Ibis
Thoth
Palmyra
Palm
Palmares
Deut.1:1
"These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab."
"By the margin, willow veiled
Slide the heavy barges trailed
By slow horses; and unhailed
The shallop flitteth silken-sailed
Skimming down to Camelot:
But who hath seen her wave her hand?
Or at the casement seen her stand? 25
Or is she known in all the land,
The Lady of Shalott?" ~~~Lord Tennyson
Thoth Hermes Trismegistus is portrayed by the Egyptians as the moon god
with the body of a man, head of an ibis, and a crescent moon over his
head. His symbol was the winged serpent staff. He was the god of wisdom,
letters, and time.
Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom, depicted with the body of a man, head of an ibis, and a crescent moon over his head. (Vladimiraz / Dreamstime.com)
Hermes Trismegistus (Thoth). Floor inlay in the Cathedral of Siena Russian, 1480s (Wikimedia Commons)
Chess: "Ibis" "Thoth" "Palmyra" "Palmares" "Palm"
Thoth Hermes Trismegistus and his Ancient School of Mysteries
Thoth
Hermes Trismegistus is portrayed by the Egyptians as the moon god with
the body of a man, head of an ibis, and a crescent moon over his head.
His symbol was the winged serpent staff. He was the god of wisdom,
letters, and time. But he was not only known to the Egyptians. To the
Sumerians he was Ningizzida; he may have been Enoch to the Jews, Odin to
the Scandinavians, Wotan to the Teutons, and some even suggest Buddha.
Before he was revered as a god, he was the first great Egyptian
philosopher and founder of the Ancient Mystery Schools, receiving his
wisdom while in meditative trances, writing over 40 books including
(allegedly) the Emerald Tablet, The Book of Thoth and The Divine
Pymander, with the Book of Thoth only being given to his enlightened
initiates of the Mysteries.
The topics he covered ranged from medicine, chemistry, law, art,
music, rhetoric, magic, philosophy, geography, mathematics, anatomy, and
oratory. To the Egyptians, his knowledge was so vast and
all-encompassing that they first began to credit him as the communicator
with the gods, eventually inducting him into the Egyptian pantheon.
Whether or not one agrees his is the hand that penned the books
attributed to him, a quick perusal or in-depth study resounds in most
readers, due to the similarity with Buddhism and Christianity. Perhaps
the clearest examples are his teachings on reincarnation and the
creation of the world.
Nothing is for certain about the Book of Thoth other than the fact
that it was written in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. It was kept in a golden
box in the inner sanctuary of the temple and only the highest initiate
of the Hermetic Arcanum Mystery School had the key to it. It is said the
book described the Key to Immortality, the process achieved through
awakening certain areas of the brain, similar to the Buddhist monks’
practices. Gardner and other authors claimed the awakening of the brain
was achieved through meditation, the use of a white powder, and the
priestesses’ sacred essence.
The most powerful of the Mystery Schools was known as the Royal
School of the Master Craftsmen at Karnak, founded by Pharaoh Thuthmosis
III, though as with all the Mystery Schools, it is commonly believed
that the true founders resided in Sumeria, emigrating to Egypt, which
ties in to Sitchin’s claims that Enki and his sons (including
Ningizzida) had Magan (Egypt) as their domain.
This school was also known as the Great White Brotherhood due to the
members choice of raiment (white robes) and their dedication to
producing the white powder known to the Mesopotamians as Shem-an-na, the
High-Ward Fire Stone, or ‘white bread’ to the Egyptians. Pictures of it
show it being offered to the Pharaohs, in the shape of a cone.
Petrie discovered on the top of Mount Sinai, an Egyptian Temple which
contained a bewildering discovery: laying some inches deep beneath
heavy flagstones in a storeroom was a considerable supply of the finest
pure white, unadulterated powder. Copper smelting and animal sacrifice
were quickly ruled out.
Some of the mysterious powder was taken back to Britain for analysis
and examination, but no results were ever published. The rest was left
open to the elements after 3000 years to become a victim of the desert
winds. What has become apparent, however, is that this powder was
seemingly identical to the ancient Mesopotamian fire-stone or shem-an-na
- the substance that was made into bread-cakes and used to feed the
Babylonian kings and the pharaohs of Egypt. This, of course, explains
the temple inscriptions denoting the importance of bread and light,
while the white powder (the shem-an-na) has been identified with the
sacred manna that Aaron placed in the Ark of the Covenant.
Petrie discovered a large quantity of pure white
powder in a temple on top of Mount Sinai. ‘Ascent of the lower ranges of
Mount Sinai’. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts,
1849. (Wikimedia Commons)
Eventually the Mystery Schools went into decline as new Dynasties
emerged. The initiates left Egypt and brought the Book of Thoth to
another land. Where it is now, no one knows, though supposedly the chain
of succession of Grand Master since Thoth, has remained unbroken. The
Rosicrucians are said to be descended from his school while the
Freemasons are descended from the school founded by Solomon.
As for Thoth? He has remained revered by philosophers, occultists,
alchemists and healers through the ages, though many of the texts
accredited to him were lost in the Great Fire of the Library of
Alexandria. Who know how different history might have been had the
knowledge contained in that library not been lost?
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