñanzas se han presentado vestidas con el 
+lenguaje propio, más exactamente, con el pensamiento 
+propio de cada época”. Inmersa como está nuestra cultura 
+en la idea del progreso y la evolución resulta chocante a la 
+mentalidad contemporánea la existencia de algo que no 
+cambia a lo largo de varios millares de años, máxime 
+cuando este algo se presenta como un pensamiento total. 
+Dicha inmutabilidad permite suponer una concepción 
+totalmente ajena a cualquier «desarrollo» lineal o espiral 
+
+
+20.- Así, por ejemplo, las abigarradas historias de las divinidades 
+griegas son, entre otras cosas, una manera de dejar constancia de las 
+operaciones de la obra. Su sentido puede ser comprendido según el 
+nivel de profundidad al que se examinen. El lector interesado puede 
+consultar el libro Les fables égiptiennes et grecques dévoilées et 
+reduites au méme principe, avec une explication, de Dom Pernety. 
+Chez Delalain, l'ainé, Libraire, Paris M.DCC.LXXXVI. Existe 
+edición moderna en Editions La Table dEmeraude. París 1991. 
+
+
+-22- 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+del mundo, a cualquier «expansión». Parece como si 
+hubiera mundos superpuestos unos a otros, telescópicos a 
+la manera delos catalejos plegables o de las muñecas rusas 
+(aunque esto es una manera analógica de expresarse). 
+Cada uno de ellos englobaría al inferior sin serenglobado 
+por él. Cada uno de los mundos englobados sería un 
+reflejo pálido del superior, a la manera del triángulo que 
+enelespaciode dos dimensiones, mediante la proyección, 
+refleja de alguna manera el triedro, cuerpo de un espacio 
+de tres dimensiones. En cada mundo inferior habría la 
+misma “pérdida de detalle” y, la vez, también el reflejo del 
+mundo superior. Esta manera de vernoes una concepción 
+específica de la alquimia, sino común a diversos saberes 
+herm��ticos -por ejemplo la cábala- y aotros queno lo son, 
+por ejemplo la mística. 
+
+
+Tampoco es una concepción específíca de la alqui- 
+mia el reconocimiento de que estos mundos no están 
+separados, de que existen puertas de comunicación 
+entre ellos, entre los diversos planos de existencia que 
+representan. Muchas ciencias ocultas coinciden en que 
+se puede pasar del mundo sublunar a los mundos 
+superiores. La alquimia se singulariza por algunos 
+rasgos específicos. 
+
+
+Uno es su materialidad. Ya hemos visto antes que 
+tiene que ver con las ciencias de la naturaleza; no es un 
+saber abstracto sino operativo, de laboratorio: los alqui- 
+mistas fabrican oro. Dicha fabricación no es un fin en sí 
+sino una de las consecuencias de aprender a conocer la 
+
+
+LG 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+naturaleza reproduciendo sus procesos: el alquimista 
+logra mediante el arte lo que ella crea sola, creación del 
+alquimista que es material, tangible. Pero no se detiene 
+en la transmutación de los metales: su objetivo es llevar 
+a la materia a un estado de fijeza perfecta, excluyendo la 
+alternativa de generación y corrupción que caracteriza a 
+nuestro mundo sublunar. En esta materia sublunar entra 
+el cuerpo humano al que también fija, socorriéndolo en 
+todas sus necesidades y asegurándole la posesión de la 
+vida, eternamente fijada. 
+
+
+De muchos de ellos se rumorea que alcanzaron la 
+inmortalidad: Filaleteo, el Cosmopolita, Christian 
+Rosenkreutz, etcétera. 
+
+
+La inmortalidad es pensable. El individuo no es sino 
+la conciencia de la propia identidad psicológica durante 
+un espacio de tiempo, identidad de la que se conoce una 
+parte de sus fundamentos materiales. La biología sabe hoy 
+que los caracteres físicos se transmiten e incluso se conoce 
+el mecanismo de la transmisión. También se tiene un 
+cierto conocimiento empírico de la transmisión de los 
+rasgos psicológicos, aunque la ciencia no está en medida 
+de explicar ni el mecanismo ni su fundamento. Se conoce 
+el asiento material de la memoria aunque se ignora si ésta 
+se transmite en el tiempo al igual que los rasgos físicos. La 
+psicología moderna -Jung y su escuela- afirma que sí y ha 
+llegado a la conclusión -por cierto empírica- de que existe 
+un depósito universal de lo memorizado durante siglos, al 
+que llama «inconsciente colectivo». Experiencias 
+
+
+-24- 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+hipnóticas han regresado al paciente no sólo a la infancia 
+y al periodo fetal, sino a vidas anteriores: sometidos a 
+tratamientos hablaron idiomas que desconocían en su 
+vida ordinaria y describieron lugares y costumbres des- 
+aparecidas varios siglos antes, extremos posteriormente 
+comprobados por historiadores y arqueólogos”. No hay a 
+priori ningún impedimento que niegue la posibilidad de 
+conocer dónde está esta conciencia individual que el 
+sujeto tiene de símismo, adónde pasa, cómo lo hace y cual 
+es el mecanismo para que esta conciencia que la materia 
+tiene de una de sus formas de existencia durante un 
+periodo de tiempo -la vida individual- tenga acceso al 
+almacén donde la única materia existente, sustancia de 
+todo el universo, guarde los recuerdos, las conciencias 
+individuales de sus otras formas de existencia en otros 
+periodos de lo que hemos dado en llamar tiempo”. Si una 
+
+
+21.- Existe una abundante bibliografía al respecto. El lector 
+interesado puede consultar la tercera parte del libro Tres enfoques 
+sobre la reencarnación, de Sebastián de Araúco, espccialmente 
+el cap.I,La reencarnación y la ciencia, editado por el autor Vigo, 
+1979, en donde encontrará abundante información. Igualmente 
+existen experiencias suficientes acerca de la trascensión del 
+espacio, videncias, premoniciones, etc., etc. 
+
+22.- El hermetismo conoce este almacén: «En la sangre está 
+almacenado, por así decirlo, todo lo que el pasado material ha 
+edificado en el hombre». También sabe como leerlo: «En esos 
+casos... se sienten las imágenes del mundo externo; es decir, que 
+sus ascendientes están activos en su Sangre, y, enesas ocasiones, 
+se toma parte, confusa y vagamente, en sus vidas remotas». 
+Véase R. Steiner: El significado oculto de la sangre.. Editorial 
+Kier. Buenos Aires, 1979, 
+
+
+-25- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+nariz tuviera conciencia de sí misma y del mundo exterior 
+podría contar no sólo su historia de generación en genera- 
+ción, de qué combinatoria proceden sus líneas, sino 
+también qué brisas respiró a lo largo de los tiempos, el 
+aroma de qué flores, cuál la tierra que las sustentaba... 
+
+No nos salimos con ello de las ciencias naturales, 
+aunque parezca una combinatoria harto compleja. De 
+donde sínos salimos es del antropomorfismo en cuanto 
+al tiempo y en cuanto a la conciencia. 
+
+
+El tiempo se supone que corre linealmente desde 
+atrás hacia adelante, atrás y adelante que implican la 
+conciencia y la historia humana, o, a un nivel más 
+profundo, la «historia» de la materia de la que conciencia 
+e historia humana serían sólo una parte. Pero el tiempo 
+tal como se viene entendiendo -la medida del movi- 
+miento o el modo de existencia de la materia- sólo tiene 
+sentido en relación con esta propia materia mudable, con 
+el mundo sublunar. Fuera de ella desaparece su necesi- 
+dad y su existencia misma. La serie de los siglos y las 
+épocas sólo tienen sentido desde la materia alterable, 
+sujeta acambio, corruptible, a la que el tiempo define, da 
+entidad y constituye. El tiempo es el modo de existencia 
+de esta materia a la que «coagula» diferenciándola de la 
+indeterminación espacio-temporal del caos, del infinito, 
+permitiéndole «pensarse» a sí misma. Pero el tiempo es 
+un absoluto sólo desde el punto de vista de esa entidad 
+«coagulada», diferenciada del todo, individualizada; 
+desde el punto de vista de la conciencia individual en 
+todos sus grados: mineral, vegetal o animal”. Sólo es 
+
+
+-26- 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+pensable por esa conciencia ala que permite existiren su 
+seno; fuera de ella no existe. 
+
+
+Se es hoy incapaz de pensar desde otra óptica que 
+la de esta «coagulación»; en el caso de los humanos, 
+desde la conciencia de la identidad psicológica indivi- 
+dual, erigida juez supremo y necesariamente ligada al 
+tiempo que, como hemos visto, la forma, constituye su 
+modo de existencia. Por ello se niega la inmortalidad, 
+que es la negación del tiempo. 
+
+
+Ahora bien, si en vez de erigir en juez supremo la 
+conciencia individual que nace y muere en el tiempo, 
+abandonáramos este punto de vista y pudiéramos adop- 
+tar la óptica de la sustancia universal que todo lo 
+conforma, nuestra concepción del tiempo y del espa- 
+cio, de la vida y de la muerte no serían antropomórficas. 
+Podríamos ver nuestra preexistencia como concreción 
+de un todo sin solución de continuidad; podríamos 
+considerar nuestra «duración» no como un absoluto 
+sino como la proyección de un mundo infinito -que 
+incluye todo lo pensable- en este mundo contingente, 
+sublunar, manifestado. Proyección forzosamente ves- 
+tida en el manto del tiempo y el espacio y, por lo tanto, 
+de la conciencia individual. Exclamaríamos como el 
+poverello de Asís: hermano lobo, hermana piedra, 
+hermana flor, hermana estrella, sin que ello fuera un 
+desahogo lírico, sino ciencias naturales. 
+
+
+23.- No entramos aquí ahora en la diferenciación entre «concien- 
+cia» mineral, vegetal y animal, de las que se sobreentiende que no 
+hay que interpretar en sentido antropomorfo. 
+
+
+E 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Esta es la óptica de los alquimistas. Considerándo- 
+nos, dentro del mundo sublunar, como la coagulación 
+de un todo sin solución de continuidad,como una de las 
+innumerables posibilidades de manifestación de la 
+sustancia constituyente de este mundo, se aplican a 
+descubrirla y a averiguar cómo funcionan sus «leyes»: 
+así pueden transmutar los metales, «curar» al reino 
+mineral, vegetal y animal. Considerando que esta sus- 
+tancia es manifestada, creada, y que el ser humano y su 
+conciencia son la proyección de la que acabamos de 
+hablar, aprenden a entrar y salir en el mundo proyecta- 
+do mediante la previa disolución en todo lo existente y 
+la identificación, la comunión, con lo reflejado en la 
+proyección y, por ahí, con lo que se proyecta, con la 
+indeterminación infinita consciente,con Dios. El adepto 
+atraviesa la puerta entre los mundos y para él no tienen 
+sentido ni el espacio ni el tiempo: es inmortal, O, si 
+muere, resucita. No tiene ninguna entidad concreta, 
+pudiendo revestirlas todas, hombre o pájaro. Puede 
+transmutar a los metales y puede incluso transmutarse 
+a sí mismo. Su reino no es de este mundo. 
+
+¿Cómo realiza el adepto estas maravillas? 
+
+Muchos son los libros de alquimia escritos por los 
+maestros en los que se aborda uno u otro aspecto de la 
+Gran Obra, o la totalidad de ella. A su estudio remiti- 
+mos al lector, pues nosotros no podemos responder a lo 
+que ignoramos. 
+
+No obstante deseamos subrayar aun otro rasgo 
+peculiar del arte hermético: en uno u otro momento de su 
+
+
+-28- 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+trabajo material con la naturaleza, el alquimista entra en 
+contacto con entidades que no son de este mundo. 
+
+
+«Existe un medio de manipular la materia y la energía de 
+manera que se produzca lo que los científicos contemporá- 
+neos llamarían un campo de fuerza. Este campo de fuerza 
+actúa sobre el observador y lo coloca en una situación 
+privilegiada frente al universo. Desde este punto privilegia- 
+do tiene acceso a realidades que el espacio y el tiempo, la 
+materia y la energía, suelen ocultarnos...» 
+
+
+Así se expresa Fulcanelli según cuenta J. Bergier 
+en la obra que hemos citado antes. 
+
+
+«Y sé que muchos, como yo, poseemos este secreto, y estoy 
+persuadido de que hay muchos otros más, con los que 
+próximamente entraré, por así decirlo, en una familiar y 
+cotidiana comunicación.» 
+
+
+Es Filaleteo (Introitus, Prefacio, 1H) quien alude a 
+esta, por así decirlo, «familiar y cotidiana comunica- 
+ción» con muchos otros. 
+
+
+En innumerables obras de alquimia aparecen en 
+determinado momento guías, ancianos, asambleas de 
+ancianos, espíritus alados, ángeles, vírgenes, etcétera. 
+En muchas ocasiones no son sino simbolismos de 
+fuerzas y operaciones, digamos «físicas» para enten- 
+dernos grosso modo. Pero en otras también sirven para 
+designar entidades que acogen al adepto y cuyas for- 
+mas de existencia no son las de este mundo, no son las 
+de la naturaleza conocida, son sobrenaturales. 
+
+
+-29- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Carácter sobrenatural que no hay que entender - 
+una vez más la materialidad de la alquimia- como 
+magia. Así como Aristóteles colocaba después de la 
+física a la metafísica (literalmente: lo que está más allá 
+de la física), estas entidades sobrenaturales interme- 
+dias entre el hombre y Dios -absolutamente trascen- 
+dente e inefable- son sobrenaturales en el sentido de 
+que están más allá de la naturaleza. Eso no quiere decir 
+que sean incognoscibles, intratables. Existen con inde- 
+pendencia de los hombres individuales, por sobre ellos, 
+pero éstos pueden llegar a conocerlas”, a tener trato 
+con ellas; más aún, a fundirse con ellas, transformán- 
+dose así en una de ellas. Tal es la pretensión de la 
+alquimia. 
+
+Incluso algunos escritos abordan el problema de las 
+relaciones entre el mundo de la naturaleza -hombre com- 
+prendido y del que es conveniente no olvidar la gran 
+cantidad de cosas que se ignoran- con las formas inferio- 
+res del mundo sobrenatural. Así Dom Pernety, después de 
+explicar que en la naturaleza existen las transmutaciones 
+puesto que ésta transforma las sustancias de la tierra en 
+
+
+24- No nos extendemos ahora aquí en por qué algunos humanos 
+tienen acceso a este conocimiento. Los maestros son unánimes en 
+explicar que por la voluntad libre de Dios. «He aquí uno de 
+nuestros hijos que Dios quiere hacer tan grande como sus padres. 
+. >» (Saint Germain: La santísima trinosofía). «Fuera lo que fuese, 
+comprendí que Dios me permitía asistir a unas bodas ocultas...» 
+(Las bodas químicas de Christian Rosenkreutz). «A aquel que ha 
+sido beatificado por Dios con este talento...» (Filaleteo: Introitus), 
+etc., etc. 
+
+
+30 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+frutos o flores, los vegetales en músculo, nervios o pensa- 
+miento, concluye con la siguiente afirmación: 
+
+
+«La metempsicosis” de los antiguos filósofos no es otra 
+cosa que las transmutaciones de la naturaleza, tomadas en su 
+verdadero sentido físico»? 
+
+
+También podemos leer en Las bodas químicas..., 
+cuando el protagonista es sacado de la torre (alusión al 
+mundo terrestre), el siguiente sorprendente párrafo: 
+
+
+«“¡Ay!, cómo compadezco a los pobres hombres de la torre; 
+ojalá que Dios me permita liberarlos a todos”. El hijo 
+respondió: “Madre, Dios lo ha ordenado así y no debemos 
+desobedecerle. Si todos fuéramos señores y poseyéramos 
+los bienes de la Tierra, ¿quién nos serviría cuando estuvié- 
+ramos en la mesa?” Su madre no respondió nada»?” 
+
+
+No entramos ahora en el problema de las relacio- 
+nes entre ambos mundos, vasto y complicado tema que 
+se sale del marco de estas notas y que sólo hemos 
+rozado para mostrar que el mundo natural y el sobrena- 
+tural no están separados en la alquimia por ninguna 
+barrera infranqueable, que, por el contrario, son distin- 
+tas formas de existencia, distintas coagula de un todo 
+sin solución de continuidad, al menos a este nivel. 
+
+
+25.- La transmigración de las almas, la serie de reencarnaciones 
+sucesivas. 
+
+26.- Dom Pernety, Dictionnaire Mytho-Hermetique. A Paris, 
+Quai des Agustins. Chez Bauche, libraire, M.DCC.LVIT. 
+
+27.- Valentín Andrez, Las bodas químicas dc Christian 
+Rosenkreutz. Día 1. Editado en esta colección. 
+
+
+Le 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Puede afirmarse sin lugar a dudas en base en las 
+aseveraciones de los propios alquimistas que, en un 
+momento los adeptos entran en contacto con estas 
+formas de existencia más amplias que la «coagula- 
+ción» espacio-temporal de la individualidad humana: 
+con los espíritus, con los ángeles, con formas de 
+existencia conscientes y comunicantes cuya ipseidad, 
+repetimos, no es de este mundo. Sobre el cómo de este 
+contacto y sobre la naturaleza de dichas entidades los 
+adeptos han sido, a nuestro conocimiento, extraordina- 
+riamente reservados. Aunque una conclusión se des- 
+prende unánime de todos ellos: sin la ayuda de estas 
+entidades, su trabajo no habría llegado a su fin. 
+
+
+Lector atento, lo hasta aquí dicho son reflexiones 
+banales sobre un saber cuyo objeto y cuyo método, 
+indisolublemente ligados como en todo saber, superan 
+de lejos el círculo estrecho de nuestros conceptos 
+precisos. Estas líneas introductorias han sido escritas 
+en lenguaje restringido, el de la racionalidad, el de lo 
+universalmente comunicable; en igual lenguaje están 
+redactadas todas nuestras notas y observaciones a los 
+textos alquímicos y otros. Dicha restricción no favore- 
+ce, sino que obstaculiza la comprensión de aquello que 
+el texto dice. 
+
+
+No les prestes pues atención. Sin embargo, entien- 
+de que, puesto que de libros publicados se trata, no son 
+enteramente inútiles. 
+
+Quién sea cada autor, a qué «escuela» pertenezca. 
+es enteramente igual. Independientemente de su propia 
+
+
+-32- 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+voluntad, no se trata aquí sino de una manifestación del 
+Espíritu, en el tiempo, sí, pero no concerniente a 
+ninguna fenomenología de la historia. En el tiempo 
+estamos y en él se manifiesta el Espíritu, pero no para 
+historizarse, sino para inmortalizarnos. Tampoco im- 
+porta cómo ni a través de quién se manifiesta y las 
+discusiones al respecto son enteramente inútiles, pues 
+nies problema de nuestra incumbencia, ni seguramen- 
+te podemos situarlo. 
+
+
+Por alguna razón tendrás este libro entre las manos. 
+Lee pues, lector, y que el Señor quiera serte propicio. 
+Dicen los maestros que llega un momento en que los 
+libros no hacen falta: ojalá te sea dado alcanzarlo. 
+Deseo pedirte tu bendición si eres ser piadoso. 
+
+
+Que la luz, la bendición y la proteccción divinas 
+sean con nosotros. 
+
+
+Miguel Angel Muñoz Moya 
+
+Xochimilco, México, 
+
+Puebla del Maestre (Badajoz), España 
+
+1% de noviembre1997, 
+
+día de la Comunión entre los vivos y los muertos 
+de esta vida terrenal. 
+
+
+33%, 
+
+
+La Tabla de Esmeralda 
+
+
+de 
+Hermes Trismegisto 
+
+
+TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+de Hermes Trismegisto 
+sobre la química? 
+
+
+Palabras de los secretos de Hermes escritas sobre una 
+
+
+tabla de esmeralda que sostenía en sus manos cuando, en 
+una cueva oscura, fue encontrado su cuerpo embalsamado. 
+
+
+Verdad sin mentira, cierto y muy verdadero: 
+lo que es inferior es como lo que es superior; 
+y lo que es superior es como lo que es inferior, 
+
+
+para los cumplimientos de los milagros de una 
+sola cosa. 
+
+
+Y como todas las cosas fueron desde uno, 
+por la meditación de uno sólo, 
+
+igualmente las cosas fueron nacidas por ello 
+de una cosa, por adaptación. 
+
+Su padre es el Sol, su madre la Luna. 
+
+El viento la ha llevado en su vientre. 
+
+
+28.- Traducción de la primera edición impresa aparecida en 
+Nuremberg, en 1541 
+
+
+32 
+
+
+HERMES TRISMEGISTO 
+
+
+La Tierra es su nodriza. 
+
+En ella está el padre de todos los talismanes del 
+mundo. 
+
+Si es hecha tierra, su fuerza está entera. 
+
+
+Separarás la Tierra del fuego, lo sutil de lo espeso, 
+con gran inteligencia. 
+
+
+Él subió de la Tierra al cielo, de nuevo descendió 
+a la Tierra, y recibió la fuerza superior e inferior. 
+
+
+Así tendrás la gloria del mundo entero. 
+
+Por ello toda oscuridad se aleja a ti. 
+
+Aquí está la fuerte fuerza de toda fuerza, 
+
+que vence toda cosa sutil 
+
+y penetra toda cosa sólida. 
+
+Así es creado el mundo. 
+
+Tales son las admirables adaptaciones cuya manera 
+está aquí. 
+
+Poresosoy llamado Hermes Trismegisto, poseyen- 
+do las tres partes de la filosofía del mundo entero. 
+Completo es lo que he dicho de la operación del Sol. 
+
+
+-38 - 
+
+
+OTRA VERSIÓN 
+DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA” 
+
+
+AQUI SE ENCUENTRA LA FORMACION 
+DE LA NATURALEZA 
+
+
+Es verdad, fuera de duda, cierto, auténtico, 
+
+que lo superior viene de lo inferior y lo inferior de lo 
+superior. 
+
+Él hizo maravillas a partir de Uno; 
+
+
+cómo todas las cosas proceden de Uno por un 
+procedimiento común, 
+
+
+cómo todas las cosas son producidas de esta 
+sustancia por un procedimiento común. 
+
+
+¡Cuán maravillosa es su ciencia! El es la cabeza del 
+
+
+- mundo, enel que su padre es el Sol y su madre la 
+Luna. 
+
+
+29.- Publicada en la revista Alchimie mediterranéenne. Traduci- 
+da por Omar Yeshia y Munir Hafez. 
+
+
+-39- 
+
+
+HERMES TRISMEGISTO 
+
+
+El viento lo ha llevado en su seno y la Tierra lo ha 
+alimentado. 
+
+Él es el padre de los talismanes, el poseedor de las 
+maravillas. 
+
+Sus facultades son perfectas. 
+
+Él es el restaurador de las luces. 
+
+La tierra se ha vuelto un fuego. 
+
+Separa la tierra del fuego y él te iluminará. 
+
+Lo sutil es más noble que lo grosero. 
+Lentamente, suavemente, sube hacia el cielo, 
+coge la luz, y después vuelve a bajar a la Tierra. 
+En Él está la facultad de lo superior y de lo inferior. 
+pues en Él hay la luz de las luces, 
+
+y es por lo que las tinieblas le huyen. 
+
+La fuerza del poderoso vence todas las cosas. 
+Toda cosa sutil penetra toda cosa grosera. 
+
+
+El microcosmos está formado como el macrocos- 
+mos. 
+
+
+Esto es mi gloria, 
+y es por eso por lo que soy llamado Hermes, 
+tres veces grandes por la sabiduría. 
+
+
+e | 
+
+
+UNA VERSIÓN MÁS 
+DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA” 
+
+
+Es verdadero, sin falsedad alguna, cierto y muy 
+cierto. 
+
+Lo que está encima es igual a lo que está debajo, y 
+lo que está debajo esigual alo que está encima para 
+que se cumplan los milagros de una sola cosa. 
+
+Y como quiera que todas las cosas lo fueron por la 
+contemplación de una sóla, así también todas las 
+cosas surgieron de esta única cosa por un simple 
+acto de adaptación. 
+
+El padre de ello es el Sol, la madre la Luna. 
+
+El viento lo llevaba en su seno y la Tierra es su 
+nodriza. 
+
+
+30.-E.J]. HOLMYAROD. Alchemy. Penguin Books Ltd. Hatmond- 
+sworth, Middlessex, 1957. De este libro, excelente en muchos 
+aspectos y con una especial dedicación a los mal conocidos al- 
+quimistas ingleses, existe traducción española de María Samper: 
+Alquimia. Ediciones Redecilla, Barcelona, 1961. 
