on Emerald Tablets. AS IS ABOVE, SO IS BELOW This saying, attributed to Thoth

AS IS ABOVE, SO IS BELOW

This saying, attributed to Thoth as being the most fundamental truth of our conscious minds, is the basis of the outer Hermetic teaching. The idea is that the world is a mirror of heaven — a reflection. The divine patterns found here are a reflection of those in the worlds above. Everything that is understandable here has meaning because its pattern is represented in the divine. That's the inner foundation of language and writing in the purely symbolic sense. That is just what Thoth created — an inner connection between the divine light patterns and the outer forms it takes. This conscious connection doesn't come easily, in fact it must be accompanied by skills for accepting deep abstraction. We may call it a "new idea" or "concept", but it's the ability to visualize patterns in the light and realize the meaning in life. We take for granted how much of this ability we have inherited from the ancient past.
Mystically, Thoth realized the great 'Scroll of Light', and began to inscribe upon it the glyphs of his world — his language of truth. So powerful was the resonance of this language that it could be understood by those who heard him speak, and stood in his presence. Thoth could draw pictures of these ideas so clearly that they brought up expansive images in the minds of his comrades — they could "read" these pictures as reminders of what he had said to them. They were learning to travel in his space of truth, learning his "language" defined by his work as a mystic light traveler. The same is true today. We call it memory. It is a shared experience of inner light.

On the plane of light the mnemonic glyphs of language appear as standing resonators of meaning. By traveling through these energetic monoliths you come to know the meaning of language and its purpose in the history of consciousness. This constellation of micro-portals dots the dimensional landscape like the scroll of a player piano — the scroll of Thoth. As you travel along the surface you replay the information that is stored in the Halls of Amenti. There you find the emerald tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. It is cut from pure Beryl stone of radiant mind-glass.

If you find this stone, and decipher it,
you will see that it is a map of the
hallways underneath the earth.
The hallways branch in every direction,
but twelve are the most prominent.
It is said that if you follow each hallway
to its end, you will find another emerald tablet,
making thirteen in all.
Decipher all the tablets,
learn the lessons they contain,
and Thoth will personally appear to greet you!

Ma'at and Thoth!
Two teachers from the heart of Atlantis.
     — from The Emerald Tablets



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