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Bembine Table of Isis

The Bembine Table of Isis
By Ike Baker

A curious chapter characterized by abstruse sayings and enigmatic correspondences, titled The Bembine Table of Isis, appears in Manly Palmer Hall’s magnum opus, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. The artifact which is the chapter’s subject—a tablet decorated in an Egyptian hieroglyphic style and constructed of silver and bronze—was named during the Renaissance because it bears a depiction of the Egyptian goddess Isis as its central feature, and it was for a time the property of an antiquarian collector known as Cardinal Bembo. Within this chapter, Manly Hall leads us from the scene of an initiation within the Great Pyramid of Giza to a description of the tablet involving a series of mathematical, elemental, and astrological subdivisions, finally ending with a quote suggesting that it is no more than a piece of custom-made furniture.
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