posted July 26, 2008 08:06 AM         

Chapter Nine
Mary Alice Magic

Dear Sisters of Maria Magdalena ~

As our leader, Marie Negre, has already informed you, I seek your aid concerning the return of research materials taken from me; papers originally in the possession of the Adept Mary Alice Kemery which involve the Emerald Tablets.

Below is the preface to another ET translation as written by Doreal, the "Supreme Voice of the Brotherhood." As I have written here and elsewhere before, I regard these translations highly - HOWEVER I have always believed, even before what I call the Sekhmet Emerald Tablet material was given to me, that there was a vast amount missing from this.

I think you will all see, if you read with an open mind and heart, that there is a tremendous imbalance in Doreal's translation as the energy is entirely masculine and he systematically eliminated all reference to female energy and power.

Now as heinous as this act may have been, I still believe that what Doreal got right, he got REALLY right. The Sekhmet material, which I am working to release in honor of the poet astrologer Mary Alice Kemery's birthdate on the 9th of April next year, balances this out in an amazingly powerful way.

In the copy of Mary Alice's translations, they are accompanied by a letter from a woman in Sedalia, Colorado who sent them to her. Apparently, there was a branch of the "Brotherhood" operating there. I will intersperse Doreal's preface with my comments and notes on Mary Alice's markings, from memory.

My friends, we have talked about a lot of things in the past year, some serious, some frivolous. But I urge you all to really consider this material with your hearts and spirits and see where it takes you...

Preface to the original The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean

Doreal: 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, an Atlantean Priest-King, who founded a colony in ancient Egypt after the sinking of the mother country. He was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, erroneously attributed to Cheops. In it he incorporated his knowledge of the ancient wisdom and also securely secreted records and instruments of ancient Atlantis.

Twenty-Two: Well, he was ONE of the builders and ONE of the leaders of this colony from Atlantis. One issue I have with these translations is they are very egocentric on the Toth side! This could be because Doreal believed himself to be the reincarnation of Thoth, or so I have been told. I am certain that the Great Pyramid was built as a shrine to hold these and other artifacts, and that it is also our most sacred library on Earth. The "sarcophagus" in the King's chamber was the recepticle to enshrine the Tablets.

Doreal again: For some 16,000 years, he (Thoth) ruled the ancient race of Egypt, from approximately 50,000 B.C. to 36.000 B.C. At that time, the ancient barbarous race among which he and his followers had settled had been raised to a high degree of civilization. Thoth was an immortal, that is, he had conquered death, passing only when he willed and even then not through death. His vast wisdom made him ruler over the various Atlantean colonies, including the ones in South and Central America.

Twenty-Two: There were many immortals. Mary Alice fans: I think this was part of her fascination with the Tablets, because she shared this belief/understanding that we all have the knowledge within us to be immortal.

Doreal: When the time came for him to leave Egypt, he erected the Great Pyramid over the entrance to the Great Halls of Amenti, placed in it his records, and appointed guards for his secrets from among the highest of his people. In later times, the descendants of these guards became the pyramid priests, by which Thoth was deified as the God of Wisdom, The Recorder, by those in the age of darkness which followed his passing. In legend, the halls of Amenti became the underworld, the Halls of the Gods, where the soul passed after death for judgment.

Twenty-Two: Accurate, in my opinion, except for the obvious ommission - of priestesses.

Doreal: During later ages, the ego of Thoth passed into the bodies of men in the manner described in the tablets. As such, he incarnated three times, in his last being known as Hermes, the thrice-born. In this incarnation, he left the writings known to modern occultists as the Emerald Tablets, a later and far lesser exposition of the ancient mysteries.

Twenty-Two: This is Hermes Trismigestes also known as the Greek Hermes, the twin of Seshat, who I believe is a later version of Sekhmet.

Doreal: The tablets translated in this work are ten which were left in the Great Pyramid in the custody of the pyramid priests. The ten are divided into thirteen parts for the sake of convenience. The last two are so great and far-reaching in their import that at present it is forbidden to release them to the world at large.

Twenty-Two: I believe that there were thirteen physical tablets in the beginning. But I think they ended up in various parts of the world, including the other pyramid cultures in Mexico and South America. As some of you know, I wrote a book/screenplay about the fact that Noah was an Atlantean King who possessed two of these tablets - and that is where the Biblical flood myth comes from. I have been shown that when Atlantis was destroyed, all of this information HAD to be separated - it was no longer appropriate for any one man or woman to have all of the information contained therein, as the power had been badly misused.

posted July 28, 2008 06:04 AM         

A Typical Aries?

One of America's best-known astrologers, Linda Goodman, died o Saturday October 21, 1995. An itinerant newspaper and radio writer, she adopted her pseudonymous first name after a stint on radio reading "Letters from Linda." Her surname was that of her second husband, Sam Goodman.

Goodman's interest in astrology came from supermarket booklets, and her own books took advantage of the extreme popularity of the subject in America.

In 1968, Goodman's Sun Signs became the first book on the topic to make the New York Times best-seller list, and she received $2.3 million for the paperback rights alone. In time, she became even more mystical and incorporated into her books numerology as well as reincarnation.

When her 18-year-old daughter Sarah committed suicide in 1973, Goodman's reaction was to refuse to believe that the body her husband had identified was actually Sarah's, citing as "evidence" her daughter's horoscope. Instead, she embarked on a search for the "missing" teenager. squandering her money, and (according to her obituary in the October 25, 1995, New York Times), "living for several months on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral."

According to the Times, Goodman was born Mary Alice Kemery (sic) in Morgantown, West Virginia, "on a date she gave as April 19 a year she would never disclose" -- not even to her son. This secrecy prompted a minor SI investigation. Actually, according to the Monongalia County, West Virginia, Register and Index of Births, she was Mary Alice Kenery, a daughter of Robert S. and Mazy A. (McBee) Kenery. She was born in 1925 (the Times had guessed she was "about 70") but not on the day she alleged. The register lists her birth as April 10, nine days earlier than Goodman always claimed. Therefore, from an astrological point of view her horoscope would have been significantly different than she represented it (although it is not certain that this was a deliberate falsification on her part).

In any case, her forecast for the day of her death (as given in Jeane Dixon's syndicated Horoscope column) read, in part: "A change of scenery will help you put recent events in proper perspective."

Gene Emery is the science writer for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, 75 Fountain Street, Providence, RI 02902. SKEPTICAL INQUIRER readers can encourage their favorite psychics to send him their forecasts Of events that will make national or international news in 1996.