Tablet XII: The Law of Cause and Effect and the Key of Prophecy

Everything echoes.

Your thoughts.

Your choices.

Your silence.

In Tablet XII, Thoth reveals the secret behind all manifestation: the Law of Cause and Effect. This is not simply karma in a moral sense—it’s the structural law behind the entire fabric of time.

He tells us that nothing happens by chance. Every movement, thought, and vibration creates ripples across space and time. These ripples do not vanish. They loop. They return. They spiral through timelines and arrive back at the source. You.

This is where prophecy begins—not as psychic guesswork, but as pattern recognition. Thoth explains that by deeply studying cause and effect—not just as events, but as vibrational sequences—a Master can look at the present and see the future unfolding.

He says plainly:

But he also warns: the ability to foresee is useless without alignment.

If you foresee catastrophe and do nothing, you become part of the effect.

If you foresee chaos but respond with light, you bend the spiral.

He urges the seeker to develop:

• Clarity of thought (so your inner causes don’t create distorted effects)

• Stillness of mind (so you can perceive cause and effect in real-time)

• Detachment (so you can act from truth, not reaction)

He also shares that the great Masters use this law to shape time. They become keepers of cycles—stepping in at precise moments to guide civilization, redirect collapse, or anchor new light.

This is the deepest layer of prophecy:

Not seeing what will happen—but intervening so something greater can.

The true initiate does not just foresee the future.

He is one with the Law that builds it.

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

THE EMERALD TABLET XII: The Law of Cause and Effect and the Key of Prophecy

List ye, O man, to the words of my wisdom.

List to the voice of Thoth, the Atlantean.

Conquered have I the Law of Time.

Space have I conquered as well.

Know I the key of the cycles,

the future and the past as one.

Know I that man is his movement,

through space and time in the All.

Know ye, O man, that all of the future

is an open book to him who can read.

All effect shall bring forth its causes.

All causes shall bring forth effects.

Know ye the future is not fixed or stable

but varies as cause brings forth an effect.

Look in the cause thou shalt bring into being,

and surely thou shalt see that all is effect.

So, O man, be sure that the effects

that ye bring forth are ever in harmony with the cause.

Know ye that the future is never in stasis,

but follows the will of the individual man.

Know ye that in the beginning

there was void and nothingness.

A timeless, spaceless nothingness.

Then there came a thought from the Eternal,

and this thought created existence.

From the thought came all manifestation.

This is the Law: that thought becomes cause,

and effect follows thought.

Seek ye to learn the great path of wisdom.

Fix thy mind on the goal of Light.

Know that all is vibration

and that thought controls the vibration.

Know ye, O man, that the future

is a thought yet unformed,

a cause yet uncreated.

Follow the path that leads to wisdom.

Follow the path that leads to Light.