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I, Thoth, the Atlantean,
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give of my wisdom,
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give of my knowledge,
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give of my power.
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Freely I give to the children of men.
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Give that they, too, might have wisdom
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to shine through the world from the veil of the night.
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Wisdom is power and power is wisdom,
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one with each other, perfecting the whole.
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Be thou not proud, O man, in thy wisdom.
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Discourse with the ignorant as well as the wise.
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If one comes to thee full of knowledge,
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listen and heed, for wisdom is all.
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Keep thou not silent when evil is spoken for Truth
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like the sunlight shines above all.
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He who over-steppeth the Law shall be punished,
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for only through Law comes the freedom of men.
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Cause thou not fear for fear is a bondage,
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a fetter that binds the darkness to men.
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Follow thine heart during thy lifetime.
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Do thou more than is commanded of thee.
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When thou hast gained riches,
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follow thou thine heart,
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for all these are of no avail if
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thine heart be weary.
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Diminish thou not the time of
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following thine heart.
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It is abhorred of the soul.
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They that are guided go not astray,
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but they that are lost cannot find a straight path.
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If thou go among men, make for thyself,
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Love, the beginning and end of the heart.
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If one cometh unto thee for council,
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let him speak freely,
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that the thing for which he hath
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come to thee may be done.
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If he hesitates to open his heart to thee,
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it is because thou, the judge, doeth the wrong.
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Repeat thou not extravagant speech,
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neither listen thou to it,
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for it is the utterance of one
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not in equilibrium.
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Speak thou not of it,
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so that he before thee may know wisdom.
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Silence is of great profit.
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An abundance of speech profiteth nothing.
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Exalt not thine heart above the children of men,
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lest it be brought lower than the dust.
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If thou be great among men,
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be honoured for knowledge and gentleness.
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If thou seeketh to know the nature of a friend,
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ask not his companion,
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but pass a time alone with him.
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Debate with him,
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testing his heart by his words and his bearing.
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That which goeth into the store-house must come forth,
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and the things that are thine must be shared with a friend.
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Knowledge is regarded by the fool as ignorance,
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and the things that are profitable are to him hurtful.
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He liveth in death.
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It is therefore his food.
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The wise man lets his heart overflow
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but keeps silent his mouth.
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O man, list to the voice of wisdom;
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list to the voice of light.
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Mysteries there are in the Cosmos
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that unveiled fill the world with their light.
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Let he who would be free from the bonds of darkness
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first divine the material from the immaterial,
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the fire from the earth;
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for know ye that as earth descends to earth,
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so also fire ascends unto
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fire and becomes one with fire.
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He who knows the fire that is within
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himself shall ascend unto the eternal fire
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and dwell in it eternally.
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Fire, the inner fire,
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is the most potent of all force,
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for it overcometh all things and
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penetrates to all things of the Earth.
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Man supports himself only on that which resists.
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So Earth must resist man else he existeth not.
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All eyes do not see with the same vision,
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for to one an object appears of
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one form and color
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and to a different eye of another.
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So also the infinite fire,
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changing from color to color,
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is never the same from day to day.
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Thus, speak I, THOTH, of my wisdom,
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for a man is a fire burning bright
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through the night;
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never is quenched in the veil of the darkness,
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never is quenched by the veil of the night.
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Into men's hearts, I looked by my wisdom,
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found them not free from the bondage of strife.
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Free from the toils, thy fire, O my brother,
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lest it be buried in the shadow of night!
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Hark ye, O man, and list to this wisdom:
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where do name and form cease?
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Only in consciousness, invisible,
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an infinite force of radiance bright.
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The forms that ye create by brightening
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they vision are truly effects that follow thy cause.
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Man is a star bound to a body,
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until in the end,
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he is freed through his strife.
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Only by struggle and toiling thy
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utmost shall the star within thee
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bloom out in new life.
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He who knows the commencement of all things,
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free is his star from the realm of night.
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Remember, O man, that all which exists
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is only another form of that which exists not.
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Everything that has being is passing into yet other
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being and thou thyself are not an exception.
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Consider the Law, for all is Law.
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Seek not that which is not of the Law,
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for such exists only in the illusions of the senses.
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Wisdom cometh to all her children
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even as they cometh unto wisdom.
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All through the ages,
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the light has been hidden.
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Awake, O man, and be wise.
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Deep in the mysteries of life have I traveled,
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seeking and searching for that which is hidden.
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List ye, O man, and be wise.
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Far 'neath the earth crust,
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in the Halls of Amenti,
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mysteries I saw that are hidden from men.
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Oft have I journeyed the deep hidden passage,
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looked on the Light that is Life among men.
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There 'neath the flowers of Life ever living,
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searched I the hearts and the secrets of men.
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Found I that man is but living in darkness,
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light of the great fire is hidden within.
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Before the Lords of hidden Amenti
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learned I the wisdom I give unto men.
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Masters are they of the great Secret Wisdom,
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brought from the future of infinity's end.
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Seven are they, the Lords of Amenti,
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overlords they of the Children of Morning,
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Suns of the Cycles, Masters of Wisdom.
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Formed are not they as the children of men?
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THREE, FOUR, FIVE AND SIX, SEVEN,
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EIGHT, NINE are the titles of the Masters of men.
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Far from the future, formless yet forming,
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came they as teachers for the children of men.
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Live they forever, yet not of the living,
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bound not to life and yet free from death.
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Rule they forever with infinite wisdom,
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bound yet not bound to the dark Halls of Death.
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Life they have in them, yet life that is not life,
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free from all are the Lords of the ALL.
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Forth from them came forth the Logos,
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instruments they of the power o'er all.
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Vast is their countenance,
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yet hidden in smallness,
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formed by a forming, known yet unknown.
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THREE holds the key of all hidden magic,
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creator he of the halls of the Dead;
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sending forth power, shrouding with darkness,
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binding the souls of the children of men;
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sending the darkness, binding the soul force;
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director of negative to the children of men.
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FOUR is he who looses the power.
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Lord, he, of Life to the children of men.
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Light is his body, flame is his countenance;
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freer of souls to the children of men.
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FIVE is the master, the Lord of all magic -
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Key to The Word that resounds among men.
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SIX is the Lord of Light, the hidden pathway,
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path of the souls of the children of men.
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SEVEN is he who is Lord of the vastness,
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master of Space and the key of the Times.
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EIGHT is he who orders the progress;
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weighs and balances the journey of men.
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NINE is the father, vast he of countenance,
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forming and changing from out of the formless.
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Meditate on the symbols I give thee.
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Keys are they, though hidden from men.
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Reach ever upward, O Soul of the morning.
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Turn thy thoughts upward to Light and to Life.
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Find in the keys of the numbers I bring thee,
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light on the pathway from life unto life.
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Seek ye with wisdom.
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Turn thy thoughts inward.
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Close not thy mind to the flower of Light.
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Place in thy body a thought-formed picture.
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Think of the numbers that lead thee to Life.
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Clear is the pathway to he who has wisdom.
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Open the door to the Kingdom of Light.
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Pour forth thy flame as a Sun of the morning.
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Shut out the darkness and live in the day.
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Take thee, O man! As part of thy being,
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the Seven who are but are not as they seem.
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Opened, O man! Have I my wisdom.
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Follow the path in the way I have led.
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Masters of Wisdom,
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SUN of the MORNING LIGHT and LIFE
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to the children of men.
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