3. Thoth’s Tablets Once Again
Ninurta’s “Inventory
of the Stones” and the Tablets of Destinies, viewed in this total
“astro-mythological context,” begins to sound peculiarly familiar,
for it implies that his “Inventory” was nothing less than a
lithographic record of a vast body of knowledge, encompassing
celestial geometry, the properties of celestial bodies, and the
mutual influences that existed between them and particular stones.
They are, in one sense, summaries of information.
And in this respect,
they begin to sound like the Tablets of another well-known Middle
Eastern god, the Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth. Here, I quote from
pages 58 - 62 of my book The Giza Death Star
Destroyed once again, this time in order to show the
similarities between Thoth and Ninurta, and more importantly,
between The Book of Thoth and Ninurta’s
Tablets of Destinies:
“a. The Role of Hermes-Thoth in the Founding of Esotericism
“Scattered throughout
(Manly) Hall’s Secret Teachings of All
Ages are numerous references to the enigmatic figure of
Hermes-Thoth, and his crucial role in the post-diluvian founding of
esotericism. Aside from his identifications with Enoch and other
figures in various traditions,452 the figure of
Hermes-Thoth is ”of first importance to Masonic scholars, because
he was the author of the Masonic initiatory rituals, which were
borrowed from the Mysteries established by Hermes.“453 This connection of
Hermes-Thoth with ante-diluvian knowledge and its survival in
Masonic traditions is made even more apparent by the identification
of Thoth with the figure of Hiram Abiff, a figure who plays such a
central role in the death-resurrection rituals of the first three
degrees of Masonry.454 This tradition
ascribes the identification to the so-called Emerald Tablet of Thoth, about which we shall have
more to say in a moment. More important for the subject of esoteric
continuity are the numerous references to the survival of
Hermes-Thoth’s knowledge in the forms of books or inscribed
tablets. In some versions, forty-two volumes of his works were
removed from the Library of Alexandria prior to its burning, and
secreted with “initiates” who buried them in the desert for
safekeeping.455
“Returning now to the
subject of the Emerald Tablet of Thoth,
another strand of esoteric tradition concerns the so-called
Sacred Book of Thoth, a work we have
referred in the two previous Giza Death
Star books.456 Esoteric tradition
has it that while Thoth-Hermes ”still walked the earth with men, he
entrusted to his chosen successors the sacred Book of Thoth. This work contained the secret
processes by which the regeneration of humanity was to be
accomplished and also served as the key to his other
writings.“457 The theme of this
book was most likely the connection between the cosmos and man, a
key made manifest by the law of analogy:
The ancients believed that the theory of man’s being made in the image of God was to be understood literally. They maintained that the universe was a great organism not unlike the human body, and that every phase and function of the Universal Body had a correspondence in man.458 The most precious Key to Wisdom that the priests communicated to the new initiates was what they termed the law of analogy.“459
Here I will interrupt
my quotation of The Giza Death Star
Destroyed to note that one aspect of ancient belief was
precisely the idea that that “subtle influences” and
correspondences existed between the universe and the human
individual, a variation on the astrological theme. Returning now to
the extended quotation from that book:
“This principle (of
analogy) formed the basis of my interpretation of ancient Hermetic
and Vedic texts in The Giza Death
.Star460 and ... is a
central methodology informing the work of revisionist Egyptologist
and scholar R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz.
“In any case, not
much is known about the alleged Book of
Thoth other than that its “pages” were apparently covered
with hieroglyphics and other symbols that allegedly gave its
possessors ”unlimited power over the spirits
of the air and subterranean divinities’”461
“That is to say, the
Book of Thoth was, for the esoteric
tradition, a book of high magic. That it might have been a book of
high science is possible, if one understand the “spirits of the air
and subterranean divinities” to mean the principles of celestial
and terrestrial mechanics and physics.
And once again I
interrupt my quotation to observe that Thoth’s mysterious book of
“magic”, like the Mesopotamian “Tablets of Destinies” conferred a
kind of universal power to its possessor. Continuing now with the
quotation:
“But there is another
significance to the Book of
Thoth:
According to legend, the Book of Thoth was kept in a golden box in the inner sanctuary of the temple. There was but one key and this was in the possession of the “Master of the Mysteries,” the highest initiate of the Hermetic Arcanum. He alone knew what was written in the secret book. The Book of Thoth was lost to the ancient world with the decay of the Mysteries, but its faithful initiates carried it sealed in the sacred casket into another land. The book is still in existence and continues to lead the disciples of this age into the presence of the Immortals. No other information can be given to the world concerning it now, but the apostolic succession from the first hierophant initiated by Hermes himself remains unbroken to this day, and those who are peculiarly fitted to serve the Immortals may discover this priceless document if they will search sincerely and tirelessly for it.462
“While Hall gives no
reference for these assertions, it is significant that, for our
purposes, this book of lost knowledge constitutes a center piece in
the notion that the esoteric tradition is continuous from the time of the
Flood....
“It will be recalled
that according to some traditions, this book was inscribed on
sapphire. Similar traditions in Judaism record that the first
giving of the tablets of the Law to Moses were also inscribed on
sapphire. And in some cases, the Book of
Thoth was said to be deposited in an “ark” like box. The
Zohar records that God originally
fashioned the tablets of the Law from a ”divine sapphire,
Schethiya, which the Most High, after
removing from His own throne, had cast into the Abyss to become the
foundation and generator of the worlds.“463 This recalls the
association of sapphire with the enigmatic properties of gravity,
recorded in The Giza Death Star, for
apparently this crystalline structure is capable of detection of
very small quantum gravitational fluctuations.464
“But there is another
association of sapphire in the esoteric tradition, and for our
purposes, this association is quite significant. This is the “Stone
of Exile” or Lapis Exilis, the “crown
jewel of the Archangel Lucifer.”465 This version of the
legend has it that the Archangel Michael struck the jewel from
Lucifer’s crown, whence it fell into the Abyss.
