Know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God! Gnosticism is a prominent movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was

The history of the tablets translated in the following pages is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years B.C. The writer is Thoth,

"We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines this little work based upon the world-old Hermetic Teachings. There has been so little

History of the Tablet (largely summarised from Needham 1980, & Holmyard 1957): The Tablet probably first appeared in the West in editions of the psuedo-Aristotlean Secretum Secretorum which was actually