Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht ueber das Buch Thot

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of numbers are one and the same. Take, for example, the sentence: the highest or the topmost is equal to the lowest original: "das höchste oder das oberste ist gleich dem untersten." This is a German translation of the famous Hermetic axiom "As above, so below," from the Emerald Tablet.; with physical knowledge, physical truths are proven 2 + 2 = 4. God is 1.

From this truth, which the unjust or insane Gottesläugner atheist wishes to turn into a nothing, into a zero, while the idolater conversely wishes to multiply it into a greater number of deities; from this unity, I say, flows the first Dreizahl triad in relation to our Buch Thot Book of Thoth.

Namely: 1. the wise man, who looks into the future and reveals its secrets through wahrsagend divination; 2. the seeker, who strives to learn the fates of his life from the former; and 3. all people, all living and inanimate beings, who relate to the chain of fates in the life of that seeker who asks about the secrets of the future.

Oh, you questioning, noble seeker, who rightly hopes to learn the fates of your life; but also you ignorant, careless person, who does not arm yourself against the blows of the future with caution and Vorherwissen foreknowledge

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do you not see, I must exclaim here, all the infinite causes that gather around you, for your happiness or misfortune? Yes, hear it! Only foreknowledge, foreknowledge is what can avert the fall of a tile from your head, or protect your foot from the strike of a stone.

Certainly, there is a science of seeing beforehand. But it is also only a fruit of long years, of long experience, and of deep, sharp understanding. There is a science of predicting! This is a science, however, that can only be obtained when one has fathomed all other human knowledge: for it rests upon these, with the possible exception of the science that teaches us to know a single true God. But now back to the thread of instruction!

1. Represents here the strong, sublime man; 2. the weak, powerless one; and 3. can represent and indicate both the strong and weak man. If it is the strong one, the questioning seeker can promise themselves happy events: if it is