I then outlined a
lengthy series of relationships, but highlight the two that concern
us here, for they are signally important:
• “The tentative identification of the Sphinx with Lord Nergal, Babylonian god of Mars, Fire, and War;
• ”The association of Giza, and in particular, the Great Pyramid, with Hermes-Thoth;
• “The further association of Thoth with a tablet or book of lost knowledge of physical mechanics of a comprehensive nature, inscribed on emerald or sapphire
• “The association of Lucifer with similar crystals;
• “The association of both Lucifer and Nergal with wars of rebellion;466
• “The interplanetary war between “Tiamat” and “Marduk” caused by Tiamat’s possession, or usurpation, of the “Tablet” or “Stone(s) of Destiny”;
• “The missing resonator assemblies in the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid, which were, according to Sitchin’s reconstruction of the Babylonian epic Lugal-e, of crystalline nature;
• “The association of this lost and crystalline Book of Thoth with the notion of the continuity of the esoteric tradition.
This way of viewing
things tends to support the notion, so cherished in Freemasonry and
other modern secret societies, that embedded within such esoteric
traditions is an occulted science, and that at least one element of
the lost paleoancient Very High Civilization deliberately occulted
such science for the eventual resurrection and recovery of the
technologies it made possible.
“Thoth’s tablets are
also associated with one more thing, and that is alchemy.467 Alchemy is, of
course, the “science” of the transmutation of “base elements” into
“gold”. From the “paleophysics” perspective adopted here, this too
might be understood as the residue of a real lost science dealing with the physics of a
“hydro-dynamic” transmutative aether or physical substrate.“468
Summing up what we
have learned, we now have the following highly suggestive catalogue
of properties of the Tablets of Destinies:
Clue Number
1:
The Tablets of Destinies were “stones” or stone-like
material, each of which was associated with some celestial body,
and with some subtle influence between those bodies and their
possessors.
We will call this the
“Stones ≈ Celestial Body
Association. ” This association is evidenced by (1)
Ninurta’s “Inventory of the Stone” of the Tablets of Destiny after
their recovery from Zu at the end of their war; and by (2) the long
association of stones with celestial bodies in ancient astrological
lore. We posit, therefore, an underlying purely scientific and “paleophysical” basis for
these associations that, by the time of the classical Mesopotamian
civilizations, has declined to the interplanetary sympathetic magic
of astrological lore.
This “Stones ≈
Celestial Body Association” is also related to the doctrine of
astrology that celestial bodies have a subtle influence on human
lives, and the whole ancient practice of sympathetic magic with its
talismans and amulets is in indicator that a reciprocal influence
is also possible, that the latter can also influence the
former.
Clue Number
2:
The Tablets of Destinies also contained information on the
underlying physical medium or substrate itself, and how to
manipulate it, presumably in connection to the “Stones ≈ Celestial
Bodies Association” of clue number one above. They confer the power
of the universe to their possessors.
Both Thoth’s
Book of Magic and/or his celebrated
Emerald Tablet, and the Mesopotamian
Tablets of Destinies are also associated with the idea that they
convey “universal power” to their possessors. That is, they convey
power over the universe by conveying
the power of the universe to their
possessors. In the case of Thoth’s Tablets we saw that their strong
alchemical association might be interpreted as the residue of a
long lost science of the power of the
transmutative aether, or physical medium or substrate
itself. The Tablets are, then, a kind of physical version of
the Akashic Records of esoteric lore, since the Tablets appear to
record how to effect the information content in the field of that
medium or substrate.
We shall call this
the “Transmutative Medium ≈
Akashic Records ≈ Universal Power Association.
”
Clue Number
3:
Per Sitchin, the Tablets of Destinies were involved in
interplanetary and interstellar communication of some
sort.
Their theft by Anzu
therefore not only conferred to him tremendous power, but also cut
off or interferred with the communications of his opponents. We
shall call this the “Commmmications Association. ”
And
finally,
Clue Number
4:
The Tablets of Destinies appear to have been “activated”
only in physical proximity to their possessors.
This point is related
to the alchemical connection of Thoth’s Tablets, and to the general
ancient doctrine that the Universe was somehow a “makanthropos,” a
large scale version of mankind. Thus, there were subtle influences
between the gods, mankind, and even between individuals, and the
celestial bodies of the universe. This is further born out by
curious statement from the Myth of
(An)Zu that Ninurta “regained the gods’ Tablet of Destinies
for his own hand.”469 The Tablets may
thus have contained the original actual science behind the ancient
doctrine of man as “makanthropos”470 as well as that
behind the ancient belief in the celestial influences of
astrology.
We shall call this
most mysterious and enigmatic property of the Tablets of Destinies
the “Subtle Influences
Association. ”
A table will perhaps
best summarize what is known of them from the mythological side,
and what the evidence is for each point:
Table of Tablets of Destinies
Associations
This table of the
“Clues” and their supporting associations indicates both why so
many interpreters - who do sense some
underlying “paleophysical” and technological basis for the Tablets
of Destinies - come up with such a wide variety of explanations,
for viewing only one or two of the Associations, the answer will be
incomplete. It is only in the total
context of all four “Clues” or “Associations” viewed against the
background of the points in our summaries in this chapter, that a
more thorough — though still speculative — answer may be obtained,
as we shall now see.