Ogham Line Alphabets, African Origin

THE OGHAM ALPHABET by Erich Fred Legner, University of California

Various authors investigating different ancient writings have referred to them as  "Ogham Script," which has led to some confusion.  Probably the most ancient and first true Ogham is the "Stick Writings" of the West African Igbo culture studied by Catherine Acholonu. 

Ikom Monolith Igboland Nigeria

These are a sequence of dots, dashes and symbols carved onto bamboo and stone.  More recent forms of Ogham were found on petroglyphs, animal bones and other substrates. I have to use the Ogham lines to confirm all sorts of West and Central African symbols (S A Akinyemi).

Beginning in the last half of the 20th Century, archaeological discoveries have revealed the existence of Pre-Columbian contacts that were made in America by explorers from Europe, Asia and Africa.  Many of these explorers left written pictographic inscriptions of their experiences in America using a phonetic “Stick Writing” that is often called Ogham, with its origin in West Africa.  These writings are found all over North America.  

However, there are few who have the linguistic skills to translate them, prominent among which is Professor Catherine Acholonu.  New discoveries of such inscriptions are being made regularly but the academic community has been negligent in giving them the attention they deserve. 

One of Professor Achonolu's Transliteration

This is of course history of importance to all of us.  

It was only recently that anyone merely suggesting that any form of written language existed in America was labelled a heretic, fool or worse.  

However, today we are reading detailed accounts of the Maya and their civilization from numerous inscriptions that were found at archaeological sites in Mexico and the South. 

Fell in 1982 submitted detailed translations of Ogam inscriptions in America.  He compared American inscriptions with those that had been found in Northern Europe dating back to the Bronze Age.   The Horse Creek Petroglyph of West Virginia is the most recent translation of the largest Petroglyph known to exist in North America.  The author, Edo Nyland, suggested that Ogam came to Ireland from North Africa with the first Gnostic missionaries who preached early Irish Christianity.

Horse Creek Petroglyph

However, very recent linguistic studies have pointed to the possibility that a phonetic alphabet reached North Africa from visitors from the North Sea and Baltic Sea civilizations much earlier. Indeed Nyland mentions inscriptions found in Ireland on a Bronze Bowl.  Nevertheless, the Gnostic missionaries believed in magic, just like the pre-Christian Irish inhabitants did. As Anthony Jackson (1993) discovered, this magic took the shape of numerical wizardry with letters. It is not known if the original Ogam had an organised alphabet but it is likely.  

The Gnostic missionaries used the script to spread the Gospel by marking their Biblical phrases on Neolithic standing stones to convert the people to Christianity. Around 650 A.D. Benedictine monks and their grammarians came to Ireland with instructions to create a distinct language to replace the "iron" language of the Irish, which they called Cruithin. They found it necessary to augment the early alphabetic script with five diphthong characters, called Forfeda and further develop it to accommodate their linguistic and literary activities. There is no doubt that these people were linguistic professionals.

To explain how Ogam inscriptions are translated, Nyland has provided a detailed process with examples.  Nevertheless, for most persons not trained in linguistics, it is difficult to fully understand.  Nyland’s explanation is as follows: 

Translation by Calder: “This is their number: five Ogmic groups, i.e., five men for each group, and one up to five for each of them, that their signs may be distinguished. 

These are their signs: right of stem, left of the stem, athwart of stem, through the stem, about the stem. Thus is a tree climbed, to wit, treading on the root of the tree first with thy right hand first and thy left hand after. Then with the stem, and against it and through it and about it. (Lines 947-951).”

McManus clarified this: "This is their number: there are five groups of Ogam and each group has five letters and each of them has from one to five scores and their orientations distinguish them. 

Their orientations are right of the stem line, left of the stem line, across the stem line, through the stem line, and around the stem line. Ogham is climbed like a tree is climbed..." (McManus 1.5).”

“By the time the fifth column of Forfeda symbols had been added, the script was written horizontally, from left to right but the above quote still appears to record the original way of vertical writing, read from the bottom up.  The original 20 symbols are shown in both the original vertical as well as the later horizontal way of writing. Most of the early inscriptions on stone in Scotland and Ireland are written in vertical form. The Ogam texts in books such as the Auraicept and on the petroglyphs in West Virginia are written in the horizontal literary tradition. 

At first sight, the peculiar arrangement of the letters in the Ogam alphabet appears to be completely unrelated to the pre-existing Greek and Latin alphabets. McManus searched elsewhere for the origin and found that "there is a clear connection with the North Etruscan alphabets". However, anthropologist Anthony Jackson from Edinburgh University discovered that the arrangement was directly related to the ordinal numbers of the letters in the Latin alphabet.“

“The total of the ordinal numbers in the Latin alphabet is 210. The 20 original Ogam characters were divided into four columns, which, arranged according to a cabalistic system of calculation, totalled 50, 50, 61 and 49 respectively:

 “The sequence of the letters within each column appears to be in relation to the primary numbers, but the calculations go further than is presented here.

“It may be seen that there are several letters missing from the Latin alphabet shown above: F, J, K, P, V, X and Y. 

