The Emerald Tablet 101: A Modern, Practical Guide, Plain and Simple

by Matthew Barnes

As all things have been and arose from the one, so all things have their birth from this one thing by transformation In the timeless beginning There was only the One, And IT seemed to me As if it were But a great Light Of pure Consciousness, As if Consciousness Was a substance, and tangible- And somehow It was The Light was an Intelligence, An Energy Beyond existence And beyond my ability To comprehend This Energy Was all that existed, There was nothing else But this Energy, This Intelligence, This Awareness- IT was all that was And IT was whole And complete In and of ITself From this Intelligence, From this One Thing I saw emerge a Second- A darker mass, Heavier in substance, Vibrating at a lower frequency This Second Was the world of matter, And It was birthed From the body Of the Light In one great explosion Of Light and Energy And Matter This darkness Was separate from the Light Yet somehow Still the Light, For It had come From the Light The One From whence the Second came Was neither male Nor female, But the dark Second Split into two- A male and a female part, A positive and a negative pole, The yang and the yin, The proton and the electron, The alpha particle and the omega particle, Representing the extreme range From the most positively charged And therefore most masculine particle To the most negatively charged And therefore most feminine particle From this split Came the union and repulsion Of the male and the female energies and forms Causing the U...

By this means you will rule the world The mass of humankind Are not the kings and queens Of their own castles, But paupers and puppets instead They do not rule Their own lives But tend to be ruled By the world around them They are dragged along This way and that By their wants and needs and desires And the dramas and storms of life Whirling about Things go well And they tend to be happy Things go badly And they tend to be sad When they get what they want They tend to be happy When they don’t get what they want They tend to be sad Completely out of their own hands Is their peace of mind, Their contentment, Their happiness Even when things do go their way, The ultimate fear Of decline and decay And death Steps in And sits at the back of their mind Gnawing away At any short-lived happiness Or peace They may have been lucky enough To obtain Awaken And the Truth of this world Will open up before you And all of this will change, Forever You will no longer fear death As the masses do, Or poverty Or illness Though the storms of life May toss and roar And throw you about, And they will- They will no longer Hold any sway Over the peace In your mind and heart Death can no longer touch you, Nor can poverty Or illness Or decay Whatever comes your way You will be able To enjoy, Whatever goes away Simply goes You need nothing, So nothing Has any power over you- None whatsoever Then, And only then Can you enjoy everything You will then have become The king or...