Tablet XIII: The Keys of Life and Death

Death is not the end. It is a door.

And Thoth shows you how to hold the key.

In Tablet XIII, he shares the most sacred of all arts: the knowledge of how to leave the body, retain the soul’s awareness, and return again—reborn, conscious, continuous. He tells us plainly:

Thoth has done what most fear: he has died without dying. He has laid down the body and moved consciously through the Halls of Amenti, the underworld of regeneration, without losing memory or will. And this is not myth—it is method.

He reveals that those who master their inner flame—who align with truth, who vibrate in harmony with the cosmic law—can choose when to leave the body and return again. Death becomes not an accident, but an act of mastery.

But he warns: to return from death consciously, one must be clear of karmic distortion, free of fear, and precise in vibration. This is the path of the initiate, not the seeker. This is not escapism—it’s the final integration.

Thoth gives clear instructions:

• Maintain balance in your energy field.

• Raise your inner fire through breath and vibration.

• Align your soul to the sun—your higher self, the solar logos.

• Speak the sacred words and pass through the gate with awareness intact.

He also reminds us: the body is temporary, but the soul is flame. The fear of death is the fear of forgetting. But if you remember who you are while alive, you will not forget when you pass.

This is not just about death. This is about how to live—as a sovereign flame, not a trapped fragment.

The true Master is not afraid to die.

Because he has already passed through the veil—

and returned with the keys.

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

THE EMERALD TABLET XIII: The Keys of Life and Death

List ye, O man, hear ye the wisdom.

Hear ye the Word that shall fill thee with Life.

Hear ye the Word that shall banish the darkness.

Hear ye the Voice that shall banish the night.

Mystery and wisdom have I brought to my children;

knowledge and power descended from old.

Know ye not that all shall be opened

when ye shall find the oneness of all?

One shall ye be with the Masters of Mystery,

conquerors of Death and Masters of Life.

Aye, ye shall learn of the flower of Amenti,

the blossom of life that shines in the halls.

In Spirit shall ye reach that halls of Amenti,

and bring back the wisdom that liveth in Light.

Know ye the gateway to power is secret.

Know ye the gateway to life is through death.

Aye, through death but not as ye know death,

but a death that is life and is fire and is Light.

Desireth thou to know the deep hidden secret?

Look in thy heart where the knowledge is bound.

Know that in thee the secret is hidden,

the source of all life and the source of all death.

List ye, O man, while I tell the secret,

reveal unto thee the secret of old.

Deep in Earth’s heart lies the flower,

the source of the Spirit that binds all in its form.

For know ye that the Earth is living in body

as thou art alive in thine own formed form.

The flower of life is as thine own place of Spirit,

and streams through the Earth as thine flows through form.

Giving of life to the Earth and its children,

renewing the Spirit from form unto form.

This is the Spirit that is form of thy body,

shaping and molding into its form.

Know ye, O man, that thy form is dual,

balanced in polarity while formed in its form.

Know that when fast on thee death approaches,

it is only because thy balance is gone.

It is only because one pole has been lost

and thy soul flies free from its lack of restraint.

Know that the secret of life in Amenti

is the secret of restoring the balance of poles.

All that exists has form and is living

because of the Spirit of life in its poles.

See ye not that in Earth’s heart is the balance

of all things that exist and have being on its face?

The source of thy Spirit is drawn from Earth’s heart,

for in thy form thou are one with the Earth.

When thou hast learned to hold thine own balance,

then shalt thou draw on the balance of Earth.

Exist then shalt thou while Earth is existing,

changing in form, only when Earth, too, shall change.

Tasting not of death, but one with this planet,

holding thy form till all pass away.

List ye, O man, whilst I give the secret

so that ye, too, shalt taste not of change.

One hour each day shalt thou lie with thine head

pointed to the place of the positive pole (north).

One hour each day shalt thy head be placed

to the place of the negative pole (south).

While thy head is placed to the northward,

hold thou thy consciousness from the chest to the head.

And when thy head is placed southward,

hold thou thy thought from the chest to the feet.

Hold thou in balance once in each seven,

and thy balance will retain the whole of its strength.

Aye, if thou be old, thy body shall freshen,

and thy strength shall become as a youth’s.

This is the secret known to the Masters

by which they hold off the fingers of Death.

Neglect not to follow the path I have shown,

for when thou hast passed beyond years to a hundred,

neglect will mean the coming of Death.

Hear ye, my words, and follow the pathway.

Keep thou thy balance and live on in life.

Hear ye, O man, and list to my voice.

List to the wisdom that gives thee of Death.

When at the end of thy work appointed,

thou may desire to pass from this life,

pass to the plane where the suns of the morning

live and have being as children of Light.

Pass without pain and pass without sorrow

into the plane where is eternal Light.

First lie at rest with thine head to the eastward.

Fold thou thy hands at the Source of thy life (solar plexus).

Place thou thy consciousness in the life-seat.

Whirl it and divide to north and to south.

Send thou the one out toward the northward.

Send thou the other out to the south.

Relax thou thy hold upon thy being.

Forth from thy form will thy spark fly,

upward and onward to the Sun of the morning,

blending with Light at one with its source.

There it shall flame till desire shall be created.

Then shall return to a place in a form.

Know ye, O man, that thus pass the great souls,

changing at will from life unto life.

Thus ever passes the Avatar,

willing his death as he wills his own life.