The same letters are missing from the newly re-arranged Ogam alphabet. This probably means that the linguist who designed the Ogam alphabet was selective in choosing only those Latin letters that made the cabalistic calculations and arrangement possible. The V had replaced the B and the F; the I replaced the J and Y; the C and Q replaced the K; the B, a labial, took the place of P (also a labial), the character X was used for the later Ogam diphthong EA, but in the Ogam script sometimes is written as KS. It is interesting to note that Q-Celtic has no F, J or P. Neither is there a P in Arabic. Only a few words in Basque start with F, which letter may be a quite recent addition to this language; the V, C, Y and Q still do not exist in Basque, and the Basque X represents "sh".

Horizontal Ogham

Written horizontally: Note that the "f" in the horizontal script should be a "v" as it is in the vertical script.

 “The reason why all 15 consonants are listed first in the alphabet and the 5 vowels following, has to do with the special arrangement of the words in the monk's dictionary. The primary organization of their dictionary is according to the consonants. Half of the Basque language is made up of words starting with vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV, sometimes VCCV). It is mainly this half of the language that the monks used in the construction of the Romance languages and English. 

These words were then arranged according to the first consonants in the words, each consonant was then subdivided again into 25 VCV combinations such as under D: ada, ade, adi, ado, adu; eda, ede, edi, edo, edu; ida, ide ..... etc. Under each such VCV were then listed all those words with their translations which started with these three letters. This arrangement is still the best way for us to decode Ogam's writing.”

Note: The illustration above is just an instance of many viable Yoruba words that should also have been taken into account by Professor Achonolu. I will present many more instances of such illustrations in this article, (S A Akinyemi).

“From this, it must be apparent that such a special arrangement applies only to a language that is organized in the VCV style and Basque is the only language that fits the type. The syntax of modern Irish (i.e. Gaelic or Celtic) is very unsuited to this VCV system and consequently, this language cannot be written in traditional Irish Ogam. Therefore, all Ogam writing anywhere must have been in the Basque language, which means that the "iron" language of pre-Roman-Catholic Ireland was the universal language we call Ogam (= West African) today. This explains why "Celtic" scholars have been unable to translate even one single Ogam inscription correctly.”

FORFEDA REVISION: “The Forfeda revision made by the Benedictines, the addition of the five extra diphthong characters, was almost certainly accomplished in Ireland. Ogam was originally designed for record-keeping and the sending of short messages, not for literary expression. However, this is what the Benedictine monks of Ireland used it for. One of the primary purposes of the Benedictine Order was the replacement of the ancient pre-Christian, gylanic oriented, language with a church-approved one. The syntax of the Basque language was ideally suited for the agglutination of new words, which then appeared to have no relationship to the original language. The VCV formula made this possible. 

However, traditions governing this ancient formula did not allow two vowels to be written side-by-side without a space separation, which demanded separate words. This rule created problems and restrictions for those writing in the script. The monks wished to simplify the rules of writing.  They created words and names with diphthongs in them, the invention of five new "Forfeda" characters permitting the combination of ea, oi, ui, io and ae, the use of which then also allowed these to be part of the creation of new words starting with eha, ohi, uhi, iho and ahe. 

The design of the characters they created was totally out of style with the original script. McManus observed that they "missed the opportunity of completing the symmetry of the system by having the fifth series mirror the third in the way that the second mirror the first" (McManus 1.2).

“To consider what "forfeda" really means, the monks obviously were not very happy to be forced to use the "heathen" Ogam script but found nothing quite as clever, brief and useful to replace it with, until they had invented their new Celtic language. In the following analysis of "Forfeda", the first "f" has to be a "b", a common letter shift; (the second "f" is correct).”

 “The word "forfeda" breaks up into four three-letter VCV roots, ebo-ori-ife-eda, each composed of vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV), with the vowels interlocking to form a chain of interdependent roots. This joining is the main characteristic of Ogam writing, is basic to all Ogam inscriptions and is indispensable in deciphering. Any missing (purposely removed) vowels in the words analysed are represented by a dot until identified. 

Forfeda symbols are never eliminated. The monks later overstated this word to "Foirfeadha", to make it look as if the word had originated with the "Celtic" language, which is characterized by an excess of unnecessary vowels and h's. Some remarks in the Auraicept pertain to the creation of Forfeda characters such as: IN LEBOR OGAIM. in.-.le-ebo-oro-oga-ahi-im.; (5465 etc)

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Note: there is no break in the interconnected vowels, even though the text is broken into three  "words".

TRANSLATION ROUTE: Ogam translation requires the following steps:

Step 1. Transliterate the Ogam characters into our Latin letters,

Step 2. Replace the letters c, q, v, w, y with equivalent Basque letters, c and q become k, v becomes b, the y becomes i.

Step 3. Arrange these corrected letters into the VCVCV format, placing dots where vowels are missing,

Step 4. Fit these letters into the VCV formula,

Step 5. List the various meanings underneath each VCV,

Step 6. Arrange the hidden sentence.

EXAMPLE TRANSLATIONS

“One way to explain the process is with a few examples of real Ogam inscriptions, take for instance:

"Cunovato".(Macalister #11.)

Step 1. The middle part of the inscription was badly damaged, but after much study, Dr Jost Gippert at  Frankfurt University decided that it should read:

"Cunavato"

 Step 2. All Ogams in Ireland are based on the Basque language, however, Basque does not have a "C" or a "V", so the inscription will now read

"Kunabato"

Step 3. When fitting the letters in the VCVCVCVCV format, it appears that only one, the first vowel, is missing, which must therefore be represented by a dot. The inscription to be translated now reads:

".kunabato".