+
+
+-41- 
+
+
+HERMES TRISMEGISTO 
+
+
+Es el padre de todas las obras maravillosas a lo 
+largo y ancho del mundo. 
+
+
+El poder del mismo es perfecto. 
+
+Si fuese arrojado a la Tierra separaría al elemento 
+Tierra del elemento Fuego, lo sutil de lo grosero. 
+Con gran sagacidad asciende suavemente desde la 
+Tierra al Cielo. 
+
+Desciende de nuevo a la Tierra y reúne en sí la 
+fuerza de las cosas superiores y de las cosas 
+inferiores. 
+
+Asíposeerás la gloria del brillo de todo el universo 
+y toda oscuridad huirá lejos de ti. 
+
+Esta cosa es la recia fortitud de toda fortaleza, ya 
+que vence a toda cosa muy sutil y penetra en toda 
+sustancia sólida. 
+
+Es así como fue creado este mundo. 
+
+
+Por consiguiente, se alcanzarán adapataciones 
+maravillosas de las cuales ésta es la clase. 
+
+Por esta razón me llaman Hermes Trismegisto., 
+porque poseo tres partes de la sabiduría del mundo 
+entero. 
+
+Lo que tenía que decir sobre la operación del Sol 
+está consumado. 
+
+
+-42- 
+
+
+Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis 
+
+
+Esse refert Hermes supera inferioribus «qua, 
+Si quis mirandum perficere optet opus, 
+Errantes celso cernuntur in axe Planete, 
+His est par est fructu Terra metallifero. 
+Sol Pater est lapidis, Mater vaga Cynthia. 
+Ventus ventre tulit natum, terra cibavit eum. 
+
+
+-43- 
+
+
+Es dicho por Hermes que lo superior ha de ser 
+igualado a lo inferior, 
+
+
+si quieres hacer una obra maravillosa 
+
+
+Errantes en lo alto son movidos en el eje los 
+planetas 
+
+
+Por su fruto metalífero, la tierra es semejante. 
+El Sol es el padre de la piedra, la errante Cintia 
+madre. 
+
+El Viento la hallevado en su vientre. La Tierra la 
+ha nutrido. 
+
+
+Esta Tabla de Esmeralda en lenguaje simbólico 
+está publicada como lámina 95 del compendio de 
+alquimia publicado bajo el título de  Viridarium 
+Chymicum (El Jardín Químico) **: 
+
+Según Bernard Husson, está sacada del Prodomus 
+Rhodostauroticus , libro de tradición rosacruz” publi- 
+cado por primera vez en Heidelberg en 1620. La com- 
+posición del interior del círculo procede a su vez de El 
+vellocino de Oro”, de fecha anterior. 
+
+
+Los tres escudos ligados por cadenas son la Sal 
+representada por una estrella, el Azufre representado 
+por un león y el Mercurio representado por un águila 
+bicéfala. A la izquierda de la estrella salina se encuentra 
+la tierra y a la derecha el cielo. Entre los tres encierran 
+una esfera crucífera en cuyo interior hay una au 
+invertida cuyo giro a la derecha, al decir de Bernard 
+Husson, daría el signo espagírico del vitriolo. 
+
+
+31.- Viridarium Chymicum. Muñoz Moyaeditores. Sevilla, 1986. 
+32.- En griego rodos sigifica rosa, y stauros Cruz. 
+
+33 - Véase Salomon Trismosin, «La Toison d'Or ou La Fleur des 
+trésors», pág. 12. Existe versión moderna en Ed. Retz, París, 1975. 
+
+
+- 45 - 
+
+
+HERMES TRISMEGISTO 
+
+
+El poema que explica la ilustración en El vellocino 
+de Oro dice que «de este vitriolo nacen los metales». 
+Estos metales los vemos arriba del grabado como 
+círculos que rodean un cáliz en el que el sol y la luna 
+vierten su flujo. 
+
+
+Hay que tener igualmente presente para una ajus- 
+tada interpretación de esta lámina que los metales son 
+tambien calendarios e indicadores de las fases de la 
+Obra (el lector interesado puede profundizar el tema en 
+muchos textos clásicos como, p. ej. la novena llave de 
+Basilio Valentín titulada «La revolución de los plane- 
+tas y los colores») 
+
+
+La filacteria circular contiene el conocido axioma 
+hermético Visita Interiora Terre Rectficando Invenies 
+Occultum Lapidem, Visita Interior de la Tierra Recti- 
+ficando Encuentras la Oculta Piedra, cuya interpreta- 
+ción así como el lugar donde poner las comas ha dado 
+lugar a numerosísimos comentarios. 
+
+
+Acabemos señalando que el conjunto, visto en 
+perspectiva, son dos círculos inscritos en un cuadrado, 
+alusión según algunos al atanor y al horno. Las flores 
+de los vértices, cuatro pétalos, macho y hembra, com- 
+pletan el significado de esta obra simbólica, que no en 
+balde, Basilio Valentín incluye en sus Doce Llaves de 
+la Filosofía* bajo el título Paradigma de la Gran Obra. 
+
+
+34.- Basilio Valentín, Las doce llaves de la F ilosofía. Publicado 
+en esta colección. 
+
+
+-46 - 
+
+
+Explicación 
+de 
+La Tabla de Esmeralda 
+
+
+por 
+Hortulano 
+
+
+El siglo XIV ve surgir toda una pléyade 
+de Artistas.... 
+
+
+Grasseo, llamado Hortulano, comentarista de 
+La tabla de Esmeralda (1358)... 
+
+
+Fulcanelli + 
+
+
+35.- Fulcanelli: Las Moradas Filosofales, cap. MM, La alquimia 
+medieval. Muñoz Moya editor. Sevilla, 1989, pág. 107. 
+
+
+-49- 
+
+
+¡Alabanza, honor y gloria os sean rendidas eterna- 
+mente, oh Señor, Dios todopoderoso! con vuestro muy 
+amado Hijo, nuestro salvador Jesús-Cristo, verdadero 
+Dios y único Hombre perfecto, y el Santo Espíritu 
+consolador, Trinidad Santa, que sois el Dios único. Os 
+doy gracias porque habiendo conocido las cosas pasa- 
+jeras de este mundo, enemigo nuestro, me habéis 
+sacado de él por vuestra gran misericordia, para que no 
+fuese pervertido por sus engañadoras voluptuosidades. 
+Y porque he visto muchos de los que trabajan en este 
+Arte que no siguen el camino derecho, os suplico, oh 
+Señor mío y mi Dios, que os pluja que pueda alejar de 
+este error, por la Ciencia que me habéis dado, a mis 
+muy queridos y bien amados, para que, habiendo 
+conocido la verdad, puedan alabar vuestro santo Nom- 
+bre, que es eternamente bendito. 
+
+
+Por tanto yo, Hortulano, es decir Jardinero, así 
+llamado a causa de los Jardines marítimos, indigno de 
+ser llamado Discípulo de la Filosofía, conmovido por 
+la amistad que tengo a mis muy queridos, he querido 
+poner por escrito la declaración y explicación cierta de 
+las palabras de Hermes, padre de los Filósofos aunque 
+
+
+a 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+ellas sean oscuras, y declarar sinceramente toda la 
+práctica de la Verdadera Obra. Y cierto que no sirve de 
+nada a los Filósofos querer esconder la Ciencia en sus 
+escritos, cuando obra la Doctrina del Espíritu Santo. 
+
+
+-52- 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Capítulo primero 
+E] Arte de Alquimia es verdadero y cierto 
+
+
+El Filósofo dice: Es verdad, a saber, que el Arte de 
+Alquimia nos ha sido dado. Sin mentira; dice eso para 
+convencer a los que dicen que la Ciencia es embustera, 
+es decir, falsa. Cierto, es decir experimentado, pues 
+todo lo que es experimentado es muy cierto y muy 
+verdadero pues el muy verdadero Sol es procreado por 
+el Arte. 
+
+
+Dice muy verdadero, en superlativo, porque el Sol 
+engendrado por este Arte, sobrepasa a todo Sol natural 
+en todas las propiedades, tanto medicinales como otras. 
+
+
+5 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+Capítulo 1 
+La Piedra debe ser dividida en dos partes 
+
+
+A continuación toca la operación de la Piedra 
+diciendo que lo que está abajo es como lo que está 
+arriba. 
+
+
+Dice eso porque la Piedra está dividida por el 
+Magisterio en dos partes principales, a saber, en la 
+parte superior, que sube arriba, y en la parte inferior que 
+queda abajo fija y clara. Y sin embargo estas dos partes. 
+son acordes en virtud. Es por lo que dice: y lo que está 
+arriba es como lo que está abajo. Ciertamente esta 
+división es necesaria. Para hacer los Milagros de una 
+cosa. Es decir de la Piedra; pues la parte inferior es la 
+Tierra, que es la Nodriza y el Fermento; y la parte 
+superior es el Alma, la cual vivifica toda la Piedra, y la 
+resucita, Es por lo que estando hecha la Separación y la 
+Conjunción muchos Milagros vienen a hacerse en la 
+Obra secreta de la Naturaleza. 
+
+
+-54- 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Capítulo IU 
+La Piedra tiene en sí los cuatro elementos 
+
+
+Y como todas las cosas han sido y son venidas de 
+ino por la mediación de uno. Aquí da un ejemplo 
+liciendo: Como todas las cosas han sido y son salidas 
+le uno, a saber, de un globo confuso, o de una masa 
+onfusa, por la mediación,es decir, porel pensamiento 
+, creación de uno, es decir, de Dios todopoderoso. Así 
+on nacidas todas las cosas.Es decir son salidas de esta 
+osa única, es decir de una Masa confusa, por adapta- 
+ión, es decir por el solo mando y milagro de Dios. Así 
+uestra Piedra es creada y salida de una Masa confusa, 
+-onteniendo en sí todos los Elementos, la cual ha sido 
+reada por Dios, y por su Milagro, nuestra Piedra ha 
+salido y nacido de Él. 
+
+
+-55- 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+Capítulo IV 
+La Piedra tiene Padre y Madre, 
+que son el Sol y la Luna 
+
+
+Como vemos que un Animal engendra natural- 
+mente varios otros animales parecidos a él, así el Sol 
+engendra artificialmente el Sol por la virtud de la 
+Multiplicación de la Piedra. Es por lo que sigue: El So/ 
+es su Padre, es decir, el Oro de los Filósofos. Y porque 
+en todas las generaciones naturales debe haber un lugar 
+propio para recibir las Simientes, con alguna conformi- 
+dad de parecido en parte. Así es necesario que en esta 
+Generación artificial de la Piedra, el Sol tenga una 
+materia que sea como una Matriz propia para recibir su 
+Esperma y su Tintura. Y eso es la Plata de los Filósofos. 
+Por ello es por lo que sigue, y la Luna es su Madre. 
+
+
+-56- 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Capítulo V 
+La conjunción de las Partes 
+es la concepción y la generación de la Piedra 
+
+
+Cuando estos dos se reciben el uno al otro en la 
+Conjunción de la Piedra, la Piedra se engendra en el 
+vientre del Viento, y es lo que dice poco después: El 
+Viento la ha llevado en su Vientre. Se sabe bien que el 
+
+
+Viento es Aire, y el Aire es vida, y la vida es el Alma, 
+
+
+la cual ya he dicho antes que vivifica toda la Piedra. Así 
+es preciso que el Viento lleve toda la Piedra, y la lleve 
+de nuevo, y que engendre el Magisterio. Es por lo que 
+se sigue que debe recibir alimento de su Nodriza, a 
+saber de la Tierra. Así el Filósofo dice: La Tierra es su 
+Nodriza. Pues al igual que el Niño no llegaría nunca a 
+crecer sin el alimento que recibe de su Nodriza, de la 
+misma manera nuestra Piedra no llegaría nunca a 
+efecto sin la fermentación de la Tierra; y el fermento es 
+llamado alimento. De tal suerte se engendra de un 
+Padre,con la conjunción de su Madre, la cosa,es decir, 
+los Hijos parecidos a los Padres, los cuales, si la 
+
+
+- cocción noes larga, serán hechos parecidos a la Madre, 
+
+
+y retendrán el peso del Padre. 
+
+
+-57- 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+Capítulo VI 
+La Piedra es perfecta 
+si el Alma es fijada en el Cuerpo 
+
+
+Después continúa: El Padre de todo el Telema del 
+Mundo está aquí, es decir, en la Obra de la Piedra hay 
+una vía final. Y observad que el Filósofo llama a la 
+Operación el Padre de todo el Telema, es decir, de todo 
+el Secreto o Tesoro de todo el Mundo, a saber, de toda 
+Piedra que ha podido encontrarse en este Mundo. Está 
+aquí. Como si dijera: he aquí que te la enseño. Después 
+el Filósofo dice ¿quieres que te enseñe cuando la fuerza 
+de la Piedra está acabada y es perfecta? 
+
+
+Ello ocurrirá cuando sea convertida y cambiada en 
+su tierra. Y por eso, dice, su fuerza y potencia está 
+entera, es decir, perfecta y completa, si es convertida 
+y cambiada en tierra. Es decir, si el alma de la Piedra 
+(de la que hemos mencionado mas arriba que el Alma 
+es llamada Viento, y Aire, en la cual está toda la vida 
+y la fuerza de la Piedra) es convertida en tierra, a saber 
+de la Piedra, y la fija de manera tal que toda la Sustancia 
+
+
+- 58 - 
+
+
+| 
+¿ 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+* de la Piedra esté tan bien unida con la Nodriza (que es 
+| la Tierra) que toda la Piedra sea convertida y vuelta 
+- fermento. Y como cuando se hace pan un poco de 
+levadura alimenta y fermenta una gran cantidad de 
+masa y así cambia toda la sustancia de la masa en 
+fermento, también el Filósofo quiere que nuestra Pie- 
+dra sea fermentada de tal manera, que sirva de fermento 
+a su propia multiplicación. 
+
+
+-59- 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+Capítulo VI 
+La mondificación de la Piedra 
+
+
+A continuación enseña como debe multiplicarse la 
+Piedra: pero antes pone la mondificación de la misma 
+y la separación de las partes, diciendo: Separarás lu 
+Tierra del Fuego, el Sutil del Espeso, suavemente, con 
+gran industria. Suavemente, es decir, poco a poco, no 
+con violencia, sino con espíritu e industria, a saber por 
+la mierda* de ave o estiércol filosofal. Separarás, es 
+decir, disolverás, pues la disolución es la separación de 
+las partes. La Tierra del Fuego, el Sutil del Espeso, es 
+decir, los posos y la inmundicia del Fuego, del Aire y 
+del Agua y de toda la Sustancia de la Piedra de manera 
+que quede enteramente sin inmundicia. 
+
+
+36.- La palabra original significa literalmente: «excremento o 
+líquido de aves, de pájaros salvajes; y de algunos animales» 
+
+
+-60- 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Capítulo VIII 
+La Parte no fija de la Piedra, 
+debe separar la Parte fija y elevarla 
+
+
+Estando preparada la Piedra de esta forma, se 
+puede entonces multiplicar. Por lo tanto pone ahora la 
+Multiplicación; y habla de la fácil licuefacción o 
+fusión de ésta por la virtud que la misma tiene de ser 
+
+
+- entrante y penetrante en los Cuerpos duros y blandos, 
+
+
+diciendo: Sube de la Tierra al cielo y directamente 
+desciende a la Tierra. Aquí hay que notar bien que 
+aunque nuestra Piedra, en su primera Operación, se 
+divida en cuatro partes, que son los cuatro Elementos, 
+sin embargo, como ha sido dicho arriba, hay dos Partes 
+principales en ella; una que sube arriba, que es llamada 
+la no fija, o la volátil; y la otra que queda fija abajo, que 
+
+
+- es llamada tierra o fermento, como se ha dicho. Pero 
+
+
+hay que tener gran cantidad de la parte no fija, y darle 
+a la Piedra, cuando la misma esté muy limpia y sin 
+suciedad, y hay que darle tantas veces, por el Magiste- 
+rio, que toda la Piedra, por la virtud del Espíritu, sea 
+llevada arriba, sublimándola y haciéndola sutil. Y eso 
+
+
+es lo que dice el Filósofo: Él sube de la Tierra al Cielo. 
+
+
+-61- 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+Capítulo IX 
+La Piedra volátil 
+debe ser fijada una segunda vez” 
+
+
+Después de todo eso, hay que incerar*? esta misma 
+Piedra (así exaltada y elevada, o sublimada) con el 
+Aceite que ha sido sacado de ella en la primera opera- 
+ción que se llama Agua de la Piedra. Y hay que darle 
+vueltas muy a menudo al sublimarla, hasta que por la 
+virtud de la fermentación de la Tierra (con la Piedra 
+elevada o sublimada) toda la Piedra, por reiteración. 
+desciende del Cielo a la Tierra, permaneciendo fija y 
+fluyente. Y es lo que dice el Filósofo: desciende a la 
+tierra. Y así: Recibe la fuerza de las cosas superiores, 
+sublimando, de las inferiores, descendiendo; es decir, 
+que lo que es corporal, será hecho espiritual en la 
+sublimación, y lo espiritual, será hecho corporal en la 
+Descensión, o cuando la materia desciende. 
+
+
+37.- Una segunda vez; una vez todavía. 
+38.- Incerar: de la raíz latina cera: dar a una materia la consisten- 
+cia de la cera, mezclar cera a una sustancia. 
+
+
+6D 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Capítulo X 
+De la utilidad de Arte 
+y de la eficacia de la Piedra 
+
+
+Tendrás por este medio la gloria de todo el Mundo. 
+Es decir, por esta Piedra así compuesta, poseerás la 
+gloria de todo el Mundo. Y por eso toda oscuridad se 
+irá de ti,es decir toda pobreza y enfermedad. Ello es la 
+Fuerza fuerte de toda fuerza. Pues no hay ninguna 
+comparación de las otras Fuerzas de este Mundo con la 
+Fuerza de esta Piedra: pues ella vencerá toda cosa sutil, 
+y penetrará toda cosa sólida. Vencerá, es decir, ven- 
+ciendo y subiendo, cambiará y convertirá el Mercurio 
+vivo congelándolo, él que es sutil y blando, y penetrará 
+los otros Metales, que son cuerpos duros, sólidos y 
+firmes. 
+
+
+-63 - 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+Capítulo XI 
+El Magisterio imita 
+la Creación del Universo 
+
+
+El filósofo da a continuación un ejemplo de la 
+Composición de la Piedra, diciendo: Así ha sido creado 
+el Mundo, es decir, que nuestra Piedra está hecha de la 
+misma manera como ha sido creado el Mundo. Pues las 
+primeras cosas de todo el Mundo, todo lo que ha sido 
+en el Mundo, ha sido primero una Masa confusa, y un 
+Caos sin orden, como ha sido dicho arriba. Y después, 
+por el artificio del soberano Creador, esta Masa confu- 
+sa, habiendo sido admirablemente separada y rectifica- 
+da, ha sido dividida en cuatro Elementos: y a causa de 
+esta separación, se hacen diversas y diferentes cosas. 
+Así también se pueden hacer diversas y diferentes 
+cosas por la producción y disposición de nuestra Obra, 
+y ello por la separación de los diversos Elementos de 
+los diversos Cuerpos. De ello serán y saldrán admira- 
+bles adaptaciones. Es decir, si separas los Elementos, 
+se harán admirables Composiciones propias a nuestra 
+
+
+- 64 - 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+-Obra, en la Composición de nuestra Piedra, por la 
+conjunción de los Elementos rectificados. De las cua- 
+* les, es decir de cuyas cosas admirables propias para 
+] ello, el medio, saber proceder a ello, está aquí. 
+
+
+-65- 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+Capítulo XII 
+Declaración enigmática 
+de la Materia de la Piedra 
+
+
+Es por lo que ha sido llamado Hermes Trismegis- 
+to, es decir, Mercurio tres veces grande. Después que 
+el Filósofo ha enseñado la Composición de la Piedra, 
+muestra aquí encubiertamente de qué se hace nuestra 
+Piedra, nombrándose a sí mismo. Primero, para que los 
+discípulos que lleguen a esta Ciencia, se acuerden 
+siempre de su nombre. Pero sin embargo toca de qué 
+está hecha la Piedra diciendo a continuación: Teniendo 
+las tres partes de la Filosofía de todo el Mundo, porque 
+todo lo que es en el Mundo, teniendo Materia y Forma, 
+está compuesto de los cuatro elementos. Aunque en el 
+Mundo haya una infinidad de cosas que lo componen 
+y que son las Partes, el Filósofo sin embargo las divide 
+y las reduce todas a tres Partes, a saber, a la Parte 
+mineral, vegetal y animal, de todas las cuales, juntas o 
+por separado, ha tenido la verdadera Ciencia, en la 
+operación del Sol, o Composición de la Piedra. Por eso 
+
+
+-66- 
+
+
+EXPLICACIÓN DE LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+es por lo que dice: Teniendo las tres partes de la 
+: Filosofía de todo el Mundo, cuyas todas tres están 
+contenidas en la sola Piedra, a saber, en el Mercurio de 
+los Filósofos. 
+
+
+- 67 - 
+
+
+HORTULANO 
+
+
+Capítulo XII 
+Por qué la Piedra es llamada perfecta 
+
+
+Esta Piedra es llamada perfecta, porque tiene en sí 
+la naturaleza de las cosas minerales, vegetales y anima- 
+les. Es por lo que es llamada triple, de otra manera trina- 
+una, es decir triple y única, teniendo cuatro Naturale- 
+zas, a saber, los cuatro Elementos, y tres colores: el 
+negro, el blanco y el rojo. También es llamada grano de 
+trigo el cual, si no muere, quedará solo, y si muere 
+(como ha sido dicho arriba, cuandos se junta en la 
+conjunción) trae mucho fruto; a saber, cuando las 
+Operaciones de las que hemos hablado, son llevadas al 
+último punto de perfección. ¡Oh, amigo lector! si haces 
+la Operación de la Piedra, te he dicho la verdad, si no 
+la haces, no te he dicho nada. 
+
+
+Lo que yo he dicho de la operación del Sol está 
+acabado y llevado al último punto de perfección. Es 
+decir, lo que ha sido dicho de la Operación de la Piedra 
+de tres Colores y cuatro Naturalezas, que están en una 
+cosa única, a saber, en el solo Mercurio filosofal, está 
+acabado y terminado. 
+
+
+-68- 
+
+
+La Tabla de Esmeralda 
+
+
+por 
+Fulcanelli 
+
+
+(Capítulo de su libro Finis Gloriae Mundi) 
+) 
+
+
+INTRODUCCIÓN 
+
+
+Fulcanelli es el seudónimo del mayor alquimista con- 
+temporáneo, y uno de de los grandes maestros de todos los 
+tiempos. 
+
+Sobre él circulan infinidad de rumores, pero no se sabe 
+nada cierto. 
+
+La revista LA TOUR DE SAINT JACQUES consagró 
+un número especial al misterio de su identidad, existiendo 
+diversas hipótesis. 
+
+La única persona que lo conoció fue Eugene Canseliet 
+a quien Fulcanelli remitió sus manuscritos para su publica- 
+ciónen 1925, pero jamás ha revelado su identidad. Canseliet 
+dice en el Prólogo a la primera edición francesa de EL 
+MISTERIO DE LAS CATEDRALES*: 
+
+
+Hace ya tiempo que el autor de este libro no está entre 
+nosotros. Se extinguió el hombre. Soló persiste su 
+recuerdo ...Sus numerosos amigos, hermanos desco- 
+nocidos que esperaban de él la solución del misterio- 
+
+
+38. Fulcanelli, El Misterio de las catedrales. Muñoz Moya editores, 
+Sevilla 2000 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+so Verbum dimissum, le llorarán conmigo ... Desapa- 
+reció al sonar la hora fatídica, cuando se produjo lu 
+Señal ... Fulcanelli ya no existe. Sin embargo, y éste 
+es nuestro consuelo, su pensamiento permanece, 
+ardiente y vivo, encerrado para siempre en estas 
+páginas como en un sanitario. 
+
+
+Posteriormente, con inciertas alusiones a la existencia 
+en otros planos y a aspectos secretos de la alquimia, tales 
+afirmaciones han sido matizadas y algunos afirman que 
+Fulcanelli siguió existiendo. Según se cuenta, el premio 
+Nobel de física Jacques Bergier, fue visitado en 1937 por 
+Fulcanelli quien le reveló algunos secretos referentes a la 
+fisión nuclear”? Los rumores han seguido proliferando y, al 
+parecer, Fulcanelli ha seguido siendo visto en los más 
+diversos lugares, el último de lo cuales, la ciudad española 
+de Sevilla (España). 
