Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht ueber das Buch Thot

Likewise, it is also a proof of the greatest ignorance if one wishes to attribute the guidance of the smallest human games to God, so to speak. Otherwise, would not even the sound that the hammer produces on the bell have to be a work of guidance by the divine hand?

No! Only God created the entire universe and wrote the law for it: that we shall find everything if we conduct ourselves accordingly and strive for it.

At the first steps of my curiosity, nearly forty years ago, I had also fallen into those follies: but with increasing years I learned not to resist reason and the natural knowledge that stirred within me, and which called me to my current secrets.

Still other people, besides those Illuminati Illuminaten and those conjurers of spirits—people who were otherwise skillful but not initiated in higher knowledge—considered it their duty to convince me that the giving of oracles and the foreknowledge of the future were nothing but a chimera and a phantom of the brain. Their sophisms and conclusions, however, did not

deceive me; here, I said to them, know what has happened to you, and what is now before you, and what will happen to you tomorrow. And so I refuted them by visual evidence.

Astonished by the truth and certainty of the art of predicting the future, they now wanted to take refuge in empty excuses: chance, they said, accident, certain signs are what made it come true. But I have nonetheless discovered and predicted to you certain occurrences that do not depend on chance, I replied. Yes, that is true! No, scholars, there is no accident in the world, everything is in connection, everything is chained together in order! You must study this connection, this order of the chain, and you will be revealers of the future, revealers of the past and the present!

However, without expanding further upon this, I say only: Men, you are in the world here below to contemplate the works of the Creator and to imitate his divine wisdom: let it be your constant will, your constant work, to create wonders, just as it