Step 4. There are four consonants so this VCVCVCVCV line is then broken up by hyphens into four three-letter VCV's in which the V's on either side of the hyphens are the same (called interlocking): VCV1-V1CV2-V2CV3-V3CV, which therefore represents four words:

.ku-una-aba-ato

Step 5. With the preliminaries out of the way, the next step in decoding an Ogam inscription is to list the possible meanings underneath each VCV. In the case of the one missing vowel, all five possibilities must be tried (aku, eku, iku, oku, uku) as follows:

Step 6. To discover the hidden sentence we must match up the words that obviously belong together, starting with the complete VCV's. For instance, take the pair aba and ato and immediately out pops priest and come!, "The priest says: Come!". Why would he say come!? "To stimulate" (aku) your "boredom" (una). The translation of CUNAVATO is therefore

"The priest will stimulate your boredom; come!"

“The completed words are: akuilatu (to stimulate) unadora (boredom) abade (priest) ator! (Come!). That is exactly what one would expect a missionary to say, it's his job.”

“Infrequently more than one reasonable meaning appears in which case there is a problem. Postpone this and return to it later as often new insight will be obtained and the proper translation might be obtained.  From the following, it will be apparent that this is not an exact science. Guessing the mood of the monk who made up the word can be entertaining.”

Example #2

Following is the decoding of an Ogam inscription that has two vowels missing (Macalister # 364):

Step 1. barcuni

Step 2. barkuni

Step 3. .bar.kuni

Step 4.  .ba-ar.-.ku-uni

Step 5.  Three VCV's have a vowel missing. Each of those represents five VCV's e.g. .ba can be aba, eba, iba, oba or uba.

”Go to the VCV dictionary and list the possible meanings under each of these five VCV's. Do the same with .ar and .ku

The last one, uni, is complete and only has a few possible meanings.”

Step 6. When assembling the sentence built into the inscription, keep in mind who the people were that carved it. The words that pop out immediately are "evangelist" and "priest" under eba, which goes together with "prayer" under are: "the evangelist's prayers" . What do they do? They give peace of mind, under eku. The sentence, therefore, reads: "The evangelist's prayers (give you) general peace of mind". The four words completed are then: ebanjelari (evangelist) arren (prayer) ekurutasun (peace of mind) unibertsal (general).

Example #3: “The decoding of the more complicated Ogam inscriptions is difficult to fit into the internet restrictions. However, the reader now has an idea of how decoding is accomplished. 

A third example is considerably larger and will therefore be presented in a different manner, which has the disadvantage of not being able to show how the missing vowel is recovered.”

Step 1.  Bladnach cogradedena and Bladnach cuilen

“McManus (page 132) and Macalister  (#1086, 1949) show the second word as Cogracetena, which is incorrect. Both inscriptions are found on a bronze-hanging bowl, likely an incense burner dug up from a swamp in County Kerry. "They are inscribed along the upper surface of the rim and on one of the escutcheons" (McManus7.6)”

Step 2. Bladnak kogradedena and Bladnak kuilen.

Step 3. .B.lad.nak. .kog.radedena and .B.lad.nak. .kuilen

Step 4. .B.-.la-ad.-.na-ak. .ko-og.-.ra-ade-ede-ena, and .B.-.la-ad.-.na-ak. .ku-ile-en.

Step 5. This time the given VCV's are placed along the left border:

Step 6. The story of the Cross prepares us for that ultimate remembrance while preparing for the breaking of the bread (for His) suffering (while we) confide in the Lord.

The story of the cross prepares me for that ultimate everlasting peace of mind (which will) come over me.

Discussion: “All words and many names in any invented language have known meanings. This is not the case with the words written in Ogam and this fact does not make the job of decoding any easier. In addition, no effort was made to allow easy pronunciation. On the contrary, all ingenuity was aimed at ensuring that the writing looked as awkward as possible so that only specialists would be able to interpret it. This disguising was done mostly by applying the VCV Code and the removal of as many vowels as possible.  This followed the example of Hebrew where often no vowels are left at all; such as the name Talmud (Oral Law) being written as "lmd", originally from tala-muda, tala (watch out) mudatu (to alter): "watch out for alteration", or freely translated: "pass on unaltered", which is what an oral law is all about. The meaning of the word Talmud today has been accepted as something like "instruction".

“In Scotland, several of the Christian Ogams were inscribed aggressively over the pre-existing animal- and geometrical symbols/totems which had been carved in the 7th century. These symbols organized marriages and other cooperative arrangements between groups of (usually) four tribes (Jackson) and ever since had been regarded with great respect by the population. The overwriting was probably done to destroy the "magical powers" of the "heathen" symbols. Deciphering the Ogams usually poses no real problem as long as the inscription is complete and legible.”

Consonant Ratings

 “In analyzing Ogam inscriptions and names or words, especially those from which too many vowels have been removed, it may be helpful to know which consonants are easier to decode than others. 