+
+Fulcanelli fue el autor de dos obras cumbres de alqui- 
+mia: una EL MISTERIO DE LAS CATEDRALES Y LA 
+INTERPRETACIÓN ESOTÉRICA DE LOS SÍMBOLOS 
+HERMÉTICOS, y la otra LAS MORADAS FILOSOFALES 
+Y EL SIMBOLISMO HERMÉTICO EN SUS RELACIONES 
+CON EL ARTE SAGRADO Y EL ESOTERISMO DE LA 
+GRAN OBRA. 
+
+Los originales de ambas fueron escritos en francés y 
+publicados por Omnium Literaire de París en 1925 y 1929, 
+
+
+39. Véase El retorno de los Brujos, Louis Pauwels y Jacques Bergier, 
+Plaza i Janés 1971, Cap. La alquimia como ejemplo, II. 
+
+40. Fulcanelli, Las Moradas filosofales, Muñoz Moya editores, Sevilla 
+1989. 
+
+
+-72- 
+
+
+"EA 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+En julio de 1999, Fulcanelli hace llegar el original de su 
++ tercera y última obra a Jacques d' Ares: FINIS GLORIAE 
+. MUNDI." 
+
+El autor ha tenido poderosas razones, expuestas en el 
+libro, para abandonar el silencio 
+
+
+«No es costumbre que un Adepto vuelva a coger la 
+pluma después de haber franqueado su propia trans- 
+mutación y sólo razones imperiosas que ponen en 
+juego el destino de la humanidad entera han podido 
+convencernos para que rompamos esta regla, habi- 
+tualmente inquebrantable, y abandonemos el manto 
+de silencio con el que se cubre quien pasa por las 
+ascuas del Fénix.» 
+
+
+Tras esta fugaz aparición se despide y se retira de nuevo 
+al silencib: 
+
+
+«Este libro, escrito desde la urgencia, será el último 
+que firmará Fulcanelli. Podamos tras eso, habiendo 
+cumplido el deber que nos incumbe, volver a entrar 
+en el Silencio del adeptado y no obrar más que según 
+las vías que requiere este estado.» 
+
+«No es, aunque lleva el mismo título, la que retiramos 
+anuestro leal y muy buen discípulo Eugéne Canseliet, 
+hace ya de eso más de 70 años. Nos pareció entonces 
+que si habían llegado los signos de hacer públicos el 
+modus operandi de la vía seca, los tiempos no esta- 
+
+
+41. Fulcanelli, Finis Gloriae Mundi. Muñoz Moya editores, Sevilla, 2000. 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+ban, ¡ay!, todavía maduros para desvelar los arca- 
+nos del ars brevis»*? 
+
+
+«Los intentos actuales por traer esta excepcional 
+transición de fase a una fecha más satisfactoria para 
+la razón inferior, 1999 en el que estamos o 2000 que 
+es una cifra redonda del calendario, no tienen senti- 
+do alguno.. $ 
+
+
+En Finis Gloriae Mundi se dan indicaciones preciosas 
+sobre el «modus operandi» en general y, en especial, se 
+desvelan arcanos del ars brevis -lo que nunca se había 
+hecho- a quienes intentan aproximarse al Adeptado. 
+
+Por ejemplo Fulcanelli analiza de manera bastante 
+explícita, por no decir de manera totalmente explicita, 
+errores que cometen muchos: el estado de la materia llama- 
+da «Prostituta escarlata»; algunos errores de Filaleteo res- 
+pecto a la confusión de los vasos noble y vil que lleva a la 
+pérdida de la Obra; la trampa «no de las menores» -como 
+dice el autor- que lleva a confundir la estéril prostituta 
+escarlata o el ciclo «de la cuatro edades» con la obtención de 
+la Piedra; algunos remedios para rectificar el error en una u 
+otra de las obras así como la manera de detectarlos; la 
+multiplicación de la quintaesencia y cuantas ruedas pueden 
+hacerse y cuales son sus características; los errores más 
+frecuentes sobre «el sujeto de los sabios»; la insuficiencia 
+-el «ni menos» de un capítulo que se llama «Ni más ni 
+menos»- de «espíritu astral» del que habla Cyliani (Hermes 
+Desvelado) tras la «apertura de la materia» absolutamente 
+
+
+42. Fulcanelli, Finis Gloriae Mundi. Carta de Fulcanelli, Nota introductoria. 
+43. Fulcanelli, Finis Gloriae Mundi. Capítulo IX, Multiplicación. 
+
+
+27d 
+
+
+Ml 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+indispensable para el trabajo del Artista, y un larguísimo 
+etcétera imposible de detallar aquí. 
+
+
+Son cosas no dichas hasta ahora. Sobre todo particular- 
+
+
+' mente claro e importante es los concerniente a las relaciones 
+" entre al Artista y la materia y como estos dos polos de la 
++ obra, artista y materia en obra, se interpenetran y determinan 
+' los resultados. 
+
+
+Pero Fulcanelli no se limita en este libro ala «operatoria» 
+
+
+, y su fundamento filosófico. Las teorías físicas del «campo 
+
+
+unitario» (lo que está abajo es como lo que está arriba), la 
+
+
+' fisión nuclear (el Sol es su padre), los viajes de los 
+
+
+cosmonautas a la luna (la luna es su madre), el control de los 
+climas y la manipulación de la opinión pública (el viento lo 
+
+
+- ha llevado en su vientre), la ingeniería genética (la tierra es 
+- sunodriza), la clonación se seres (su fuerza está entera si es 
+- convertido en tierra), fusión y fisión nuclear (separarás la 
+
+
+: tierra del fuego....) ,el porqué de este inusual comentario de 
+
+
+la Tabla de Esmeralda, así como quien realizó la inversión 
+alquímica, por qué motivo y sobre la base de qué errores 
+alquímicos, están ampliamente tratados, asícomo sus reme- 
+dios. 
+
+También trata, siempre sobre base alquímica, del fin de 
+los tiempos, de la interpretación mecánica de lo que se ha 
+dado en llamar «Las Cuatro edades del Mundo» particular- 
+mente de la de los discípulos de René Genon y de como, al 
+igual que en el crisol, ni estos ciclos, ni el fin de los tiempos, 
+son irreversibles hasta que el Ángel toque su trompeta, así 
+como también explica por qué son inútiles los intentos de 
+inversión alquímica cuyos resultados son la desatrosa socie- 
+dad que vivimos hoy (en el capítulo Las resistencias de la 
+materia). 
+
+
+-75- 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+También hace afirmaciones sorprendentes en el capítu- 
+lo El secreto de los filósofos, como por ejemplo: 
+
+
+«En revistas de divulgación hemos visto descripcio- 
+nes de nuestros pequeños particulares e incluso 
+algunas fases de la obra. En tal situación ya no es útil 
+usar un lenguaje simbólico, tanto menos cuanto que 
+el uso perverso cuya tentación temían los filósofos, 
+ha llegado a ser un juego diario de las potencias 
+militares y de sus servicios especiales.» 
+
+
+FINIS GLORIAE MUNDI, junto con EL MISTERIO 
+DE LAS CATEDRALES y LAS MORADAS 
+FILOSOFALES, es la trilogía de Fulcanelli que conforma 
+una de las obras aqluímicas más importante de todos los 
+tiempos. 
+
+Reproducimos a continuación el capítulo de dicho libro 
+que lleva por título La tabla de esmeralda que, aunque 
+inusual, y más sorprendente todavía separado del contexto 
+del libro cuyo tema podríamos designar muy brumosamente 
+con el nombre de «alquimia social», creemos de estudio y 
+difusión importante y urgente. 
+
+Miguel Angel Muñoz 
+Sevilla, 2000 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+Desde que el presidente Truman mandó lanzar sobre 
+Hiroshima la primera bomba A, inútil desde el punto de 
+vista estratégico puesto que el Japón,exangie, se preparaba 
+para rendirse, rendición que no se adelantó sino unos días, 
+adquirimos la certidumbre que un grupo de hombres perse- 
+guía secretamente un fin más exigente que terminar la 
+guelra. El Sr. Truman y sus consejeros no sólo querían 
+probar su proyecto mortal en condiciones reales sino asegu- 
+rar al gobierno americano una supremacía sin participación 
+y probarlo a los ojos del mundo. No comprendimos el 
+alcance exacto de su proyecto que podía pasar entonces por 
+la ambición de una nueva Roma en el imperio occidental. A 
+lo largo de los decenios siguientes todo el plan se volvió 
+claro a nuestros ojos pues se inspiraba estrechamente en el 
+más corto y esencial de los escritos alquímicos, la Tabla de 
+Esmeralda. 
+
+Releamos por lo tanto este texto mayor para comentar 
+las adaptaciones hechas en ella con el fin de gobernar 
+orientadamente a las sociedades y para el desarrollo de las 
+ciencias. 
+
+
+77 - 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+Es verdad, sin mentira, cierto y muy verdadero. 
+
+Lo que está abajo es como lo que está arriba y lo que 
+está arriba es como lo que está abajo; por estas cosas se 
+hacen los milagros de una sola cosa. Y como todas las 
+cosas son y provienen de UNO, por la mediación de UNO, 
+así todas las cosas son y provienen de esta cosa única, por 
+adaptación. 
+
+
+La unidad, sustrato de toda cosa, fue presentida desde 
+la antigiiedad por los filósofos hindús y griegos como lo 
+atestiguan los Upanishad y el Poema de Parménides. El 
+sentido profundo de estos textos ha sido desarrollado en 
+numerosos comentarios y no insistiremos en ello. Los 
+físicos que conocimos antes de la guerra le daban el nombre 
+de campo unitario y desesperaban encontrarlo mediante sus 
+cálculos y comprender sus efectos. Por nuestra parte ni 
+alentamos ni desalentamos sus esfuerzos en este sentido. 
+Varios de estos sabios, conscientes de las amenazas que 
+hacían pesar sobre el mundo las convulsiones de Alemania 
+y la cristalización de fuerzas oscuras, soñaban entonces en 
+uniformar las sociedades humanas en una misma civiliza- 
+ción pacífica que fuera como el reflejo del campo unitario 
+de la materia. Eran, ya lo hemos dicho, niños deslumbrados 
+por la luz del Umbral, ignorantes de los peligros y 
+desbordantes de entusiasmo. Se preparaban, como en los 
+cuentos de hadas, a vencer al lobo para vivir felices el resto 
+de sus días. ¿Cómo concibieron tantas ilusiones sobre lo que 
+fermentaba desde decenios en las sociedades iniciáticas 
+occidentales con las que algunos de ellos se habían sin 
+embargo relacionado? ¿Cómo pudieron entregarse a los 
+jefes militares y políticos americanos, no atados de pies y 
+
+
+-78 - 
+
+
+Ñ 
+3 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+manos sino corriendo y retozando como niños tras el flau- 
+tista? 
+
+Los primeros trabajos en los que se los empleó versa- 
+ban sobre el campo unitario. Como habíamos previsto 
+fueron vanos. Las raras confidencias del Sr. Rosen, asistente 
+del profesor Einstein, confidencias que nos han sido conta- 
+das, daban cuenta del abandono de las investigaciones a 
+causa de terribles accidentes de los que no comprendían 
+nada y que sus ecuaciones no había permitido prever. Los 
+suministradores de fondos, almirantes de la Navy o directo- 
+res de agencias credas ex profeso y dependientes del Secre- 
+tariado de Defensa, exigieron secreto y aislaron a todos los 
+testigos. Sin embargo, si el campo físico resistía a todos sus 
+esfuerzos, la idea de la unificación de los hombres se abría 
+paso y los accionistas de la industria hacían sus cálculos, 
+seducidos menos por la esperanza de que se acabaran las 
+guerrad que por la perspectiva de un imperio mundial 
+invisible al servicio de América. 
+
+¿Fue entonces cuando cabezas locas se dieron cuenta 
+de la similitud entre las preocupaciones de los sabios y los 
+primeros versículos de la Tabla de Hermes, o ya acariciaban 
+la ambición de remodelar el mundo «reconciliando» tradi- 
+ción y modernidad que la mayor parte de los epígonos del 
+esoterismo se dedicaban a separar cuando no a oponer? No 
+tenemos respuesta a esta pregunta. El esoterismo occidental 
+aparecía desde finales del otro siglo como un campo cerrado 
+en el que se enfrentaban voluntades y proyectos que de 
+tradicional no tenían sino la apariencia y de los que el 
+nazismo ofrecía el más lamentable de los espectáculos. 
+¡Locos fáusticos! Al menos hasta entonces estas quimeras 
+bullían en vasos cerrados, en las trastiendas de librerías 
+polvorientas o en los salones privados de rentistas muertos 
+
+
+-79- 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+de aburrimiento. Pero la aventura nazi dio a muchos de que 
+el poder estaba al alcance de la mano de los audaces. La 
+sinarquía del Sr. Alveydre, que en sus orígenes no era sino 
+una pálida imitación de la sociedad medieval, tomaba el 
+sentido de una dictadura oculta de «superiores desconoci- 
+dos» y todo soplador insignificante, por poco que se hubiera 
+rozado con los ritos mágicos de moda, se sentía el alma de 
+un Cagliostro. 
+
+
+El Sol es su padre... 
+
+
+En 1943, tras los fracasos parciales sobre los trabajos 
+del campo unitario, el interés refluyó hacia las energías 
+intratómicas. A decir verdad ya habían visto la luz, al menos 
+sobre el papel, varios ensayos de «pilas» y todo lo que 
+retenía a los sabios para intentar liberar la energía de Path 
+era el temor a la reacción en cadena. La carta del Sr. Einstein 
+al presidente Roosvelt sirvió de pretexto. ¡Hablad de huesos 
+a los perros, de bombas a los militares y los veréis gruñir de 
+gusto! La continuación es conocida de todos. El Sr. 
+Oppenheimer, citando ante el fogonazo los versos del 
+Majabáratra: «Si de repente apareciera en el cielo el res- 
+plandor de mil soles, su brillo no haría sino aproximarse a la 
+gloria de este espectáculo»* confirmaba a los ojos de los 
+aprendices demiurgos la justeza de la Tabla de Esmeralda. 
+Faltaba todavía que este sol concebido por las manos del 
+
+
+44. Majabáratra, Libro VI. Subrayaremos que estos versos no se 
+aplican a las “terribles armas de Indra” sino a las transfiguraciones de 
+Krisna. Para el Sr. Oppenheimer el fulgor mortal de la bomba se 
+transformaba en la revelación de la gloria de la materia; nadie sabía 
+todavía cuales serían sus consecuencias. (Nota de Fulcanelli) 
+
+
+- 80 - 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+hombre apareciese al mundo en el esplendor de sus nubes; 
+' nuestros rufianes sabían su Biblia y su salmo 18: «De sus 
+narices salía humo y de su boca un fuego devorador... 
+Delante suyo, nubes de las que salían relámpagos, granizos 
+y carbones de fuego...» Así el presidente Truman ordenó 
+bombardear Hiroshima y Nagasaki para que se viera que los 
+rayos y la potencia de los astros ya no pertenecían al Zeus 
+olímpico sino a los hombres, a algunos hombres. 
+
+
+... y la luna su madre 
+
+
+Acabada la guerra y dominado el sol nuclear, se intere- 
+saron inmediatamente por los trabajos del Sr. von Braun y 
+por perfeccionar sus V2. La carrera del espacio alcanzó su 
+punto culminante cuando dos astronautas embutidos en sus 
+escafandras dieron algunos pasos por nuestro satélite. Una 
+interpretación tan literal podría no ser sino trabajo de 
+soplador pero su práctica parece más retorcida. La «con- 
+quista» de la Luna fue abandonada poco tiempo después de 
+esta burda marcha. Sin duda no esperaban de ella sino una 
+huella simbólica en el alma de las masas. Al igual que con 
+la bomba de Hiroshima, un acto ostentoso debía persuadir a 
+los hombres de su dominio sobre las potencias cósmicas e 
+ilusionarlos con que, a continuación, todos participarían de 
+un proyecto que, en los hechos, se reservaban ellos. 
+
+
+-81- 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+El viento lo ha llevado en su vientre. 
+
+
+Del viento, al igual que con la Luna, hicieron una 
+lectura literal y se dedicaron a continuación a controlar los 
+climas reteniendo las masas de aire mediante «muros de 
+ondas» levantados sobre continentes enteros, análogos al 
+confinamiento magnético de los flujos de partículas en los 
+grandes aceleradores. Las primeras experiencias,en 1975 y 
+76, escaparon a todo control durante varios meses. Las 
+segundas, en 1983, tuvieron mejores resultados pero no se 
+levantó su secreto aunque circularon rumores en las univer- 
+sidades. La contrapartida social del dominio de los vientos 
+se tradujo en un intento de controlar la opinión, lo que 
+Virgilio llamaba fama volans, tan móvil y fugaz como la 
+brisa. 
+
+
+La tierra es su nodriza y su receptáculo. 
+
+
+Para asegurarel retorno a alguna materia densa decidie- 
+ron entonces favorecer los trabajos sobre lo viviente y la 
+ingeniería genética de la que hemos dicho todas las reservas 
+que nos inspira. 
+
+Las cuatro citas que abren este versículo de la Tabla de 
+Esmeralda cuyos comentarios en actos acabamos de descri- 
+bir corresponden en una lectura alquímica canónica a los 
+cuatro elementos, en un orden extraño: fuego, aire, agua y 
+tierra, en el que alternan lo sutil y lo denso, lo caliente y lo 
+frío. Subrayemos la progresión de los éteres hasta el acaba- 
+miento de la corporificación, correspondientes a los cuatro 
+primeros días del Génesis. La Obra divina de la creación 
+revelada por el Gran Hermes sigue estrechamente el «ciclo» 
+
+
+-82- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+- de las cuatro Edades, edad de oro del Sol, edad de plata de 
+la Luna, edad de bronce de los héroes erráticos cuyas 
+correrías poseen la libertad del viento, edad del hierro 
+densificado al máximo. El lector comprenderá mejor por 
+qué la aparición de estos ciclos tras el fin del proceso de la 
+Creación significa que se cometió un error. Efectivamente, 
+desde que la densificación material del cosmos se acabó no 
+era necesario ya seguir más adelante. Admitamos incluso 
+que, por analogía, este ciclo se aplique a las civilizaciones; 
+debería resumir su nacimiento pero, una vez que toman 
+cuerpo ¿para qué destruirlas y volver a empezar ad libitum 
+la generación de abortos? Pese al absurdo de semejante 
+rueda loca girando sin fin, podríamos admitir un ciclo así si 
+la enseñanza de Hermes se detuviera ahí; pero después de 
+haber comentado brevemente esta primera etapa de la Obra 
+divina e introducido a su discípulo a la contemplación de los 
+orígenés, describe muchas otras operaciones. 
+
+La aparición inesperada de las cuatro edades en el crisol 
+tiende a rehacer naturalmente lo que, por accidente, fue 
+demasiado deshecho; o, a veces, a obtener el «castigo» de 
+una corporificación demasiado extremada. Sin embargo, en 
+la historia de las civilizaciones ocurre que introduce una 
+creación real, aunque sólo conocemos un ejemplo, que se 
+extiende a lo largo de varios milenios a partir del despertar 
+inducido por la última inversión de los polos. Cuando se 
+examinan tiempos más cortos, aparece inmediatamente 
+algún furor sangriento o la desmesura del orgullo, y lleva a 
+una época a la vez caótica y petrificada cuya salida «natu- 
+ral», ya lo hemos dicho, se realiza por la violencia de un 
+pequeño ragnarok. Aquí fue planificado y programado por 
+demiurgos pervertidos que parecen haber comprendido su 
+sentido primero y pretendían imponer al mundo, fuera del 
+
+
+-83- 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+tiempo marcado por el Creador, una recración de la civili- 
+zación análoga a la «revolución neolítica». Ningún alqui- 
+mista ha intentado en su crisol una parecida inducción 
+forzada, al menos ninguno habla de ella, y nos parece 
+razonable pensar que no conducirá a «un mundo nuevo» 
+sino al desorden acostumbrado. 
+
+Subrayemos también las equivalencias simbólicas rí 
+gidas y no filosóficas introducidas entre los elementos y las 
+prácticas sociales. Al fuego corresponde la energía del 
+átomo; al agua lunar la conquista espacial asimilada a una 
+navegación; al aire los climas y la opinión; a la tierra los 
+seres vivos. Nada de esta clasificación habría sido admitida 
+por los antiguos porque distribuye elementos heteróclitos 
+bastante arbitrariamente, pero la encontremos hasta en las 
+metáforas populares o entre los novelistas. En cualquie: 
+caso es sofística como hubiesen proclamado con nosotros 
+los antiguos maestros. 
+
+
+El Padre de todo, el Telesma del mundo universal, 
+está aquí. Su fuerza o su potencia permanece entera si es 
+hecho tierra. 
+
+
+Con estas frases Hermes Trismegisto resume y comen 
+tael estado de la Creación acabada. Pero nuestros demiurgos 
+lo han entendido no como el reposo del séptimo Día, sino 
+como una instrucción para continuar su obra y puesto de lo 
+que se trataba era de «convertir en tierra», han aplicado su 
+fuerza a hacer aparecer seres inexistentes hasta entonces. 
+nuevos virus en biología, cuerpos superpesados en física ya 
+
+
+-84 - 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+que, por ventura, su arte no les permite suscitar especies más 
+allá del primer grado estructural de corporización. Las 
+bacterias o las plantas transgénicas no son sino organismos 
+modificados, no criaturas inéditas. 
+
+
+Separarás la tierra del fuego, lo sutil de lo espeso, 
+suavemente, con gran industria. 
+
+
+Tanta es la claridad de esta frase para un alquimista 
+como fue la dificultad que tuvimos para comprender cómo 
+la interpretaban ellos para sus propios fines. Separar lo sutil 
+de lo espeso encontraba un sentido en teoría de la informa- 
+ción, con la distinción entre hard (espeso) y soft (sutil). En 
+lo que respecta a la tierra y al fuego ¿se trataba de aislar la 
+biología de la física? ¿de oponer las dos técnicas de mani- 
+bidón del átomo, la fisión de los elementos pesados que 
+sirven para producir la energía doméstica, y la fusión, 
+analogon del fuego estelar, reservada para la bomba H? Esta 
+última solución explicaría por qué las investigaciones sobre 
+la fusión controlada fueron desalentadas sistemáticamente, 
+aunque no fuera sino negando a los investigadores los 
+subsidios y los laboratorios necesarios para su puesta a 
+punto. Una tal desafección carece de sentido económico: el 
+hidrógeno abunda en la naturaleza mientras que el uranio no 
+se encuentra sino en escasa minas y exige costosísimos 
+procesos de extracción; tampoco se justifica por los riesgos 
+arrostrados pues la fisión produce deshechos mortales que 
+hay inmediatamente que depositar, vigilar o volver a trans- 
+formar. La aberración de esta política no ha dejado de 
+
+
+-85- 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+sorprender a numerosos sabios a los que siempre se les negó 
+una explicación creíble. 
+
+
+Sube de la tierra y baja del cielo, y recibe la fuerza de 
+las cosas superiores y de las cosas inferiores. 
+
+
+Quienquiera que se haya inclinado sobre los escritos 
+alquímicos comprenderá que el pasaje describe la ascensión 
+del águila de la que nosotros mismos hemos hablado varias 
+veces. Ahora bien, el águila figura en el escudo de los 
+Estados Unidos y, desde la caída de los imperios de Europa, 
+es incluso la única potencia que todavía la lleva. 
+Exotericamente, en la sucesión de logros ostentosos desti- 
+nados a fijar en el alma de los pueblos estrechas alegorías a 
+guisa de símbolos, la construcción de la lanzadera espacial 
+y sus idas y venidas públicas responderían a las exigencias 
+de su ilusorio programa. De manera más secreta vemos aqui 
+y allá intentos por aliar la tecnología más material a opera- 
+ciones mágicas confundidas con el cielo espiritual. Ya no se 
+contentan con dirigir la opinión mediante la prensa o la 
+televisión, tratan de penetrar los cerebros mediante ondas 
+para ordenar los pensamientos más íntimos como si cada ser 
+humano no fuera sino una acotación de limaduras de hierro 
+entre los polos del imán. 
+
+
+Así tendrás la gloria del mundo y toda oscuridad se 
+alejará de ti. 
