Such A Tiny Fraction

The current population of the world is presumed to be around 8 billion people.

This is according to the official figures acquired by the United Nations from all participating countries and other data-gathering sources which are considered reliable by that body.

Whatever the true actual figure is, it is a large number of human beings in all events - when compared to say, the number of people who read here...

Who is behind the mask?

In fact, statistically, you would not be considered a 'statistically real number.'

And what does that even mean?

I don't know.

Now I'm not going to give out one of these 'significations' that clearly delineate what it is you are about to read. ...I'm just going to talk a little about a category of ancient and rather legendary texts known as the Emerald Tablets.

Sometimes they are also called 'the Mirrors of Heaven.'

There are quite a few of these and mostly they are translations of a fairly standard short piece, although there is a version of them which contains a preface as it were, in which an inquirer after knowledge and wisdom chances upon a cave, in which he finds a very ancient man, but one of superhuman size, holding the actual emerald tablet/s itself - or themselves, depending on what each variation of the story says.

It has become a classic aphorism this main saying from these texts: 'As Above, So Below.'

And okay, that's all very fine and quite catchy.

Except it's not what the emerald tablet actually says.

You will be, of course, quite surprised to learn that this text is contained in the Gospels. 

As you are already aware, there are two distinct formulations of the Emerald Tablets, one of which is specifically rendered as the Egyptian Emerald Tablets of Thoth, although both claim to be speaking of exactly the same supernatural encounter and supernatural or superhuman characters that are involved inside of the narrative.

The Arabic translation that appeared in the Middle Ages by someone 'ibn Hayyan' (who, like so many others from the Arabic manuscript tradition, never actually existed as a real person), however, is one of the best renderings of the original composition.

In a celestial place...

'Hayyan' is a literary pointer to the Arabic mythical 'Idries' or 'Al-Khidr' - Enoch or even Hermes - who is someone who exists in Arabic Islamic culture as a mythical identity with stupendous mythical powers, especially of giving life, making dead things come back to life.

'Hayyan' simply means flourishing, and 'Al-Khidr' means 'the Green One.'

Anyway ibn Hayyan renders the first few lines as follows: 'For what is in Heaven can be from what is on the Earth below, and what comes to pass on Earth is from the Heavens (my diacriticals: meaning -, in the air, in the upper atmosphere, in the astral spaces, and/or also in the Celestial Abode of the Gods).

Now.

There are far too many of these YT channels with people speculating and being didactic and also preaching about so many things, all of these subjects as well - and after a while people will become disenchanted with all of it because it will bear no fruit for them.

But you however, are in a different ball-park.

The passage in the Bible which has the greatest bearing on the ideas of Thoth, is this one to do with the 'storing up of treasures in Heaven.'

Right?

Because... ...and by the way, what is the actual word in the original source text for 'treasures?'

You know, right.

You know how you can tell
a really rich person?

Thoth was the demi-god head of a scribal initiate 'school' in ancient Egypt, in the initiation rites of which, people are taken firstly through 'dream halls' and then into a 'dark room where the implements of writing are consecrated' and then taken through what their (pre-arranged) responses are to various moral questions, and then finally after that they are made part of the formal scribal college of Thoth. Dr Justin Sledge says in his video on the history of it, that they - the scribes - kept magical notebooks which were then referred to by other later writers and used as source texts on many matters.

'Thoth' is actually 'Teuth' in the demotic Egyptian language of the time, from which the Greeks got their word 'Tutor.' Which we have borrowed.

So, the actual word.

Is 'thesaurus.' 'Treasures of' is 'thesaurus.'

...Once upon a time, there lived a poor but honest farm boy called Jack.

And one day, Jack cast some beans he had kept all day in his hat, out of his window before he went to sleep, and then, during the night, the magical beans grew, all the way up into the clouds. Next day, Jack climbed up the gigantic beanstalk, all the way into the clouds, where he upon'd a castle owned by a giant, in which there were great treasures of gold and silver and all kinds of gemstones, as well as magical things such as a harp that played by itself.

Now, do not tell me you are all not smart enough to know what you have just been told and to piece it all together, because certainly, it has been told in 'bits and pieces' like a jigsaw puzzle that has been strewn out onto the floor.