Nyland devised a rating system that he found helpful. It involves writing down all the possible VCV combinations and then counting only those that are found in Aulestia's dictionary. For instance, take "F":

“Out of the 25 VCV possibilities of "F", only the six capitalised VCV's in red are the first letters of existing Basque words: afa (pleasing, supper), ifa (north), ife (infernal, hell), ifi (from ibi, to be, to go), ofi (craftsman, official), ufa (panting, blowing, scornful). The rating of the consonant "F" is therefore 6, making it the second easiest of all letters to find meanings for. The ratings of all the consonants are as follows:

“The use of the letter "R" in the inscriptions poses somewhat of a problem because no distinction is made between "R" and "RR", each having its own set of 23 VCV combinations. Also, the large number of words associated with each combination of this letter makes it sometimes difficult to select the appropriate word. The analysis of the "R" or "RR" is therefore usually kept to the last.”

IGBO / OGAM VCV DICTIONARY: Catherine Acholonu's Explanation of The Ogam Language

"All the words that Nyland and Fell transcribed were Igbo words, which Dr Catherine Acholonu could easily read and translate. She told Edo Nyland that she had translated the words he transcribed from Ogam stones, but he didn't believe her at first. When Hugo Kennes found Dr Acholonu's work on the Internet and started telling all the Ogam researchers he knew including Nyland, Nyland then asked him to get an Igbo dictionary from her.  It was only after her meeting with Pellech in Belgium when she "read "all Acholonu's books and convinced her to write for her site, that it was decided to do the "Igbo Ogam VCV Dictionary

Nyland's use of the word Saharan might not be too far off the mark. He just didn't bother to check West Africa, which has language links with North Africa because the direction of migrations from the Niger has been North-South as well as South-North through the Ages. For example, the Berber etymology of 'Barbarian' is related to Igbo in the sense that (according to Herodotus) the word means 'stranger'.

(The Igbo word for "stranger" is Obiarabia)

"Catherine Acholonu's thesis is that Egypt was the main outpost from where West African Kwa (Kwush/Kush) culture was exported to the rest of the world. Igbo is the Mega-Kwa language - the Kushite mother language. Kush is the major bearer of this civilisation. Ethiopia was not just an East African location but lay West too. 

According to Homer, it was in Sunset Ethiopia that the Gods congregated, and the people were called "the Blameless Ethiopians in whose land the gods held banquets". Dr Acholonu's group discovered the lost city of this Pre-historic Civilisation, with its array of beautiful bronze and pottery works, lost to living memory and posing an enigma to African and World History."

"Catherine Acholonu's analyses of the early archaeology of Sumer and of the Akkadian/Sumerian/Canaanite (Semitic) languages shows that all of them without exception were children of the Igbo language and that the earliest inhabitants of Sumer had Igbo lifestyles in religion, architecture, clothing, etc., even in the recipe for soap-making (wood-ash/potash boiled in oil).

Note: Point of correction on Professor Acholonu's assertion that "Akkadian/Sumerian/Canaanite (Semitic) languages shows that all of them without exception were children of the Igbo language and that the earliest inhabitants of Sumer had Igbo lifestyles in religion, architecture, clothing, etc." I have presented to you many instances of Yoruba words via an illustration that are viable as well as other languages in West Africa. My next article will be about the research undertaken to determine the genetic affinity between Igbo and Yoruba tribes.

The reasons for her supposition might be due to her lack of Knowledge of the Yoruba words or she is suffering from Igbo-centricity. Through the creation myths, culture, genes and geographical location the Igbo and Yoruba shared common ancestry. For example, the Igbo creator God is called Erin and the Yoruba version is Obatala.

In fact, I proposed that ogham lines started as facial scarring of the deities, elite or initiates as an early writing system, which can only be understood or written by those privies to the secret. It started as a unifying factor, but later ultimately became a sign of disunity in form of tribal marks. S A Akinyemi.

A STUDY FINDS THAT THE YORUBAS ARE GENETICALLY 99.9% SIMILAR TO THE IGBOS
JULY 22, 2018 by DON JAIDE

Study Finds that Yorubas Are Genetically 99.9% Igbo. Four of the major coastal ethnic groups of Western Africa: the Yoruba, Igbo, Akan and the Gaa-Adangbe are dissimilar at a glance and evidently geographic neighbours, but very closely related when examined at the genetic level. The next subject matter of my next blog.

Publisher: Ohio State University. Middle East Studies Centre. To learn more about Ogam lines please click here 

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TABLET XI, The Key To Above and Below

TABLET XI
The Key To Above and Below
Hear ye and list ye, O children of Khem, to the words that I give that shall bring ye to the Light. Ye know, O men, that I knew your fathers, aye, your fathers in a time long ago. Deathless have I been through all the ages, living among ye since your knowledge began. Leading ye upward to the Light of the Great Soul have I ever striven, drawing ye from out of the darkness of night. Know ye, O people amongst whom I walk,  that I, Thoth, have all of the knowledge and all of the wisdom known, to man since the ancient days.

As above so below, as below so above

Keeper have I been of the secrets of the great race, holder of the key that leads into life. Bringer up have I been to ye, O my children, even from the darkness of the Ancient of Days. List ye now to the words of my wisdom. List ye now to the message I bring.

Hear ye now the words I give thee, and ye shall be raised from the darkness to Light. Far in the past, when first I came to thee, found I thee in caves of rocks. Lifted I thee by my power and wisdom until thou didst shine as men among men.

Aye, found I thee without any knowing. Only a little were ye raised beyond beasts. Fanned I ever the spark of thy consciousness until at last ye flamed as men. Now shall I speak to thee knowledge ancient beyond the thought of thy race. Know ye that we of the Great Race had and have knowledge that is more than men. Wisdom we gained from the star-born races, wisdom, and knowledge far beyond man. Down to us had descended the masters of wisdom as far beyond us as I am from thee.