+
+
+No despreciemos nunca a estos maestros ocultos de la 
+alquimia fáustica. A imitación de los sabios trabajan en este 
+
+
+- 86 - 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+mundo pero no por é ni siquiera con él. Si buscaran la gloria 
+en el sentido ordinario del término, no se cubrirían con un 
+velo de secreto casi totalmente opaco, poco propicio a 
+exaltar las vanidades. La gloria, entre los antiguos, no es 
+sino una energía de luz, a la que los magos persas llamaban 
+el xvarnah, la misma que manifestó Cristo durante su 
+transfiguración. ¿Cómo aspirar al nimbo de esta gloria a la 
+vez que se rechaza seguir los caminos de la revelación 
+divina y realizar sobre sí las purificaciones más elementa- 
+les? ¿Qué es pues esta gloria mundi si no se la entiende ni 
+en el sentido exotérico ordinario ni en su verdadero signifi- 
+cado espiritual? Acabamos de ver que intentan agrupar y 
+ordenar los cerebros para hacer de ellos alojamientos indi- 
+viduales de un alma única, de una especie de TOV-AVTPONOO 
+artificial. El Padre Teilhard de Chardin había anunciado 
+coma última perspectiva de la evolución la formación de lo 
+lo que él llamaba una noosfera. Pero además de que el mav- 
+AVTPOTOO Cuyo profeta pretendía ser no advenía sino al fin 
+de los tiempos, como un calderón musical del fin de los 
+tiempos, su surgimiento en nada reducía la libertad perso- 
+nal. En su espíritu se trataba de una fusión de amor e 
+inteligencia análoga ala que los teólogos más fiables han 
+descrito como relaciones trinitarias de Dios. No nos corres- 
+ponde juzgar lo bien fundado de las afirmaciones de los 
+teólogos: las revelaciones de las que nos hemos beneficiado 
+y sin las cuales nuestra labor alquímica hubiera sido vana, 
+no concernían sino a la perfección de la materia y a la 
+purificación de nuestra propia naturaleza. El optimismo del 
+padre Teilhard de Chardin, la imagen lineal y suave que se 
+hacía de la evolución no nos han convencido nunca y, si la 
+noosfera a la que llamaba con toda su esperanza visionaria 
+
+
+-87 - 
+
+
+FULCANELLI 
+
+
+ha de realizarse un día, dudamos que sea antes de la 
+formación de los nuevos cielos y la nueva tierra anunciados 
+por San Juan. 
+
+Pero una noosfera impuesta para explotar su potencia 
+mágica o decuplicar la intuición intelectual de algunos 
+falsos demiurgos está emparentada con la violación de los 
+ángeles que le costó a Sodoma desaparecer bajo el fuego y 
+el azufre. Pues es efectivamente al ángel embrionario que 
+hay en el hombre a quien quieren desviar de su vocación 
+última, a menos que no tengan la jactancia de llegar a ser los 
+únicos hombres verdaderos enviando a los demás a un 
+callejón sin salida, simples células de una máquina pensante 
+esclavizada. Más grave todavía; si nos aproximamos al 
+brillante y locuaz satélite artificial previsto para la entrada 
+en un falacioso tercer milenio, las divagaciones alentadas en 
+torno al eclipse del 11 de agosto de 1999, parecería que se 
+hubieran fijado una fecha para triunfar, lo que les obliga a 
+intensificar su presión sobre las masas. ¡Pura locura hozar 
+así! Un aprendiz se da cuenta desde sus primeros errores y 
+desde sus primeras decepciones que alejarse de las vías de 
+la naturaleza retrasa la obra cuando no obliga a volver a 
+empezarlo todo desde el principio. Pero el orgullosos ni ve 
+ni oye y por más que la materia le huya permanentemente en 
+su crisol, él continúa hasta que todo se rompe irremediable- 
+mente entre sus manos y, de vuelta, le rompe a él. 
+
+No iremos más adelante en el comentario de la Tabla 
+esmeraldina. Pues ellos mismos, hagan lo que hagan, no 
+alcanzarán nunca ni siquiera la ilusión de la verdadera 
+fuerza, fuerte de toda fuerza que vencerá toda cosa sutil y 
+penetrará toda cosa sólida a la que el Cosmopolita llama, 
+
+
+-88- 
+
+
+LA TABLA DE ESMERALDA 
+
+
+muy acertadamente, la Sal de la tierra*. La quintaesencia, 
+en sus aspectos otros que minerales, mora más allá de la 
+espada del kherub. ¡Finis gloriae mundi! En el cuadro de 
+Valdés Leal, las nubes cubren la última luz y sólo se abren 
+por arriba, desvelando la púrpura que reviste la mano divina 
+y sin embargo natural. 
+
+Recibiendo esta revelación, el alquimista sincero llega- 
+rá sin duda alguna a su fin, y la verdadera Gloria del Mundo 
+reposará sobre él. Sin embargo, la obra posible al hombre, 
+incluso en su plenitud, no manifiesta sino la esperanza de las 
+cosas por venir; como los Magos en el pesebre o Salomón 
+construyendo el Templo tendrá que depositar su verdadero 
+tesoro en el altar invisible de Aquél ante quien toda carne 
+gime de terror en sus extravíos o ignorancia primera, de 
+amorosa Alegría cuando habiendo cumplido su parte de la 
+obra y sin poder determinar de antemano ni el tiempo ni la 
+hora, contemple no ya la apertura de la materia, sino la de los 
+Cielos y la claridad de Su Gloria. ¡ Y qué necio sería quien 
+prefiriese la gloria vana de este mundo al Don divino más 
+luminoso aún que el carbunclo de los sabios! 
+
+
+45.Sethon. Las obras del Cosmopolita, traducción por Antoine Du Val, 
+Paris, 1969 (Nota de Fulcanelli). 
+
+
+-89- 
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+Hermes Trismegistos: 
+
+El Tres Veces Grande y Muchas Veces Forjado 
+
+
+Octavio da Cunha Botelho 
+
+
+Octobre/2019 
+
+
+2 
+
+
+La Pseudoepigrafía 
+
+Actualmente, cuando un autor escribe un 
+libro, sus derechos de autor o los derechos del 
+editor son registrados en un organismo 
+especializado para dicho registro, entonces la obra 
+es registrada para obtener el ISBN (International 
+Standard Book Number). Este recurso fue creado 
+en 1967 y oficializado como norma internacional 
+en 1972. Es un sistema de identificación numérica 
+para obras literarias. Más recientemente, fui 
+creada otra forma de identificación de libros a 
+través de códigos de barras. Para las 
+publicaciones en la web, ahora existe el DOI 
+(Digital Object Identifier), un padrón internacional 
+para la identificación numérica de artículos y otras 
+publicaciones científicas en Internet. Estas 
+características identifican y garantizan claramente 
+los derechos de autor según las leyes de derechos 
+de autor, la infracción de los derechos de autor es 
+un delito penal. Esta identificación clara del autor 
+es muy importante para el conocimiento preciso 
+del verdadero autor de una obra. 
+
+Sin embargo, este proceso no existía en 
+el pasado, las obras no tenían derechos de autor, 
+ya que no había un cuerpo para tal tarea, ni había 
+legislación pertinente, ni identificación numérica de 
+la obra, etc. Por lo tanto, el concepto de autoría 
+era muy diferente del actual, además, el autor no 
+
+
+3 
+
+
+tenía protección de derechos de su trabajo, lo que 
+facilitaba la falsificación de la autoría 
+(pseudoepigrafía) de los libros. Es decir, un autor 
+podría escribir un libro y luego asignar la autoría a 
+quien quisiera, como regla general, a un autor 
+prestigioso, para que la obra pueda ser acepta 
+fácilmente. 
+
+Más que con los autores de otros 
+asuntos, este procedimiento fue frecuente entre 
+los autores religiosos del pasado. Como signo de 
+humildad y sumisión, algunos autores religiosos 
+escribieron libros, pero atribuyeron la autoría a 
+otro autor más prestigioso, o incluso a un dios o 
+diosa. Incluso hoy, con tantos recursos para 
+asegurar los derechos de autor, hay adherentes 
+religiosos, investigadores e historiadores que no 
+perciben la inmoralidad o el crimen en estas 
+prácticas, alegando que estos religiosos del 
+pasado, al escribir, se sentían como canales de 
+transmisión de enseñanzas de una tradición, por lo 
+tanto, con muy poca, si alguna, creación individual 
+en la obra. Entonces el libro podría ser más una 
+compilación que la creación de un autor. 
+
+Sin embargo, para estos casos, algunos 
+temas deben ser discutidos. Primero, cuánta 
+creación personal o compilación reproducida está 
+presente en la obra que no la caracteriza como 
+una creación personal. En segundo lugar, la 
+cuestión de la responsabilidad. Al asignar la 
+autoría a otra persona, el verdadero autor se 
+exime de la responsabilidad por los errores, lo que 
+
+
+4 
+
+
+lo hace inmune, luego transfiere la responsabilidad 
+por los errores, que el verdadero autor cometió, a 
+otro autor. En la India, un autor religioso a menudo 
+se compara con un loro, como un signo de 
+extrema humildad en la preparación de su libro, 
+alegando que solo repite lo que ha aprendido de 
+sus maestros. Bien, compararse con un loro es 
+realmente una comparación humilde, porque 
+desde otra perspectiva, es reconocer que el autor 
+reproduce lo que no entiende, tal como un loro. En 
+tercer lugar, lo que es más grave, la cuestión de la 
+astucia al atribuir la autoría a otro autor prestigioso 
+o un dios. La intención subyacente es hacer valer 
+la aceptación y el prestigio utilizando la autoridad 
+de otro autor. 
+
+Un ejemplo similar bien conocido en el 
+Hinduismo es Krshna Dwaipáyana Vyása 
+otTRT), a quien se le atribuyen la autoría 
+de muchas obras, como los cuatro Vedas (más de 
+diez mil himnos), el Mahábhárata (cien mil coplas), 
+los 18 Puránas (alrededor de 400,000 coplas), el 
+Brahma Sütra, el Yoga Sütra Bháshya y una 
+cantidad más de pseudoepígrafos controvertidos. 
+La justificación de algunos autores hindúes, para 
+la autoría de tantos y tan largas obras, es que 
+Vyása no es un autor per se, sino el nombre de un 
+puesto de compilador ocupado por diferentes 
+autores, por lo que a veces el nombre Vyása es 
+traducido por “compilador”. Si es así, la 
+justificación aún no está completa, ya que los 
+nombres Krshna y Dwaipáyana especifican un 
+
+
+
+5 
+
+
+vyása (compilador) particular, a saber, el de piel 
+oscura ( Krshna ), generado por la diosa Saraswatí 
+y que reside en una isla ( dwipa ), de ahí la palabra 
+Dwaipáyana (residente en una isla). Entonces, si 
+se especifica el nombre de un compilador (vyása), 
+¿cuál es el nombre de los otros vyásas ? Porque, 
+un hecho muy común en la historia de los oficios 
+es uno ocupar un puesto y conocer el nombre de 
+este ocupante del puesto. 
+
+La práctica de la pseudoepigrafía 
+demostró ser eficiente con el tiempo para lograr 
+aceptación y prestigio, ya que los nombres de 
+sabios y dioses usurpados funcionaron como un 
+"sello" para la legitimidad del texto recién escrito, 
+de ahí su consecuente credibilidad y aceptación 
+entre los seguidores. Autores como Hermes 
+Trismegistos, Vyása y otros funcionaron como 
+sellos, de modo que, por ejemplo, si un libro fue 
+escrito por Hermes Trismegistus, entonces sería 
+un libro aceptado. Algo así como si la 
+pseudoepigrafía funcionara como la puerta de 
+entrada a la canonización, o algo así como lo que 
+ahora llamamos el "sello de calidad". Este sello 
+finalmente se extendió al sistema, por lo que 
+Florian Ebeling señaló: "El Hermetismo parece 
+haberse convertido en un sello con el cual un texto 
+y su contenido factual podrían provocar el 
+reconocimiento de su ortodoxia y su verdad" 
+(Ebeling, 2007: 75). Entonces, con el crecimiento 
+del prestigio del sello Hermetismo, dentro del 
+entorno esotérico, ha multiplicado el número de 
+
+
+6 
+
+
+escritos en nombre de esta tradición. Un ejemplo 
+reciente fue el libro Kybalion: The Hermetic 
+Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece, 
+(Kybalion: La Filosofía Hermética del Antiguo 
+Egipto y Grecia), escrito por Three Initiates y 
+publicado en 1908. Este libro no es mencionado 
+en los textos Hermética, ni por los hermetistas de 
+la Edad Media y el Renacimiento, sin duda es un 
+texto hermético tardío cuando ya se fusionó con 
+nuevas ideas para agregar a las muchas otras 
+doctrinas obsoletas del pasado. Finalmente, el 
+libro que tiene la firma de Hermes Trismegistos o 
+Hermetismo, obtiene aceptación inmediata en el 
+entorno esotérico. 
+
+Con el tiempo, la práctica de la 
+pseudoepigrafía se hizo tan común y aceptable 
+que, debido a las incertidumbres de la autoría, la 
+autoría se atribuyó a los personajes más ilustres. 
+Así Christian Bull señaló: “Los tratados herméticos 
+se atribuyen a Hermes o sus discípulos, lo que 
+significa que no sabemos quién los escribió 
+realmente. Esto coloca a los Hermética 1 en el 
+
+
+1 Hermética es un adjetivo latino masculino en plural de 
+hermeticum (hermético), por lo que significa "herméticos". 
+Con el tiempo, se ha vuelto convencional llamar Hermética 
+los textos más directamente relacionados con Hermes 
+Trismegistus. Los textos que se incluyen o no en 
+Hermética varían de una colección a otra, según los 
+criterios del autor o editor, así como el descubrimiento de 
+nuevos textos. La colección más actualizada es la 
+
+
+
+7 
+
+
+género de la pseudoepigrafía, en el que 
+encontramos textos que se atribuyen a figuras 
+míticas como Orfeo, Museo, Enoch y Seth, o se 
+atribuyen erróneamente a figuras históricas (pero 
+a veces semi-legendarias) como Zoroastro, 
+Homero, Pitágoras, Jesús y sus apóstoles” * 2 (Bull, 
+2018: 03). 
+
+El Autor que Nunca Existió 
+
+El caso anterior es el de Hermes 
+Trismegistos (Eppqg TpiapeyiaTog). Como nunca 
+existió, todas las autorías de las obras que se le 
+atribuyen son pseudoepígrafos. Cuando él no es el 
+autor, él es el protagonista, o ambos al mismo 
+tiempo, autor y protagonista. Por ejemplo: el 
+primer capítulo del Corpus Hermeticum, conocido 
+como Poimandres (noipavSpng), un diálogo entre 
+Hermes Trismegistos y Poimandres, este último es 
+
+
+publicada y comentada por Xavier Renau Nebot, Textos 
+Herméticos, Editorial Gredos, 1999, que incluyó 
+descubrimientos recientes. 
+
+
+2 Los seguidores del Hermetismo consideraban a Hermes 
+Trismegistos como el primer filósofo y el primer profeta 
+de la humanidad, por lo que todos los otros sabios y 
+místicos que surgieron a continuación fueron sus 
+discípulos, por lo que cualquiera de estos podría ser el 
+autor de una obra hermética. 
+
+
+
+8 
+
+
+el Pensamiento ( nous ) 3 del Poder Supremo 
+( authentes ), Hermes es el autor y el personaje 
+(interlocutor) del diálogo con Poimandres. Lo 
+mismo sucede en otras obras. Por lo tanto, porque 
+nunca existió, pero estuvo presente en la 
+imaginación durante muchos siglos, Florian 
+Ebeling lo llamó "fantasma" y observó: "El heroico 
+patrón del Hermetismo nunca existió, Hermes 
+Trismegistos fue una ficción, una ficción fructífera 
+con efectos duraderos. La figura de este 
+legendario sabio egipcio surgió de la fusión de dos 
+deidades de origen altamente divergente: el dios 
+egipcio Thoth y el dios griego Hermes" (Ebeling, 
+2007: 03). Esta fusión puede haber ocurrido 
+durante el período helenístico. El epíteto 
+"Trismegistos" significa "Tres Veces Grande" y es 
+tomado del dios egipcio Thoth, que ya era 
+conocido por este epíteto en Egipto antes del 
+sincretismo (Ebeling, 2007: 03-7 y Bull, 2018: 33s). 
+En la mitología romana, Hermes es conocido como 
+Mercurio. El epíteto "Tres Veces Grande" 
+(TpiapeyioToq - Trismegistos-, Latín: Termaximus) 
+se le atribuye, según algunos autores, porque 
+Hermes Trismegistos fui un dios, un rey y un 
+hombre sabio, aunque cuando leemos la extensa 
+
+
+3 La traducción del término griego nous (vouq) es 
+divergente, a veces traducida por intelecto, a veces por 
+mente, alma o pensamiento, por lo que algunos autores 
+prefieren no traducir. 
+
+
+
+9 
+
+
+literatura hermética, nos damos cuenta de que él 
+era mucho más que solo Tres Veces Grande, 
+mucho más que eso en los mitos, él fue Muchas 
+Veces Grande, ya que realizó innumerables 
+funciones, como veremos más adelante. 
+
+El "Jack for all the Trades" 
+
+Como mencionamos anteriormente, 
+Hermes fui un personaje mitológico, pero no 
+cualquier personaje, sino que, como un actor que 
+puede interpretar diferentes roles en diferentes 
+obras de teatro o películas, él aparece en los 
+textos herméticos como un protagonista “sabe- 
+todo” y con una versatilidad muy diversa. Además 
+de conocer innumerables temas, se presenta a 
+veces como un dios, a veces como un rey, como 
+un mago, como un maestro de la sabiduría, como 
+un médico, un astrólogo, un alquimista, un profeta, 
+un educador, un adivino, un maestro de 
+alfabetización, un constructor de pirámides, etc. 
+De todos modos, Hermes Trismegistos sería aquel 
+actor versátil que a los cineastas siempre les 
+gustarían tener a su disposición, o el "manitas" 
+que a todas las compañías les gustarían tener en 
+su personal. 
+
+La Literatura Hermética 
+
+Muchos piensan que el Hermetismo es 
+simplemente sinónimo de esoterismo, magia, 
+
+
+10 
+
+
+alquimia u ocultismo. Esta es una idea resultante 
+de los desarrollos del Hermetismo después de 
+siglos de absorción de ideas y prácticas de otras 
+tradiciones, por lo tanto, un concepto 
+contemporáneo de un Hermetismo muy 
+desarrollado y diverso. Estrictamente hablando, el 
+Hermetismo fue diferente en distintos momentos 
+de su evolución, así como en diferentes regiones 
+(por ejemplo, Hermetismo Árabe, Hermetismo de 
+Alejandría, Hermetismo Grecorromano, etc.), por 
+lo que puede conceptualizarse de una manera en 
+la Antigüedad, otro en la Edad Media, otro en el 
+Renacimiento, otro en la Edad Contemporánea. 
+Con el tiempo, nuevos textos fueron compuestos y 
+unidos a la tradición hermética. Entonces eso se 
+vuelve difícil hoy conciliar las opiniones de los 
+diversos autores sobre qué textos pertenecen o no 
+a la literatura hermética, los criterios varían de un 
+autor a otro. Kevin Van Bladel reflexionó: "... hoy 
+no existe consenso entre los académicos sobre 
+qué obras pueden considerarse herméticas" (Van 
+Bladel, 2009: 18). Por lo tanto, algunos 
+
+investigadores prefieren considerar como 
+herméticos aquellos textos con relación directa 
+con Hermes Trismegistos, es decir, aquellos cuya 
+autoría se le atribuye o aquellos en los que él es 
+un personaje en el diálogo, este fue el criterio 
+utilizado por Florian Ebeling para circunscribir los 
+límites de su historia sobre el Hermetismo 
+(Ebeling, 2007: 07-9). 
+
+
+11 
+
+
+A principios del siglo III e. c., Clemente 
+de Alejandría registró en su obra Stromata, una 
+serie de escritos herméticos que se llevaron 
+durante una procesión de culto egipcio. Al 
+comienzo de la procesión estaban los himnos 
+herméticos divinos y la biografía real. Los libros 
+astrológicos sobre estrellas fijas, planetas y sus 
+movimientos fueron seguidos por inscripciones 
+jeroglíficas sobre temas geográficos, a 
+continuación, los libros que trataban sobre 
+educación y prácticas de adoración. Había libros 
+sobre las leyes, sobre los dioses y sobre el 
+entrenamiento de los sacerdotes. Hubo un total de 
+36 libros de Hermes que contenían toda la filosofía 
+de los egipcios, que se complementaron con seis 
+libros sobre temas médicos. Pero estos números 
+son muy modestos en comparación con los 36,525 
+libros herméticos señalados por Menetho o los 
+20,000 mencionados por Seleucus (Ebeling, 2007: 
+09). Sin embargo, estos libros no sobrevivieron, 
+por lo que no conocemos el contenido; de lo que 
+tenemos actualmente, los siguientes son los textos 
+fundamentales de la tradición de Hermes 
+Trismegistos, divididos en dos categorías: 
+
+a) los textos filosófico-religiosos (teología, 
+creacionismo, cosmogénesis, soteriología, 
+cosmología, etc.) y 
+
+b) los textos técnicos (Astrología, Magia, Alquimia, 
+Curación, etc.). 
+
+Los textos filosófico-religiosos son los 
+Hermética, que incluyen las siguientes obras: 
+
+
+12 
+
+
+1) El Corpus Hermeticum, una colección de 
+dieciocho tratados (se perdió el tratado 
+XV) compuesto entre los siglos I y III. e. c., 
+conservado en griego a través de 
+manuscritos bizantinos de los siglos XIV a 
+XVI e. c. La edición crítica del texto griego, 
+ahora considerada por los estudiosos 
+como la referencia, es la de A. J. 
+Festugiére y N. D. Nock, publicada con 
+notas y traducción al francés en los años 
+1945-54. 
+
+2) El Asclepius (griego: Logos Teleios: Latín: 
+Sermo Perfectum), una colección de 
+discursos de Hermes Trismegistos para su 
+discípulo Asclepios, compuesto entre los 
+siglos II y III e. c. Se perdió el griego 
+completo original, solo hay fragmentos en 
+griego, sobrevivieron completamente solo 
+a través de traducciones latinas. Una 
+versión en lenguaje copto de los párrafos 
+21 al 29 se encontró entre los manuscritos 
+de la biblioteca Nag Hammadi en 1945. 
+Los manuscritos latinos más importantes 
+son de los siglos XII y XIII. e. c. 
+
+3) Los Extractos de Stobeu, una compilación 
+de 29 extractos de textos herméticos 
+recopilados por John Stobeu en el siglo V 
+e. c., para la educación de su hijo, con 
+algunos extractos relativamente extensos, 
+especialmente el extracto XXIII, el Kóré 
+Kósmou. 
+
+
+13 
+
+
+4) Los textos coptos de la Biblioteca Nag 
+Hammadi, encontrados en 1945. De los 
+cinco textos herméticos incluidos en esta 
+biblioteca, dos de ellos eran previamente 
+desconocidos: el Octavo y Noveno 
+Discurso, y la Oración de Acción de 
+Gracias. 
+
+5) Fragmentos de textos herméticos 
+conservados en los escritos de los Padres 
+de la Iglesia (Tertuliano, Lactantius, 
+Agustín, etc.). 
+
+6) Las Definiciones de Hermes 
+Trismegistos para Asclepios, una 
+colección de aforismos, conservada en el 
+idioma armenio traducida del griego y 
+compuesta en griego probablemente a 
+fines del siglo VI e. c. 
+
+7) Pequeños fragmentos herméticos en 
+papiro descubiertos en archivos y 
+bibliotecas en la última mitad del siglo XX. 
+
+En cuanto al Corpus Hermeticum, Wouter 
+J. Planegraaff señaló: “No sabemos cuántos 
+Hermética filosóficos pueden haber existido o en 
+qué orden deberían leerse originalmente. La 
+colección conocida hoy por Corpus Hermeticum 
+fue reunida en Bizancio durante la Edad Media y 
+parece haber sido vagamente conocida en su 
+forma actual por Michael Psellus en el siglo XI e. c. 
+Consiste en 17 tratados, confusamente listados 
+como l-XV y XVI-XVIII desde el siglo XVI e. c. La 
+enumeración padrón deriva del primer editor 
+
+
+14 
+
+
+moderno del texto griego, Adrien Turnébe, quien 
+en 1554 incluyó algunos extractos herméticos de 
+Stobeu, como Capítulo XV del Corpus , los editores 
+luego retuvieron la enumeración de Turnébe, pero 
+retiraron el Capítulo XV” (Hanegraaff, 2018: 02). 
+
+Los textos técnicos son: 
+
+1) Muchos escritos astrológicos se 
+atribuyen a Hermes Trismegistos, especialmente 
+detallado es el Libro Sobre los Treinta y Seis 
+Decanos , compuesto quizás en el siglo I a. e. c. 
