Tablet VI: The Key of Magic

You can study truth forever. But at some point, you must wield it.

In Tablet VI, Thoth begins to unveil the actual mechanics of power—how to speak to unseen forces, command energy through words, and move across dimensions through frequency and form. It’s not metaphor. It’s not fiction. This tablet is a direct initiation into magical authority.

He starts with a declaration: magic is real—not stage illusion, but cosmic architecture enforced by vibration and will. What humans call “magic” is simply law operating at a higher octave, accessed by those who’ve purified themselves enough to carry it without distortion.

Thoth warns: if you misuse this power, it will destroy you. The universe is self-correcting, and vibration will always return to its source. But if you are aligned—if your intent is pure and your will clear—then even the forces of darkness will obey you.

He begins to list the Dark Brothers again—entities who feed on fear, chaos, and spiritual inertia. He does not mythologize them. He names them real. And he gives a precise instruction for how to defeat them: vibrate higher. Not with fake positivity, but by standing in truth, holding light like a sword, and commanding through sound.

He offers this:

This is not religious submission. This is energetic discipline.

The Keys of Magic are not about controlling others. They are about commanding your own field so precisely, so cleanly, that your presence alone reshapes the reality around you.

This is Karmic Precision in its highest form:

• Know your words are spells.

• Know your thoughts are architecture.

• Know your will, when purified, is a blade.

Thoth isn’t asking you to believe.

He’s demanding you remember.

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Below is the full text of Tablet VI, as translated by Dr. Doreal:

THE EMERALD TABLET VI: The Key of Magic

Hark ye, O man, to the wisdom of magic.

Hark the knowledge of powers forgotten.

Long ago in the days of the first man,

warfare began between darkness and light.

Men, then as now, were filled with both darkness and light;

and while in some darkness held sway, in others light filled the soul.

Aye, age old is this warfare, the eternal struggle between darkness and light.

Fiercely is it fought all through the ages, using strange powers hidden to man.

Adepts has there been filled with the blackness,

struggling always against the light;

but others there are who, filled with brightness,

have ever conquered the darkness of night.

Where e’er ye may be in all ages and planes,

surely ye shall know of the battle with night.

Long ages ago, the SUNS of the Morning

descending, found the world filled with night.

There in that past, began the struggle,

the age old Battle of Darkness and Light.

Many in that time were so filled with darkness

that only feebly flamed the light from the night.

Some they were, masters of darkness,

who sought to fill all with their darkness:

sought to draw others into their night.

Fiercely withstood they, the masters of brightness:

fiercely fought they from the darkness of night.

Sought ever to tighten the fetters, the chains that bind men to the darkness of night.

Used they always the dark magic,

brought into men by the power of darkness.

Magic that enshrouded man’s soul with darkness.

Banded together as in order,

Brothers of Darkness, they through the ages,

antagonists they to the children of men.

Walked they always secret and hidden,

found, yet not found by the children of men.

Forever they walked and worked in darkness,

hiding from the light in the darkness of night.

Silently, secretly, use they their power,

enslaving and binding the soul of men.

Unseen they come, and unseen they go.

Man, in his ignorance calls THEM from below.

Dark is the way of the DARK BROTHERS.

Travel they fast o’er the Earth’s surface.

Walk they through man’s dreams.

Power have they gained from the darkness around them

to call other dwellers from out of their plane.

In ways that are dark and unseen by man,

into man’s mind-space reach the DARK BROTHERS.

Around it they close the veil of their night.

There through its lifetime that soul dwells in bondage,

bound by the fetters of the VEIL of the night.

Mighty are they in the forbidden knowledge:

forbidden because it is one with the night.

Hark ye, O old man, and list to my warning:

be ye free from the bondage of night.

Surrender not your soul to the BROTHERS OF DARKNESS.

Keep thy face ever turned toward the Light.

Know ye not, O man, that your sorrow

only has come through the veil of the night?

Aye, man, heed ye my warning:

strive ever upward,

turn your soul toward the LIGHT.

The BROTHERS OF DARKNESS seek for their brothers,

those who traveled the pathway of Light.

For well know they that those who have traveled

far towards the Sun in their pathway of Light

have great and yet greater power to bind with darkness

the children of Light.

List ye, O man, to he who comes to you.

But weigh in the balance if his words be of Light.

For many there are who walk in DARK BRIGHTNESS

and yet are not the children of Light.

Easy it is to follow their pathway,

easy to follow the path that they lead.

But yet, O man, heed ye my warning:

Light comes only to him who strives.

Hard is the pathway that leads to the WISDOM,

hard is the pathway that leads to the Light.

Many shall ye find, the stones in your pathway:

many the mountains to climb toward the Light.

Yet know ye, O man, to him that o’ercometh,

free will he be of the pathway of Light.

For ye know, O man, in the end light must conquer

and darkness and night be banished from Light.

Listen, O man, and heed ye this wisdom:

even as darkness, so is the Light.

When darkness is banished and all veils are rended,

out there shall flash from the darkness, the Light.

Even as exist among men the DARK BROTHERS,

so there exists the BROTHERS OF LIGHT.

Antagonists they of the BROTHERS OF DARKNESS,

seeking to free men from the night.

Powers have they, mighty and potent.

Knowing the LAW, the planets obey.

Work they ever in harmony and order,

freeing the man-soul from its bondage of night.

Secret and hidden, walk they also.

Known not are they to the children of men.

Ever have THEY fought the DARK BROTHERS,

conquered and conquering time without end.

Yet always LIGHT shall in the end be master,

driving away the darkness of night.

Aye, man, know ye this knowing:

always beside thee walk the Children of Light.

Masters they of the SUN power,

ever unseen yet the guardians of men.

Open to all is their pathway,

open to he who will walk in the LIGHT.

Free are THEY of DARK AMENTI,

free of the HALLS, where LIFE reigns supreme.

SUNS are they and LORDS of the morning,

Children of Light to shine among men.

Like man are they and yet are unlike,

never divided were they in the past.

ONE have they been in ONENESS eternal,

throughout all space since the beginning of time.

Up did they come in Oneness with the ALL ONE,

up from the first-space, formed and unformed.

Given to man have they secrets

that shall guard and protect him from all harm.

He who would travel the path of a master,

free must he be from the bondage of night.

Conquer must he the formless and shapeless.

Conquer must he the phantom of fear.

Knowing, must he gain of all of the secrets,

travel the pathway that leads through the darkness,

yet ever before him keep the light of his goal.

Obstacles great shall he meet in the pathway,

yet press on to the Light of the Sun.

Hear ye, O man, the SUN is the symbol

of the LIGHT that shines at the end of thy road.

Now give I to thee the knowledge:

known to the MASTERS, the knowing that conquers all the dark fears.

Use this, the wisdom I give thee.

MASTER thou shalt be of THE BROTHERS OF NIGHT.

When unto thee comes a feeling, drawing thee nearer to the dark,

examine thine heart and find if the feeling

thou hast comes from within.

If thou shalt find the darkness thine own thoughts,

banish them forth from thy place in thy mind.

Send through thy body a wave of vibration.

Irregular first and regular second,

repeating time after time until free.

Start the Wave Force in thy BRAIN CENTER.

Direct it in waves from thine head to thy foot.

But if thou findest thine heart is not darkened,

be sure that a force is directed to thee.

Only by knowing can thou overcome it.

Only by wisdom can thou hope to be free.

Knowledge brings wisdom and wisdom is power.

Attain and ye shall have power o’er all.