List ye now while I give ye wisdom. Use it and free thou shalt be. Know ye that in the pyramid I built are the Keys that shall show ye the Way into life. Aye, draw ye a line from the great image I built,
to the apex of the pyramid, built as a gateway. Draw ye another opposite in the same angle and direction. Dig ye and find that which I have hidden. There shall ye find the underground entrance to the secrets hidden before ye were men. Tell ye I now of the mystery of cycles that move in movements that are strange to the finite, for infinite are they beyond the knowledge of man.

Know the laws and use them

Know ye that there are nine of the cycles; aye, nine above and fourteen below, moving in harmony to the place of joining that shall exist in the future of time.

Know ye that the Lords of the Cycles are units of consciousness sent from the others to unify This with the All. Highest are They of the consciousness of all the Cycles, working in harmony with the Law. Know They that in time all will be perfected, having none above and none below, but all One in a perfected Infinity, a harmony of all in the Oneness of All. Deep neath the Earth's surface in the Halls of Amenti sit the Seven, the Lords of the Cycles, aye, and another, the Lord from below.

Yet know thee that in Infinity there is neither above nor below. But ever there is and ever shall be
Oneness of All when all is complete. Oft have I stood before the Lords of the All. Oft at the fount of their wisdom have drunken and filled both my body and Soul with their Light. Spake, they to me and told me of cycles and the Law that gives them the means to exist. Aye, spake to me the Lord of the Nine saying: O, Thoth, great are ye among Earth children, but mysteries exist of which ye know not.

Ye know that ye came from a space-time below this and know ye shall travel to a space-time beyond.
But little ye know of the mysteries within them, little ye know of the wisdom beyond. Know ye, that ye, as a whole in this consciousness are only a cell in the process of growth. The consciousness below thee is ever-expanding in different ways from those known to thee. Aye, it, though in space-time below thee, is ever-growing in ways that are different from those that were part of the ways of thine own. For know that it grows as a result of thy growth but not in the same way that thou didst grow.

Dimensions

The growth that thou had and have in the present have brought into being a cause and effect.

No consciousness follows the path of those before it, else all would be repetition and vain. Each consciousness in the cycle exists it follows its own path to the ultimate goal. Each plays its part in the Plan of the Cosmos. Each plays its part in the ultimate end. The farther the cycle, the greater its knowledge and ability to blend the Law of the whole. Know ye, that ye in the cycles below us are working the minor parts of the Law, while we of the cycle that extends to Infinity take of the striving and builds greater Law. Each has his own part to play in the cycle.

Each has his work to complete in his way. The cycle below thee is yet not below thee but only formed for a need that exists. For know ye that the fountain of wisdom that sends forth the cycles is eternally seeking new powers to gain. Ye know that knowledge is gained only by practice, and wisdom comes forth only from knowledge, and thus are the cycles created by Law. These means are they for the gaining of knowledge for the Plane of Law that is the Source of All. The cycle below is not truly below but only different in space and in time.

The Lords of Cycles Above

The consciousness there is working and testing lesser things than those ye are. And know, just as ye are working on greater, so above ye are those who are also working as ye are on yet other laws.

The difference that exists between the cycles is only in the ability to work with the Law. We, who have been in cycles beyond thee, are those who first came forth from the Source and have in the passage through time-space gained the ability to use Laws of the Greater that are far beyond the conception of man. Nothing there is that is really below thee but only a different operation of Law. Look thee above or look thee below, the same shall ye find. For all is but part of the Oneness that is at the Source of the Law. The consciousness below thee is part thine own as we are a part of thine.

Ye, as a child had not the knowledge that came to ye when ye became a man. Compare ye the cycles to man in his journey from birth unto death, and see in the cycle below thee the child with the knowledge he has; and see ye yourself as the child grown older, advancing in knowledge as time passes on. See ye, We, also, the child grown to manhood with the knowledge and wisdom that came with the years. So also, O Thoth, are the cycles of consciousness, children in different stages of growth, yet all from the one Source, the Wisdom, and all to the Wisdom returning again.

Ceased then He from speaking and sat in the silence that comes to the Lords. Then again spake He unto me, saying: Oh, Thoth, long have We sat in Amenti, guarding the flame of life in the Halls.
Yet know, we are still part of our Cycles with our Vision reaching unto them and beyond. Aye, know we that of all, nothing else matters excepting the growth we can gain with our Soul.

Brothers of Light

Know we the flesh is fleeting. The things men count great are nothing to us. The things we seek are not of the body but are only the perfected state of the Soul. When ye as men can learn that nothing but the progress of Soul can count in the end, then truly ye are free from all bondage, free to work in a harmony of Law. Know, O man, ye should aim at perfection, for only thus can ye attain the goal.

Though ye should know that nothing is perfect, yet it should be thy aim and thy goal. Ceased again the voice of the Nine, and into my consciousness, the words had sunk. Now, seek I ever more wisdom that I may be perfect in Law with the All. Soon go I down to the Halls of Amenti to live beneath the cold flower of life. Ye whom I have taught shall nevermore see me. Yet live I forever in the wisdom I taught. All that man is; is because of his wisdom. All that he shall be is the result of his cause.