+
+2) Hermes como mago y adivino, como 
+se menciona en los Papiros Mágicos Griegos , 
+compuesto entre los siglos II y IV e. c. Hermes 
+también aparece como un curador mágico en el 
+conocido Cyranidi, compuesto entre los siglos I y 
+IV. e. c. 
+
+3) Hermes también es conocido como el 
+autor de trabajos alquímicos, jugó un papel 
+importante como precursor de la alquimia, como 
+se menciona en los escritos del alquimista 
+Zozymus de Panópolis, de finales del siglo III y 
+principios del siglo IV e. c. 
+
+Además de estas obras arriba, se 
+pueden agregar los textos herméticos 
+conservados en traducciones al árabe (ver: Van 
+Bladel, 2009). 
+
+El Hermes Árabe 
+
+La leyenda árabe más conocida 
+menciona la existencia de tres Hermeses. El 
+
+
+15 
+
+
+primer Hermes fue nieto de Adán y vivió antes del 
+Diluvio. Los hebreos lo consideraban el profeta 
+Enoc, mientras que los árabes lo consideraban 
+IdrTs, un profeta mencionado en el Corán por ser 
+correcto y determinado (capítulos 19 versículos 
+56-7 y 21 versículos 86-7). Como el primer 
+astrólogo, Adán le instruyó sobre las horas que 
+dividen el día y la noche. Construyó pirámides y 
+ciudades en el Alto Egipto donde vivió y advirtió 
+sobre la destrucción del mundo por agua y fuego. 
+Para salvar la floreciente ciencia antediluviana de 
+la destrucción durante el Diluvio, construyó un 
+templo y grabó todo su conocimiento científico 
+grabándolo en las paredes. El segundo Hermes 
+vivió después del Diluvio en Babilonia (antiguo 
+Egipto) y se sabe que enseñó filosofía y 
+matemáticas a Pitágoras. El tercer Hermes 
+continuó la tradición, nuevamente en Egipto. 
+Escribió un libro sobre alquimia y fue el maestro 
+de Asclepios (Ebeling, 2007: 45, para más 
+detalles, ver Van Bladel, 2009: 121 s). Entonces 
+este tercer Hermes es lo que se conoce como 
+Hermes Trismegistos. 
+
+Aunque sin consenso, Hermes es el 
+profeta IdrTs en la interpretación de algunos 
+musulmanes, con quienes los judíos se identifican 
+con Enoch, mencionados en dos pasajes del 
+Corán: “Mencione también en el Corán la historia 
+de IdrTs. Era un hombre de verdad, un profeta. Lo 
+elevamos a una posición alta” (19: 56-7). “Y 
+
+
+16 
+
+
+recuerda que Ismael, Idus y Dhul KifP, todos 
+estaban decididos. Los admitimos a nuestra 
+compasión, fueron verdaderamente virtuosos” (21: 
+86-7). 
+
+En términos generales, el Hermetismo 
+Árabe enfatiza temas prácticos (alquimia, 
+astrología, magia, etc.) en lugar de temas 
+filosóficos-religiosos, como en el Corpus 
+Hermeticum, de modo que en la literatura 
+hermética árabe, Hermes es más un mago que a 
+un sabio (ver, Van Bladel, 2009). 
+
+Los Delirios de los Renacentistas 
+
+En 1460, un agente de Cosino de Medice 
+trajo de Bizancio a Florencia un manuscrito griego 
+del Corpus Hermeticum. La obra impresionó a los 
+intelectuales de la Academia Florentina. Cosino 
+inmediatamente le pidió a Marcilio Ficino (1433- 
+1499) que interrumpiera sus traducciones de 
+Platón y comenzara la traducción latina de este 
+texto hermético. Ficino terminó la traducción al 
+latín del Corpus en 1463, que se publicó en 1471, 
+bajo el título Pimander (nombre del primer tratado 
+del Corpus), pero solo los tratados l-XIV. La 
+traducción latina de los tratados XVI-XVIII fue 
+completada por Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500) y 
+
+
+4 Algunos autores sugieren que este es el profeta 
+Ezequiel. 
+
+
+
+17 
+
+
+publicada en 1507 después de su muerte (el texto 
+del tratado XV se perdió). Este evento 
+desencadenó una ola de entusiasmo por el 
+Hermetismo en Italia, cuya resonancia se 
+extendería por toda Europa, sin embargo, algo 
+diferente de la tradición que se había conservado 
+durante la Edad Media, es decir, en lugar de la 
+conocida tradición hermética sobrecargada de 
+alquimia, como se conservó durante la Edad 
+Media, Europa ahora encontró la tradición 
+filosófica-religiosa de la tradición hermética a 
+través de las publicaciones del Corpus 
+Hermeticum y lo Asclepius. 
+
+Con el fin de diferenciar claramente entre 
+estas dos tradiciones herméticas, a saber, la 
+tradición técnica (alquimia, astrología, magia, etc.) 
+y la tradición filosófico-religiosa (teología, 
+cosmología, soteriología, etc.), algunos autores 
+que escriben en el idioma inglés, sugieren cambiar 
+la amplia denominación inglesa Hermeticism 
+(Hermeticismo), que abarca la generalidad de las 
+artes ocultas, a la denominación inglesa 
+Hermetism (Hermetismo), esta última se refiere 
+solo a la tradición filosófica-religiosa, también 
+conocida como Hermética Alejandrina, porque fui 
+compuesta por sacerdotes egipcios helenizados. 
+Antoine Faivre explicó: "Gradualmente, Hermes y 
+el Hermetismo llegaron a significar cada vez más 
+alquimia o teosofía, o esoterismo en el sentido 
+moderno del término" (Faivre, 1995: 60, 39 y 
+Hanegraaff, 2018: 02). En el momento del nuevo 
+
+
+18 
+
+
+renacimiento del Hermetismo en el siglo XIX, con 
+la fundación de grupos herméticos como la 
+Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Orden 
+Hermética del Amanecer Dorado), la Hermetic 
+Brotherhood of Luxor (Hermandad Hermética de 
+Luxor), la Mysteria Mystica Aeterna y Esoteric 
+School of the Theosophical Society (Escuela 
+Esotérica de la Sociedad Teosófica), el 
+Hermetismo ya se había convertido en un nombre 
+común para las diversas formas de artes ocultas 
+(alquimia, astrología, magia, tarot, numerología, 
+quiromancia, etc.), con tal alcance que un autor lo 
+ha definido como "una cosa sin esquinas y 
+extremos" (Ebeling, 2007: 11). 
+
+Marcilio Ficino, en el prefacio de su 
+traducción latina del Corpus Hermeticum , 
+utilizando datos mitológicos en lugar de históricos, 
+elogió a Hermes Trismegistos como el fundador de 
+la filosofía (priscus theologus). Este prefacio fue 
+influyente en su tiempo y en los años siguientes 
+hasta el desafío de la antigüedad y los textos 
+herméticos de Hermes Trismegistos de Isaac 
+Casaubon en 1614. Basado en los mitos de los 
+autores neoplatónicos y cristianos de la 
+Antigüedad Clásica, Ficino desarrolló una 
+fantasiosa genealogía a partir de Hermes 
+Trismegistos a Platón, que alcanzó consecuencias 
+influyentes: “Como primer filósofo, él (Hermes) 
+pasó de las cosas naturales y las matemáticas a la 
+contemplación de lo divino. Fue el primero en 
+descubrir, con gran sabiduría, la majestad de Dios, 
+
+
+19 
+
+
+el orden de los espíritus y los cambios del alma. 
+Fue llamado el primer autor de teología. Le siguió 
+Orfeo, que obtuvo la segunda posición entre los 
+antiguos teólogos. Aglaofemo se inició en los 
+misterios órficos, Pitágoras lo siguió en teología y 
+luego fue seguido por Filolao, quien fui el maestro 
+del divino Platón. Luego surgió una teología 
+primordial única e internamente consistente (pasca 
+theologia)” (Ebeling, 2007: 62). 
+
+Entonces, estos son los seis primeros 
+hijos de la filosofía (priscT theologl). Esta 
+genealogía de Ficino es una entre otras creadas 
+por simpatizantes de Hermes Trismegistos desde 
+la Antigüedad hasta el Renacimiento (Cicerón, 
+Agustín, Lactantius, etc.). Para él, Hermes 
+Trismegistos precedió a Moisés y a otros profetas 
+bíblicos. De manera ligeramente diferente, 
+Francisco Patrizi (1529-1597) también creó una 
+fantasiosa genealogía de Prisca Theologia, que 
+comenzó con "Zoroastro, a quien se considera el 
+autor de los oráculos caldeos. Zoroastro fundó 
+colonias en Egipto y encontró un descendiente en 
+el rey Osiris, que tenía un consejero llamado 
+Hermes Trismegistos. El nieto de este último 
+también se llamaba Hermes Trismegistos. 
+Después de Zoroastro, este Hermes, que vivió 
+antes que Moisés, fue el segundo filósofo más 
+importante. Como la sabiduría había sobrevivido 
+entre los sacerdotes egipcios, Orfeo y Pitágoras se 
+iniciaron en ella mientras estaban en Egipto. 
+Incluso Platón estaba en esta tradición de 
+
+
+20 
+
+
+sabiduría, que fue interrumpida, sin embargo, por 
+Aristóteles. Fue Amonio Sakkas (175-242 e. c.), el 
+fundador de la escuela neoplatónica, quien una 
+vez más le dio vida a esta antigua sabiduría de 
+Zoroastro y Flermes Trismegistos. Debido a su 
+sello aristotélico, la Edad Media interrumpió esta 
+tradición hasta que Raimundo Lulo (1235-1315) y 
+Paracelso (1493-1541) la renovaron una vez más” 
+(Ebeling, 2007: 68-9). De todos modos, todos 
+estos genealogistas de los primeros filósofos 
+confundían el mito con la historia. 
+
+Luego, con el tiempo, se crearon 
+genealogías cada vez más eclécticas y delirantes, 
+Antoine Faivre mencionó una lista típica de 
+genealogía filosófica, que tomó la siguiente forma: 
+Enoc, Abraham, Noé, Zoroastro, Moisés, Flermes 
+Trismegistos, los brahmanes, los druidas, David, 
+Orfeo, Pitágoras. Platón y las sibilas” (Faivre, 
+1995: 39). La inclusión de brahmanes y druidas en 
+esta lista no solo es extraña, sino también cómica. 
+Bueno, ¿están incluidos en esta lista todos los 
+millones de brahmanes, presentes y pasados, 
+incluso aquellos de los tiempos védicos que 
+realizaron el - Purushamedha (sacrificio 
+
+humano) y el - Ashwamedha (sacrificio de 
+
+caballo), como se informa en los antiguos textos 
+Bráhmanas ? ¿También fueron filósofos, del mismo 
+modo, los sacerdotes druidas, que no tenían 
+escritura y eran analfabetos? ¿Puede un 
+analfabeto ser filósofo y hay filosofía sin literatura? 
+
+
+
+21 
+
+
+Los delirios de Ficino fueran tan 
+fantasiosos que incluso dijo que “él (Hermes 
+Trismegistos) a menudo hablaba no solo como 
+filósofo sino también como profeta. Él previo la 
+caída de las religiones antiguas, la venida de 
+Cristo, el próximo día del juicio, la resurrección, la 
+gloria de los bienaventurados y el castigo de los 
+pecadores” (Ebeling, 2007: 62). Bueno, si creemos 
+que todo lo que se le atribuye a Flermes 
+Trismegistos, él no solo fue filósofo y profeta, fue 
+mucho más que esto: gobernante, mago, maestro, 
+alquimista, astrólogo, médico, constructor, adivino, 
+alfabetizador, escriba, sacerdote, etc., etc., etc. 
+
+La Ducha de Agua Fría 
+
+Sin embargo, esta fiesta hermética 
+delirante tuve un fin para muchos crédulos y el 
+"spoiler" fue el pastor y humanista Isaac Casaubon 
+(1559-1614), quien demostró, a través de una 
+seria investigación histórica, lingüística y filológica, 
+publicada en 1614, que Flermes Trismegistos no 
+podía ser tan antiguo como imaginaban sus 
+admiradores, y formuló fuertes argumentos de que 
+los textos del Corpus Hermeticum y el Asclepius 
+fueron compuestos entre los siglos I y IV. e. c., y 
+no en la remota antigüedad atribuida por los 
+algunos renacentistas, por estar lleno de ideas 
+helenísticas y cristianas. La evidencia concreta de 
+que el Corpus Hermeticum no podría ser tan 
+antiguo, como señalaron sus deslumbrantes 
+
+
+22 
+
+
+admiradores, es la mención en el tratado XVIII § 
+04 del famoso escultor griego Fidias (cpeióíag - 
+Pheidias), que vivió entre 480 y 430 a. e. c. "Si en 
+particular la materia que utilizó el escultor Fidias 
+no le hubiera obedecido..." (ver: Festugiére, 1945- 
+54, tomo II: 249; Nebot, 1999: 239; Ebeling, 2007). 
+: 92 y Regal, 2009: 78). 
+
+Basado en su extenso conocimiento 
+histórico y filológico del idioma griego, Casaubon 
+argumentó que “el Corpus Hermeticum usa 
+conceptos que pueden no haberse originado en 
+una era tan remota. Si los textos del Corpus 
+Hermeticum son de hecho precristianos, no 
+deberían exhibir una diferencia estilística 
+importante de la de los primeros escritores 
+griegos, tal como Heródoto. Sin embargo, el 
+lenguaje claramente usa un estilo tardío, en 
+particular, emplea muchas palabras que 
+aparecieron en griego solo después del nacimiento 
+de Cristo” (Ebeling, 2007: 92). Además, Casaubon 
+no creía que Hermes Trismegistos fuera el autor y 
+llamó al autor del Corpus Hermeticum un 
+falsificador (ídem: 92). También señaló las 
+similitudes entre las frases del Nuevo Testamento 
+y el Corpus Hermeticum, argumentando que este 
+último no podía ser precristiano. Y que los textos 
+del Corpus no registraban la sabiduría del antiguo 
+Egipto, sino que eran de hecho un conjunto de 
+conceptos platónicos y cristianos escritos después 
+de la época de Cristo (ídem, 91 y Van Bladel, 
+2009: 06-7). 
+
+
+23 
+
+
+Aunque Casaubon es considerado 
+unánimemente el gran contendiente de la remota 
+antigüedad del Corpus Hermeticum, más 
+específicamente, Wouter J. Hanegraaff señaló que 
+antes de Casaubon, el discípulo de Adrien 
+Turnébe, Gilbert Genebrard, Matthieu Béroalde y 
+Jean van Gorp ya habían estado criticando la 
+remota antigüedad del Corpus Hermeticum desde 
+1567. Por lo tanto, Casaubon parece haber sido 
+solo el protagonista final y culminante de un 
+debate que había comenzado casi un siglo antes 
+(Hanegraaff, 2018: 07 y Ebeling, 2007: 95). Parece 
+que la alquimia no se vio inmediatamente afectada 
+por las críticas de Casaubon, pero otro autor, 
+Hermann Conring, profesor de medicina en la 
+Universidad Helmstedt, publicó en 1648 un libro 
+que cuestionaba la validez de la alquimia de 
+Paracelso. Estuvo de acuerdo en que los libros, 
+atribuidos a Hermes Trismegistos, eran 
+falsificaciones y afirmó que nunca existió un 
+hombre con este nombre y que la medicina egipcia 
+era pura superstición, mucho más que la medicina 
+griega, así como las matemáticas, la física y la 
+filosofía (Ebeling, 2007: 97). 
+
+Las obras de Isaac Casaubon y Hermann 
+Conring impactaron como duchas de agua fría 
+sobre el entusiasmo de los hermetistas de la 
+época y las generaciones siguientes, el 
+enfriamiento fue tan fuerte que, entre 1630 y 1856, 
+no hubo publicaciones de textos herméticos, 
+debido a la caída del interés en el tema (Faivre, 
+
+
+24 
+
+
+1995: 186 y Van Bladel, 2009: 06). El interés solo 
+resurgiría a mediados del siglo XIX con la 
+formación de grupos herméticos, mezclando todas 
+las artes ocultas en un calderón llamado 
+Hermetismo. 
+
+Critica 
+
+
+Desde un punto de vista crítico, se puede 
+definir, simple y brevemente, que el Hermetismo 
+es la intelectualización más exitosa de la 
+superstición. Porque en la historia, ninguna otra 
+superstición antigua ha sido capaz de vestirse con 
+una intelectualidad como el Hermetismo. En cierto 
+modo, es un curioso ejemplo de cómo la 
+imaginación humana es capaz de transformar una 
+cultura supersticiosa en una cultura 
+intelectualizada y sofisticada, capaz de atraer 
+personalidades educadas e individuos de clase 
+alta a su entorno. Porque es una mezcla variada 
+de mitología egipcia, supersticiones religiosas y 
+filosofía helenística racional. A diferencia de las 
+supersticiones de las creencias incultas, que no 
+tienen literatura, y mucho menos exégesis, las 
+ideas herméticas, a su vez, son supersticiones con 
+una extensa literatura reveladora y exegética, 
+vestidas con lenguaje y rituales sofisticados que 
+las cubren con una apariencia intelectual (gracias 
+a la intrusión de las ideas filosóficas griegas), tan 
+brillante y seductor para aquellos que se deleitan 
+con la especulación y las prácticas antiguas. Con 
+
+
+25 
+
+
+esto, sus especulaciones asumen la apariencia de 
+cientificidad. Por lo tanto, no sin razón Brian Regal 
+incluyó la doctrina de Hermes Trismegistos como 
+un ejemplo de pseudociencia en su enciclopedia 
+Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia (Regal, 
+2009: 78-9). La razón de esta inclusión radica en 
+la insistencia de los partidarios y admiradores en 
+calificar las especulaciones rudimentarias de 
+Hermes Trismegistos y de sus seguidores, como 
+"Ciencia Hermética" o "Filosofía Hermética". 
+Cuando un autor así las nombra, ignora el carácter 
+evolutivo de las ciencias y las filosofías, por lo que 
+se conocía como ciencia en el momento de la 
+composición de los primeros textos herméticos 
+(primeros siglos de la Era Común), hoy estas 
+enseñanzas se reconocen como especulaciones 
+primitivas, porque las metodologías científicas 
+utilizadas en estas dos épocas son enormemente 
+distintas. 
+
+Las doctrinas herméticas son a veces tan 
+extrañas y absurdas para el recién llegado que lee 
+este tema, que un escéptico con formación 
+científica y racional puede leer por primera vez 
+que la doctrina de esta antigua tradición es el 
+producto de un delirio esquizofrénico. Lo mismo no 
+se notará por alguien acostumbrado a leer sobre la 
+cultura y las religiones de la Antigüedad. Las 
+doctrinas herméticas se ajustan perfectamente a 
+esta época, ya que fueron extraídas de ideas 
+contemporáneas de otros sistemas. 
+
+
+26 
+
+
+La comunicación hermética nos recuerda 
+un ejemplo interesante, citado por los psicólogos 
+de la persuasión, el arte persuasivo de persuadir a 
+alguien más por la astucia de la retórica, por la 
+elocuencia, por la fascinación, por la oratoria 
+brillante o por el argumento persuasivo, que por el 
+contenido del mensaje en sí mismo, es decir, más 
+por su forma que por su contenido. Los 
+investigadores de la persuasión mencionan un 
+ejemplo a través de la experiencia de alguien que 
+admira una pintura por la belleza del marco y no 
+por la belleza de la pintura en sí, es decir, la 
+belleza del marco sugiere la opinión del 
+espectador sobre la belleza de la pintura. Este 
+suele ser el caso cuando se presta más atención a 
+la forma externa que al contenido, como juzgar un 
+libro por su portada o una película por su póster. 
+De la misma manera, el Hermetismo seduce por la 
+curiosidad de los misterios (la verdad está oculta 
+en los misterios antiguos), por el encanto de los 
+rituales (los rituales reproducen las realidades que 
+la inteligencia no puede entender), el enigma de 
+los símbolos (cuanto más simbólico, más 
+verdadero ), la antigüedad de las doctrinas (cuanto 
+más antiguas, más sabias), la oportunidad de las 
+iniciaciones (solo el iniciado conoce la verdad), la 
+sabiduría de los mitos (cuanto más fantasioso, el 
+más significativo) y la deslumbrante revelación. 
+Pero desde una perspectiva medida, toda esta 
+atracción seductora enmascara una multitud de 
+
+
+27 
+
+
+revelaciones delirantes, especulaciones 
+infundadas y prácticas supersticiosas. 
+
+
+La Decepción con el Obsoleto 
+
+Que en los grupos esotéricos, como en 
+las iglesias populares, el número de disidentes 
+decepcionados con lo que han aprendido o 
+experimentado es grande, solo aquellos que 
+asisten pueden saberlo, ya que estos grupos, 
+como las iglesias, ocultan la divulgación estos 
+hechos. Por lo tanto, la rotación de miembros es 
+alta. De hecho, hay muchos que dejan a estos 
+grupos esotéricos por decepción, y una de las 
+decepciones más frecuentes es el reconocimiento 
+de las doctrinas obsoletas y la superstición de las 
+prácticas. Cuando llega el momento, cuyo adepto 
+es capaz de aislar las exaltaciones, las 
+esperanzas infundadas, las promesas utópicas, la 
+fascinación y las alabanzas, que alinean las 
+doctrinas y prácticas esotéricas, entonces es 
+capaz de percibir, detrás de estas capas 
+seductoras, un conjunto de ideas y prácticas que 
+solo es válido para la cultura de la Antigüedad y la 
+Edad Media. Porque el esoterismo es más 
+fascinación que realidad, también, la seducción del 
+misterio y lo oculto dificulta la percepción del 
+obsoleto y hace que las viejas ideas parezcan 
+actuales. 
+
+
+28 
+
+
+El remedio para esta ceguera evolutiva 
+es el estudio de la historia de las ideas, pero no de 
+acuerdo con la versión de la tradición, sino con la 
+versión de estudios académicos e imparciales 
+independientes de la versión tradicional. El estudio 
+de la historia siempre ha sido una molestia para la 
+religión, e inevitablemente también para el 
+esoterismo, y se puede señalar por la cantidad de 
+doctrinas basadas en mitos y rumores, que 
+carecen de historicidad. 
+
+La Decepción con el Secreto 
+
+El Hermetismo, junto con otras 
+tradiciones esotéricas (Rosacruz, Masonería, 
+Sociedad Teosófica y otras), enfatiza demasiado 
+el secreto. El iniciado es obligado a guardar un 
+secreto sobre algunas revelaciones que se le dan, 
+así como sobre los rituales. Para estas tradiciones 
+iniciáticas, el secreto es una fuerza poderosa. 
+Porque ayuda a preservar la santidad de las 
+doctrinas esotéricas, evitando que caigan en 
+manos de personas no preparadas para recibirlas. 
+Esta es la versión esotérica. 
+
+Sin embargo, una ocurrencia es común 
+entre aquellos que se aventuran en estas escuelas 
+esotéricas, es decir, la decepción con estos 
+secretos, por dos razones. Primero, el 
+descubrimiento de que estos secretos no son 
+realmente tan secretos, ya que si el iniciado se 
+dispone a investigar, encontrará que estos 
+
+
+29 
+
+
+secretos están disponibles en docenas de libros 
+publicados abiertamente. Y en segundo lugar, lo 
+que es aún más decepcionante es que estos 
+secretos o misterios no son grandes cosas, es 
+decir, son ideas obsoletas, supersticiones, 
+creencias y prácticas inútiles. 
+
+Por ejemplo, los herméticos desde la 
+antigüedad consideran que sus doctrinas y 
+prácticas son muy secretas, tanto que la palabra 
+"hermético" se ha convertido en sinónimo de algo 
+muy secreto. Este sentimiento de secreto revivió 
+durante el Renacimiento, a través de la admiración 
+y exaltación de Masilio Ficino, Giordano Bruno y 
+otros, cuando el Hermetismo ya se había 
+convertido en una tradición casi olvidada. Sin 
+embargo, estudios académicos e históricos 
+recientes han revelado que las doctrinas 
+herméticas no son tan secretas, ya que son una 
+mezcla de doctrinas egipcias, platónicas, 
+pitagóricas, neoplatónicas, judaicas, persas, 
+cristianas, neopitagóricas y gnósticas, de las 
+cuales tenemos abundantes publicaciones (para 
+profundizar en la historia de la tradición de Hermes 
+Trismegistos, los trabajos de referencia son: 
+Faivre, 1995; Broek, 1998; Ebeling, 2007 y Bull, 
+2018). También hay literatura árabe hermética, 
+traducida del persa y el griego, de ahí la creación 
+de un "Hermes Árabe" (ver: Van Bladel, 2009). 
