(7) The modern world seems to have forgotten the existence of those unwritten teachings which explained satisfactorily the apparent contradictions of the written Scriptures, nor does it remember that the pagans appointed their two-faced Janus as custodian of the key to the Temple of Wisdom. Janus has been metamorphosed into St. Peter, so often symbolized as holding in his hand the key to the gate of heaven. The gold and silver keys of "God's Vicar on Earth," the Pope, symbolizes this "secret doctrine" which, when properly understood, unlocks the treasure chest of the Christian and Jewish Qabbalah.

(9) Now these two Gates are in one another; the nethermost goes into the Abyss, and the uppermost goes into Paradise; and a third Gate comes to these two, out of the Element with its four Productions, and presses in together with the Fire, Air, Water, and Earth; and their Kingdom is the Sun and Stars, which qualify with the first Will; and their Desire is to be filled, to swell, and to be great. These draw into them, and fill the Chamber of the Deep, [viz.] the free and naked Will in the Mind; they bring the Glimpse [or Glance] of the Stars into the Gate of the Mind, and qualify with the Sharpness of the Glimpse [or Flash;] they fill the broken Gates of the Darkness with Flesh, and wrestle continually with the first Will (from whence they are gone forth) for the Kingdom [or Dominion,] and yield themselves up to the first Will, as to their Father, which willingly receives their Region [or Dominion.] For he is obscure and dark, and they are rough and sour, also bitter and cold; and their Life is a seething Source of Fire, wherewith they govern in the Mind, in the Gall, Heart, Lungs, and Liver, and in all Members [or Parts] of the whole Body, and Man is their own; the Spirit which stands in the Flash brings the Constellation into the Tincture of its Property, and infects the Thoughts, according to the Dominion of the Stars; they take the Body and tame it, and bring their bitter Roughness into it.

(40) But the noble Virgin shows us the Door, [and] how we must enter again into Paradise, through the Sharpness of the Sword; yet the Sword cuts the earthly Body quite away from the holy Element, and then the new Man may enter into Paradise by the Way of Life. And the Sword is nothing else, but the Kingdom or Gate of the Fierceness in the Anger of God, where Man must press in, through the fierce [bitter] Death, through the Center, into the second Principle, into the Paradise of the holy Element before God; where then the fierce [grim] Death cuts off the earthly Body (viz. the four Elements) from the holy [one] Element.

The mysteries of truth are made known in symbols and images. The bedchamber is hidden, and it is the holy of the holy. At first the curtain concealed how God manages creation, but when the curtain is torn and what is inside appears, this building will be left deserted, or rather will be destroyed. And the whole godhead will flee from here but not into the holy of holies, for it cannot mingle with pure [light] and [perfect] fullness. Instead it will remain under the wings of the cross [and under] its arms. This ark will be salvation [for people] when floodwaters surge over them. Whoever belongs to the priestly order can go inside the curtain along with the high priest. For this reason the curtain was not torn only at the top, for then only the upper realm would have been opened. It was not torn only at the bottom, for then it would have revealed only the lower realm. No, it was torn from top to bottom. The upper realm was opened for us in the lower realm, that we might enter the hidden realm of truth. This is what is truly worthy and mighty, and we shall enter through symbols that are weak and insignificant. They are weak compared to perfect glory. There is glory that surpasses glory, there is power that surpasses power. Perfect things have opened to us, and hidden things of truth. The holy of holies was revealed, and the bedchamber invited us in.

(2) "The first thought hath arisen in me concerning the word which thou hast spoken: 'Now, therefore, the soul giveth the apology and seal unto all the rulers who are in the region of the king, the Adamas, and giveth the apology and the honour and the glory of all their seals and the songs of praise to the region of the Light,'--concerning this word then thou hast spoken unto us aforetime, when they brought thee the piece of money and thou didst see that it was of silver and copper and didst ask: 'Whose is this image?' They said: 'The king's.' And when thou sawest that it was of silver and copper mixed, thou saidst: 'Give therefore the king's unto the king and God's unto God,'--that is: If the soul receiveth mysteries, it giveth the apology to all the rulers and to the region of the king, the Adamas; and the soul giveth the honour and the glory to all those of the region of the Light. And the word: 'It hath glistened, when thou didst see that it is made up of silver and copper,'--it is the type thereof, that in it [ sc. the soul] is the power of the Light, which is the refined silver, and that in it is the counterfeiting spirit, which is the material copper. This, my Lord, is the first thought.

(32) Therefore if thou wilt have an open gate into the Deity, then thou must move, stir and walk in God's love; this I have set down here for thy consideration. Now observe:

(73) This is the other open gate of the Deity, here thou must set thy eyes wide open, and rouse up or awaken the spirit in thy half dead heart: for this is not an obscure fiction, contrivance or phantasy. Observe:

(26) Beloved Reason, one cannot lend the Key to another to [unlock] this [withal;] and if one has a Key, he cannot open it to another, as Antichrist boasts that he has the Keys of Heaven and Hell. It is true, he may have the Keys of both in this [Life] Time; but he cannot open with them for any Body else; every one must unlock it with his own Key, or else he cannot enter therein. For the Holy Ghost is the Key, when he has that Key, then he may go both in and out.