List ye, now to my voice and become greater than the common man. Lift thine eyes upward,
let Light fill thy being, be thou ever Children of Light. Only by effort shall ye grow upward to the plane where Light is the All of the All. Be ye the master of all that surrounds thee. Never be mastered by the effects of thy life. Create then ever more perfect causes and in time shalt thou be a Sun of the Light Free, let thine soul soar ever upward, free from the bondage and fetters of night.

Lift thine eyes to the Sun in the sky-space. For thee, let it be a symbol of life. Know that thou art the Greater Light, perfect in thine own sphere, when thou art free. Look not ever into the blackness.
Lift up thine eyes to space above. Free let thine Light flame upward and shalt thou be a Child of the Light. End of part 15 of 15. Next blog 26/08/19.

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TABLET X, THE KEY OF TIME, DWELLER, ONE, VOID, LORDS

TABLET X, THE KEY OF TIME
List ye, O Man. Take of my wisdom. Learn of his deep-hidden mysteries of space. Learn of the THOUGHT that grew in the abyss, bringing Order and Harmony into space. Know ye, O man, that all exists has been only because of the LAW. Know ye the LAW and ye shall be free, never be bound by the fetters of night. Far, through strange spaces, have I journeyed into the depth of the abyss of time until in the end all was revealed. Know ye that mystery is an only mystery when it is knowledge unknown to man. When ye have plumbed the heart of all mystery, knowledge, and wisdom will surely be thine. Seek ye and learn that TIME is the secret whereby ye may be free of this space.

THE EIGHT NATURAL LAW

Long have I, WISDOM, sought wisdom; aye, and shall seek of eternity's end for know that ever before me receding shall move the goal I seek to attain.

Even the LORDS of the CYCLES
know that not yet have THEY reached the goal, For, with all of their wisdom, they know that TRUTH ever grows. Once, in a past time, I spoke to the Dweller. Asked of the mystery of time and space. Asked him the question that surged in my being, saying: O Master, what is time? Then to me spoke HE, the Master: Know ye, O Thoth, in the beginning. there was VOID and nothingness, a timeless, space-less, nothingness. And into the nothingness came a thought, purposeful, all-pervading, and It filled the VOID. There existed no matter, only force, a movement, a vortex, or vibration of the purposeful thought that filled the VOID. And I questioned the Master, saying: Was this thought eternal? And answered me the DWELLER, Saying:

In the beginning, there was eternal thought, and for thought to be eternal, time must exist. So into the all-pervading thought grew the LAW of TIME. Aye time exists through all space, floating in a smooth, rhythmic movement that is eternally in a state of fixation. Time changes not, but all things change in time. Time is the force that holds events separately, each in its own proper place. Time is not in motion, but ye move through time as your consciousness moves from one event to another.

Aye, by time yet exist, all in all, an eternal ONE existence. Know ye that even though in the time ye are separate, yet still are ONE, in all times existent. Ceased then the voice of the DWELLER, and departed I to ponder on time. For knew I that in these words lay wisdom and a way to explore the mysteries of time. Oft did I ponder the words of the DWELLER. Then sought I to solve the mystery of time. Found I that time moves through strange angles.

Yet only by curves could I hope to attain the key that would give me access to the time-space. Found I that only by moving upward and yet again by moving right-ward could I be free from the time of the movement. Forth I came from out of my body and moved in the movements that changed me in time.
Strange were the sights I saw in my journeys, many of the mysteries that opened to view. Aye, saw I man's beginning, learned from the past that nothing is new. Seek ye, O man, to learn the pathway
that leads through the spaces that are formed forth in time.

Azoth of the Philosopher

Forget not, O man, with all of thy seeking that Light is the goal ye shall seek to attain. Search ye for the Light on thy pathway and ever for thee the goal shall endure. Let not thine heart turn ever to darkness. light let shine Soul be, a Sun on the way. Know ye that eternal brightness, ya shall ever find thy Soul hid in Light, never fettered by bondage or darkness, ever it shines forth a Sun of the Light.

Aye, know, though hidden in darkness, your Soul, a spark of the true flame, exists. Be ye One with the greatest of all Lights. Find at the SOURCE, the END of thy goal. Light is life, for without the great Light nothing can ever exist. Know ye, that in all formed matter, the heart of Light always exists. Aye, even though bound in the darkness, inherent Light always exists. Once I stood in the HALLS OF AMENTI and heard the voice of the LORDS of AMENTI, saying in tones that rang through the silence, words of power, mighty and potent.

Chanted they the song of the cycles, the words that open the path to beyond. Aye, I saw the great path open and looked for the instant into the beyond. Saw I the movements of the cycles, vast as the thought of the SOURCE could convey. Knew I then even Infinity is moving on to some unthinkable end. Saw I that the Cosmos is Order and part of a movement that extends to all space, a party, of an Order of Orders, constantly moving in a harmony of space.

Saw I the wheeling of cycles like vast circles across the sky. Knew I then that all that has been,
is growing to meet yet another being in a far-off grouping of space and of time. Knew I then that Words are the power to open the planes that are hidden from man. Aye, that even in Words lies hidden the key that will open above and below. Hark ye, now man, this word I leave with thee.
Use it and ye shall find power in its sound. Say ye the word: "ZIN-URU" and power ye shall find.

