Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht ueber das Buch Thot

was the work of the Deity to always produce and give existence to wonders.

But to possess the knowledge of nature, which is within the grasp of every man, one must have studied nature. Then one requires neither divine inspiration nor hellish spirit-conjuring; one only needs to be a friend of man and a knower of nature.

You have now learned in my first instruction that the science of numbers is the primary knowledge of all higher knowledges, just as arithmetic is, certainly without contradiction, the main part of all the sciences we possess.

Secondly, you have learned that the knowledge of numbers is at once the easiest and simplest of all knowledges: that the science of numbers is one and the same as morality. Moreover, I have told you, in order to completely conquer your unbelief if you are ruled by it, that all morality consists with the whole science of numbers in the unity 1; but that, because one can extract no knowledge from the simple unity, one must take refuge in the great triad: to the

triad, namely—God—Man—and Nature.

Let us now open the book of nature, but at the same time think of the book of the philosopher, the Book of Thoth; for in this, with clear writing, the great work of the creation of nature, the great masterpiece—man—and finally in man, the great work of the Deity, is described and recorded.

If you now imagine the entire universe under the image of a sphere; then this sphere will also, if you raise your understanding still further and penetrate with it, be the representation, the symbol of the divine unity. If we descend from the cause to its effects; then the sphere will finally also become the representation of man, of nature, and even the symbol of the entire Book of Thoth.

We may now think of and consider this sphere under any figure we wish: yet its center will represent the midpoint of nature. In the center of this midpoint will be man, and in the center of man, the Deity.