+Para conocer las fuentes de las ideas herméticas 
+en sus textos principales ( Hermética ), vea las 
+traducciones al español de Xavier Renau Nebot, 
+
+
+30 
+
+
+Textos Herméticos, 1999, con abundantes notas 
+que identifican las fuentes doctrinales del 
+Hermetismo. 
+
+Estrictamente hablando, el Hermetismo 
+se forma a partir de una mezcla tan diversa de 
+ideas que los investigadores e historiadores aún 
+discuten la cantidad de ideas egipcias presentes 
+en la doctrina hermética. Hasta hace unas 
+décadas, se pensaba que el Hermetismo no tenía 
+elementos egipcios en sus doctrinas, solo el 
+sincretismo entre el dios egipcio Thoth y el dios 
+griego Hermes. Sin embargo, este punto de vista 
+cambió después del descubrimiento de textos 
+herméticos en el lenguaje copto entre los 
+manuscritos de la biblioteca de Nag Hammadi, 
+estos son: The Discourse of the Eighth and Ninth 
+(Discurso de la Octava y Novena), The Prayer of 
+Thanksgiving (Oración de Acción de Gracias) y 
+Asclepius 21-29 (Parrott, 1990: 321-38 y Nebot, 
+1999: 247-56 y 493-501). 
+
+Durante el Renacimiento, la admiración 
+por el Hermetismo fue tan delirante, por algunos 
+entusiastas, que se crearon versiones exaltando a 
+Hermes Trismegistos como el padre de la filosofía, 
+que Pitágoras fue su discípulo, que vivió en una 
+antigüedad muy remota, por lo tanto, antes de 
+Moisés, que él fue el fundador de la sabiduría en 
+el mundo, etc., etc. En el Renacimiento, la 
+comprensión de la escritura jeroglífica ya no era 
+posible, es decir, la comprensión de la escritura se 
+había perdido, por lo que los hermetistas 
+
+
+31 
+
+
+delirantes fantaseaban con las ideas de que los 
+jeroglíficos contenían una gran sabiduría en sus 
+escritos. El caso más fantasioso, y hasta cierto 
+punto cómico, fue el esoterista inglés Athanasius 
+Kircher (1601-1680), quien se aventuró a traducir 
+algunos jeroglíficos disponibles en aquel 
+momento, alegando haber podido descifrar la 
+escritura egipcia, es decir, antes de desciframiento 
+definitivo de Jean-Frangois Champollion en 1822. 
+Kircher imaginó que los jeroglíficos guardaban 
+mensajes religiosos y místicos cifrados 
+herméticamente, luego los tradujeron a partir de 
+esta suposición. Con lo desciframiento definitivo y 
+universalmente aceptado de Champollion, se 
+descubrió que las fantasiosas traducciones de 
+jeroglíficos con mensajes religiosos de Kircher 
+eran de hecho comunicaciones administrativas, 
+informes de triunfos de batalla, decretos de 
+faraones y otros textos burocráticos, aunque hay 
+textos religiosos en jeroglíficos, pero estos no 
+fueran los que Kircher intentó traducir. Para 
+obtener más información sobre las fantasiosas 
+concepciones de Athanasius Kircher, consulte el 
+libro de John Glassie, A Man of Misconceptions: 
+The Ufe of an Eccentric in an Age of Change (Un 
+Hombre de Ideas Equivocadas: La Vida de un 
+Excéntrico en una Era de Cambio - 2012). 
+
+Además, en el libro Picatrix, muy 
+estimado por los hermetistas árabes, se menciona 
+que "la antigua sabiduría hermética egipcia era un 
+instrumento tan poderoso que debía codificarse en 
+
+
+32 
+
+
+jeroglíficos" (Ebeling, 2007: 47). Los hermetistas 
+árabes, sin comprender la escritura egipcia 
+antigua, también imaginaron que los jeroglíficos 
+registraban secretos herméticos, registros que 
+hasta ahora no se han encontrado después de 
+tantos años de exploración arqueológica en 
+Egipto. La prueba de que los hermetistas estaban 
+delirando, cuando afirmaban que los jeroglíficos 
+egipcios registraban la sabiduría hermética, vino 
+con la fundación de la Egiptología, después del 
+desciframiento por J. F. Champollion en 1822, 
+cuando, desde entonces, no fue posible encontrar 
+en los cientos de textos jeroglíficos que ya se 
+encontraron por excavación en Egipto, que luego 
+fueron descifrados y traducidos, ni siquiera uno 
+menciona el Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius , la 
+Tableta Esmeralda o cualquiera de los otros textos 
+herméticos (Ebeling, 2007: 131). Los jeroglíficos 
+egipcios son mudos cuanto la literatura hermética. 
+Así, el desciframiento de los jeroglíficos fue otra 
+"ducha de agua fría" para los hermetistas y 
+simpatizantes. Florian Ebeling señaló: “Tanto la 
+figura como los escritos de Flermes Trismegistos 
+son producto de un sincretismo de la filosofía 
+helenística de la naturaleza, que en sí misma era 
+un conjunto de doctrinas pitagóricas, estoicas, 
+platónicas y aristotélicas intercaladas con motivos 
+de la mitología egipcia y temas de origen persa y 
+judaico” (Ebeling, 2007: 09). 
+
+También en los textos herméticos puede 
+agregarse la influencia de la doctrina cristiana, ya 
+
+
+33 
+
+
+que en estos, especialmente en el Corpus 
+Hermeticum y en el Asclepius , las terminologías 
+cristianas aparecen como en los pasajes del 
+Corpus Hermeticum, cap. I ( Poimandres ), § 5 y 6: 
+“Santo Verbo” (ayiog Aóyog - agios logos), “Hijo de 
+Dios” (uiog 0£ou - uios theou), como en la frase 
+Aóyog uiog 0eou ( logos uios theou) “el Logos es el 
+Hijo de Dios", también en la frase: voug ucrrrip 
+(nous pater), "el Pensamiento ( nous ) es el Padre" 
+(ver: Nebot, 1999: 77 y Salaman, 2000: 18). 
+Además, en el tratado XIII § 02, la frase: "Dios el 
+hijo de Dios" (Oeou 0£o<¡ uaig -Theou theos país) 
+(Festugiére, 1945-54, tomo II: 201, Nebot, 1999: 
+207 y Salaman, 2000: 65). 
+
+A pesar de la inmensa influencia y 
+dependencia de la cultura griega en la 
+composición de los textos herméticos, ya que la 
+mayoría fueron compuestos y preservados en el 
+idioma griego, o traducidos del griego al latín o al 
+árabe, observe el insulto al pueblo griego y al 
+idioma griego en Corpus Hermeticum XVI, § 01-2: 
+Asclepios dijo que Hermes solía decir que 
+"aquellos que leerán mis libros encontrarán que la 
+composición es simple y clara, a la vez que oscura 
+y oculta el significado de las palabras y eso será 
+aún más oscuro cuando los griegos luego los 
+traducir de nuestro idioma (egipcio) a su propio 
+(griego), lo que conducirá a una distorsión 
+completa del texto y su oscuridad total". Y más 
+adelante: "...tente preservar este discurso de toda 
+traducción para que tales grandes misterios no 
+
+
+34 
+
+
+lleguen a los griegos y que la expresión orgullosa, 
+de ellos, con su falta de sensibilidad y lo que 
+podría decirse que son falsas gracias, hace que la 
+gravedad, la solidez, la virtud efectiva de las 
+palabras de nuestro idioma, palidezcan y 
+desaparezcan. Porque los griegos, oh rey, solo 
+tienes discursos vacíos, buenos con fines de 
+demostración; y esta es toda la filosofía de los 
+griegos, un rumor de palabras. En cuanto a 
+nosotros, no usamos palabras simples, sino 
+sonidos llenos de eficacia” (Festugiére, 1945: tomo 
+II, 231-3; Nebot, 1999: 226-7 y Salaman: 2000: 
+74). 
+
+Entre otras, una curiosidad en las 
+advertencias anteriores es que "tales grandes 
+misterios no llegan a los griegos", siendo que casi 
+todas las doctrinas mencionadas en el Corpus 
+Hermeticum son de origen griego. Ahora, ¿cómo 
+es posible evitar que las ideas herméticas lleguen 
+a los griegos si ellas provienen en gran parte de 
+los griegos? 
+
+Decepción Personal 
+
+Yo mismo experimenté esta decepción 
+cuando, después de comenzar a practicar la 
+disciplina en una institución esotérica de la India, 
+después de unos años decidí, en la década de 
+1980, hacer un viaje allá para profundizar la 
+doctrina y comenzar los estudios del idioma 
+sánscrito. Durante los años que asistí a este grupo 
+
+
+35 
+
+
+esotérico, fui adoctrinado a la idea de que algunas 
+doctrinas y prácticas eran muy secretas, tan 
+secreta para los iniciados, que no podían hacerse 
+públicas. Por esta razón, las publicaciones de esta 
+institución esotérica no se vendían en librerías, 
+solo a miembros de los ashrams , porque eran muy 
+secretas. Bueno, estando allá, cuando pude 
+comenzar a leer en este idioma antiguo, comencé 
+a darme cuenta de que muchas doctrinas y 
+prácticas, consideradas altamente esotéricas, eran 
+comunes con algunas corrientes del Hinduismo, la 
+religión más popular en la India, con 
+aproximadamente un millón de seguidores. Es 
+decir, estas enseñanzas y rituales eran 
+popularmente conocidos y practicados en la 
+religión hindú. 
+
+Recuerdo la decepción cuando encontré 
+por primera vez, en la casa de un pariente de mi 
+instructor, durante una visita, una guía para la 
+realización del ritual Sandhyávandana (^^Id^d), 5 
+un antiguo ritual védico realizado por miles de 
+brahmanes por muchos siglos, durante el 
+amanecer o el crepúsculo de día o de noche, más 
+comúnmente al amanecer. Este antiguo ritual 
+védico (tal como casi todas las prácticas antiguas, 
+
+
+5 ■a^Tl ( scmdhyá ] literalmente significa "unión", por lo 
+tanto, unión de día y noche, es decir, "amanecer" o 
+"crepúsculo"; d<d ( vandana ] significa "adoración", por lo 
+que sandhyávandana significa "adoración del amanecer o 
+del crepúsculo". 
+
+
+
+
+
+36 
+
+
+es supersticioso) es el mismo que, en la institución 
+esotérica a la que frecuentaba, se practicaba bajo 
+el nombre mal representado de "Práctica de 
+Salud", 6 porque, en lugar de realizarse diariamente 
+al amanecer, aquí en Occidente se practicaba el 
+domingo por la mañana para parecerse a la misa 
+católica. En el Hinduismo, Sandhyávandana es un 
+ritual doméstico, donde el brahmán realiza el ritual 
+para su familia, mientras que aquí en Occidente es 
+un ritual colectivo practicado en los ashrams. Este 
+evento comenzó mi decepción por el esoterismo 
+de esta institución que frecuentaba, porque con mi 
+conocimiento del idioma sánscrito descubrí 
+muchas cosas en común con el Hinduismo popular 
+y supersticioso. 
+
+Además, las decepciones con las 
+disciplinas prácticas. Después de la iniciación, el 
+novicio recibe de su instructor las disciplinas a 
+realizar individualmente (ejercicios de respiración, 
+concentración, visualización, imaginación, 
+meditación, etc.), según su grado, por el juramento 
+
+
+6 Fue nombrado aquí en Occidente debido al ritual de 
+invocar a antiguos dioses védicos a través de mantras y 
+gestos para magnetizar el agua que luego se toca en 
+diferentes partes del cuerpo (ojos, nariz, orejas, etc.), con 
+la intención de proporcionar salud o curación. No existe 
+una confirmación científica adecuada de que el agua 
+magnetizada durante ritual tenga un efecto saludable y 
+terapéutico, solo la confirmación de experimentos 
+pseudocientíficos. 
+
+
+
+37 
+
+
+de no revelar la naturaleza de ellos. A medida que 
+avanzan los grados, se informa al iniciado que las 
+prácticas se vuelven más secretas y más 
+poderosas. La decepción ocurre cuando el iniciado 
+tiene curiosidad por investigar, luego descubre que 
+esas prácticas secretas son conocidas 
+públicamente, algunas se enseñan en libros 
+populares, en cursos abiertos a todos, en prácticas 
+colectivas, y algunas incluso son desaconsejadas 
+por médicos y psiquiatras, por riesgos de daño a la 
+salud física o mental. 
+
+A veces, en las instituciones esotéricas, 
+donde se revelan las instrucciones o las 
+disciplinas, se practican de acuerdo con los grados 
+del discípulo (ejemplos: Rosacruz y Masonería), 
+los secretos se revelan a través de otro secreto en 
+el siguiente grado, y así ad infinitum, sin nunca 
+encuentre una explicación o base para ideas o 
+prácticas. Entonces, algunos críticos dicen que 
+estas enseñanzas esotéricas son como un pozo 
+sin fondo, donde nunca se puede encontrar agua 
+en el fondo. 
+
+Además, es curioso el hábito frecuente 
+de algunos esoteristas de tratar de explicar un 
+simbolismo a través de otro simbolismo, como si la 
+presencia de un símbolo similar en otra tradición 
+justificara el significado de un símbolo. Algo así 
+como un símbolo interpretando otro símbolo. Esta 
+práctica se hizo tan común entre los esoteristas 
+que se creó un tópico conocido como "Simbolismo 
+Comparativo". Dos comparadores conocidos 
+
+
+38 
+
+
+fueron René Guénon y Julius Evola. De todos 
+modos, explicar o interpretar un símbolo a través 
+de otro símbolo no es una explicación suficiente, 
+es algo así como "intercambiar seis por media 
+docena", es decir, la inexplicabilidad sigue siendo 
+la misma. 
+
+
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+Précis of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness
+in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
+Evan Thompson
+Philosophy East and West, Volume 66, Number 3, July 2016, pp. 927-933 (Article)
+
+Published by University of Hawai'i Press
+DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2016.0059
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+Précis of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness
+in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
+Evan Thompson
+Philosophy Department, University of British Columbia
+evan.thompson@ubc.ca
+
+The central idea of Waking, Dreaming, Being is that the self is a process, not a thing
+or an entity.1 The self isn’t something outside experience, hidden either in the brain
+or in some immaterial realm. It is an experiential process that is subject to constant
+change. We enact a self in the process of awareness, and this self comes and goes
+depending on how we are aware.
+When we’re awake and occupied with some manual task, we enact a bodily self
+geared to our immediate environment. Yet this bodily self recedes from our experience if our task becomes an absorbing mental one. If our mind wanders, the men­tally
+imagined self of the past or future overtakes the self of the present moment.
+As we start to fall asleep, the sense of self slackens. Images float by, and our
+awareness becomes progressively absorbed in them. The impression of being a
+bounded individual distinct from the world dissolves. In this hypnagogic state, the
+borders between self and not-self seem to fall away.
+The feeling of being a distinct self immersed in the world comes back in the
+dream state. We experience the dream from the perspective of the self within it,
+or the dream ego. Although the entire dream world exists only as a content of our
+awareness, we identify our self with only a portion of it — the dream ego that centers
+our experience of the dream world and presents itself as the locus of our awareness.
+At times, however, something else happens. We realize we’re dreaming, but instead of waking up we keep right on dreaming with the knowledge that we’re dreaming. We enter what is called a lucid dream. Here we experience a different kind of
+awareness, one that witnesses the dream state. No matter what dream contents come
+and go, including the forms the dream ego takes, we can tell they’re not the same as
+our awareness of being in the dream state. We no longer identify only with our dream
+ego — the “I” as dreamed — for our sense of self now includes our dreaming self: the
+“I” as dreamer.
+Similarly, while meditating in the waking state, we can simply witness being
+conscious and watch whatever sensory or mental events occur within the field of our
+awareness. We can also watch how we may identify with some of them as “Me” or
+appropriate some of them as “Mine.”
+According to the Indian yogic traditions, which broadly construed include Buddhism, we can distinguish three aspects of consciousness.2 The first aspect is awareness, the second is the contents of awareness, and the third is how we experience
+some of these contents of awareness as “I” or “Me” or “Mine.” From this perspective,
+to understand how we enact a self we need to understand three things — the nature
+
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+© 2016 by University of Hawai‘i Press
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+of awareness and its sensory and mental contents, the mind-body processes that produce these contents, and how some of these contents come to be experienced as “I”
+or “Me” or “Mine.”
+In Waking, Dreaming, Being, I take this threefold framework of awareness,
+contents of awareness, and self-experience — or what the Indian tradition calls
+­
+“I-making” (ahaṃkāra) — and put it to work in cognitive science. Whereas the Indian
+thinkers mapped consciousness and I-making in philosophical and phenomenological terms, I show how their insights can also help to advance the neuroscience of
+consciousness by weaving together neuroscience and Indian philosophy in an exploration of wakefulness, falling asleep, dreaming, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, deep and dreamless sleep, forms of meditative awareness, and the process
+of dying.
+The organizing principle for the book comes from the Indian tradition, specifi­
+cally from the Upaniṣads, which arguably contain the world’s first recorded map of
+consciousness. The earliest texts — the Bṛhadāraṇyaka and Chāndogya Upaniṣads —
+delineate three principal states of the self — the waking state, the dream state, and the
+state of deep and dreamless sleep. The later text of the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad adds a
+fourth state — “the fourth” (turīya) or pure awareness. Waking consciousness relates
+to the outer world and apprehends the physical body as the self. Dream consciousness relates to mental images constructed from memories and apprehends the dream
+body as the self. In deep and dreamless sleep, consciousness rests in a dormant state
+not differentiated into subject and object. Pure awareness is variously described as
+underlying these changing states of waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep or as
+witnessing them without identifying with them or with the self that appears in them.
+I use this fourfold structure to organize my exploration of consciousness and the
+sense of self across the waking, dreaming, and deep-sleep states, as well as meditative states of heightened awareness and concentration.
+In the yogic traditions, meditation trains both the ability to sustain attention on
+a single object and the ability to be openly aware of the entire field of experience
+without selecting or suppressing anything that arises. In both modes of meditation —
+one-pointed concentration and open awareness — one learns to monitor specific
+qualities of experience, such as moment-to-moment fluctuations of attention and
+emotion, that are difficult for the restless mind to see.3 One of the guiding ideas of
+Waking, Dreaming, Being is that individuals who can move reliably and flexibly
+between these different modes of attention and awareness, and who can describe in
+precise terms how their experience feels from moment to moment, offer a new source
+of information about the self and consciousness for neuroscience and the philosophy
+of mind.
+Let me give a brief overview of the main ideas from the book’s chapters. Chapter
+1 explains the formative Indian image of light or luminosity as the basic nature of
+consciousness.4 Indian philosophers often define consciousness as that which is luminous and knowing. “Luminous” means having the power to reveal; “knowing”
+means being able to apprehend whatever appears. In the waking state, consciousness reveals and apprehends the outer world through the senses; in the dream state,
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+also introduces the ancient Indian map of consciousness, which comprises the four
+states of wakefulness, dreaming, deep and dreamless sleep, and pure awareness.
+Chapter 2 focuses on attention and perception in the waking state. I compare
+theories and findings from cognitive neuroscience with Indian Buddhist theories
+of attention and perception. According to both perspectives, although the stream of
+consciousness may seem to flow continuously, upon closer inspection it appears to
+be made up of discrete moments of awareness that depend on how attention shifts
+from one thing to another. I review evidence from neuroscience showing that focused attention and open-awareness forms of meditation have measurable effects on
+how attention structures the stream of consciousness into discrete moments of awareness. I conclude by using both Buddhist philosophy and cognitive neuroscience to
+argue that in addition to these discrete moments we also need to recognize a more
+slowly changing background awareness that includes the sense of self and that shifts
+across waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep.
+Chapter 3 takes up the question of whether the basic nature of consciousness as
+pure awareness transcends the brain and living body, as Indian and Tibetan philosophers traditionally claim, or whether it is dependent on the brain and living body.
+I describe a dialogue on this question with the fourteenth Dalai Lama at his refugee
+home in Dharamsala, India, in which I participated, and I explain the basis in
+­Buddhist philosophy for the Dalai Lama’s view that consciousness transcends the
+brain.5 I argue, however, that there is no scientific evidence to support this view. All
+the evidence available to us indicates that consciousness is contingent on the brain.
+Nevertheless, my point of view is not a materialist one, for two reasons. First, consciousness has a cognitive primacy that materialism fails to see. There is no way to
+step outside consciousness and measure it against something else. Science always
+moves within the field of what consciousness reveals; it can enlarge this field and
+open up new vistas, but it can never get beyond the horizon set by consciousness.
+Second, since consciousness has this kind of primacy, it makes no sense to try to reductively explain consciousness in terms of something that is conceived to be essentially non-experiential, as physicalists conceive of fundamental physical phenomena.
+Rather, understanding consciousness as a natural phenomenon is going to require
+rethinking our scientific concepts of nature and physical being.
+Chapters 4, 5, and 6 concern falling asleep, dreaming, and lucid dreaming. I
+begin with the state leading into sleep, the hypnagogic state, in which strange images
+make their way before our eyes and we hear sounds or what seem like conversations going on around us or inside us. Whereas normal waking consciousness is ego-­
+structured — we experience ourselves as bounded beings distinct from the outside
+world — this structure dissolves in the hypnagogic state. There is no ego in the sense
+of an “I” who acts as a participant in a larger world, and there is no larger world in
+which we feel immersed. Instead, there is a play of images and sounds that holds
+consciousness spellbound. In short, two key features mark the hypnagogic state — a
+dissolution of ego boundaries and an attention drawn to what consciousness spontaneously imagines.
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+The ego structure of consciousness returns in the dream state. In the dream state
+we experience being in the dream world. Sometimes we experience it from an inside
+or first-person perspective; sometimes we see ourselves in it from an outside or third-­
+person perspective. These two perspectives also occur in memory, where they are
+known as “field memory” and “observer memory.” Yet even in the case of the ob­
+server perspective in a dream, we experience ourselves as a subject situated in relation to the dream world. At the same time, the spellbound attention that arises in the
+hypnagogic state also characterizes the dream state, so it, too, is a kind of captivated
+consciousness.
+All this changes in a lucid dream. The defining feature of a lucid dream is being
+able to direct attention to the dreamlike quality of the state so that one can think
+about it as a dream. When this happens, the sense of self shifts, for one becomes
+aware of the self both as dreamer — “I’m dreaming” — and as dreamed — “I’m flying in
+my dream.”
+In these three chapters I review findings from sleep science that show that each
+state — the hypnagogic state, dreaming, and lucid dreaming — is associated with its
+own distinct kind of brain activity.
+I end my discussion of dreaming by criticizing the standard neuroscience conception of the dream state as a form of delusional hallucination. Instead, I argue that
+dreaming is a kind of spontaneous imagination. I also argue that dreaming is not a
+passive epiphenomenon of the sleeping brain, for intentional mental activity in
+dreaming, especially in lucid dreaming and meditative practices of lucid dreaming,
+actively affects the sleeping brain.
+Chapter 7 examines out-of-body experiences. In an out-of-body experience, you
+feel as if you’re located outside your body, often at an elevated vantage point. Yet far
+from showing the separability of the self from the body, out-of-body experiences reinforce the strong connection between the body and the sense of self. These aren’t
+experiences of disembodiment; they’re experiences of altered embodiment. You see
+your body as an object at a place that doesn’t coincide with the felt location of your
+visual and vestibular awareness. In this way, there’s a dissociation between your
+body as an object of perception and your body as a perceptual subject and atten­
+tional agent. Out-of-body experiences reveal something crucial about the sense of
+self: you locate yourself as an experiential subject wherever your attentional perspective feels located, regardless of whether this happens to be the place you see your
+body as occupying.
+Out-of-body experiences provide no evidence that one can have an experience
+without one’s biological body, for the body remains present throughout. Furthermore, experiences with many of the features of out-of-body experiences can be
+brought about by direct electrical stimulation of certain brain regions and by virtual
+reality devices. So out-of-body experiences are brain-dependent.
