Course on the Book of Thoth

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I advise you to open the Book of Thoth; it is because my age, my experience, my reflections, and finally, my profession—which is to unfold the human heart—have led me to recognize that the intentions of your relatives regarding your true education were not realized; that is to say, an education in which you would have learned the science of knowing God, men, nature, and yourself.

Yes, one must study in the divine Book of Thoth—or of God, of men, and of nature—composed by the true Mages Mages From the ancient Persian magi, referring here to the legendary priest-philosophers of Egypt who were believed to possess deep knowledge of the natural and divine worlds. of the early Egyptians; Mages who, uncorrupted by the taste for our futile arts and by all our disordered passions, were able to fruitfully employ all their time in recognizing this great Ternary Ternary A group of three; in esoteric philosophy, the Ternary often represents the fundamental triad of existence (here, God, Man, and Nature) which provides the structure for all reality., God, Man, and Nature, which we ignore, and without which Ternary it is impossible not to mingle falsehood with truth...

I understand; accustomed to being deceived, you ask for a guarantee of the soundness and wisdom of the advice I give you. Receive as your security the man whom it is impossible for you to reject: it is Trismegistus Hermes Trismegistus, the "Thrice-Greatest," a legendary Hellenistic figure associated with the synthesis of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, credited as the author of the Hermetic corpus. himself.

Open the Book of Thoth, and at the first