Awani
01-02-2009, 05:56 AM
This is a Phoenix-thread (http://forum.alchemyforums.com/showthread.php?t=7) from the old site (http://alchemy-forums.forumotion.com/forum.htm).
The Ebers Papyrus is a 68-foot long scroll on alchemy and one of the oldest book in the world states:
Man’s guide is Thoth (Tehuti) who bestows on him the gifts of his speech, who makes the books and illumines those who are learned therein, and the physicians who follow him, that they may work cures.
Thoth is seen as the first Hermes and is often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis (which is a wading bird with a long curved beak). The ibis is the Egyptian symbol for the heart and Thoth presides over the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, weighing individual's true words or the innermost intent in all of our thoughts and actions, determining who is admitted into heaven much like the part Saint Peter plays at the Pearly Gates. Thoth is the final judge and he embodies the rational powers of the Sun and the intuitive irrational energies of the Moon.
Thoth ruled over ancient Egypt. He instituted record keeping and founded the science of mathematics, astronomy and medicine. Invented hieroglyphics and wrote The Book of Breathings which teaches humans how to become gods. Thoth also figured under the name of Agathodaimon, The Good Spirit, and in an ancient Egyptian papyrus he is said to be the one god without parents who precedes all others and whose creative willpower fashions reality. That is some pretty amazing qualities for any real individual or allegory!
Supposedly Thoth wrote down the essence of his knowledge on a tablet engraved on green emerald stone, hence its name the Emerald Tablet. It also figures under the names the Smaragdine Table of Hermes, or Tabula Smaragdina.
Its true origin and re-emergence into modern society is a murky story lost in the mist of time. A famous story is that Alexander the Great discovered it in the tomb of Hermes where the text was written in Phœnician characters on an emerald slab.
Green has, perhaps since the dawn of time, been associated with Magic and Mother Nature. It has been the colour of Gaia, Chronos, Saint Veronica, Venus, Aphrodite and Woman. For some reason it has also become the colour of money and associated with greed and envy (?).
There are many different versions of the Emerald Tablet. I like the one that appears in Archibald Cockren’s book Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored (http://sacred-texts.com/alc/arr/index.htm).
Read it HERE (http://sacred-texts.com/alc/arr/arr02.htm)
After he engraved this knowledge on the Emerald Tablet Thoth, according to one legend, gave it to Noah, who then took the tablet aboard the ark and later hid it in a cave near Hebron where it was later discovered by Abraham’s wife Sarah. Jewish mystics identify Thoth with Adam’s first wife Seth.
In the Koran Thoth is Idris and Idris lived between the eras of Adam and Noah. Another version says that Noah found the tablet at the foot of Mount Ararat. The Torah mention several universal laws given to Noah for the benefit of all mankind and not just the Jews. In the Jewish Old Testament Idris was Enoch (the initiated).
Just before the flood Thoth preserved all the ancient wisdom by inscribing two great pillars hiding sacred objects and scrolls inside. Josephus tells us that the patriarch Seth, in order that wisdom and astronomical knowledge should not perish, erected two columns (one of brick, the other of stone) on which this knowledge was engraved. Herodotus wrote:
…hidden under the heavenly vault which could only be found by the worthy, who would use such knowledge for the benefit of mankind.
When time came for Thoth to leave Egypt he erected, or drew plans, to the Great Pyramid situated above the entrance to the Great Halls of Amenti in which he placed his records and appointed guards for his secrets from the highest amongst his people. The descendants of these guards became the Pyramid Priests.
According to one ancient papyrus the pyramids of Cheops could not be built without the wisdom of Thoth, but if this means that they used his plans directly or employed techniques invented by him – or just inspired by him – we will probably never know.
In the end it doesn’t matter really if Thoth was real or not, all that matters are the words of the Emerald Tablet and what they can teach us.
http://www.crystalinks.com/thoth2.gif
More info on Thoth HERE (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/thot/esp_thot_9.htm)
boils down to... Your god may be great, but mine is three times that!
How does he appear to others ? I have rarely seen him in the Ibis head . He usually has the horns of the moon , dark skin , bearded , often bare chested . I find him one of the easiest teachers to hear and he says he is part of the Christ Consciousness . Christ says he is Thoth also .
I have always seen him with the ibis head! And to me Thoth is Thought... I don't have a degree in linguistics, but that is pretty interesting I think and must have some relevance. Anyway here is a link you might enjoy:
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth (http://www.crystalinks.com/emerald.html)
Wisdom is power and power is wisdom,
one with each other, perfecting the whole.
Be thou not proud, O man, in thy wisdom.
Discourse with the ignorant as well as the wise.
If one comes to thee full of knowledge,
listen and heed, for wisdom is all.
Cause thou not fear for fear is a bondage,
a fetter that binds the darkness to men.
Seek ye with wisdom.
Turn thy thoughts inward.
Close not thy mind to the flower of Light.
Place in thy body a thought-formed picture.
Think of the numbers that lead thee to Life.
Clear is the pathway to he who has wisdom.
Open the door to the Kingdom of Light.
Pour forth thy flame as a Sun of the morning.
Shut out the darkness and live in the day.
Take thee, O man! As part of thy being,
the Seven who are but are not as they seem.
Opened, O man! Have I my wisdom.
Follow the path in the way I have led.
I myself have had experiences here and there with Djehuty (Thoth) as the old Baboon image, complete with the feathered cape. I've always tended to respond to inglamorous versions of figures, and a gruff ape-faced brainiac with a heart of gold was who I needed to see, apparently.