Yet must ye understand that man is of Light and Light is of man. List ye, O man, and hear a mystery
stranger than all that lies 'neath the Sun. Know ye, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds; aye, one within the other yet separate by Law. Once in my search for deep-buried wisdom,
I opened the door that bars THEM from man. Called I from the other planes of being, one who was fairer than the daughters of men. Aye, I called her from out of the spaces, to shine as a Light in the world of men. Used I the drum of the Serpent. Wore I the robe of the purple and gold.

Placed on my head, I, the crown of Silver. Around me, the circle of cinnabar shone. Raised I my arms and cried the invocation that opens the path to the planes beyond, cried to the LORDS of the SIGNS in their houses: Lords of the two horizons, watchers of the treble gates, stand ye One at the right and One at the left as the STAR rises to his throne and rules over his sign. Aye, thou dark prince of ARULU, open the gates of the dim, hidden land and release her whom ye keep imprisoned.

We are made of LIGHT

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, dark Lords and Shining Ones, and by their secret names, names which I know and can pronounce, hear ye and obey my will. Lit I then with flame my circle and called HER in the space-planes beyond.

Daughter of Light returns from ARULU. Seven times and seven times have I passed through the fire. Food have I not eaten. Water have I not drunk. I call thee from ARULU, from the realms of EKERSHEGAL. I summon thee, the lady of Light.

Then before me rose the dark figures; aye, the figures of the Lords of Arulu. Parted they before me and forth came the Lady of Light. Free was she now from the LORDS of the night, free to live in the Light of the earth's Sun, free to live as a child of the Light. Hear ye and listen, O my children. Magic is knowledge and only is Law. Be not afraid of the power within thee for it follows Law as the stars in the sky. Know ye that to be without knowledge, wisdom is magic and not of the Law.

But know ye that ever ye by your knowledge can approach closer to a place in the Sun. List ye, my children, follow my teaching. Be ye ever seeker of Light. Shine in the world of men all around thee,
a Light on the path that shall shine among men. Follow ye and learn of my magic. Know that all force is thine if thou wilt. Fear not the path that leads thee to knowledge, but rather shun ye the dark road.

Light is thine, O man, for the taking. Cast off the fetters and thou shalt be free. Know ye that the Soul is living in bondage fettered by fears that hold ye in thrall. Open thy eyes and see the great SUN-LIGHT. Be not afraid for all is thine own. Fear is the LORD of the dark ARULU to he who never faced the dark fear. Aye, know that fear has existence created by those who are bound by their fears. Shake off thy bondage, O children, and walk in the Light of the glorious day.

Never turn thy thoughts to the darkness and surely ye shall be One with the Light. Man is only what he believeth, a brother of darkness or a child of the Light. Come through into the Light my Children.
Walk in the pathway that leads to the Sun. Hark ye now, and list to the wisdom. Use thou the word I have given unto thee. Use it and surely though shalt find power and wisdom and Light to walk in the way. Seek thee and find the key I have given and ever shalt thou be a Child of the Light. End of part 14 of 15. Next blog 19/08/19.

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TABLET IX, THE KEY TO THE FREEDOM OF SPACE, LIGHT

TABLET IX THE KEY TO THE FREEDOM OF SPACE
List ye, O man, hear ye my voice, teaching of Wisdom and Light in this cycle; teaching ye how to banish the darkness, teaching ye how to bring Light in thy life. Seek ye, O man, to find the great pathway that leads to eternal LIFE as a SUN. Draw ye away from the veil of the darkness. Seek to become a Light in the world. Make of thyself a vessel for Light, a focus for the Sun of this space.

Love = Light = Life

Lift thou thine eyes to the Cosmos. Lift thou thine eyes to the Light. Speak in the words of the Dweller, the chant that calls down the Light. Sing thou the song of freedom. Sing thou the song of the Soul. Create the high vibration that will make thee One with the Whole.

Blend all thyself with the Cosmos. Grow into ONE with the Light. Be thou a channel of order, a pathway of LAW to the world. Thy LIGHT, O man, is the great LIGHT, shining through the shadow of flesh. Free must thou rise from the darkness before thou art One with the LIGHT. Shadows of darkness surround thee. Life fills thee with its flow. But know, O man, thou must arise and forth thy body go far to the planes that surround thee and yet are One with thee, too. Look all around thee, O man. See thine own light reflected.

Aye, even in the darkness around thee, thine own Light pours forth through the veil. Seek thou for wisdom always. Let not thine body betray. Keep in the path of the Light wave. Shun thou the darkened way. Know thee that wisdom is lasting. Existing since the ALL-SOUL began, creating harmony from by the Law that exists in the WAY. List ye, o man, to the teachings of wisdom. List to the voice that speaks of the past-time. Aye, I shall tell thee knowledge forgotten, tell ye of wisdom hidden in past-time, lost in the midst of darkness around me.

Chakras Point

Know ye, man, ye are the ultimate of all things. Only the knowledge of this is forgotten, lost when man was cast into bondage, bound and fettered by the chains of the darkness. Long, long ago, I cast off my body. Wandered I free through the vastness of ether, circled the angles that hold man in bondage.

Know ye, O man, ye are only a spirit. The body is nothing. The Soul is ALL. Let not your body be a fetter. Cast off the darkness and travel in Light. Cast off your body, O man, and be free, truly a Light that is ONE with the Light.