+Chapter 8 asks whether consciousness is or can be present in deep and dreamless sleep. Most neuroscientists and philosophers of mind today assume that
+dreamless sleep is a blackout state in which consciousness fades or disappears completely. In contrast, the Indian philosophical schools of Yoga and Vedānta, as well as
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+be present in dreamless sleep. I present the Indian philosophical case for deep sleep
+being a mode of consciousness and show that none of the behavioral or physiological evidence from sleep science suffices to rule out there being a mode of consciousness in dreamless sleep. Hence, the standard neuroscience way of trying to define
+consciousness as that which disappears in dreamless sleep needs to be revised. Yoga,
+Vedānta, and Buddhism assert that the subliminal consciousness present in dreamless sleep can become cognitively accessible through meditative mental training. I
+present some preliminary evidence from sleep science in support of this idea. I end
+the chapter by proposing that we need to enlarge sleep science to include contemplative ways of training the mind in sleep. This project will require sleep scientists,
+anthropologists, meditation practitioners, and contemplative scholars of the Indian
+and Tibetan traditions to work together to map the sleeping mind.6
+Chapter 9 investigates what happens to the self and consciousness when we die.
+Neuroscience and biomedicine talk about death as if it were essentially an objective
+and impersonal event instead of a subjective and personal one. From a purely biomedical perspective, death consists in the breakdown of the functions of the living
+body along with the disappearance of all outer signs of consciousness. Missing from
+this perspective is the subjective experience of this breakdown and the existential
+significance of the inevitable fact of one’s own death. In contrast, Tibetan Buddhism
+presents a vivid account of the progressive breakdown of consciousness and the dissolution of the sense of self during the dying process. It also describes how to face
+this process in a meditative way. According to Tibetan Buddhism — as well as Yoga
+and Vedānta — great contemplatives can disengage from the sense of self as ego as
+they die. Resting in an experience of pure awareness, they can watch the dissolution of their everyday “I-Me-Mine” consciousness and witness their own dying with
+equanimity.
+Near-death experiences during cardiac arrest provide an important case for investigating how the mind meets death and the relationship between consciousness
+and the body. Although these experiences are often presented as challenging the
+view that consciousness is contingent on the brain, I argue that none of the evidence
+brought forward to support this position is convincing. Instead, all the evidence to
+date, when examined carefully, supports the view that these experiences are con­
+tingent on the brain.
+At the same time, we should avoid the trap of thinking that the reports of neardeath experience after resuscitation from cardiac arrest must be either literally true or
+literally false. This way of thinking remains caught in the grip of a purely third-person
+view of death. Dying and death must also be understood from the first-person perspective. We need to stop using accounts of these experiences to justify either neuroreductionist or spiritualist agendas and instead take them seriously for what they
+are: narratives of first-person experience arising from circumstances that we will all
+in some way face.
+Chapter 10 targets the view widespread in neuroscience and “neurophilosophy”
+that the self is nothing but an illusion created by the brain. I call this view “neuro-­
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+nihilism.” I argue that although the self is a construction — or rather a process that
+is under constant construction — it isn’t an illusion. A self is an ongoing process
+that enacts an “I” and in which the “I” is no different from the process itself, rather
+like the way dancing is a process that enacts a dance and in which the dance is
+no different from the dancing. I call this the “enactive” view of the self. This chapter presents a systematic statement of the enactive view and shows how I-making
+happens at multiple biological, psychological, and social levels. The discussion
+­combines elements from Buddhist philosophy (specifically from the “Middle Way”
+or Madhyamaka school), biology, cognitive science, and the neuroscience of
+meditation.
+Although cognitive science and the Indian yogic philosophical traditions form
+the core of this book, I also draw from a wide range of other sources: poetry and
+fiction, Western philosophy, Chinese Daoism, and personal experience. By weaving
+together these diverse sources, I hope to demonstrate a new way to relate science
+and what many people like to call spirituality. Instead of being either opposed or
+­indifferent to each other, cognitive science and the world’s great contemplative traditions can work together on a common project — understanding the mind and giving
+meaning to human life. Two extreme and regressive tendencies mark our era: (1) the
+resurgence of religious extremism and outmoded belief systems, and (2) the entrenchment of scientific materialism and reductionism. Neither mindset realizes the
+value of meditation and of the contemplative way of life as a source of wisdom and
+firsthand knowledge essential to a mature cognitive science that can do justice to our
+entire way of being — to our spirit, to use an older idiom.7 My book upholds a different vision. By enriching science with contemplative knowledge and contemplative
+knowledge with cognitive science, we can work to create a new scientific and contemplative appreciation of human life, one that no longer requires or needs to be
+contained within either a religious or an anti-religious framework.
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+Notes
+1    –    The following Précis draws extensively from the Introduction to Waking, Dream­
+ing, Being, pp. xxxi–xl.
+2    –    I use the terms “yogic traditions” and “yogic philosophies” in a broad sense that
+includes Buddhism. For justification of this usage, see Stephen Phillips, Yoga,
+Karma, and Rebirth: A Brief History and Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), pp. 4–5.
+3    –    See Antoine Lutz, Heleen A. Slagter, John D. Dunne, and Richard J. Davidson,
+“Attention Regulation and Monitoring in Meditation,” Trends in Cognitive Sci­
+ences 12 (2008): 163–169, and Antoine Lutz, Amishi Jha, John D. Dunne, and
+Clifford D. Saron, “Investigating the Phenomenological and Neurocognitive Matrix of Mindfulness-Related Practices,” American Psychologist 70, no. 7 (2015):
+632–658.
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+4    –    See Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of
+Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics, and Soteriology (Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007), chap. 2.
+5    –    See Dalai Lama, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and
+Spirituality (New York: Morgan, 2005).
+6    –    For further discussion of these issues, see Evan Thompson, “Dreamless Sleep,
+the Embodied Mind, and Consciousness: The Relevance of a Classical Indian
+Debate to Cognitive Science,” http://open-mind.net  /papers/dreamless-sleep-theembodied-mind-and-consciousness-the-relevance-of-a-classical-indian-debateto-cognitive-science; Jennifer M. Windt, “Just in Time — Dreamless Sleep Experience as Pure Subjective Temporality: A Commentary on Evan Thompson,” http://
+open-mind.net   /papers/just-in-time-dreamless-sleep-experience-as-pure-subjectivetemporality-a-commentary-on-evan-thompson; and Evan Thompson, “Steps Toward a Neurophenomenology of Sleep: A Reply to Windt,” http://open-mind.
+net  /papers/steps-toward-a-neurophenomenology-of-consciousness-in-sleep-areply-to-jennifer-m-windt.
+7    –    See Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates
+to Foucault, ed. with introd. Arnold Davidson (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1995). See especially “Part II: Spiritual Exercises.”
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+TAO TE CHING. Translation copyright © 1988 by Stephen Mitchell. All 
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+Lao-tzu. 
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+Tao te ching. 
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+Translation of: Tao te ching. 
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+Tao Te Ching (pronounced, more or less, Dow Deh Jing) can 
+be translated as The Book of the Immanence of the Way or The 
+Book of the Way and of How It Manifests Itself in the World or, 
+simply, The Book of the Way. Since it is already well known 
+by its Chinese title, I have let that stand. 
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+About Lao-tzu, its author, there is practically nothing to 
+be said. He may have been an older contemporary of Confu¬ 
+cius (551-479 B.C.E.) and may have held the position of 
+archive-keeper in one of the petty kingdoms of the time. But 
+all the information that has come down to us is highly sus¬ 
+pect. Even the meaning of his name is uncertain (the most 
+likely interpretations: “the Old Master" or, more pictur¬ 
+esquely, “the Old Boy”). Like an Iroquois woodsman, he left 
+no traces. All he left us is his book: the classic manual on 
+the art of living, written in style of gemlike lucidity, radiant 
+with humor and grace and largeheartedness and deep wis¬ 
+dom: one of the wonders of the world. 
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+People usually think of Lao-tzu as a hermit, a dropout 
+from society, dwelling serenely in some mountain hut, unvis¬ 
+ited except perhaps by the occasional traveler arriving from 
+a '60s joke to ask, “What is the meaning of life?” But it's 
+clear from his teachings that he deeply cared about society, 
+if society means the welfare of one’s fellow human beings; 
+his book is, among other things, a treatise on the art of 
+government, whether of a country or of a child. The misper¬ 
+ception may arise from his insistence on wet wu wei, literally 
+“doing not-doing,” which has been seen as passivity. Noth¬ 
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+which the right stroke or the right movement happens by 
+itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious 
+will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most 
+effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem 
+writes the poem; we can’t tell the dancer from the dance. 
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+Less and less do you need to force things, 
+until finally you arrive at non-action. 
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+When nothing is done, 
+nothing is left undone. 
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+Nothing is done because the doer has wholeheartedly van¬ 
+ished into the deed; the fuel has been completely trans¬ 
+formed into flame. This "nothing" is, in fact, everything. It 
+happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in 
+the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior 
+intelligence of the body. Hence Lao-tzu’s emphasis on soft¬ 
+ness. Softness means the opposite of rigidity, and is synony¬ 
+mous with suppleness, adaptability, endurance. Anyone who 
+has seen a t’ai chi or aikido master doing not-doing will 
+know how powerful this softness is. 
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+Lao-tzu’s central figure is a man or woman whose life is 
+in perfect harmony with the way things are. This is not an 
+idea; it is a reality; I have seen it. The Master has mastered 
+Nature; not in the sense of conquering it, but of becoming 
+it. In surrendering to the Tao, in giving up all concepts, 
+judgments, and desires, her mind has grown naturally com¬ 
+passionate. She finds deep in her own experience the central 
+truths of the art of living, which are paradoxical only on 
+the surface: that the more truly solitary we are, the more 
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+insight into what is beyond good and evil, the more we can 
+embody the good. Until finally she is able to say, in all hu¬ 
+mility, "I am the Tao, the Truth, the Life.” 
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+The teaching of the Tao Te Ching is moral in the deepest 
+sense. Unencumbered by any concept of sin, the Master 
+doesn’t see evil as a force to resist, but simply as an opaque¬ 
+ness, a state of self-absorption which is in disharmony with 
+the universal process, so that, as with a dirty window, the 
+light can t shine through. This freedom from moral catego¬ 
+ries allows him his great compassion for the wicked and the 
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+Thus the Master is available to all people 
+and doesn’t reject anyone. 
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+He is ready to use all situations 
+and doesn’t waste anything. 
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+This is called embodying the light. 
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+What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? 
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+What is a bad man but a good man’s job? 
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+If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, 
+however intelligent you are. 
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+It is the great secret. 
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+The reader will notice that in the many passages where 
+Lao-tzu describes the Master, I have used the pronoun "she" 
+at least as often as "he." The Chinese language doesn’t make 
+this kind of distinction; in English we have to choose. But 
+since we are all, potentially, the Master (since the Master is, 
+essentially, us), I felt it would be untrue to present a male 
+archetype, as other versions have, ironically, done. Ironically, 
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+free, throughout the book, to substitute “he” for ’’she” or 
+vice versa. 
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+As to method: I worked from Paul Carus’s literal version, 
+which provides English equivalents (often very quaint ones) 
+alongside each of the Chinese ideograms. I also consulted 
+dozens of translations into English, German, and French. 
+But the most essential preparation for my work was a four¬ 
+teen-year-long course of Zen training, which brought me 
+face to face with Lao-tzu and his true disciples and heirs, the 
+early Chinese Zen Masters. 
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+With great poetry, the freest translation is sometimes the 
+most faithful. “We must try its effect as an English poem,” 
+Dr. Johnson said; “that is the way to judge of the merit of a 
+translation.” I have often been fairly literal—or as literal as 
+one can be with such a subtle, kaleidoscopic book as the Tao 
+Te Ching. But I have also paraphrased, expanded, con¬ 
+tracted, interpreted, worked with the text, played with it, 
+until it became embodied in a language that felt genuine to 
+me. If 1 haven’t always translated Lao-tzu’s words, my inten¬ 
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+is not the eternal Name. 
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+The unnamable is the eternally real. 
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+of all particular things. 
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+Free from desire, you realize the mystery. 
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+Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. 
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+arise from the same source. 
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+Being and non-being create each other. 
+Difficult and easy support each other. 
+Long and short define each other. 
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+High and low depend on each other. 
+Before and after follow each other. 
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+Things arise and she lets them come; 
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+things disappear and she lets them go. 
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+She has but doesn’t possess, 
+acts but doesn’t expect. 
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+When her work is done, she forgets it. 
+That is why it lasts forever. 
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+If you overesteem great men, 
+people become powerless. 
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+If you overvalue possessions, 
+people begin to steal. 
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+The Master leads 
+by emptying people’s minds 
+and filling their cores, 
+by weakening their ambition 
+and toughening their resolve. 
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+He helps people lose everything 
+they know, everything they desire, 
+and creates confusion 
+in those who think that they know. 
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+It is like the eternal void: 
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+It is hidden but always present. 
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+It is older than God. 
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+it gives birth to both good and evil. 
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+The Master doesn’t take sides; 
+she welcomes both saints and sinners. 
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+The Tao is like a bellows: 
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+it is empty yet infinitely capable. 
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+The more you use it, the more it produces; 
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+it gives birth to infinite worlds. 
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+It is always present within you. 
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+The Tao is infinite, eternal. 
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+Why is it eternal? 
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+It was never born; 
+thus it can never die. 
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+Why is it infinite? 
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+It has no desires for itself; 
+thus it is present for all beings. 
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+The Master stays behind; 
+that is why she is ahead. 
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+She is detached from all things; 
+that is why she is one with them. 
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+The supreme good is like water, 
+
+which nourishes all things without trying to. 
+
+It is content with the low places that people disdain. 
+Thus it is like the Tao. 
+
+In dwelling, live close to the ground. 
+
+In thinking, keep to the simple. 
+
+In conflict, be fair and generous. 
+
+In governing, don't try to control. 
+
+In work, do what you enjoy. 
+
+In family life, be completely present. 
+
+When you are content to be simply yourself 
+and don’t compare or compete, 
+everybody will respect you. 
+
+
+
+Fill your bowl to the brim 
+and it will spill. 
+
+Keep sharpening your knife 
+and it will blunt. 
+
+Chase after money and security 
+and your heart will never unclench. 
+Care about people’s approval 
+and you will be their prisoner. 
+
+Do your work, then step back. 
+
+The only path to serenity. 
+
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+
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+Can you coax your mind from its wandering 
+and keep to the original oneness? 
+
+Can you let your body become 
+supple as a newborn child’s? 
+
+Can you cleanse your inner vision 
+until you see nothing but the light? 
+
+Can you love people and lead them 
+without imposing your will? 
+
+Can you deal with the most vital matters 
+by letting events take their course? 
+
+Can you step back from your own mind 
+and thus understand all things? 
+
+Giving birth and nourishing, 
+having without possessing, 
+acting with no expectations, 
+leading and not trying to control: 
+this is the supreme virtue. 
+
+
+
+We join spokes together in a wheel, 
+but it is the center hole 
+that makes the wagon move. 
+
+We shape clay into a pot, 
+but it is the emptiness inside 
+that holds whatever we want. 
+
+We hammer wood for a house, 
+but it is the inner space 
+that makes it livable. 
+
+We work with being, 
+
+but non-being is what we use. 
+
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+
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+Colors blind the eye. 
+
+Sounds deafen the ear. 
+
+Flavors numb the taste. 
+
+Thoughts weaken the mind. 
+Desires wither the heart. 
+
+The Master observes the world 
+but trusts his inner vision. 
+
+He allows things to come and go. 
+His heart is open as the sky. 
+
+
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+
+
+Success is as dangerous as failure. 
+
+Hope is as hollow as fear. 
+
+What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? 
+Whether you go up the ladder or down it, 
+your position is shaky. 
+
+When you stand with your two feet on the ground, 
+you will always keep your balance. 
+
+What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? 
+
+Hope and fear are both phantoms 
+that arise from thinking of the self. 
+
+When we don’t see the self as self, 
+what do we have to fear? 
+
+See the world as your self. 
+
+Have faith in the way things are. 
+
+Love the world as your self; 
+then you can care for all things. 
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+
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+Look, and it can’t be seen. 
+
+Listen, and it can’t be heard. 
+
+Reach, and it can’t be grasped. 
+
+Above, it isn’t bright. 
+
+Below, it isn’t dark. 
+
+Seamless, unnamable, 
+it returns to the realm of nothing. 
+Form that includes all forms, 
+image without an image, 
+subtle, beyond all conception. 
+
+Approach it and there is no beginning; 
+follow it and there is no end. 
+
+You can’t know it, but you can be it, 
+at ease in your own life. 
+
+Just realize where you come from: 
+this is the essence of wisdom. 
+
+
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+
+
+The ancient Masters were profound and subtle. 
+Their wisdom was unfathomable. 
+
+There is no way to describe it; 
+
+all we can describe is their appearance. 
+
+They were careful 
+
+as someone crossing an iced-over stream. 
+
+Alert as a warrior in enemy territory. 
+
+Courteous as a guest. 
+
+Fluid as melting ice. 
+
+Shapable as a block of wood. 
+
+Receptive as a valley. 
+
+Clear as a glass of water. 
+
+Do you have the patience to wait 
+
+till your mud settles and the water is clear? 
+
+Can you remain unmoving 
+
+till the right action arises by itself? 
+
+The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. 
+
+Not seeking, not expecting, 
+
+she is present, and can welcome all things. 
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+
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+Empty your mind of all thoughts. 
+
+Let your heart be at peace. 
+
+Watch the turmoil of beings, 
+but contemplate their return. 
+
+Each separate being in the universe 
+returns to the common source. 
+
+Returning to the source is serenity. 
+
+If you don’t realize the source, 
+you stumble in confusion and sorrow. 
+When you realize where you come from, 
+you naturally become tolerant, 
+disinterested, amused, 
+kindhearted as a grandmother, 
+dignified as a king. 
+
+Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, 
+you can deal with whatever life brings you, 
+and when death comes, you are ready. 
+
+
+17 
+
+
+When the Master governs, the people 
+are hardly aware that he exists. 
+
+Next best is a leader who is loved. 
+Next, one who is feared. 
+
+The worst is one who is despised. 
+
+If you don’t trust the people, 
+you make them untrustworthy. 
+
+The Master doesn’t talk, he acts. 
+When his work is done, 
+the people say, "Amazing: 
+we did it, all by ourselves!” 
+
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+
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+When the great Tao is forgotten, 
+goodness and piety appear. 
+
+When the body’s intelligence declines, 
+cleverness and knowledge step forth. 
+When there is no peace in the family, 
+filial piety begins. 
+
+When the country falls into chaos, 
+patriotism is born. 
+
+
+19 
+
+
+Throw away holiness and wisdom, 
+and people will be a hundred times happier. 
+Throw away morality and justice, 
+and people will do the right thing. 
+
+Throw away industry and profit, 
+and there won’t be any thieves. 
+
+If these three aren’t enough, 
+just stay at the center of the circle 
+and let all things take their course. 
+
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+
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+
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+Stop thinking, and end your problems. 
+
+What difference between yes and no? 
+
+What difference between success and failure? 
+Must you value what others value, 
+avoid what others avoid? 
+
+How ridiculous! 
+
+Other people are excited, 
+as though they were at a parade. 
+
+I alone don’t care, 
+
+I alone am expressionless, 
+like an infant before it can smile. 
+
+Other people have what they need; 
+
+I alone possess nothing. 
+
+I alone drift about, 
+
+like someone without a home. 
+
+I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty. 
+
+Other people are bright; 
+
+I alone am dark. 
+
+Other people are sharp; 
+
+1 alone am dull. 
+
+Other people have a purpose; 
+
+I alone don’t know. 
+
+I drift like a wave on the ocean, 
+
+I blow as aimless as the wind. 
+
+I am different from ordinary people. 
+
+I drink from the Great Mother’s breasts. 
+
+
+21 
+
+
+The Master keeps her mind 
+always at one with the Tao; 
+that is what gives her her radiance. 
+
+The Tao is ungraspable. 
+
+How can her mind be at one with it? 
+Because she doesn't cling to ideas. 
+
+The Tao is dark and unfathomable. 
+How can it make her radiant? 
+Because she lets it. 
+
+Since before time and space were, 
+the Tao is. 
+
+It is beyond is and is not . 
+
+How do I know this is true? 
+
+I look inside myself and see. 
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+
+
+If you want to become whole, 
+let yourself be partial. 
+
+If you want to become straight, 
+let yourself be crooked. 
+
+If you want to become full, 
+let yourself be empty. 
+
+If you want to be reborn, 
+let yourself die. 
+
+If you want to be given everything, 
+give everything up. 
+
+The Master, by residing in the Tao, 
+sets an example tor all beings. 
+Because he doesn’t display himself, 
+people can see his light. 
+
+Because he has nothing to prove, 
+people can trust his words. 
+
+Because he doesn’t know who he is, 
+people recognize themselves in him. 
+Because he has no goal in mind, 
+everything he does succeeds. 
+
+When the ancient Masters said, 
+
+“If you want to be given everything, 
+give everything up,” 
+they weren’t using empty phrases. 
+Only in being lived by the Tao 
+can you be truly yourself. 
+
+
+23 
+
+
+Express yourself completely, 
+then keep quiet. 
+
+Be like the forces of nature: 
+
+when it blows, there is only wind; 
+
+when it rains, there is only rain; 
+
+when the clouds pass, the sun shines through. 
+
+If you open yourself to the Tao, 
+you are at one with the Tao 
+and you can embody it completely. 
+
+If you open yourself to insight, 
+you are at one with insight 
+and you can use it completely. 
+
+If you open yourself to loss, 
+
+you are at one with loss 
+
+and you can accept it completely. 
+
+Open yourself to the Tao, 
+then trust your natural responses; 
+and everything will fall into place. 
+
+
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+
+
+24 
+
+
+He who stands on tiptoe 
+doesn’t stand firm. 
+
+He who rushes ahead 
+doesn’t go far. 
+
+He who tries to shine 
+dims his own light. 
+
+He who defines himself 
+can’t know who he really is. 
+
+He who has power over others 
+can’t empower himself. 
+
+He who clings to his work 
+will create nothing that endures. 
+
+If you want to accord with the Tao, 
+just do your job, then let go. 
+
+
+25 
+
+
+There was something formless and perfect 
+before the universe was born. 
+
+It is serene. Empty. 
+
+Solitary. Unchanging. 
+
+Infinite. Eternally present. 
+
+It is the mother of the universe. 
+
+For lack of a better name, 
+
+I call it the Tao. 
+
+It flows through all things, 
+inside and outside, and returns 
+to the origin of all things. 
+
+The Tao is great. 
+
+The universe is great. 
+
+Earth is great. 
+
+Man is great. 
+
+These are the four great powers. 
+
+Man follows the earth. 
+
+Earth follows the universe. 
+
+The universe follows the Tao. 
+
+The Tao follows only itself. 
+
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+
+26 
+
+
+The heavy is the root of the light. 
+
+The unmoved is the source of all movement. 
+
+Thus the Master travels all day 
+without leaving home. 
+
+However splendid the views, 
+she stays serenely in herself 
+
+Why should the lord of the country 
+flit about like a fool? 
+
+If you let yourself be blown to and fro, 
+you lose touch with your root. 
+
+If you let restlessness move you, 
+you lose touch with who you are. 
+
+
+_ 27 _ 
+
+- 
+
+A good traveler has no fixed plans 
+and is not intent upon arriving. 
+
+A good artist lets his intuition ,! 
+
+lead him wherever it wants. 
+
+A good scientist has freed himself of concepts 
+and keeps his mind open to what is. 
+
+Thus the Master is available to all people 
+and doesn’t reject anyone. 
+
+He is ready to use all situations 
+and doesn’t waste anything. 
+
+This is called embodying the light. 
+
+What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? 
+
+What is a bad man but a good man’s job? 
+
+If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, 
+however intelligent you are. 
+
+It is the great secret. 
+
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+
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+
+
+Know the male, 
+
+yet keep to the female: 
+
+receive the world in your arms. 
+
+If you receive the world, 
+the Tao will never leave you 
+and you will be like a little child. 
+
+Know the white, 
+
+yet keep to the black: 
+
+be a pattern for the world. 
+
+If you are a pattern for the world, 
+the Tao will be strong inside you 
+and there will be nothing you can’t do. 
+
+Know the personal, 
+
+yet keep to the impersonal: 
+
+accept the world as it is. 
+
+If you accept the world, 
+
+the Tao will be luminous inside you 
+
+and you will return to your primal self. 
+
+The world is formed from the void, 
+like utensils from a block of wood. 
+
+The Master knows the utensils, 
+yet keeps to the block: 
+thus she can use all things. 
+
+
+29 
+
+
+Do you want to improve the world? 
+
+I don’t think it can be done. 
+
+The world is sacred. 
+
+It can’t be improved. 
+
+If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it. 
+
+If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it. 