(2) Opened be the gates of Heaven; opened be the gates of Earth; opened be the gates of the East; opened be the gates of the West; opened be the gates of the Southern and of the Northern sanctuaries

(99) Yet I grant that it has the Key to open Purgatory with; but the other Key which it has, will not open the Kingdom of Heaven, but only the rich Chest of Gold, out of which the [supposed] Maids [or Virgins] receive their Wages, and are sent (with fine Passports) into Purgatory; then the Strumpet thinks she goes to Heaven, to St. Peter, and thus the false God beguiles the false Goddess.

(21) This symbolic figure, representing the way to everlasting life, is described by Khunrath in substance as follows: "This is the Portal of the amphitheatre of the only true and eternal Wisdom--a narrow one, indeed, but sufficiently august, and consecrated to Jehovah. To this portal ascent is made by a mystic, indisputably prologetic, flight of steps, set before it as shown in the picture. It consists of seven theosophic, or, rather, philosophic steps of the Doctrine of the Faithful Sons. After ascending the steps, the path is along the way of God the Father, either directly by inspiration or by various mediate means. According to the seven oracular laws shining at the portal, those who are inspired divinely have the power to enter and with the eyes of the body and of the mind, of seeing, contemplating and investigating in a Christiano-Kabalistic, divino-magical, physico-chemical manner, the nature of the Wisdom: Goodness, and Power of the Creator; to the end that they die not sophistically but live theosophically, and that the orthodox philosophers so created may with sincere philosophy expound the works of the Lord, and worthily praise God who has thus blessed these friend, of God." The above figure and description constitute one of the most remarkable expositions ever made of the appearance of the Wise Man's House and the way by which it must be entered.

(325) 525 To say: The double doors of heaven are open; the double doors of b.w are open 525 for Horus of the gods, at daybreak, 525 that he may ascend in the Marsh of Reeds and purify himself in the Marsh of Reeds. 526 The double doors of heaven are open; the double doors of b.w are open 526 for Harachte at daybreak, 526 that he may ascend in the Marsh of Reeds and purify himself in the Marsh of Reeds. 527 The double doors of heaven are open; the double doors of b.w are open 527 for Horus of the East at daybreak, 527 that he may ascend in the Marsh of Reeds and purify himself in the Marsh of Reeds. 528 The double doors of heaven are open; the double doors of b.w are open 528 for Horus of the Ssm.t-land at daybreak, 528 that he may ascend in the Marsh of Reeds, and purify himself in the Marsh of Reeds. 529 The double doors of heaven are open; the double doors of b.w are open 529 for N. himself at daybreak 529 that he may ascend in the Marsh of Reeds and purify himself in the Marsh of Reeds. 530 N. is clean; he takes his lasting (copper?) bones; 530 he has stretched out his imperishable limbs, which were (or, are) in the body of his mother Nut. 531 R`, give thine arm to N. 531 Shu will draw him up to the "Companions of Shu," 531 after he has caused N. to be nourished with the milk of two black cows, the two nurses of the Souls of Heliopolis. 532 O Hpt, it is grevious for the body of Nut, because of the fury of the divine seed, which shall be in her. 532 Behold also N.--N. is a divine seed which shall be in her. 533 Hpt, Hnn, Smnn.w, 533 N. is purified. He has taken his divine w-vestment, 533 that N. may establish himself there as a god like them. 533 Hpt, Hnn, Smnn.w, 533 Take N. away; let him remain with you.

(10) Here observe, the Shriek or Crack of the Fire is kindled in the Anguish in the Brimstone Spirit, and then the Shriek flies up triumphantly; and the aching, or anxious Harshness, or Brimstone- Spirit, is made thin and sweet by the Light. For as the Light or the Flash becomes clearer or brighter from the Crack of the Fire in the vanquished harsh Tartness, and loses its wrathful fierce Property, so the Tartness loses its Authority by the Infection or Mixture of the Light, and is made thin or transparent, and sweet by the white Light: For in the Original the Harshness or Astringency was altogether dark, and aching with Anguish, by Reason of its hardness and attracting; but now it is wholly light, and thereupon it loses its own Quality or Property, and out of the wrathful Harshness there comes to be an Essence that is sharp, and the Light makes the Sharpness altogether sweet. The Gates of God.

(142) This now is the very door of the hidden, secret Mystery of the Deity. Concerning which the Reader is to conceive, that it is not in the power or capacity of any man to discern or to know it, if the Dawning or Morning-Redness does not break forth in the centre in the soul.