The Ebers Papyrus is a 68-foot long scroll on alchemy and one of the oldest book in the world states:
Man’s guide is Thoth (Tehuti) who bestows on him the gifts of his speech, who makes the books and illumines those who are learned therein, and the physicians who follow him, that they may work cures.
Thoth is seen as the first Hermes and is often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis (which is a wading bird with a long curved beak). The ibis is the Egyptian symbol for the heart and Thoth presides over the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, weighing individual's true words or the innermost intent in all of our thoughts and actions, determining who is admitted into heaven much like the part Saint Peter plays at the Pearly Gates. Thoth is the final judge and he embodies the rational powers of the Sun and the intuitive irrational energies of the Moon.
Thoth ruled over ancient Egypt. He instituted record keeping and founded the science of mathematics, astronomy and medicine. Invented hieroglyphics and wrote The Book of Breathings which teaches humans how to become gods. Thoth also figured under the name of Agathodaimon, The Good Spirit, and in an ancient Egyptian papyrus he is said to be the one god without parents who precedes all others and whose creative willpower fashions reality. That is some pretty amazing qualities for any real individual or allegory!
Supposedly Thoth wrote down the essence of his knowledge on a tablet engraved on green emerald stone, hence its name the Emerald Tablet. It also figures under the names the Smaragdine Table of Hermes, or Tabula Smaragdina.
Its true origin and re-emergence into modern society is a murky story lost in the mist of time. A famous story is that Alexander the Great discovered it in the tomb of Hermes where the text was written in Phœnician characters on an emerald slab.
Green has, perhaps since the dawn of time, been associated with Magic and Mother Nature. It has been the colour of Gaia, Chronos, Saint Veronica, Venus, Aphrodite and Woman. For some reason it has also become the colour of money and associated with greed and envy (?).
There are many different versions of the Emerald Tablet. I like the one that appears in Archibald Cockren’s book Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored (http://sacred-texts.com/alc/arr/index.htm).
Read it HERE (http://sacred-texts.com/alc/arr/arr02.htm)
After he engraved this knowledge on the Emerald Tablet Thoth, according to one legend, gave it to Noah, who then took the tablet aboard the ark and later hid it in a cave near Hebron where it was later discovered by Abraham’s wife Sarah. Jewish mystics identify Thoth with Adam’s first wife Seth.
In the Koran Thoth is Idris and Idris lived between the eras of Adam and Noah. Another version says that Noah found the tablet at the foot of Mount Ararat. The Torah mention several universal laws given to Noah for the benefit of all mankind and not just the Jews. In the Jewish Old Testament Idris was Enoch (the initiated).
Just before the flood Thoth preserved all the ancient wisdom by inscribing two great pillars hiding sacred objects and scrolls inside. Josephus tells us that the patriarch Seth, in order that wisdom and astronomical knowledge should not perish, erected two columns (one of brick, the other of stone) on which this knowledge was engraved. Herodotus wrote:
…hidden under the heavenly vault which could only be found by the worthy, who would use such knowledge for the benefit of mankind.
When time came for Thoth to leave Egypt he erected, or drew plans, to the Great Pyramid situated above the entrance to the Great Halls of Amenti in which he placed his records and appointed guards for his secrets from the highest amongst his people. The descendants of these guards became the Pyramid Priests.
According to one ancient papyrus the pyramids of Cheops could not be built without the wisdom of Thoth, but if this means that they used his plans directly or employed techniques invented by him – or just inspired by him – we will probably never know.
In the end it doesn’t matter really if Thoth was real or not, all that matters are the words of the Emerald Tablet and what they can teach us.
http://www.crystalinks.com/thoth2.gif
More info on Thoth HERE (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/thot/esp_thot_9.htm)
boils down to... Your god may be great, but mine is three times that!
How does he appear to others ? I have rarely seen him in the Ibis head . He usually has the horns of the moon , dark skin , bearded , often bare chested . I find him one of the easiest teachers to hear and he says he is part of the Christ Consciousness . Christ says he is Thoth also .
I have always seen him with the ibis head! And to me Thoth is Thought... I don't have a degree in linguistics, but that is pretty interesting I think and must have some relevance. Anyway here is a link you might enjoy:
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth (http://www.crystalinks.com/emerald.html)
Wisdom is power and power is wisdom,
one with each other, perfecting the whole.
Be thou not proud, O man, in thy wisdom.
Discourse with the ignorant as well as the wise.
If one comes to thee full of knowledge,
listen and heed, for wisdom is all.
Cause thou not fear for fear is a bondage,
a fetter that binds the darkness to men.
Seek ye with wisdom.
Turn thy thoughts inward.
Close not thy mind to the flower of Light.
Place in thy body a thought-formed picture.
Think of the numbers that lead thee to Life.
Clear is the pathway to he who has wisdom.
Open the door to the Kingdom of Light.
Pour forth thy flame as a Sun of the morning.
Shut out the darkness and live in the day.
Take thee, O man! As part of thy being,
the Seven who are but are not as they seem.
Opened, O man! Have I my wisdom.
Follow the path in the way I have led.
I myself have had experiences here and there with Djehuty (Thoth) as the old Baboon image, complete with the feathered cape. I've always tended to respond to inglamorous versions of figures, and a gruff ape-faced brainiac with a heart of gold was who I needed to see, apparently.