+
+There is a time for being ahead, 
+a time for being behind; 
+a time for being in motion, 
+a time for being at rest; 
+a time for being vigorous, 
+a time for being exhausted; 
+a time for being safe, 
+a time for being in danger. 
+
+The Master sees things as they are, 
+without trying to control them. 
+
+She lets them go their own way, 
+and resides at the center of the circle. 
+
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+
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+
+
+30 
+
+
+Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men 
+doesn’t try to force issues 
+or defeat enemies by force of arms. 
+
+For every force there is a counterforce. 
+Violence, even well intentioned, 
+always rebounds upon oneself. 
+
+The Master does his job 
+and then stops. 
+
+He understands that the universe 
+is forever out of control, 
+and that trying to dominate events 
+goes against the current of the Tao. 
+
+Because he believes in himself, 
+he doesn’t try to convince others. 
+
+Because he is content with himself, 
+he doesn’t need others’ approval. 
+
+Because he accepts himself, 
+the whole world accepts him. 
+
+
+31 
+
+
+Weapons are the tools of violence; 
+all decent men detest them. 
+
+Weapons are the tools of fear; 
+a decent man will avoid them 
+except in the direst necessity 
+and, if compelled, will use them 
+only with the utmost restraint. 
+
+Peace is his highest value. 
+
+If the peace has been shattered, 
+how can he be content? 
+
+His enemies are not demons, 
+but human beings like himself. 
+
+He doesn’t wish them personal harm. 
+Nor does he rejoice in victory. 
+
+How could he rejoice in victory 
+and delight in the slaughter of men? 
+
+He enters a battle gravely, 
+
+with sorrow and with great compassion, 
+
+as if he were attending a funeral. 
+
+
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+
+
+
+
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+
+32 
+
+
+The Tao can’t be perceived, 
+
+Smaller than an electron, 
+it contains uncountable galaxies. 
+
+If powerful men and women 
+could remain centered in the Tao, 
+all things would be in harmony. 
+
+The world would become a paradise. 
+
+All people would be at peace, 
+
+and the law would be written in their hearts. 
+
+When you have names and forms, 
+know that they are provisional. 
+
+When you have institutions, 
+know where their functions should end. 
+Knowing when to stop, 
+you can avoid any danger. 
+
+All things end in the Tao 
+as rivers flow into the sea. 
+
+
+33 
+
+
+Knowing others is intelligence; 
+knowing yourself is true wisdom. 
+Mastering others is strength; 
+mastering yourself is true power. 
+
+If you realize that you have enough, 
+you are truly rich. 
+
+If you stay in the center 
+
+and embrace death with your whole heart, 
+
+you will endure forever. 
+
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+
+34 
+
+
+The great Tao flows everywhere. 
+All things are born from it, 
+yet it doesn’t create them. 
+
+It pours itself into its work, 
+yet it makes no claim. 
+
+It nourishes infinite worlds, 
+yet it doesn’t hold on to them. 
+Since it is merged with all things 
+and hidden in their hearts, 
+it can be called humble. 
+
+Since all things vanish into it 
+and it alone endures, 
+it can be called great. 
+
+It isn’t aware of its greatness; 
+thus it is truly great. 
+
+
+35 
+
+
+She who is centered in the Tao 
+
+can go where she wishes, without danger. 
+
+She perceives the universal harmony, 
+
+even amid great pain, 
+
+because she has found peace in her heart. 
+
+Music or the smell of good cooking 
+may make people stop and enjoy. 
+
+But words that point to the Tao 
+seem monotonous and without flavor. 
+
+When you look for it, there is nothing to see. 
+When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. 
+When you use it, it is inexhaustible. 
+
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+
+36 
+
+
+If you want to shrink something, 
+you must first allow it to expand. 
+
+If you want to get rid of something, 
+you must first allow it to flourish. 
+
+If you want to take something, 
+you must first allow it to be given. 
+This is called the subtle perception 
+of the way things are. 
+
+The soft overcomes the hard. 
+
+The slow overcomes the fast. 
+
+Let your workings remain a mystery. 
+Just show people the results. 
+
+
+37 . 
+
+
+The Tao never does anything, 
+yet through it all things are done. 
+
+If powerful men and women 
+could center themselves in it, 
+the whole world would be transformed 
+by itself, in its natural rhythms. 
+
+People would be content 
+with their simple, everyday lives, 
+in harmony, and free of desire. 
+
+When there is no desire, 
+all things are at peace. 
+
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+
+
+38 
+
+
+The Master doesn’t try to be powerful; 
+thus he is truly powerful. 
+
+The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; 
+thus he never has enough. 
+
+The Master does nothing, 
+yet he leaves nothing undone. 
+
+The ordinary man is always doing things, 
+yet many more are left to be done. 
+
+The kind man does something, 
+yet something remains undone. 
+
+The just man does something, 
+and leaves many things to be done. 
+
+The moral man does something, 
+
+and when no one responds 
+
+he rolls up his sleeves and uses force. 
+
+When the Tao is lost, there is goodness. 
+When goodness is lost, there is morality. 
+When morality is lost, there is ritual. 
+
+Ritual is the husk of true faith, 
+the beginning of chaos. 
+
+Therefore the Master concerns himself 
+with the depths and not the surface, 
+with the fruit and not the flower. 
+
+He has no will of his own. 
+
+He dwells in reality, 
+and lets all illusions go. 
+
+
+39 
+
+
+In harmony with the Tao, 
+the sky is clear and spacious, 
+the earth is solid and full, 
+all creatures flourish together, 
+content with the way they are, 
+endlessly repeating themselves, 
+endlessly renewed. 
+
+When man interferes with the Tao, 
+the sky becomes filthy, 
+the earth becomes depleted, 
+the equilibrium crumbles, 
+creatures become extinct. 
+
+The Master views the parts with compassion, 
+because he understands the whole. 
+
+His constant practice is humility. 
+
+He doesn’t glitter like a jewel 
+
+but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, 
+
+as rugged and common as a stone. 
+
+
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+40 
+
+
+Return is the movement of the Tao. 
+Yielding is the way of the Tao. 
+
+
+All things are born of being. 
+Being is born of non-being. 
+
+
+41 
+
+
+When a superior man hears of the Tao, 
+he immediately begins to embody it. 
+When an average man hears of the Tao, 
+he half believes it, half doubts it. 
+
+When a foolish man hears of the Tao, 
+he laughs out loud. 
+
+If he didn’t laugh, 
+it wouldn’t be the Tao. 
+
+Thus it is said: 
+
+The path into the light seems dark, 
+
+the path forward seems to go back, 
+
+the direct path seems long, 
+
+true power seems weak, 
+
+true purity seems tarnished, 
+
+true steadfastness seems changeable, 
+
+true clarity seems obscure, 
+
+the greatest art seems unsophisticated, 
+
+the greatest love seems indifferent, 
+
+the greatest wisdom seems childish. 
+
+The Tao is nowhere to be found. 
+
+Yet it nourishes and completes ail things. 
+
+
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+
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+
+
+42 
+
+
+The Tao gives birth to One. 
+
+One gives birth to Two. 
+
+Two gives birth to Three. 
+
+Three gives birth to all things. 
+
+All things have their backs to the female 
+and stand facing the male. 
+
+When male and female combine, 
+all things achieve harmony. 
+
+Ordinary men hate solitude. 
+
+But the Master makes use of it, 
+embracing his aloneness, realizing 
+he is one with the whole universe. 
+
+
+I 
+
+
+
+
+
+43 
+
+
+The gentlest thing in the world 
+overcomes the hardest thing in the world. 
+That which has no substance 
+enters where there is no space. 
+
+This shows the value of non-action. 
+
+Teaching without words, 
+performing without actions: 
+that is the Master’s way. 
+
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+
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+
+
+
+
+44 
+
+
+Fame or integrity: which is more important? 
+Money or happiness: which is more valuable? 
+Success or failure: which is more destructive? 
+
+If you look to others for fulfillment, 
+you will never truly be fulfilled. 
+
+If your happiness depends on money, 
+you will never be happy with yourself 
+
+Be content with what you have; 
+rejoice in the way things are. 
+
+When you realize there is nothing lacking, 
+the whole world belongs to you. 
+
+
+45 
+
+
+True perfection seems imperfect, 
+yet it is perfectly itself. 
+
+True fullness seems empty, 
+yet it is fully present. 
+
+True straightness seems crooked. 
+True wisdom seems foolish. 
+
+True art seems artless. 
+
+The Master allows things to happen. 
+She shapes events as they come. 
+
+She steps out of the way 
+and lets the Tao speak for itself. 
+
+
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+
+
+
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+
+
+46 
+
+
+When a country is in harmony with the Tao, 
+the factories make trucks and tractors. 
+
+When a country goes counter to the Tao, 
+warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. 
+
+There is no greater illusion than fear, 
+
+no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, 
+
+no greater misfortune than having an enemy. 
+
+Whoever can see through all fear 
+will always be safe. 
+
+
+47 . 
+
+
+Without opening your door, 
+you can open your heart to the world. 
+Without looking out your window, 
+you can see the essence of the Tao. 
+
+The more you know, 
+the less you understand. 
+
+The Master arrives without leaving, 
+sees the light without looking, 
+achieves without doing a thing. 
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+In the pursuit of knowledge, 
+every day something is added. 
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+In the practice of the Tao, 
+every day something is dropped. 
+
+Less and less do you need to force things, 
+until finally you arrive at non-action. 
+When nothing is done, 
+nothing is left undone. 
+
+True mastery can be gained 
+by letting things go their own way. 
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+It can’t be gained by interfering. 
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+The Master has no mind of her own. 
+
+She works with the mind of the people. 
+
+She is good to people who are good. 
+
+She is also good to people who aren’t good. 
+This is true goodness. 
+
+She trusts people who are trustworthy. 
+
+She also trusts people who aren't trustworthy. 
+This is true trust. 
+
+The Master's mind is like space. 
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+People don’t understand her. 
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+They look to her and wait. 
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+She treats them like her own children. 
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+The Master gives himself up 
+to whatever the moment brings. 
+
+He knows that he is going to die, 
+and he has nothing left to hold on to: 
+no illusions in his mind, 
+no resistances in his body. 
+
+He doesn’t think about his actions; 
+they flow from the core of his being. 
+He holds nothing back from life; 
+therefore he is ready for death, 
+as a man is ready for sleep 
+after a good day’s work. 
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+
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+Every being in the universe 
+is an expression of the Tao. 
+
+It springs into existence, 
+unconscious, perfect, free, 
+takes on a physical body, 
+lets circumstances complete it. 
+
+That is why every being 
+spontaneously honors the Tao. 
+
+The Tao gives birth to all beings, 
+
+nourishes them, maintains them, 
+
+cares for them, comforts them, protects them, 
+
+takes them back to itself, 
+
+creating without possessing, 
+
+acting without expecting, 
+
+guiding without interfering. 
+
+That is why love of the Tao 
+is in the very nature of things. 
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+In the beginning was the Tao. 
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+All things issue from it; 
+all things return to it. 
+
+To find the origin, 
+
+trace back the manifestations. 
+
+When you recognize the children 
+and find the mother, 
+you will be free of sorrow. 
+
+If you close your mind in judgments 
+and traffic with desires, 
+your heart will be troubled. 
+
+If you keep your mind from judging 
+and aren’t led by the senses, 
+your heart will find peace. 
+
+Seeing into darkness is clarity. 
+Knowing how to yield is strength. 
+Use your own light 
+and return to the source of light. 
+This is called practicing eternity. 
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+The great Way is easy, 
+
+yet people prefer the side paths. 
+
+Be aware when things are out of balance. 
+
+Stay centered within the Tao. 
+
+When rich speculators prosper 
+while farmers lose their land; 
+when government officials spend money 
+on weapons instead of cures; 
+
+when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible 
+while the poor have nowhere to turn— 
+all this is robbery and chaos. 
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+It is not in keeping with the Tao. 
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+Whoever is planted in the Tao 
+will not be rooted up. 
+
+Whoever embraces the Tao 
+will not slip away. 
+
+Her name will be held in honor 
+from generation to generation. 
+
+Let the Tao be present in your life 
+and you will become genuine. 
+
+Let it be present in your family 
+and your family will flourish. 
+
+Let it be present in your country 
+and your country will be an example 
+to all countries in the world. 
+
+Let it be present in the universe 
+and the universe will sing. 
+
+How do I know this is true? 
+
+By looking inside myself. 
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+
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+He who is in harmony with the Tao 
+is like a newborn child. 
+
+Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak, 
+but its grip is powerful. 
+
+It doesn't know about the union 
+of male and female, 
+yet its penis can stand erect, 
+so intense is its vital power. 
+
+It can scream its head off all day, 
+yet it never becomes hoarse, 
+so complete is its harmony. 
+
+The Master’s power is like this. 
+
+He lets all things come and go 
+effortlessly, without desire. 
+
+He never expects results; 
+thus he is never disappointed. 
+
+He is never disappointed; 
+thus his spirit never grows old. 
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+Those who know don’t talk. 
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+Those who talk don’t know. 
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+Close your mouth, 
+block off your senses, 
+blunt your sharpness, 
+untie your knots, 
+soften your glare, 
+settle your dust. 
+
+This is the primal identity. 
+
+Be like the Tao. 
+
+It can’t be approached or withdrawn from, 
+
+benefited or harmed, 
+
+honored or brought into disgrace. 
+
+It gives itself up continually. 
+
+That is why it endures. 
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+
+57 . 
+
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+If you want to be a great leader, 
+you must learn to follow the Tao. 
+
+Stop trying to control. 
+
+Let go of fixed plans and concepts, 
+and the world will govern itself. 
+
+The more prohibitions you have, 
+the less virtuous people will be. 
+
+The more weapons you have, 
+the less secure people will be. 
+
+The more subsidies you have, 
+the less self-reliant people will be. 
+
+Therefore the Master says: 
+
+I let go of the law, 
+
+and people become honest. 
+
+I let go of economics, 
+
+and people become prosperous. 
+
+I let go of religion, 
+and people become serene. 
+
+I let go of all desire for the common good, 
+and the good becomes common as grass. 
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+If a country is governed with tolerance, 
+the people are comfortable and honest. 
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+If a country is governed with repression, 
+the people are depressed and crafty. 
+
+When the will to power is in charge, 
+
+the higher the ideals, the lower the results. 
+
+Try to make people happy, 
+
+and you lay the groundwork for misery. 
+
+Try to make people moral, 
+
+and you lay the groundwork for vice. 
+
+Thus the Master is content 
+to serve as an example 
+and not to impose her will. 
+
+She is pointed, but doesn’t pierce. 
+Straightforward, but supple. 
+
+Radiant, but easy on the eyes. 
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+
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+For governing a country well 
+
+there is nothing better than moderation. 
+
+The mark of a moderate man 
+is freedom from his own ideas. 
+
+Tolerant like the sky, 
+all-pervading like sunlight, 
+firm like a mountain, 
+supple like a tree in the wind, 
+he has no destination in view 
+and makes use of anything 
+life happens to bring his way. 
+
+Nothing is impossible for him. 
+
+Because he has let go, 
+
+he can care for the people’s welfare 
+
+as a mother cares for her child. 
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+Governing a large country 
+is like frying a small fish. 
+
+You spoil it with too much poking. 
+
+Center your country in the Tao 
+and evil will have no power. 
+
+Not that it isn’t there, 
+
+but you’ll be able to step out of its way. 
+
+Give evil nothing to oppose 
+and it will disappear by itself. 
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+When a country obtains great power, 
+
+it becomes like the sea: 
+
+all streams run downward into it. 
+
+The more powerful it grows, 
+the greater the need for humility. 
+
+Humility means trusting the Tao, 
+thus never needing to be defensive. 
+
+A great nation is like a great man: 
+
+When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. 
+Having realized it, he admits it. 
+
+Having admitted it, he corrects it. 
+
+He considers those who point out his faults 
+as his most benevolent teachers. 
+
+He thinks of his enemy 
+
+as the shadow that he himself casts. 
+
+If a nation is centered in the Tao, 
+
+if it nourishes its own people 
+
+and doesn’t meddle in the affairs of others, 
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+it will be a light to all nations in the world. 
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+The Tao is the center of the universe, 
+the good man’s treasure, 
+the bad man’s refuge. 
+
+Honors can be bought with fine words, 
+respect can be won with good deeds; 
+but the Tao is beyond all value, 
+and no one can achieve it. 
+
+Thus, when a new leader is chosen, 
+
+don’t offer to help him 
+
+with your wealth or your expertise. 
+
+Offer instead 
+
+to teach him about the Tao. 
+
+Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? 
+Because, being one with the Tao, 
+when you seek, you find; 
+
+and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. 
+That is why everybody loves it. 
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+Act without doing; 
+work without effort. 
+
+Think of the small as large 
+and the few as many. 
+
+Confront the difficult 
+while it is still easy; 
+accomplish the great task 
+by a series of small acts. 
+
+The Master never reaches for the great; 
+thus she achieves greatness. 
+
+When she runs into a difficulty, 
+she stops and gives herself to it. 
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+She doesn’t cling to her own comfort; 
+thus problems are no problem for her. 
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+What is rooted is easy to nourish. 
+What is recent is easy to correct. 
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+What is brittle is easy to break. 
+
+What is small is easy to scatter. 
+
+Prevent trouble before it arises. 
+
+Put things in order before they exist. 
+The giant pine tree 
+grows from a tiny sprout. 
+
+The journey of a thousand miles 
+starts from beneath your feet. 
+
+Rushing into action, you fail. 
+
+Trying to grasp things, you lose them. 
+Forcing a project to completion, 
+you ruin what was almost ripe. 
+
+Therefore the Master takes action 
+by letting things take their course. 
+
+He remains as calm 
+
+at the end as at the beginning. 
+
+He has nothing, 
+
+thus has nothing to lose. 
+
+What he desires is non-desire; 
+what he learns is to unlearn. 
+
+He simply reminds people 
+of who they have always been. 
+
+He cares about nothing but the Tao. 
+Thus he can care for all things. 
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+The ancient Masters 
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+didn’t try to educate the people, 
+
+but kindly taught them to not-know. 
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+When they think that they know the answers, 
+people are difficult to guide. 
+
+When they know that they don’t know, 
+people can find their own way. 
+
+Jf you want to learn how to govern, 
+avoid being clever or rich. 
+
+The simplest pattern is the clearest. 
+
+Content with an ordinary life, 
+you can show all people the way 
+back to their own true nature. 
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+All streams flow to the sea 
+because it is lower than they are. 
+Humility gives it its power. 
+
+If you want to govern the people, 
+you must place yourself below them. 
+If you want to lead the people, 
+you must learn how to follow them. 
+
+The Master is above the people, 
+and no one feels oppressed. 
+
+She goes ahead of the people, 
+and no one feels manipulated. 
+
+The whole world is grateful to her. 
+Because she competes with no one, 
+no one can compete with her. 
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+Some say that my teaching is nonsense. 
+
+Others call it lofty but impractical. 
+
+But to those who have looked inside themselves, 
+this nonsense makes perfect sense. 
+
+And to those who put it into practice, 
+this loftiness has roots that go deep. 
+
+I have just three things to teach: 
+simplicity, patience, compassion. 
+
+These three are your greatest treasures. 
+
+Simple in actions and in thoughts, 
+you return to the source of being. 
+
+Patient with both friends and enemies, 
+you accord with the way things are. 
+Compassionate toward yourself, 
+you reconcile all beings in the world. 
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+The best athlete 
+
+wants his opponent at his best. 
+
+The best general 
+
+enters the mind of his enemy. 
+
+The best businessman 
+serves the communal good. 
+
+The best leader 
+
+follows the will of the people. 
+
+All of them embody 
+
+the virtue of non-competition. 
+
+Not that they don’t love to compete, 
+but they do it in the spirit of play. 
+
+In this they are like children 
+and in harmony with the Tao. 
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+The generals have a saying: 
+
+“Rather than make the first move 
+it is better to wait and see. 
+
+Rather than advance an inch 
+it is better to retreat a yard.” 
+
+This is called 
+
+going forward without advancing, 
+pushing back without using weapons. 
+
+There is no greater misfortune 
+than underestimating your enemy. 
+Underestimating your enemy 
+means thinking that he is evil. 
+
+Thus you destroy your three treasures 
+and become an enemy yourself. 
+
+When two great forces oppose each other, 
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+the victory will go 
+
+to the one that knows how to yield. 
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+My teachings are easy to understand 
+and easy to put into practice. 
+
+Yet your intellect will never grasp them, 
+and if you try to practice them, you’ll fail. 
+
+My teachings are older than the world. 
+How can you grasp their meaning? 
+
+If you want to know me, 
+look inside your heart. 
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+Not-knowing is true knowledge. 
+Presuming to know is a disease. 
+
+First realize that you are sick; 
+then you can move toward health. 
+
+The Master is her own physician. 
+
+She has healed herself of all knowing. 
+Thus she is truly whole. 
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+When they lose their sense of awe, 
+people turn to religion. 
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+When they no longer trust themselves, 
+they begin to depend upon authority. 
+
+Therefore the Master steps back 
+so that people won’t be confused. 
+
+He teaches without a teaching, 
+
+so that people will have nothing to learn. 
+
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+
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+The Tao is always at ease. 
+
+It overcomes without competing, 
+answers without speaking a word, 
+arrives without being summoned, 
+accomplishes without a plan. 
+
+Its net covers the whole universe. 
+And though its meshes are wide, 
+it doesn’t let a thing slip through. 
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+If you realize that all things change, 
+there is nothing you will try to hold on to. 
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+If you aren’t afraid of dying, 
+there is nothing you can’t achieve. 
+
+Trying to control the future 
+
+is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place. 
+When you handle the master carpenter’s tools, 
+chances are that you’ll cut yourself. 
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+When taxes are too high, 
+people go hungry. 
+
+When the government is too intrusive, 
+people lose their spirit. 
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+Act for the people’s benefit. 
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+Trust them; leave them alone. 
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+Men are born soft and supple; 
+dead, they are stiff and hard. 
+
+Plants are born tender and pliant; 
+dead, they are brittle and dry. 
+
+Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible 
+is a disciple of death. 
+
+Whoever is soft and yielding 
+is a disciple of life. 
+
+The hard and stiff will be broken. 
+The soft and supple will prevail. 
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+77 . 
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+As it acts in the world, the Tao 
+is like the bending of a bow. 
+
+The top is bent downward; 
+the bottom is bent up. 
+
+It adjusts excess and deficiency 
+so that there is perfect balance. 
+
+It takes from what is too much 
+and gives to what isn’t enough. 
+
+Those who try to control, 
+
+who use force to protect their power, 
+
+go against the direction of the Tao. 
+
+They take from those who don’t have enough 
+and give to those who have far too much. 
+
+The Master can keep giving 
+because there is no end to her wealth. 
+
+She acts without expectation, 
+succeeds without taking credit, 
+and doesn’t think that she is better 
+than anyone else. 
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+Nothing in the world 
+
+is as soft and yielding as water. 
+
+Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, 
+nothing can surpass it. 
+
+The soft overcomes the hard; 
+the gentle overcomes the rigid. 
+
+Everyone knows this is true, 
+but few can put it into practice. 
+
+Therefore the Master remains 
+serene in the midst of sorrow. 
+
+Evil cannot enter his heart. 
+
+Because he has given up helping, 
+he is people’s greatest help. 
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+True words seem paradoxical. 
+
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+Failure is an opportunity. 
+
+If you blame someone else, 
+there is no end to the blame. 
+
+Therefore the Master 
+fulfills her own obligations 
+and corrects her own mistakes. 
+She does what she needs to do 
+and demands nothing of others. 
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+If a country is governed wisely, 
+its inhabitants will be content. 
+
+They enjoy the labor of their hands 
+and don’t waste time inventing 
+labor-saving machines. 
+
+Since they dearly love their homes, 
+they aren’t interested in travel. 
+
+There may be a few wagons and boats, 
+but these don’t go anywhere. 
+
+There may be an arsenal of weapons, 
+but nobody ever uses them. 
+
+People enjoy their food, 
+take pleasure in being with their families, 
+spend weekends working in their gardens, 
+delight in the doings of the neighborhood. 
+And even though the next country is so close 
+that people can hear its roosters crowing and 
+its dogs barking, 
+they are content to die of old age 
+without ever having gone to see it. 
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+True words aren’t eloquent; 
+eloquent words aren’t true. 
+
+Wise men don t need to prove their point; 
+men who need to prove their point aren’t wise. 
+
+The Master has no possessions. 
+
+The more he does for others, 
+the happier he is. 
+
+The more he gives to others, 
+the wealthier he is. 
+
+The Tao nourishes by not forcing. 
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+By not dominating, the Master leads. 
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