(21) The Mind has from the Beginning of the World had so very much to do about this Gate, and has continually so searched therein, that I cannot reckon the wearisome Heap of Writers [about it.] But in the Time of the Lily this Gate shall flourish as a Bay-Tree [or Laurel- Tree;] for its Branches will get Sap from the Virgin, and therefore will be greener than Grass, and whiter than the [whitest] Roses, and the Virgin will bear the pleasant Smell thereof upon her pearly Garland, and it will reach into the Paradise of God.

(48) And as Adam had opened the Gate of the Anger, so has the Deity of Christ opened the Gate of the eternal Life, so that all Men can press in to God, in this opened Gate. For the third Principle is broken here, and Judgment passed upon the Prince of Darkness, which so long held us Prisoners in Death.

(7) The other Gate or Chain is the Flesh and Blood, with the Region [or Dominion] of the Stars; there the Soul is fast bound, and swims therein, as in a great Sea, which daily so stirs up the Soul, that it is kindled.

(485) 1025 To say: [The two doors of heaven] are open, [the two doors of bw are open]. 1025 ------------------------------------------- 1025 ------------------------------------------- 1025 [take N. to heaven to the house] of Horus, which is in heaven. 1026 Each god who will take N. to heaven, living, enduring, 1026 for him oxen shall be slaughtered, to him legs shall be offered, 1026 and he shall ascend to the house of Horus, which is in heaven. 1027 Each god who will not take him to heaven, 1027 he shall not be respected, he shall have no ba-loin-cloth, he shall smell (taste) no p-cake, 1027 he shall not ascend to the house of Horus, which is in heaven, on the day of the hearing of the word (trial). 1028 ------------------------------------------- 1028 ------------------------------------------- 1028 ------------------------------------------- 1029 [N. has come] to thee, R`, 1029 calf of gold, born of heaven, 1029 fattened (calf) of gold, created by the s.t-cow. 1030 Horus, take N. with thee, living, enduring; 1030 Horus, let not N. be without a boat. 1030 N. comes to thee, father; N. comes to thee, Geb. 1030 Give thine arm to N., that N. may ascend to heaven to his mother Nut. 1031 -------------------------------------------- 1031 -------------------------------------------- 1031 -------------------------------------------- 1032 that we, the Two Enneads, may find an avenger beside him (lit. at his hand), 1032 although we, the Two Enneads, did not find him who (seized him) from behind (lit. on his hinder part). 1032 Geb comes, (his) lion-helmet on his head, his two (angry) eyes (lit. yellow eyes) in his face, 1033 that he may smite you and count (search) foreign lands in search of Osiris. 1033 He found him lying on his side in G.ti. 1033 Osiris, stand up for thy father, Geb, that he may protect thee against Set. 1034 Nun ---------------------------------------- 1034 -------------------------------------------- 1035 -------------- [I have protected] Osiris against his brother, Set. 1035 I am that which bound his feet, bound his hands, 1035 which laid him on his side in T-rw. 1036 Horus who is over the sdsd of heaven, give thou thine arm to N., 1036 that N. may ascend to heaven to Nut; (Nut) give thine arm to N., in life and satisfaction, 1036 that thou mayest unite his bones and collect his limbs. 1037 Thou unitest his bones [to] ----------------------- 1037 --------------------------------------------- 1037 -------------------------------------------- 1037 [There is not a limb to N] which is without a god, 1038. when he ascends, when he lifts himself up to the sky as the great star which is in the east.

(2) received mysteries in the first space which is without, and if after it hath received the mysteries it hath accomplished them, it [then] turneth and committeth sin after the accomplishing of the mysteries, and if the time of the coming-forth of that soul is completed, then the retributive receivers come to lead that soul out of the body. "And the destiny and the counterfeiting spirit follow that soul. Because the counterfeiting spirit is bound to it with the seals and the bonds of the rulers, it followeth thus that soul which travelleth on the ways with the counterfeiting spirit. "It uttereth the mystery of the undoing of all the bonds and all the seals with which the rulers have bound the counterfeiting spirit to the soul. And when the soul uttereth the mystery of the undoing of the seals, straightway the bonds of the seals which are bound in the counterfeiting spirit to the soul undo themselves. And when the soul uttereth the mystery of the undoing of the seals, straightway the counterfeiting spirit undoeth itself and ceaseth to be assigned to the soul. And in that moment the soul uttereth a mystery and restraineth the counterfeiting spirit and the destiny and dischargeth them which follow it. But no one of them is in its power; but it is in their power. "And in that moment the receivers of that soul come with the mysteries which it hath received, come and snatch that soul out of the hands of the retributive receivers, and the [latter] receivers go back to the works of the rulers for the purpose of the economy of the leading-forth of the souls. "And the receivers of that soul on the other hand who belong to the Light, become wings of light for that soul and become vestures of light for it and they do not lead it into the chaos, because it is not lawful to lead into the chaos souls which have received mysteries, but they lead it on the way of the rulers of the midst. And when it reacheth the rulers of the midst, those rulers meet the soul, they being in great fear and violent fire and with different faces, in a word in great immeasurable fear.

(32) I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.