I could tell you where lies the Book of Thoth, which the god of wisdom wrote with his own hand. Earth was the female element and water the male element, and from the fire and the æther they received their spirits, and Nature produced bodies after the species and shapes of men. The appellation "Thrice Greatest" was given to Hermes because he was considered the greatest of all philosophers, the greatest of all priests, and the greatest of all kings. His roles in Egyptian mythology were many.

of the century. Following the secret instructions of the Temple, he gradually freed his higher consciousness from the bondage of his bodily senses; and, thus released, his divine nature revealed to him the mysteries of the transcendental spheres. ', Then the Kas of Ahura and Merab drew away as if in fear of Setna the great magician. And the Ka of Ahura said, 'Truly it is Ptah, the great god, who has saved you and made it possible for you to return here as a suppliant. Then Nefrekeptah cast out the sand and they raised the Book on it until it stood upon a shoal above the level of the river. The discoveries emerging from Egypt, describe the existence of a cataclysmic upheaval.

She was known as 'Mistress of the House of Books', indicating that she also took care of Thoth's library of spells and scrolls. as the work of Graham Hancock, Peter Lemesurier, Robert Bauval,

Setna made his way thither in haste, and found a pylon tower in a great garden with a high wall round about it. Egyptian pyramids. Thoth was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon, often depicted with the head of an Ibis. "Blessed art Thou, O Father! We put back to shore at Koptos, and there his body was embalmed and laid in a tomb as befitted him.

So they wander in darkness below and are swept into eternity with the illusion of sense and earthiness. "Holy art Thou, whom the inferior nature has not formed. Thoth became credited as the inventor of the 365-day (rather than 360-day) calendar, it being said that he had won the extra 5 days by gambling with the moon, then known as Iabet, in a game of dice, for 1/72nd of its light (5 = 360/72). reveal them to be sophisticated harmonic structures, not only Compare this to how his feminine counterpart, Ma'at was the force which maintained the Universe. act as an evolutionary agent provocateur, to quicken the resident
which the sphinx and pyramids are merely the surface markers. Establish My Mysteries and they shall not fail from the earth, for I am the Mind of the Mysteries and until Mind fails (which is never) my Mysteries cannot fail." vaults. ", 'And the priest answered, "If you would learn where it lies, you must first give me a hundred bars of silver for my funeral, and issue orders that when I die my body shall be buried like that of a great king.

Upon the third ring sits Venus, and to it are returned the lusts and passions. 'And now I have told you all the woe that has befallen us because we took and read the Book of Thoth - the book which you ask us to give up.

The volumes which escaped the fire were buried in the desert and their location is now known to only a few initiates of the secret schools. The ideas and information presented reflect a wide range of LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES The Book of Thoth is a book containing powerful magical spells that appears in an ancient Egyptian story from the Ptolemaic period. It ascends the seven Rings upon which sit the Seven Governors and returns to each their lower powers in this manner: Upon the first ring sits the Moon, and to it is returned the ability to increase and diminish. and cameras, carefully negotiated rubber dinghies across literally and figuratively they lost the "keys", they lost all Soon he learned that she was called Tabubua, and was the daughter of the high priest of the cat goddess Bastet from the city of Bubastis to the north of Memphis - Bastet who was the bride of the god Ptah of Memphis. ', So Anherru sped down the steep road from Saqqara to where Pharaoh sat in his palace at Memphis. When Setna stood before his father the great Pharaoh and told him all that had happened, and gave him the Amulet of Ptah, Rameses said, 'My son, I counsel you to take back the Book of Thoth to the tomb of Nefrekeptah like a wise and prudent man. The ancient Egyptians regarded Thoth as One, self-begotten, and self-produced. He neither slumbers nor sleeps, and is governed by a Father also both male and female, and ever watchful. There Tabubua welcomed him with sweet words and looks, led him to her chamber in the pylon and served him with wine in a golden cup.

The man Thou hast fashioned would be sanctified with Thee as Thou hast given him power to sanctify others with Thy Word and Thy Truth.". When he came to the tomb and spoke the spell, it opened to him as before, and he went down to the tomb-chamber and found Nefrekeptah lying in his sarcophagus with the Kas of Ahura and Merab sitting on either side. PREDICTIONS, Moira Timms. ), On the subject of the Hermetic books, James Campbell Brown, in his History of Chemistry, has written: "Leaving the Chaldean and earliest Egyptian periods, of which we have remains but no record, and from which no names of either chemists or philosophers have come down to us, we now approach the Historic Period, when books were written, not at first upon parchment or paper, but upon papyrus. Lemesurier.

were not fixated on the afterlife, as thought by early Christian ', Then said Setna, bowing low, 'Nefrekeptah, master of magic, tell me what I may do to turn away your just vengeance. Thoth has played a prominent role in many of the Egyptian myths. He was 'He who Balances', the 'God of the Equilibrium' and 'Master of the Balance'. For which cause, with all my soul and all my strength, I give praise and blessing unto God the Father, the Life and the Light, and the Eternal Good. Instead, he returned to his own dwelling and spent all his time reading the Book of Thoth and studying all the spells contained in it. He was the master of both physical and moral (ie. Thoth was not just a scribe and friend to the gods, but central to order - ma'at - both in Egypt and in the Duat. evidence from around the world, indicates these people were the Then Setna went in haste to Pharaoh and begged for the use of the Royal Boat. The "keys" Enoch speaks of, turn out to be sound keys, keys But beside it on the stone sarcophagus sat two ghostly figures, the Kas, or doubles, of a beautiful young woman and a boy - and between them, on the dead breast of Nefrekeptah lay the Book of Thoth.

With a cry of ecstasy Setna caught her to him - and as he did so, on a sudden she changed and faded until his arms held a hideous, withered corpse. He opened the Book and read the first page - and at once he had power over the heavens and the earth, the abyss, the mountains and the sea; he knew what the birds and the beasts and the fishes were saying. As the candidate watched, the heart changed into an ibis, and the brain into a flashing emerald. 'After this we entered the Royal Boat and set sail for Memphis. And there the priests and priestesses of Isis came to welcome us and led us up to the Temple of Isis and Horus. TABLET XV SUPPLEMENTARY SECRET OF SECRETS..... 90. Hermes realized that the sight which he beheld was revealed to him only because Poimandres had spoken a Word.
In the words of Dr. Jay Franz, of the The book is said to have been written by Thoth, the god of writing and knowledge. OF SOUTH AMERICA, David Hatcher Childress.

world stage.". translators but, focused on creating a higher type of human. Anubis was viewed as the messenger of the gods, as he travelled in and out of the Underworld, to the presence of the gods, and to humans, as well.