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and the Lords of Death, |
receiving as my gift the Key of Life. |
Free was I of the Halls of Amenti, |
bound not by death to the circle of life. |
Far to the stars I journeyed until |
space and time became as naught. |
Then having drunk deep of the cup of wisdom, |
I looked into the hearts of men and there found I |
greater mysteries and was glad. |
For only in the Search for Truth could my Soul |
be stilled and the flame within be quenched. |
Down through the ages I lived, |
seeing those around me taste of the cup |
of death and return again in the light of life. |
Gradually from the Kingdoms of Atlantis passed waves |
of consciousness that had been one with me, |
only to be replaced by spawn of a lower star. |
In obedience to the law, |
the word of the Master grew into flower. |
Downward into the darkness turned the |
thoughts of the Atlanteans, |
Until at last in this wrath arose from his AGWANTI, |
the Dweller, (this word has no English equivalent; |
it means a state of detachment) |
speaking The Word, calling the power. |
Deep in Earth's heart, the sons of Amenti heard, |
and hearing, directing the changing of the flower of fire |
that burns eternally, changing and shifting, using the LOGOS, |
until that great fire changed its direction. |
Over the world then broke the great waters, |
drowning and sinking, |
changing Earth's balance |
until only the Temple of Light was left |
standing on the great mountain on UNDAL |
still rising out of the water; |
some there were who were living, |
saved from the rush of the fountains. |
Called to me then the Master, saying: |
Gather ye together my people. |
Take them by the arts ye have learned of far across the waters, |
until ye reach the land of the hairy barbarians, |
dwelling in caves of the desert. |
Follow there the plan that ye know of. |
Gathered I then my people and |
entered the great ship of the Master. |
Upward we rose into the morning. |
Dark beneath us lay the Temple. |
Suddenly over it rose the waters. |
Vanished from Earth, |
until the time appointed, |
was the great Temple. |
Fast we fled toward the sun of the morning, |
until beneath us lay the land of the children of KHEM. |
Raging, they came with cudgels and spears, |
lifted in anger seeking to slay and utterly destroy the Sons of Atlantis. |
Then raised I my staff and directed a ray of vibration, |
striking them still in their tracks as fragments |
of stone of the mountain. |
Then spoke I to them in words calm and peaceful, |
telling them of the might of Atlantis, |
saying we were children of the Sun and its messengers. |
Cowed I them by my display of magic-science, |
until at my feet they groveled, when I released them. |
Long dwelt we in the land of KHEM, |
long and yet long again. |
Until obeying the commands of the Master, |
who while sleeping yet lives eternally, |
I sent from me the Sons of Atlantis, |
sent them in many directions, |
that from the womb of time wisdom |
might rise again in her children. |
Long time dwelt I in the land of KHEM, |
doing great works by the wisdom within me. |
Upward grew into the light of knowledge |
the children of KHEM, |
watered by the rains of my wisdom. |
Blasted I then a path to Amenti so |
that I might retain my powers, |
living from age to age a Sun of Atlantis, |
keeping the wisdom, preserving the records. |
Great grew the sons of KHEM, |
conquering the people around them, |
growing slowly upwards in Soul force. |