When ye are free from the fetters of darkness and travel in space as the SUN of the LIGHT, then ye shall know that space in not boundless but truly bounded by angles and curves. Know ye, O man, that all that exists is only an aspect of greater things yet to come. Matter is fluid and flows like a stream, constantly changing from one thing to another. All through the ages has knowledge existed; never been changed, though buried in darkness; never been lost, though forgotten by man. Know ye that throughout the space that ye dwell in are others as great as your own, interlaced through the heart of your matter yet separate in space of their own.

Once in a time long forgotten, I THOTH, opened the doorway, penetrated into other spaces and learned of the secrets concealed. Deep in the essence of matter are many mysteries concealed. Nine are the interlocked dimensions, and Nine are the cycles of space. Nine are the diffusion's of consciousness, and Nine are the worlds within worlds. Aye, Nine are the Lords of the cycles that come from above and below. Space is filled with concealed ones, for space is divided by time.

We are Children of the LIGHT

Seek ye the key to the time-space, and ye shall unlock the gate. Know ye that throughout the time-space consciousness surely exist.

Though from our knowledge it is hidden, yet still forever exists. The key to worlds within thee are found only within. For man is the gateway of mystery and the key that is One with the One. Seek ye within the circle. Use the WORD I shall give. Open the gateway within thee, and surely thou, too, shall live. Man, ye think that ye liveth, but know it is life within death. For as sure as ye are bound to your body, or you no life exists. Only the Soul is space-free, has life that is really a life. All else is only a bondage, a fetter from which to be free. Think not that man is earth-born, though come from the earth he may be. Man is light-born spirit.

But, without knowing, he can never be free. Darkness surrounds the light-born. Darkness fetters the Soul. Only the one who is seeking may ever hope to be free. Shadows around thee are falling darkness fills all the space Shine forth, O LIGHT of the man-soul. Fill thou the darkness of space. Ye are son of the GREAT LIGHT Remember and ye shall be free. Stay not thou in the shadows. Spring forth from the darkness of night Light, let thy Soul be, O SUN-BORN, fill with glory of Light, Freed from the bonds of the darkness, a Soul that is One with the Light. Thou art the key to all wisdom.

Within thee is all time and space. Live not in bondage to darkness. Free thou, thy Light-form from night. Great Light that fills all the Cosmos, flow thou fully to man. Make of his body a light-torch that shall never be quenched among men. Long in the past, sought I wisdom, knowledge not known to man. Far to the past, I travelled into the space where time began. Sought I ever knew knowledge to add to the wisdom I knew. Yet only, If found, did the future hold the key to the wisdom I thought.

The 8 Natural Law for things created

Down, to the HOLES of AMENTI I journeyed, the greater knowledge to seek. Ask of thee, LORDS of the CYCLES,  they way to the wisdom I sought. Asked the LORDS this question: Where is the source of ALL? Answered, in tones that were mighty, the voice of the LORD of the NINE: Free thou thy soul from thy body and come forth with me to the LIGHT.
Forth I came from my body, a glittering flame in the night. Stood I before the LORD, bathed in the fire of LIFE. Seized was I then by a force, great beyond knowledge of man. Cast was I to the Abyss through spaces unknown to man. Saw I the moldings of Order from the chaos and angles of night. Saw I the LIGHT, spring from Order and heard the voice of the Light. Saw I the flame of the Abyss, casting forth Order and Light. Saw Order spring out of chaos. Saw Light giving forth Life.

Then heard I the voice. Hear thou and understand. The flame is the source of all things, containing all things in potentiality. The Order that sent forth light is the WORD and from the WORD, COME LIFE and the existence of all. And again spoke the voice saying: THE LIFE in thee is the WORD. Find thou the LIFE within thee and have powers to use of the WORD. Long I watched the Light-flame, pouring forth from the Essence of Fire,  realizing that LIFE but Order and that man is one with the fire.

Magic no 9

Back I came to my body stood again with the Nine, listened to the voice of the Cycles, vibrate with powers they spoke: Know ye, O Thoth, that LIFE is but thee WORD of the FIRE. The LIFE forth ye seek before thee  is but the WORD in the World as a fire. Seek ye the path to the WORD and Powers shall surely be thine. Then asked I of the Nine: O Lord, show me the path. Give the path to the wisdom. Show me the way to the WORD. Answered, me then, the LORD OF THE NINE: Through ORDER, ye shall find the way. Saw ye that the WORD came from Chaos? Saw ye not that LIGHT came from FIRE? Look in thy life for this order.

Balance and order thy life. Quell all the Chaos of the emotions and thou shalt have order in LIFE. ORDER brought forth from Chaos will bring thee the WORD of the SOURCE, will thee the power of CYCLES, and make of thy Soul a force that freewill extend through the ages, a perfect SUN from the Source. Listened I to the voice and deep thanked the words in my heart. Forever have I sought for order that I might draw on the WORD.

Know ye that he who attains it must ever in ORDER be for use of the WORD though this order has never and can never be. Take ye these words, O man. As part of thy life, let them be. Seek thee to conquer this order and One with the WORD thou shalt be. Put forth thy effort in gaining LIGHT on the pathway of Life. Seek to be One with the SUN/state. Seek to be solely the LIGHT. Hold thou thy thought on the Oneness of Light with the body of man. Know that all is Order from Chaos born into light. End of part 13 of 15. Next blog 12/08/19.

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